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7.25.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of today's Washington Post. It is Saturday,
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Speaker 1: July twenty fifth of twenty six. Your reader is Alastina.
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Speaker 1: With reminder the radio I is for those blind with
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Speaker 1: other difficulties in holding a reading printed material. And I
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Speaker 1: start with the front page and on the far left
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Speaker 1: push to interview immigrants stirs alarmed. A federal agency aims
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Speaker 1: to compile detailed data on about eight hundred Afghans. By
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Speaker 1: Ted Hessen. It's the far left. In the middle, taking
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Speaker 1: up four columns is a picture of smoke filling the
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Speaker 1: sky near Saint Petersburg after Drum's bombarded warehouses won by
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Speaker 1: rild Berries, russia largest e commerce marketplace outside Kiev. A
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Speaker 1: defense industry exhibition was attacked, killing at least ten. In
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Speaker 1: the picture, there is this ginormous smoke cloud in the
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Speaker 1: sky behind a domed building with trees. Well, it's the
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Speaker 1: clouds of the highest. Then you see the dome building,
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Speaker 1: and then you see the trees, and then a fence
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Speaker 1: and a person running along the fence, obviously in running
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Speaker 1: clothes with a hat on and running shoes. A path
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Speaker 1: and then grass with red and yellow flowers on it.
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Speaker 1: On the right hand side, knives are out for vance
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Speaker 1: in gop barrage of attacks rare in intensity. Vice President's
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Speaker 1: allies say it's a cored NATed op by Natalie Allison.
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Speaker 1: Below the picture of the smoke cloud in Saint Petersburg.
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Speaker 1: Sharp drop in violent cram is difficult to explain. National
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Speaker 1: murder rate could fall the lowest in more than a
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Speaker 1: century back Katie Meckler. Below the push to interview immigrants
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Speaker 1: as an article on peptide boom has states scrambling post
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Speaker 1: survey reveals gaping or gaping regulatory holds. An explosion of
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Speaker 1: med spas by Lauren Weber. And then there's a picture
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Speaker 1: of the Tour de France and it's entitled Thrills at
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Speaker 1: Tour de France. Tajib Podigar wearing the overall leaders yellow jersey,
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Speaker 1: launched a stunning solo attack from the foot of the
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Speaker 1: iconic Altdaz on Friday to win the nineteenth stage of
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Speaker 1: the Tour de France and extends overall lead. You see
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Speaker 1: him on his bicycle in the yellow jersey with a
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Speaker 1: bike comet on. There is nobody behind him, but he's
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Speaker 1: going between a crowd of people, a huge line of
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Speaker 1: people on right left and sort of behind him because
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Speaker 1: he's on a curve. They're all waving flags and taking
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Speaker 1: pictures wearing polka dot shirts and tops in the Tour
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Speaker 1: de France, and then on the very far right two
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Speaker 1: columns Canada Bridge to open even as Ranca deepens. Trump
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Speaker 1: had sought to block it and a June event was
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Speaker 1: abruptly canceled. By Joanna Slater first article, violent crime is
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Speaker 1: dropping dramatically. The explanation isn't so simple. Rates of other crimes,
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Speaker 1: such as carjacking and burgerly are also plummeting. Our report
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Speaker 1: shows there's a picture of the front of a Chevrolet
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Speaker 1: truck with investigators two of them, and that kind of
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Speaker 1: red tape that says.
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Speaker 2: Do not enter caution, do not enter two of them.
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Speaker 1: Investigators remove crime scene tape at the sight of a
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Speaker 1: shooting that left four dead in Stockton, California, on November
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Speaker 1: twenty ninth of twenty twenty five. Homicide rates are falling
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Speaker 1: in mini cities this year. This is by Katie Metler.
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Speaker 1: Homicide rates are falling precipitously in many cities across the
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Speaker 1: United States, dropping by eighteen percent since the same period
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Speaker 1: last year, and by the end of twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: the murder rate could plummet to its lowest nationwide in
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Speaker 1: more than a century. According to a new midyear Crime
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Speaker 1: Trends report reported carjacking incidents have also declined, sharply, dropping
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Speaker 1: by forty seven percent since last year. The Council on
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Speaker 1: Criminal Justice said in its report, the far reaching decline
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Speaker 1: in violent offenses is welcome news for the many communities
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Speaker 1: that were affected by an extraordinary spike and crime rate
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Speaker 1: during the coronavirus pandemic. The report from the non partisan
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Speaker 1: think tank analyzed incident reporting data for the thirteen common
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Speaker 1: criminal offenses in thirty six large and mid size US
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Speaker 1: cities during the first half of this year. The rates
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Speaker 1: for four offenses homicide, carjacking, residential burglary, and theft motor
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Speaker 1: vehicle theft dropped by more than fifty percent compared with
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Speaker 1: their peaks over the past nine years. The drop in
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Speaker 1: car drackings was the most dramatic, with the rate falling
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Speaker 1: by seventy three percent in the first half of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six compared with its peak in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: The spikes and declines are easier to explain for some
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Speaker 1: crimes than others. For example, residential burglaries went down during
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Speaker 1: the pandemic because everyone was at home, and shoplifting incidences
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Speaker 1: went down because many stores were closed, said Adam Gleb,
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Speaker 1: the Council's CEO and president. The opportunities changed dramatically, Gleb said,
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Speaker 1: but the roots of other crime trends, including the unprecedented
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Speaker 1: rise and subsequent decline of carjackings, are harder to discern.
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Speaker 1: Founded in twenty nineteen, the Council and Criminal Justice started
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Speaker 1: publishing semi annual trend reports in twenty twenty, amid the
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Speaker 1: pandemic related spike in violent crime, as well as the
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Speaker 1: racial justice protests that put a spot flight on legal injustices,
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Speaker 1: the country needed an unbiased source of real time data
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Speaker 1: on public safety, Gleeb said. The analysis released this week
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Speaker 1: draws on monthly incident level data collected from the online
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Speaker 1: portals of city police departments. The federal government also publishes
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Speaker 1: reports on crime rates using data from thousands of communities nationwide,
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Speaker 1: but many analysts complain that they take too long to produce,
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Speaker 1: making their findings less relevant. Reliable crime statistics are more
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Speaker 1: critical today, scholars and experts say as safety as public
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Speaker 1: safety is criticized in state hoses, courthouses and by politicians
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Speaker 1: of both parties, leaving policymakers to search for evidence of
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Speaker 1: what is working and what is not. New technologies appear
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Speaker 1: to be playing a role, but the overall question of
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Speaker 1: what is behind such a dramatic drop in crime is
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Speaker 1: far from simple. Gleeb said, the sometimes simplistic prescriptions of
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Speaker 1: both parties. We are seeing changes in criminal justice, policy
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Speaker 1: and strategy, advances in technology and surveillance, and broad ships
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Speaker 1: in society and culture, all happening at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Crime is falling across too many different kinds of cities
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Speaker 1: to credit any one policy party a program, Gleeb said.
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Speaker 1: The consistency of the downward trend nationwide, Gleeb said, means
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Speaker 1: that micro level forces are playing a major role. President
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump decried the violent crime rate when he ran
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Speaker 1: for president in twenty twenty four. Figures suggest the current
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Speaker 1: decline began in twenty twenty three under President Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: as the pandemic's effects faded and have continued under Trump.
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Speaker 1: The Council's analysis compared crime rates from the first six
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Speaker 1: months of this year with the first six months of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five to be two the first six months
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Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen before the pandemic spike, and does several
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Speaker 1: offenses peak over the past nine years Across all time
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Speaker 1: frames in the assessed cities, overall.
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Speaker 2: Violent crime is down.
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Speaker 1: When comparing the first six months of twenty twenty six
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Speaker 1: with the same period last year, The Council's analysis found
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Speaker 1: that homicides fell by an average of eighteen percent, a
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Speaker 1: decrease experienced in the District of Columbia, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore,
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Speaker 1: and New York. Non Fatal shootings and aggravated assaults also
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Speaker 1: decreased slightly. A handful of cities, however, did not do
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Speaker 1: so well. Homicide rates in the first half of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six increased by sixty four percent in Norfolk, fifty
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Speaker 1: five percent in San Francisco, thirty percent in Dallas, and
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Speaker 1: twenty percent in Salt Lake City compared with the first
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Speaker 1: half of twenty twenty five. Across the sample cities, domestic
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Speaker 1: violence incidents increased by eight percent and sexual assaults by
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Speaker 1: three percent, The report said, Although domestic violence rates were
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Speaker 1: still overall lower than pre pandemic reported, drug related crimes
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Speaker 1: were also up twelve percent compared with the first half
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Speaker 1: of last year, but again lower than the pre pandemic period.
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Speaker 1: Glebe said it was difficult to assign meaning to the
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Speaker 1: uptick in drug related incidents. He noted that arrests for
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Speaker 1: drugs can be highly discretionary and dependent on the policies, procedures,
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Speaker 1: and priority of law enforcement at any given time. More
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Speaker 1: cities are embracing prevention programming and violence interpretation tactics. Some
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Speaker 1: like Baltimore, have launched crime fighting strategies that encourage targeted
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Speaker 1: policing and treat gun violence as a public health crisis. Separately,
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Speaker 1: new law enforcement technologies such as surveillance, video, facial recognition software,
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Speaker 1: license plate readers, and artificial intelligence are enabling authorities to
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Speaker 1: investigate some crimes.
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Speaker 2: Faster.
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Speaker 1: Knives are out for balance in the GOP. His allies
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Speaker 1: say it's a coordinated up. The vice president has faced
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Speaker 1: a barrage of attacks recently that are unusual for their
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Speaker 1: intensity and how early in the political calendar they are
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Speaker 1: taking place. And this is an interesting picture of Trump
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Speaker 1: is seen aboard the USS Care Sage in New York
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Speaker 1: Harbor during an event this month celebrating the founding of
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Speaker 1: the United States. But it looks like he's walking into
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Speaker 1: a wall. It's a mirror reflection, and it's the edge
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Speaker 1: of a building that has a reflection of all of
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Speaker 1: the buildings in the background, and he is just walking
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Speaker 1: towards it. But it's a double image. It's a neat picture.
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Speaker 1: Natalie Allison is the author.
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Speaker 2: As JD.
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Speaker 1: Banch prepares to make a decision about his twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: eight plans, the Vice President is facing a barrage of
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Speaker 1: online attacks from within his party, Criticism, his allies say,
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Speaker 1: appears to be part of a coordinated attempt to poison
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Speaker 1: the well for him politically. His detractors have adopted the
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Speaker 1: never Mavents slogan and flooded social media, especially over the
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Speaker 1: past week, with at tax including claims that Vance is
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Speaker 1: unfit to be vice president due to his efforts to
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Speaker 1: negotiate a peace deal with Iran. They have asserted, without
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Speaker 1: evidence that Vance is making policy decisions not supported by
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump. They have likened him to form a
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Speaker 1: president Barack Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders independent of Vermont.
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Speaker 1: The sustained public hostility from Vance's own side of the
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Speaker 1: owl is unlike that faced by other Vice presidents in decades,
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Speaker 1: both in intensity and in the early timing two years
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Speaker 1: before the party will choose its next presidential nominee. The
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Speaker 1: unusual nature is a product of the central role that
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Speaker 1: social media plays in today's political discourse, as well as
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Speaker 1: the high stakes as Republicans prepare to select a new standard.
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Speaker 2: Bearer after Trump.
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Speaker 1: Vance allies and critics say Vance's political team remains dismissive
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Speaker 1: of the social media onslaught and its impact on Republican voters,
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Speaker 1: believing that many of the attacks are not organic. A
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Speaker 1: close ally of the Vice president told the wash Hingston Post,
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Speaker 1: a sentiment echoed by two other people with knowledge of
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Speaker 1: Vance's strategy. The ally and other advisors spoke on the
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Speaker 1: condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Vance's allies are
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Speaker 1: keenly aware of and monitoring the online attacks, but his
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Speaker 1: team says the criticism sends the signal to the conservative
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Speaker 1: base that establishment Republicans and opponents they label it a
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Speaker 1: neo Conservatives hate Vance that they say could ultimately strengthen
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Speaker 1: his standing in a GOP primary.
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Speaker 2: Lord Washington.
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Speaker 1: Establishment voices from an online cacophony, said Steve Cortes, a conservative.
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Speaker 1: Let me read that again, loud Washington establishment voices, form
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Speaker 1: and or online cacophony, said Steve Cortez, a conservative commentator,
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Speaker 1: supportive of Vance, but they do not remotely represent the
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Speaker 1: consensus views of Republican voters.
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Speaker 2: Vance, whose brand of.
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Speaker 1: Politics is populist and skeptical of foreign wars, has remained
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Speaker 1: the front runner in twenty twenty eight Republican primary. Poling
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State van Marco Rubio, the favorite of many
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Speaker 1: more traditional business his minded Republicans, has gained ground in
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Speaker 1: recent months, however, although Rubio has insisted he will support
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Speaker 1: Vance if he runs, the knives have long been for
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Speaker 1: Vance within the GOP since before Trump selected him as
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Speaker 1: his running mate. At the time, hawkish known as and
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Speaker 1: conservative media personalities lobbied for Trump to reject Vance in
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Speaker 1: favor of Rubio or Doug Bergham, now Secretary of the Interior.
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Speaker 1: Polling of Republican voters shows vance favorability within the party
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Speaker 1: as roughly on par with Trump's. Intense Criticism from some Republicans,
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Speaker 1: largely over Vance's foreign policy views, has ebbed and flowed
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Speaker 1: since the start of the second Trump term. The criticism
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Speaker 1: reached a peak in the fall, as neo conservatives and
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Speaker 1: pro Israel activists portrayed Vance as antisemitic for sympathizing with
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Speaker 1: figures who expressed skepticism over the US relationship with Israel.
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Speaker 1: More recently, attacks ticked up again after Vance sat for
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Speaker 1: nearly three hour interview July fifteenth on Joe Rogan's widely
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Speaker 1: watched podcast. During the show, Vance described himself as a
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Speaker 1: reasonable moderate in the debate over the US Israel relationship.
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Speaker 1: He also cited a recent Time report about an online
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Speaker 1: pro Israel influence operation run by a former Trump campaign official,
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Speaker 1: through which Vance said he was being attacked in dishonest
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Speaker 1: ways by paid influences.
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Speaker 2: You know my response to that is, well, go to hell.
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Speaker 1: Vance told Rogan, I'm going to do what I have
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Speaker 1: done to do for the American people. I represent Americans first,
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Speaker 1: and that's why I've tried to do this job. That's
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Speaker 1: what I've tried to do this job. Pro Israel conservatives erupted.
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Speaker 1: A Washington Post analysis of conservative influences post on x
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Speaker 1: found that criticism Advanced spiked immediately after his appearance on
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Speaker 1: Rogan's podcast. Critical posts poured in from prominent commentators including
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Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro, Mark Theesen, and Battia Aungar Sargan, as well
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Speaker 1: as online right wing influences and little known ex users
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Speaker 1: whose anti Vance post quickly gained traction. Some of the
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Speaker 1: users whose anti Dvanced post quickly gained traction. Some of
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Speaker 1: the users who pledged to oppose Vance and support Rubio
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight had profiles that strongly suggest did
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Speaker 1: they weren't American voters and are based in other countries.
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Speaker 2: It was obvious to anyone.
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Speaker 1: With an IQ above seventy that the barrage of attacks
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Speaker 1: has been totally unauthentic and probably coordinated to a certain extent.
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Speaker 1: The clos Vance ali said the upsurge in online criticism
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Speaker 1: hasn't been reflected in any data correlating with Vance's image
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Speaker 1: among GOP voters, which currently attack President Trump's image to
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Speaker 1: a t, the person said, adding if it were authentic, organic,
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Speaker 1: or effective, Vance's favorability rating with Republican voters would have
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Speaker 1: created over the past nine months since the intense online
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Speaker 1: criticism first peaked, the person said, and that just hasn't happened.
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Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the Vice President said Vance's only focus
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Speaker 1: is fighting for the president's agenda and delivering wins for
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Speaker 1: the American people, and that he is not concerned with
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Speaker 1: social media. Vance's allies have pushed back publicly against some
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Speaker 1: of the attacks, at times calling attention to common language
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Speaker 1: used among those posting insults. John Schwepp, advanced supporter and
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Speaker 1: senior adviser at the American Principals Project who worked for
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Speaker 1: Trump's Federal Trade Trade Commission until earlier this year, posted
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Speaker 1: a charter on X last week that showed the Vice
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Speaker 1: President's favorability among Republicans had remained steady despite an anti
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Speaker 1: Vance opp His post quickly received dozens of replies from
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Speaker 1: accounts that didn't follow him, all attacking Vance. Shwrep described
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Speaker 1: the response as curious since his post had not been
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Speaker 1: shared by any high follower accounts primary season. I guess
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Speaker 1: it's beginning before the midterms this year, Shwep said, adding
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Speaker 1: that Advance's detractors are trying to create and dividists and
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Speaker 1: separate him from the President.
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Speaker 2: There's going to be folks within the.
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Speaker 1: Party's structure, within the influencers structure, who are going to
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Speaker 1: try to knock him down a few pegs in hope
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Speaker 1: that a challenger can emerge to beat him, and that's
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Speaker 1: just what we're seeing. But it's absolutely organized, Shwep said.
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Speaker 1: The intense focus on the vice president is unusual. Trump's
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Speaker 1: first vice president, Mike Pence, didn't face intense backlash from
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Speaker 1: Republicans until the final weeks of his turn as the president,
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Speaker 1: and his supporters blamed Vance for failing to act to
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Speaker 1: overturn the twenty twenty election results. Before that, Pence had
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Speaker 1: been widely liked by Republicans, with few prominent conservatives raising
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Speaker 1: their heads to harshly criticize him. For a significant stretch
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Speaker 1: of her vice presidency, Kamala Harris faced a version of
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Speaker 1: the succession anxiety now surrounding Vance. Democratic donors, strategists, and
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Speaker 1: commentators questioned whether her low favorability ratings, uneven political performance,
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Speaker 1: and widely reported management problems left her prepared to become president,
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Speaker 1: and especially consequential concern given President Joe Biden's age. But
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Speaker 1: there are significant differences. Vance is confronting a public ideological
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Speaker 1: revote from prominent figures within the conservative coalition. The criticism
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Speaker 1: of Harris, by contrast, generally was framed around competence and electability,
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Speaker 1: with jabs at what critics considered misstatements and gaffes. Few
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Speaker 1: major Democratic figures publicly demanded that Biden remove her. Mark Short,
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Speaker 1: who served as chief of staff to Pence in the
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Speaker 1: White House, acknowledged that the attacks against Vance are far
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Speaker 1: more intense than what Pence endured for nearly four years
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Speaker 1: in office, at least until Trump turned against him at
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Speaker 1: the end of his term. Pence, however, was adamant throughout
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Speaker 1: that term not to show any distance between himself and Trump,
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Speaker 1: even to staff or other cabinet officials. Short said, Vance
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Speaker 1: has at times signaled a different perspective regarding.
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Speaker 2: The war with Iran.
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Speaker 1: He noted, Trump has confirmed that Vance is philosophically a
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Speaker 1: little bit different than him on Iran and maybe less
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Speaker 1: enthusiastic about going to war. Although answers publicly expressed support
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Speaker 1: for Trump's decisions, Short said, I think that there's been
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Speaker 1: a difference in the way that the current team has
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Speaker 1: made clear of their policy differences. So I think that
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Speaker 1: does create more scrutiny when you do that. Trump wanted
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Speaker 1: to block this bridge between the US and Canada.
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Speaker 2: It's about to open. The Gordy.
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Speaker 1: How international bridge will be celebrated among Canadians only, and
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Speaker 1: the Gordy how International Bridge connects Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
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Speaker 1: And it's a lovely bridge with like sales, much like
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Speaker 1: the one in Boston, holding up the bridge that two
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Speaker 1: of them in the span across the water. By Joanna Slatter.
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Speaker 1: It's the largest cross broader infrastructure project in decades to
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Speaker 1: link the United States and Canada. A new four point
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Speaker 1: five billion dollar bridge named after a hockey legend beloved
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Speaker 1: in both nations, and that would be Gordie how But
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Speaker 1: until just days ago, it wasn't clear whether the span,
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Speaker 1: complete for weeks, would open. Back in February, President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump threatened to prevent the opening of the Gordy how
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Speaker 1: International Bridge, saying the US was being treated unfairly. In June,
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Speaker 1: an event to inaugurate the bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor,
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Speaker 1: Ontario was abruptly counseled. Now, the six lane span is
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Speaker 1: set to open to traffic on Monday, after the two
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Speaker 1: countries signed a last minute deal separate from the operating
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Speaker 1: agreement for the bridge. While the project is visible proof
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Speaker 1: of the ties that bind Canada and the US, it
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Speaker 1: has also become a symbol of something else the fraying
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Speaker 1: of the bond between the two neighbors, as Trump uses
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Speaker 1: threats to negotiate with Canada and calls it the fifty
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Speaker 1: first state. The rancor deepened this week after Trump said
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Speaker 1: he would impose a new fifty percent tariff on many
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Speaker 1: Canadian products. In response, Canada described plans for a joint
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Speaker 1: ceremony to mark the opening of the bridge. It would
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Speaker 1: be inappropriate to proceed with a celaboratory event between the
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Speaker 1: two countries, a spokeswoman for Canada's Infrastructure minister said in
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Speaker 1: an email statement. Instead, the country will celebrate the milestone
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Speaker 1: among Canadians on Friday morning. Drew Dilkins, the mayor of Windsor,
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Speaker 1: is among those invited to the ceremony under different circumstances.
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Speaker 1: He said, the opening of a once in a generation
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Speaker 1: project would have seen the US President and the Canadian
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister shaking hands.
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Speaker 2: In the middle of the bridge.
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Speaker 1: Regretfully, we aren't doing that, Dilkins said it's hard to
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Speaker 1: celebrate a relationship when the President of the United States
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Speaker 1: continues to lob in salts and tariffs at Canada unnecessarily.
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Speaker 1: The White Hose did not immediately respond to her request
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Speaker 1: for comment.
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Speaker 2: For nearly a.
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Speaker 1: Century, all commercial truck traffic between Detroit and Windsor has
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Speaker 1: relied on the Ambassador Bridge, which opened in nineteen twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: Last year, ninety four billion dollars in cross border trade,
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Speaker 1: about a quarter of the total truck freight between the
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Speaker 1: two countries, passed over the aging bridge. Discussions to build
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Speaker 1: a new bridge began in twenty two thousand and two.
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Speaker 2: A decade later, Canada and.
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Speaker 1: Michigan signed the operating agreement for the joint project. Canada
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Speaker 1: agreed to fund the entire cost, and once it recouped
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Speaker 1: its investment, the total proceeds would be split equally with Michigan.
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Speaker 1: The bridge would be named after Gordie Howe, a Canadian
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Speaker 1: hockey great who spent twenty five seasons playing for the
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Speaker 1: NHL's Detroit Red Wings. For years, the owners of the
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Speaker 1: Ambassador Bridge, the Maroon family, filed lawsuits to stall or
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Speaker 1: block the building of a competitor described as traffic impaired
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Speaker 1: and slowly declining a decade ago. The Ambassador Bridge stands
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Speaker 1: to lose significant toll revenue when the Gordya Bridge opens
30:12
Speaker 1: in January. Billionaire Matthew Maroon donated one million dollars to
30:18
Speaker 1: a political action committee supporting Trump. Federal election data shows.
30:24
Speaker 1: The next month, Maroon met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
30:28
Speaker 1: in Washington. The New York Times reported hours after the meeting,
30:33
Speaker 1: Trump made his threat to block the opening of the
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Speaker 1: new bridge. Still, the bridge appeared on track to open
30:41
Speaker 1: in June, and local dignitaries received invites to an inaugural event.
30:46
Speaker 1: It was called off at the last minute. Canada and
30:50
Speaker 1: the United States had agreed to delay the opening. Chuck Anderry,
30:54
Speaker 1: the interim Chief executive officer of the Windsor Detroit Bridge Authority,
30:59
Speaker 1: said in a statement to resolve any outstanding issues. Earlier
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Speaker 1: this month, the two countries said they had reached a
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Speaker 1: parallel agreement in principle that would allow the bridge to open.
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Speaker 1: Under its terms, Canada would make payments into a US
31:18
Speaker 1: Canada Economic Development Fund controlled by the US for the
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Speaker 1: next fifteen years. The payments would be equivalent to half
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Speaker 1: the toll proceeds minus the operating costs of the bridge.
31:31
Speaker 1: Canada also pledged to seek US consent if tolls were
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Speaker 1: raised and reduced or reduced to rates that deviated from
31:40
Speaker 1: regional averages. Trump welcomed the agreement, saying in the social
31:45
Speaker 1: media post that he he had cut a much better
31:50
Speaker 1: deal for America in calling the original terms unacceptable to me,
31:56
Speaker 1: but his opposition to the bridge is a relatively recent
31:59
Speaker 1: development during Trump's first term. He said in a joint
32:03
Speaker 1: statement with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he was
32:08
Speaker 1: looking forward to the expeditious completion of this final economic link. Dilkins,
32:16
Speaker 1: the Windsor Maya, said his community is happy the bridge
32:20
Speaker 1: is set to open on Monday. At the same time,
32:24
Speaker 1: there is absolutely nothing that would surprise me with Donald Trump.
32:29
Speaker 1: Until the first car start crossing and the first truck
32:32
Speaker 1: start rolling, anything is possible, Dilkins said. Marta Lardy Anderson
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Speaker 1: heads the Cross Boulder Institute at the University of Windsor
32:44
Speaker 1: and spent four years as an executive at the bridge
32:48
Speaker 1: Authority until twenty eighteen. The Gordie how Bridge will be
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Speaker 1: the most technically advanced in the most secure border crossing
32:57
Speaker 1: in North America. She said a joint US Canada celebration,
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Speaker 1: while desirable, is not essential. She added, ribbon cutting is
33:08
Speaker 1: not an objective. The objective is to get the bridge
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Speaker 1: open and working. Lardy Anderson said Clardy. Anderson is not
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Speaker 1: isn't sure whether she will drive across the bridge first. Oh,
33:22
Speaker 1: wait until its spike and pedestrian path opened several days later.
33:27
Speaker 1: At night, when the suspension bridge is all lit up,
33:30
Speaker 1: she said, it's gorgeous. After a hometown soldier's deaths, a
33:40
Speaker 1: Texas suburb wrestles with trumps around wall. The death of
33:45
Speaker 1: a young soldier from Texas prompts people in her hometown
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Speaker 1: to reflect on the necessity of a wall that has
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Speaker 1: divided the country. And there's the remains of Private Isabella
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Speaker 1: Gonzalez arriving at Doba Air Force in Delaware on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: and you see them walking down the ramp from the plane.
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Speaker 1: By Molly Hennis c Fisk, Carrollton, Texas. The Wall of
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Speaker 1: Ana is just inside the entrance to American Legium Post
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Speaker 1: five ninety seven in this Dallas suburb's historic downtown, an
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Speaker 1: alcove covered with pictures of dozens of local service members
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Speaker 1: killed in recent overseas conflicts. Now they have another US
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Speaker 1: Army Private Isabella Gonzalez, nineteen, killed in an Iranian strike
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Speaker 1: on Muwaffka Salty Air Base in Jordan on July seventeenth.
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Speaker 2: According to the Pentagon.
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Speaker 1: Russ Ganser knows some of the others memorialized on the wall.
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Speaker 1: The retired fishing guide didn't know Gonzales, but said he's
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Speaker 1: a father of six, his youngest daughter just four years
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Speaker 1: older than Gonzales.
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Speaker 2: Any loss of life is terrible.
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Speaker 1: Ganzer sixty five said, but when it's your hometown, it
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Speaker 1: hits you, especially when they're so young. The death strikes
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Speaker 1: close for any in this diverse, politically divided Dallas suburb
35:21
Speaker 1: of about one hundred and thirty five thousand, which last
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Speaker 1: lost a member of the military at war sixteen years ago.
35:29
Speaker 1: Gonzalez is one of eighteen US service members who have
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Speaker 1: been killed since President Donald Trump ordered the first strikes
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Speaker 1: in late February, four of them since the ceasefire collapsed
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Speaker 1: July seventh. Her death has prompted people here to reflect
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Speaker 1: on the necessity of a war that has divided public
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Speaker 1: opinion from its inception. Gonzalez attended a nearby Hebron High School,
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Speaker 1: where she served in Junior ROTC and wore a US
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Speaker 1: Army stole to graduation last year. She enlisted last spring
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Speaker 1: was assigned as an Air and Missile Defense crew member
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Speaker 1: to the fifty second Air Defense Artillery Brigade and the
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Speaker 1: tenth Army Era and Missile Defense Command in Asbach, Germany.
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Speaker 2: We're just so proud of her. We were so very
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Speaker 2: proud of her when.
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Speaker 1: She went in and she paid the ultimate sacrifice, said
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Speaker 1: her mother's aunt, Elizabeth Muniez, fifty eight, of La Ferira, Texas.
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Speaker 1: Gonzalez's mother declined to comment via text.
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Speaker 2: This week.
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Speaker 1: John Norsworthy, sixty two in Army veteran who served in
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Speaker 1: Korea and now commands the American Legion Post is supporting
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Speaker 1: Gonzalez's family. Norsworthy said an American Legion Auxiliary member working
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Speaker 1: with the family told him Gonzalez's mother to ensure her
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Speaker 1: daughter is remembered. Gonzalez's family flew to Dover Air Force
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Speaker 1: Base in Delaware for the dignified transfer of her remains
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. They were joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
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Speaker 1: General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
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Speaker 1: and Trump, who was making his third appearance at DOVA
37:24
Speaker 1: since the war started. Carrollton, last mostly in Denton County,
37:31
Speaker 1: a conservative but rapidly growing and diversifying suburb where Trump
37:36
Speaker 1: won fifty six percent of the vote in twenty twenty four.
37:41
Speaker 1: Some here support the Iran wall, but his national polls
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Speaker 1: showed earl. This month, there is widespread opposition, including among
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Speaker 1: some Republican Trump supporters.
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Speaker 2: Iran is a major mistake.
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Speaker 1: I personally think he's gotten us into another Vietnam, said Ray,
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Speaker 1: eighty three and Army veteran who served in Vietnam. He
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Speaker 1: declined to give his last name while having a beer
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Speaker 1: at the American Legion bar because he said his opinion
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Speaker 1: is unpopular there. A self described independent conservative raised in
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Speaker 1: a military family, Ray said he voted for Trump and
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Speaker 1: all three presidential elections, but has sent saured on him,
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Speaker 1: comparing him to form a president and then B Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Ray said, like Johnson, he keeps talking about his ceasefire.
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Speaker 2: I'm blowing as cool.
38:37
Speaker 1: Every time we stick our nose into something, our people
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Speaker 1: are going to get hurt going into it. You have
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Speaker 1: to think is it worth it? Nearby Steve Pike, seventy,
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Speaker 1: whose daughter is an Army sergeant, said he became upset
38:53
Speaker 1: this week when a friend accused Trump of having killed Gonzales.
38:57
Speaker 1: They are heroes what they were getting into and loved
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Speaker 1: a country as my daughter does, said Si Pike, who
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Speaker 1: voted for Trump. He insisted the conflict as necessary to
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Speaker 1: prevent around from developing nuclear weapons and that he expects
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Speaker 1: it will likely end soon. At Carrollton's Armed Forces Career
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Speaker 1: Center in the nearby Strip Mall, Army recruiter Sergeant first
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Speaker 1: Class Ernaldo Rivera said the Iran conflict has not deterred recruits,
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Speaker 1: but has shaped their questions. They ask if they're going
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Speaker 1: to have to deploy, and they ask about my experience,
39:38
Speaker 1: said Rivera, thirty eight, who enlisted at age eighteen, deployed
39:44
Speaker 1: the following year and served in a rock. Standing outside
39:49
Speaker 1: the office in front of a blown up photo of
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Speaker 1: a Latino soldier, Rivera said many young recruits sign up
39:56
Speaker 1: to help pay for their education. He emphasized to them
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Speaker 1: that even if they don't train for combat, they could
40:03
Speaker 1: end up in a combat zone. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, it's their choice.
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Speaker 2: He said.
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Speaker 1: Just then, a twenty seven year old man who works
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Speaker 1: at a local pizza shop walked up and they went
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Speaker 1: inside to discuss his options. Democratic US Senator candidate James
40:21
Speaker 1: Tullerico provoked online debate during a pack Dallas town hall
40:26
Speaker 1: on Monday when he insisted Gonzalez was sent to serve
40:31
Speaker 1: in a reckless war that no one asked for. We're
40:35
Speaker 1: closing schools and hospitals in this country so we can
40:38
Speaker 1: bomb schools in the hospitals in other countries. There is
40:42
Speaker 1: never enough money for education in healthcare, but there's always
40:46
Speaker 1: enough money for war, the state representative said, adding our
40:51
Speaker 1: gratitude for her service should not be mistaken for an
40:54
Speaker 1: acceptance of her death.
40:56
Speaker 2: The crowd applauded.
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Speaker 1: GOP State representative Mitch Little condemned Toleerrico's speech in a
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Speaker 1: post on ex accusing him of trying to score cheap
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Speaker 1: applause lines at a rally off of a real family's grief.
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Speaker 1: Isabella wasn't sent, she volunteered for her duty station, wrote Little,
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Speaker 1: who represents the area where Gonzalez's family lives. He visited
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Speaker 1: the family Sunday to pray for her mom, who, he
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Speaker 1: told The Washington Post was devastated but surrounded by family.
41:36
Speaker 2: Little's post provoked.
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Speaker 1: Nearly two hundred comments, many from Texans with strong views
41:41
Speaker 1: on the conflict in Iran. Let her family grieve, Let
41:45
Speaker 1: her family decide if they want to talk about their
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Speaker 1: daughter's service. This should be their decision, not any politicians,
41:53
Speaker 1: wrote a woman who had identified herself as a Texas
41:57
Speaker 1: military wife, but another techs who identified as a thirty
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Speaker 1: year military veteran fought a little fat feigned outrage and
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Speaker 1: Trump for causing Gonzales's death. It's a stupid war and
42:12
Speaker 1: we've known for forty years what Iran would do, he wrote,
42:17
Speaker 1: adding Trump ignored prudent advice. People are dying, and he's
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Speaker 1: destroying our relations with the world.
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Speaker 2: She paid the price.
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Speaker 1: Maria Ramirez eighty six, a retired teacher who describes herself
42:31
Speaker 1: as a moderate who voted for Trump three times, lives
42:35
Speaker 1: down the street from the Gonzales family. Nobody wants these
42:40
Speaker 1: wars and the loss of service members. It's tragic to
42:43
Speaker 1: you lose a young life like that, Ramirez said, but
42:48
Speaker 1: added that those conflicts are there and they have to
42:52
Speaker 1: be dealt with. I have faith in our president and
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Speaker 1: our government. Most who spoke to the Post at the
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Speaker 1: American Legion Post this week said they supported the war
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Speaker 1: in Iran, but that their support was not unconditional. Drew Smith,
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Speaker 1: fifty boy as an Army veteran who served in the
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Speaker 1: Balkans during the nineteen nineties. Do I want us to
43:15
Speaker 1: keep being in wars. No, but I think it had
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Speaker 1: to happen, said Smith, who voted for Trump three times,
43:22
Speaker 1: adding I don't want us to have boots on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Others in Carleton condemned the conflict in Iran. When I
43:31
Speaker 1: heard about Gonzales, it just hit something in me. I'm
43:34
Speaker 1: not against wars where we're defending American lives, but I
43:38
Speaker 1: feel their lives are being wasted, said tac Nogore, thirty one,
43:43
Speaker 1: an independent raised in Carleton. I look at the history
43:47
Speaker 1: of warfare and get the sense this might be spiraling
43:50
Speaker 1: out of control. Walking through Carlton's Memorial Park for veterans,
43:56
Speaker 1: Michael Mean thirty two, said he had considered during the
44:00
Speaker 1: military like many of his high school friends, but after
44:04
Speaker 1: talking to a recruiter, he discovered his asthma disqualified him
44:09
Speaker 1: and he became a bartender. A self described gun nerd
44:14
Speaker 1: Means said he used to be a centrist that has
44:17
Speaker 1: become a left wing libertarian during the Trump administrations. He
44:21
Speaker 1: condemned the Iran war as incredibly stupid, fueled by the
44:27
Speaker 1: military industrial complex. We need to do everything we can
44:31
Speaker 1: to end the war, Means said, wearing a US flag
44:35
Speaker 1: cap Americans have died, When does it stop? He said
44:40
Speaker 1: that federal government needs to do more to support the
44:43
Speaker 1: working class dealing with health care and other rising cost
44:48
Speaker 1: At a downtown coffee shop, Rihanna Jackson agreed. Jackson, thirty four,
44:54
Speaker 1: marketing manager and mother of two from the Rio Grande Valley,
44:58
Speaker 1: whose father served in the army, said she recently got
45:01
Speaker 1: into an online debate with a childhood friend about the
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Speaker 1: war in Iran.
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Speaker 2: Why why are we at war? What is the reason?
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Speaker 1: Jackson, a Democrat, kept asking Her friends cited concern that
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Speaker 1: Iran would obtain nuclear weapons, but Jackson said that's been
45:20
Speaker 1: a threat for decades. She's more worried about the economy
45:23
Speaker 1: and other domestic issues. When can we take care of
45:26
Speaker 1: problems at home? Gonzalez is expected to be buried at
45:31
Speaker 1: a veterans cemetery in North Texas, although her funeral has
45:35
Speaker 1: yet to be scheduled. Norsworthy said afterward he and city
45:40
Speaker 1: leaders are planning to hold a vigil and to erect
45:42
Speaker 1: a memorial for Gonzales, either downtown or at the veterans memorial,
45:47
Speaker 1: maybe both.
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Speaker 2: At Tuesday's city council meeting. Mayor pro tem.
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Speaker 1: Daisy Palomo, whose son is deployed Oversees, said, as a mom,
45:59
Speaker 1: today we born alongside those who knew and loved her.
46:03
Speaker 1: May and Steve Babkick, raised in a military family, issued
46:08
Speaker 1: a proclamation honoring Gonzales. It's so important that we never forget,
46:14
Speaker 1: Babic said as they left. Taps echoed through Carrollton's City Hall.
46:25
Speaker 1: The planet strongest heat dome will soon tower over the
46:31
Speaker 1: Rockies and the plains see where record toppling temperatures of
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten degrees are possible through next week.
46:41
Speaker 1: And there is a picture of the globe with bright
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Speaker 1: orange areas in a big red circle right over the
46:49
Speaker 1: center of the United States in that plain area showing
46:55
Speaker 1: high heat headed in that direction by Ben Noah. It
47:01
Speaker 1: has been the summer of the heat Dome. Europe was
47:05
Speaker 1: hit by record breaking heat events in May and June.
47:10
Speaker 1: Then a slow moving heat dome sizzled the East in
47:13
Speaker 1: early July, toppling records. After that, another sprawling heat dome
47:19
Speaker 1: spiked temperatures to one hundred and fifteen degrees in Montana,
47:25
Speaker 1: breaking yet more records. And now another heat dome predicted
47:31
Speaker 1: his strength and Saturday into the most powerful one on
47:34
Speaker 1: the planet at that time, is threatening to break more
47:37
Speaker 1: records across the plains and rockies. Heat domes are towering
47:43
Speaker 1: and slow moving areas of high pressure that trap hot air,
47:49
Speaker 1: and they often lead to heat waves.
47:53
Speaker 2: This expansive area.
47:55
Speaker 1: Of high pressure could send temperatures surging past one hundred
47:59
Speaker 1: and ten day degrees in the Central United States early
48:02
Speaker 1: next week, with the core of the most unusual heat
48:06
Speaker 1: stretching from the Dakotas to Texas. Several states in that
48:11
Speaker 1: carta are dealing with drop high humidity will make the
48:17
Speaker 1: heat more dangerous. The number of vary and extremely humid
48:22
Speaker 1: summer days has grown across the plains as the Gulf
48:26
Speaker 1: of Mexico warms. Here are the highest temperatures predicted through
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Speaker 1: Wednesday in two dozen states that will feel the effects
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Speaker 1: of this heat dome, according to the European Center for
48:41
Speaker 1: Medium Range Weather Forecast, California one hundred and twenty one degrees,
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Speaker 1: Arizona one hundred and twenty degrees, Nevada one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifteen degrees, Kansas one hundred and thirteen degrees, Oklahoma one
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Speaker 1: hundred twelve degrees, Texas one hundred and twelve degrees, South
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Speaker 1: Dakota one hundred and nine degrees, Arkansas one hundred and
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Speaker 1: eight degrees, Colorado one hundred and seven degrees, Idaho one
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Speaker 1: hundred and seven degrees, Louisiana and Nebraska and Mexico and
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Speaker 1: North Dakota also one hundred and seven degrees at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and six degrees, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Utah,
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Speaker 1: Montana one hundred and five degrees, Wyoming one hundred and
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Speaker 1: four degrees, Alabama one hundred and three degrees, Iowa one
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Speaker 1: hundred and two degrees, and Wisconsin one hundred and one degrees.
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Speaker 1: My sister is here from Idaho. It's one hundred and
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Speaker 1: very hot there, and she says this has been heavenly
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Speaker 1: here in Kentucky. Across the southern plains, temperatures may rise
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Speaker 1: even higher after next Wednesday. Records are possible across thirty
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Speaker 1: two states, including most of the ones listed above. It
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Speaker 1: shows that we will be in the one hundreds and
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Speaker 1: nineties by next Wednesday. All of that very high heat
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Speaker 1: in the Central States, yellows in the eighties in New England,
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Speaker 1: up in Maine, and down in the north part of
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Speaker 1: North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee in the eighties, in the Idaho,
50:51
Speaker 1: in the western part of Antana and northern California Oregon area,
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Speaker 1: and oh, my goodness, very hot down in the California
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Speaker 1: area of Los Angeles and on up that way.
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Speaker 2: Ah ech dangerous heat.
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Speaker 1: Is building across the parts of the West and central
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Speaker 1: US through this weekend. They will expand into the Central
51:15
Speaker 1: US and Gulf Coast early next week, wrote the National
51:18
Speaker 1: Weather Service, which also mentioned a risk of rapid on
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Speaker 1: set droat and in some areas of the Plain and Midwest,
51:26
Speaker 1: including portions of the Corn Belt. Heat domes are not
51:30
Speaker 1: a new weather phenomenon, but these sprawling areas of high
51:34
Speaker 1: pressure and blazing sunshine are producing temperature extremes that are
51:39
Speaker 1: new for some areas, largely because of the background influence
51:43
Speaker 1: a rising global temperatures. This blistering heat is forecast to
51:47
Speaker 1: linger across the southern Plains for much of next week
51:51
Speaker 1: before the heat dome pivots toward the West coast next week.
51:56
Speaker 1: Has it been a hot summer? Heat is dominated weather
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Speaker 1: headlines over the past several months. That's because it's been
52:03
Speaker 1: warmer than average across much of the United States since
52:07
Speaker 1: June and record heat has been outpacing cold this year.
52:13
Speaker 1: During that period, just two point eight million people experienced
52:18
Speaker 1: cooler than the average conditions in pockets of coastal California, Montana,
52:23
Speaker 1: and western Texas. Meanwhile, around two hundred and eighty million
52:27
Speaker 1: experienced above average or well above average temperatures. Some of
52:32
Speaker 1: the hottest places compared to average, all at least two
52:37
Speaker 1: point five degrees warmer than average, have been Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Massachusetts,
52:43
Speaker 1: and Maine.
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Speaker 2: DC.
52:46
Speaker 1: The District of Columbia is on that list too, about
52:49
Speaker 1: three degrees warmer than average. Looking ahead to early August,
52:54
Speaker 1: extreme heat could persist across parts of the western and
52:58
Speaker 1: central US, while the East could avoid the most intense conditions.
53:06
Speaker 1: CDC expands largest known US cyclospora outbreak to nine states.
53:13
Speaker 1: Four newly league states of Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania
53:20
Speaker 1: join Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. By Lena's
53:26
Speaker 1: Sun and Jenny Ye, the Centers for Disease Control and
53:32
Speaker 1: Prevention has linked four additional states to multi state cyclosporiasis
53:37
Speaker 1: outbreak traced to shredded iceberg letters sourced from Central Mexico.
53:44
Speaker 1: The addition of the more states suggests investigators are beginning
53:48
Speaker 1: to connect thousands of illnesses scattered across the country, bringing
53:52
Speaker 1: them closer to reconstructing how a contaminated product or products
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Speaker 1: moved through the food supply and whether additional restaurants, retailers,
54:02
Speaker 1: or distributors received the same products. The latest development means
54:07
Speaker 1: federal investigators have now trece shredded iceberg lettuce served at
54:11
Speaker 1: Taco Bell restaurants in nine states to a single supplier
54:16
Speaker 1: in Mexico. Taylor Farms to Mexico says it has completed
54:21
Speaker 1: a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce sourced and processed from
54:26
Speaker 1: Central Mexico from the US market. Illinois, one of the
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Speaker 1: four recently added states, said it is intensifying its investigation
54:36
Speaker 1: and the state has identified five hundred and eight confirmed
54:40
Speaker 1: or possible cases of cyclos for US as of Thursday.
54:48
Speaker 1: Products suspected of being part of the outbreak are being
54:52
Speaker 1: removed from restaurants, retail stores, and other food service locations.
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Speaker 2: The CDC S.
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Speaker 1: Total of one thousand, nine hundred and forty seven people
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Speaker 1: infected with the parasite and reporting exposure to Taco Bell
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Speaker 1: have been reported by the nine States. Illnesses linked to
55:12
Speaker 1: this icebreak began on June twenty second, and on set
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Speaker 1: dates have continued through July twentieth. The agencies said no
55:21
Speaker 1: deaths have been reported. Of the ninety eight hospitalizations that
55:27
Speaker 1: have been reported in North Parsley and Cilantro have not
55:35
Speaker 1: emerged as national signals In the broader federal investigation, underscoring
55:41
Speaker 1: how investigators are still sorting through multiple clusters of illnesses,
55:46
Speaker 1: they may have different sources. According to an individual familiar
55:50
Speaker 1: with the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity
55:54
Speaker 1: because of the ongoing probe, even before Friday's update, the
55:59
Speaker 1: confirmed messa to cases had already exceeded the total number
56:03
Speaker 1: of cyclosporiasis cases reported nationwide during all of twenty twenty five.
56:11
Speaker 1: The microscopic parasite is sped through human fecal contamination. Food
56:18
Speaker 1: safety experts say contamination can often occur before harvest, when
56:23
Speaker 1: fresh produce is exposed to contaminated irrigation water or other
56:29
Speaker 1: water used in growing or processing. Flooding can heighten the
56:33
Speaker 1: risk by disrupting sanitation systems and washing contaminated water into
56:40
Speaker 1: fields or produced growing areas. And with that I will
56:47
Speaker 1: say that this is my next to the last time
56:50
Speaker 1: for reading for RADIOI. Next Thursday will be my last,
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Speaker 1: and I will say a little bit more then. But
56:58
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