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8.4.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: August fourth, twenty twenty six. As a reminder, RADIOI is
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Speaker 1: Your reader for today is Cindy Fraser. To day's front page.
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Speaker 1: Headlines from the Washington Post are Trump touts talks, Iran
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Speaker 1: denies negotiation. Status of war remains in limbo as sides
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Speaker 1: contradict one another. Next Blanche back on track for a
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Speaker 1: g post. He formally kills payout fund GOP. Senators Cornyn
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Speaker 1: Tillis now support nomination. Our next headline, Black voters in
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Speaker 1: Michigan could settle Key Senate race. Bruising Democratic primary has
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Speaker 1: put parties divisions out in the open. Next, Lumer reverses
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Speaker 1: course on Ukraine. Influential magabl blogger widened split in Trump's
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Speaker 1: America First movement. And the final headline from today's front page,
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Speaker 1: how rogue officers used a nationwide camera network for stalking.
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Speaker 1: At least fifty were charged with or accused of misusing
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Speaker 1: flock system, built a track, license plates, and fight crime.
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Speaker 1: In addition to the headlines, there is a photo on
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Speaker 1: the front page headlined Rocking the Trophy at Rock Creek Park.
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Speaker 1: The caption reads Alexander Yala defeated Jessica Pagula four to six, six',
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Speaker 1: four six to zero in THE Dz open women's. Final On,
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Speaker 1: Monday Taylor fritz Beat Raphael joder seven, six seven to,
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Speaker 1: two six' four in the. Men's final both matches Were
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Speaker 1: postponed sunday because. Of rain the Photo shows missayala holding,
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Speaker 1: the trophy looking up and smiling in front of. Crowded,
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Speaker 1: bleachers now let's turn to our first Item entitled trump,
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Speaker 1: Tut's talks iran. Denies negotiation status of war remains in
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Speaker 1: limbo as sides contradict. One Another By Karen, De young
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Speaker 1: the status Of The iran war remained In, limbo Monday
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Speaker 1: As President donald trump insisted that Talks between Tehran and
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Speaker 1: washington were going on, right Now while iran's foreign ministry,
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Speaker 1: spokesman said we are not currently holding negotiations With The. United,
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Speaker 1: states trump who in a social media post earlier in
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Speaker 1: the Day called iranian leaders, unbelievably duplicious told reporters In
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Speaker 1: The oval office that we're straight about talks between the
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Speaker 1: two countries though, they deny but they're not denying. It
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Speaker 1: now they just put out a statement not. Denying it
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Speaker 1: asked where that statement could, be Found A white house
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Speaker 1: spokesperson Referred The washington post back to the. President's remarks Trump,
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Speaker 1: said iran along with other, regional states had quote begged,
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Speaker 1: for talks leading him to call off what he had
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Speaker 1: described as AN imminent us attack that would have been
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Speaker 1: harder than any Attack Since WORLD. War ii we were
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Speaker 1: going to hit them very, hard yesterday very, Very hard,
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Speaker 1: Trump SAID but i want to give them every last chance.
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Speaker 1: Before decapitation it's very tough to do what we have planned,
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Speaker 1: still planned. He said i'm very proud of the FACT
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Speaker 1: that i will give people. A chance it was far
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Speaker 1: from the first time since the war Began on february,
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth that the two sides have offered differing versions
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Speaker 1: of reality on damage done by their dueling, air strikes
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Speaker 1: what they have agreed to in on again off again,
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Speaker 1: informal talks or even whether those talks. Were happening, the
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Speaker 1: conflict which officials originally said would last only a few
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Speaker 1: weeks but is now entering in its, six month has
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Speaker 1: Dragged down trump's. Poll numbers growing Numbers of republican lawmakers
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Speaker 1: and voters have questioned both a rationale for the War and.
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Speaker 1: Trump's Strategy although trump went into the war saying his
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Speaker 1: goal was To destroy tehran's, nuclear program an objective he
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Speaker 1: previously said was achieved after twelve DAYS of Us and
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Speaker 1: israeli bombing. Last summer iran's closure Of the Strait of
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Speaker 1: hormons within days after the, conflict began quickly became the
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Speaker 1: focus of. Administration Attention The narrow waterway is a choke
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Speaker 1: point Bordered by Iran and oman In The, persian gulf
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Speaker 1: through which at least twenty percent of the world's energy.
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Speaker 1: Supplies transit iran refused to let ships pass, without permission
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Speaker 1: said it was going to, impose tolls and began mining
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Speaker 1: the channel and shooting at. Commercial Vessels, in APRIL the
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Speaker 1: us imposed a, naval blockade barring all ships from entering
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Speaker 1: Or leaving. Iranian ports iran continued to menace, international Shipping
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Speaker 1: while washington responded By bombing iranian defensive sites around the
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Speaker 1: waterway and some infrastructure, further Inland leaving tehran to fire
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Speaker 1: missiles and our owns At Its persian gulf neighbors THAT
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Speaker 1: host us. Military facilities as the price of gasoline SURGED
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Speaker 1: AT u, s pomps the two sides agreed to direct
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Speaker 1: talks In mid April, in islamabad WITH the, us delegation
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Speaker 1: Headed By VICE. PRESIDENT. J, d vance unable to reach
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Speaker 1: Agreement there after subsequent lower, level negotiations they signed a
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Speaker 1: fourteen point memorandum of understanding In mid june that included
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Speaker 1: a pullback OF THE u, s blockade an easing of Sanctions,
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Speaker 1: against iran and Plans for Iran and ohman to jointly
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Speaker 1: figure out a way to manage. The Strait while Washington
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Speaker 1: and tehran moved to. Nuclear negotiations the seasfire collapsed, within
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Speaker 1: weeks Largely over iran's insistence on continuing its control over.
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Speaker 1: The STRAIT THE u s reimposed its blockade and sanctions
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Speaker 1: as both sides resumed sporadic. Military attacks in, recent Days regional,
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Speaker 1: arab Powers Including, saudi Arabia The UNITED, arab Emirss and
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Speaker 1: qatar have been in Touch with trump as they try
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Speaker 1: to facilitate an end to, the conflict which is damaging.
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Speaker 1: Their economies trump has also been reaching out to many
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Speaker 1: of those. SAME leaders us intelligence agencies have Assessed that
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Speaker 1: iran is unlikely to change its own negotiating stance or
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Speaker 1: be defeated in the. Near term According, to tehran there
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Speaker 1: have been no direct negotiations WITH THE u S, since
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Speaker 1: april although both sides concede that messages have been passed through.
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Speaker 1: Regional mediators, Last week Amman sent tehran a proposal for
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Speaker 1: Reopening the Strait of hormves that would divide maritime traffic
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Speaker 1: fifty to fifty between routes along their. Opposite coastlines musk
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Speaker 1: had also suggested a system of quote voluntary contributions, from
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Speaker 1: nonprofits interested states and companies to pay for, navigational aid
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Speaker 1: maintenance and environmental safeguards for, the strait similar to a
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Speaker 1: process Used, By, singapore Malaysia, and indonesia which Bordered the Strait,
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Speaker 1: of malacca an international trade choke point Between the Pacific And.
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Speaker 1: Indian oceans the proposed system could be a face saving
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Speaker 1: Way for iran to move away from the tolls and
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Speaker 1: controls that it has demanded And that trump and other
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Speaker 1: world leaders have said can never. Be allowed in a
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Speaker 1: Press briefing Monday, In Tehran Foreign Ministry Spooksman smael bakhaye
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Speaker 1: Said that iran was negotiating Only with oman over insuring
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Speaker 1: the safe passage of commercial shipping through, the strait and
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Speaker 1: that there were no talks With The. United states the
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Speaker 1: strait was not closed because of Disagreements between Iran. And
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Speaker 1: oman Bakhet said at has faced disruption Since last march
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Speaker 1: due to the military aggression Of The united states And
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Speaker 1: the zionist Regime. In israel in his truth Social post,
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Speaker 1: Monday morning trump was dismissive Of The iran. Oman talks
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Speaker 1: they asked for, a meeting some would say beg, talks
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Speaker 1: began with more scheduled in the, immediate future he Said,
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Speaker 1: of iran and they say openly and proudly that they're
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Speaker 1: not having, any discussions that nothing is being, talked about
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Speaker 1: and they're only Dealing. With oman then they go on
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Speaker 1: to give the usual blatherer in Saying the Strait of
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Speaker 1: hormus will be operated powerfully. By them, trump said But
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Speaker 1: The united states has erected a quote wall of steel
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Speaker 1: with its, naval blockade and nothing gets Through to iran
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Speaker 1: unless we want, it to and nothing will get through
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Speaker 1: unless a deal or total surrender. Is Accomplished isaac arnsdorf
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Speaker 1: contributed to. This report this item is accompanied. By photos
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Speaker 1: the first photo Is Captioned President donald trump takes questions
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Speaker 1: from reporters In The oval Office. On monday He said
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Speaker 1: ran along with other countries in, the region had quote
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Speaker 1: begged For Talks, Evelyn. Hochstein reuters the Photo Shows president
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Speaker 1: trump behind. A desk the next photo is captioned a
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Speaker 1: Vessel In persian gulf waters off the Coasts of sarjah
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Speaker 1: In The United arab emirates Near the Strait of Hormuz,
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Speaker 1: ON Monday Afp. Getty images and the final photo accompanying
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Speaker 1: this item as captioned security of personnel surround A Raigning
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Speaker 1: Foreign Minister abbas rakshi center as he attends a religious
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Speaker 1: Event In naja Varrak. On Monday on Mark. Kllil ap
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Speaker 1: the next autumn from today's front page Is entitled blanche
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Speaker 1: back on track for a. G post he formally kills PAYOUT.
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Speaker 1: Fund Gop Senators cornyn tillis now support Nomination By jeremy
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Speaker 1: Roebuck And, perry Stein two republican lawmakers who had threatened
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Speaker 1: to Vote Against todd blanche's nomination to become The Next.
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Speaker 1: Attorney General, said monday they are now prepared to offer
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Speaker 1: their support after he formally killed a key Aspect Of
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Speaker 1: President donald trump's controversial deal WITH. The irs in An
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Speaker 1: order blanche Issued, late sunday The Acting attorney general said
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Speaker 1: he was eliminating in writing the administrations proposal for a
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Speaker 1: one point eight billion dollar fund for people who claim
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Speaker 1: they were victims of. Political prosecutions he also clarified that
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Speaker 1: a separate Aspect of trump's steel which Offered, the president,
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Speaker 1: his sons and their company's protection from past, tax claims
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Speaker 1: did not rule OUT future. Irs audits we want to
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Speaker 1: express our gratitude To mister blanche and his staff for
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Speaker 1: working with us, on this and we look forward to
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Speaker 1: voting to advance his nomination out Of The Senate judiciary,
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Speaker 1: Committee Soon Senators john Corne of Texas And tom Tillis
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Speaker 1: Of north, carolina, said adding from, the outset we were
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Speaker 1: clear that we needed a written document addressing. Our concerns
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Speaker 1: their statement appeared to clear the way For The Senate
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Speaker 1: judiciary committee To advance blanche's nomination at a hearing scheduled
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Speaker 1: for nine. A. M tuesday The full senate would still have,
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Speaker 1: to vote but the senator's agreement removes the biggest apparent
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Speaker 1: Obstacle to. Blanche's, confirmation trump who in recent days had
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Speaker 1: reiterated his desire for a payout fund to help his,
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Speaker 1: political Allies on monday Play down. BLANCHE'S statement i didn't look,
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Speaker 1: at It the president. Told REPORTERS all i know Is
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Speaker 1: At todd. Blanche's great he's going to do a. Great
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Speaker 1: job everybody, knows IT and i understand there's been a,
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Speaker 1: sign OFF but i don't know what. THEY agreed I
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Speaker 1: Think todd blanche agreed to reconfirm things that he's. Already
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Speaker 1: said if the, agreement holds it would end days of
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Speaker 1: back and forth that saw TWO prominent gop senators Take,
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Speaker 1: on trump prompting sharp criticism from a president who has
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Speaker 1: not been accustomed to resistance from his. Own, Party still
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Speaker 1: blanche's order appeared to fall short Of what Cornin and
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Speaker 1: tillis were demanding. Last week the two senators said they
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Speaker 1: needed to see revisions to the original settlement agreement Signed
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Speaker 1: by trump's lawyers that established the fund as part of
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Speaker 1: a deal to resolve a lawsuit the president filed over
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Speaker 1: the leak of his tax returns to. The media Blanche's
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Speaker 1: order sunday did not. Do, that instead It rescinded blanche's
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Speaker 1: own directive Issued in may setting up how the payout fund.
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Speaker 1: Would work sunday's order was not Signed by trump's. Legal
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Speaker 1: team cornan had earlier suggested that would be a. Deal
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Speaker 1: breaker just to, be Clear the president Of The, united
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Speaker 1: states who was a plaintiff in, this lawsuit has not
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Speaker 1: agreed in writing to delete the. Weaponization fund cornan Emphasized
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Speaker 1: at blanche's hearing that is still true Even after Blanche's statement,
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Speaker 1: sunday night and that leaves open. A possibility cornan warned
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Speaker 1: About that trump could Sue The justice department for breach
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Speaker 1: of contract over killing the. Payout fund Democrats noted Monday
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Speaker 1: that blanche's statement also does not Preclude The justice department
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Speaker 1: from continuing to settle legal Claims with trump allies who
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Speaker 1: claimed they were unfairly prosecuted By the Biden and. Obama
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Speaker 1: administrations even If the department does not use a one
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Speaker 1: point eight billion dollar payout fund to, do so it
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Speaker 1: doesn't prevent the admin from bringing the slush fund back
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Speaker 1: from the dead, next week or using d o j's
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Speaker 1: judgment fund for the same. Illicit Purpose Senator adam Schiff,
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Speaker 1: of California A Senate judiciary, committee member said in a social.
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Speaker 1: Media post, in addition the underlying settlement deal still extends
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Speaker 1: unusual protections from tax Audits to trump and. His family
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Speaker 1: Blanche's statement sunday that the deal will not apply to
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Speaker 1: future claims or to people Outside the trump family was
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Speaker 1: like his statement declaring the payout fund dead not incorporated
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Speaker 1: into the underlying. Legal Document asked monday about those limitations
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Speaker 1: of their Agreement, With blanche Tillis and cornan said they
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Speaker 1: had done the best that. They could Could the president
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Speaker 1: completely reverse things and create a, new fund, He could tillos,
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Speaker 1: told reporters then he could answer To the american people
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Speaker 1: for not negotiating a Good faith for, His part Blanche
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Speaker 1: Thanked corny tillo's for working with him as a standoff
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Speaker 1: over his nomination extended over the. Past week my TEAM
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Speaker 1: and i have Met with committee members and senators over
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Speaker 1: the past several weeks and addressed any concerns or, outstanding questions.
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Speaker 1: He said we have enjoyed good. Faith Discussions the department
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Speaker 1: always welcomes and appreciates productive engagement with all Members. Of
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Speaker 1: Congress if blanche is, ultimately confirmed it could bring a
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Speaker 1: measure of stability To A justice department that has been
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Speaker 1: without a confirmed leader for. Four months trump has given
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Speaker 1: no indication he will change his approach of demanding prosecutions
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Speaker 1: of his, political adversaries which has engulfed the department. In
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Speaker 1: controversy but it was the out of court Settlement Agreement
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Speaker 1: justice department lawyers Negotiated with trump's legal team in the
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Speaker 1: spring that prompted the sharpest. Bipartisan backlash Cornin, and tillos
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Speaker 1: both of whom are Leaving the senate after, this year
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Speaker 1: made a written amendment to the deal a condition of
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Speaker 1: their Support for. Blanche's nons their objection was rooted in
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Speaker 1: concerns that the proposed payout fund could reward people convicted
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Speaker 1: of attacking police officers During the, january sixth twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: one attack ON The. Us capitol, For days trump appeared
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Speaker 1: to resist, their demands opting instead to lash out at the.
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Speaker 1: Two senators prospects for any resolution. Seemed Dim, On friday
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Speaker 1: Trump blasted Cornin, and tillis accusing them of Holding up
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Speaker 1: blanche's nomination not over, legitimate concerns but because they were
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Speaker 1: upset that he had not endorsed them. For reelection cornan
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Speaker 1: lost a bruising reelection fight in the Spring after trump
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Speaker 1: Backed his republican. Primary Opponent Texas Attorney General. Ken paxton
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Speaker 1: tillis opted not to seek reelection after a Dispute. With,
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Speaker 1: trump cornan though rejected the notion that his Position on
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Speaker 1: blanche's nomination had anything to do with his personal Feelings.
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Speaker 1: Toward trump this is about making sure that even if
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Speaker 1: You're the president Of The, united states you don't get
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Speaker 1: favorable terms from the government in the settlement of a
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Speaker 1: lawsuit that ordinary citizens would, not get he Told. Reporters
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Speaker 1: thursday as negotiations Between the senators and the administration wore
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Speaker 1: on for much of last week with little progress. To
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Speaker 1: show the lawmakers made clear they Blamed The, white House,
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Speaker 1: not blanche for. THE impasse i think as Far as
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Speaker 1: blanche And the Department, of justice we were pretty much
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Speaker 1: on the, Same page Cornan said. Thursday afternoon but then
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Speaker 1: When the president got wind, of it. He wasn't, Since
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Speaker 1: then trump has raised more doubts about. His intentions He
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Speaker 1: threatened friday to Temporarily withdraw blanche's nomination and resubmit it.
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Speaker 1: Next Year after Cornin and tillis had Left the senate the,
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Speaker 1: same day the president's lawyers further muddied, the waters filing
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Speaker 1: a notice that they would appeal a recent order from
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Speaker 1: the federal judge who Was overseeing trump's suit AGAINST. The
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Speaker 1: irs the judge had denounced the lawsuit as an illegitimate
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Speaker 1: legal dispute given that lawyers on both sides ultimately reported to.
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Speaker 1: The president she accused the parties of using the suit
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Speaker 1: as a pretext to justify what she described as a
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Speaker 1: questionable deal reached without. Court approval trump's lawyers maintained that
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Speaker 1: because the deal was struck outside, of court the judge
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Speaker 1: has no jurisdiction, over it And, on Saturday the president
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Speaker 1: suggested That if Cornyin and tillis were to Vote, against
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Speaker 1: blanche he would push Legislation through congress to establish the
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Speaker 1: fund through. Law instead even Hours after blanche Issued his,
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Speaker 1: Sunday order trump continued to express support for the idea
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Speaker 1: Of compensating january sixth writers people who he said were.
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Speaker 1: TREATED horribly i thought it would be very fair for
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Speaker 1: people that spent years, in prison people that were treated,
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Speaker 1: so badly and in, many cases people that did absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Nothing Wrong the president Told reporters monday In The. Oval
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Speaker 1: OFFICE so i viewed that fund as, a positive and
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Speaker 1: a Lot of republics. Do Too, Alexei Kossoff, isaac Arnsdorf
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Speaker 1: And theodoric meyer contributed to. This report this item is
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Speaker 1: accompanied by a Photo Captioned Acting Attorney General todd blanche
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Speaker 1: speaks during a news Conference. In June, Manuel BALTE. Senetta
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Speaker 1: ap the photo Shows mister blanche's head. And shoulders, behind
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Speaker 1: him one can See an. American flag our next item
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Speaker 1: Is entitled black Voters in michigan could Settle key. Senate
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Speaker 1: Race bruising democratic primary has put parties divisions out in.
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Speaker 1: The Open By aaron Cox, From. Pontiac Michigan, michael sutton
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Speaker 1: eighteen is new, to politics but he says he's convinced.
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Speaker 1: It's broken sutton walked this working class Neighborhood of Bungalows
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Speaker 1: near detroit, last week armed, with literature trying to sell
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Speaker 1: his Elders on Abdul, il sayid the surging Progressive in
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Speaker 1: michigan's Intensely competitive. Senate, race sutton a young canvasser trying
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Speaker 1: to build up the coalition of progressive, black voters said
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Speaker 1: he believes a candidate Like l sied will disrupt politics for.
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Speaker 1: The better He Asked, robert lawton, fifty one as she
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Speaker 1: pulled into, her driveway do you know who you're voting
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Speaker 1: for In the? Senate race lawton glanced at. The flier not,
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Speaker 1: that dude. She replied she later said her gut told
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Speaker 1: her political disruptions usually make. Things worse Michigan's bruising senate
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Speaker 1: primary has laid Bare The democratic, party's divisions and it
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Speaker 1: could chart a course to what it might become in
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Speaker 1: a Post President donald. Trump world black Voters like Lawton
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Speaker 1: and sutton will be crucial to defining. That trajectory in,
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Speaker 1: doing so they will either hand progressives their biggest win
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Speaker 1: of the election cycle or Fortify a democratic establishment that
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Speaker 1: has been on. The defensive when they cast their Ballots
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Speaker 1: in tuesday's, Primary Election michigan democrats will choose between the
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Speaker 1: Liberal l sid who has caught fire in, recent Polling
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Speaker 1: And Representative, holly stevens a moderate three term congresswoman with
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Speaker 1: a record of flipping. Red districts the winner Will Face Republican,
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Speaker 1: mike rogers the former congressman who narrowly lost His first
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Speaker 1: senate bid two. Years Ago the michigan race could be
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Speaker 1: crucial to which party Controls. The Senate, el sayed a
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Speaker 1: former public, health official has built a broad grassroots coalition
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Speaker 1: and campaigned in communities that Turn to trump in the
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Speaker 1: face of. Economic stress stephens is the establishment pick who
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Speaker 1: has sought to build deep ties with churchgoers as she courts.
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Speaker 1: Black voters polling By The detroit news In early July
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Speaker 1: showed stevens with an edge among black voters and, older
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Speaker 1: Voters While el sayad had support from younger and college
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Speaker 1: educated voters regardless. Of race heavy hitters from the, Progressive
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Speaker 1: Wing Representative Alexandria, Ocasio cortes Democrat From new York And Senators,
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Speaker 1: Bernie sanders Independent, From Vermont, Elizabeth warren Democrat, from Massachusetts
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Speaker 1: And Chris, Van holland Democrat, from maryland have Stumped For,
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Speaker 1: el sayed a podcaster whose platform focuses on economic populism
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Speaker 1: and ending corporate funding. In politics they have urged supporters
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Speaker 1: to help send reinforcements to their Caucus in washington and
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Speaker 1: cast the race as One Between el sayed and self
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Speaker 1: interested billionaires strangling progress for. Working people the stakes are
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Speaker 1: particularly high for their. BROADER mission a progressive primary win
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Speaker 1: in a, swing state Not just democratic strongholds like this
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Speaker 1: year's Wins In new York, or denver holds potential to accelerate.
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Speaker 1: The movement while some younger progressive members Of The Congressional
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Speaker 1: black caucus IN d c are With, el sayed powerhouses
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Speaker 1: in the black political establishment have Sided. With Stevens REPRESENTATIVE.
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Speaker 1: James E Clyburn Democrat, south carolina And The Congressional, black
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Speaker 1: caucus along with a roster Of establishment Democrats, in michigan.
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Speaker 1: ENDORSED her a super pack funded by The pro Israel
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Speaker 1: Lobby American Israel Public affairs committee has spent more than
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Speaker 1: thirty million Dollars. Boosting stephens its most ubiquitous ad highlights
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Speaker 1: her ties To Former President barack obama During The, great
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Speaker 1: recession when she led an auto rescue critical to the state's.
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Speaker 1: Work Force though obama has not publicly weighed in on,
22:22
Speaker 1: the race the ads have left The impression Obama. Endorsed
22:25
Speaker 1: stephens it's one of The reasons lawton was not Interested
22:28
Speaker 1: in sutton's Pitch For. El sayed she said she thinks
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Speaker 1: the moment calls for the sort Of unity obama represents
22:35
Speaker 1: not a fight Within The. Democratic party we don't have time,
22:39
Speaker 1: for That sh she sat on her porch a few
22:42
Speaker 1: Minutes after sutton moved on to knocking. Other doors picking
22:46
Speaker 1: the right candidate is, hard enough but the monkey Wrench
22:49
Speaker 1: That elzi ed is throwing into the mix is irritating
22:52
Speaker 1: me To. High Heaven The progressive movement turns, Her off,
22:56
Speaker 1: lawton said not because she disagrees with its, policy goals
23:00
Speaker 1: but because the timing. Feels wrong she said she fears
23:03
Speaker 1: it's more likely to end in Defeat to republicans than
23:07
Speaker 1: better lies for. Her community i'm Not a. Bernie fan
23:11
Speaker 1: i'm NOT, into aoc. She said stevens has been here
23:15
Speaker 1: the message of shaking up the system we've been fighting
23:18
Speaker 1: For since i've. Been, VOTING no i don't really see
23:21
Speaker 1: anything Wrong with. Hailey's flow, LATER else i had said
23:25
Speaker 1: in an interview he could probably Win over lawton in
23:28
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes if she would hear. Him out if She
23:31
Speaker 1: thinks Obama, supports haley then what she's received is a
23:35
Speaker 1: cynicism of that style. Of politics. He, said unfortunately it's
23:39
Speaker 1: effective because it tells people that anyone who's going to
23:43
Speaker 1: try to fix it definitely doesn't have, a plan and
23:46
Speaker 1: it's better at least that you stop it from getting
23:48
Speaker 1: worse than you actually try to make. The difference sutton
23:52
Speaker 1: had Smiled when lawton shut, him down and as he
23:54
Speaker 1: continued down, the block he said he knew what he was.
23:57
Speaker 1: Up against people are used, to dysfunction. He said since
24:01
Speaker 1: it's been like this for, so long they think it'll
24:04
Speaker 1: just be. Like this they've. Lost hope THAT'S what i
24:07
Speaker 1: can try to, work on. He said Sutton Attends Oakland,
24:11
Speaker 1: community College where lawton coincidentally works as a. Job coordinator
24:16
Speaker 1: he said he hopes to find his way Into The Air.
24:18
Speaker 1: National guard in, Separate interviews Sutton and lawton both said
24:22
Speaker 1: they worried about the country's future and the. Economy's health
24:26
Speaker 1: sutton said he connected To the elsied campaign through. His
24:29
Speaker 1: church he was sold on the message that ridding corporate
24:32
Speaker 1: money from politics was crucial to forcing politicians to focus.
24:37
Speaker 1: On solutions. He said he offered a door hanger to
24:40
Speaker 1: a man walking down. The sidewalk he doesn't want corporations buying,
24:44
Speaker 1: out politicians, he said REFERRING to lsi ed at a
24:48
Speaker 1: rally for Volunteers before sutton Went Canvassing pontiac City Councilman,
24:53
Speaker 1: mikhail goodman the former chair Of the detroit chapter Of
24:56
Speaker 1: The democratic Socialists, of america told The crowd elsayed understood
25:01
Speaker 1: the ways black People and pontiac have been fighting for dignity.
25:05
Speaker 1: And Resources el sayed said he doesn't consider Himself A,
25:09
Speaker 1: democratic socialist yet members of that movement embrace him and
25:13
Speaker 1: his calls from medicare for all and. Taxing billionaires there
25:18
Speaker 1: is Nothing that i'm compromising on to vote for, that
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Speaker 1: man and that is what makes me, So excited, goodman
25:23
Speaker 1: said when he goes, TO vote i will not be
25:26
Speaker 1: carrying a, barf bag at least for. That race spending
25:30
Speaker 1: in the primary has broken records and climbed above eighty,
25:33
Speaker 1: million dollars With el sayed outspent eight to one, on
25:37
Speaker 1: television according to the political tracking Firm. At impact his
25:41
Speaker 1: supporters said, the money much of it from super packs
25:44
Speaker 1: spent on, attack ads has been fueled by desperation from
25:48
Speaker 1: an establishment Fearful el zlayad could spark a strong progressive
25:52
Speaker 1: movement in a, swing state activating voters who start swaying
25:57
Speaker 1: other elections The Way new york Mayors Are, On monday dommy's.
26:00
Speaker 1: Victory did if we can make that, happen here it'll
26:04
Speaker 1: change our, whole State Said Chris, gilmour Hill a detroit
26:07
Speaker 1: area activist and legislative CANDIDATE SUPPORTING. Elsa ed But some
26:12
Speaker 1: black voters are skeptical that elsaad's money out, of politics
26:16
Speaker 1: money in, Your pocket Medicare for all slogan would materially
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Speaker 1: change their lives or attract enough general election Voters for democrats.
26:24
Speaker 1: To win appealing to, That sentiment stephens cast herself as
26:28
Speaker 1: A pragmatist's i'm not offering slogans or. False promises i'm
26:33
Speaker 1: offering a path, To win stephens Said Outside Plymouth, united
26:37
Speaker 1: church a black Congregation, in detroit where she sang hymnals.
26:41
Speaker 1: And danced we can't just be fighting for the sake,
26:45
Speaker 1: of fighting she said from a pew in. The back
26:48
Speaker 1: Business Owner, jyle deering, fifty, three said the economy and
26:52
Speaker 1: politics are The worst i've ever. Seen it there's a sense,
26:55
Speaker 1: of helplessness there's no. Way out we have a president
26:59
Speaker 1: who cares more about himself and his family, Than mine,
27:02
Speaker 1: deering said adding he had no ISSUES With, elsi ed
27:06
Speaker 1: but wanted a senator who had already Learned how, washington
27:09
Speaker 1: works and He liked stephens's record. Of accomplishment we just
27:13
Speaker 1: need to have someone who can hit the, ground running.
27:16
Speaker 1: He Said georgia johnson, seventy Five stopped hailey outside the
27:20
Speaker 1: church to, tell her every time we see, YOUR face
27:23
Speaker 1: i know there. Is hope johnson said her choice. Was
27:26
Speaker 1: simple i've heard nothing but good about her, on television
27:30
Speaker 1: Especially From. President obama he is a stamp of approval from.
27:34
Speaker 1: My Vote Detroit Councilman, scott benson who described himself as
27:38
Speaker 1: an unapologetically Centrist moderate Democrat, backing Stevens Stopped Thoris marie
27:44
Speaker 1: walton eighty two after the service to ask who. She'd
27:48
Speaker 1: picked who did YOU think i? Voted for, wotton retorted
27:52
Speaker 1: saying She. PICKED stephens i didn't need anyone to. Tell
27:55
Speaker 1: me i've, Been watching. Benson said the progressive message they
27:59
Speaker 1: want to upend or reform or burn down the system
28:03
Speaker 1: is frustrating to a lot of black people who see
28:06
Speaker 1: the critique as coming from a place. Of privilege it's
28:10
Speaker 1: easy to yell and scream, and fight. He said, my
28:13
Speaker 1: community the system has never, favored us and we found
28:16
Speaker 1: a way to make opportunity. Within it at an outsieed
28:20
Speaker 1: event later, That Afternoon Detroit countclman denzel mccampbell called that an.
28:25
Speaker 1: Outdated perception the system, is IRREPARABLE and i would rather
28:30
Speaker 1: be in a place where our folks don't have to fight,
28:32
Speaker 1: day in. Day out m, campbell said we are tired.
28:35
Speaker 1: Of fighting we are tired of asking for what we
28:38
Speaker 1: already expect from. Our government stevens has rolled out a
28:42
Speaker 1: policy plan aimed at investing in black communities and said
28:45
Speaker 1: she's attuned to voters having seen people break down in
28:48
Speaker 1: grocery stores over the cost, of food voters have every
28:52
Speaker 1: right to. Feel frustrated stephens said things that should have.
28:56
Speaker 1: Changed HAVEN'T after recentlyseiae Rally, In Ferndale, eluise seerleaf a
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Speaker 1: black community Organizer With, michigan united said she gets annoyed
29:07
Speaker 1: every time She hears stevens talk about her work On The,
29:10
Speaker 1: auto rescue which saved two hundred thousand auto jobs but
29:14
Speaker 1: did not stem the. FORECLOSURE crisis i lost, my house
29:18
Speaker 1: we lost, entire neighborhoods but the corporations were. Bailed out,
29:22
Speaker 1: sirleif said this is what we're looking for in. Candidates
29:26
Speaker 1: today where's a humanity versus. The Corporation, leslie matthews who Works, with,
29:32
Speaker 1: Sirleif interjected please, tell Me and i'm, being kind What
29:36
Speaker 1: has hailey done For The african? American community. Matthew Said
29:40
Speaker 1: Has hailey stevens talked about money? And politics she hasn't
29:44
Speaker 1: said a. Mumbling word. Matthew said she MET als i
29:48
Speaker 1: ed during his failed bid for governor in. Twenty eighteen
29:51
Speaker 1: when he asked for. HER support i said. ABSOLUTELY not
29:56
Speaker 1: i don't, Know you. Matthew said but he also asked
30:00
Speaker 1: to take a walk with him and discussed his views
30:02
Speaker 1: about economic insecurity and the need for healing. In politics
30:06
Speaker 1: he wrote a twenty, Twenty Book healing politics that elaborates on.
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Speaker 1: Those Themes if abdul doesn't, Get in, michigan loses, she
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Speaker 1: said adding she would never Vote, for stephens even Against.
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Speaker 1: A republican this article is accompanied. By photos the first
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Speaker 1: Is Captioned Representative, Hailey stephens Democrat, from Michigan Visits Plymouth
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Speaker 1: united Church in Christ in Detroit on july. Twenty six
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Speaker 1: She Faces, abdullah sayed a progressive. Primary Opponent Bloomberg. Getty
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Speaker 1: images the photo shows a black minister investments with his.
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Speaker 1: Hands Raised hailey stevens is standing near him with her
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Speaker 1: next photo Is Captioned Senator elizabeth warren Campaigns Alongside abdullah
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Speaker 1: Sayad on July twenty Fifthina For The. Washington post the
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Speaker 1: Shows senator. Warren speaking the next photo Is Captioned el
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Speaker 1: sayad is a podcaster whose platform focuses on economic populism
31:15
Speaker 1: and ending corporate funding. In Politics Ali la Patina For The.
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Speaker 1: Washington post the photo Shows Mister el sayad standing in
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Speaker 1: front of a banner That reads abdul FOR The, us
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Speaker 1: political merchandise for sale Outside Of abdullah sayad's campaign Rally
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Speaker 1: And cavas Laune, In. Ferndale Michigan Ali la Patina For The.
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Speaker 1: Washington post in the center of the photo is a
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Speaker 1: mannequin WEARING a t shirt that says, Abolish Ice Keep.
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Speaker 1: Zoran For New. York city the next on him From
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Speaker 1: to day's front page Is entitled lumor revers his Course.
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Speaker 1: On UKRAINE influential maga blogger wide and Split In Trump's
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Speaker 1: America first Movement By isaac Arnsdorff And. Michael Bernbaum, laura
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Speaker 1: lumer the controversial but Influential pro, trump blogger Arrived in
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Speaker 1: Kiev un, july nineteenth with only a few meetings lined,
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Speaker 1: up and in, her telling no agenda other than seeing
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Speaker 1: the war torn country. For herself ten, days later she
32:29
Speaker 1: Returned to florida as one of maga's most prominent Advocates.
32:32
Speaker 1: For ukraine along, the way a person who not long
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Speaker 1: ago was a sharp Critic, of kiev made international headlines
32:40
Speaker 1: as She Interviewed Ukrainian President vladimir zelensky and a front.
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Speaker 1: Line commander anne tried To Persuade Special Envoy steve whitcock
32:48
Speaker 1: to make his for a Strip. To kiev she CHALLENGED
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Speaker 1: her maga compatriots to re examine the Conflict and america's
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Speaker 1: role in. THE world i Feel like i've changed, Global
32:58
Speaker 1: policy lumer said in a. Phone interview lumer said she
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Speaker 1: expects to Visit The white house this month to discuss,
33:05
Speaker 1: her trip among, other Subjects With President, donald trump who
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Speaker 1: promoted her Interview with. Selensky online trump has remained a
33:13
Speaker 1: steadfast Fan, of lumur to the chagrin of, some advisers
33:17
Speaker 1: praising her doggedness and devotion. To him trump too has
33:21
Speaker 1: been somewhat more Supportive of ukraine, of late declaring AT
33:25
Speaker 1: a nato Summit in july that he was Comfortable with
33:28
Speaker 1: kiev Striking inside russia and opening the door To letting
33:32
Speaker 1: UKRAINE license us missile. Defense technology he has been Warmer,
33:36
Speaker 1: towards zelensky whom he once ejected From The white house in,
33:40
Speaker 1: recent Months as kiev Has resisted russian battlefield advances and
33:44
Speaker 1: Menaced the kremlin deep into. Its territory following his own
33:49
Speaker 1: Meeting with Selensky, On tuesday tromp said he wants him
33:52
Speaker 1: to end the war and stopped short of taking sides
33:55
Speaker 1: between Him And Russian President. Vladimir putin it's, VERY simple
34:00
Speaker 1: i get along, with both. HE said i get Along With,
34:03
Speaker 1: PRESIDENT putin i get Along With. President zelensky lumer said
34:07
Speaker 1: she hopes To convince Americans that russia is the problem
34:11
Speaker 1: after years Of assailing zelensky And opposing american Support. For
34:15
Speaker 1: ukraine lumer returned from the country a full throated evangelist
34:19
Speaker 1: for a, strategic alliance tying its Resistance to Russia with
34:23
Speaker 1: trump's War. In iran russia Is anti american and their
34:27
Speaker 1: values are not. Our values and they, want multipolarity which
34:32
Speaker 1: means the End of, american supremacy which is not Good,
34:34
Speaker 1: for america she said in, an interview echoing points long
34:39
Speaker 1: made by hawkish politicians in both parties who have argued
34:43
Speaker 1: for strong international alliances and resistance To. The kremlin if she,
34:48
Speaker 1: were president, she SAID the us would find a way
34:51
Speaker 1: for the President of russia to have a lethal and sudden.
34:54
Speaker 1: Heart attack she was Publicly criticizing zelensky as recently As.
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Speaker 1: Last september ukraine is a country Full of, nazi apologists
35:03
Speaker 1: and now it's clearly a country led By a, jihati
35:06
Speaker 1: apologist she posted to x after he Met With Syrian
35:10
Speaker 1: president Ahmed al shara At The. United nations lumer's attention
35:15
Speaker 1: grabbing public conversion came Days after kiev lost its most
35:19
Speaker 1: prominent Advocate in trump's, Close Circle Senator, Lindsey graham Republican From,
35:23
Speaker 1: south carolina who died of an aortic Dissection on, july
35:27
Speaker 1: eleventh the day After meeting Zelensky. In ukraine her stunning
35:32
Speaker 1: reversal marked a Victory for ukrainian efforts To court, american
35:36
Speaker 1: conservatives countering years long outreach By the kremlin that has
35:40
Speaker 1: sidelined many of The party's Reagan Era. RUSSIA hawks a,
35:44
Speaker 1: Year ago Zelensky And, ola stevanishnya now his outgoing Ambassador,
35:49
Speaker 1: in washington devised his strategy TO reach, maga influencers even
35:54
Speaker 1: if They were. Ukraine's skeptics, she said the outcome of
35:57
Speaker 1: her visit. Is Impactful stephanichi hna Told, reporters thursday adding
36:02
Speaker 1: that she had the Idea for lumur to visit a
36:04
Speaker 1: bombed McDonald's. In kiev we expect that she will, encourage everyone,
36:09
Speaker 1: you Know From president trump to anyone else who would
36:12
Speaker 1: want to, do it to Come, to ukraine to make
36:14
Speaker 1: the trip to see with their own eyes everything. She
36:18
Speaker 1: saw the ambassador said that she had Talked about lumur's
36:22
Speaker 1: Visit with selensky when he Arrived in Washington. On Monday
36:25
Speaker 1: by president really had a lot of fun over, This
36:28
Speaker 1: interview stefanishna said he had a very nice smile on
36:32
Speaker 1: his face when they, discussed it but she declined to
36:35
Speaker 1: answer a question about the embassy's Role in. Lumer's voyage
36:39
Speaker 1: lumer Said some, american donors whom she declined, to identify
36:42
Speaker 1: helped cover the, security costs but she received no. Foreign
36:46
Speaker 1: money lumor crowdfunds, her work earns income from her, online
36:50
Speaker 1: shows and also sells opposition research and vetting Services by.
36:56
Speaker 1: Lumur's account her Views on ukraine started changing gradually over
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Speaker 1: the past year and a half as she noticed other
37:02
Speaker 1: right wing podcasters spreading conspiracy theories And criticizing trump's Support
37:07
Speaker 1: for israel and Attacks, on iran then being Promoted by
37:11
Speaker 1: Russian state media's PROPAGANDA outlet rt and Other pro russian social.
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Speaker 1: Media accounts she increasingly clashed with anti war. Influencers online
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Speaker 1: russia is running a foreign influence operation on social media
37:25
Speaker 1: to sow chaos and Division in american politics and to,
37:28
Speaker 1: radicalize people specifically. Right wingers lumer said there's a lot
37:33
Speaker 1: of conservatives who have been totally radicalized and Brainwashed by.
37:36
Speaker 1: Russian Propaganda, In june candizoan's and other right wing internet
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Speaker 1: personalities Traveled to russia for an annual Conference that putin
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Speaker 1: has long promoted as his country's Version, of davos the
37:49
Speaker 1: gathering spot for the global. Economic elite that, same month
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Speaker 1: a producer Working, With Lumer, andrew moore attended a security Conference, In,
37:58
Speaker 1: odessa ukraine and told her people there liked how she
38:01
Speaker 1: was Calling. Out russia lumer said that made her want to.
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Speaker 1: Go herself she planned the trip, in secret concerned About
38:09
Speaker 1: an iranian propaganda video focused on her and her photo
38:13
Speaker 1: being among target style posters Displayed As Supreme Leader ali
38:16
Speaker 1: karmani's Funeral. In july her arrival last month caused such
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Speaker 1: a Stir that zelenski agreed to an interview that lasted
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Speaker 1: more than. Forty minutes in, the conversation she Pushed the
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Speaker 1: ukrainian leader to improve his Messaging, to americans especially on
38:33
Speaker 1: issues Around neo Nazism that russia. HAS promoted i just
38:37
Speaker 1: think you guys need to do a better job maybe
38:40
Speaker 1: emphasizing to the international community that it's illegal To own nazi,
38:44
Speaker 1: paraphernalia here that you'll go to jail if You have.
38:47
Speaker 1: Nazi paraphernalia that. Is illegal to be An, anti Semite,
38:51
Speaker 1: said lumer Who. Is jewish she echoed that sentiment in
38:55
Speaker 1: meetings with, his subordinates posing for a photo with the
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Speaker 1: deputy Head of zelensky's administer in front of a whiteboard
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Speaker 1: on which she, HAD written i hope you will improve
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Speaker 1: your rapid response and ability to Communicate with Americans And
39:08
Speaker 1: president trump about how grateful you Are. To Americans Love.
39:11
Speaker 1: Laura lumer she Also, left kiev the fortified capital city
39:16
Speaker 1: where there is usually some warning Out of, russian airstrikes To,
39:20
Speaker 1: visit kharkiv a city close to the Border with russia
39:23
Speaker 1: that is far. More dangerous, while there She Interviewed, andrea
39:28
Speaker 1: beletski the Founer, of azov a volunteer fighting group that
39:31
Speaker 1: was later Absorbed into ukraine's formal forces whose historical ties
39:35
Speaker 1: to white supremacists have Long fueled russian narratives That the
39:39
Speaker 1: ukrainian opponents Were. Neo, nazis buletsky a former alternationalist politician
39:44
Speaker 1: who is now a brigadier general In The, ukrainian army
39:47
Speaker 1: denied being A neo Nazi. To lumur she said she
39:51
Speaker 1: understood she was risking her physical safety as well as.
39:54
Speaker 1: Her reputation lumer found Herself in, artis's crosshairs and her
39:58
Speaker 1: sparring with anti war pos. Podcasters intensified she returned TO,
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Speaker 1: the us Arguing that magga's isolationists Were misconstruing trump's message
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Speaker 1: AND hurting. Us interests we have nothing to Gain. From
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Speaker 1: russia we have a lot to Gain, from ukraine, she
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Speaker 1: Said repeating zelensky's Arguments that ukraine can HELP the us
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Speaker 1: by sharing its technology and Expertise encountering iranian made drones Used.
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Speaker 1: By russia It is america first To support Ukraine over
40:27
Speaker 1: russia in. This war this item is accompanied. By photos
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Speaker 1: the first is Captioned Blogger laura lumer has returned from
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Speaker 1: a Trip to ukraine as one of maga's most prominent
40:38
Speaker 1: advocates for the country in its War. With RUSSIA. Jacob
40:41
Speaker 1: m Blangston For The. Washington post the Photo Shows miss
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Speaker 1: lumur sitting on a dark blue couch in front of
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Speaker 1: a wall of a. Similar color the next photo Is
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Speaker 1: Captioned Ukrainian President vladimir zelensky arrives At The white House
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Speaker 1: on tuesday for a Meeting With President Donald Trump andrea harnick.
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Speaker 1: flock Data for bakley's license plate hundreds. Of times the
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Speaker 1: graph show Searches between, july eighteen twenty, twenty Four and july,
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Speaker 1: thirty first twenty. Twenty four the most searches Were on july,
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Speaker 1: twenty Ninth when steffman searched the flock Database for bakerley's
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Speaker 1: plate twenty, one times including seventeen times from five to six.
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Speaker 1: P m the second most was eleven searches between nine
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Speaker 1: pm and Midnight on july. Twenty Third on july, Thirty
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Speaker 1: first Steffan and bakeley exchanged text messages about his flock. Camera,
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Speaker 1: searches bakeley how did YOU see i Went to cleveland the.
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Speaker 1: OTHER day i didn't Tell, YOU stepfman i TOLD you
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Speaker 1: i looked. It, up bakeley how would? You? Know though
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Speaker 1: where did? You look stefman. FLOCK camera i was in
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Speaker 1: a spiral. THAT day i won't ever. Look again next
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Speaker 1: in this article is a Graph titled over the next,
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Speaker 1: Seven months stefman continued to Search for bakeley's plate over
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Speaker 1: five hundred. More times this graph show Searches from, august
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Speaker 1: first twenty, twenty Four through april twenty. Twenty five the
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Speaker 1: graph shows the time of day of. The searches they
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Speaker 1: are focused in the afternoon. And evening Graf By Leslie
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Speaker 1: Shapiro The washington post law enforcement audit logs Obtained BY
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Speaker 1: Have I? Been flocked stefan was Arrested in november on charges,
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Speaker 1: of stocking harassment and license plate. Reader Misuse, in april
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Speaker 1: before a trial could, take place he was found dead
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Speaker 1: in his home from what officials said was. A suicide
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Speaker 1: the town Manager, of Brazilton where, steffman worked declined. To
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Speaker 1: comment the town's new police chief and four Members of
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Speaker 1: steffman's family did not respond to requests. For comment backed
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Speaker 1: by Some Of silicon valley's, Top investors flock has rapidly
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Speaker 1: grown into a Colossus of american. TECHNOLOGICAL surveillance a leader
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Speaker 1: of the surging industry for license, plate readers the company
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Speaker 1: Told the post that it's more than one hundred twenty
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Speaker 1: thousand shoe box sized cameras now scanned the roads of
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Speaker 1: more than six thousand communities and record twenty billion plate scans,
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Speaker 1: a month but bad actors have used this massive camera
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Speaker 1: network as a powerful weapon for. Intimate surveillance authorities have
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Speaker 1: charged or accused at least fifty law enforcement officers of
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Speaker 1: using licensed plate readers for, unauthorized purposes including to stock
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Speaker 1: women without their knowledge. OR Consent a post analysis of
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Speaker 1: police and court records found in twenty six of, these
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Speaker 1: cases police investigators and prosecutors said the officers use the
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Speaker 1: technology to spy on, their wives, their girlfriends, their exes,
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Speaker 1: their exes, new partners or women they wanted. To meet in,
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Speaker 1: other cases police or prosecutors have not specified the alleged.
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Speaker 1: Surveillance targets flock system was used in forty six of
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Speaker 1: the cases analyzed By, the post while the other cases involved.
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Speaker 1: Competing products many of the plate reader misuse cases were
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Speaker 1: previously covered by local, media outlets and some were first
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Speaker 1: compiled By the Institute, for justice a civil liberties law Firm, In.
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Speaker 1: Arlington Virginia the post reviewed thousands of pages of court
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Speaker 1: documents and internal police reports and conducted interviews with seven,
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Speaker 1: alleged victims some of whom spoke publicly for the first
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Speaker 1: time to paint a comprehensive picture of the Misuse of
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Speaker 1: flock and other license plate readers by police officers around.
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Speaker 1: The country the review Found that flock gave police departments
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Speaker 1: wide latitude about whether to activate settings that some police
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Speaker 1: and privacy advocates argue could determine, its conduct and that
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Speaker 1: many departments conducted limited oversight of their. Office's searches as,
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Speaker 1: a result rogue police were able to monitor their subject's
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Speaker 1: movements with precision. And Secrecy After the post related its Findings,
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Speaker 1: to flock the company said in a statement it will
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Speaker 1: soon be announcing better filters and tools to stop abuse before.
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Speaker 1: It happens next is a graphic titled how automated license
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Speaker 1: plate reader systems. Capture, data first cameras mounted on poles
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Speaker 1: along the street capture pictures of cars. Passing, by two
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Speaker 1: the captured images are processed to isolate the license plate
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Speaker 1: and extract the. Alphanumeric Characters Three optical CHARACTER recognition ocr
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Speaker 1: software converts the letters and numbers on the license plate
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Speaker 1: into machine, readable text, and finally the recognized license plate
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Speaker 1: number is compared to a database of known plates By.
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Speaker 1: Ar Turcolocha The. Washington post flock officials said in interviews
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Speaker 1: that officers who misuse this to technology represent a small
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Speaker 1: share of its one hundred forty thousand, active users and
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Speaker 1: that the company, offers training guides and search logs to
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Speaker 1: help police departments run. Internal Audits, in april the company
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Speaker 1: rolled out a New Voluntary audit, assistance feature which agencies
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Speaker 1: can choose, to enable that automatically scans officers searches for,
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Speaker 1: suspicious activity such as queries repeatedly targeting the same vehicle
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Speaker 1: or run by officers Off the in an Interview With,
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Speaker 1: The Post flock Chief Executive garrett langley said misuse of
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Speaker 1: its systems is inevitable and that the company is focused
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Speaker 1: on providing tools to catch perpetrators after. The fact in
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Speaker 1: their Contracts, with flock police departments agreed to use a
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Speaker 1: tool solely for bona fide investigations. Of crime we're not
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Speaker 1: going to, change humans and humans make, Bad decisions. Langley
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Speaker 1: said what we can do is make sure that they
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Speaker 1: know if you use, this tool you will be. Held
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Speaker 1: Accountable the post's investigation sheds light on the scope of
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Speaker 1: the technology's misuse across, the country as well as a
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Speaker 1: toll on victims and families who felt they were constantly
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Speaker 1: being watched through automated license plate reader systems, or ALPRs
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Speaker 1: officers could trace the rhythms and travels of their subject's,
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Speaker 1: daily lives leading in some instances to, violent confrontations moments of,
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Speaker 1: psychological manipulation and threats of corrosion. And control the analysis Found,
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Speaker 1: in wisconsin a police officer allegedly used flock to check
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Speaker 1: whether his ex girlfriend had gone to an, abortion clinic
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Speaker 1: according to a police affidavit for a case set up
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Speaker 1: for trial. This Month, in kansas a police chief who
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Speaker 1: tracked his ex through flock sneaked up on her while
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Speaker 1: she was intimate with another man a state police certification,
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Speaker 1: body alleged leading to. His Firing, in florida a deputy
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Speaker 1: speeding to stop a young actress he'd added to a
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Speaker 1: watch list for a license play Tool called guardian nearly
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Speaker 1: caused a head, on crash according to a police report
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Speaker 1: and video from his. Dashboard camera the deputy was Arrested
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Speaker 1: in march and his attorney declined. To comment And, in
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Speaker 1: california prosecutors set a, Former Deputy, alexander vanny used flock
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Speaker 1: as part of a month's long campaign of stalking and
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Speaker 1: humiliating his former fiancee that also involved following her town
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Speaker 1: and installing a hidden camera in her. Roommate's bathroom according
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Speaker 1: to a, Sentencing brief vanny was convicted by a jury on,
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Speaker 1: ten charges including stalking and unauthorized access of, electronic data
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Speaker 1: and Sentenced in february to six years. In prison his
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Speaker 1: Attorney Told the post that case Focused on vanny photographing
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Speaker 1: the license plate of a man who driven away with
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Speaker 1: his former fiancee after she'd gone to, a bar and
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Speaker 1: that he'd done so out of concern. For her while
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Speaker 1: some of the searches resulted in, officer's firings prosecutions and,
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Speaker 1: prison sentences police departments in other cases allowed officers to
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Speaker 1: continue using the systems even after receiving warnings that they were.
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Speaker 1: Being misused this was not a lapse. In judgment it was, a,
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Speaker 1: continual repetitive. OBSESSIVE Behavior a wisconsin woman wrote in a
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Speaker 1: domestic abuse restraining, order petition SAYING that flock data showed
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Speaker 1: that her officer ex boyfriend had searched the lights for
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Speaker 1: her and her partner one hundred seventy. Nine times she
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Speaker 1: said she lived in a constant state of fear. And
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Speaker 1: unease an array of privacy advocates has Argued that flock
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Speaker 1: could deter bad actors by making simple changes to, its
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Speaker 1: product such as requiring officers to label every search with
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Speaker 1: a criminal. Case number some policing experts also warned that
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Speaker 1: agencies inconsistencies in developing and enforcing standard procedures for license
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Speaker 1: flight readers could lead defer. Their misconduct with no federal
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Speaker 1: laws governing use and only a patchwork of, state laws
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Speaker 1: many of the countries roughly eighteen thousand police agencies are
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Speaker 1: left to decide their rules on. Their Own, christian quinn
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Speaker 1: a former commander With The Fairfax county Police in virginia
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Speaker 1: who now consults with agencies and, technology vendors said privacy
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Speaker 1: features and oversight by local governments shouldn't undermine the ability
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Speaker 1: of police to do. Their jobs significantly limit license, by technologies,
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Speaker 1: he said could chill the use of. Them Altogether But,
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Speaker 1: eva galperin the director of cybersecurity at the Advocacy Group Electronic,
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Speaker 1: frontier foundation said that abuse of the tool is inevitable
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Speaker 1: and that the company's, approach today coupled with poor supervision by,
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Speaker 1: police leadership has done little to protect women from abusive.
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Speaker 1: Police officers flock has already claimed they, have oversight that
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Speaker 1: they have, guard rails and we still see these kinds,
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Speaker 1: of abuses. She said officers searches are logged by, police
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Speaker 1: agencies but only some of them have been made available
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Speaker 1: through public, records requests making it tough for people to
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Speaker 1: find out whether their cars are. Being tracked some of
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Speaker 1: the women said they learned of the surveillance only after
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Speaker 1: they received calls from internal affairs investigators or ran their
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Speaker 1: plate numbers through third party tools such AS have I.
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Speaker 1: Been flocked, some victims such as also say they've struggled
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Speaker 1: to get their experiences taken seriously because the perpetrators are
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Speaker 1: police and trusted with broad authority to pursue investigations with,
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Speaker 1: operational secrecy and employed by the same agencies they were
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Speaker 1: told to call. For help bakeley said the cameras had
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Speaker 1: left her feeling powerless to stop her ex boyfriend from tracking.
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Speaker 1: Her life she didn't feel safe asking the police agency,
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Speaker 1: he led, she said and she couldn't get access to
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Speaker 1: records that would have shown that surveillance was happening in.
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Speaker 1: Real Time after steffman told her about his. Flock searches
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Speaker 1: she filed for a, restraining order but a judge denied
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Speaker 1: it on the basis she couldn't prove. Ongoing abuse court
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Speaker 1: record show he watched every SINGLE move, i made, She
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Speaker 1: said but who do you turn the chief of? Police
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Speaker 1: into as TRANSFORMATIONAL. As Dna when Bakeley met steffman on
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Speaker 1: the Dating app tender in twenty, twenty two he seemed
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Speaker 1: like a. Perfect catch he had kids And coached little.
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Speaker 1: League baseball he loved crude jokes and was quick with.
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Speaker 1: A compliment andy had a stable career with twenty years in.
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Speaker 1: Law enforcement after several tough months During, which Bakeley An air,
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Speaker 1: force veteran a brooded her life to move closer to,
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Speaker 1: her parents he helped her, feel safe like she. Wasn't
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Speaker 1: alone he literally was my, only friend she said in.
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Speaker 1: An interview after a, few months, she said he began to,
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Speaker 1: act differently more controlling. And paranoid he looked through thirteen
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Speaker 1: years Of her, facebook history forcing her to block men
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Speaker 1: who'd left, Her comments she Told. The post he also
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Speaker 1: demanded access to her ring doorbell camera and looked up
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Speaker 1: all the names in her phone's. Contact book the couple
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Speaker 1: broke up in late twenty, twenty three, she Said but
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Speaker 1: steffman's texts didn't. Stop randomly sometimes in the middle of,
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Speaker 1: the night he'd ask cryptic questions about where, she'd gone
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Speaker 1: then say he'd already looked. It up according to a
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Speaker 1: text exchange Reviewed By, the post she said he seemed
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Speaker 1: to relish the idea of knowing things about her she
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Speaker 1: had not wanted. To share one Day in july twenty,
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Speaker 1: twenty four after she had pushed him to, explain himself
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Speaker 1: he told her he had Used a. Flock camera she
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Speaker 1: had no idea what. That meant it's a camera system that,
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Speaker 1: reads tags. He wrote in messages she shared With. A
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Speaker 1: post he insisted that it was a lapse and judgment
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Speaker 1: and that he wouldn't ever. Look again, Don't worry i'm
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Speaker 1: not tracking Your, somewhere stockersht, he wrote with a cry.
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Speaker 1: Laughing emoji it had been seven Years since flock had
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Speaker 1: installed its first camera not far from Here, in atlanta
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Speaker 1: as part of an Idea, by langley then a recent
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Speaker 1: engineering Graduate From, georgia tech to protect his neighborhood from
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Speaker 1: a string of smash. And grabs langley's first camera Was
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Speaker 1: an android phone hung outside in a rain, proof box
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Speaker 1: but soon his started began promoting itself as something, far
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Speaker 1: bigger saying it was building the first public safety operating
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Speaker 1: system that. Eliminates crime the company dispatched installers to hang
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Speaker 1: the cameras along public roadways and sent sales teams to
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Speaker 1: city halls and police expos with offers of quick start
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Speaker 1: leasing deals costing around three thousand dollars per camera. Per
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Speaker 1: year public contracting documents show thousands of cities and police
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Speaker 1: departments bought into, the Idea and flock gave them the
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Speaker 1: choice to Share their flock data with other agencies or
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Speaker 1: to view others data from across city or. State lines many,
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Speaker 1: homeowners associations, apartment complexes and strip malls began signing, up
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Speaker 1: too giving them a way to search through their own local.
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Speaker 1: Camera feeds flock quickly became the most prominent player in
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Speaker 1: the burgeoning license plate, reader business rivaling systems from competitors
57:52
Speaker 1: Such As axon's fleet Three And Motorola's. Vehicle manager despite
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Speaker 1: lacking the established law enforcement relationships of its, Peace years
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Speaker 1: flock's surveillance subscription packages made its cameras accessible for small
58:05
Speaker 1: town police departments and neighborhood. Watch groups flock said last
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Speaker 1: year it had surpassed three hundred million dollars in. Annual
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Speaker 1: revenue flock told agencies that it could set its own
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Speaker 1: rules for who can access the system and how it can.
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Speaker 1: Be used company documents show due to the constraints, of
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Speaker 1: time we will be unable to complete. This item this
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Speaker 1: concludes the reading Of The washington post, For, Today tuesday,
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Speaker 1: august fourth twenty. Twenty six your reader for to Day Husband.
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