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04/24/2025 Ask the Lawyer with Harvey Peyton · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 5: a four three four five fifty eight fifty eight? Yes,
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Speaker 5: that number is correct. Three zero four three four five
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Speaker 5: fifty eight fifty eight. Why you might ask, Well, Harvey
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Speaker 6: All right, it's unbelievable for the folks who there's going
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Speaker 6: to be a television feed from this studio, as I understand,
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Speaker 6: in the near future, but not today. And this is
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Speaker 6: my first exposure to the new studio. It is phenomenal.
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Speaker 6: It's out of this world. I see on the wall.
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Speaker 6: that the Payton Law Firm has sponsored guys for probably
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Speaker 6: direct calls. So if you're listening and you have a
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Speaker 6: question about the law or about any legally related for instance,
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Speaker 6: public event or occurrence, just call in and we can
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Speaker 6: take your calls right here on air. Now there's no
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Speaker 6: intermediary And it's just great to be here. That they said,
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Speaker 6: it is a great good morning. The traffic was a
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Speaker 6: bit congested coming across the bridge, but it was just
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Speaker 6: it wasn't bad. Sit there in the car and you
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Speaker 6: just resign yourself to the fact that's going to take
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Speaker 6: a little while and look around at this beautiful sunrise
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Speaker 6: and the nice calm weather and think, man, I'm just
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Speaker 6: one of the luckiest people in the world to be alive,
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Speaker 6: to be coming here like we have for the last
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Speaker 6: twenty six years, going on twenty seven now and participate
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Speaker 6: in this show. Listening now, I've spent a lot of
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Speaker 6: time still in the car. You hit a home run
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Speaker 6: with the Noon Show. It appears to me you've got
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Speaker 6: Dave al and Amanda bearon On. You know, two icons. Well,
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Speaker 6: I don't think Daves reached icon status yet, but he's
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Speaker 6: on his way.
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Speaker 4: He's efforting.
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Speaker 6: He's not the dean maybe like the second Lieutenant of radios.
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Speaker 6: Nothing general, but that's COVID. Hey, listen, we had a
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Speaker 6: really an active couple of weeks. You know, tom My
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Speaker 6: oldest boy, who's the other Peyton in the Peyton Law
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Speaker 6: Firm and really the best lawyer under fifty that I
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Speaker 6: would ever tell anybody to dire. He just does such
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Speaker 6: a wonderful job with injury claims, disability claims, dealing directly
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Speaker 6: with the courts and the public and here locally, and
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Speaker 6: we take great pride in that. You know, in our
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Speaker 6: office at the Peyton Law Firm in nitro Ill we
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Speaker 6: hear about twenty minutes from downtown Charleston and maybe fifteen
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Speaker 6: minutes from downtown Hurricane Cross Lane, Saint Albans. But our
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Speaker 6: practice is regional, but it's a big region, most of
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Speaker 6: the southern coal fields, southeast Ohio, all the Kanaal Valley
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Speaker 6: up to Fayette down to Mason Cable. So if you're
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Speaker 6: listening before we dial up, to call in and go
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Speaker 6: online to our website Peyton Lawfirm dot com, or you
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Speaker 6: can call us at three oh four seven five five
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Speaker 6: fifty five fifty six, or stop by. We have a
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Speaker 6: really nice welcoming office at twenty eight oh one First
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Speaker 6: Avenue in Nitro. If you've suffered a loss, might be
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Speaker 6: you've got a dispute now with an insurance carrier about
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Speaker 6: covery as you're a claim or a life policy that
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Speaker 6: won't be paid on. Or if you've suffered an injury
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Speaker 6: at work, something you feel like you have a claim
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Speaker 6: potentially for social Security disability or an automobile accident or
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Speaker 6: any other personal or financial injury. We can't tell you
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Speaker 6: who to hire, or we can't spend a lot of
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Speaker 6: money because that just breeds itself on tv ads. But
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Speaker 6: if you think about the paidon law firm, come in,
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Speaker 6: send us a text over the website, it only comes
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Speaker 6: to my desk or Tom's just give us a thought
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Speaker 6: and I don't think you'd be disappointed. We've had excellent
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Speaker 6: results for clients and developed relationship with clients now for
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Speaker 6: fifty years, and we put our name behind it. Other
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Speaker 6: people do they are other families. We hear them all advertised.
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Speaker 6: They may be from Florida or other places unknown, but
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Speaker 6: we're from Putnam County and Saint Albans and Kanawa County
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Speaker 6: and our staff. If the lady lives in Saint Albans
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Speaker 6: in Buffalo, the other in PoCA. You know, my wife's
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Speaker 6: a Poka dot. Formerly I was a dragon at Saint Albans.
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Speaker 6: So you know, you can come in and we understand
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Speaker 6: what goes on here. We know what people think about
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Speaker 6: and how issues are addressed or should be addressed. Now,
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Speaker 6: Tom was in the office last Monday, and he was
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Speaker 6: using my car because his daughter was in the market
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Speaker 6: for a new car and she had borrowed one of
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Speaker 6: his while she was making the transition. So he had
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Speaker 6: my Toyota Avalon Hybrid which has a transaxle made in Buffalo.
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Speaker 6: And I'm a home in Hurricane near Hurricane, right by
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Speaker 6: Sleepy Holly Golf Course here and my wife and I
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Speaker 6: are sitting there and all of a sudden.
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Speaker 4: Boom boom, boom, boom boom. What is that?
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Speaker 6: Look at the sliding glass door and what it is
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Speaker 6: is hailstone. Oh yeah, yeah, not just the side. People said, Oh,
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Speaker 6: they were as big as golf bolls. This maybe baseballs
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Speaker 6: would be. It's like shrapnel coming from the sky, pounding, pounding, pounding,
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Speaker 6: and the Thomas. I said, I'm going to call Tom
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Speaker 6: and tell him not to come. Well, he picks up
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Speaker 6: the phone. I call him. He's in the car. I
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Speaker 6: can tell him you can hear the bomb. Tom, Well,
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Speaker 6: I'm at Tay's Valley Baptist Church, which is right in
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Speaker 6: the middle of the valley, just after you pull out
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Speaker 6: of the intersection interchange and start down the valley road.
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Speaker 6: And he tried to set a pull over here to parking.
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Speaker 6: I'm trying to get under the canopy, but your windshield's broken.
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Speaker 6: So he gets the car home in the windshields. Was
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Speaker 6: four huge hail impacts. Well, so the next day take
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Speaker 6: a look at I counted fifty on the car. Now
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Speaker 6: eerie insurances. I've been with him for decades and you
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Speaker 6: know they're doing the best they can. I've got an
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Speaker 6: appointment to go see you drive through adjuster. But it's
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Speaker 6: just it's unbelievable and they have been totally a lot
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Speaker 6: of cars. I talked to one of the adjusters. He
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Speaker 6: said that the problem is, Uh, the roof on a
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Speaker 6: modern sedan is a nine thousand dollars part. So if
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Speaker 6: the dinning is too bad to have one of the
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Speaker 6: dent pullers fix it. And you've got that on the hood,
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Speaker 6: that on the trunk, and that on the roof plus
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Speaker 6: the trim, let's be that. You know, if the cost
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Speaker 6: of the it doesn't take much. And if you had
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Speaker 6: a nine thousand dollars roof and a seven thousand dollars
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Speaker 6: hood and a six thousand dollars trunk, lit and trim,
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Speaker 6: what are you talking about? There's eighteen thousand bucks fifteen
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Speaker 6: thousand dollars right off the bat, plus the labor. But
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Speaker 6: you're totling a car that's essentially functional other than aesthetics.
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Speaker 6: Now I'm going to get my windshield fixed. I don't
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Speaker 6: know what I'm going to do about the rest of them.
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Speaker 6: But it was a storm of biblical proportions.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 5: I know, in Cross Lanes where my mother in law lives,
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Speaker 5: she had like a canopy over her She has a
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Speaker 5: large deck outside next to her pool and stuff like that.
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Speaker 5: All of that stuff, like the little pool area of
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Speaker 5: the cabinary, all the covered areas, all that stuff just
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Speaker 5: ripped apart, just absolutely ripped apart.
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Speaker 6: Fortunately, our home when we built it a few years ago,
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Speaker 6: we opted to put brick on the whole house, kind
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Speaker 6: of the conventional standard and modern buildings, say down in
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Speaker 6: the valley, bigger homes, they'll maybe have a brick facat
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Speaker 6: on the front part of the side, but then a
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Speaker 6: lot of vinyl siding and trim on the rest of
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Speaker 6: the house.
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Speaker 4: And it's just Swiss cheese, you know.
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Speaker 6: You take that vitl siding and it's been up there,
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Speaker 6: say ten years or so, and it's brittle. It's certainly functional,
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Speaker 6: doesn't need to be replaced. But when you impact it
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Speaker 6: with a hailstone the size of a golf ball going
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Speaker 6: about thirty miles an hour, wham. So we'll see we
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Speaker 6: have a We haven't had a great influx of calls
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Speaker 6: at the office about dealings with insurance carriers, and my
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Speaker 6: general experience has been and when you get a disaster
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Speaker 6: like this, they go full board. They've got a whole
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Speaker 6: national crew. Most mainline carriers of disaster adjusting teams. And
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Speaker 6: so they'll set up at this they go full board.
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Speaker 6: They've got a whole national crew, most mainline carriers of
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Speaker 6: disaster adjusting teams. And so they'll set up and you
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Speaker 6: can go and they have a fluorescent light they can
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Speaker 6: put on the car and we'll.
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Speaker 4: See how it shakes out.
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Speaker 6: I hope no one runs into a problem with, you know,
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Speaker 6: a claim that won't be paid, or a claim that
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Speaker 6: is you know, they think that being Nickeldon dined on
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Speaker 6: a claim if you do. Of course, that's the kind
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Speaker 6: of work that the Peyton Law Firm has been doing
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Speaker 6: for decades, representing normal folks who have disputes with I
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Speaker 6: guess you could call it the establishment, the powers that be, banks, insurance,
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Speaker 6: et cetera. Now switching gears. I wanted to say what
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Speaker 6: I believe is a precursor of unpleasant things to come.
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Speaker 6: I read, you know there is a lawsuit pending and
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Speaker 6: two lawsuits combined out in Missouri. I believe in Saint
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Speaker 6: Louis relative to the payment of college athletes, or quote
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Speaker 6: amateur athletes who are no longer going to be amateur athletes.
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Speaker 6: This was brought by a number of president and former,
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Speaker 6: mostly former NCAA athletes who contested the amateurism rules because
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Speaker 6: they didn't get paid, and now they're being paid sort
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Speaker 6: of above the board through name, image and likeness. The
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Speaker 6: Mountaineers have Country Roads trust with gathered up money, and
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Speaker 6: it's no secret that the going price now for a
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Speaker 6: good quarterback in the transfer portals a couple million dollars.
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Speaker 5: Before you know, the guy from Tennessee was like, hey,
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Speaker 5: two million's not enough for me, man, I.
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Speaker 4: Need four million.
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Speaker 6: So he goes to the big ten UCLA where they'll
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Speaker 6: pony up four million dollars. Makes it harder on the pros.
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Speaker 6: The pros now when they go to talk to these
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Speaker 6: kids about where they're going to be drafted. It's like, well,
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Speaker 6: you know, I'm not all that desperate right now. If
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Speaker 6: I'm picked to play in Buffalo, outside the wire and
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Speaker 6: in the cold, I may just sit this one out.
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Speaker 5: I may answer it. Maybe the only silver lining to
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Speaker 5: this is the literacy that some of these players are
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Speaker 5: getting about finances before they get to the league, because
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Speaker 5: before there was a real issue with that.
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, we're gonna change the rules about it. I mean,
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Speaker 6: they've got to have it an a l agent. You
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Speaker 6: can't have really astute coaches and coaching staffs and general
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Speaker 6: managers out here, you know, negotiating theoretically a good faith
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Speaker 6: with seventeen eighteen nineteen year old kids and their parents,
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Speaker 6: many of whom are financially distressed, and got them to
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Speaker 6: sign some sort of long term contract with a buyout.
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Speaker 6: But what's it going to do to ticket prices? And
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Speaker 6: I had the experience this week of I like to
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Speaker 6: go to see ball games at Wrigley Field if I
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Speaker 6: had to be in Chicago, and I will be soon.
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Speaker 4: One of the cathedrals of baseball.
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Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, yeah, you want to go sit in the
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Speaker 6: it's that in Fenway or the last two left, Detroit's gone.
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Speaker 5: You know, been to Wrigley for a game. I've only
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Speaker 5: did a walk through a Fenway. I haven't been to
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Speaker 5: Fenway for a game.
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Speaker 6: I saw the Yankees and the Socks playing Fenway, and
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Speaker 6: that was an experience. Yeah, that's perfect. Well, it was
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Speaker 6: one one Yankee fan sitting in front of us and
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Speaker 6: he had to be let out by security in the
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Speaker 6: seventh inning.
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Speaker 5: You get to take it, You take the ride, right,
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Speaker 5: that's all.
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Speaker 6: Well, it was fine with us. Because the fans throwing
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Speaker 6: beer on the guy, we're starting to splash over on us.
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Speaker 6: Yeah that's not good. But ninety bucks, ninety bucks for
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Speaker 6: a baseball ticket, now, this is not buying home plate.
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Speaker 6: This is second tier, third baselines halfway to the flagpole
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Speaker 6: or the foul pole.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 6: It's and I'm thinking, well, somebody's going to pay these salaries,
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Speaker 6: and somebody's going to pay these expenses. They get eighty
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Speaker 6: one of those games a year, and yeah, you get
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Speaker 6: eighty one, So what are they going to do in Morgantown?
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Speaker 6: A ticket that may costs now what forty five fifty
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Speaker 6: bucks for a football game? Just marked that up to
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Speaker 6: maybe eighty ninety. So just think about that. In the
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Speaker 6: whole millieu is a hey, you got a fello. A
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Speaker 6: man and woman. Maybe they're living all Mullins right, say, well,
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Speaker 6: he's got a job, Mount and Cole were driving a truck.
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Speaker 6: Maybe she's working as a substitute cook at the Board
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Speaker 6: of Education and they're doing all right, okay, and they've
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Speaker 6: got two three kids, so lit'st all of them out
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Speaker 6: in your fans. Now you just stop and think, what
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Speaker 6: if these prices keep on as they are to get
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Speaker 6: in the car. You got to have gasoline, right, You
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Speaker 6: got to drive from Saint Mollins. You got to go
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Speaker 6: out there to Beckley, hit the interstate going north to Morgantown,
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Speaker 6: get the town. You got to feed yourself, you gotta
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Speaker 6: feed the kids, get to buy. It's going to be
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Speaker 6: a thousand dollars. Now you talk about that's just a
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Speaker 6: heck of a burden. It's unavoidable. I guess it's just
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Speaker 6: the way of life in these United States. But I
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Speaker 6: mean to me, seeing that looming on the horizon, maybe
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Speaker 6: I'm maybe I'm lucky to be seventy five years old and.
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Speaker 4: Won't be.
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Speaker 6: It's strange now when you reach a certain point you
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Speaker 6: start looking at future schedules and think, oh, that's a
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Speaker 6: great game. If that's a great game. We've got scheduled
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Speaker 6: with Penn State and if. But you just didn't put
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Speaker 6: the f aside. So on the legal front, well we
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Speaker 6: did have yesterday Judge acres here in Kanawk count he
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Speaker 6: lowered the boom appropriately. I mean the person took two
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Speaker 6: human lives and was convicted by a jury of first
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Speaker 6: degree murder, second degree murder, and then the add on
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Speaker 6: was is ten years for the east and presentment of
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Speaker 6: a firearm, and those are consecutive sentences, which means, as
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Speaker 6: I understand sentencing, and I think I've got a pretty
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Speaker 6: grip on if it's the man's eligible for parole on
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Speaker 6: the first degree murder after fifteen years, So after he
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Speaker 6: has served the fifteen years, then he would start earning
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Speaker 6: eligibility towards parole for the second degree murder.
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Speaker 5: So you don't earn that concurrently, right, So that doesn't
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Speaker 5: mean in fifty that doesn't mean in fifteen years you
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Speaker 5: get parole for both. You have to earn one and
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Speaker 5: then the other, which is in essence.
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Speaker 6: Consecutive means concent without parole, which means probably twenty seven
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Speaker 6: twenty eight years before there's any eligibility, and with a
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Speaker 6: double homicide, the likelihood of a prompt role that's not good.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 6: But then also in our local court system, yesterday down
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Speaker 6: in Huntington, Judge Chuck Chambers in the United States District
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Speaker 6: Court for the Southern District of West Virginia entered an
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Speaker 6: injunction stopping the removal from the country of a graduate
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Speaker 6: student at Marshall by Ice. You know, as a part
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Speaker 6: of the vast deportation. As I understand it that I
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Speaker 6: read part of the order this morning, I didn't have
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Speaker 6: time to read it all. It is a it is
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Speaker 6: a it's a commentary on due process and why it
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Speaker 6: is so important. This person, who's not remains unidentified except
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Speaker 6: by in thisials, was apparently in the United Ued States
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Speaker 6: on a student visa, not the one that has now
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Speaker 6: been revoked, but on an earlier date, and was arrested
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Speaker 6: in the Midwest on a charge of driving under the influence.
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Speaker 6: Now we don't know the severity the nature of that charge.
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Speaker 6: Apparently there wasn't one involving accident or injury, which doesn't
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Speaker 6: excuse driving under the influence. It should never happen. But
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Speaker 6: the person was put on probation, They served their probation,
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Speaker 6: were discharged. Now, then this person re entered the United
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Speaker 6: States in twenty twenty three to pursue a master's degree
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Speaker 6: a higher education degree at Marshall and disclosed on his
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Speaker 6: application for in one student visa that he had a
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Speaker 6: prior misdemeanor conviction. Disclosed this conviction, but was cleared to
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Speaker 6: enter the country and given the visa. Now that's his
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Speaker 6: status bestowed upon him by virtue of his application and
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Speaker 6: full disclosure.
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Speaker 5: There's nothing else he could have done. He did everything
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Speaker 5: he was supposed to do correct and now.
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Speaker 6: On what I would literally say the guys of removing
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Speaker 6: a criminal quote violent criminal from the country. This is
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Speaker 6: a person who was convicted of misdemeanor what six seven
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Speaker 6: years ago, was just simply picked up without any opportunity
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Speaker 6: to challenge the conduct of the agency and propose for
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Speaker 6: a deportation. In the words that Judge Chambers used, which
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Speaker 6: I think people who've kind of overlooked in this conversation,
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Speaker 6: is the action is arbitrary and capricious. Those are words
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Speaker 6: of art to in the law and in the realm
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Speaker 6: of due process. When you talk about due process, you
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Speaker 6: know it depends due process in the United States. There
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Speaker 6: are some forms of what are called due process everywhere,
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Speaker 6: but in a Madisonian democratic representative republic, which people say, oh,
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Speaker 6: this is not a democracy, it's a republic. Well, indeed,
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Speaker 6: it's not a pure democracy in our government. It's a
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Speaker 6: representative republic where states and individuals elect representatives, they send
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Speaker 6: them to Washington, d c. And they perform the constitutional
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Speaker 6: duties of the legislature, and we elect a president through
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Speaker 6: the electoral college. But how those representatives are selected is
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Speaker 6: course demost democracy.
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Speaker 4: People vote.
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Speaker 6: It's not an autocracy where some strongman picks your representative,
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Speaker 6: and it's not a kleptocracy where the thieves and corruptors
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Speaker 6: pick your representatives. It's a democratic republic. And what you
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Speaker 6: form when you form a government like we did with
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Speaker 6: the Constitution, you know, you vest the monopoly for the
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Speaker 6: legitimate use of violence in an entity that is the government.
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Speaker 6: That's the underpinning of every government. The ultimate monopoly on
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Speaker 6: the use of violence now that we see, well, the
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Speaker 6: ultimate is the death penalty, which is all surrounded by
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Speaker 6: due process. But you take the simplest court order or
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Speaker 6: the simplest act of a government agent to interface with
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Speaker 6: a a person's vested interests or freedom. What if they
19:35
Speaker 6: don't comply, well, then you can have a US marshall
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Speaker 6: go out. Well what if they don't follow the instructions
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Speaker 6: of the US Marshal, Well, the US Marshal then can
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Speaker 6: forcibly take them into custody. That's an act of violence.
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Speaker 6: And if there's resistance, then the authorities can meet that
19:51
Speaker 6: resistance with the same or similar reasonable force, up to
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Speaker 6: and including deadly force. If the situation commands it. Now,
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Speaker 6: that's at the bottom of all these treads, and how
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Speaker 6: do you harness that monopoly and control it so that
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Speaker 6: you can have a free and progressive people. I'm not
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Speaker 6: saying progressive in the sense of the left or right wing,
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Speaker 6: but people, you know, how do you protect the negative freedom?
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Speaker 6: Negative liberty is really important to a lot of people.
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Speaker 6: Negative liberty is don't touch me, don't make me take
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Speaker 6: a shot, don't make me wear a mask. Well as
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Speaker 6: opposed to positive liberty. I mean, we limit the government's
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Speaker 6: ability to use their monopolistic force to interfere with your
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Speaker 6: negative freedoms so that we can have positive freedom, That
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Speaker 6: is that we can all be free to work together
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Speaker 6: to what we might do, what we could do, not
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Speaker 6: what we can't do, and to do that the minimum
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Speaker 6: The Fifth Amendment to the cost to the United States
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Speaker 6: part of the Bill of Rights says no person shall
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Speaker 6: be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process
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Speaker 6: of law. Now, the word due process is not defined,
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Speaker 6: but clearly it was an intent by the people who
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Speaker 6: formed this country to limit government. Doesn't limit individuals. It
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Speaker 6: limits the government's ability to exert its ultimate monopoly against
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Speaker 6: an individual. So the course is, here's how you do that. Well,
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Speaker 6: you give people who are the subject to some governmental
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Speaker 6: action that will change they're either negative liberties or they're
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Speaker 6: positive liberty out notice. You give them a notice that
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Speaker 6: It doesn't have to be a long notice, it don
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Speaker 6: have to be an elaborate notice. It all varies based
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Speaker 6: upon the nature of the right effected and the circumstance
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Speaker 6: of a person simply appears at the border and asks
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Speaker 6: to be let in. They haven't no due process, they're
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Speaker 6: not here yet, they're not a person within the United States.
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Speaker 6: Just turn them away. Some people who cross the border
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Speaker 6: undocumented or unlawfully, they're apprehended. They can be promptly returned
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Speaker 6: if you know basic investigation reveals you were convicted of
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Speaker 6: murder in Cuba and we don't want you, so turn
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Speaker 6: around and go back. But once a person's in the country,
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Speaker 6: Our Supreme Court has consistently said, including Justice Scalia, that
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Speaker 6: a quote person within the United States not a citizen,
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Speaker 6: but any person has some due process rights. Doesn't mean
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Speaker 6: that everybody it's a trial. I heard that turret post
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Speaker 6: out yesterday. It means that you get to notice, you
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Speaker 6: get an opportunity to present your side of the story,
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Speaker 6: and you get an opportunity to appear before some neutral
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Speaker 6: and detached third party. So well, here, maybe in a
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Speaker 6: less than fully formal trial, for the basic facts and circumstances,
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Speaker 6: and if they find probable cause to believe that you've
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Speaker 6: committed some act or done something that makes you subjequent
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Speaker 6: immediate deportation, then they enter in order and you're taken away.
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Speaker 6: It's not that complicated, but it only becomes complicated in
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Speaker 6: the minds of the public when the course of the
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Speaker 6: government is asserted against people we.
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Speaker 4: Don't care about any way.
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Speaker 6: Right, So if prisoners don't get due process in penitentiary
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Speaker 6: when a guard beats them without any judicial authority and
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Speaker 6: acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner, well they should
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Speaker 6: just be without a remedy. Or if a sixteen year
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Speaker 6: old entered the United States unlawfully ten years ago, well
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Speaker 6: we can send them to a prison anywhere in the
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Speaker 6: world without even a right to speak up. That's just
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Speaker 6: not the way it works. That's the most concerning thing
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Speaker 6: to me, and I think the most in the legal
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Speaker 6: community about the current actions of some agencies of our government.
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Speaker 6: It's not that complicated. Just do it right, you know.
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Speaker 6: Can you understand that applies to the ability to unleash
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Speaker 6: violence or the threat of violence against individuals by taking
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Speaker 6: away or putting them in a situation where you take
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Speaker 6: away some vested interest that's entitled to be protected.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 6: We can talk them all day about. Well, the procedural
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Speaker 6: due process, which means notice, a statement of what you're
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Speaker 6: charged with having done, or a statement of the reasons
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Speaker 6: for the government's action. Your right to read that and
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Speaker 6: maybe not disagree with it. So, oh you got me,
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Speaker 6: I'm gone. It doesn't mean that everyone is going to
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Speaker 6: avail themselves of the full range of substance of due process,
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Speaker 6: which would be some non arbitrary third party person to
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Speaker 6: decide yeah or nay. But it applies to those who
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Speaker 6: are entirely I mean, it applies to everybody. Does the
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Speaker 6: Fifth Amendment apply to people who are unlawfully in the
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Speaker 6: United States? The Fifth the Bill of Rights applies to
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Speaker 6: everybody universally, every second of every hour of the day.
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Speaker 6: Now you have a right to keep and bear arms
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Speaker 6: every second of every hour of the day. You have
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Speaker 6: a right to speak your mind every second of every
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Speaker 6: hour of the day. In the United States, because that's
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Speaker 6: what the Constitution says, and the fifth and fourteenth Amendment
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Speaker 6: of the Constitution both say and affirmatively that before the
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Speaker 6: government can unleash on you the potential of exercising its
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Speaker 6: monopoly on violence, you have a right at least some
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Speaker 6: basic Here's what we say you did. If you say
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Speaker 6: you didn't do this, here's who's going to decide this.
25:47
Speaker 6: If they decide against you, come on, we're going to
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Speaker 6: the plane. If they ruin your favor, well we may
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Speaker 6: appeal this, but you stay here. That's just the way
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Speaker 6: it works, and I think that's why it will work.
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Speaker 6: I think the ultimate outcome to me of these cases
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Speaker 6: the one in Huntington. I mean, the person's about their
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Speaker 6: visa is going to expire anyway. That person's graduating with
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Speaker 6: a master's degree in some sort of advanced field on
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Speaker 6: the tenth of May. And once that's concluded, my understanding
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Speaker 6: of in one visay, once they complete their studies, they
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Speaker 6: return home. And if someone simply arbitrarily and capriciously says no,
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Speaker 6: you can't do that. If it's a government official, that's
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Speaker 6: a violation of due process. That has nothing to do
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Speaker 6: and it never has anything to do with the relative
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Speaker 6: perceived quality of the person or the relative perceived threat
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Speaker 6: or degree of care that you should have for that person.
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Speaker 6: It's not theirs. It's not due process is what we
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Speaker 6: owe them. You know, the fellow who was sentenced by
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Speaker 6: Judge Acres yesterday, he simply acted. He didn't afford his
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Speaker 6: victims any due process. He simply acted arbitrarily, maliciously, and capriciously.
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Speaker 4: And killed two people.
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Speaker 6: But that doesn't change the fact that the man had
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Speaker 6: an arrest warrant, a criminal complaint, a preliminary hearing, pre
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Speaker 6: trial proceedings, a trial in front of a jury of
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Speaker 6: his peers, a pre sentenced investigation after his conviction, and
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Speaker 6: an opportunity to appear in front of the circuit judge
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Speaker 6: an exercise his right of allocution, that is, to address
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Speaker 6: the court and say why he should or shouldn't be
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Speaker 6: sentenced for any given number of years. It's just it's
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Speaker 6: it's it's simply. The really distressing thing to me is
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Speaker 6: to hear highly placed members of the executive branch of
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Speaker 6: government to scoff at that idea literally scoff I mean,
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Speaker 6: I heard this guy Homan, who's something. He's like the
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Speaker 6: deportations are. Well, he's the one that said, well, they
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Speaker 6: didn't give us any due process when he crossed the border. Well, Tom,
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Speaker 6: that's just not the way it works. And it's a
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Speaker 6: really bad faith argument. It's a ment to trick. Well,
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Speaker 6: it's a red hearing, that's what it is. It is
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Speaker 6: to throw out a smelly, shiny object over here to
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Speaker 6: distract people. And what's the basis of this? Is it
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Speaker 6: just ego? I mean, this fellow who was picked up
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Speaker 6: and sent to Maryland, uh the spring with the United
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Speaker 6: State is going to undo that. They're going to take
28:30
Speaker 6: some action. Now what the response of the administration is
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Speaker 6: to that action, I don't know. But when you get
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Speaker 6: a essentially a seven to two and a nine to
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Speaker 6: in El Salvador, there's going to be some action there. Now,
28:52
Speaker 6: keep in mind, this is only on a few, very
28:54
Speaker 6: few of these people who said we want to protest this.
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Speaker 5: we were having about the due process and what's been
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Speaker 5: going on with the mass deportations and everything. And people
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Speaker 5: The due process shouldn't be one of those parts that
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Speaker 6: Once again, it's it's an attempt to implement a policy
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Speaker 6: and who are not legitimately entitled to seek asylum. But
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Speaker 6: pending last summer that the current administration discouraged Congress from passing.
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Speaker 6: It would have significantly increased the number of immigration judges,
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Speaker 6: independent emergency courts hear these things quickly, just to assure
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Speaker 6: that we don't do I mean better, one hundred guilty
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Speaker 6: men go free than one innocent man go to prison.
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Speaker 6: That's Thomas Jefferson. And that's just the way the government
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Speaker 4: And keeping. Of course, that.
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Speaker 6: be for floriding the water or masks during a pandemic.
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Speaker 6: They may not be the appropriate decision by government, but
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Speaker 4: Right. So, in so far as this whole.
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Speaker 6: Debate cheapens the idea of due process for the unpopular,
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Speaker 6: it's dangerous.
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Speaker 5: And that's I want to ask you this next and
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Speaker 5: just a couple of minutes left. This is a complicated situation,
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Speaker 5: but the the the concept of boiling the frog, it
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Speaker 5: feels to me like that what's happening is we're turning
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Speaker 5: up the heat to find out where the line is,
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Speaker 5: where the pushbike is. And I mean I'm seeing comments
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Speaker 5: from administration officials to media that, you know, there may
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Speaker 6: No, no, I mean, the constant debate in the United
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Speaker 6: you can't get a national ID if you want to
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Speaker 6: commerce is reserved to me, as a lawyer looking at it,
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