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Teens Helped Bring Malls Back | Visa Rule Waived for 2026 World Cup Visitors · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: hits eight dollars a gallon, maybe we'll do better. No
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  Speaker 2: idea how that works, all right, malls. What's going on
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  Speaker 2: with malls. Well, mall owners are between a rock and
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  Speaker 2: a hard place. They're banning unaccompanied minors under the age
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  Speaker 2: of eighteen. Why because there's been a wave of recent
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  Speaker 2: disruptions at their property. One of the things that happens
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  Speaker 2: on the internet TikTok, primarily TikTok, is you have the
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  Speaker 2: teenagers doing anything they can to go viral, to put
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  Speaker 2: whatever craziness they can possibly do up on the internet
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  Speaker 2: to show their friends. Look what I can do. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I can take my clothes off and dance in front
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  Speaker 2: of a store window and pretend I'm a mannequin. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm just making that up, just giving you just off
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  Speaker 2: the top of my head. But you know, teens do
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  Speaker 2: crazy stuff. And because of the Internet today, because of
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  Speaker 2: online they've really gotten crazy. So owners are banning unaccompanied
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  Speaker 2: shoppers and they're sayings produce violence, disorderly gatherings, address gang
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  Speaker 2: get violence, food court brawls. That's fun when you have
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  Speaker 2: food fights, shoplifting. Now Here is the problem with this,
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  Speaker 2: and that is this. Now we go back to the
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  Speaker 2: mall owners between a rock and a hard place, because
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  Speaker 2: malls are in such trouble because of online shopping that
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  Speaker 2: the number of visitors to malls have dropped precipitously. Malls
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  Speaker 2: need teenagers desperately. Why is that? Because teenagers have an
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  Speaker 2: of a ton of disposable incomes. They don't have to
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  Speaker 2: be a rent they don't have to worry about rent
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  Speaker 2: or food or utilities because they're living at home. So
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  Speaker 2: whatever money they have, it's disposable and they can spend
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  Speaker 2: it any way they want. So what do mall owners
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  Speaker 2: want to do. They want to bring those teenagers in.
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  Speaker 2: That's important because that's a demographic that makes sense for them.
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  Speaker 2: They are desperate to have. At the same time, look
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  Speaker 2: at the disruptions that teenagers make at these various malls,
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  Speaker 2: and so what these mall owners are doing in some
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  Speaker 2: cases is you need id anybody over anybody under eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: There has to be an adult with you and accompanied minors,
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  Speaker 2: and there's some people upset about that. There's an easier way.
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  Speaker 2: Some have security, for example, added security during school breaks
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  Speaker 2: or after certain hours on weekends. So there's a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of things being done, but the big issue is the
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  Speaker 2: teenagers and the unaccompanied miser My minor business is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Zane Miller, who frequented one of these models as a
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  Speaker 2: teenager serves as the president of a nonprofit organization, national
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  Speaker 2: Youth Rights Association. You ever heard of that? I share,
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  Speaker 2: certainly haven't National Youth Rights Association. It's like the National
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  Speaker 2: Taggers Association. I mean just crazy. So anyway, he says,
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  Speaker 2: this creates this feedback loop of teenagers being more isolated
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  Speaker 2: from each other because they I can't go out and
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  Speaker 2: exist in public without restrictions being placed on them, which
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  Speaker 2: is true. By the way, teenagers don't have adults with them.
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  Speaker 2: You've ever been to a mall and you have a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of kids out there, You need teenage. You need
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  Speaker 2: an adult for that boy that's going to put the
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  Speaker 2: kebash on stuff. And so of course you shouldn't punish
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  Speaker 2: all for the very few. Well, isn't that every single
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  Speaker 2: stop sign in the world, because most people would stop
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  Speaker 2: at the corner if it's a corner where a lot
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  Speaker 2: of traffic goes in, or let's say, any criminal violation, Well,
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  Speaker 2: you can't punish everybody just to punish a few. That's
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  Speaker 2: the whole point is to punish those few. Anybody in
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  Speaker 2: violation has to be punished. So I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: hear that argument. That's the stupidest argument I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, gun owners will appreciate that. For
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  Speaker 2: those people that believe in are arguing for gun control
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  Speaker 2: like me, and that is why are you punishing law
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  Speaker 2: abiding citizens? Because there are a few crazies out there
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  Speaker 2: that kill people and shoot people up. That's an argument
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  Speaker 2: because you have a few people violating it. And so
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  Speaker 2: the number of teenagers who go into a mall who
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  Speaker 2: don't do that, I'm guessing are enormous. But the mall
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  Speaker 2: owners have to respond somehow, And so how far do
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  Speaker 2: you go on that? And I don't know the answer
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  Speaker 2: because I don't own them all, and if I own
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  Speaker 2: them all, I would care more. And I don't go
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  Speaker 2: to malls because I hate parking. I hate walking from
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  Speaker 2: that parking lot into the stores. I mean, it drives
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  Speaker 2: me crazy. I want to be picked up by a
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  Speaker 2: golf cart. That's the way I'll go in there. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: lazy Neil, you call me a lazy Yeah, how dare
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  Speaker 2: you do that? Okay? There is a program, Oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is one of those if it ain't broke, fix it.
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  Speaker 2: And there is a program in California of two hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand Californians. The story in the La Times talks about
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  Speaker 2: this woman, Nancy Lips, and her son and they signed
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  Speaker 2: up for this program that pays them to help the
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  Speaker 2: grid when it's hot outside electricity is at its peak demand.
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  Speaker 2: What they do is they have a battery hooked up
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  Speaker 2: to their solar panels and in times of need, they
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  Speaker 2: share that power. And on top of that, it provides
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  Speaker 2: the Lips with a three hundred dollars credit at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year just for helping out. However, it's
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  Speaker 2: a great program, makes a lot of sense. However, it
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  Speaker 2: could be coming to an end soon because of budget cuts,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got letters signed by dozens of the local officials,
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  Speaker 2: legislators from both sides of the aisle, environmental groups, clean
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  Speaker 2: energy businesses trying to save this program. It's called the
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  Speaker 2: Demand side Grid Management Program, and it works by tapping
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  Speaker 2: into a whole group of smart thermostats, EV chargers, solar
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  Speaker 2: power batteries that are registered to share power or ramp
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  Speaker 2: down when the grid is strained. And according to clean
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  Speaker 2: energy advocates, the program, launched in twenty twenty two, has
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  Speaker 2: been an insane success. Why because it has produced an
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  Speaker 2: entire gigawot of power when the state needs it. That's
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  Speaker 2: as much as an entire nuclear power plant provides or
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  Speaker 2: used by the City of San Francisco without anything on
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  Speaker 2: the grid. And one health benefit is when peak times,
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  Speaker 2: when the grid needs a lot of power, you know
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  Speaker 2: what they do, They fire up the older, dirtier gas
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  Speaker 2: fire power plants. And what this program does is save them,
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  Speaker 2: save us from these power plans which are horrible. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Governor Gavison Newsom, well he is proposal. He wants to
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  Speaker 2: stop it after funding get in twenty twenty six and
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  Speaker 2: transfer the customers to a program run by the California
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  Speaker 2: Public Utilities Commission. Now he's not stopping it. He's not
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  Speaker 2: saying we don't want it. He doesn't disagree with the program.
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  Speaker 2: He just wants to move it to another agency. And
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  Speaker 2: all the experts are saying, wait a minute. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you switch entire programs to other agencies, it's a bureaucracy,
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  Speaker 2: and we're really concerned about how successful is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Look at how successful this is. Look at the amount
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  Speaker 2: of money that it saves in the hundreds of millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars a year. So how is the governor's proposal
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  Speaker 2: going to work. Well, it transfer seventy million dollars in
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  Speaker 2: interest from unspent school air conditioning programs to the PUC,
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  Speaker 2: the publicae Untilities Commission. And how does the state have
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  Speaker 2: unspent interest that's not being spent for school air conditioning
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  Speaker 2: programs because a lot of schools don't need air conditioning.
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  Speaker 2: How is that possible in southern California? How do you
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  Speaker 2: send a kid to school without air conditioning? Uh? Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Here is the answer. You don't send the kid to
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  Speaker 2: school because there are too many schools because the demographic
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  Speaker 2: is shrinking the number of kids that are going to
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  Speaker 2: school are shrinking, and therefore you really don't want to
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  Speaker 2: air condition a school where no students are in. So
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  Speaker 2: there's money there, and that's where the governor wants to
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  Speaker 2: spend the money. Is it going to work. Who the
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  Speaker 2: hell knows. But that's exactly the problem. Is it going
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  Speaker 2: to work? Who the hell knows? In the meantime, those
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  Speaker 2: that want to keep the program running exactly the way
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  Speaker 2: it's running, point to the fact that it was planned,
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  Speaker 2: It does exactly what it's supposed to do. It is
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  Speaker 2: a huge success. And now you're screwing with it. If
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  Speaker 2: it ain't broke, let's fix it. Don't you love government?
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  Speaker 2: This is government at its best. Okay. The FIFA World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is coming this year. And what's been happening
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  Speaker 2: is the US State Department is requiring visitors, those visitor
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  Speaker 2: visas from fifty different countries. The visa holders, those people
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  Speaker 2: that want to come from fifty countries, pay a bond
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  Speaker 2: to enter the United States. Because I do believe that
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  Speaker 2: the biggest number of illegal folks at this point are
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  Speaker 2: people that overrun their visa, which has always been a
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  Speaker 2: huge problem, and it is a legitimate problem, and the government,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is making a legitimate effort to slow that down.
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  Speaker 2: So the State Department came up with and this is
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  Speaker 2: President Trump's idea. I believe that if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: come on a visitor's visa, you get to pay some
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  Speaker 2: money five ten thousand or fifteen thousand dollars to enter
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  Speaker 2: the country. Now you get that back if you leave
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  Speaker 2: the country timely pursuing to the visa. Fifty countries are
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  Speaker 2: involved in this program. And the program is that we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to have a program if you're a FIFA
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  Speaker 2: World Class, if you're a FIFA World Cup but ticket
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  Speaker 2: holder that is going to be eliminated. All you have
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  Speaker 2: to do is show your tickets. And because people are
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  Speaker 2: worried someone comes in. How does someone come up with
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  Speaker 2: a fifteen thousand dollars bond. It's hard. So fifty countries
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  Speaker 2: are involved. Five of them have actually qualified for the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. Algeria, Cape Verde, ivory Co, Senegal, Tunisia. Those
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  Speaker 2: pesky Tunisians, there are so many of them that overrun
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  Speaker 2: their visas. Is driving us nuts. See, we don't know
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  Speaker 2: that illegal Tunisians and Assistant Secretary of State for Counselor
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  Speaker 2: Affairs Mornamdor said, the United States is excited to organize
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  Speaker 2: the biggest and best FIFA World Cup in history, and
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  Speaker 2: so we got to do something because we need ticket
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  Speaker 2: holders and they're from all over the world. Ticket holders
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  Speaker 2: are probably not going to be able to come here.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The one of the things about the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration is it ran on its platform of really bringing
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  Speaker 2: the number of illegal aliens down to virtually nothing. It
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  Speaker 2: has succeeded incredibly, as a matter of fact, in some
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  Speaker 2: cases succeeded too well. If you look at what Ice
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  Speaker 2: has done and the kind of reaction they have to
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  Speaker 2: people here are here illegally undocumented, and they did go
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  Speaker 2: way over the top and lost well the electorate. The
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  Speaker 2: American voter has turned around. Where Trump was given tremendous
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  Speaker 2: credit for dealing with the illegal folks, as he has
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  Speaker 2: they went so far as now the voter is the
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  Speaker 2: other way, thinks less of the president. He's gotten a
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  Speaker 2: negative review on that. So one of the things he
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  Speaker 2: has done is make it very difficult for people to
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  Speaker 2: come here legally. Student visas are much more difficult to get.
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  Speaker 2: Dreamers are looking at the Dreamer program being gone, although
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  Speaker 2: it's on hold right now, but they don't know how
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  Speaker 2: long they're going to be here. People that are coming
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  Speaker 2: over on H one B visa, these are people that
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  Speaker 2: come over to work in specific programs where usually technical programs,
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  Speaker 2: where they're needed because there aren't enough workers in these
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  Speaker 2: high tech industries, well the industries. It used to be
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  Speaker 2: a few hundred dollars that a company would pay to
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  Speaker 2: the government to have these people come over for application fee.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's one hundred thousand dollars. If a company, let's
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  Speaker 2: say you're a high tech company, you own a even
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  Speaker 2: a small company, and you can't find anyone to fill
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  Speaker 2: a position of pretty rarefied air. You need the expertise,
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  Speaker 2: you just can't find anybody to do it. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: have to go to India to get someone. I have
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  Speaker 2: to go to China to get someone, and they apply
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  Speaker 2: it's one hundred thousand dollars for the company, your company
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  Speaker 2: to pay to allow that person to come in. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's been shut down. The number of people coming over
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  Speaker 2: has been shut down. And this pass is being given.
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  Speaker 2: Why because well, can you imagine people that have a
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  Speaker 2: ticket to the FIFA Games, the World Cup Games and
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  Speaker 2: cannot get in the United States because of it's so
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  Speaker 2: expensive to put up a bond. The president is doing
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he promised to do, and we elected him,
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  Speaker 2: and so people that bitch and own Hey, this is
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  Speaker 2: a guy who does exactly what he promised to do.
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  Speaker 2: He does what he says, and he says what he does.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he walks the talk, or he talks the walk,
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  Speaker 2: or he talks the Okay, all right, hey, I'll get it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get it. It's you know the tip of the
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  Speaker 2: iceberg that monkeys in with barrels. You know how that works. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 2: a story that when I first heard about it, I
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  Speaker 2: almost couldn't believe it. It was so outrageous. And that is, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's say you're in private business and there's a sexual
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  Speaker 2: harassment suit going on against an individual and of course
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  Speaker 2: against the company because that's the deep pockets, and the
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  Speaker 2: company settles it, okay, two three, eight hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, and the company has to write a check, right,
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  Speaker 2: they have to pay you. And when they do pay
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  Speaker 2: you or settlement, they actually they actually give you the money.
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  Speaker 2: The company gives you the money, and there's always an
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  Speaker 2: NBA non disclosure agreement. There's a lot of issue about that.
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  Speaker 2: But when I read this story, I was sort of stunned.
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  Speaker 2: Because when congress people had sexually harassed employees and were
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  Speaker 2: the settlement happened, congress people were nailed for that. It
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  Speaker 2: was the government who paid for it. The US government
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  Speaker 2: paid for sexual harassment settlements against congress people, and they're
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  Speaker 2: NDAs that are signed and we don't even know now
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  Speaker 2: the thought of a congress person not having to pay. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Usually the case, of course is that the companies do pay,
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  Speaker 2: although individuals are also tagged. But the fact is that
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  Speaker 2: US taxpayers are paying for this, and the congressmen and
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  Speaker 2: women of course men get away with this completely is
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  Speaker 2: beyond comprehension and they can just continue on. They're not
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  Speaker 2: nails for it. As a matter of fact, it is secret.
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  Speaker 2: It is not made public. There is the Office of
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  Speaker 2: Congresstional Workplace Rights that settles these cases and does not
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  Speaker 2: share them with the other members of Congress. Now, has
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  Speaker 2: it been a lot of money, Well no, CNN looked
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  Speaker 2: into this and Congress has now revealed or initially revealed
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  Speaker 2: that taxpayers that paid more than three hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of six former members of the House of
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  Speaker 2: Representatives or their offices. And this goes back decades, so
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  Speaker 2: that's not you know, they're very few and far between,
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  Speaker 2: except we don't even know how many there are because
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  Speaker 2: it's a secret. We have no idea, and you talk
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  Speaker 2: about ethical concerns. It is completely crazy. And this information
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  Speaker 2: just was released, I think on a CNN Freedom of
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  Speaker 2: Information Act. They got it. There are a couple of
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  Speaker 2: these settlements that they got hold of in PO restrictions
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  Speaker 2: and penalties for any employee from ever speaking out about
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  Speaker 2: the case, and when they sign an NDA they are,
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  Speaker 2: They're held to them, NDAs are held to them. There
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  Speaker 2: is no question. And now is it happening right now? No,
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  Speaker 2: it is not happening right now. The Me Too movement
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  Speaker 2: has sort of shut all of that down where there
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  Speaker 2: is a lot more concern. And also there's another side
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  Speaker 2: of that, because there was a time when only an
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  Speaker 2: allegation could cost someone a job, only an allegation with
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  Speaker 2: no corroborating evidence could force a settlement happens. Okay, we
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  Speaker 2: as to what's going on. Honda Motors is for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in its history is report awarding a loss.
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  Speaker 2: It went public in nineteen fifty seven and it has
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  Speaker 2: never lost money since nineteen fifty seven, and this year
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  Speaker 2: it lost money. And we'll get into that tomorrow when
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  Speaker 2: we have all kinds of fun topics. And we'll also
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