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Is the Trump Admin Paramount/Skydance merger something to fear? + The View is out here firing shots. · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: George.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
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  Speaker 1: came in, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren L. Rosa
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  Speaker 1: and this is the Latest with Lauren L. Rosa. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is your daily dig on.
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  Speaker 2: All things pop culture, news, entertainment, and all of the
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  Speaker 2: conversations that shake the room. Now hopping on into the latest,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot going on today, guys. Now, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: we've been hearing a lot about this whole Paramount Sky
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  Speaker 2: Dance merger and Donald Trump and you know, his.
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  Speaker 1: Warm and not so warm.
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  Speaker 2: Feeling towards some media outlets and media personalities. And we've
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  Speaker 2: been hearing about it because our president himself, his kids,
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  Speaker 2: they let you know when they don't like something, they
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  Speaker 2: don't care what outlet it is, what platform it is,
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  Speaker 2: who's a talking head, They call it out. And this
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  Speaker 2: comes a week after the Stephen Colbert Show. The Late
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  Speaker 2: Show with Stephen Colbert was canceled. Mind you, ratings are
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  Speaker 2: flying out the roof, like there's no issues with that
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  Speaker 2: show that would prompt any cancelation. For the most like
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  Speaker 2: the most common person who doesn't understand TV ratings, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: watch the show, just understands how big the platform is
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  Speaker 2: and who Stephen Colbert is. And the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: ratings are doing well can tell you that one plus
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  Speaker 2: one does not equal to here. So people have been
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  Speaker 2: having a conversation about this merger because people feel like
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  Speaker 2: the fact that this merger that yesterday was announced, so
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  Speaker 2: people were talking about it today.
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  Speaker 1: This merger has actually been approved.
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  Speaker 2: It's an eight billion dollar merger between paramount S Guidance
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  Speaker 2: and this basically means that CBS broadcast television network, Paramount Pictures,
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  Speaker 2: and the Nickelodeon channel will be included in the deal. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Brendan Carr, who is a chairman of the FCC. So,
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  Speaker 2: the FCC is the Federal Communications Commission. They are the
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  Speaker 2: governing body over all things communication and media. So they
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  Speaker 2: set the rules, tell you what you canna can't do,
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  Speaker 2: where you can and can't do it, what you can say,
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  Speaker 2: what you can't say, you know all of the things.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So the chairman of the FCC made or released a
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  Speaker 2: statement after this, and he said his name is Brenda Carr.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Americas no longer trust legacy national news media
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  Speaker 2: to report fully, accurately, and fairly.
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  Speaker 1: It is time for a change.
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  Speaker 2: That is why I welcome sky Dance's commitment to make
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  Speaker 2: significant change at the once storied CBS broadcast network. He
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  Speaker 2: then went on to say sky Dance has made written
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  Speaker 2: commitments to ensure that the new company's programming will have
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  Speaker 2: a diversity of viewpoints across the political and the ideological spectrum.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, according to the FCC right, which is a
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration FCC, they feel like the people, we the
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  Speaker 2: people believe that you can't trust media anymore, that at
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  Speaker 2: this point things are fake news, things are being distorted
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  Speaker 2: to you know, have one certain narrative, particularly when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to Donald Trump, right. I know there's always a
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  Speaker 2: conversation about does the media depict to what he is
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  Speaker 2: doing fairly? And I you know, to that, I say,
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  Speaker 2: most of the time, with the media, I mean with anybody,
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  Speaker 2: not just Trump. It depends on what outlet you go
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  Speaker 2: to to you know, see how he will be depicted.
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  Speaker 2: I you know, as a journalist, sometimes I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's not the most fair.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about just anybody in media and news in general.
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  Speaker 2: I think that if you are a news outlet, you
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  Speaker 2: should try your best to be as neutral as you can.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that in twenty twenty five in
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  Speaker 2: reporting in because of the topics that we're dealing with,
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  Speaker 2: the harsh realities. You know that the decisions of politicians
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  Speaker 2: and entertainers and all these people, all these all these
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  Speaker 2: people are making all these decisions that are affecting real
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  Speaker 2: people in real time and are trickling down to people's
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  Speaker 2: lives and making it where people can't eat, They can't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, feed their kids, they can't clothe their kids,
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  Speaker 2: they ain't got jobs. People are grasping toward places that
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  Speaker 2: do have strong opinion and that are telling the truth
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  Speaker 2: outside of just presenting what is fact is saying neutral,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not mad at that. I think people need
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  Speaker 2: something that they can believe in. They want to hear truth.
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  Speaker 2: They want to hear straight to you. They don't just
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  Speaker 2: want to hear the facts, of course, they want to
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  Speaker 2: hear the facts. They definitely do. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: that is a big thing that's beensing and I think
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  Speaker 2: that that is what the FCC is trying to get at.
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  Speaker 2: That people don't believe that anything in the media anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Is something that is actually well sourced, well vetted things
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  Speaker 2: of that nature. But what I think is happening is
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  Speaker 2: I think that with social media. Number one, I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that people are leaning into cable network as much
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  Speaker 2: as they were anyway, But I think when they do,
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  Speaker 2: people go to places where they can hear sharp takes
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  Speaker 2: because they want to get the truth and they want
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  Speaker 2: to get it honest, and they want to hear from
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  Speaker 2: people that they believe feel like they do.
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  Speaker 1: So it's create a division. It's created.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you got the Fox News is on one side,
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  Speaker 2: you got the CNNs on the other side. And they
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  Speaker 2: do do the same thing, but in different ways and
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  Speaker 2: on different sides. And I do think sometimes that that's unfair. Like,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, when I'm trying to figure out something about
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  Speaker 2: like what's going on in the world, let's take that
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  Speaker 2: scene files. I do this thing where like I'll watch
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  Speaker 2: Fox News for a bit, like an hour or two,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'll go watch CNN for about an hour
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  Speaker 2: or two, and then from there I take both sides
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  Speaker 2: of it put it together to then create an opinion
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  Speaker 2: or to educate myself on something. Because it's like they're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the same thing, but it is a very
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  Speaker 2: stark contrast and how they talk about it. But again,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of this stuff is affecting people in their
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  Speaker 2: real lives in a real way, so you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to remove opinion sometimes. But basically the FCC is
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  Speaker 2: saying because of that, outlets are not trusted and we
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  Speaker 2: want to come back in with this merger and take
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  Speaker 2: over and really restore the trust in the media and
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  Speaker 2: the headlines and you know, the news that you're getting
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  Speaker 2: through your cable news channels and all of these things. Now,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are really really scared of this merger,
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  Speaker 2: especially because, like I said in the beginning of this
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  Speaker 2: comes after Stephen Colbert's show, The Late Show being canceled
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  Speaker 2: after he had you know, he's been very critical of
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, and he had some remarks more recently about
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  Speaker 2: CBS settling with Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So people are scared.
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  Speaker 2: People felt like, you know, this is another way that
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  Speaker 2: we are basically witnessing everything being taken over in control,
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  Speaker 2: that this is going to turn into basically the media
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  Speaker 2: like in more of like a cable network version of
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  Speaker 2: Trump's truth Social.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me tell you guys this, right, like when.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Corbert like I had already knew or felt like,
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  Speaker 2: when Donald Trump got back in office, there would of
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  Speaker 2: course be you know, an attack on whatever didn't blend
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  Speaker 2: or mesh well with his personal thoughts and feelings.
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  Speaker 1: We already knew that.
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  Speaker 2: But to be a person in the media and just
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  Speaker 2: see how this whole thing is going, I asked at
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  Speaker 2: my job every day, what y'all think gonna happen?
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  Speaker 1: Ya?
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  Speaker 2: I think you're gonna come this way because it seems
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  Speaker 2: like he's been able to kind of railroad again anything
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  Speaker 2: that opposes to be honest with you. And it is
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  Speaker 2: scary to see because it's as simple as him like
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  Speaker 2: and again, I think it's more of you have these
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  Speaker 2: corporations that need certain resources to be able to run
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  Speaker 2: and do business at a level in which they do it.
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  Speaker 2: And when you know federal funding might be happening, or
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  Speaker 2: you know, just certain things might be happening, you have
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  Speaker 2: to stay in the graces with certain people. And I
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  Speaker 2: really think that when it comes to joy Reads firing,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, they talked about ratings with her as well,
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  Speaker 2: but because they try to people try to talk about
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  Speaker 2: ratings with the Late Show, and I'm like, the Lay
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  Speaker 2: Show is like Huge, it's doing very well with joy Read.
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  Speaker 2: There rare reports about her ratings not doing as well
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  Speaker 2: around the cancelation of her show, which she refutes. She
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  Speaker 2: feels like, you know, it was a subject matter in
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  Speaker 2: what she decided to talk about. When it comes to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Donald Trump and some of the things that
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  Speaker 2: his administration are making decisions on, it's just scary. It's
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  Speaker 2: scary to see, regardless if you can prove or disprove
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  Speaker 2: something with ratings or.
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  Speaker 1: Not, there is a pattern here that we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: And it's scary because although I do not believe, I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe everything that I hear, nor do I agree
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  Speaker 2: with everything I hear, I do think that it is
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  Speaker 2: important to have a very start contrast and opinion in
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  Speaker 2: the media as well as I think it's important to
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  Speaker 2: have facts being presented by all people from all different
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  Speaker 2: sides of things in media as well. For example, last night,
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to Candace Owens. I don't listen to
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  Speaker 2: her often, but every now and then I tune in
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  Speaker 2: to listen to her because I'm a person that even
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  Speaker 2: if I don't agree with your personal takes and how
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  Speaker 2: you live your life or you're not even personal takes,
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  Speaker 2: but how you report. I want to know what's happening,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to know from all different sides because
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  Speaker 2: I just want to be able to see a full
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  Speaker 2: scope of some sort. I was listening to her talk
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  Speaker 2: about Brigitte Macrone, who is the French president's wife who
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  Speaker 2: is currently suing Candace Owens, because Candace Owens came out
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  Speaker 2: and did a full multi part series about Brigitte.
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  Speaker 1: Allegedly not being a real woman.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, she claimed or allegedly Candice Owen claimed
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  Speaker 2: that there's incense happening between the French president and Brigitte.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm listening to her, and you know, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily believe what she's saying or not believe
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  Speaker 2: or you know what I mean. I'm just listening with
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  Speaker 2: very neutral, open ears, just wanting to understand her why
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  Speaker 2: for doing the series, her wife, for continuing to stand
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  Speaker 2: her ground even after this lawsuit. She's on there, she's calling,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the French president's wife, but he and baby,
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  Speaker 2: she's standing tin toes down. But after I got through
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  Speaker 2: her response of her segment, she was responding to their
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  Speaker 2: attorney being on CNN talking about the defamition lawsuit. One
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  Speaker 2: of the things I was thinking about is how different
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  Speaker 2: things are now with the fact.
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  Speaker 1: That people will just get.
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  Speaker 2: On a platform and say what they want, how they want.
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  Speaker 2: I think years ago, it's like you knew who the
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  Speaker 2: players were like, and that's who you listened to. You
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  Speaker 2: knew who was to be listened to at which network.
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  Speaker 2: It's so different now with social media. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: throwing Candace Owens in there.
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  Speaker 1: I listen.
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  Speaker 2: According to the Macarons, what she did was not true
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  Speaker 2: and defamed character and the reputation all these things. According
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  Speaker 2: to Candace Owens, she's a legend. She is telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: She's provided all the evidence she needs to provide, and
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  Speaker 2: she's looking forward to her day in court because she
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  Speaker 2: wants to see the evidence that she alleges. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: presented her any evidence of anything that she said being
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  Speaker 2: not true.
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  Speaker 1: They alleged something different.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm saying all this to say Candace Owens has
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  Speaker 2: obviously branded herself in a way that puts her as
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  Speaker 2: one of those people that, like, if you're on her
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  Speaker 2: side of things and you believe in the ideas and
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  Speaker 2: the things in which she believes, you know, she's a
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  Speaker 2: go to player. But even me over here on the
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  Speaker 2: other side, when I want to hear a sharp contrast
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  Speaker 2: and opinion, I know to look for candas. I know
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  Speaker 2: to turn on Fox News. I know you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Tucker Carlson. With social media, we have so
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  Speaker 2: many different voices and opinions, it's kind of scary a
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  Speaker 2: little bit because it's like, you don't know unless you
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  Speaker 2: know what makes the most sense. And now you got Ai,
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  Speaker 2: you got all these things. And then we have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration coming in with this new merger, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, people are afraid that that is going to
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  Speaker 2: be controlled. And Trump is a legend that there was
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  Speaker 2: a Kamala Harris sixty minute interview that was edited in
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  Speaker 2: a way that was very deceptive to the sixty minute audience.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't know the truth on if it was
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  Speaker 2: or if it wasn't because they settled out with him.
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  Speaker 2: We're just getting to a point in time where we
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  Speaker 2: really don't have It's like, who are our allies. Who
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  Speaker 2: are the people making sure that people on both sides
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  Speaker 2: are doing what they're supposed to be doing, that they're
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  Speaker 2: listening to the FCC is the FCC is everything fair
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  Speaker 2: they as well, still like, are they still this neutral
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  Speaker 2: governing body? The fact that I can't answer any of
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  Speaker 2: these questions and I'm in media should scare y'all because
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  Speaker 2: it scares me every day. I think about this every
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  Speaker 2: single day, like how crazy things are getting. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a bit nervous. But the women of the View,
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  Speaker 2: they're never too afraid to take any shots at Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And that went down yesterday online as well, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm literally, uh, you know, I'll be crossing my fingers
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  Speaker 2: and closing my eyes for them for you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the women of the View, because the way that they
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  Speaker 2: be going at it with Trump and his administration over there. Baby,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be so nervous for them. I'm like, y'all, don't
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  Speaker 2: see what he out there doing to the people. I
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  Speaker 2: get it, tell the truth. I'm here for the truth.
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  Speaker 2: But I just be nervous for them. I completely do.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all know that they've had a beef for a while.
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  Speaker 2: This week, a White House spokesperson came out and suggested
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  Speaker 2: that the longtime talk showed the View could be coming
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  Speaker 2: to an end. Now. This comment they made for the
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  Speaker 2: person from the White House comes after CBS canceled the
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  Speaker 2: late show is even Coo Bear. There's been conversations around
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  Speaker 2: which shows will be next, because Trump himself said Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: should be next.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're talking about The View being next.
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  Speaker 2: But the women on the View responded and basically said
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  Speaker 2: that Trump would.
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  Speaker 1: Just be talking and that he's jealous. It's a whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: And in the midst of all of this, right you
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  Speaker 2: have Donald Trump Junior who retweets because it was tweeted
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  Speaker 2: out that The View was going on hiatus, that they
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  Speaker 2: only had one more show after one of their shows
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  Speaker 2: this week. Now, typically talk shows take hiatuses. It's a
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  Speaker 2: time for the guest list to re rack up. It's
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: a time for the personalities on the shows to get
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  Speaker 2: arrest because this is really a tough job, it is,
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  Speaker 2: and you're there every single day. You never really can
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  Speaker 2: turn off. So an outlet called The Blades had posted
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  Speaker 2: that Joy had announced that The View was going on
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  Speaker 2: a hiatus. During the episode, they say, we only have
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  Speaker 2: one more show after this. Here comes Donald Trump Junior
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  Speaker 2: reposting the tweet, saying, this seems to be a major
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  Speaker 2: win for humanity and common sense. Come to find out,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he knew when that posted that it
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  Speaker 2: was just a hiatus, but outlets had to go and
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  Speaker 2: clear up, like, no, the View is not going nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a hiatus that they take every year in
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  Speaker 2: August and then they return. But it's scary that you
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  Speaker 2: even got to clear that up because the ratings of
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  Speaker 2: the view are so good because people like the opinion,
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  Speaker 2: they like how real it is, like, they like the
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  Speaker 2: affect that them girls.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't scared and I ain't mad at them.
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  Speaker 2: But it's scary that you even have to clear that
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  Speaker 2: up because it's like it seems like there's one common
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  Speaker 2: denominator here. You say certain things, you do certain things,
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  Speaker 2: then you got to answer to the people, and then
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  Speaker 2: people would snatching people up air left and right, ratings
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  Speaker 2: high and everything. I'm just a girl in the media
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  Speaker 2: trying to make my way, build my career, and it
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  Speaker 2: seems like there's an open attack on us, y'all. Let
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  Speaker 2: me know what y'all think. I'm Laura l Rosa. This
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  Speaker 2: is the latest with Laura L.
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  Speaker 1: Rosa.
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  Speaker 2: Lowriders. At the end of the day, there's always a
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  Speaker 2: lot to talk about. If you guys could be anywhere
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  Speaker 2: with anybody discussing it, but y'all choose to be right
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  Speaker 2: here with me. I will see you guys in my
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  Speaker 2: next episode. You know I appreciate y'all.