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Wicked Radio 12-16: Brown U., and D.C. - Question The Incompetence, Plus Ford Drops EV's! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Remember we used to live under this assumption a different era,
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  Speaker 1: not that long ago, but still a different eras like,
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  Speaker 1: let public officials do their job. Don't throw out these
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  Speaker 1: wild conspiracy theories, you know, don't do that, don't throw
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  Speaker 1: out this weight for the facts, right, just wait for
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  Speaker 1: the facts. And that made perfect sense, absolute perfect sense,
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  Speaker 1: and what we should have done right back. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the problem. Then we ran into this crisis of incompetence,
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  Speaker 1: which we do have in our country right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's well established. We just do everything. Every single sector,
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  Speaker 1: every area, every state, every city. We've got incompetent public
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  Speaker 1: officials that not only don't know what they're doing for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, and not all of them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: no big general assumption out of meet today, not all
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  Speaker 1: of them, but for the most part, many of them
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  Speaker 1: have no idea and have no idea how to at
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  Speaker 1: least inform the public in this day and age of
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  Speaker 1: digital media when we go, for the most part, look
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  Speaker 1: up this information for ourselves. Case in point, the Brown
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  Speaker 1: University investigation out of Providence, Rhode Island, in the shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Still nothing, nothing going on. But it's worse than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's what they refuse to talk about and how they're
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  Speaker 1: relaying the message that makes it even worse. Speaking of incompetence,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Washington, d C. This confirms exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you and I were talking about before. A good,
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  Speaker 1: smart war on drugs apparently has been launched. This was
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  Speaker 1: this was good Trump yesterday out of the White House.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. It's not just about the
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  Speaker 1: fentleel issue. And Ford has dropped electric vehicles. Shocker you
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  Speaker 1: mean you mean the vehicle that the public never wanted,
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  Speaker 1: consumers didn't ask for. Ford knew wasn't gonna work, but
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  Speaker 1: was forced by by an administration to start to manufacture.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wanted those. Shocker, I tell you, just a shocker. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into all that stuff and lightened it up
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  Speaker 1: at the end. Thanks for finding Wicked Radio. Appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: live here now. And you know, if you're watching or
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  Speaker 1: listening of the replay later on, maybe they do have
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  Speaker 1: a suspect at Brown in custody. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: as we speak right now live they don't. But speaking
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  Speaker 1: of the replay, all your favorit channels on x and
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  Speaker 1: YouTube and on Facebook and the audio podcast as well
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  Speaker 1: posted as soon as we get off here. But let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about it right now, the Brown investing, because this
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  Speaker 1: kind of ties in ironically to all the other incompetents
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. It's just a glaring example of it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's check. Let me look right now, let me do
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  Speaker 1: a quick cert did they find Do they have a
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  Speaker 1: suspect in custody at the Brown University shooting?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, no, absolutely not. How many days they barely have
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  Speaker 1: video of the guy a bit eight billion dollar endowment
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  Speaker 1: as we were saying yesterday, had Brown University, no video,
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  Speaker 1: no description, no height thing, no facial recognition, no nothing,
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  Speaker 1: no no. But it's worse than that. The investigators on
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  Speaker 1: the scene. Now you've got university cops who, let's face,
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  Speaker 1: it's an IVY League school, what kind of trouble They
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  Speaker 1: busting up frat parties, that's what they're used to. But
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  Speaker 1: then also Providence Rhode Islands, which is a you know,
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  Speaker 1: mid level major city that they're investigation part of this too, obviously, right,
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  Speaker 1: who are supposedly reportedly in impeeding the investigation of the
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  Speaker 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation the FBI in this They could
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  Speaker 1: not have screwed this up anymore until I found this
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  Speaker 1: press conference yesterday. They're tired, they actually said. The mayor
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  Speaker 1: of Providence where island, came out and said, guys, we're
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  Speaker 1: just we've been working a lot and we're tired. We're tired.
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  Speaker 1: This was and what's interesting to note here is the
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  Speaker 1: questions from a lot of the reporters. Now you got
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  Speaker 1: national reporters on the scene and obviously local reporters too,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just not having it. The one sector here
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  Speaker 1: that's doing a great job in this investigation are the
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  Speaker 1: reporters because they're asking real questions. They're doing a great
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  Speaker 1: job with it. But you have to listen to the
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  Speaker 1: answer here from these officials, especially the mayor of Providence.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of this this is something else man Husby.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has said.
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  Speaker 4: That Brown University is just playing for this shooting and
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  Speaker 4: saying it's the school's problem.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a fair criticism or do you disagree with
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  Speaker 1: what the president?
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  Speaker 3: This question read, Cardinal, I have a john place just
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  Speaker 3: for a second, a couple of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: Brown University and Brown Public Safety, Brown Police Department has
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  Speaker 3: been a closet collaborator throughout this process.
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  Speaker 1: I do not accept that criticism.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, secondly, everyone, you see behind us, we've all
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  Speaker 5: been working for now forty nine hours.
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  Speaker 3: We're tired.
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  Speaker 1: We're tired. Okay, that's the mayor, that's the merit providence. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we've been working a lot. We reject these accusations that
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  Speaker 1: we haven't done a good job and the coordination has
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  Speaker 1: been a mess. But you know what, we're tired. Really,
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  Speaker 1: you know who's tired, the uh parents of kids who
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  Speaker 1: got shot at your university. That's who's tired. We're tired.
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  Speaker 1: But it goes deeper than that, though, and this goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the reporters in the room asking good questions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reporters are getting criticized, and people are getting criticized,
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  Speaker 1: and people like you and me are getting criticized online
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  Speaker 1: for asking questions. But you have to when get no
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  Speaker 1: answers now, unconfirmed reports unconfirmed obviously, but that's where we
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  Speaker 1: are right now, and we don't get any answers, you
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  Speaker 1: have to start asking questions about unconfirmed reports. There are
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  Speaker 1: several witnesses who are willing to go on the record
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  Speaker 1: and have spoken to independent journalists who are claiming witnesses
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  Speaker 1: to the Brown University shooter again unconfirmed that the shooter
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  Speaker 1: yelled alahuat bar before opening fire in the building unconfirmed.
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  Speaker 1: The story to me is at least the reporters are
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  Speaker 1: asking that question. The takeaway is listen to how they
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  Speaker 1: try to deflect away from that or even acknowledging that
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  Speaker 1: they're investigating that. I get that they have to say
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  Speaker 1: investigation still open, can't talk about that yet, but to
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  Speaker 1: absolutely shut down any possibility is ridiculous. Here's the I
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  Speaker 1: think this is the university.
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  Speaker 3: He is a report shooter yelled something right before a
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  Speaker 3: shot came in. Could you tell us what that what
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  Speaker 3: that was?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's part of the investigation, John and Wolche theer.
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  Speaker 3: I asked that, though, is for instance, like with the
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  Speaker 3: you and a mom or his brother recognized the writing,
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  Speaker 3: So it's possible a friend or family member might recognize
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  Speaker 3: if the person said something that was significant.
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  Speaker 4: Correctly, why you don't other.
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  Speaker 3: Than the nine millimeter? Is there anything else inside that
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  Speaker 3: auditorium that.
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  Speaker 6: You can tell them?
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  Speaker 4: No, that's correct. Listen. Like I said, earlier, investigations will
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  Speaker 4: bring us to evidence that we need to collect in
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  Speaker 4: order to be able to prosecute that.
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  Speaker 1: What would that be? Yeah, they don't have a clue.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get that they can't, you know, any investigation,
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  Speaker 1: they can't ongoing, They can't reveal everything that they absolutely know,
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  Speaker 1: but they can, actually they can. It sounded like he
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  Speaker 1: was hearing that for the first time. What people on
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  Speaker 1: the streets and that city are saying, what witnesses are saying.
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  Speaker 1: There are witnesses now, they might be students, or they
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  Speaker 1: live or they live or work around or heard that
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  Speaker 1: they're they're begging to come on the record saying they
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  Speaker 1: heard that shooter say something terroristic. True, people just trying
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  Speaker 1: to become part of the story. I don't know. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the important part. You have to ask questions. When
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  Speaker 1: you get zero information, when there's that level of non
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  Speaker 1: transparency from public officials, you have to start asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: And good for those reporters for asking those questions. You
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  Speaker 1: don't ever feel bad about asking that because it's already started.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's already started there. Well, you can't. That's
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  Speaker 1: you can't start conspiracy theories like that. No, nobody's saying that.
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  Speaker 1: But all questions, we just seek information. All questions are
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  Speaker 1: relevant when you don't have any answers from an obviously
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  Speaker 1: incompetent investigation. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely feel free, completely free
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  Speaker 1: to ask questions of the incompetent every single time. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of incompetence, here's something you and I were talking about
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. This whole story has become fascinating,
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  Speaker 1: the whole story about Washington, DC, and it relates back
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  Speaker 1: to the National Guard going in there, and then there
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  Speaker 1: was this big fight about, well, we don't need them
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  Speaker 1: because the city's safe. Look, we're gonna look, I've got
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  Speaker 1: all these got all these crime stats for you, the
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  Speaker 1: city safe. Look, Look, you don't need them. No. I
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  Speaker 1: think we learned at the time just by their react
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  Speaker 1: the Washington d C. City officials, that that seems very suspect.
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  Speaker 1: They are jumping way ahead of the gun here, jumping
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  Speaker 1: the shark, if you will, to try to go over
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  Speaker 1: and above trying to prove to people that their city
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  Speaker 1: is so safe. But something else was happening, like we
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  Speaker 1: were saying, it just wasn't driving. Because when you looked
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  Speaker 1: at real life video of investigative reporters, you know, independents
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  Speaker 1: who were on the scenes, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: videos and interviews of people who were on the streets
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, DC who were saying, this has never been
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  Speaker 1: less safe. I don't feel safe walking to the store,
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  Speaker 1: going to school, going to work. And then you started
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  Speaker 1: to hear from those same type residents and investigative journalists
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  Speaker 1: who were saying, you know, when the National Guard was
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  Speaker 1: here two weeks in, they're starting to say it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot safer. And then the DC officials came out again
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  Speaker 1: and said, no, we got the again, these crime stats,
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  Speaker 1: the city was safe. We didn't need them with this
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  Speaker 1: is because of us. Something wasn't jiving alone. Behold, turns
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  Speaker 1: out they might have been cooking the books on crime statistics,
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  Speaker 1: at least according to the House Overside Committee. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: story yesterday, and you kind of felt like this was coming.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't match. The House Overside Committee now releasing a
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  Speaker 1: report accusing the outgoing DC Police chief manipulating data to
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  Speaker 1: artificially lower crime statistics. Bill Malusian looking at the numbers,
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  Speaker 1: he's live on the hill with this Bill. What you
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  Speaker 1: find out? Bill, Good morning to you. Those House Overside
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  Speaker 1: Committee Republicans say the bottom line of what their investigation
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  Speaker 1: found is that the outgoing DC Police chief was essentially
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  Speaker 1: cooking the books. On crime data and cooking the books,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't even heard that expression in the longest time.
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  Speaker 1: The most whatever you hear cooking the books, you could
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  Speaker 1: find corruption shortly behind. Now why would they have a
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  Speaker 1: vested interest in that, Well, because they are people who
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  Speaker 1: had jobs to keep the city safe and obviously weren't
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Now, this outgoing DC police chief talked about
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  Speaker 1: her last week. That was the news that she was resigning.
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  Speaker 1: That was the telltale sign that the story was going
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  Speaker 1: to come out that they were cooking the books on
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  Speaker 1: crime stats, that it was way less safe, that the
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  Speaker 1: murder rates were through the roof. That's why the National
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  Speaker 1: Guard was needed. Who is I don't know. I played
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  Speaker 1: this clip a lot. I know, I'm sorry, but I
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  Speaker 1: just find it so funny every single time I think
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  Speaker 1: since it broke, I think I've played this like five times,
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  Speaker 1: but allow me one more time. The you mean hold on?
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  Speaker 1: You mean the outgoing police chief that was reportedly cooking
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  Speaker 1: the books? Was this person capable of that? What is now?
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  Speaker 6: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Is it Pam Bondi's Speakers of the Man?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's still my favorite clip. Are they so
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  Speaker 1: what the what the National Guard here? What is the
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  Speaker 1: chain of command?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean? Again? Okay, so what's the takeaway?
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  Speaker 1: And you can tie this to lots of different investigations,
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  Speaker 1: lots of different cities, of different and sad and scary
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  Speaker 1: thing is it is worse than it was before. We
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  Speaker 1: have a crisis of incompetence in this country, like that
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  Speaker 1: outgoing DC Police chief, like the Brown University investigation where
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  Speaker 1: the mayor of Providence says, we're just tired. When you
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  Speaker 1: have a crisis of incompetence, no questions are out of bounds. None.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that none, Because if they want to accuse
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  Speaker 1: you of being a conspiracy theorist, do you throw that
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  Speaker 1: right back at him. It's because we're getting no answers.
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  Speaker 1: It's because of the non transparency. Well, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you if you just ask these random questions, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in press conferences, then you have a cant dis always
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  Speaker 1: situation where it's you know, conspiracy theories, an unfounded thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's your fault. That's your fault of being incompetent, not
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  Speaker 1: only incompetent, but doubling up on that and covering it
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  Speaker 1: up with non transparency and distractions. And diversions. That's you
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  Speaker 1: have a right to ask any questions you want to
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  Speaker 1: when you're faced with that. All right, here is something
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  Speaker 1: good that happened. I thought this was actually smart. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: President Trump had a I had an up and down
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  Speaker 1: day yesterday. His response, his written response alough, if you
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  Speaker 1: saw that untruth social about Rob Reiner, and that was yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was that wasn't too good. I don't think in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion whatever. But he had a good press conference.
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  Speaker 1: And this is about a really a smart war on drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Remember in the if you lived through the eighties and nineties,
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  Speaker 1: like I did, you heard that term a lot war
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  Speaker 1: on drugs. And then he had Nancy Reagan's sand just
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  Speaker 1: say no, it was really stupid. It just didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of nonsensical. They focused on the wrong things. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for years, narcotics have slipped under the wire. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the DEA has done the best if possibly could. Border
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  Speaker 1: Patrol has done the best they possibly can, but their
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  Speaker 1: hands are tied due to the laws that are on
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  Speaker 1: the books and public officials and what's happening at a
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  Speaker 1: federal level. God love them, They've always done their best,
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  Speaker 1: but they can't. And yet at the same time, they
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  Speaker 1: had marijuana pot laws just as strong as like narcotics.
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  Speaker 1: It never made sense that we've lived under that for
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  Speaker 1: like decade, three four decades. Now I think that all
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  Speaker 1: changed yesterday. This is a smart approach on first and
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  Speaker 1: the pot laws are tied into what Trump was talking
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  Speaker 1: about yesterday. It's an important part of this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: But here's what he said about narcotics and fentanyl. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the term. I hate the term weapon
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  Speaker 1: of mass destruction, but I think it gets the point across.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he say today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from the
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  Speaker 2: scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country with this
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  Speaker 2: historic executive order I will sign today. But formerly classed
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  Speaker 2: so fine fentol is a weapon of mass destruction, which
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  Speaker 2: is what it is. No bomb does what this is doing.
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  Speaker 2: Two hundred to three hundred thousand people die every year.
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  Speaker 1: That we know that they know of. He's right about that.
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  Speaker 1: That's been two that's not cooking the books. That's an
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  Speaker 1: actual number that actually happens, and it's gone on for
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  Speaker 1: way too long. It's empowered the cartels. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: I can say it you don't have to say it.
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  Speaker 1: Take it for what you want. You make up your
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  Speaker 1: own mind. I think the cartels are I have way
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  Speaker 1: too much power in Congress. I'll say it. I actually
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  Speaker 1: believe that. I think we've got elected representatives who are
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  Speaker 1: scared to death and are and are blackmailed by cartels. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: why would this keep happening? Why anyway? So here you
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  Speaker 1: have this smart move politically, it's just strategically. You just
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  Speaker 1: talk about this for a second, because you know what
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  Speaker 1: I think, and I'm just spitballing here. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: any I don't have any inside information. But I think
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  Speaker 1: what this does, first and foremost is it's going to
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  Speaker 1: shut up all these elected representatives who are defending the
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  Speaker 1: drug boats that they've been blown up, that are obvious
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  Speaker 1: that you know, the same ones that have been calling
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  Speaker 1: them fishing vessels. Yeah, yeah, they're fishing. They're fishing vessels
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  Speaker 1: going that fast with blue tubs of materials to make narcotics,
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  Speaker 1: right right, sure, sure they are, Yeah, just they're just
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  Speaker 1: fishing boats. By saying this, I think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: shut up because now that you've designated an official war
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  Speaker 1: on narcotics, how do you come out in support of that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how do you do that. They've already started to wane
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit, They've already started a pipe down,
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  Speaker 1: So first and foremost, I think that shuts them up.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the real important thing, though, and this is why
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  Speaker 1: I think, for the first time in I think, actually, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime might be maybe yours too. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is an actual smart way to go about battling drugs
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  Speaker 1: in our country. There are kids, and this is especially
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  Speaker 1: relevant if you got kids and teenagers and kids in college,
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  Speaker 1: because the focus is on the bad stuff. I hate
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  Speaker 1: to oversimplify it, but it is. The focus is on
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  Speaker 1: the bad stuff, the narcotics and fentanyl, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: meth and coke coming into the country. If you cut
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  Speaker 1: down the supply chain, it's going away and lessening up
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  Speaker 1: on stuff that's not as bad. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you feel about pot, but let's just face it. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's not for you, maybe it's not for everybody. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you hate that what it's done for. You can see
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  Speaker 1: drivers on the road. They're riving a lot worse, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is happening too. But you can't designate marijuana
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  Speaker 1: at the same level leaves you designate narcotics, and that's
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  Speaker 1: starting to happen. The most important part about this War
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  Speaker 1: on drugs announcement for President Trump and the Oval Office
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  Speaker 1: yesterday actually related to something he said earlier about marijuana laws.
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  Speaker 1: This is key to the entirety. Actor.
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  Speaker 6: You are considering an executive order to reclassify marijuana, because.
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  Speaker 1: We are considering that.
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  Speaker 2: You are you planning because a lot of people want
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  Speaker 2: to see it, the reclassification because it leads to tremendous
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  Speaker 2: amounts of research that can't be done unless you reclassify.
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  Speaker 1: So we are and that interesting. I never even thought
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: about that part of it. So if you reclassify, you know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: kind of like downgrade the danger level. That's what he's
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: talking about there of marijuana. You can it opens up.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Now you can federally fund it for more research. There
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: are benefits to it, and you know, medical benefits to
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: it that have been documented. It's better than getting people
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: on narcotics and opioids. And now you can federally fund
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And also and it may not
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: be for you, and you may not and you may
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: still think that the marijuana is a gateway drug whatever,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: and you may be right, but you can't classify that
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: at the same level or sometimes even higher if you're
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: talking about just wait then narcotics, you can't do it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: So I think this is finally a smart approach on
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: that speaking, a smart Ford finally got smart or they
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: finally just had enough. No more electric trucks. And now
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: that Ford is the first to dip their toe in
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the water. Now all the car companies are going to say, Okay,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. There's no demand on it. So any
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: minute you're telling me, you're telling me that a product
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: that the consumer didn't want, the public didn't want. The
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: car manufacturers knew nobody wanted, and they didn't want to
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: make them. But this was forced upon them by an administration,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a previous administration. You mean you mean that didn't work.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: What a shocker. Anyway, here's Ford yesterday, no more electric trucks.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: This will start an avalanche of comments.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Oh look, it's the last couple of months have been
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: really clear to us. The EV market shrinked about five
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: percent of the US market, But more importantly, the very
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: high end evs, the fifty seventy eighty thousand dollars vehicles,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: they just weren't selling and we had planned a full
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: EVY lineup, but we also have hybrids, and we learned
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: a lot about the market, and we think it was
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: the right time.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: They knew this was coming. They knew at some point
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: they were hoping and wishing that that previous administration would
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: be out of there that was forcing this down. Do
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: you remember going back for a second during the Biden
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: administration where they had this this convention of all the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: electric car makers, all that all the major brands except
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Tesla even do that. I actually think there are a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: lot of factors into it. I think that was the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: turning point that got Elon involved in supporting Trump, which
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: obviously pushed him over the top to become president again.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: It didn't invite Tesla anyway, but he's talking about there
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and he said it there the Ford CEO where he said, now,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we've had some great success with hybrids, that's a different story,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and some other alternative fuels that are coming down the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: road lately, but electric, but full electric for trucks. Yet
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: no that nobody ever thought that was going to work.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: So good for them for finally coming to their senses.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: All right, Oh, we'll leavia with this. I thought this
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: was hilarious. So let's let's jump to Canada for a
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: quick second. Remember our whole theme today was talking about
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: this crisis of incompetence, especially in places like Canada. So
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: getting hit hard obviously by the tariffs, by you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the trade deal. They keep pushing back, they keep calling
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Trump a tyrant, even though you know their country wants
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to crack down to your social media and won't you
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: walk in the woods when when the weather's dry. It's
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: just an insane place these days. Great people, insane government.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: But that's their fault. Doug Ford, he's the he's the PM.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: He said yesterday of Ontario. He said yesterday Niagara Falls
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: area wants to open up a bunch of casinos because
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: they're losing a ton of money, so they want to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: open up. They want to make like Niagara Falls on
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: their side, the Canadian side of it, like like Vegas
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: with a waterfall. This is what he said yesterday. But
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: what's relevant is the question from the Canadian reporter I
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: don't know, might have been CBC, I don't know, and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: he starts this whole premise that got Doug Ford going
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: off on it. Canadians aren't going to Florida. They're just
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: not They're really hurting down there. And Doug Ford followed
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: up with that, you talk about nonsense. Canadians are no
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: longer flying to Florida.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: They're not.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: There's snowbirds.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Basically, it's dried up.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: There's been an organic boycott of tourism in America. Do
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: you support that?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And are you going to go to go to Florida
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: this year?
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: So let me let me tell you it's gonna be
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: the first time. I'm not going to Florida. But I
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: talked to so many people. Don't let this guy Trump
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: determine and ruin your life and everything. That's my personal choice.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Maybe some families have gone to Florida, their whole lives,
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: go to Florida. You know that's great, But I encourage
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: you to stay here and support local tourism. But you
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: can't let the one one tyrant change your lives, right,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: you just can't let it happen. I'm doing that of
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: my own personal choice because I just can't do it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: But don't let this guy change your lives. If you
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: go down you see you know, maybe they're they're grandparents
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: are down there. Maybe there's somewhere else so we'll get
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: through this. But they're hurting down there right now. They're
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: hurting on all fronts. They're hurting on their economy.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, I can speak to this because I'm here. No
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: one who lives in Florida in any's South Florida Tampa
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: area space coast is booming to Panhandle area. No one
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: who lives here, no one. I don't care who you find.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: No one will tell you that Florida is hurting. No one.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's less Canadians, but they got filled up by
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: somebody else. In fact, Governor Rod Desaidas posted this just
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: yesterday in response to Doug Forlda and Ontario, saying that
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Florida breaks its own record again thirty four point four
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: million visitors in the second quarter of twenty twenty five.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: They only have the numbers from the second quarter. I
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: bet you in the third quarter it's actually gonna go
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: up because the weather got nicer. But they're hurting down there.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: People just aren't going to Florida, right. Remember we were
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: talking about incompetence. There you go, incompetence doubled up with lying.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know our cluelessness. Who the heck knows, But
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that's the takeaway you have a right to ask questions
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: as any question, seeking information as much as you want.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: When you're facing in a crisis of incompetence like what
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: we have with elected officials and appointed officials throughout the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: whole country, always remember that you're not a bad guy
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: for asking the questions. Thanks for finding me. I appreciate
• 22:25
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• 22:28
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• 22:48
  Speaker 1: now I'm finally out of material, So get into your Tuesday, Megan,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: a wicked, awesome one. I'll talk to you tomorrow.