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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 2: Amy said, well, maybe the sheriff can't because of hippo
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  Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle, and good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody serves a morning February the fifth hot day.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday it seemed like summer. Yesterday was in the eighties
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  Speaker 2: and it was really pleasant. I was sitting in the
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  Speaker 2: backyard watching television with the dogs an don't want to
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  Speaker 2: confuse them, and just had just a rip boaring beautiful day. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the black ice. I mean, all of that horrible. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let me say hello to everybody. Not Neil. He is
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  Speaker 2: still out feeling not so good, and so we'll I'm
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  Speaker 2: hopefing that he comes tomorrow. Now, let's oh Amy, good morning, Amy,
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  Speaker 2: Hi Bill. Hi blue skies, and that's your your top,
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  Speaker 2: very blue. It's so yeah, it's a blue Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: then cono, good morning, good morning. Do you know what
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  Speaker 2: today is? Yes? It is Thursday February fifth.
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  Speaker 3: Also National Shower with a Friend Day.
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  Speaker 2: I want to do that, I would, but that means
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  Speaker 2: I'm shout howering by myself. There's a National Enjoy your
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  Speaker 2: Sex Life Day where also I'm by myself, so I
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  Speaker 2: am alone very much of the time. Good morning, and
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  Speaker 2: there you are here, I am good here you are,
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  Speaker 2: and uh there is Will. Good morning, Will, Good morning Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Did you go to an Italian restaurant last night and
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  Speaker 2: take the tablecloth? He stole the tablecloth and make a
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  Speaker 2: shirt out of it? Did Yes? You could see that. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's also National Chocolate Fawn do day? Chocolate fund.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever go to an event that has that
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  Speaker 2: chocolate fountain?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where there's the marshmallows and the fruit and you
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  Speaker 2: dip the chocolate and oh I had a couple of those.
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  Speaker 2: I think I did that for the girls, bought mitzvah
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  Speaker 2: and it was yeah, okay, And then I didn't do
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  Speaker 2: that for Barbara's wedding. No. I did Barbara's wedding at
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  Speaker 2: the Anaheim White House, and I unfortunately. Let Barbara choose
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  Speaker 2: the menu. Oh, steak and steak and lobster. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: It was delicious.
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  Speaker 2: It was very good. It was very very good. Now
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  Speaker 2: her divorce is going to be different. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to have quite the same food at her divorce.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to have a party?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. There may be, but I'm not going.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. I paid for the wedding, you know. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy yourself. Okay, what else is going on? Let me see,
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  Speaker 2: we got a lot of news going on. Try to
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  Speaker 2: stay away from Trump news. There's only a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: There's only a little bit of Trump news, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey said yesterday, do you understand that no one's listening
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  Speaker 2: to the show anymore because they can't take it anymore?
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  Speaker 2: And that's not true because our ratings are fine. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's no question about it. Do you know that we
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  Speaker 2: get more streaming listeners than any other radio station in
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  Speaker 2: the iHeart system eight hundred radio stations, and we are
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  Speaker 2: number one in streaming. Now are we seeing any money
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  Speaker 2: from that? No? No, why would we see money from that?
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  Speaker 2: So we're doing so good? Why would we change up
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  Speaker 2: our rundown? Oh? Because you know, it's too much Trump.
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  Speaker 2: It is too much. What do we have? We have
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  Speaker 2: bass today, we have LAPD space race, Mexicans, Larbard sort
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  Speaker 2: of trump ish on the nuclear arms treaty, and then
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  Speaker 2: a World Cup boycott. That's it. I don't think there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's one Trump. Uh yeah. But here's
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  Speaker 2: the problem is that if there is ever any any
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  Speaker 2: story that I can connect to Trump in any way whatsoever,
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  Speaker 2: I do it disparaging the president? Of course we can't
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  Speaker 2: on me. Yeah, although although I do give him credit
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  Speaker 2: where credit is due, I am not completely one sided
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  Speaker 2: on this. And people have told me that I do
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  Speaker 2: give credit to the president occasionally rarely, Yeah, almost never. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's correct, Oh, Amy, who corrects me all the time
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  Speaker 2: and brings me back to reality. Amy, do you see
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  Speaker 2: me as being somewhat fair with the president? Okay? That
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  Speaker 2: means thank you for answering that one. All right, fair enough,
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  Speaker 2: all right, guys, it is time for handle on the
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  Speaker 2: News with Amy. Neil is not here today and I
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  Speaker 2: am and let's do it. Time for handle on the News,
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  Speaker 2: Amy and no Neil and me lea storry call. No
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  Speaker 2: surprise at all. The Supreme Court has allowed California to
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  Speaker 2: institute the new voter approved congressional map favorable to the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: And this it was pursued to a special election in
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  Speaker 2: which overwhelmingly the voters in California said, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: undo the congressional scheme that we passed before, making it
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  Speaker 2: really even simply in a tit for tat with it's Texas,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, which, well, here's a Trump story in which
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  Speaker 2: Trump specifically asked Texas to redistrict. It was on Trump's order,
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  Speaker 2: and Texas did exactly that. It redistrict that drew the
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  Speaker 2: map of the districts in such a way that Republicans
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  Speaker 2: would be favored. Okay, A bunch of people sued Texas,
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  Speaker 2: and Texas was able to prove, certainly to the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court Satisfaction that changing that map was only political, was
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  Speaker 2: not racial, was not in any way connected to race.
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  Speaker 2: So now California does the same thing in response to
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  Speaker 2: what Texas does, and Texas and the Republicans and the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration now sue California saying that the new congressional
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  Speaker 2: map is illegal and should be gotten away with because
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  Speaker 2: it is racial, it favors Latinos, and the court said no,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't. It is strictly political and effectively, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if Texas is going to do it, you can't come
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  Speaker 2: back and say California can't do it. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: question of equity. I think. Although the court didn't say that,
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  Speaker 2: the Court did say that it is not racial but
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  Speaker 2: strictly political. And the way the court said it, it
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  Speaker 2: was not even a dis It was appealed. The lower
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  Speaker 2: court said no, you can't do that, or California can
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  Speaker 2: do that. In the Supreme Court refused to hear it,
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  Speaker 2: just says we're done. So it is now the law
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  Speaker 2: and the congressional districts are in play, which means the
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  Speaker 2: Texas delegation or the Texas congressional aspect of the party
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  Speaker 2: they're representatives in the House will have more Republicans and
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  Speaker 2: there'll be more Democrats in the state of California. And
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean? That means in Congress it'll still
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  Speaker 2: be that razor thin majority for the Democrats. Did that
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  Speaker 2: make sense, by the way, yes? Okay, good, because I
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  Speaker 2: was really in the middle of it. I was concerning Bill,
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  Speaker 2: are you making any sense? And I don't know?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, moving on, really a heart wrenching plea. If you
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen this video, Savannah Guthrie and her brother and
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  Speaker 3: sister put out a video last night, and I've seen
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  Speaker 3: it probably ten times now, but it's just heartbreaking to
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  Speaker 3: watch as they ask for their mother to be returned.
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  Speaker 3: They put the video out last night. They said that
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  Speaker 3: they are ready to talk to whomever may have taken them,
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  Speaker 3: and they said that they were aware of reports about
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  Speaker 3: a ransom letter and said we're doing everything we can.
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  Speaker 3: But she also said, we live in a world where
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  Speaker 3: fake stuff can get out easily, and we need proof
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  Speaker 3: of life, right.
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  Speaker 2: And this is in reference, I think to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that she is we're talking about mom. She is being held.
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  Speaker 2: Although the ransom notes several television stations, local stations have
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  Speaker 2: gotten those notes. Do we know if it's the same
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  Speaker 2: note by the way that's gone to the station, because
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  Speaker 2: I know there's some real doubt as to whether this
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  Speaker 2: is real or not.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't heard that. I know that a local station,
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  Speaker 3: not the NBC station because she's on the Today Show
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  Speaker 3: on NBC. I believe it was to the CBS affiliate
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  Speaker 3: in Arizona, and then of course TMZ got one, and
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  Speaker 3: I believe there was another one, but there hasn't been
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  Speaker 3: any word on whether it was the same note.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and so in terms of the ransom, we don't
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  Speaker 2: know if we're asking for money. All we heard is
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  Speaker 2: it's a ransom note. And the Guthrie family is taking
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  Speaker 2: it seriously, and the sheriff has said, we take everything seriously. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Moving on.
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  Speaker 3: Post pink slips and lots of them, Washington Post has
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  Speaker 3: told its employees that it's doing a widespread round of layoffs,
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  Speaker 3: expected to decimate the sports, local news and international newsroom.
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  Speaker 3: Three hundred of the roughly eight hundred journalists in the
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  Speaker 3: news are expected to be affected. It's about thirty percent
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  Speaker 3: of its employees. And the way that they're going to
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  Speaker 3: tell them apparently they're going to send out an email.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be one of two subject lines, Yes you're affected
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  Speaker 3: by this, or no, you're not affected by this.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos, who bought it originally, was doing a good
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  Speaker 2: job as far as the employees are concerned, keeping the
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  Speaker 2: paper at its level of reporting, at its reputation, and
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  Speaker 2: it was just losing too much money, mainly in its
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  Speaker 2: Internet sales of ads, etc. So as of I think
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  Speaker 2: next week, it's announced that the paper is for sale
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon and it's Amazon Prime, so delivery.
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  Speaker 3: Will not cost you a kinder gentler ice. President Trump
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  Speaker 3: said immigration agents could use a softer touch. As his
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  Speaker 3: administration started with drawing some of the immigration enforcement agents
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  Speaker 3: from Minnesota, Trump told NBC News, you still have to
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  Speaker 3: be tough. He also insisted during the interview that his
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  Speaker 3: operations were highly targeted at criminals. He said he was
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  Speaker 3: not happy with the fatal shootings of Alex Pretty and
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  Speaker 3: Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 2: Now no walking back that they were terrorists, domestic terrorists
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  Speaker 2: that the government has not said. Nope, they weren't. The
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  Speaker 2: other thing targeted. As we're watching the video and people
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  Speaker 2: are being arrested wholesale and people pulled out of cars,
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  Speaker 2: these were not targeted. I mean they are protesters. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how that pans out. Especially the investigation of
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  Speaker 2: the Good and the Pretty killings. The Justice Department of
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  Speaker 2: the FBI has opened up in investigation civil rights investigation,
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  Speaker 2: which it didn't do at the start of all this.
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  Speaker 2: And why is he doing this well, because his immigration policy,
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  Speaker 2: which was wildly popular for the most part when it started,
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  Speaker 2: has tanked. His numbers have tanked completely as the government
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  Speaker 2: has gone way, way overboard, and I can't imagine I'd
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  Speaker 2: love to be a fly on the wall, as his
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  Speaker 2: adviser saying, mister President, this is hurting you far more
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  Speaker 2: than it's helping you. I'm convinced of that. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what a softer touch means. And yanking back seven
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  Speaker 2: hundred of the what three thousand ice and troops that
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  Speaker 2: were sent to Minneapolis, Now it's about twenty two hundred,
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens on this one. This is
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  Speaker 2: as close to President Trump walking back a statement or
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  Speaker 2: a position as I have seen.
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  Speaker 3: The deal is done, meaning it's ending, which I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how this can be a good thing. Russia has
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  Speaker 3: declared that it is no longer bound by limits on
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  Speaker 3: the number of nuclear warheads that can deploy. The last
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  Speaker 3: remaining arms controlled treaty with the United States is expiring.
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  Speaker 3: The UN calls it a grave moment for international peace
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  Speaker 3: and security. The treaty, which was signed in twenty ten,
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  Speaker 3: is expected to expire today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had limits, the number of weapons, limits the
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  Speaker 2: delivery systems of those weapons. We're talking about nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 2: but it hasn't been in effect for years anyway, nobody,
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  Speaker 2: the United States and not Russia, has adhere to the plan,
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  Speaker 2: and now it's officially over Putin, according to this story.
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  Speaker 2: According to Al Jazeera, Putin has offered to extend it
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  Speaker 2: for one year, and according to news sources, the president
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  Speaker 2: where the government has yet to Our government has yet
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  Speaker 2: to respond, not saying no. But this whole thing ends.
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  Speaker 2: When does it end?
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  Speaker 3: Today?
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  Speaker 2: Today? Ooh? And so that means nuclear war is going
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  Speaker 2: to know? It doesn't tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope you're buying some sunglasses because you don't
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  Speaker 2: look in the southern sky. It's going to be much
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  Speaker 2: much brighter than you can imagine.
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  Speaker 3: Are you done now?
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to glow? So no, no, no night
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  Speaker 2: lights for you.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a whole lot of sucky stuff. The Department of
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  Speaker 3: Homeland Security attorney Julie Lee was called to testify in
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  Speaker 3: US District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota about why the
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  Speaker 3: government has been non responsive to judicial orders regarding people
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  Speaker 3: in ice detention. The judge said the administration has routinely
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  Speaker 3: not been following court mandates, ignoring multiple multiple orders for
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  Speaker 3: detainees to be released, and the lawyer Julie Lee responded,
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  Speaker 3: what do you want me to do? This system sucks,
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  Speaker 3: this job sucks, and I'm trying with every breath I
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  Speaker 3: have so i can get you what you need.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, guess what happened to her? She was reassigned. I'm
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  Speaker 2: surprised she wasn't fired outright. And this is a situation
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  Speaker 2: where the Trump administration here we go talking about Trump
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  Speaker 2: has ignored court orders. They just don't you know, the
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  Speaker 2: court orders someone to be released in the court and
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  Speaker 2: the administration just says no, yeah, no, no thanks. And
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  Speaker 2: the court has no enforcing powers. You're aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: The court has no policing powers at all. The only
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  Speaker 2: power the court has is the rest of us listening
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  Speaker 2: to the court and following court orders. Because do you
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  Speaker 2: know who enforces the laws would be the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 2: who would enforce the court order? And you think the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Justice is going to afford enforce the court
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  Speaker 2: order that the Department of Justice or whatever agency is
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  Speaker 2: ignoring on a judicial order. So yeah, it's a real problem.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's why people are really scared because go ahead, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I just.
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  Speaker 3: Had a question about that, and I don't know the
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  Speaker 3: answer because I'm reading through this material and not seeing it.
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  Speaker 3: Are they just flat out ignoring the orders or are
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  Speaker 3: they appealing them?
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  Speaker 2: Both both they are ignoring and appealing, depending on which case.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have a whole lot of people being detained
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  Speaker 2: and a whole lot of lawsuits. You know, back again
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  Speaker 2: to the story that I've been reporting where one of
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay's best friends, her son in law, who's l Salvadorian,
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  Speaker 2: was picked up and deported and deported to L Salvador.
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  Speaker 2: And he is appealing the deportation order. But he is
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  Speaker 2: in l Salvador. He doesn't know if he'll ever be
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  Speaker 2: able to come back, and he's got family here and
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  Speaker 2: now he has to figure out living in El Salvador,
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  Speaker 2: and it is life is just not the same. Matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, A seven fifty. I'm going to do a story,
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  Speaker 2: and this is particularly about Mexicans who were deported. Man,
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  Speaker 2: you should see what they're going back to in Mexico
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  Speaker 2: and having to live and try to figure out a
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  Speaker 2: life there because they're not coming back in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 3: High rise graffiti may soon be gone. The skyscraper in
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  Speaker 3: downtown La known as Graffiti Towers. It's officially the Ocean
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  Speaker 3: Wide Plaza has reached a bankruptcy exit agreement that will
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  Speaker 3: pave the way for a potential sale Ocean Sides Lawyers
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  Speaker 3: or Ocean Wide Lawyers set a prompt sale and eventual
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  Speaker 3: completion of the project is a major priority for the
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  Speaker 3: city and the public at large, particularly with the upcoming
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. The settlement apparently a critical
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  Speaker 3: step towards selling the property, which would then allow for
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  Speaker 3: the permanent removal of all that nasty graffiti that's been
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  Speaker 3: on the building for what yeah two years now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a financial mess. You have creditors, you
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  Speaker 2: have owners, and you have mortgages on it. The city
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  Speaker 2: is involved, but it looks like it's going to come
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  Speaker 2: down finally because it really is an iceore and we
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  Speaker 2: don't want iceres with the Olympics coming.
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  Speaker 3: We have enough problems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. We do. What was it the last
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  Speaker 2: time Olympics here? We took the homeless off the streets
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  Speaker 2: and hid them behind buildings pretempcin villages. All right, okay, oh,
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  Speaker 2: La mayor story, Yeah, I'm going to do this one.
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  Speaker 3: Too, denied Mayor Bass has denied a published story in
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  Speaker 3: The La Times. It claims she ordered the after action
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  Speaker 3: report on the failings of La City Fire during the
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  Speaker 3: Palisades Fire to be watered down. The La Times says
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  Speaker 3: that Bass told then interim fire chief Ronnie Vanueva the
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  Speaker 3: original version of the report put the city at risk
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  Speaker 3: of legal liabilities, and that she wanted sections of the
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  Speaker 3: report either removed or softened.
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  Speaker 2: She's denied that, completely denied that. And this is a
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  Speaker 2: pretty controversial story, which I'm going to do at seven o'clock. Also, politically,
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  Speaker 2: she has not handled this well. There were all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of warnings that we are going to be in a
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  Speaker 2: actually life threatening win situation just prior to the Palisse fire,
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  Speaker 2: and she was in Ghana. She was in Ghana, contrary
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  Speaker 2: to her promise when she ran that she will never
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  Speaker 2: leave the city of Los Angeles. And I don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: I think she tried to deny she was in Ghana,
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  Speaker 2: but when she came back with a bone through her
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  Speaker 2: nose and a dead chicken in her suitcase, it was
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  Speaker 2: hard to deny.
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  Speaker 3: It would be Assassin is permanently out of commission. The
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  Speaker 3: man convicted of attempting to kill then candidate Trump while
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  Speaker 3: he played golf on his golf course in Florida has
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  Speaker 3: been sentenced to life in prison. Ryan Routh was found
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  Speaker 3: guilty of attempting to assassnate Trump in the fall of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was really bonehead of him to do that.
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  Speaker 2: He went well, actually he could have killed the president
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  Speaker 2: even though the president. Luckily for President Trump, he was
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  Speaker 2: not on that hole. I think he was several teas behind.
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  Speaker 3: He was on his way to that hole, and I
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  Speaker 3: think a Secret Service agent spotted saw. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he was several holes behind. But I
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: mean not that it matters. And it was an attempt
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: to assassinate a presidential candidate, which in and of itself
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: is a crime that could bring you life in prison.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: And then you have weapons violations. So he is going
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to spend the rest of his life. Let me tell
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you how serious this is. His attorney suggests that only
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: a twenty seven year sentence. Don't give him life, just
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: give him twenty seven years. Okay, Yeah, it's not much
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: of a defense he had.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: This is very sad of Metrolink versus Mom. A pregnant
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: woman has been killed in a collision involving a Metrolink
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: train and a car in Glendale. It happened on Brazil Street,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: just west of the intersection of San Fernando and Broadway.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Apparently the driver was trying to make a right turn
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: onto Broadway, which turns into Brazil Street at that point,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and as the vehicle entered the crossing, it was hit
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: by a Metrolink train obviously traveling on the tracks.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I have a question because the story doesn't say
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: was the barrier down. I can't imagine there was a
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: street in which crosses the railway where you can just
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: cross without the barrier coming down, and it was there
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: none on the street that crosses the tracks. And I
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: don't know the answer to that.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I would be guessing that they would be investigating that, Yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: because if there would if she was making a right turn,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: and I mean, the train would be right there, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: it would be interesting if she didn't see it one
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: why and also the crossing guard.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the one I'm looking at her
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: or questioning, because if she has the radio on loud
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: and the windows up, then I can see that there
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: would not hear the whistle, would not hear the train.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: But you know, you have to have an arm coming
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: down who doesn't know that there is an arm coming
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: down and the big red lights flashing.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, Google is apparently holding its own. Google's
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: latest quarterly report provided more evidence that its Internet empire
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: is withstanding an artificial intelligence shakeup. Google's third consecutive quarter
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: of digital ad growth was up more than ten percent
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: from the year previous, while also posting more than thirty
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: percent sales growth in its division that powers data set
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: for AI services.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: By this company, the market value is four trillion dollars.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's beyond comprehension as the value of this company.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: And so we think Sergey Brinn and his partner have
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: enough money. Anyway, it's doing well, it's guessing, and it's
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: pretty far ahead in the world of AI.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: An anti DEI investigation, a federal agency that fight's workplace bias,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: is investigating Nike, based in Beaverton, Oregon, over its treatment
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: of white employees. Of course, the Trump administration is pledged
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: to crack down on diversity, equity and inclusion policies and
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: make shielding white men from discrimination of priority. The agency
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: said Nike may have engaged in a pattern or practice
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: of disparate treatment against white employees. Applicat and training program
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: participants in hiring, promotion, demotion or separation decisions.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: The starting in the seventies, and when I was in
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: law school, we really studied this case and I shared
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: this with you before. And it was a case was
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Baki versus the regions of the state of California of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the UC system, and there was a quota system, it
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: was DEI where in this case African Americans were given
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: preference because they had been treated so unfairly prior to that,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: and David Baki, who was white, was not allowed in
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: medical school, and there was an African American candidate who
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: had less qualifications pursuant to the UC requirements and was
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: given what would have been David Baki c He sued
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: for versus discrimination. He sued, I am a white guy
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: and you are discriminated against me. And so here's the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: question I have, and that is, if it is true
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that minority have been treated horribly both in business also
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: in education, and no one's arguing that, how do you
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: get to the other side. Do you make it up
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: by having these DEI programs? Do you simply say that
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: all DEI has to disappear and everybody must be treated
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: equally and ignore the way minorities were treated. I mean
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: that is the question is a moral question. And up
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to this point, the universities have used heavy duty DEI
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: tactics to level the playing field big picture, and the
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Trump administration is going the other way, saying we don't
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: want to hear it. So it's fascinating stuff and we'll
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: see what happens. And by the way, the Trump administration
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: may win on this because the courts are going to
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: say it has to be even Stephen, which means only
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: people that are going to be allowed to school or
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: named Stephen. It has to be equal all the way
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: across the board. So I can't wait for the court
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: to determine this one after the investigation, which will find
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: reverse discrimination, I guarantee you, because this is the Trump
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: administration looking for that. And so we'll see what happens
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: with the Court's fascinating stuff. Okay, moving on, it's being.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Called the next generation and we're not talking Star trek.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Seven months after being named interim president of USC, bongsu
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Kim has been named the permanent president of USC, following
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: what is being described as a nationwide search. During the
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: time as interim, he had to deal with a two
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: hundred million dollar budget deficit deficit overseeing cuts more than
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: a thousand layoffs. And of course there was the pressure
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: on higher education coming from several fronts, including the Trump
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: administration and the growth of AI. And during all of
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: that time, USC trustees said, you know, Kim really became
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: their top pip for the job, showed.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: How to handle it. How often do you hear of
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: an interim president of a university becoming the permanent I've
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: never heard of it. That's very unusual. But I guess
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: he proved himself now serving kim chi at school cafeteria. Okay,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, okay, okay, thank you, all right?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Worth their weight in gold. Athletes at the Winter Olympics
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: in Italy this month, of course, opening ceremonies tomorrow night
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: will be awarded the most expensive medals in the history
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: of the game games. And why is that? Because precious
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: metal prices are soaring, you know, like gold right now
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: is the It's down this morning, but still trading at
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: almost forty nine hundred dollars an ounce.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's astronomical the price, I mean, that's they and
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: they use real gold.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and silver and bronze up to seven hundred medals
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: are being presented during the games, everything from skiing and
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: ice hockey, to hockey, to figure skating and curling.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, one last story, that Amy, this one, this one
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: is for you. You have to share this with us.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Okay. You've heard of people who get married in front
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: of the castle at Disneyland, oh Sleeping Beauties Castle. Well,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: if you want to be a little more ghoulish, you
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: can now get married at the Haunted Mansion. There's no
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: turning back now. Yeah, So if you're a big Haunted
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Mansion fan, which actually Haunted Mansion has really become like
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: not cultish, but it's really become more popular. There's more
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Haunted Mansion themed clothing and that kind of stuff around
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the park now. So now twenty five to forty thousand dollars,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: and you can use the mansion's courtyard to get hitched.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Not even in the mansion, the courtyard. Now. I've heard
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: they're also pushing kinsianieras in front of the Truro stand
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if that's true or not. Okay,
• 30:08
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