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Homelessness Goes Up in Los Angeles | What Are the Abraham Accords? · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 3: Tay apply AM six forty Bill Handle here on a
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  Speaker 3: Friday morning, July twenty fourth. Hey, quick word about the
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  Speaker 3: see it every year, all right. Karen Bass who became
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  Speaker 3: mayor on the promise that she is going to cure
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  Speaker 3: or deal a fatal blow to homelessness. That was probably
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  Speaker 3: her major campaign promise. Now a couple of things I've
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  Speaker 3: said this about homelessness. The way we deal with homelessness
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  Speaker 3: I think is really never going to overcome homelessness here
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  Speaker 3: in southern California.
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  Speaker 2: It just isn't.
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  Speaker 3: It has to be because of all kinds of issues,
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  Speaker 3: because of our employment issue, because of our governmental issue,
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  Speaker 3: our policies, what's happening in the world, education, job opportunities,
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  Speaker 3: I mean all of it. You put all that, then
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  Speaker 3: you have drug addiction, and you have mental illness. Put
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  Speaker 3: all that together, and you've got a big problem.
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  Speaker 2: On your hands. Is there an answer?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, unbelievable amounts of money where it becomes front burner
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  Speaker 3: to the extent that everything else doesn't more important than policing,
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  Speaker 3: more important than governing, more important education. The only way
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  Speaker 3: you're going to deal with it. So here is what
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  Speaker 3: Karen Bass is looking at. She touted tremendous decreases in homelessness,
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  Speaker 3: and she was basically right, except this past year increased
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  Speaker 3: in La three point four percent citywide, almost eight percent
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  Speaker 3: among people living outdoors or in their vehicles. And man,
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  Speaker 3: she's going for her second term either and the problem
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  Speaker 3: is that the number of people who are living on
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  Speaker 3: the street, both in the city of Los Angeles and
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  Speaker 3: across LA County way up compared to the previous years.
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  Speaker 2: Big setback she has made.
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  Speaker 3: Karen bass made as I said, homelessness the central part
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  Speaker 3: of her agenda, and she had made a lot of
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  Speaker 3: progress in moving people indoors.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the problem is is that moving people indoors are
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  Speaker 3: based on vouchers where they have hotel rooms.
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  Speaker 2: The amount of.
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  Speaker 3: Actual building of medium to permanent housing, which is really
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  Speaker 3: the only answer that's going to work, that is hideously expensive,
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  Speaker 3: I mean insanely expensive to do. We've done stories where
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  Speaker 3: homeless shelters, well, people go into shelters. That's very temporary too,
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  Speaker 3: but permanent housing can be five hundred thousand dollars a unit.
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  Speaker 3: How is it possible that developers can do it for
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  Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars a unit because developers don't need
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  Speaker 3: space for additional help, for rehabilitation, for mental health services,
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  Speaker 3: and it has to be done with the city inside safe,
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  Speaker 3: which was the mayor's is the mayor's signature. Homelessness program
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  Speaker 3: has moved more than six thousand people into hotels, motels,
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  Speaker 3: interim housing, which is very interim. And since she took
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  Speaker 3: office in December of twenty twenty two and by May
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  Speaker 3: thirty one, the problem is forty one of those people were.
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  Speaker 2: Back to homelessness. And back on the street.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the other issue that people who are homeless,
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  Speaker 3: a good percentage of them, they want to stay homeless.
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  Speaker 3: I've told you this story about my brother's ex fiance
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  Speaker 3: who we found on the street, just found her on
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  Speaker 3: the street. She was living on the street and was
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  Speaker 3: obviously had some very very rough time. She'd been on
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  Speaker 3: the street for three years. And we've done story about
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  Speaker 3: what she went through and how people live. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I talk about people being on the street in the
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  Speaker 3: abstract because we really don't know what it's like. Talking
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  Speaker 3: to her man, the stories, the war stories are incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Point of this is that she ended up in self
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  Speaker 3: Section eight housing and she had a very small studio
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  Speaker 3: and would invite her buddies who were on the street
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  Speaker 3: to go in and stay with her for a matter
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  Speaker 3: of weeks or months on the floor, which is not
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  Speaker 3: particularly legal, but to get him out of the outside,
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  Speaker 3: get him out of the rain, get him out of
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  Speaker 3: the cold, get him out of the heat, because the
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  Speaker 3: place was their conditioned.
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  Speaker 2: The majority went back to the street.
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  Speaker 3: That's where they live, that's where they exist, that's where
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  Speaker 3: their mindset is. So you've got that issue too, which
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  Speaker 3: no one talks about the bottom line is is she trying? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: is it possible? I think it's only incrementally better when
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  Speaker 3: it is better. The amount of money that it would take,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the resources we would have to devote to
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  Speaker 3: make a huge dent in this would be just extraordinary.
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  Speaker 3: Or we make small little inroads, We go up a
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  Speaker 3: little bits and pieces and only take one hundred years
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  Speaker 3: to deal with it. Okay, moving on with the topic
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  Speaker 3: at hand, and that has to do with the Abraham Accords,
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  Speaker 3: and that was just cut by the United States and
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia signed, and it had to do with allowing
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia to engage.
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  Speaker 2: Enriching uranium. We're bringing in uranium that was not.
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  Speaker 3: Weapons grade, effectively civilian use of nuclear power in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 3: And people are saying Saudi Aria got the better into
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  Speaker 3: this deal because the deal did not involved, for example,
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  Speaker 3: inspection by international inspectors and left open how far the
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  Speaker 3: Saudis could go and enriching the uranium. So the deal
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  Speaker 3: was good for Saudi Arabia, to say the least. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the president after signing the deal said, oh, yeah, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, you have to join the Abraham Accords. And
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  Speaker 3: this is and by the way, I think what the
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  Speaker 3: president did is a great thing. I wish he had
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  Speaker 3: made that a part of the part of the signature,
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  Speaker 3: part of the plan, and he didn't, although now he
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  Speaker 3: says he did, and I love that idea. What are
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  Speaker 3: the Abraham Accords? The Abraham Accords were set up by
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  Speaker 3: this administration. So Arab countries, Mid East countries recognize the
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  Speaker 3: State of Israel. Obviously Benjamin Netanyahu and Israelis are all
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  Speaker 3: in favor of this. And why is that important? Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's go back to nineteen forty eight when the State
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  Speaker 3: of Israel was founded, Israelis and the Arab countries around them,
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  Speaker 3: and there were at that point, I think six eight
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand people lived in Israel as against sixty million
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  Speaker 3: people lived in the Arab countries, all of which were
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  Speaker 3: dead set against Israel becoming a state, a sovereign country.
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  Speaker 3: And then, of course we know the story about the
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  Speaker 3: Israeli War, the War of Independence, and the sixty seven War,
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  Speaker 3: the Sixth Day War, and then the Omkipur Wars, and
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  Speaker 3: what happened with the incursions into Lebanon into Gaza by Israel.
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  Speaker 2: The peace Accords that happened.
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  Speaker 3: With Egypt where a sign I went back after the
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  Speaker 3: sixty seven war and Egypt was the first country to
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  Speaker 3: recognize the state of Israel, and the other countries have not.
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  Speaker 3: And a word about the Abraham Accords. Why they make
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  Speaker 3: so much sense? Well, let me put it this way.
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  Speaker 3: Why countries in the Mid East are not joining the
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  Speaker 3: Abraham Accords and are not recognizing Israel. Oh, Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 3: was just about to normalize relationship. They were at the
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  Speaker 3: edge of establishing the recognition and establishing diplomatic relations with Israel,
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  Speaker 3: and then the October seventh the terrorist attack hit and
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  Speaker 3: that just put everything on, put the entire plan off.
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  Speaker 2: So why is it so important?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to go into why the president is
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  Speaker 3: pushing the Abraham Accord and why I believe that he's
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  Speaker 3: not only on the right track, I think he is
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  Speaker 3: the only personnel actually be able to make this happen.
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  Speaker 3: And if the Mid East is recognizing every other country,
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  Speaker 3: what does Iran do at that point? Because the reason
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  Speaker 3: that Saudi Arabia is not recognizing Israel is because they
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  Speaker 3: have to give lip service to Palestinian rights in the
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  Speaker 3: Palestinian state to state system. It will change nothing, where
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  Speaker 3: in accord with Israel changes everything. They Saudi Arabia has
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  Speaker 3: to say we are on the side of Palestinians as
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  Speaker 3: a matter of just Arab unity, although the Palestinians aren't Arab,
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  Speaker 3: and so it is a political statement that has to
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  Speaker 3: be made because of the feeling of Arab nations outside
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  Speaker 3: of Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Jordan recognizes Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Now you have a lot of the Mid Eest country
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  Speaker 3: the airmates Oman recognize Israel. I mean, that's the way
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  Speaker 3: of the future. And what Saudi Arabia has to do
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  Speaker 3: is join the Abraham Accords because the real enemy there
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  Speaker 3: is Tehran.
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  Speaker 2: It's not Israel, and they know it. They know it.
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  Speaker 2: If Tehran.
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  Speaker 3: Does what it wants to do, and that is take
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  Speaker 3: over the entire Middle East, the first people are gonna
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  Speaker 3: go or are is gonna be the Saudi royal family.
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  Speaker 3: They'll be hanging from construction cranes. I mean within a
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  Speaker 3: matter of hours. If Iran is successful and they want
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  Speaker 3: to take over all of that area of the Middle East,
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  Speaker 3: they are into establishing their theocracy. Saudi Arabia is particularly
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  Speaker 3: interested in increasing its land, you know, moving people into
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  Speaker 3: its religious philosophy, which is pretty weird. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia has some really strong man Their version of
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  Speaker 3: Islam is pretty insane. They practice something called what hebiism
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  Speaker 3: in or Wahibism, and it's pretty crazy, although it's getting
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  Speaker 3: more liberal. But the point is the president is saying
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  Speaker 3: for stability and not part of the world join the
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  Speaker 3: Abraham Accords. He is pushing like crazy and the Mid
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  Speaker 3: East they know that Iran is their enemy. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia and Israel have been dealing with each other
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  Speaker 3: for decades and decades. There's all kinds of trade that
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  Speaker 3: goes on. It's just not official. It goes through Cyprus.
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia buys military they get military aid, or they
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  Speaker 3: buy military parts equipment from Israel, but goes through Cyprus.
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  Speaker 3: And it's some cypress company that made up some shell companies.
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  Speaker 3: So it's already there. And I think you have to
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  Speaker 3: give kudos to the president. The problem is, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why it wasn't part and parcel of the original deal.
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  Speaker 3: And he has said, Okay, we signed the deal, but
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  Speaker 3: here's the real deal. You have to join the Abraham Accords.
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  Speaker 3: And I think those are you know, I have to
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  Speaker 3: give the President tremendous kudos for that, for I think
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  Speaker 3: doing more than anybody to make the Middle East a
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  Speaker 3: more peaceful place in terms of Israel and just the
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  Speaker 3: geopolitical scene. Also, at this point, he is touting, he
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  Speaker 3: is talking about Iran and how the United States is
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  Speaker 3: on its way to make sure Iran doesn't have a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. Remember when he pulled out of the deal
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  Speaker 3: that Obama had in two thousand and nine. At best,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to go there at best, So I think
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  Speaker 3: good news, sorta. I wish that the deal that this signatory,
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  Speaker 3: this a treaty between Israel, between the United States and
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia, had included the Abraham Accords previous to the signing,
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  Speaker 3: but it wasn't. But it's still I think long term
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  Speaker 3: it works well and the President has to be given.
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  Speaker 2: Credit for this. There's no question about it. Okay, got it?
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  Speaker 2: That made some sense? I guess all right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, George gascon boy what an LA County prosecutor. He
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  Speaker 3: was former district attorney George Gascone And the county has
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  Speaker 3: just approved nearly fourteen million dollars in legal payouts to
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  Speaker 3: ten County prosecutors who are accusing have accused Gascone and
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  Speaker 3: his administration of demoting them or retaliating against them when
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  Speaker 3: they questioned his criminal justice reforms which were kind of insane. Also,
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  Speaker 3: at this point, more than three point two million dollars
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  Speaker 3: in legal fees have been paid by the county because
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  Speaker 3: they often bring in outside council. And nine more settlements
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  Speaker 3: are in the works right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And look at the people who have gotten these payouts.
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  Speaker 3: Some have gone to well known and long tenured lawyers
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  Speaker 3: who have successfully prosecuted some of LA's most notorious criminals.
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  Speaker 2: That all of this came as the current District.
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  Speaker 3: Attorney, Nathan Hawkman, is working to undo the changes of Hawkman,
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  Speaker 3: who was making La County District Attorney's Office into the
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  Speaker 3: nation's largest experiment in progressive criminal justice reform. Now, there
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  Speaker 3: was a huge dilemma and debate as to what Gascone
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  Speaker 3: was doing because there are a group of people who
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  Speaker 3: believe that our criminal justice system is unfair, that it
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  Speaker 3: marginalizes people, that poor people don't have the same benefit
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  Speaker 3: as people who have money in terms of the criminal
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  Speaker 3: justice system. By the way, poor people also don't have
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  Speaker 3: the same benefit of cars, homes, food, clothing, education as
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  Speaker 3: people who have money, so welcome to the world. And
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  Speaker 3: so Gascon former LAPD by the way, and was the
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  Speaker 3: DA for San Francisco. He campaigned on the idea that
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  Speaker 3: the law and order tactics that were used by the
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  Speaker 3: police and are used by the police and the prosecutor's
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  Speaker 3: office undermine public safety and harmed disproportionately poor and marginalized communities.
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  Speaker 2: But so does society. I have to tell you within that.
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  Speaker 3: So he is sworn in on December seventh, twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 3: and Gascon within hours issued some directives in his quest
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  Speaker 3: to make the DA's office fairer and more well defendant friendly.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the directives and this is what I love.
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  Speaker 3: Included number one ending the prosecution of miners and teens
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  Speaker 3: as adults. Adults are eighteen years old, and if someone
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  Speaker 3: is arrested or convicted of a crime at seventeen years,
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  Speaker 3: eleven months, and twenty nine days cannot be tried as
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  Speaker 3: an adult. Where here it's a case by case. I
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  Speaker 3: think anybody over sixteen, according to law, can be tried
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  Speaker 3: as an adult. And let me tell you some seventeen
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  Speaker 3: year olds and sixteen years old commits some pretty heinous crimes.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite is that the criminal justice system is not
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  Speaker 3: going to refer to language that really debases people, like
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  Speaker 3: inmate or criminal. You can't do that. So it reminds
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  Speaker 3: me of Disneyland, where there are no janitors or people
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  Speaker 3: working behind the behind the counters. They are cast members.
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  Speaker 3: You go to Target, they are not salespeople. They are
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  Speaker 3: I think customer representatives or what is the word they use.
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  Speaker 3: No customers anymore. Those don't give us anymore, so we
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  Speaker 3: have to use no felons. By the way, felons are
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  Speaker 3: simply people who were judicially challenged.
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  Speaker 2: Neil.
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  Speaker 3: There are no more bald people in this world. All
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  Speaker 3: we have are people who are follicularly challenged.
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  Speaker 2: We prefer extremely handsome, yes we do. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: how crazy he was.
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  Speaker 3: And he introduced policies to minimize prison sentences and career prosecutors,
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  Speaker 3: veteran administrators. I mean, they took these new blanket policies
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  Speaker 3: and argue they were illegal, unethical. There was an effort
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  Speaker 3: to recall Gascon didn't work, and so he lost his
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  Speaker 3: election in twenty twenty four. Has bid for reelection twenty
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  Speaker 3: three employees of the a's office have filed lawsuits or
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  Speaker 3: claims against the county Gascone his senior leadership, arguing that
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  Speaker 3: the DA's office retaliated against them because they either spoken
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  Speaker 3: out or opposed his policies. Those cases are now being settled,
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  Speaker 3: and we're talking about long term members of the DA's office,
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  Speaker 3: one of them having been involved as a senior prosecutor in,
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  Speaker 3: for example, the cold case department. Also a guy who
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  Speaker 3: had not lost a major case in twenty five years,
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  Speaker 3: and Gascon moved into a calendar prosecutor. You go in
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  Speaker 3: front of the judge and you simply move the calendar around,
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  Speaker 3: your honor. We're not prepared to go forward. We'd like
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  Speaker 3: a continuance. This is one of the top top rated prosecutors.
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  Speaker 3: So the good news is that Gascon is out of office. Boy,
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  Speaker 3: he was hated, and now we're back to a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of more law and order. The bad news is
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  Speaker 3: that Gascon was in office and was changed the criminal
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  Speaker 3: in office. Well, guess who else is doing really well?
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  Speaker 3: and he has some very well timed for example in
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: All of this is conflicted now.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, two hundred and eighty or two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 3: eight million dollars is chopped liver compared to what the
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  Speaker 3: investment Paul Pelosi was in chopped liver and that's where
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  Speaker 3: all the money was made. But you didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I'm making that up completely. Well, there
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  Speaker 3: the bar bring members of Congress spouses dependent children from
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  Speaker 3: buying individual publicly traded stocks. Nancy Pelosi was dead set
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  Speaker 3: against this. Ooh, while her husband was making these kinds
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  Speaker 3: of investments, of course, she was dead set against it
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  Speaker 3: now she's in favor. Ooh yeah, why because the tide
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  Speaker 3: is turning? And why is Tied detergent doing so well
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  Speaker 3: because Paul Pelosi invested and Tied also not true, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, just want to point that out, but equity
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  Speaker 3: stocks across the board, he has made a fortune. So
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  Speaker 3: what Congress did is just pass the Stop Insider Trading Act,
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  Speaker 3: or let's stop Paul Pelosi for making a fortune act,
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  Speaker 3: and that actually makes sense. The measure now heads to
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  Speaker 3: the Senate and we'll see if it passes there. And
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  Speaker 3: tell me if this doesn't make sense. If you are
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  Speaker 3: a congress person or a federal employee, well this is
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  Speaker 3: Congress because is Congress voted down to itself? Why would
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  Speaker 3: you ever be allowed to buy or sell publicly traded stocks?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the conflict is there on any issue involving
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  Speaker 3: the value of companies or the value of stocks, or
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  Speaker 3: trading or profits and the president, for example, buying and
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  Speaker 3: selling and his family making in the billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That's fairly due.
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  Speaker 3: That is new because prior to this, where did the
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  Speaker 3: president's money go? President who had money George W. Bush
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  Speaker 3: for example, they went into a blind trust, a blind
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  Speaker 3: trust is handing it over to a trustee, throwing the
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  Speaker 3: firewall up, and the president not ever talking to the trustee,
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  Speaker 3: and the trustee handles all of it, so there is
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  Speaker 3: no conflict. So even if the president is pushing a
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  Speaker 3: policy that helps one of his stocks, he doesn't even
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  Speaker 3: know if the stock is there because the trustee is
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  Speaker 3: the one that's managing all the money. Well, as the
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  Speaker 3: President has said, I don't have anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: My sons are the trustees. I never talked to them
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  Speaker 3: about money. We never have conversations about money or my
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  Speaker 3: name being used or any of the deals that are
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  Speaker 3: being cut.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, fine.
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  Speaker 3: In Nancy Pelosi and oh her husband me and she
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  Speaker 3: gets half of it, made a ton of money, and
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  Speaker 3: it finally came to bite her in the ass. Her
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  Speaker 3: hypocrisy has come home to roost. Or if you buy medals,
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  Speaker 3: it had come home to rust.
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  Speaker 2: See not bad. How's that for analysis? Huh? And are
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: you going to see that happening with the president? I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: mean you could.
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  Speaker 3: Would Congress pass the bill and forcing the president to
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  Speaker 3: put his assets into a blind trust.
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  Speaker 2: Of course Congress could.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any chance that Congress would with the control
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  Speaker 3: the president has over the Republican Party. There is no
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  Speaker 3: chance because even if bills were to pass along these
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: lines'd be with both houses of Congress, the Senate and
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  Speaker 3: the House passing the bills, he would veto it in
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  Speaker 3: two seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, enough of that.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy Pelosi millionaires in her own right, thirty million dollars
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  Speaker 3: into two hundred and seventy eight million.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, I wish we were there. I'd love to have
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  Speaker 2: that kind of return. Okay.
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