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6.12.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for June twelfth,
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twenty twenty five. As a reminder, radio as a reading
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service intended for people who are blind or have other
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disabilities that make it difficult to read printed material. Your
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reader for today, I'm Howard Climan. We start with the
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front page headlines from the Post and today. The stories
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include first pardon Frenzy Fuels a lucrative industry workers papers
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under scrutiny, another story headlined Army parade protests fueled dueling,
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visions of US band leader behind the surfing vibrations of
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the sixties serving dead time, and FBI seeks to move
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some training from Virginia to Alabama. And our first story
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from the Post front page, again headlined I sets quotas
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to deliver on immigration crackdown on employers. It's written by
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Lauren Gurley, Marianne Levine, and Rachel Siegel. The Trump administration
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has ramped up investigations of companies suspected of employing undocumented immigrants,
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directing officials to meet audit quotas for sub reviews to
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accelerate deportation efforts. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division has
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ordered its thirty regional offices to meet quotas on inspections
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of employer's documentations of their worker's immigration status. As according
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to three immigration lawyers and a former Department of Homeland
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Security government official familiar with the agency's operations, the number
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of notices of inspection, known as I nine audits, has
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increased tenfold since January. According to the three lawyers, the
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inspections can be a precursor to workplace raids and have
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been recently been used by the Trump administration as a
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method for detaining undocumented workers without judicial warrants. Again, according
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to immigration advocates and lawyers, often undocumented workers never return
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to work after ICE agents serve an employer and inspection notice.
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The directives have resulted in an explosion of immigration enforcement
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across industries and regions, according to FOREG immigration lawyers, this month,
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ICE officials have detained hundreds of workers, including it a
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meat processing plant in Omaha, gas stations in Phoenix, construction
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sites in Tallahassee and Texas's Rio Grande Valley, and a
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palette manufacturer in Pennsylvania. ICE has ramped up arrests broadly
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in an effort to follow through on a directive from
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Whitehouse Deputy chiefs of Staff Stephen Miller, to make a
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minimum of three thousand arrests a day. Those heightened efforts
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were on display last week in Los Angeles, when ICE
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agents descended on a women's clothing manufacturer with a search
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warrant and also arrested day laborers at a home depot
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parking lot. The raid sparked protests at led President Donald
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Trump to deploy the National Guard and the US Marines.
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Chris Thomas, a partner at Holland and Hart that's a
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law firm that represents employers across the US, said he
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is quote seeing audits at the usual suspects, hospitality, construction,
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and food processing, and with the same frequency in Red
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states as Blue states. Employers are all over panickings, said
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Amy Beck, a lawyer at the firm of Jackson Lewis
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in Omaha. Following Tuesday's raid on the Nebraska meat packer,
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workers are not showing up for work. The acceleration of
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the employer crackdown follows a recent declaration from Bordered Trump's
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Border Zaar Tom Homan that there would be quote a
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more work side enforcement than you've ever seen in the
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history of the nation. Some workplace raids in recent weeks
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have been assisted by the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration,
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the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, US Marshall Service,
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and the Internal Revenue Service, as well as local law enforcement.
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That's according to recent ICE communications. Abigail Jackson, a spokesperson
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for the White House, responded to questions about the quotas
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and increased work side enforcements, saying, if you're president in
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the US illegally, you will be deported. This is a
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promise President Trump made to the American people, and the
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administration is committed to keeping it. A DHS spokesman said
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that the work side immigration enforcement protects workers from exploitation
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and trafficking. These operations protect not only American workers but
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also illegal aliens, according to the spokesperson. President Trump, he said,
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will not allow criminals to abuse and exploit workers for profit.
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The former DHS official, who spoke on the condition of
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anonymity to describe private conversations about the quotas, said that
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agents were being pushed for this weeks ago, but that
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the pressure to investigate workplaces has increased recently. Quotas may
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vary by region, according to the official. As part of
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this effort, DHS has also recently reassigned more law enforcement
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agents from human trafficking and other transnational crime investigations to
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target US employers. That's according to the former DHS official
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and two of the immigration attorneys. They're being pushed to
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basically work civil immigration and not do any criminal work.
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Once again. According to the former DHS official, the I
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nine audits are used to collect evidence that can be
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later used to obtain warrants for workplace raids, such as
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those at royal communities in the South in the Midwest
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during the first Trump administration. This year, ICE agents have
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sometimes been arresting workers while delivering employers with inspection notices.
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In early May, ICE agents arrested two hundred workers while
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serving inspection notices to one hundred eighty seven businesses in
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DC during a four days sweep. The crackdown on undocumented
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workers and employers arrives as the White House has applied
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enormous pressure on ICE to ramp up its deportation statistics.
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The administration previously set a goal of one million deportations
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this year, though it appears unlikely it'll meet this target
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and it's unclear how many work side arrests ICE has
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made so far, but during the first one hundred days
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of the Trump administration, agents arrested about twelve hundred and
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seventy undocumented immigrants on work sites and proposed nearly one
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million dollars in fines on businesses that employ them. That's
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according to the ICE website. Those numbers appear to be
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rising quickly as ICE agents descend on employers in nearly
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every sector. Notices of inspections are increasing exponentially. Don Luriy,
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who's a lawyer at the firm cefarth Shaw, which represents
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major employers. She said that earlier this week and earlier
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this year, dhs targeted small businesses and including mom and
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pop restaurants, but more recently audits have branched out and
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both scope and strategy, targeting company headquarters, including in the retail, finance,
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real estate, and tech industries. According to Luriy, the construction
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industry has also faced enforcement activity, joaking widespread fear among
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laborers about showing up to work, notably after more than
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one hundred undocumented immigrants were arrested while working on Tallahassee
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construction sites last month. Brian Turmail, who's a spokesman for
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Associated General Contractors of America said there is quote huge
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anxiety about how to support and maintain the current workforce.
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The organization has been coaching its twenty seven thousand members
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about what to do if I shows up to a
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site or starts inquiring about paperwork. The group is also
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exploring ways to help people who have lawful status secure
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citizenship or other protection, since quote lawful status today might
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not be lawful status tomorrow. Since January, agriculture has been
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one of the few sectors that has weathered less enforcement action. Comparatively,
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the immigration Lawyers said more than forty of labors employed
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by agriculture are undocumented. That's according to a twenty twenty
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two estimate by the Agriculture Department and the director of
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Policy at the California Farm Bureau, Brian Little, who is
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regularly in touch with farmers throughout the state, said he
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hadn't heard of a single enforcement action targeting the state's
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farmer since Trump retook the White House. But on Tuesday,
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word spread of raids on some farms in southern California.
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Our next story from the front page of Today's Washington
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Post is headlined what it takes to get a Trump Pardon,
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Loyalty Connections or the Pardons are And It's written by
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Emily Davies and Perry Stein. One civil rights attorney seeking
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clemency foreign imprisoned client scored an invite to mar A
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Lago and then approached President Donald Trump as he dined.
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An advocate comb through sentencing memos to find details she
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thought would resonate with the political appointees now in charge.
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A lawyer flew to Memphis to have lunch at the
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home of the pardon Czar as a position created by
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President Trump. Since taking office in January, Trump has upended
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the federal pardoning process, including the White House's authority over
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a task that was until now largely governed by Justice
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Apartment guidelines. And although many presidents have issued controversial pardons
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and circumvented their lawyer's advice, Trump has far outpaced its
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predecessors during the first year of his term, and often
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done so with public flare relishing, one of the few
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unrestrained powers of the president. People are making money off
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the new system. Trump's pardon frenzy has given rise to
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a lucrative cottage industry of high powered lawyers connected to
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the White House who seek his attention on behalf of
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their convicted clients. In some cases, applicants have hired big
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name lawyers who can charge hefty legal fees. In others,
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clients leverage their own connections to mar Lago or members
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of Trump's inner circle. Although ethics experts said the shift
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undermines the process that's designed to ensure fairness, administration officials
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argue that the existing backlog system fails incarcerated people who
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sometimes wait years to be considered. I'm not interested in
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who's connected to the President or who's connected to anyone else,
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said Alice Johnson, who's Trump's pardons are. She added, I
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look at each individual case and what they've done, and
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if this person is ready to re enter society, and
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if they've paid their debt. Advocates and attorneys have gone
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to great lengths to get their cases before the White House.
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In interviews, they described a four pronged approach to getting
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the pen's attention, appealing directly to Trump on TV shows
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he watches or places he's known to go, making large
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monetary contributions to businesses and groups affiliated with him, forging
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relationships with the Justice Department's pardon office, and engaging desire herself.
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You can't blame people for trying to go through the
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back door if the front door is locked, said Amy Povah,
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who's a former inmate and founder of a clemency advocacy
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group that advocated for a woman pardon last month. At
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the center of it all is Johnson, a widely respected
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criminal justice advocate whose conviction for federal drug and money
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laundering charges was wiped away by Trump during his first
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term as pardon czaar, Johnson said in an interview she
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consults Justice Department attorneys to sift through court and prison records,
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but relies mostly on her lived experience and the instincts
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of the president. I advocated for this process to be
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more effective and quicker and not get hung up in
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the DOJ, said Johnson, whose own case captured Trump's attention
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with the help of reality TV star Kim Kardashian. The
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president wanted it to be in the White House. Trump's
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hiring of Johnson to oversee clemency actions increase the White
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House's influence over how cases are evaluated, power that administration
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officials have said is needed to expedite consideration. More than
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eight thousand clemency applications are awaiting vetting by the Justice Department.
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That's according to the latest Department figures. Most applicants are
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currently incarcerated and are seeking commutations to cut their sentences short.
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Some of Trump's recipients fit a profile similar to grant
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recipients in previous administrations. Others, critics say stood out for
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their demonstrations of loyalty to and financial investment in the president.
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On his first day in office, he pardoned nearly all
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of the roughly sixteen hundred people charged with crimes at
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the US Capitol on January sixth, twenty twenty one, a
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move that had absolved rioters of any legal ramifications for
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their involvement in one of the most defiant, divisive events
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in American history. Since then, he's granted clemency to dozens
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of other Americans. Trump last month pardoned Paul Walchak, a
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former businessman who played guilty to tax crimes, after Walchak's
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mother attended a million dollar dinner and supported the president's
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According to The New York Times, Trevor Milton, the Nicola
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founder convicted of securities fraud and wire fraud, was pardoned
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after he donated more than one million dollars to Trump's campaign.
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His longtime attorney in the case as the brother of
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Attorney General Pam Bondi, though a person familiar with the
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matter strictly speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss
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information not made public, said Brad Bondy was not involved
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in the pardon application. Trump also pardoned Julie Chrizly and
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Ted Chrisley, reality stars who were only a fraction through
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their prison sentences for tax evasion and fraud defrauding banks.
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Johnson said she introduced the Grizzlies case to the president
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after the daughter, Savannah Chrizzly, who spoke at the Republican
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National Convention and supported Trump, approached her and convinced her
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of its merits. She declined to say where the two met.
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He's taking away the legitimacy of courts, jury verdicts, even
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prosecutions by his own Department of Justice, said Lezoyer, who's
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a former Justice Department Party attorney whom the Trump administration
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fired in March. The White House does adhere to the
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Justice Department's manual for clemency actions, set an administration official
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who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal processes.
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Clemency petitions recommended for presidential approval have typically wound their
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way through multiple rounds of reviews by federal prosecutors and
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met recommendations laid out in the Justice Department's Clemency Manual.
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Under the guidelines, applicants must show remorse and need high
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standards of productivity for extended periods after they complete their sentences.
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The process has taken on added importance since America's prison
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population swelled in the nineteen nineties under harsh sentencing laws.
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Those laws were later overhauled, but didn't typically provide relief
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to those who were already incarcerated. Trump, who has found
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guilty last year on thirty four felony counts of falsifying
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business records and process he had cried as slanted, is
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made criminal justice revision a focus in his office. Johnson
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said the flaws in the system she experienced firsthand shaped
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the changes she's implementing. Is czar. In her first few
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months on the job, for example, she paid closer attention
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to the views of prison staffs and prosecution offices that
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last engage with the person decades earlier. She stressed that
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she collaborates with the Justice Department, and that White House
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Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and White House Consul David
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Warrington review every case before it reaches the President. Rachel Barcoe,
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a president professor rather in the NYU's School of Law
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and expert inclemency Power, commended Johnson for taking fewer accues
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from prosecutors, but questioned, quote, if you now have to
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go through the White House and alice, their truly equal
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access for everyone. Before for assuming her new job, Johnson
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joined Kanye West and others and fighting for clemency for
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Larry Hoover, once an infamous gang leader in the Midwest.
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Hoover's attorneys, Justin Moore and Josh Dubin credit her with
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his commutation last month. She sees herself and Larry Dubin says,
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and she's Larry In herself. Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia
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sheriff convicted of federal bribery and fraud charges. At the
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end of the Biden administration, found a champion and Trump
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appointee at Martin. That's according to two people familiar with
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the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity to
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share private discussions. Martin, whose nomination by Trump to serve
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as the top federal prosecutor in DC stalled in the Senate.
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He was sworn in last month as the Justice Department's
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pardon Attorney. Martin was also named the head of Justice
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Department's new weaponization. Those are dual roles that could give
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him the power to review past prosecutions he perceives as
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politically motivated and then push to grant those defendants clemency.
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Presidents typically reserve controversial pardons for the end of their terms.
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Republicans and Democrats criticized former President Joe Biden for granting
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broad pardons to his son Hunter and other relatives as
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he left office, fearing that those unusual and personal clemency
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actions could be used as justification by former presidents or
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future presidents rather to abuse the pardon process. In January,
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John Yue, a law professor at the University of California
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at Berkeley who served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in
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the George W. Bush administration, wrote an op ed and
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Newsweek praising Trump for allowing criminal processes to play out
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before granting pardons, unlike Biden, who issued a s series
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of preemptive clemency actions. The piece was titled, sorry, Biden's
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pardons are much worse than Trump's after last month's pardon,
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so you changed his mind. It's like a celebrity pardon athon,
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he said. Saw these people with well known cases, but
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it's not because great matters of state are involved. That
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week in May, Johnson walked into the Oval office with
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case files for people she hoped would get a second chance.
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On our list. A woman who helped her husband run
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a drug trafficking organization, a man who led efforts to
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impeach Biden while imprisoned for fraud, and Hoover, the former
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gangster who built one of the most sprawling criminal enterprises
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in the Midwest. Johnson said she had chosen some candidates
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after conversations with her attorneys, including one who joined her
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in Memphis for lunch. Johnson said she doesn't tend to
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invite attorneys to her home, but made an exception during
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a particularly busy time in her schedule. Others advocated directly
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to the president in a dining room in his Mari
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Lago estate, on the stage of the Republican National Convention,
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and on Fox News. During her meeting with Trump, Johnson
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said he approved of some of her nominations and rejected others.
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She said the president was invested in each case. The
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next day, he pardoned seventeen of the people she had
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presented and commuted the sentences of eight others. Our next
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story from the front page of Today's Washington Post is
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headlined military parade, Big protests will be fueling clashing visions
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of America, and it's written by Naftali Ben David. In Washington,
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tanks will roll down the streets, plains will streak overhead,
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and bands will pump out military tunes as soldier's parade
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before a president who embraces a gilded, muscular form of
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patriotism and whose birthday it is. Across the country, demonstrators
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will flood hundreds of cities and towns, making speeches and
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holding no King signs to denounce what they see as
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President Donald Trump's authoritarian tactics in disregard for the Constitution.
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The Saturday, I'll see one of the starkest displays of
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America's division since Trump took office, as contrasting visions of
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America unfold and vivid colors on the country streets. The
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confrontation now playing out in Los Angeles is certain to
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fuel both sides, as some Americans cheer Trump's strong hand
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and quashing purported chaos, and others to cry what they
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see as his growing embrace of authoritarian tactics. Trump's critics
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are especially inflamed by the notion that the president would
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host a military parade on its birthday, which they say
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carries an unmistakable width of authoritarianism. Americans and particular veterans,
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see this as a vanity endeavor for Donald Trump, said
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Representative Jason Crowe is a former Army ranger who served
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in Iraq and Afghanistan. You have massive cuts to veterans'
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healthcare and troops away from their families for years over
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the last decade, fighting wars on terror and barracks falling
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apart in many posts, and will spend over fifty million
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dollars to or old tanks through the streets of DC.
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Doesn't add up. Trump has long made clear his desire
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for a dramatic military parade the showcase America's military might,
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a display that has traditionally been more common in other countries.
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June fourteenth is Flag Day, as well as the two
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hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the US Army's founding, and
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the White House says the fact that's also Trump's seventy
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ninth birthday is a coincident. Sean Spicer, an officer in
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the Naval Reserve who served as the White House spokesman
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in the Trump first term, noted the president seized on
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the idea of military parades years ago after seeing one
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as part of France's observation of Best Steel Day. The
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idea of kings and his birthday, that's manufacturer. He hasn't
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brought it up, said Spicer. The only people mentioning his
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birthday are people in the media on the left. As
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a confrontation in La drags on, shaping up as a
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pivotal moment and Trump's second presidency, it's becoming increasingly conflated
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with Saturday's events. Trump said the National Guard sent the
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National Guard in Marines to LA to confront protests against
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his immigration policies, and on Tuesdays, suggested a similar dynamic
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could play out on Saturday. For those people that want
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to protests are going to be met with very big force,
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Trump told reporters, making no distinction between violent and peaceful demonstrations.
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And I haven't even heard about a protest, but you
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know these are people who hate our country. In an
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address denouncing Trump's intervention in the state, California, Governor Gavin
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Newsom cited the parade as part of the president's lurge
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towards authoritarianism. We all know that this Saturday is ordering
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our American heroes the US military and forcing them to
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put on a vulgar display, Newsom said on Tuesday. Mike Madrid,
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a longtime Republican consultant who is critical of Trump, said
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the president's goal is the same in the LA confrontation
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and the DC parade, to warn opponents he's willing to
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use a military in unorthodox ways. Organizers say their plans
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for a Saturday No King's Protest and Los Angeles are
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moving forward and that the recent immigration focused protests only
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confirmed the need for it. They add that they are
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stressing non violence and all their planning. But the parade
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was a volatile subject long before the LA protests, with
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Trump adversaries seizing on it as the epitome of his
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crude self regard. Still, not everyone who supports the parade
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is an unequivocal Trump fan. Ty Si Duel, a military
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his historian at Hamilton College, who retired as a brigadier
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general after thirty six years in the Army, said he
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initially had mixed feelings about the parade, but he claim
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came to view it as a rear chance to highlight
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the US Army, a storied and unappreciated organization. Is it
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the same day as his birthday? Yes, but it's also
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the Army's birthday, Siduel said. The Army band is not
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playing Happy Birthday. This is going to be a Marilyn
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mo Roe moment, I hope. I think it's There plenty
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other things to criticize the President for, but to me,
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if you focus just on that, you're taking away the
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opportunity to celebrate something we often don't do in this country.
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And Saturday's display could be a moment to highlight facts
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that Trump downplayed. The duel suggested, including the Army's historical
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reliance on immigrants and minorities, is an opportunity to tell
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Americans that we reflect society for better and for worse.
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The duels said Trump's habit of seizing on traditional patriotic
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symbols as the American flag, Mount Rushmore, and the Declaration
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of Independence while using forceful tactics at his opponency as
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un American has prompted in a renewed discussion of the
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meaning of patriotism. Since he returned to office in January.
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Trump's adversaries say he routinely seeks to whitewash US history
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and gnoring episodes of injustice and racial division in favor
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of a mythical lumb blemish past. The President and the
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supporters respond that he's pushing back against progressive's bitter obsession
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with magnifying the country's flaws and downplaying its greatness. The
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clash will get a full hearing or full airing on
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July fourth of next year, when the country celebrates its
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two hundred and fiftieth anniversary with enormous pomp. Trump is
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signaling is intent to use add ocasion to promote his
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vision of patriotism, including the creation of a garden of
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American heroes, a sculpture garden at the White House, says
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quote will memorialize our American heroes for generations to come.
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Which heroes do include is likely to be the subject
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of fierce argument in Saturay's parade. His protests are the
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immediate flash points at a recent hearing of the House
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Armed Services Committee representatives Salute Carbogle suggested the parade's forty
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five million dollars to fifty million dollar price tag makes
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little sense in a time of cuts in military programs.
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If Congress wrote the Army of forty five million dollar
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blank check, do you think the Army could find a
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better way to spend that money than a parade? Carbagel
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asked an Army secretary Daniel Driscoll responded that the birthday
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celebration will spur a recruiting boom that'll fill up our
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pipeline for years to come, so the money will be
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well spent, and Representative Derrek van Orden, a Republican from Wisconsin, added,
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you can't put a price tag on patriotism. You just can't.
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In celebrating, arguably, not even arguably, the best army that
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has ever existed in the history of the planet, deserves attention.
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At the celebration in Washington, one hundred and fifty vehicles,
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dozens of helicopters, various planes, and sixty seven hundred soldiers
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are expected to take power. According to the Army and
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the Army's parachute team, the Golden Knights will drop into
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the event, delivering an American flag to Trump, who will
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be watching the proceedings from a reviewing stand. The President
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will also enlist and re enlist two hundred and fifty
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civilians and soldiers, and beyond the paraded self, the day
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will include a fireworks display, military demonstrations, and country music performances.
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At the same time, activist groups such as Indivisible, five
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oh five oh one, the American Federation of Teachers, and
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Black Voters Matter are planning to turn out thousands of
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protesters for the No King's nationwide Day of Defiance that
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they say will include marches and rallies in about two
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thousand locations. In some places, activists will spell out no
30:26
Kings on a beach or used cards to spell it
30:29
out on a field. Trump is trying to claim that
30:32
he owns the country, that he is the ruler of
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this country, said Ezra Levin, a co founder of Indivisible.
30:39
By holding a military parade, it's his attempt to quit
30:43
the American government with himself. These protests will see a
30:47
lot of patriotism, a lot of flags, a lot of
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veterans on stages talking about their service or not seating
30:54
the ground of patriotism In last Friday, thousands of veterans
30:58
rallied against Trump's proposed cuts to the Department of Veterans
31:02
Affairs in the overhaul of the federal workforce that came
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at a Unite for Veterans protests on the National Mall.
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Crow agreed that many veterans will take part in Saturday's protests,
31:14
adding that the troops taking part in the parade are
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probably not happy about it, given how unpopular parade duty
31:21
is in the military. On my three combat tours, we
31:24
will focus. We were focused on fighting, being physically fit,
31:28
and getting better at the mission. And if we had
31:31
any time we wanted, it was to be with our families.
31:34
The congressman said, I guarantee you those six thousand troops
31:38
preparing to engage in this parade would rather be doing
31:41
something else. Trump this week framed the event partly as
31:45
a response to the fact that, unlike other nations, the
31:48
United States had not been planning a commemoration of victory
31:52
in World War Two, even though quote, we're the ones
31:55
that won the war. He was equally blunt on NBC's
31:59
Meet the Press left month. We have the greatest missiles
32:02
in the world, Trump said, we have the greatest submarines
32:05
in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in
32:07
the world, we have the greatest weapons in the world,
32:09
and we're going to celebrate it. Sadul said that it's
32:13
appropriate to celebrate the accomplishments of the US Army, but
32:17
also appropriate for Americans to protest if they wish. With
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our three hundred and forty million people, we will see
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it in all ways, and I welcome that. That's the
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American way. He said. We should have this event and
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there should be people protesting. What more American event could
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you have than to have people protesting as well. Our
32:38
next story from the front page of today's Washington Post
32:42
is headline Brian Wilson, singer songwriter who created the Beach Boys,
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dies at eighty two, and it's written by Tim Page.
32:51
Brian Wilson, the founder and principal creative force of the
32:54
Beach Boys, whose catalog of early hits embodied the fantasy
32:58
of California paradise of beautiful youth and fast cars and
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endless surf, and made them the most popular American rock
33:06
group of the sixties, as died at eighty two. The
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family announced to death on his official web page, but
33:13
didn't provide further information. The Beach Boys were formed in
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nineteen sixty one in Hawthorne, California, near La by brothers
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Brian Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and
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their friend Al Jardine. In The regional success that year
33:29
of their first single, Surfin thrust them the national attention
33:33
on Capitol Record signed them almost immediately as the label's
33:37
first rock act. They would make the Billboard Top forty
33:41
list at least thirty five times. Itally unequaled by any
33:45
American band, and while each member contributed to the Beach
33:48
Boys signature Angelic Vocal HARMONONYX, mister Wilson was widely acknowledged
33:54
mastermind behind their music. A spectacularly imaginative songwriter, he was
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responsible for initial successes including Surf in the USA, Surfer Girl,
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I Get Around All Summer Long, Don't Worry Baby, Dwarm
34:09
Through the Sun, and California Girls. Such numbers evoke the
34:13
joys of hot rotting, under boundlessly blue skies, and above all,
34:18
the bronze bikini lifestyle of southern California. Yet mister Wilson
34:23
also displayed an ambitious scraftsmanship as a producer. That culminated
34:28
in the nineteen sixty six Beach Boys album Pet Sounds,
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which many critics and music historians consider the first and
34:37
greatest of all rock concept albums. Building songs around a
34:41
theme alternately celebratory and despairing, making effective musical use of
34:48
such traditional extra musical sounds as bicycle bells and car horns,
34:53
trains and barking dogs, Pet Sounds was not simply a
34:56
collection of songs, but a unified work of art, tracing
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a love affair from beginning to end, while melding in
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all but unpre precedented intimacy of expression and rock with
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near symphonic scope. The album and mister Wilson had a
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profound impact on musicians of the year and beyond. The
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Beatles acknowledged that the unity and complexity of Pet Sounds
35:22
helped inspire the inspire their similarly ambitious Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
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Hearts Club Band, which came out in nineteen sixty seven.
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The mystical singer songwriter Judy Sill, later heralded by many
35:36
critics as an overlooked genius, based her first finish piece,
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Lady Oh, in nineteen seventy one directly on the album's
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emotional climax, I just wasn't made for these times, and
35:49
Bob Dylan admired the immaculately polished sound in The Beach
35:52
Boy's recordings, telling Newsweek that ear I mean Jesus, he's
35:57
got to will that to the Smithsonian. From the beginning,
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the Beach Boys were wildly successful. Their work combined traditional
36:05
American songwriting and the manner of Stephen Foster and George Gershwin,
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close barbershop harmonics appropriated from other groups such as The
36:14
Four Freshmen, and the lushly ornate wall of sound production
36:18
values of Phil Spector and the exuberant rock and roll
36:22
of Chuck Berry. Mister Wilson increasingly moved away from songwriting
36:27
formulas and turned instead to a deeply personal, outsider mode
36:31
of creation that tested the boundaries of sound, harmonies and
36:36
song structures. A two thousand and seven article in The
36:40
New Yorker by music critics Sasha fair Jones went so
36:44
far as to call mister Jones indies rock mews, and
36:48
it's hard to imagine the works of such latter day
36:50
bands as Hi Lamas and Yolo Tango and Belle and
36:54
Sebastian without his influence. Although the Beach Boys occasionally recorded
36:59
songs by other musicians and including members of the band,
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mister Wilson's brother Dennis summed up the group as Brian's
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quote messengers. Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys, he said
37:11
in nineteen seventy one. He is all of it period
37:14
where nothing, He's everything. Yet there was an abiding pathos
37:18
in mister Wilson's best records. It consisted not merely of
37:22
the idealized scenes that songs depicted, but also the fact
37:27
that they were created by a depressed, socially awkward, partially
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deaf young man who never surfed or much liked the beach,
37:35
and spent a great deal of time alone in his room. Indeed,
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mister Wilson led what was often an unhappy and unsettled
37:44
life and suffered a break down in the late nineteen
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sixties that drastically curtailed his life in later work. As
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he expressed in one of his most personal songs, Till
37:55
I Die, released on the nineteen seventy one album Surfs Up,
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he wrote, I'm a cork on the ocean, floating over
38:03
the raging sea. A deep is the Ocean A Deep
38:06
is the Ocean I Lost My Way. At the height
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of their career, the Beach Boys were under pressure to
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turn out song after song, album after album while making
38:17
live concert appearances throughout the US and abroad. The album
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shut Down Volume two All Summer Long, The Beach Boys Today,
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and Summer Days and Summer Nights were all released between
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March nineteen sixty four in July nineteen sixty five, each
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one representing a giant leap for mister Wilson as composer,
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arranger and producer. And during the same period, a succession
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of British groups, led by The Beatles, came to the
38:44
US and knocked The Beach Boys from their perch near
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the top of the charts. By nineteen sixty five, mister Wilson,
38:51
increasingly troubled and anxious, it stopped touring with the band
38:55
with the express intent of devoting himself exclusively to production
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and songwriting. Pet Sounds, released in May nineteen sixty six,
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dazzled everyone, from Paul McCartney, who once called God only
39:09
Knows the greatest pop song ever written, to the conductor
39:13
and composer Leonard Bernstein, who conducted his warmly appreciative national
39:18
telecast exploration of rock with mister Wilson at home playing
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alone at the piano. But Pet Sounds sold relatively poorly
39:27
when it came out, and an internessin struggle had begun
39:30
begun within the Beach Boys, one that would prove disastrous
39:35
for all concerned. Some members of the band, and particularly
39:39
Mike Love, the frontman, during live performances, were vehemently opposed
39:43
any deviation from what had become an exceedingly lucrative formula,
39:48
while mister Wilson overstressed overindulge. This ponded, drugged and dissipated,
39:54
was increasingly out of sight and out of touch. At
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home in Los Angeles, Miss Wilson worked on what he
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hoped would be his magnum opis, a vast abstracted suit
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called Smile. He had a custom made sandpit built in
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the house to summon the order of the beach. Never
40:12
before had so much time and money been spent on
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a single recording. There eventually were seventy two studio sessions.
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A bejeweled single, Good Vibrations, featuring an electro Thereman, went
40:26
immediately to number one, and anticipation for the album was intense.
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A Complete or The Complete Smile was announced for release
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in early nineteen sixty seven and then postponed indefinitely at
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mister William Wilson's insistence he had begun to suffer what
40:43
would later be diagnosed as CIS schizo effective disorder with
40:48
in incessant auditory hallucinations and paranoia. He reached a nator
40:55
when he became convinced that a two minute cut he
40:57
called Missus O'Leary's Cow the Fire, part of a so
41:01
called elements section on Smile that also contained musical evocations
41:06
of earth, air, and fire, was somehow by its very existence,
41:11
igniting blazes all over Los Angeles County. Mister Wilson then attempted,
41:16
unsuccessfully to destroy the tapes before entering a long despondency.
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For most of the following decade, mister Wilson was a
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near complete recluse. He contributed one or two songs to
41:28
Beach Boy's recordings, which still came out on occasion, but
41:32
sold miserably. The group was often dismissed as hopelessly old fashioned.
41:37
During the psychedelic late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies.
41:42
In Yon Winner, the co founder and first editor of
41:44
Rolling Stone Magazine went so far as to dismiss claims
41:49
of mister Wilson's genius as essentially a promotional shock. A
41:54
quickly made substitute for Smile, titled Smiley's Smile, was finally
41:59
issued and nineteen sixty seven to dismal reviews and poor sales,
42:04
and the Beach Boys never recovered their creative momentum. Tracks
42:08
from the original Smile project leaked out on albums twenty
42:12
twenty and nineteen sixty nine, Sunflower and nineteen seventy and
42:16
Surfs Up in nineteen seventy one. In two thousand and four,
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a supposed completed version was issued by mister Wilson and
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tandem with his lyricists and collaborator Van Dyke Parks and
42:29
in Los Angeles band called The Wonderments. It took until
42:33
twenty eleven for mister Wilson's original Smile recordings to be
42:38
released in their entirety, and the music was just as gorgeous, giddy, ambitious,
42:43
and strange as had been expected in these discs. Mister
42:47
Wilson is better understood as a composer of electroacoustical soundscapes
42:53
than as a traditional songwriter. The disc was made up
42:57
of fractured, a laboratory, elaborately ornamented musical tablue, distinguished by
43:03
their brevity, concentration, and sheer sonic splendor that flowered in
43:08
the ear. In nineteen seventy four, of the Beach Boys
43:11
without mister Wilson had been discovered as a live oldies
43:15
act and began to make an enormous amount of money
43:18
again in concert and with their back catalog, the group
43:22
began a strenuous campaign to convince the world that Brian
43:25
is back. Mister Wilson appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live
43:30
in nineteen seventy six. He participated in an hour long
43:33
television celebration of the band. Annie began to make occasional
43:38
appearances with the group, during which she most of the
43:41
time he looked terrified and unhappy. Buddy managed to write
43:45
every song on the nineteen seventy seven album Love You
43:48
poignan charming and strangely childlike disc that captivates despite mister
43:54
Wilson's startling, ragged vocals. Given the album an A. Giving
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the album an A in the Consumer Guide column he
44:02
wrote for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christigau summed it
44:06
up painfully cracked, pot and painfully sung, but also inspired,
44:11
not least because it calls forth forbidden emotions. For a
44:15
surrogate teenager to bear his growing pain so guilelessly was exciting,
44:19
at least charming. For an avowed adult to expose an
44:23
almost childlikeness to naivete is embarrassing, but also cathartic. Still,
44:29
the argument about whether mister Wilson was in fact back
44:33
persisted for the rest of his life. He spent much
44:36
of his life struggling with cocaine and other drugs, drastic
44:39
weight fluctuations, and depression and mental illness, and his recoveries
44:44
seemed both tentative and temporary. For a long period he
44:48
was under almost total control by a psychologist who was
44:51
later stripped of his license. In later life, mister Wilson
44:55
seemed to stabilize somewhat with improved psychiatric medication, and his
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marriage to Melinda ledbetter Wilson, who took charge of his
45:04
career as well as his person. He towered. He toured
45:08
with an hoorage that guarded him fiercely and gently, but
45:12
his auditory hallucinations they never abated. I dread the derogatory
45:17
voices I hear during the afternoon, he reflected during an
45:20
interview with Ability magazine in two thousand and six. They
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say things like I'm going to die soon, and I
45:27
have to deal with those negative thoughts. But it's not
45:30
as bad as it used to be. When I'm on stage,
45:32
I try to combat the voices by singing real loud.
45:36
When I'm not on stage, I play my instruments all day,
45:38
making music for people. Also, I kissed my wife and
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I kiss my kids. I try to use love as
45:44
much as possible. Ryan Douglas Wilson was born in Inglewood, California,
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suburb of la on June twentieth, nineteen forty two. He
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grew up in nearby Hawthorne, where his father owned a
45:57
machinery company. His father, Murray, had of musical ambitions that
46:01
were never realized, and was by all accounts of physically abusive,
46:06
tyrant and a heavy drinker. When he didn't put his
46:09
hands on us, he tried to scare us in other ways.
46:12
Mister Wilson later wrote in his memoir I Am Brian Wilson,
46:16
he would take out his glass eye and make us
46:18
look into the space where the eye used to be Murray.
46:21
Wilson derided his children, especially Bryant, his talentless and undisciplined. Undisciplined,
46:27
despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Brian had written his
46:31
first song at five and learned to play the piano
46:34
by watching his father. Playing the piano had become a
46:37
way to drown out family fights. During high school, mister
46:41
Wilson was a capable student who played baseball and football
46:44
and ran across country. But his great interest was music,
46:48
and when he received a wall and sack tape recorder
46:51
for his sixteenth birthday birthday, he enlisted his younger brothers
46:55
singing familiar songs and playing them back, all the while
46:58
listening closely critical I heard the del vikings, the coasters,
47:03
and the platters. They blew me away, mister Wilson told
47:06
The Washington Times. I learned how to make harmonies. I
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learned how to sing with love in my voice from
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Rosemary Clooney. Nineteen sixty one, while a student at El
47:15
Camino College, he wrote his first pop song, based on
47:19
the Disney standard When You Wish Upon a Star, was
47:22
later known as Surfer Girl. His group, originally called the Pendletons,
47:27
made its first appearance. That same year, when the first single,
47:31
Surfin was released on small LA label called Candix, mister
47:35
Wilson and his band were surprised to learn at the
47:38
record company I changed their name to the Beach Boys.
47:42
Dennis Wilson once described the first time the Beach Boys
47:45
heard Surfing on the radio. They were driving through LA
47:48
during a winter rainstorm and the song came on unexpectedly.
47:52
Nothing will ever top the expression on Brian's face ever,
47:55
he recalled, that was the all time moment. Their first
47:59
national hit was Surfing USA and homage to Barry that
48:03
was based on his Sweet Little sixteen. The borrowings were obvious.
48:07
Berry had offered a version of People rockin all over
48:10
the country. Mister Wilson changed after Surfin and out of
48:13
breaking chorus. Barry's lawyers threatened a lawsuit and they won
48:17
a songwriter's credit for his inspiration. And after mister Wilson
48:23
mostly withdrew from the Beach Boys, he stayed in bed
48:26
much of the time, put on waight, and became addicted
48:29
to alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. In nineteen seventy six, at
48:33
first wife Marilyn Rovel, sought help and found an unconventional
48:38
Hollywood therapist named Eugene Landy to take over his care
48:42
of the rapidly deteriorating husband. Landy assembled a team that
48:47
included himself, another doctor in nutritionness, and a group of
48:50
handlers to watch him twenty four hours a day. He
48:53
charged a monthly fee that was said to exceed twenty
48:56
thousand dollars and later estimated that mister Wilson ate him
49:00
more than three million dollars between nineteen eighty three and
49:04
ninety one. For a while, he also lived in mister
49:08
Wilson's mansion. In nineteen eighty nine, Landy's licensed practice psychology
49:13
was stripped by the state of California, but he continued
49:17
to work with mister Wilson and claimed the third of
49:19
the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars advance for a
49:22
spurious nineteen ninety one autobiography named Wouldn't It Be Nice. Eventually,
49:28
mister Wilson, with the strong support of his family and
49:31
the rest of the Beach Boys, took out a restraining
49:34
order to break his last ties with Landy. Mister Wilson's
49:38
brother Dennis drowned in nineteen eighty three, and his brother
49:41
Carl died of cancer in nineteen ninety eight. Mister Wilson's
49:45
relationship with the rest of the Beach Boys devolved into
49:49
a squalid series of suits and countersuits that lasted until
49:53
the three surviving members of the band, mister Wilson, Love
49:57
and Jardine, joined forces with David Marx and Bruce Johnston,
50:02
both of whom had been Beach Boys at one point
50:04
or another, to play together again in twenty twelve. An
50:09
album That's Why God Made the Radio was issued that June,
50:12
and the group embarked on a fiftieth anniversary tour. But
50:16
the last official Beach Boys hit had been Kokomo in
50:19
nineteen eighty eight, with which mister Wilson had nothing to
50:23
do and initially sold more copies than any of their
50:26
earlier songs, largely because of its inclusion in the Tom
50:30
Cruise movie Cocktail. That same year, mister Wilson released its
50:35
first solo album, titled Brian Wilson. It had encouraging reviews.
50:40
It was his first collection of new songs in more
50:42
than a decade. The opening piece, Love and Mercy, became
50:46
mister Wilson's signature piece that also became the title of
50:50
a twenty fourteen biopic film featuring two actors Paul Dano
50:55
and John Cusack playing the younger mister Wilson. Further solo disappeared,
51:00
and in two thousand and two mister Wilson recorded a
51:03
live version of pet Sounds as part of a world tour.
51:07
By then he had recovered much of his original vocal losser,
51:11
but the new rendition seemed alarmingly robotic, as though it
51:14
had been learned rather than felt. Indeed, in later years
51:18
he grew increasingly adept at playing Brian Wilson on stage,
51:23
but he never appeared fully comfortable doing much more. His
51:26
hard truth for those of us who love and admire
51:29
him to admit, but it can be painful to see
51:32
Wilson in concert. Will Hodgittskin, chief rock and pop critic
51:36
for the Times of London, wrote that in twenty eighteen,
51:41
the Wilson talent lived on in another generation, as mister
51:44
Wilson's daughters, Carney and Wendy Wilson by Rovel, made names
51:49
for themselves as the two thousand or two thirds of
51:52
the band. Wilson phillips his marriage to Revel, which had
51:56
long been complicated by affairs in his precarious mental state
52:00
collapsed in the late nineteen seventies. In nineteen ninety five,
52:04
he married Ledbetter, a model and car saleswoman who became
52:08
his manager and with whom he had five children. She
52:12
died rather in twenty twenty four at age seventy seven.
52:16
Melinda was more than my wife, mister Wilson wrote on
52:19
Instagram after her death. She was my savior. She gave
52:22
me the emotional security I needed to have a career.
52:26
She encouraged me to make the music that was closest
52:29
to my heart. She was my anchor. After Ledbetter's death,
52:33
mister Wilson's family sought to place him under a conservatorship,
52:37
saying that he was taking medication for dementia and quote
52:41
enable to properly provide for his own personal needs for
52:45
physical help. The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock
52:49
and Roll Hall of Fame in two thousand or rather
52:52
nineteen eighty eight, and mister Wilson received the Kennedy Center
52:56
Honors in two thousand and seven for being quote rock
52:59
and rolls great revolutionary and for a body of work
53:02
that was called ver vulnerable and sincere, authentic and unmistakably American.
53:09
In twenty ten he made a recording of his favorite
53:12
Gershwin songs, and in twenty twenty one he released at
53:17
My Piano, a selection of mister Wilson's songs played simply,
53:21
lovingly and somewhat anxiously by their composer. For all of
53:26
the Beach Boys musical and fascuation with the care free
53:29
life in the surf, mister Wilson admitted to getting quanked
53:33
on the head the one time he tried to ride
53:35
a wave, but in summing up the band's most enduring esthetic,
53:40
he told The Sunday Times of London in twenty nineteen
53:44
that Southern California was quote more about the idea of
53:47
going in the ocean than actually going in the ocean.
53:51
I like to look at the sea, though, he added,
53:53
it was like a piece of music. Each wave was
53:56
moving around by itself, but they were also moving together.
54:00
Our next story from the front page of the Washington
54:03
Post is headlined FBI leaders seek to move some training
54:07
from Quantico, Virginia to Alabama, and is written by Perry Stein,
54:11
Caro Lenoing, Ellen Nakashima, and Gregory Schneider. FBI leadership is
54:17
pushing to move one of the bureau's elite training academies
54:21
from Quantico, Virginia to Huntsville, Alabama's, according to multiple people
54:26
familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of
54:29
anonymity to discuss a proposal that hasn't yet been made public.
54:34
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bonino's effort to relocate the National
54:39
Academy that's a ten week training program for local and
54:42
international law enforcement and federal agents who are not with
54:46
the FBI, is part of the Trump's administration's broader goal
54:50
of shrinking the bureau's footprint in Washington, DC area and
54:54
relocating personnel to Huntsville. The FBI has a separate, separated
55:00
training program for new bureau hires in Bojino is also
55:04
considered considering whether to move that academy to Huntsville, though
55:08
the option hasn't yet been proposed. That's according to a
55:11
senior FBI official who spoke on the condition of anonymity
55:15
to discuss internal deliberations. Other parts of the FBI's Quantico facilities,
55:21
including the bureau's laboratory division, would remain at the sprawling
55:25
campus in northern Virginia under the proposed pilot plan. The
55:29
people familiar with the discussion, said ANI spokesperson said the
55:35
bureau is exploring relocation proposals that would optimize its facilities
55:40
and be cost effective, but didn't offer further details. Virginia
55:45
Democrats denounced the proposal, while lawmakers fearing that the FBI
55:49
shrinking its presence in the Washington suburb would be a
55:52
blow to the local economy. I'm concerned that this is
55:57
just the start of a targeted effort to economically hurt
56:00
northern Virginia, said Delegate Candy Mundan King from Prince william
56:06
who represents the area in the Virginia House of Delegates.
56:09
She added, these are jobs we're losing, which impacts our
56:12
local community. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who has
56:18
cultivated a close relationship with President Trump and defended his
56:22
efforts to slash the federal workforce, also question the proposal.
56:27
Quantico remains the best place to train America's FBI un
56:31
controlled the Washington Post and a statement after the initial
56:35
publication of the article. I'm speaking with leadership at the
56:38
FBI and DOJ to make sure Quantico remains the centerpiece
56:43
of FBI training now and in the future. The senior
56:47
FBI official, said Bogino he believes relocating the academy to
56:52
Huntsville would make better use of new facilities that are underutilized.
56:57
Bureau leaders appointed by the Trump administration see an opportunity
57:01
for more advanced training for law enforcement officers, particularly in
57:06
combating cyber intrusions and digital fraud and theft. This visuals said.
57:12
Some career FBI personnel have questioned the cost and efficiency
57:16
of the proposed move. Several people familiar with the matter
57:19
said that the FBI's training facilities at Quantico were recently upgraded,
57:25
and the people familiar with the discussion said critics don't
57:28
think Huntsville would have comparable facilities without there being significant
57:33
new funding. The Bureau has been undergoing major personnel and
57:38
other changes since Trump took office and selected as longtime
57:42
ally Cash all I rather Cash Patel to lead the bureau.
57:46
The administration later chose Bojino Outspoken podcasts hosts to spend
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twelve years at the Secret Service, including on presidential detail
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as the director Deputy Director. That job historically had been
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held by a career FBI veteran. And that concludes the
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reading of the Washington Post for Today, June twelfth, twenty
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