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US Withdraws from 66 International Organizations · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: You're listenings kf I AM six forty the bill handles
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Speaker 1: show on demand on the iheartradiop The big, big story
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Speaker 1: that we're covering, of course, with the shooting yesterday in Minneapolis. Now,
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Speaker 1: when you look at the major stories that we have
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Speaker 1: had over the last even couple of weeks, you've got
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. While that was taken off the books, or
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Speaker 1: that was put on back burner with the invasion of
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Speaker 1: Venezuela and the abduction of Maduro, and then that sort
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Speaker 1: of was put on back burner because of the Greenland
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Speaker 1: and what's going on with what's happening with Greenland, which
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Speaker 1: of course is hugely controversial in of itself, And now
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Speaker 1: that moves away because the news that's at the forefront
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Speaker 1: is the shooting yesterday of this woman by an ICE agent.
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Speaker 2: And here's what happened.
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Speaker 1: There was an ICE operation in Minneapolis, and of course
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Speaker 1: Minneapolis being one of the cities in which the Trump
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Speaker 1: administration is arguing or one of the democratic cities in
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Speaker 1: which federal officials have to come in to do the
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Speaker 1: policing because local police forces aren't doing it and this
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Speaker 1: is overrun with illegal aliens and somehow and I don't
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Speaker 1: get this. The city is falling apart because of that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So I think there are two thousand agents in Minneapolis,
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Speaker 1: And as I pointed out early, it's very interesting it
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Speaker 1: only democratic cities have this kind of problem, and they're
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Speaker 1: the only ones that engage in fraud. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: just it's fascinating to me that cities that are Republicans
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Speaker 1: are fabulous places to live.
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Speaker 2: No crime, no issue, no fraud.
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Speaker 1: Okay, moving into what happened yesterday in Minneapolis, which is
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Speaker 1: the subject of the ICE campaigns.
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Speaker 2: So now we've gotten the point.
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Speaker 1: When there is an ICE enforcement issue, what happened because
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Speaker 1: of smartphones, because of the Internet. Immediately the word goes
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Speaker 1: out and says, okay, we've got a bunch of agents
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Speaker 1: that are arresting our citizens, that are harassing, going into
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Speaker 1: whatever business or a school and grabbing putative illegal aliens.
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Speaker 1: And so people show up and there are demonstrations and
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Speaker 1: literally harass those agents. I mean, there is no question
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Speaker 1: they are harassing, they are threatening agents. Agents then react,
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Speaker 1: and it's really the altercation is almost immediate, and the
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Speaker 1: philosophies are such that you don't see pro police people
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Speaker 1: at these demonstrations for the most part, and you certainly
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Speaker 1: don't see anybody who is in favor of illegal aliens
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Speaker 1: even being treated.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to go that far, because when they're
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Speaker 2: rounded up, I mean they're really rounded up. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So you have this woman in an suv that part
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Speaker 1: of the demonstration, and she blocks the road with her
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Speaker 1: suv partially blocks the road.
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Speaker 2: It's snowing, there isn't much traction.
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Speaker 1: So there she is blocking the road and a couple
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Speaker 1: of agents come up to her and I'll sensibly say,
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Speaker 1: get the hell out of here. You're blocking the road.
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Speaker 1: She is seen at one point waving someone through and
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Speaker 1: in front of her, because again she only partially blocked
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Speaker 1: the road and people were driving back and forth, so
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Speaker 1: she is waving people through. She is there halfway on
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Speaker 1: the road and the Ice agents come up. We don't
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Speaker 1: have the audio yet, but it looks like I think
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Speaker 1: we can assume that the agent's saying get out of here,
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Speaker 1: get out of here, and what she does, and it
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Speaker 1: seems almost at the same time they go to her
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Speaker 1: side of the car, window is down, and you have
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Speaker 1: this visible not audio yet fight that they have with
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Speaker 1: each other. And so at that point. What she does
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Speaker 1: is back up and appears to want to drive away.
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Speaker 1: Now there is an agent. Imagine this, You've got an
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Speaker 1: agent at her window and you have an agent near
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Speaker 1: her left fender. She pulls back and moves the car
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Speaker 1: so it's driving away from both the agents, and it
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Speaker 1: looks like the agent at her front fender is in
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Speaker 1: fact hit by her and then walks away. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was obviously no big deal. Well that seemed to
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Speaker 1: have occurred simultaneously to her being shot, and I mean
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Speaker 1: the shots rang out almost immediately, and then she was
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Speaker 1: hitting the head and then crashed the car. And the
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Speaker 1: part that is so contentious here is that the Department
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Speaker 1: of Homeland Security, Christinoman, the President, said that she was
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Speaker 1: trying to run over that agent. That's what she purposely
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Speaker 1: did if you look at the video. That's kind of
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Speaker 1: a hard argument to make, but an investigation has to
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Speaker 1: prove it. Is there a defense to this, Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: The defense is that she was going after the agent
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Speaker 1: and he was in fear of his life. Even the person,
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Speaker 1: even the agent that shot her from the side of
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Speaker 1: the car, has the right to shoot if his or
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Speaker 1: her life is in danger. I'm talking about the agent
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Speaker 1: or someone else's life is in danger. And the argument
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Speaker 1: is going to be the life was in danger, that
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Speaker 1: she tried to run over that ice agent. And then
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Speaker 1: the other side of it is she just tried to
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Speaker 1: get away. She was moving away from them, and you
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Speaker 1: can see that in the video. The politics of this
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Speaker 1: happened instantly, instantly. Christinoman, this is my favorite one, first
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Speaker 1: of all, called her a domestic terrorist.
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Speaker 2: This was an act of domestic terrorism.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't there is well, there's also saying as
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Speaker 1: domestic terrorism.
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Speaker 2: By the way, that doesn't exist legally.
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Speaker 1: There is terrorism, but domestic terrorism is a violent criminal
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Speaker 1: act driven by domestic ideological goals political, religious, social.
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Speaker 2: Racial, environmental.
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Speaker 1: I'll argue that that that could be to intimidate civilians. No,
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Speaker 1: this wasn't civilians or influence government policy.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a political move.
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Speaker 1: More than anything else. But it involves a tremendous amount
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Speaker 1: of violence. This woman was not violent, Christinome said. The
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Speaker 1: head of Homeland Security said that she was absolutely aiming
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Speaker 1: for hit and tried to run over and attack the agent.
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Speaker 1: And when we look at the videos, kind of a
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Speaker 1: hard argument to make. The other thing I talked about
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Speaker 1: this earlier. Is that at that she was a or
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Speaker 1: people that were there were professional agitators, And I looked
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Speaker 1: at trying to figure out what is a professional agitator?
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Speaker 1: I didn't know number one, that was a profession. How
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Speaker 1: much you get paid for agitating? I don't know. Because
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Speaker 1: you're a professional, does that mean you have to be
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Speaker 1: certified as an agitator? If you go to actually, if
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Speaker 1: you go to Indeed and look at the word agitator,
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Speaker 1: you will see professional agitators offering their services and you
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Speaker 1: can get them by the hour. You can get them
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Speaker 1: are half day, full day, weekly rates. Some advertise moderate rates,
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Speaker 1: affordable rates to agitate. If you go to the cal
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Speaker 1: State University systems, you have courses in agitation. You can
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Speaker 1: get a degree in agitation. Wow, didn't know that, did you?
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Speaker 1: Probably not okay with that being said, You think I'm
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Speaker 1: taking this seriously, Actually I am. The The way this
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Speaker 1: is being interpreted is going right down the middle of
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Speaker 1: policy and politics are all part of it. Nothing can
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Speaker 1: happen today without the left and the right not screaming
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Speaker 1: at each other and blaming the other side. The administration
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Speaker 1: is talking about this is all caused by the radical
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Speaker 1: left there's such thing as a peaceful, honest demonstration of
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Speaker 1: what the administration is doing.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't exist.
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Speaker 1: It's all the radical left is responsible for anything and everything.
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Speaker 2: All protests are radical left.
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Speaker 1: On the other side, it's a police intervention. And look
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Speaker 1: what they're doing to these protesters, how they are treating
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Speaker 1: the protesters. And First Amendment rights don't count at all.
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Speaker 1: So and and the part that kills me is Christy Noman.
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Speaker 1: The president not one word about Hi. We have to
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Speaker 1: have the investigation. There has to be We cannot make
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Speaker 1: a quick judgment. It may look one way or the other,
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Speaker 1: but there has to be an investigation. Nope, christinom and
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Speaker 1: the President said, we know what it is. It is
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Speaker 1: an attack on this officer. It was self defense. There
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Speaker 1: was no question she was trying to kill the officer.
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Speaker 1: Take a look at the video. And there's a go
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Speaker 1: on any internet site. I mean, you go to social
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Speaker 1: media and there are thousands of these, hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 1: of posts, and you've got dozens of positions of where
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Speaker 1: the cameras, where these cell phones were.
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Speaker 2: And then see for yourself.
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Speaker 1: And then coming up at eight thirty, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: give you some rules about professional agitation because obviously there
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Speaker 1: are laws involved in professional agitation. That's I think part
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Speaker 1: of the US Civil Code that says professional agitation and
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Speaker 1: what the limits are. Okay, I am going to talk
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Speaker 1: about it. Am I pushing this professional agitation thing a little
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Speaker 1: bit too far?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe, okay, I'm done with that.
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Speaker 1: The big story, naturally, is what happened yesterday in Minneapolis,
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Speaker 1: the shooting of that thirty seven year old woman by
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Speaker 1: an ICE agent on the course of a demonstration and
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Speaker 1: a huge controversy. I talked about that the last segment,
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Speaker 1: and the boy is going to be in the news
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Speaker 1: for a while. One of the more unsettling facts about
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Speaker 1: this has happened just a few blocks away from where
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Speaker 1: George Floyd was killed. It's Minneapolis. Boy, are they going
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Speaker 1: through some issues now? Also, what happened yesterday is the
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Speaker 1: President withdrew the United States from sixty six international organizations
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Speaker 1: and treaties, and no surprise there there was a presidential
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Speaker 1: memorandum and he wrote that it is contrary to the
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Speaker 1: interests of the United States to remain a member of,
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Speaker 1: participate in, or otherwise provide support to these organizations. And
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Speaker 1: there are organizations that are geared toward education, economic development, cybersecurity.
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Speaker 2: And rights issue issues.
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Speaker 1: And if you look at them being woke, you bet
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Speaker 1: they're woke because that's sort of what they do.
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Speaker 2: They also feed a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: These organizations, and they immunize a lot of people around
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Speaker 1: the world, and they have medical centers around the world,
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Speaker 1: you know, helping folks that don't have access to medicine.
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Speaker 1: So there are a lot of really good organizations out there.
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Speaker 1: And the big one is to remove ourselves from anything
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Speaker 1: that even remotely is connected to global warming.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: The president already announced the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, right,
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Speaker 1: which international treaty to limit global warming to under.
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Speaker 2: Two degrees celsius.
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Speaker 1: That seems to be the magic number, which we're blowing
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Speaker 1: past that very quickly in order to prevent the worst
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Speaker 1: effects of climate change. And this is you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't even know how controversial this is because the president
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Speaker 1: ran on a campaign to undo all of this. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the people of this country elected this president. And so
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that are upset about this, say,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, what is going on. It's not as
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Speaker 1: if it wasn't anticipated.
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Speaker 2: It's not as if there's a surprise at all.
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Speaker 1: One of the things about Donald Trumpy he does what
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Speaker 1: he says, and he says what he does. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's no hidden agenda here as oh you said this,
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Speaker 1: unless you're looking at now lately intervention into foreign areas.
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Speaker 1: America First, we are not going to get involved in
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Speaker 1: foreign wars, or get involved in nation building, or get
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Speaker 1: involved in.
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Speaker 2: Anything outside the United States unless we do.
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Speaker 1: And you have maga folks saying we agree the president
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Speaker 1: should We as a United States should not get involve
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Speaker 1: any of this. Unless the president does, then we're fine
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Speaker 1: with it. Read Venezuela, Red Greenland. Okay, So this was
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Speaker 1: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which we just
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Speaker 1: were removed from, signed in nineteen ninety two and signed
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Speaker 1: by if you if you look at a statement from
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Speaker 1: Gena McCarthy, a former director of the US Environmental Protection Agency,
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Speaker 1: a pretty wonky place, and what Gena McCarthy says that
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Speaker 1: the withdrawal from this organization. We are not the only
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Speaker 1: industrialized country in the world to remove ourselves. We are
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Speaker 1: the only country in the world that hasn't signed on
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Speaker 1: to this, and that is well, you know, what it does, is.
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Speaker 2: What the president is doing is.
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Speaker 1: He has made it really clear the United States doesn't
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Speaker 1: give a rats about four organizations. We should not be
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Speaker 1: interested in anything unless it's helping us. And even the
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Speaker 1: argument that we are getting a law, we are helping people,
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Speaker 1: or we're getting involved in foreign affairs, well, the President
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Speaker 1: can say, and I think legitimately say it is about us.
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Speaker 1: It is it's all about us. The oil, it's our oil.
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Speaker 1: We want our oil from Venezuela. We're going to grab
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Speaker 1: that oil. We're going to control that oil, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to come to us, as opposed to going to
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Speaker 1: Russia or going to China with these dark what do
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Speaker 1: they call this, the transporting of the oil sort of
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Speaker 1: under the table. And so what he's saying is we're
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Speaker 1: not going to have that anymore. Three of these tankers
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Speaker 1: have been grabbed by the United States, and.
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Speaker 2: So the oil. You can argue that that is for
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Speaker 2: our purposes. I buy that.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the motivation of the p resident. At
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Speaker 1: the same time, Greenland, what is the motivation of the president.
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Speaker 1: It's because it's in our national interest, as far as
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Speaker 1: the President says, to own Greenland, to occupy Greenland, because
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Speaker 1: it has all kinds of rare earth and resources, and
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Speaker 1: it's in the North Atlantic, it's in the Arctic region,
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Speaker 1: which is a very important place strategically, So it can
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Speaker 1: easily be argued it is in our best interest to
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Speaker 1: have Venezuela produce oil, for US, to have Greenland produce
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Speaker 1: these rare earths and other resources, for US, for US
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Speaker 1: to own Greenland, to annex Greenland, to be part of Greenland. Course,
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Speaker 1: Denmark has an issue with that, and for those JD.
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Speaker 1: Vance is a moron. I'll tell you when he said
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Speaker 1: about Greenland, why does Denmark own it? We should own it?
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Speaker 1: You know they how long have they owned it? You
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Speaker 1: know we should grab it. Well, Denmark has quote owned
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Speaker 1: Greenland as protector of Greenland of excuse me, Denmark, and
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Speaker 1: it was started in seventeen seventy five, one year before
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Speaker 1: the US was even declared a country. So no big surprise, guys,
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Speaker 1: And you're going to see us. And the President is
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Speaker 1: not a big fan of global warming. He has said
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Speaker 1: global warming is a Democrat hoax, straight out, and so
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Speaker 1: based on that, of course he's going to withdraw.
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Speaker 2: Of course he's going to say we want no part
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Speaker 2: of it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, moving over to the final state, of the State
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Speaker 1: speech that Gavin Newsom is going to give.
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Speaker 2: This will be known as the chopped liver speech.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why, because the governor is going
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Speaker 1: to say the president gets a lot of credit for
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of social making big social changes.
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Speaker 2: What am I shop liver? And here is what's going
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Speaker 2: to happen.
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Speaker 1: First of all, he's going to speak he hasn't spoken
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Speaker 1: in the past. I mean State of the State and
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Speaker 1: even the State of the Union does not have to
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Speaker 1: be given in person. And so he took advantage of
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years of just sending in the
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Speaker 1: statements and doing it late because there's no date that
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Speaker 1: he has to do it by.
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Speaker 2: So what he's gonna do, and this is gonna.
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Speaker 1: Be delivered today, is he will highlight economic strength. He's
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Speaker 1: going to highlight falling homelessness, expanded education funding. He is
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Speaker 1: one bitching guy, isn't he. This guy is just terrific.
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Speaker 1: And basically he's gonna it's going to be a campaign speech,
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Speaker 1: is what it's going to be. He's going to offer
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Speaker 1: his glimpse his positioning of his presidential run. Matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: he even admitted he is being looked at in the
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Speaker 1: presidential run. Newsom is portraying California as a financial powerhouse.
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Speaker 2: It is and strives to help those.
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Speaker 1: In need and works diligently to address its own shortcomings.
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Speaker 1: That's a little controversial because a lot of Republicans and
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Speaker 1: people that lean to the rider are saying this is
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Speaker 1: a waste of money and because there's so much fraud
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Speaker 1: and abuse. Even what it wants to do, it is
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Speaker 1: not And I'm talking about helping those who are disenfranchised,
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Speaker 1: the marginal part of people that are marginally involved in society,
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Speaker 1: that just don't have a lot of money, don't have skills, etc.
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Speaker 1: Even wanting to do that is not being helped by
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Speaker 1: these programs. Because it's California and it's woke, woke, woke city.
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Speaker 1: He is expected to announce an estimated nine percent drop
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Speaker 1: in statewide unsheltered homelessness last year.
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Speaker 2: He said, there were some.
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Speaker 1: Improvements, but we've got a long way to go. And
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Speaker 1: it's true for any governor, be it Republican or Democrat.
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Speaker 1: California is home to nearly a quarter of the nation's
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Speaker 1: homeless population. And I'm convinced it's because of the wokeness
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Speaker 1: that the benefits here in California. Keep in mind, they
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Speaker 1: don't get Social Security benefits, they're not entitled to Medicaid.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the illegal aliens, and that's what we're
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Speaker 1: working a because so many are homeless. But even just
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Speaker 1: a very very poor out on the street aren't entitled
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Speaker 1: to a lot of benefits across the country.
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Speaker 2: Here they are here.
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Speaker 1: There is housing help here, there is help for mental
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Speaker 1: illness here, there is help across the board in many ways.
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Speaker 1: Now you don't see many homeless shell or you don't
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Speaker 1: see many homeless, for example, in Albany, New York, during
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Speaker 1: the winter, because they tend to freeze to death if
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Speaker 1: they're outside.
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Speaker 2: California also has the weather.
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Speaker 1: So it's still surprised that we have twenty five percent
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Speaker 1: of the nation's homeless. Oh, also keep in mind, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's because we have the most people.
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Speaker 2: And that's clearly why. Yeah, we have the most people.
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Speaker 1: But if twenty five percent is that number of homeless people,
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Speaker 1: we only have ten percent of the population of the
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Speaker 1: United States, yet twenty five percent of homeless, So it
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Speaker 1: becomes a huge, huge issue. And he has made some
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Speaker 1: inroads well in certain areas. He's made some inroads, saying
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Speaker 1: that nine percent in emergency homeless shelters, but I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's going to take a long time and a lot
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Speaker 1: of money. Then the issue of affordability, and I think
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Speaker 1: he's right on it's a multi layered crisis.
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Speaker 2: It is really complicated. Now.
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Speaker 1: In one area in which he actually agrees with Trump
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Speaker 1: there on the same page, and we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: to Joel about this coming up, is that he does
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Speaker 1: not want investors coming in and grabbing homes and flipping them,
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Speaker 1: major investment organizations flipping homes and making money, because it
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Speaker 1: makes homes even more more expensive, and both Trump and
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Speaker 1: Newsom want to do something about that. Also, the governor
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Speaker 1: is announcing the state is going to set a record
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Speaker 1: on a per student funding in public schools and fully
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Speaker 1: fun universal transitional kindergarten under his budget proposal. Now, even
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Speaker 1: though it's going to set a record on per student
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Speaker 1: funding in public schools, California record, California does not spend
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Speaker 1: enough well, does not spend the same level per student
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Speaker 1: as many other states do, and so that is not
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Speaker 1: something to jump up and down about, although it's improving.
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Speaker 1: And well, then he's going to nail Trump. He's going
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Speaker 1: to try talk about the Trump administration, and he's going
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Speaker 1: to accuse him of dismantling public services.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Flouting the rule of law depends on
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Speaker 2: how you look at it.
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Speaker 1: Using extortion to bully businesses and universities.
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Speaker 2: I agree that it's extortion.
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Speaker 1: However, those people that are in favor of that are
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Speaker 1: simply saying, we're undoing the wokeness. That wokeness is destroying
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Speaker 1: this country. DEI is destroying this country. And if you
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Speaker 1: believe that, then you certainly are saying Gavenusom is crazy.
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Speaker 1: And also he's talking about how difficult it was here
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Speaker 1: in particularly La County with the devastating fires. So what's
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Speaker 1: the bottom line it's going to happen with this speech?
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Speaker 1: We go right back to the chopped liver speech. Hey,
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Speaker 1: what do what do I look like? Choplev? Look how
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Speaker 1: much I've done for this date? Aren't I the greatest
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Speaker 1: guy in the world. Trump may think he's the greatest
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Speaker 1: guy in the world, But I'm the greatest governor that
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Speaker 1: ever lived. I love politicians, and I think when he
23:17
Speaker 1: runs for governor, when runs for.
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Speaker 2: President, he's going to say, Nah, he's not going to
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Speaker 2: go that far. No, He's not. I wish, I wish
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Speaker 2: he would, but no, no.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for Trump's handpicked presidential nominee during the
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Speaker 1: next race. It's going to be absolutely fascinating. So let
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Speaker 1: me tell you what is happening in La County. More So,
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Speaker 1: notice I say La County a lot for people in
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Speaker 1: Orange County will ask me, Bill, why do you concentrate
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Speaker 1: on La County?
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Speaker 2: I go because it's the two different countries.
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Speaker 1: La County and Orange County are literally two different countries
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Speaker 1: that Orange curtain and La County has certainly the way
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Speaker 1: I look at, many more problems. This is a county,
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Speaker 1: This is an area that is just rife with problems.
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Speaker 1: And one of the problems is the jail system. In general,
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Speaker 1: Americans are in jail more than in any other country
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Speaker 1: in the world incarceration, and it is expensive as hell
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Speaker 1: to incarcerate someone. And so what happens when you have
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Speaker 1: someone going to jail. The costs are astronomical, not only
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Speaker 1: to house them, but the medical costs, because there are
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Speaker 1: plenty of people who commit crimes that have all medical issues,
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Speaker 1: constant medical issues, and we're talking about health issues, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, and those are taken care of badly,
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Speaker 1: but they're taken care of. I'll tell you where it
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Speaker 1: falls through the cracks, and that is drug addiction. Because
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Speaker 1: a huge number of people who are incarcerated, mainly males,
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Speaker 1: are in prison and they come in as drug addicts.
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Speaker 1: And we know what prisoners will do to get drugs
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Speaker 1: into the prison, into their cells. I mean, we've seen
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Speaker 1: movies and we've heard stories, and we have cases all
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Speaker 1: over the place, and that seems to be sort of
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Speaker 1: a policy of those who are in prison. Let's get
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Speaker 1: drugs in because they're drug addicts. It's as simple, and
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Speaker 1: there's lots and lots of them, so as badly as
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Speaker 1: they are not being treated, we're talking about prisoners. When
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Speaker 1: it comes to medical help, it is even worse. Now
25:44
Speaker 1: if you have an inmate that has broken bone or
25:47
Speaker 1: needs surgery right there. Yeah, not really good care, matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, maybe even bad care. But they're gonna get
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Speaker 1: care if there's a broken bone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now how about mental illness. Ah, different story, because a
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Speaker 1: lot of people view mental illness as not really an illness. Now,
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Speaker 1: I happen to think mental illness is a real illness,
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Speaker 1: but you know, you can't see it for the most part.
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Speaker 2: Unless they act out.
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Speaker 1: You can certainly see a broken bone, you can certainly
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Speaker 1: see a cancer diagnosis, but you can't see mental illness
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Speaker 1: until that person acts out. And so there is a
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Speaker 1: stigma about mental illness where the County and most other
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Speaker 1: organizations that deal with those who have medical issues, the
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Speaker 1: mental illness is put on a lower scale.
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Speaker 2: Now at the bottom of the heap is drug addiction.
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Speaker 1: Now do you believe the drug addiction is a mental illness? Well,
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Speaker 1: I certainly believe that people have a propensity to be
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Speaker 1: drug addicts, much like alcoholism.
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Speaker 2: I think you're wired to do that.
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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, the system doesn't appreciate those
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Speaker 1: who are alcoholics. They don't appreciate those who need drug treatment.
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Speaker 1: The demand is very high because the number of people
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Speaker 1: who need it, the number of people who commit crimes
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Speaker 1: to get money to pay for the drugs because they
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Speaker 1: are addicted is very large, and the amount of money
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Speaker 1: that's being paid is relatively small. And the argument is,
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Speaker 1: if we deal with alcoholism, if we deal with mental illness,
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Speaker 1: we are dealing with medical issues better than others. But
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Speaker 1: if we deal with those two, then we're going to
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Speaker 1: have a member of society. It's a rehabilitation concept, and
27:51
Speaker 1: then others think, you know, just throw the key away,
27:55
Speaker 1: just leave it alone, And I happen to believe one
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Speaker 1: of those depending on the crime. I have no problem
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Speaker 1: throwing people a way and they can sit in solitary
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Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives. I'm not a big
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Speaker 1: fan of criminals, and I have rehabilitation.
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Speaker 2: It's really expensive.
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Speaker 1: You know, if they want to rehabilitate it and get
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Speaker 1: a career, go to junior college, get out of prison
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Speaker 1: and go to junior college and get a loan because
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Speaker 1: that's easy to get. I mean, we the state taxpayer.
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Speaker 1: Are we going to pay for them to learn how
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Speaker 1: to make cabinets? For them to learn a skill?
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Speaker 2: It gets expensive, real expensive.
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Speaker 1: So there, So what do you do with someone who's
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Speaker 1: committed a crime and is doing five years ten years?
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I do. I kill them. That's it. No,
28:49
Speaker 2: just kill them.
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Speaker 1: Graffiti tagging, death penalty a second time out, first time out,
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Speaker 1: five to ten.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we're done. I have an answer to everything, don't.
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