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  Speaker 1: You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty bill handle Here it is a
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  Speaker 2: Taco Tuesday, March tenth. Some of the stories we are
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  Speaker 2: looking at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsith that said today
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the biggest day of strikes against
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  Speaker 2: the run. That's I don't know how they could be bigger,
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  Speaker 2: but they are. And Iran's new supreme leader. Interesting story
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  Speaker 2: about him. He signed a message on a missile that
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  Speaker 2: was going to be aimed or is aimed at Israel.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the first moves that he made, there's
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  Speaker 2: a this is across Iran sent by the regime a
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  Speaker 2: picture of the missile which featured the words as he
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  Speaker 2: signed it, at your service, said mochtaba. And that was
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  Speaker 2: posted on the internet on a state broadcaster. Actually he
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  Speaker 2: could have put Kilroy was here. Now that's in reference.
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  Speaker 2: That's a World War two reference where American service men
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  Speaker 2: did that Kilroy was here and wrote on projectiles and
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  Speaker 2: in various places in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's going on today in the war.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as I said, Pete Hegseth has said that today
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the biggest state. Actually today is
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  Speaker 2: already afternoon over there. So what's been going on? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the traditional war. Of course, Iran doesn't have a shot
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  Speaker 2: at fighting back against Israel and the United States and
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  Speaker 2: the attacks on their missile system, their anti aircraft defense
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  Speaker 2: systems whilst they're a navy, I mean, that's all been
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  Speaker 2: wiped out for the most part, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the nuclear facilities have been attacked.
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  Speaker 3: So what do they do. Well, what they do is.
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  Speaker 2: They take the remaining missiles, which have been reduced by
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  Speaker 2: about eighty percent, and they use tactics like terrorist tactics.
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  Speaker 2: For example, they have it the proxies Hasbalaan, Lebanon, Iraqi,
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  Speaker 2: Shia Malicious Group Huti's and Yemen could launch the attacks.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really not very many Iran is alone. Even
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  Speaker 2: Iran's allies around the world, China, India, Russia that did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of business with Iran in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: oil and investment, not because they like Iran, but it
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  Speaker 2: was just a practical measure. Even they have sat back,
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  Speaker 2: I mean a lot of lip service, but have sat
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  Speaker 2: back and watched Iran by itself attack. I can understand
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  Speaker 2: attacking the Western world, the Western Alliance, but they're also
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  Speaker 2: attacking their neighbors, and that one people are shaking their
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  Speaker 2: heads at. And the consensus seems to be they're attacking
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  Speaker 2: their neighbors in the hope that the various Golf states
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  Speaker 2: pressure Israel and the United States to stop the bombing,
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  Speaker 2: to end the war, and the pressure will be to
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  Speaker 2: allow Iran to simply function, because right now it's up
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  Speaker 2: in the air whether Iran the regime is going to survive.
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  Speaker 3: I think it will.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that the Revolutionary Guard, which I heard is
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  Speaker 2: now in schools. It's one hundred thousand strong. They're fanatic,
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  Speaker 2: they guard the regime. They're actually far They have far
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  Speaker 2: greater influence and far more power than the judiciary, certainly
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  Speaker 2: than the business interests in Iran, the security interests in Iran.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they control it. And the control is especially.
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  Speaker 2: Under the new regime under Homane's son human A or
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  Speaker 2: human A I always mispronounce it, but the guy's son,
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  Speaker 2: and he is even more connected to the Iranian Guard.
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  Speaker 2: And so what's going to happen, Well there, Iran is
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  Speaker 2: not going to have much left in terms of defense,
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  Speaker 2: in terms of infrastructure. The other thing is happening, and
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of a strange one. And this is
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  Speaker 2: where Iran is sort of guessing that the world is
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  Speaker 2: going to turn against the United States and Israel. Is
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  Speaker 2: the fact that Israel and the US are attacking oil infrastructure,
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  Speaker 2: which affects everybody in the world. The Strait of Horn
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  Speaker 2: moves which can be attacked and basically shut down by Iran,
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  Speaker 2: and it has been and since twenty percent of the
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  Speaker 2: world's oil goes through the strait, that affects just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit the world economy, which is why oil prices
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  Speaker 2: have gone up, and then they're back down a little
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  Speaker 2: bit because the Western allies think that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: outlast Tehran, which I think they will, but a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the oil infrastructure is gone and it will take
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  Speaker 2: a very long time to build it up again.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know if.
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  Speaker 2: Israel the United States will let it be built up
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  Speaker 2: again under the current regime. So Iran, which makes the
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  Speaker 2: vast majority of his income off of the sale of
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  Speaker 2: oil to China, to India, to Russia, is not going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to and that is going to stop
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  Speaker 2: it cold.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Be prepared for a fair amount of attacks and not
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  Speaker 2: straight on attacks, but terrorist attacks. And there's a great
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  Speaker 2: story and I want to share this with you before
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  Speaker 2: I bail and go to the homeless story, and that
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  Speaker 2: there is an article in the Atlantic which describes three
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  Speaker 2: possible forms of Iran's retribution against the West. One inspired
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  Speaker 2: attacks like we saw yesterday with those crazy loons in
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  Speaker 2: New York, and they're inspired, they will be inspired by
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  Speaker 2: the attacks on Iran because they hate the United States
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  Speaker 2: and in Israel, which we know. And then individuals who
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  Speaker 2: are radicalized by current events and decide to act on
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  Speaker 2: their own. Okay, so the inspiration directed attacks, where Iran
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  Speaker 2: relies on third parties like criminal organizations and their proxies.
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  Speaker 2: And then probably the most successful if they can get
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  Speaker 2: away with it, sleeper cells, and those are very difficult
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  Speaker 2: to fight against.
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  Speaker 3: But those are really difficult.
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  Speaker 2: To establish because sleeper cells involve people who have embedded
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  Speaker 2: themselves into case American society and they come out after
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  Speaker 2: years and they're really loyal to Iran, and they have
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  Speaker 2: a very difficult time first of all, even being embedded,
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  Speaker 2: and second of all, it's hard to wake them up
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  Speaker 2: and sort of just shake them and you go, come on,
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  Speaker 2: wake up, and they just don't they just don't. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: We're done, all right, A stat that's actually very good news.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time in a decade, the homeless mortality
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  Speaker 2: in La County has dropped. Fewer people have died on
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  Speaker 2: the streets and in shelters. That is good news, decline
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  Speaker 2: of about ten percent. And the rate of homeless deaths
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  Speaker 2: from all causes in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Four, And this is well.
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  Speaker 2: First, and there's an answer to this I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: share with you. And then something I've been saying for
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of years. Drug overdose still remains the leading
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  Speaker 2: cause of death, followed by heart disease and vvehicle accidents.
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  Speaker 2: So in twenty twenty four to twenty two hundred deaths,
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  Speaker 2: that was three hundred fewer than the previous years. As
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  Speaker 2: Neil said this morning, that's still more than six deaths
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  Speaker 2: a day and four times the mortality rate for the
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  Speaker 2: country as a whole. Why is that because it is
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  Speaker 2: a horrible place, because we kill people left and right. No,
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  Speaker 2: because this is a great place for homeless people to
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  Speaker 2: live in southern California.
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  Speaker 3: The weather's nice, the bridges are nice and wide.
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  Speaker 2: There are tents out there next to Porta potties at
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  Speaker 2: our two bedroom, one bath, big tents and so it's
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  Speaker 2: good place to be. So now a statement that I
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  Speaker 2: have made, and this relates directly to a decrease not
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  Speaker 2: only homeless deaths, but in homelessness. And I have said,
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  Speaker 2: the only way we're going to be able to attack
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  Speaker 2: homelessness is very incremental, very expensively, and that's exactly what's happened.
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  Speaker 3: We are spending billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: In attacking the homeless population, and we've gotten a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better. There have been several thousand homes that have
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  Speaker 2: been built, little houses, you know, little tents there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many tents are put out, but.
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  Speaker 2: The little houses, the shelters, the short term shelters, medium
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  Speaker 2: term shelters, and very very few long term shelters, which
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  Speaker 2: are hideously expensive to create. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: what's the figure about half a million dollars per unit
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  Speaker 2: to put a homeless person in?
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  Speaker 3: Well, how you've been higher? It's like seven hundred. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And then you look at contractors who put up houses
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  Speaker 2: for sale, you know, developers, and they do it for
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  Speaker 2: a couple hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: How is that possible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because when the city puts up housing, they also
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  Speaker 2: have to put up services, rehab services, mental services, they
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  Speaker 2: feed people. It's really expensive and they need to they
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  Speaker 2: need the room to build those facilities around this housing.
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  Speaker 2: And so that means more land has to be bought.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a lot more money. And so the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line is we will deal with housing. I mean, is
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  Speaker 2: it is getting better. However, it's getting better incrementally, little
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  Speaker 2: bits and pieces. And it is insane the amount of
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  Speaker 2: money we're spending. So the good news is that people
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  Speaker 2: aren't dying mainly on the streets, and fewer are. But
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  Speaker 2: we're talking in the few hundred. It's not very many.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the actual numbers of how many
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  Speaker 2: people are no longer homeless or no longer dying, you
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  Speaker 2: and the cost of it relative to the number is
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  Speaker 2: you know, all right, So we're gonna it's a choice
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  Speaker 2: we have to make. I mean, it's not simple. It's
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  Speaker 2: not that I'm again spending the money for homeless people.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you have to make a choice. Are you
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  Speaker 2: going to spend the money to deal with homeless people
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  Speaker 2: on a major scale, or are you going to deal
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  Speaker 2: with everything else?
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  Speaker 3: The city in the county has to do all right,
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  Speaker 3: now going to LAX.
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  Speaker 2: Not only is LAX the worst airport in the world,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's in the bottom five. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: care what airport you go to International airport. Did you
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  Speaker 2: know that it costs you four bucks for in and
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  Speaker 2: out if you're on an uber or a lift, it's
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  Speaker 2: four bucks four bucks access fee and that's a curve side.
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  Speaker 3: Well, guess what LA World Airports.
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  Speaker 2: The board members voting today are expected to increase those
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  Speaker 2: access fees by a hair to twelve dollars, which will
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  Speaker 2: make LAX the most expensive airport in the world to
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  Speaker 2: come into and the worst airport in the world to
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  Speaker 2: fly in and out of. Boy, how's about that for
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  Speaker 2: a combination. It's the worst in both ways. And so
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  Speaker 2: theoretically it's going to be easier when the People Mover
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  Speaker 2: comes in. The People Mover, originally scheduled to start operating
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen thirty eight, has been delayed just a hair
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  Speaker 2: and has gone over budget. It's insane. Now are they
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  Speaker 2: going to have the people Mover built by the time
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  Speaker 2: the Olympics come in? You bet they are, because can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine the Olympics coming into Los Angeles where people
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  Speaker 2: are flying in from all over the world by the
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands, and they can't get out of LAX.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's not going to work. But the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Is is that it's now twelve bucks. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that includes black limousines, that includes the various drives that
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  Speaker 2: they don't pay to come in. Now that's all included.
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  Speaker 2: Taxi drivers don't pay. But if you're having lifts or Uber,
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  Speaker 2: it does. So what does Uber do? It reaches out
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  Speaker 2: to its customer base, which is just a touch right,
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  Speaker 2: and it said LAX is pushing through a proposal that
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  Speaker 2: were more than double the fees and it would make
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  Speaker 2: rideshare fees the most expensive in the world. Now, La
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  Speaker 2: World Airport officials have said, okay, we're maybe will kind
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  Speaker 2: of sort of possibly reconsider the new fees until the
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  Speaker 2: people Mover is actually open, and it has been delayed,
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  Speaker 2: as I explained, big time schedules to open this summer.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. And it's going to have four
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  Speaker 2: car sets twenty four to seven. It's going to run
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  Speaker 2: two minutes apart during peak hours and accommodate two hundred passengers. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you go to Las Vegas, for example, or you
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  Speaker 2: go to other major airports for Dallas, in which you
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  Speaker 2: can go from terminal to terminal and then out to
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  Speaker 2: the baggage area by people movers, and they move people
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  Speaker 2: without any staff.
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  Speaker 3: They're automated. They work beautifully.
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  Speaker 2: The fact is we desperately needed them and we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have them. I mean, I don't know how lax Ever
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  Speaker 2: got built the way it got built. Now, in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty five, we put in that horseshoe business or eighty
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  Speaker 2: four for the Olympics in nineteen eighty four. Interestingly enough,
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  Speaker 2: that became obsolete about two minutes after it opened up.
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  Speaker 1: Did we just lose Bill? Earth to Bill? Earth to Bill?
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  Speaker 1: You know what's strange? Just seeing his face frozen, staring.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's alive.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't reconnect.
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  Speaker 1: I can't did the power off at his house or something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny though we do have the frozen screen. We
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  Speaker 3: may have to.
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  Speaker 1: Reboot him.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably at this point.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, what we'll do is we'll go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and get the latest news with Amy King.
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  Speaker 2: Say, if I am six forty, Bill handle here, good morning, Kno.
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  Speaker 3: Are we back up to normal?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we are there was I'm at home today and
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  Speaker 2: we had a power surge and just everything shut off.
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  Speaker 3: And while I was talking, everything shut off.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand the emails are coming in saying that
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  Speaker 2: that was some of the best radio that people have
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  Speaker 2: ever heard here on KFI.
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  Speaker 1: You never sounded better, sir.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I hear. That's what I understand. Now.
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  Speaker 2: A story I wanted to share with you, and that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't pitch because we were out of power for
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  Speaker 2: a moment.
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  Speaker 3: And this has to do with Putin.
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  Speaker 2: How President Trump is out Putin ing Putin, and that
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  Speaker 2: is no easy thing to do because previous president presidents
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  Speaker 2: have actually been the victim of Putin. Why because Putin
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  Speaker 2: number one has been around for a long time. He
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  Speaker 2: knows how to play the international game, and he is fearless,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't care. And so we now have a president
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  Speaker 2: who is more fearless and doesn't care. And there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of negative about it, but in this case.
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  Speaker 3: It makes sense. Now at first glance, Putin is.
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  Speaker 2: Happy higher oil and gas prices that are going to
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  Speaker 2: ease Russia's economic problems, and so all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: he's throwing around his political geopolitical weight because.
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  Speaker 3: He's an alternative energy supplier. A.
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  Speaker 2: I'll show America because now I am selling oil all
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  Speaker 2: over the world and America is basically shutting down the Mideast,
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  Speaker 2: and so you have oil way expensive and the Mid
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  Speaker 2: East countries are cutting production to deal with it. And
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  Speaker 2: so he has to grapple with a new world, unbridled
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  Speaker 2: American power under President Trump, and it's checking Russia's global
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  Speaker 2: influence and ripping up Moscow's playbook. For the first time,
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  Speaker 2: we have a president that's willing to look at Putin
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  Speaker 2: and say.
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  Speaker 3: Screw you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to play it as rough as you are.
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  Speaker 2: So Putin for years has supported the anti American governments
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  Speaker 2: in Iran and Venezuela and Cuba and not particularly worried
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  Speaker 2: that Washington would use its overwhelming military power to kill, capture,
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  Speaker 2: push out leaders. So what are the countries that Putin
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  Speaker 2: supported Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. What are the countries that
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  Speaker 2: are being attacked? Well, Venezuela, the leader is gone, and
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  Speaker 2: even though the regime is still the same, they now
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  Speaker 2: are at the beck and call of the United States
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  Speaker 2: because of what Trump did. You have Cuba that is
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  Speaker 2: being strangled, and it is on fumes because Cuba got
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  Speaker 2: all of its oil from Venezuela, and Venezuela is not
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  Speaker 2: sending one drop of oil to Cuba because of what
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  Speaker 2: President Trump did and will do. And so they're saying, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we give up. And of course you have Iran, who
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  Speaker 2: also supplied oil, and guess what, They're not supplying any
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  Speaker 2: right now, and we'll not be able to for a
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  Speaker 2: long time until and unless President Trump comes in there
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  Speaker 2: and effectively takes over the country. And so the world
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  Speaker 2: has changed big time with Prutin not having any kind
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  Speaker 2: or very limited excuses or very limited ability to deal
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  Speaker 2: with countries. And even look at what's happening in Iran
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  Speaker 2: that countries that were allied to Iran, Russia, you have
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  Speaker 2: what Bulgaria or Belarus, China, India were kind of allied
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  Speaker 2: to Iran. They didn't like Iran, no one likes Iran,
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  Speaker 2: but they did business because it was a practical issue,
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  Speaker 2: because it's a real politic, as was established by Henry
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  Speaker 2: Kissinger saying, you know what, there's no morality in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Governments do what they do simply to help themselves, and
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  Speaker 2: you can kiss goodbye any morality. Well, that's what happening. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what's interesting is that you have these various countries in
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  Speaker 2: terms of Iran allies. All these allies.
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  Speaker 3: Are doing is giving Iran just simply lip service. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Why, Because Trump is Trump, and he doesn't care what
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  Speaker 2: China does, he doesn't care what India does. You are
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  Speaker 2: on his side, You're a good guy, You're not. He's
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  Speaker 2: going to make life as miserable as humanly possible for
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  Speaker 2: any country that well is on the side of the
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  Speaker 2: bad guys, and the bad guys here is Iran, and
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  Speaker 2: the bad guys were.
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela. Cuba is a bad guy.
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  Speaker 2: So the president wielding the kind of power the United
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  Speaker 2: States has, which it's always had. But you had presidents before,
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  Speaker 2: particularly Joe Biden. You know, in many ways, I hate
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  Speaker 2: the way Trump refers to Joe Biden as the worst
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  Speaker 2: president that ever lived, has destroyed America. No, but he
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  Speaker 2: ran a very timid presidency, a very timid administration, and
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  Speaker 2: now you have someone who doesn't. So, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: Putin is being out putent by this president. Okay, coming
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