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Iran War Ceasefire Holding | LAPD: Forget Growing, Stop Shrinking · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Go Handle here a good morning to one and all.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things, well, the big international story, of course,
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  Speaker 2: is what's going on with Iran, United States, Israel, and Lebanon.
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  Speaker 2: So just an hour before the civilization of Iran was
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  Speaker 2: to disappear.
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  Speaker 3: That Iran would be bombed.
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  Speaker 2: Into the Stone Age and the United States President Trump
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  Speaker 2: was going to attack the infrastructure, all the bridges, and
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  Speaker 2: all the power plants in Iran, which basically would put
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  Speaker 2: it in the Stone Age. An hour before. Hold on,
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to sneeze. Okay, there we go. And the
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  Speaker 2: President had said if the straits those straight up four
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  Speaker 2: moves does not open up where there'll be free transit
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  Speaker 2: as it was prior to the war, then the attack
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  Speaker 2: will happen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So it was announced that the Strait of Hormuz will
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  Speaker 2: open up. All right, here's the problem. It hasn't. Iran
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  Speaker 2: still controls the strait and it's not letting shipping through.
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  Speaker 2: And wait a minute, now. Carolyn Levitt yesterday in a
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  Speaker 2: press conference, when asked about the Strait of Hormuz being
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  Speaker 2: closed by a reporter when she was giving a press conference,
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  Speaker 2: said maybe that's the news that's being reported, but behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes, it's a very different thing. Well, behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, and so what
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  Speaker 2: ended up happening, And this is where the ceasefire has
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  Speaker 2: gone south.
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  Speaker 3: And JD.
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  Speaker 2: Vance has said, it's just a misunderstanding between the ADIT
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  Speaker 2: and the United States and Iran. And this has to
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  Speaker 2: do with Israel's bombing of Lebanon and the attack was
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  Speaker 2: it yesterday was the most forceful attack that Israel has
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  Speaker 2: has attacked Lebanon.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just it was insane.
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  Speaker 2: So what Iran has said that the peace they cease fire,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, is predicated on Israel stopping the bombing
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  Speaker 2: of Beirut Lebanon, and the United States says, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't part of it. And Israel said, certainly, that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't part of it. You know, we have nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with that, and we're going to continue continue fighting.
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  Speaker 2: Has Bellah, Well, the Pakistanis who were the mediator said yes,
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  Speaker 2: that was included stopping the bombing, and Iran said yes,
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  Speaker 2: that was included. So there it is. Was it included
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  Speaker 2: or not? And we've got the United States saying it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't included.
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  Speaker 3: Iran says it was included.
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  Speaker 2: Uh And in the middle of the middle of all this,
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  Speaker 2: Horrmus is still blocked.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: That puts the Trump administration in a very interesting position
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  Speaker 2: because it has gone from what the demands have been
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  Speaker 2: all the way down to simply the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 2: It's still blocked. Everything the United States has demanded has
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  Speaker 2: not happened. Key US demands the nuclear program. Iran must
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  Speaker 2: dismantle its three main nuclear sites and all uranium enrichment,
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  Speaker 2: hand over its existing stockpile of enriched uranium to the
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  Speaker 2: International Atomic Energy Commission or agency. It's saying, no one's
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  Speaker 2: going to stop us from our nuclear enrichment process. We're
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  Speaker 2: keeping it, okay. That's for starting military restrictions, a permanent
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  Speaker 2: commitment never to develop nuclear weapons, strict limits on the
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  Speaker 2: range and number of ballistic missiles. No, that's not going
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  Speaker 2: to happen, what Iran says, and into support for regional
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  Speaker 2: proxies like hisbo law and a hall to strike on
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  Speaker 2: regional energy facilities around the Gulf.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, we don't agree to that.
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  Speaker 2: Maritime access, immediate and full reopening of the Strait of
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  Speaker 2: Hormuz for safe passage where it becomes an international waterway
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  Speaker 2: again where Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they are controlling the Straight of Hormuz and they are
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  Speaker 2: stopping international traffic from going through. So the incentives for
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  Speaker 2: the US is the.
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  Speaker 3: Lifting of nuclear related sanctions.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the US will is being asked to do.
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  Speaker 2: Iran wants assistance in developing a civilian nuclear program or
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, that's the United States a position, and so
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  Speaker 2: basically Iran's position is none of that what a mari
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  Speaker 2: and wants nothing. Okay, Now, Iran has its ten points
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  Speaker 2: ceasefire plan, non aggression, the US will halt all hostilities. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the only thing that the US has agreed to is
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  Speaker 2: the straight or horn moves. That's all it wants. You
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  Speaker 2: open up the waterway and we're fine with the ceasefire
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  Speaker 2: and giving us two weeks to negotiate.
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  Speaker 3: All the other stuff. But what is going to negotiate? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The other issue is that Iran's proposal charging tolls to ships,
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  Speaker 2: making it a toll booth using the strait. Now this
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  Speaker 2: one is really interesting because Iran says, okay, we'll open
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  Speaker 2: it up maybe kind of, but we want to charge
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  Speaker 2: ships from going through Panama Canal, charge us, for example,
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  Speaker 2: big money. And Trump said, you know, that's not a
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  Speaker 2: bad idea, but let's do it together Iran in the
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  Speaker 2: United States, we can join forces and charge ships from
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  Speaker 2: going for going through. This is Trump the businessman, This
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  Speaker 2: is Trump the business negotiator. Acceptance of the iranium enrichment.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Iran says, You accept our Iranian richment.
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  Speaker 3: We're not moving on that one.
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  Speaker 2: The lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions against Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Just lifting of all the sanctions, that's what Iran wants.
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  Speaker 2: Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions on Iran, which
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  Speaker 2: have happened big time. No, that's all done. There will
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  Speaker 2: be no more Security Council resolutions. Termination of all of
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  Speaker 2: the Board of Governor's resolutions of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
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  Speaker 2: which is the nuclear watchdog and they had the observers
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  Speaker 2: in Iran. That stops, stops completely. We want our money
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  Speaker 2: on two levels. One reparations for the bombing that you did.
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  Speaker 2: We want to fix everything and you pay for it
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  Speaker 2: the United States. And the other thing is we want
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  Speaker 2: our money back because the United States is holding one
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  Speaker 2: hundred one hundred and twenty billion dollars in frozen assets.
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  Speaker 2: Two billions of it. Well, the world is two billion
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  Speaker 2: of it in the United States. Now, Obama got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of grief for releasing a couple of billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: to Iran.
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  Speaker 3: And you sold that Iran. You're paying for Iran.
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  Speaker 2: That was Iranian money, and that was in response to
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  Speaker 2: the nuclear deal that Iran the United States in Iran cut.
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  Speaker 2: And then the argument is did it stop Iran from moving.
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  Speaker 3: Forward with its nuclear program? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: No, the administration says it didn't. We just gave up
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  Speaker 2: and Iran got the better of it. But the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line right now, right now is the President says the
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  Speaker 2: opening of the straits is critical. That is what this
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  Speaker 2: ceasefire is based on. Everything else is open for negotiation.
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  Speaker 2: Iran says no to everything else, and the Strait of
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  Speaker 2: Hormuz is closed.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Who won that one? Who's ahead on that one? That's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 2: And then the political backlash is just unbelievable, which at
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  Speaker 2: some point we'll talk about over the next few days.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, Huntington Beach is Huntington Beach. We're a state
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  Speaker 2: that is as bad as blue as it gets. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are pockets in hunting and Beach here in southern
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  Speaker 2: California particularly, it's Maga city. There's no way around it.
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  Speaker 2: This is like Austin, Texas. You've got Austin in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of Texas. And how do you know you're in Austin,
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  Speaker 2: which is a very liberal, very liberal city.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there are very few pickup trucks.
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  Speaker 2: The ones that are there, you don't see American flags
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  Speaker 2: floating at the back of them, and you don't see
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  Speaker 2: shotguns in the back window, where if you go to
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  Speaker 2: the rest of Texas, it is law that you have
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  Speaker 2: to have that. Huntington Beach is in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: this Maga revolution, and it's happening more and more. Now,
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind that Orange County is becoming purple, but
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  Speaker 2: not in hunting Beach. City attorney and the city council,
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  Speaker 2: lawsuits against Newsom's administration, protests against COVID restrictions, the city
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  Speaker 2: council's vote to place a plaque outside the public library
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  Speaker 2: spelling out MAGA. I mean, that is terrific and it's
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  Speaker 2: like the Ten Commandment sitting outside of the library. Now
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people think Huntington Beach has become a
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  Speaker 2: national laughing stock.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not.
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  Speaker 2: The City Council has been transformed in twenty twenty to
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  Speaker 2: a narrow Democratic majority, to an all Republican body. I
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  Speaker 2: mean to the point where the more conservative you are,
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  Speaker 2: the more maga you are, the better off you are.
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  Speaker 2: Even to the point where you have one of the
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  Speaker 2: council people running for governor and people are taking it seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Casey mccohone says, we've morphed into this epicenter of
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  Speaker 2: fighting back where the model that every city can follow.
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  Speaker 2: So it's maga by the seat is what it's called.
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  Speaker 2: This gra Cie vander Mark Gadfly turned council member, is
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  Speaker 2: looking for an Assembly seat. Tony Scritland Strickland, who is
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  Speaker 2: on or was on the City Council is and one
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  Speaker 2: Estate Senate seat last spring. He is looking at a
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  Speaker 2: governor's run and people are taking it seriously. Steve Hilton
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  Speaker 2: another one. Now, this guy is serious about running for
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  Speaker 2: governor and is considered a real player. California Republican Party
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  Speaker 2: chairwoman Now, the California Republican Party, Okay, they're as crazy
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  Speaker 2: as anybody. The chair Coran Rankin says that the Huntington
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  Speaker 2: Beach crew can win statewide office. What happened there proves
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  Speaker 2: that conservative leadership works.
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  Speaker 3: Currently, we have a.
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  Speaker 2: Former mayor of San Francisco who's the governor, and you
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  Speaker 2: look at the contrast of how each of those cities are.
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  Speaker 2: So once again, you've got this little island of MAGA
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  Speaker 2: members who are as conservative and pro Trump as you
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  Speaker 2: can get.
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  Speaker 3: Now you've got culture wars.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the even hunts And Beach the residents are
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  Speaker 2: tired of the culture wars and rejected two ballot measures
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  Speaker 2: last year trying to give the city council even more
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  Speaker 2: control over the municipal municipal library system. And why do
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  Speaker 2: they want more control? Well, because the library was providing
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  Speaker 2: pornography to children. Because if you mentioned LGBTQ, even mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that there is an LGBTQ community, that is pornography, because
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  Speaker 2: as you know, LGBTQ members are perverts, and homosexual sex
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  Speaker 2: is perversion. Until we find one of those televangelists who
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  Speaker 2: starts apologizing for stopping four year olds.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a tough one. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The good news about Huntington Beach, it's a very small city,
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  Speaker 2: it's this island, and it seems to be an issue
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  Speaker 2: with the other good news. It's a small city where
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  Speaker 2: it's a magnet for what I view as the crazy people,
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  Speaker 2: not just conservatives. And I'm fine with conservatives. I have
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  Speaker 2: no problem with conservatives elections where the country goes conservative
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  Speaker 2: as long as it's not crazy conservative. And you can't
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  Speaker 2: go you can't swing both ways. You really can't AOC.
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  Speaker 2: You go to AOC's office and what do you see.
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  Speaker 2: There's a huge portrait of Karl Marx in the office.
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  Speaker 2: This goes a little bit too much. And certainly the
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  Speaker 2: right wing is now in the news. And as we know,
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  Speaker 2: look at Fox, look at CNN. By the way, both
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  Speaker 2: are biased. I don't misunderstand. I argue and I agree
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  Speaker 2: that both are biased. But there is bias with a
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  Speaker 2: capital B in bold on the on the side of
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  Speaker 2: Fox News, and the bias is with a small B,
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  Speaker 2: lowercase B on CNN. Okay, Karen Bass who is again
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  Speaker 2: running for mayor, her second go round, and she's changed
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  Speaker 2: her tune. Well, one of the tunes is she thinks
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  Speaker 2: she's going to win and that's not going to happen,
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  Speaker 2: and the other one is her plans from regrowing the
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  Speaker 2: LAPD to Okay, let's maintain current staffing levels.
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  Speaker 3: Staffing right now.
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  Speaker 2: Is the lowest has been in twenty three years. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so that is horrific. But crime is down in the city,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's an argument saying, why do we have
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  Speaker 2: to spend the money if crime is down. When she
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  Speaker 2: ran for mayor four years ago, she wanted to regrow
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  Speaker 2: the LAPD to ninety five hundred officers. That's the sort
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  Speaker 2: of the sweet spot. And now she's facing this huge
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  Speaker 2: budget crunch and her plan is shifted, and so the
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  Speaker 2: aim going forward, she told The Times, is to simply
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  Speaker 2: stop the department from getting smaller and fewer and fewer
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  Speaker 2: people are applying to be police. From what I understand,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things about police is they have not
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  Speaker 2: reduced their requirements from what I understand to be a cop.
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  Speaker 2: They have kept their requirements at a pretty high level.
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  Speaker 2: It is not easy to become a police officer, as
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  Speaker 2: it should not be. So as of this week, the
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  Speaker 2: department had eighty six hundred and seventy seven sworn personnel.
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  Speaker 2: That's the lowest in a quarter of a century, and
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  Speaker 2: officials are thinking there won't be enough new cops replace
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  Speaker 2: those that are leaving or retiring. And those are a
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  Speaker 2: ton of cops because it is not a fun job.
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  Speaker 2: From what I understand, you cops used to be held
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  Speaker 2: on an amazingly high pedestal. You go to New York,
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  Speaker 2: for example. One of the things about police officers, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, there's always the shorter of powdered sugar in
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 3: You're aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: That, by the way, is a joke that every cop
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  Speaker 2: is at the donut shop and they have of powdered
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  Speaker 2: sugar knownits So it looks like dandriff On. Never mind,
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  Speaker 2: that is a stretch, to say the least. So who
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  Speaker 2: is going to be our next mayor? Well, the front
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  Speaker 2: runner at this point is Nithia Ramen Noodles, who is
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  Speaker 2: obviously a large opponent who used to be an ally
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  Speaker 2: of Karen Bass, by the way, but.
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  Speaker 3: No longer to say the least. So what is going
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  Speaker 3: to happen? Well, the problem is, I think La is ungovernable.
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  Speaker 2: There's a certain organizations, certain cities, certain municipalities that are
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  Speaker 2: simply ungovernable. I think LA is one of those simply
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  Speaker 2: because the money that is being paid the unions. The
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  Speaker 2: unions are very powerful here and the raises are. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying they're going crazy, but they're going up substantially.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got the cost of every thing goes up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, inflation hits everybody. And you were in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of a budget shortfall. Because programs don't disappear once
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  Speaker 2: they start. Here's one thing that happens, and so almost
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  Speaker 2: across every government, all of a sudden, there's enough money
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  Speaker 2: to pay for virtually anything. There's a surplus. State did
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  Speaker 2: this right? A surplus of money comes in. We have
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  Speaker 2: a great financial year. Stocks are up, people make more money,
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  Speaker 2: and California makes the vast majority of money off income tax,
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  Speaker 2: which other states do not.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: In great years, there's tons of money, and then in
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  Speaker 2: bad years there is not tons of money. But you
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  Speaker 2: know what happens. In great years, We've got the money,
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  Speaker 2: and we're talking about we the legislators. We have money,
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  Speaker 2: So let's set up some entitlement programs because we have
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  Speaker 2: the money to.
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  Speaker 3: Pay for it, hippie.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden there's no money, but
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  Speaker 2: the entitled programs keep on going.
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  Speaker 3: And what happen up in shortfall? Big time?
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  Speaker 1: How can we have what they call a surplus or
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  Speaker 1: how can we have money when we still have infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: issues like roadways and things like that. How can we
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  Speaker 1: say we've got oh, we've got money for these programs
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  Speaker 1: when we're not investing into the schools investing into this now.
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  Speaker 2: And I will tell you why. Because when you run
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  Speaker 2: for office and you're in a district and bringing new
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  Speaker 2: programs to the district and hiring people out of the district,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: you get elected. And no one gets elected on maintenance.
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  Speaker 2: No one gets elected on mowing the lawng the lawns
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  Speaker 2: in municipal parks. Because what is the most important thing
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  Speaker 2: to any legislator, to any congress person, to any senator.
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  Speaker 2: The number one requirement get re elected. That's it, get
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  Speaker 2: re elected. That's more important than anything.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how much.
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  Speaker 1: Surplus you and I would have if we didn't pay
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  Speaker 1: our rent and didn't pay water bills and didn't pay
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  Speaker 1: the basics.
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  Speaker 3: We have so much superlus, that's true. But we don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be elected either. We are who we are.
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