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  Speaker 1: You're listening to bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 1: am six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Bill handle here on a hot Monday, August twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Today is a big day.
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  Speaker 2: It is D day, well at least in economic or
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  Speaker 2: the economic D day for Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And there are a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Moving pieces here. Oh boy, First of all, D day?
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  Speaker 2: What does the D stand for in D day?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know? Amy devastation day?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Will? Do you know what D day stands for? Ding
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  Speaker 1: the D berry? What dingle berries? Dingle berries? Very strong?
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  Speaker 1: How about you? Kono any idea what the D and
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  Speaker 1: D day stands for? I do I have a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of historical factual knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and it is it's just the day, that's correct.
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  Speaker 2: It stands for basically nothing. There are every time there
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  Speaker 2: is a new effort or a new amphibious landing, that
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  Speaker 2: day is D day, And no one knows where D
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  Speaker 2: actually came from. Other And that's your your your definition
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  Speaker 2: is as good as any designated day that is one.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not.
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  Speaker 2: It could be it's just a military code.
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  Speaker 3: So they would do like D minus two would be
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  Speaker 3: yeah day. But it's true, but no one really knows
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  Speaker 3: the answer to that. That co knows about as close
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  Speaker 3: as they come. Okay, now what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: What is D Day? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Remember D Day June sixth, nineteen forty four, the start
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  Speaker 2: of the invasion of Europe, is probably the biggest day
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  Speaker 2: in the history or certainly during World War Two.
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  Speaker 1: So what the temperament.
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration is saying that today starts D Day, the
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  Speaker 2: economic D Day against Iran, and it said that D
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  Speaker 2: Day is severing every economic lifeline sustaining Iran. And the
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  Speaker 2: officials have said this will be the toughest sanctionence campaign
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  Speaker 2: ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's you know, typical.
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  Speaker 2: Biggest, biggest, oldest, most impressive, uh that ever was.
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  Speaker 1: Now here is the problem. It's not so much well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all.
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  Speaker 2: D Day means uh Conno, you're about to say something,
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, uh, what we're talking about something of this
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  Speaker 2: magnitude is not so much going after Iran, although that's
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  Speaker 2: pretty important. It is a lot bigger than that because
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  Speaker 2: the threat here is not to sanction Iran, which is
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  Speaker 2: already being sanctioned by the United States as much as.
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  Speaker 1: It probably could be.
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  Speaker 2: What what the new designation means, uh, is that every country,
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  Speaker 2: every business in the world that is dealing with Iran
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  Speaker 2: economically is going to be cut off. The United States
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  Speaker 2: is going to use its economic might to effectively say,
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  Speaker 2: the sanctions will be so strong, and the United States
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  Speaker 2: is such a juggernaut economically, which it still is, that
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  Speaker 2: every country will be nailed that deals with Iran in
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  Speaker 2: any way whatsoever. Well, got one word with that one. China,
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  Speaker 2: China is no joke because China can do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: China can embargo all of its goods coming into the
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  Speaker 2: United States, for example. Because keep in mind the president
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  Speaker 2: he's done in two years. President g is not He's
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  Speaker 2: still around. The IRG, the Revolutionary Guard in Iran, is
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  Speaker 2: not going to be gone in two years. There is
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  Speaker 2: no political pressure whatsoever on G that can basically turn
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  Speaker 2: it around in terms of what the United States can do,
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  Speaker 2: same thing with Iran. And so what happens, Well, if
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  Speaker 2: a trade war happens between China and the United States,
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  Speaker 2: that blows up a good part of the world economy.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's the big problem.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's the usual bluster that we're hearing from the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: We have won the war.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, we won the war in the first hour. We
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  Speaker 2: have decimated their military, which is true. For the most part,
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  Speaker 2: we have white eyed their navy, which is true. For
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  Speaker 2: the most part, there we've taken out. There are all
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  Speaker 2: their nuclear facilities and capabilities, which is not true. And
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  Speaker 2: so militarily, Iran is still there because it has those
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  Speaker 2: drones and missiles, and it can take out any ship
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  Speaker 2: in the Gulf that it wants to in the Strait
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  Speaker 2: of Hormuz, and it can attack any facility in the
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  Speaker 2: US bases in the Mideast, It can attack those with
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  Speaker 2: almost impunity, and it can attack its neighbors, which it has. Yes, see,
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  Speaker 2: that is not being stopped. So the premise that the
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  Speaker 2: United States has won the war, as the Vice President
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  Speaker 2: has said over and over again, and the President has
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  Speaker 2: said over and over again, and the Vice President saying
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  Speaker 2: the United States controls the Strait of Horror moves Iran
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  Speaker 2: does not, and Trump said, is basically.
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  Speaker 1: Or we're going to make it in American territory. Who
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  Speaker 1: believes that? Why would you.
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  Speaker 2: Then need a D Day, these economic sanctions that can
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  Speaker 2: put the world economy teetering?
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  Speaker 1: Why would that work?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, today is D Day where the US is going
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  Speaker 2: to be sanctioning Iran, which it has for stopping the
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  Speaker 2: sale of oil. That's the biggest sanction. But it's gone
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  Speaker 2: beyond that, and that is it's sanctioning any country, any
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  Speaker 2: business that does business with the Iran, and the United
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  Speaker 2: States will you. It's enormous economic power to make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is not so much you run on. The
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  Speaker 2: problem is China. China buys a lot of oil from Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Ninety percent of the revenues of Iranian oil come from China.
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  Speaker 2: And now the US is saying, or Donald Trump is saying,
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  Speaker 2: we are going to sanction every in any country.
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  Speaker 1: That deals with Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now we've got China US relations that are really
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  Speaker 2: up in the air. And is Trump willing to do that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't think so. I think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to back down on this, much like he has backed
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  Speaker 2: down on everything that he has said about this war
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  Speaker 2: after starting it. We're going to bomb it. We have
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  Speaker 2: bombed it it effectively. The military doesn't exist anymore. That
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  Speaker 2: part is true. As I said, Iran's ability to fight back,
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  Speaker 2: We've wiped it out, not true. We've taken out their army.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe true. We now control the straight of horror moves
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  Speaker 2: not true. And on Wednesday we're gonna vomb it into oblivion. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe okay, not that, Okay, on Friday, we're gonna do it. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not Friday, it'll be next Monday. We're gonna bomb
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  Speaker 2: them to hell. Come next Monday. No, no, we'll we'll
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  Speaker 2: wait another week and then on a Wednesday, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. And now you know what's there are enough
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  Speaker 2: peace talks going on that we can hold it off.
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  Speaker 2: There were no peace talks. The Iranians keep on saying
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  Speaker 2: absolutely none, and there is no peace talks or there
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  Speaker 2: are no peace talks, and so we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: The US cannot cannot go after China because China is
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  Speaker 2: the second biggest juggernaut. These two countries control so much
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  Speaker 2: of the world economy. The last thing we need is
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  Speaker 2: war with China.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: If I had to guess, you wait that when the
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  Speaker 2: President says every single country, there'll be an exception there,
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  Speaker 2: and you know who's going to be China for sure. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: moving on, there's something going on here in California. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, to start with, about half of US adults
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  Speaker 2: say they can't.
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  Speaker 1: Afford healthcare anymore.
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  Speaker 2: California is one of eight states that have set spending
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  Speaker 2: growth targets for the health care sector. Because healthcare is
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  Speaker 2: going more expensive so quickly, California says, okay, we are
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  Speaker 2: now going to enforce penalties against health care entities where
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  Speaker 2: the cost is growing so quickly. The Office of health
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  Speaker 2: Care Affordability this week adopts fines against hospitals, medical groups,
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  Speaker 2: insurers that go beyond the increase in costs as much
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  Speaker 2: as one hundred and twenty five percent of.
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  Speaker 1: The total above annual growths.
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  Speaker 2: And that's because the health care entities in California, we're
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  Speaker 2: asked to limit growth no more than three point five percent.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, there are very few facilities that are limiting it
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  Speaker 2: to three percent or three point five percent. Now, is
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  Speaker 2: it going to help a well struggling with high insurance
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  Speaker 2: premiums out of pocket expenses.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're already baked in.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is so expensive even if it remains flat,
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  Speaker 2: and your price for insurance, your price for delivery in
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  Speaker 2: this obstetrist department going to the er, even if it
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  Speaker 2: were flat, which it can't be and won't be. It's
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  Speaker 2: the cost is already baked in. We can't afford it.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot afford it. And as has been said by Republicans, primarily,
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  Speaker 2: we have the best health system in the world. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me talk to half of you who can't afford
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  Speaker 2: health care at all. And when I tell you we
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  Speaker 2: have the best system in the world, do you agree?
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  Speaker 2: Do you nod your head?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Absolutely? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: And of course the fear of a national health plan,
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  Speaker 2: a single payer is what they're calling it. Although it's
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  Speaker 2: national health it's universal health which occurs in every single
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  Speaker 2: industrialized country in the world except the United States. That's
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  Speaker 2: an ethma, that's socialism, that's communism.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want it.
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  Speaker 2: Those of us that have health care would rather you
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  Speaker 2: not have health care as long as we don't have
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  Speaker 2: universal health care for everybody. We can't afford it, all right,
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  Speaker 2: how does every other country in the world afford it? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's not as good over in those other countries. You
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  Speaker 2: wait forever for elective surgery, You do wait forever. How
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  Speaker 2: many of you who have no insurance really wait forever
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  Speaker 2: for elective surgery? Because when they're talking about waiting forever,
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  Speaker 2: for example, Canada, you wait a year to get your
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  Speaker 2: knee replaced. And I've often said, the problem is in Canada,
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  Speaker 2: you wait fourteen months to get an abortion, and that
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  Speaker 2: is that's problematic. I get that, but we can't afford it.
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  Speaker 2: And so California is making some attempts to knowing that
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  Speaker 2: healthcare is going to increase, we're not talking about decreasing healthcare.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about this limiting the limiting the amount of increase.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what the hospitals are saying, particularly the hospitals
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  Speaker 2: ain't fine. I tell you what we're gonna do. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna just shut down entire departments. We're gonna shut down
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  Speaker 2: er rooms, which cost a fortune, ob cetrics and gynecology.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to just shut down those departments. You've got hospitals,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to shut down. You know, nothing in the
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  Speaker 2: law says that hospitals must stay open for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: their private organization, even nonprofits can say, hey, it's just
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  Speaker 2: too expensive, we're shutting down.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to Jim about his hospital.
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  Speaker 2: He's a medical director, as you know, and we constantly
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  Speaker 2: talk about the cost of doing business. His hospital loses
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  Speaker 2: money and it's one of the most more successful hospitals
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  Speaker 2: out there. I mean, scrambling every single year to support
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. So California is making some attempt. Seventeen hospitals
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  Speaker 2: closed since twenty sixteen. There were six that opened, but
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  Speaker 2: you're still having a negative and that's the last thing
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  Speaker 2: we need is fewer hospitals. Federal Medicaid spending has decreased,
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  Speaker 2: reduced by nine hundre billion dollars from the FEDS, and
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  Speaker 2: thirty billion of thatt is just in California.
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  Speaker 1: And here's one for you.
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  Speaker 2: The increase in pharmaceutical costs, which we think is responsible
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  Speaker 2: for most of our most of our healthcare increase, is
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  Speaker 2: not it's hospitals, it's other medical facilities. So for though,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to repeat one more time, Okay, I want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that this is put to bed, and
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  Speaker 2: that is for half of you who cannot afford medical insurance.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to look in the mirror and say,
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  Speaker 2: we have the best medical care.
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  Speaker 1: In the world. We're the bestest we have.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, if you have insurance, it probably is
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  Speaker 2: at the top of the heap. If you have good
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  Speaker 2: insurance and you live in a major city LA New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: you're right up there, you are.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you think it costs you for my family.
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  Speaker 2: We have Kaiser. We have Kaiser and their good plans.
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  Speaker 2: It's three thousand dollars a month. How many people can
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  Speaker 2: afford thirty six thousand dollars in premiums in insurance? Remember,
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  Speaker 2: we have.
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  Speaker 1: The bestest of the best. Well, that's been in my
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  Speaker 1: cross since I've started broadcasting. I've been upset about that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what's going on in Washington something you probably don't
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  Speaker 2: know at all because it is so secret. The President
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  Speaker 2: tore down the east wing of the White House and
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  Speaker 2: is building that big, beautiful ballroom at I think ninety
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  Speaker 2: thousand square feet, which will have a footprint.
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  Speaker 1: Bigger than the rest of the White House.
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  Speaker 2: He's also building underneath that ballroom this White House Bunker,
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  Speaker 2: and it is for the security of the President. It's
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  Speaker 2: probably a new situation room, and certainly offices and facilities
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  Speaker 2: for the higher reaches, the highest reaches of government, the President,
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  Speaker 2: the Vice President, the leadership of Congress, the Court, Supreme Court, etc.
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  Speaker 2: So government can run. And so the President and the
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  Speaker 2: White House said, we really need it because of the
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  Speaker 2: technology out there, particularly particularly drone technology. Now you haven't
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  Speaker 2: heard that the bunker has to be built because of
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear bat blast. You don't want to know why,
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  Speaker 2: because there's already one. There's already a bunker that was
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  Speaker 2: built and finished during the Obama years that goes fifty
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  Speaker 2: feet below the ground, somewhere under the White House. We
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  Speaker 2: don't know exactly where. That does everything that this new bunker,
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  Speaker 2: underground bunker does. The point is do we need it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are saying no, because we already
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  Speaker 2: have one that does everything that this one is going
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  Speaker 2: to do, other than I think a drone port and
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  Speaker 2: a couple of other things that aren't particularly life threatening.
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  Speaker 1: To the president. So, the President talked.
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  Speaker 2: About the ballroom as being the most important part of
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  Speaker 2: the construction, the new construction. Have you noticed he switched
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  Speaker 2: that around. The emphasis is no longer the ballroom. The
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  Speaker 2: emphasis is the bunker underneath the ballroom for security. It
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  Speaker 2: is now a security issue. That's why they're building it.
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  Speaker 2: The ballroom is just sort of incidental. He's already doing
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  Speaker 2: this huge construction that's necessary, and by the way, we're
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  Speaker 2: just putting a ballroom on top of that.
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  Speaker 1: WHOA Seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Trump is now calling the project a military complex in
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  Speaker 2: public comments and media posts and talking about that He's
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  Speaker 2: posted repeatedly AI renderings of drones and troops and even
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  Speaker 2: a fuel tanker stationed on the future East wing. Excuse
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  Speaker 2: me the ballroom roof to press his case, and Trump
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  Speaker 2: told reporters on Wednesday last the ballroom is so much
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  Speaker 2: a military component, with the drones and the bomb shelters,
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  Speaker 2: that's really what it's about. Well, people aren't buying it,
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  Speaker 2: and the argument is that the bunker is probably unnecessary
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  Speaker 2: because there already is one that does everything this one
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  Speaker 2: does under the White House. And it's well, at least
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  Speaker 2: the accusation it's to justify the ballroom. Although did we
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  Speaker 2: ever hear a bunker underneath, or if we did, it
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  Speaker 2: was really minor stuff compared to the ballroom itself. And
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  Speaker 2: so the White House is pushing that issue dramatically. So
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  Speaker 2: the court cases that are going on, there were lawsuits.
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  Speaker 2: Preservation organization, particularly one that deals with White House preservation, sued.
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  Speaker 2: They sued the stop by the construction. Lower court said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're stopping it. The appeals court said, okay, we're stopping it.
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  Speaker 2: Chief Justice Roberts issued an order saying you can go
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  Speaker 2: on for two more weeks building it. While the court
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  Speaker 2: determines the law of whether Congress is the only organization
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  Speaker 2: that can okay a ballroom changing the White House, And
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  Speaker 2: so the President has two more weeks until the decision
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  Speaker 2: is made.
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  Speaker 1: Seven day or six days a week, twenty hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: Construction is going on right now.
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  Speaker 2: One of the arguments that was made to the lower
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  Speaker 2: courts when it was first argued that the entire project
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  Speaker 2: is already sixty five percent completed. Therefore the court should
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  Speaker 2: let it go on because notwithstanding any law, we're already there.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to stop something. You're not going to
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  Speaker 2: have an open hole there that was a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Sixty five percent. Let's go fast forward. Twenty hours a day,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of hundred workers there, six days a week.
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  Speaker 2: How much war do you think the bunker and that big,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful ballroom have gone forward in construction. So by the
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  Speaker 2: time the two weeks is up, let's say the court
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  Speaker 2: determines we have a legal problem. Only Congress can effectively
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  Speaker 2: produce the funds, can okay this extension of the White House.
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  Speaker 2: The argument's going to be it's already eighty percent completed.
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  Speaker 2: It's really a moot decision, and the court may very
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  Speaker 2: well by it.
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  Speaker 1: Bunkers. Bunkers, Now what is the ghost job?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me give you a scenario, and that is,
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  Speaker 2: let's say you're working looking for work and you go
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  Speaker 2: on LinkedIn and there you are perfect the skill levels,
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  Speaker 2: everything you match with the job requirement, the job posting,
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  Speaker 2: and nothing, nothing shows up. And like one lady that
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  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal followed, she sent out three thousand
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  Speaker 2: resumes over the last year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing not in the most cases, not even a response.
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  Speaker 1: And how easy is.
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  Speaker 2: It to send a letter saying, you know, we filled
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  Speaker 2: the job and we're very happy with who we have
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  Speaker 2: and it's not open anymore. Well, the problem is they
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  Speaker 2: haven't filled the job. They're still posting it. And as
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  Speaker 2: she said, you know, they're posting it and getting thousands
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  Speaker 2: of applications. Nobody is qualified because no one's getting hired,
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  Speaker 2: and they're getting rewired, they're getting they're reposting the job.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what.
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  Speaker 2: There's an investigation going into LinkedIn, and there is a
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit that the state of Texas Ken Paxton has filed
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  Speaker 2: against LinkedIn saying, you guys are frauduling, you guys are
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  Speaker 2: posting jobs that don't exist. And why Well, people in
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  Speaker 2: the industry, in the job market industry are saying, okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they're just opening up the pipeline, you know, looking
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  Speaker 2: for someplace where our job opening, what job opening would
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: exist in the future, even though one doesn't now. Or
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: they're looking for the perfect what the military arry calls
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: water walkers, those that walk on water, you know, so
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: extraordinary that you can't give them up no matter what.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: But they're not hiring, and these are ghost jobs, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: so LinkedIn is getting sued saying you guys are fraudulently
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: doing this. I think there may even be a criminal
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  Speaker 2: complaint flying. And when you look at the number of
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  Speaker 2: postings that are out there, and it's so easy today
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  Speaker 2: it is with AI you can post the kind of
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: skills you needed that are so obscure. But you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: there are thousands of people that meet those requirements no
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: matter what. My daughter, who has a degree in computer
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: science's working on her masters trying to get a job
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: in computer science, has sent out thousands of applications. Nothing
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: not a not even a ghost reply. And we're talking
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: about twenty percent of job applicants to LinkedIn are applying
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: for jobs that just don't exist.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: That's fraud. That is fraud, and look at the hole.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It's also cruel too. I mean, think of that. How
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: do you put someone through that?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: And so what Paxton is doing is asking the state
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: of Texas, by the way, Texas at the forefront of
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: this one, and this was passed by both houses, is
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: asking the state to pass laws that say that on
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: LinkedIn or any other platform, a company has to say,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: here are posts saying here is the job, we expect
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: to fill it within X number of days, and once
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: that job is filled, to immediately pull the job application
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the job opening at that moment, which normally you would,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: wouldn't you. I mean, I've been an employer and I've
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: employed people through LinkedIn looking for that specific that specific
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: skill set, and as soon as we found someone, we stopped.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: We're done. A lot of companies are saying no, they're
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: just moving ahead for all of their reasons. And at
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the same time, I mean, the cruelty is astounding here.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: How do you do that to people? Give me a break,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you get their hopes up. You're looking at that perfect job,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: your skill set is perfect for what it is. Why
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: don't they even call me back? Because they have no
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: intention of hiring anybody. That's why they are ghost jobs.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Also moving into another economic issue today, the tariffs, or
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: actually September second, but the decision that the tariffs kick
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: in against Canada, and I'll explain what's going on with
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: that because that is very far reaching. Also, KFI am
• 24:57
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• 24:58
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