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President Trump Ousts Pam Bondi | L.A County Homeless Youth · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: am six forty story. Everybody handle here. Friday morning, April third.
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  Speaker 1: it's foody Friday eight o'clock and eight thirty. It's ass
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  Speaker 1: handle anything. So yesterday Pam Bondy was fired as Attorney General,
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  Speaker 1: and there was talk about the possibility, and man, it
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  Speaker 1: happened really quick. And Donald Trump announces that on truth
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  Speaker 1: Social she is fourteen month tenure as the Attorney General.
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  Speaker 1: And here's a part that I just I have a
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  Speaker 1: tough time. I never liked her as Attorney general. But
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  Speaker 1: what she did is she took the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 1: under Trump, under Trump and by his order, and turned
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  Speaker 1: it into as she described what Biden did is a
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  Speaker 1: weaponization of the Department of Justice. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: that Bondi got fired is she didn't do enough to
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  Speaker 1: go after Trump's perceived enemies. She didn't succeed enough. When
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  Speaker 1: the courts bounced those cases out, Trump blamed her. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't do enough. And of course what she did with
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein trial, the Epstein file, she just screwed it
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  Speaker 1: up completely, eaving Susan Wiles, who is the chief of
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  Speaker 1: staff for the president, who was a big fan of hers.
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  Speaker 1: One of her just mentors said, she whift whift I
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  Speaker 1: think it was what it was, Pambondy out. And so
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  Speaker 1: the president is talking to some other people. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the things I was reading a New York Times
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  Speaker 1: article about this, that Trump demands absolute loyalty. We know
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  Speaker 1: that far more than credentials, far more than political connections,
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  Speaker 1: absolute loyalty. And Pambondi was right up there. And as
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  Speaker 1: described by the New York Times, it didn't matter that
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  Speaker 1: she lavished praise on him to the point where it
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  Speaker 1: was it was cartoonish. I haven't heard that, but you
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  Speaker 1: want to know something that is exactly correct. The demand
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  Speaker 1: is complete, totally sycophantic loyalty. And so what she did
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  Speaker 1: is she cleaned House when she came in as head
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  Speaker 1: of DJ cleaning house means senior prosecutors, everybody who didn't
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  Speaker 1: express extreme immediate loyalty to the president or God forbid,
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  Speaker 1: told seniors told her, you know, we don't have enough
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  Speaker 1: evidence here. You know, we really can't go forward in
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  Speaker 1: this prosecution. That person's gone gone instantly, and so she
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  Speaker 1: knew she was in trouble by the way she's been
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  Speaker 1: telling friends that didn't look good. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: when he went to the Supreme Court hearing the arguments
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  Speaker 1: for birthright citizenship, the first time a sitting president has
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  Speaker 1: ever gone the Supreme Court to hear arguments, she was
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  Speaker 1: with him, and it's being reported she was with him
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  Speaker 1: in the limousine on the way there, and it's being
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  Speaker 1: reported that at that point she tried to defend herself
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  Speaker 1: and asked not to be fired. She was making her
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  Speaker 1: case to the president. The president basically at that point
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  Speaker 1: had enough. She just screwed it. She did not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the credential. She was the Attorney general Florida for two
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  Speaker 1: terms out. You can argue that there were some creds there,
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  Speaker 1: but the bottom line, she was not up for that job.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that this administration has is people
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  Speaker 1: that are do not have the capabilities, do not have
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  Speaker 1: the experience, Chuck Schumer said at all, saying that he
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  Speaker 1: called her the wrong choice from the start. But as
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  Speaker 1: he went on, stay but the rod of the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice begins and ends with Donald Trump. As long
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  Speaker 1: as this focus is on using DJ as a tool
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  Speaker 1: for revenge and not law enforcement, the cover of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files, the countless other problems that DJ will continue.
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  Speaker 1: The part that I find the most troubling, and I
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  Speaker 1: do first of all, the independence of the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 1: course doesn't exist anymore. The Department of Justice now the
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  Speaker 1: tool for what the president wants to do and going
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  Speaker 1: after these perceived enemies under the guise that they weaponize
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice and going after Trump. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're not weaponizing. We're just creating justice. It's like the
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  Speaker 1: fraud argument, right, fraud in the United States. Have you
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  Speaker 1: noticed that there is not one Republican district that has
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  Speaker 1: voted for Trump where fraud is alleged. Trump's new budget,
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  Speaker 1: he's asking for one point five trillion dollars for the
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  Speaker 1: military next fiscal year. One point five trillion dollars forty
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  Speaker 1: percent more than what Congress originally intended. And where's he
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  Speaker 1: going to get the money. He's pulling it out of
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  Speaker 1: social programs because of the incredible fraud and waste in
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  Speaker 1: social programs, tremendous amount of fraud. Isn't there a fraud
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  Speaker 1: in the Defense Department? Nope, Nope, fraud is with the
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  Speaker 1: social programs. I mean, it is crazy. It's a topsy,
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  Speaker 1: topsy turvy curvy world. Okay, enough of that, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Amy did a story on one of her news stories
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes ago and talked about this increase of
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  Speaker 1: homelessness in La County among the ute. And it is
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  Speaker 1: a pair of UCLA research breefs. And it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I talk about whenever I issue facts
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  Speaker 1: about numbers, statistics. And there are two things I always say,
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  Speaker 1: Either they're legitimate scientific surveys and or these are anecdotal stories.
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  Speaker 1: This is these are two legitimate research briefs, and they
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  Speaker 1: basically tell us that student homelessness spiked in a single
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  Speaker 1: year in Los Angeles County. Okay, big deal, except for
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  Speaker 1: look for the numbers. They went up twenty eight percent
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  Speaker 1: and not like two hundred to two hundred to two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty. They went up from forty seven thousand
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  Speaker 1: and twenty two to twenty three to sixty one thousand
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three to twenty four school year. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that is an insane number a number, and what are
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  Speaker 1: the key drivers. Well, we start with the number one
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  Speaker 1: issue here in California actually the United States, but particularly
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  Speaker 1: in California, Southern California, shortage of affordable housing. No one
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  Speaker 1: can afford housing anymore. Economic hardship, Well, that's sort of
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  Speaker 1: a given. Poor people don't do well. The federal funding
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  Speaker 1: for schools has dropped significantly, and of long standing inequalities.
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  Speaker 1: People of color, people with disabilities don't just do well.
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  Speaker 1: So not only is it tough to be poor, it
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  Speaker 1: is tough to be poor and have a disability, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe on top of that, be a person of color.
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  Speaker 1: You are screwed. Unfortunately, and we've talked before, Neil and
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  Speaker 1: I brought this up yesterday that the United States is
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  Speaker 1: a culture where we just don't take care of those
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  Speaker 1: people in our lives, particularly the elderly. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: not a culture of taking care of each other. Even
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  Speaker 1: within the families. We don't take care of each other.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things when you have a country
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  Speaker 1: that has that culturally, you know, for example, telling people
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  Speaker 1: that in the United States, kids leave the house at eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: what what is that about? So my mother, and this
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  Speaker 1: is typical all through South America, all through Europe. You
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  Speaker 1: stayed at home until you got married. That's it. You
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  Speaker 1: lived at home. I mean you do, You've got married
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  Speaker 1: in your twenties. You're in your twenties. You lived at home.
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  Speaker 1: And that doesn't happen here. So the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: world and conversations I have with people, they sort of
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  Speaker 1: shake their hands and don't understand what's going on. So
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  Speaker 1: if that doesn't happen, if you don't have this family
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  Speaker 1: and society safety net, the state has to do it right.
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  Speaker 1: The state comes in and the problem is when no
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  Speaker 1: one can afford housing. And one of the things about homelessness,
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  Speaker 1: look at what we're attacking and how we attacked homelessness.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable amounts of money have to be spent to deal
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  Speaker 1: with this, I mean front burner, to the extent that
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  Speaker 1: you have to ignore everything else in society, every other
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  Speaker 1: budget item to really successfully deal with homelessness and homelessness.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of it is predicated on the cost of housing.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the number one issue, is the affordable housing
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  Speaker 1: and then in general the economic hardships that are simply there.
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  Speaker 1: Young people have a tough I bought my first house
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  Speaker 1: in when I was in my twenties and just started
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  Speaker 1: practicing law. And my question is to you, for those
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  Speaker 1: of you, or you know someone just got out of
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  Speaker 1: law school and starting to practice today and having a
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  Speaker 1: zillion dollars in debt, what are the chances of you
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  Speaker 1: being able to buy a house. It's impossible. It's impossible.
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  Speaker 1: You know. My kids look at me and say, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: are we ever going to afford a house? And go
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not. And one of the things that my ex
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  Speaker 1: and I have always said is if when you buy
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  Speaker 1: a house, we will help you. We will put down
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  Speaker 1: We'll put your down payment down. That will be our
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  Speaker 1: gift to you. Here's the good news. I make the
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  Speaker 1: offer and I never have to go through with it
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  Speaker 1: because they'll never qualify for a mortgage. See, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: good guy. This is the way I live. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: I am a good guy. I get the credit for
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  Speaker 1: being a good guy, and I don't have to go through.
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  Speaker 1: It's the elevator philosophy of life, which I shared with
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  Speaker 1: you many times. You're in an elevator, someone is running
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  Speaker 1: towards the door and you look sort of shocked, and
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  Speaker 1: you immediately make a move to press the button to
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  Speaker 1: keep the elevator door open, but you don't. You either
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  Speaker 1: press the closed button close button for the elevator, or
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  Speaker 1: you simply press on the panel. And here it is.
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  Speaker 1: You get the credit for trying. You know in your
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  Speaker 1: heart you don't have to deal with it. You're a
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  Speaker 1: good guy. And at the same time, hey, you're true
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  Speaker 1: to yourself. Now, as I joke over that, the issue
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  Speaker 1: of youth homelessness is just exploding. And here's another point
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  Speaker 1: I want to make before we take a break, and
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  Speaker 1: of course I have to turn everything into a comedy routine,
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  Speaker 1: and that is we used to do stories of kids
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  Speaker 1: who were homeless, grew up in a shelter, single mom,
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  Speaker 1: couldn't eat a motel kid, maybe at Katerina's club, and
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  Speaker 1: then went on to college and started a career, became doctors,
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  Speaker 1: or became successful at some professional field or another. And
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  Speaker 1: those were stories that we looked at, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: that's terrific. There's so many of them. Now they're not
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  Speaker 1: news anymore. So many people coming out of homelessness, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't do that. We don't have enough shelter. Well,
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  Speaker 1: look at what we do for Katerina's Club. You know,
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  Speaker 1: kids are hungry. How can you have hungry kids? How
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  Speaker 1: do you have hungry kids in society like ours? I
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  Speaker 1: don't get it. To this day, I do not understand it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I want to tell you a story. When
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  Speaker 1: I started practicing law. There were one of the lawyers
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  Speaker 1: that happened to be in the legal suite that I
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  Speaker 1: was in, and he was married to this woman who
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  Speaker 1: was far more successful a lawyer than he was. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she was pretty high up in a law firm. And
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  Speaker 1: I once went to their house and there were a
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  Speaker 1: group of lawyers there with their wives, and the wives
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  Speaker 1: were on the floor sitting at their husband's knees. I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell is this about? Well, once we get home,
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  Speaker 1: a woman's place is at the knees of her husband.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you make more money, you are more successful. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that ends at the front door. So out of the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times. This is why I got so interested
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  Speaker 1: in this and found this. It starts with an interview
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  Speaker 1: with this woman and her head scarf is a physical
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  Speaker 1: reminder of her biblical patriarchy. It keeps me from running
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. And what does patriarchy mean to these people? Well,
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  Speaker 1: political voices should be their husbands. America we better off
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  Speaker 1: if women could not vote. We're talking women who believe
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  Speaker 1: that America would be better off if women could not vote.
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  Speaker 1: Very few men believe that. Well, I do. But it
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  Speaker 1: turns out that this is a weird thing. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think it was a thing. I did not think this
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  Speaker 1: thing was a thing. This thing is growing as crazy
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  Speaker 1: as it sounds. Hey, the world is completely upside down.
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  Speaker 1: So these are the Easts and they are part of
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  Speaker 1: the church that Dale Partridge runs. He's forty year old pastor.
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  Speaker 1: He's based out of Prescott, Arizona, and he has attracted
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  Speaker 1: a big following on social media and he posts a
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  Speaker 1: commentary railing against feminists, athletics, gay people, immigration is a
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  Speaker 1: national suicide, Islam and Hinduism is demonic. And also erasing
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  Speaker 1: woman suffrage is something we should do. And that nineteenth Amendment, boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's pesky. That one is one reason the world is
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  Speaker 1: falling apart. Now you think that this was almost an
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  Speaker 1: SNL skit. You think this is almost a parody routine
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  Speaker 1: of what's going on. And the problem is it's growing.
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  Speaker 1: The nineteenth Amendment made it possible for women, of course
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  Speaker 1: to vote. But Partridge and the members of his congregation,
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  Speaker 1: which are growing like minded Christian and they said, the
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  Speaker 1: nineteenth Amendment drove America into a national decline. And here's
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  Speaker 1: what they do. And this is what's become a norm
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  Speaker 1: amongst many people, and that is household voting. Not one person,
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  Speaker 1: one vote, as what America is based on. No, this
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  Speaker 1: is household voting. Every household has one vote. And in
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  Speaker 1: this society that means the husband. And even those that
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  Speaker 1: are the most liberal among this group of people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we wives should have some say there should be some discussion,
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  Speaker 1: but in the end it is the husband's choice. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: this thing is becoming more than a fringe. Beth bar
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  Speaker 1: Beth Alison Barr, history professor at Baylor, said, I used
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  Speaker 1: to teach this as this is a fringe thing that's
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  Speaker 1: out there. Now I teach it as this is no
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  Speaker 1: longer fringe. Now let's get a little more specific. Pete
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  Speaker 1: Hegsith share a clip last summer of pastors in his
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  Speaker 1: Ultra Conservative Domination, which holds that America is a Christian
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  Speaker 1: nation whose laws should be Christian tenants, and that women
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  Speaker 1: should be barred from voting. Now that's not that he
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  Speaker 1: says that, but his denomination says that, And that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't an anti abortionist activist who spoke at the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty Republican National Convention, Abby Johnson. She endorsed household voting.
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  Speaker 1: And not only is this crazy, and now we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a very small group of people, because to me,
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  Speaker 1: this is still fringy and kind of nuts to how
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  Speaker 1: many people really believe that. But a little bit further on,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper than this is it goes right
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  Speaker 1: into Christian nationalism, which is becoming a very big thing
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  Speaker 1: that's growing like crazy across the United States. And Christian
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  Speaker 1: nationalism is about the belief that the United States is
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  Speaker 1: a Christian country, the United States should follow Christian and tenants,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, those of us who are not Christian, there's
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  Speaker 1: no room for us, not this place. There ain't no room.
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  Speaker 1: And then the complete clap trap about the founding fathers
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  Speaker 1: being Christians. Really, I didn't know that because there's not
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  Speaker 1: one word of even religion in the Constitution. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, the one word about religion is that
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  Speaker 1: the state should not have anything to do with religion
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  Speaker 1: or abridge the power of the citizens to have their religion.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you, if you are a Christian nation,
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  Speaker 1: that is a religion, right. The founding fathers never mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, they were Deis. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: how many of them were Christian. No, I think they
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  Speaker 1: all believe in God, but no one went beyond that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: are there national religions out there? Yeah? Do you know
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  Speaker 1: in England is a national religion. There is an official
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  Speaker 1: religion in England which we don't have, which we will
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  Speaker 1: never have hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's that's why that actually started the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 2: It was freedom of religion, that's right. The end of
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  Speaker 2: actually plays a very large, huge, huge part. The forefathers
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  Speaker 2: were deists, they had different faith. You had some that
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  Speaker 2: were deists, but it absolutely played a part.
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  Speaker 1: And the wato about it.
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  Speaker 2: It is about protecting religion from the state, not the
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  Speaker 2: state from religion.
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  Speaker 1: And so that is correct, protecting religion from the state. However,
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  Speaker 1: that moved right into separation of church and state. And
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  Speaker 1: to bring to your point that the United States was
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  Speaker 1: founded those pilgrims, those Puritans came over because of religious freedom.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't getting religious freedom. They were coming here to
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  Speaker 1: practice their religion as they saw fit without governmental intervention.
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  Speaker 1: So when you hear some of these Christian nationalists say
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  Speaker 1: we are a Christian country, not that most of our
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  Speaker 1: citizens are Christian, which I don't. Yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: fair to say, but that we are a Christian country
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  Speaker 1: and Christian tenants, that's what we believe in Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what this country is about. It isn't now,
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  Speaker 1: Pete Hegsith will argue with you that it is. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you go to one of these places, it's really wonderful
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  Speaker 1: to see these women that are just tromped on completely
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  Speaker 1: not completely tromped on. There's a great quote. I love
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  Speaker 1: this one, and that is Corbyn Clark, who is an
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  Speaker 1: assistant pastor at this church and is a ups driver.
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  Speaker 1: Women weren't made for battle, he said, they were made
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  Speaker 1: for love. They were made for beauty. And his wife
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  Speaker 1: instantly agreed with that God designed it that way. How
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  Speaker 1: come I can't get married a woman who think that way?
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  Speaker 1: What is going on with my wife? The women of
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  Speaker 1: my life actually think they're equal. What happened, Okay, yesterday
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  Speaker 1: Pam Bondi was fired by the President and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of reasons she was fired. One, she completely whiffed on
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein case, just screwed it totally, I mean, just
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  Speaker 1: out and out lied to Congress, was caught in the lie,
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  Speaker 1: admitted she was lying. So that was a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: And even Republicans in Congress that came down pretty hard
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  Speaker 1: on her and did not make the president look good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she basically threw them under the bus. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, politically still is a didassaer for the president.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to get away from it. The other thing is,
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  Speaker 1: the other reason given is she wasn't aggressive enough in
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  Speaker 1: going after Donald Trump's perceived enemies. You go after them
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter. And the entire question of perceived
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  Speaker 1: enemies is anybody who spoken negatively about Donald Trump or
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  Speaker 1: has not even been an acolyte a sycophant. Look what
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  Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth has done with the Defense Department, with the military,
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  Speaker 1: and what she did Pam BONDI, which he did with
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  Speaker 1: experienced prostitutors, decimated the Department of Justice at its highest levels,
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  Speaker 1: even going down to US attorneys, and there I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how many dozens there are because they weren't aggressive enough,
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  Speaker 1: or they weren't outspoken enough about Donald Trump and his
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  Speaker 1: beliefsid his tenure, in his philosophy. And if you are
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  Speaker 1: in favor of Donald Trump, you are in favor of
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution. If you are not, if you have a
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  Speaker 1: problem with the Trump president and see, then you basically
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  Speaker 1: are a trader if you say anything negatively. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what happens. It's that simple. And the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: got fired. He liked her personally, and she was in
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  Speaker 1: trouble for a while, but the fact that she got
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  Speaker 1: fired sort of took people for a loop this quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and because, as described in a New York Times article,
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  Speaker 1: notwithstanding the fact that she lavished praise on President Trump,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the word lavish to the point of being cartoonish. And
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it, that is exactly correct, to
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  Speaker 1: the point of being cartoonish. Did you see that first
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  Speaker 1: cabinet meeting that was I think it was last year,
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  Speaker 1: just at the start of the administration where everybody was
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the cabinet and every single one of them
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  Speaker 1: as the camera was following them, the video was following
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  Speaker 1: them one after another saying, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 1: president is greatest person who ever lived. We're the luckiest
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  Speaker 1: country in the world to have a president like this,
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  Speaker 1: who is going to lead us back into greatness. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just on and on the point. It was vomitous, and
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately that's what is needed. And even when you get there,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's not enough. And so with that, there were
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  Speaker 1: a couple of cases. Well, let me give you a
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  Speaker 1: stat There have been five cases have been brought to
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  Speaker 1: trial here in Los Angeles and federal court against protesters
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  Speaker 1: where even they have video of protesters going after federal agents.
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  Speaker 1: All five have been lost by prosecutors. And let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something about federal court. They have a ninety
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  Speaker 1: five percent conviction rate the Feds. If you are on
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  Speaker 1: the radar of the Feds, you are in deep trouble.
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  Speaker 1: You do not get out of that. All five failed.
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  Speaker 1: There have been a hundred of these that have been filed.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight of them have taken plea deals. And why
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  Speaker 1: do you plea with the federal government because you can't
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  Speaker 1: take a chance because you're probably going to lose, except
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  Speaker 1: if you're protesting. And why are you going to not
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  Speaker 1: lose in this case because the overreaching of ice. That's
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. Because look at what's happening with the
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  Speaker 1: way the Feds are dealing with these protesters, and the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice is going after the perceived enemies, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you know what, it's not working with the courts. That
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: is the one area where you still see some independency
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  Speaker 1: or independence independency, where you still see some independence is
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the court. Now is the court? The Supreme Court is
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: very conservative and they give Donald Trump his due, but
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it's more of a philosophy of a certain justice who
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: thinks that any president should have this much presidential power,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily Donald Trump. When it comes to the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice, when it comes to an executive agency, it's
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  Speaker 1: not even close. I mean, there is no such thing.
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  Speaker 1: There is no such thing as independence anymore. The FBI
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  Speaker 1: was considered independence, semi autonomous as the Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 1: There was a firewall there that has all gone. And
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  Speaker 1: even the FED, which really was independence, the move is
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to keep it well, to get rid of the of
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: its dependence or if of its independence. There we go,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I get too, I'm getting the two confused. So Pam
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  Speaker 1: BONDI didn't do enough. She wasn't aggressive enough. Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to see Todd Blanche, who was her assistant,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: her deputy now has been named interim Attorney General and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: he was the one that went down and interviewed Julane
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Maxwell for two days. We don't know what they said,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: but what we do know is Julane Maxwell went from
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a medium security prison to a minimum security prison. And
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: it's unheard of for someone who's involved in child predation
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to go to a minimum security prison. I mean, this thing,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the whole thing just stinks to high heaven. But you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Okay, I'll tell you what
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna have fun. Enough of this.
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  Speaker 1: I get pretty depressed sometimes talking about this, and I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: keep on saying, I don't want to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: with Ann. Let's not talk about it. You know, we
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: don't want to bring that topic up. How can you not?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That's the problem. I mean, you can only spend so
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: much time talking about the toilet on Artemis two, actually,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: we should spend more time talking about the toilet on
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Artemis too. We don't talk enough about that. All right,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: coming up? Ooh that I just talk about toilets, and
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: then I'm seg waiting right into Foody Friday. Ooh, all right,
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