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SCOTUS’ Landmark Decision on Voting Rights | China’s High-Tech Cars · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty bill handle.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is a Thursday morning, April thirtieth. The big
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  Speaker 2: stories that we are looking at. The Feds agreed to
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  Speaker 2: hold interest rates steady as the President keeps on pushing
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  Speaker 2: for lower interest rates, and that's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: happening anytime soon. As a matter of fact, interest rates
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  Speaker 2: are probably get to increase. And oil has hit record highs.
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  Speaker 2: It's not doing well. And how it affects the economy, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's starting to right now. Europe is nailed on this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Europe is in terrible trouble with the oil business,
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  Speaker 2: as is Asia. The United States actually is fairly immune
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  Speaker 2: as of right now. Okay, what happened yesterday with the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court and this decision limiting the Voting Rights Act
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  Speaker 2: is hugely, insanely important. Now. The Voting Rights Act was
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  Speaker 2: passed nineteen sixty five under Lynnon Johnson, which gave African
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  Speaker 2: Americans and minorities enough representation to where I guess it mattered.
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  Speaker 3: Minorities were not very were We're.
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  Speaker 2: Not represented very well because what happened is a legislature,
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  Speaker 2: State legislatures which control voting and control. Congressional districts can
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  Speaker 2: draw maps, and they do draw maps.
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  Speaker 3: And if you ever looked.
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  Speaker 2: At a congressional district map of your state, of any
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  Speaker 2: county you're in, these lines are crazy. They go through
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  Speaker 2: streets and they go up in a neighborhood and then
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  Speaker 2: they come down and they move over into another neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: and it all connects at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Why is it so crazy, Well.
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  Speaker 2: Because of groups like African Americans who vote Democrat with
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  Speaker 2: the legislature do the control by Republicans, for example, is
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  Speaker 2: move all of them into one district and so the
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  Speaker 2: Blacks have that district gone. However everything around it bigger
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  Speaker 2: chance to vote Republican. And that was what has been
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  Speaker 2: going on. Well, the court just said you can't do
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. You can't use race as a factor at all.
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  Speaker 2: And this jerry mandering.
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  Speaker 3: Was based on race. That's what it was all about.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the underlying premise is we want
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  Speaker 2: people to vote on our side, and how do we
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  Speaker 2: do that, Well, we manipulate the system to put all
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  Speaker 2: the enemy in one small area and we'll take over
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  Speaker 2: all the rest of it. And there were all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of lawsuits and it finally went up to the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: and Supreme Court said, yeah, we're saying that any aspect
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  Speaker 2: of race to be used can't be. And so therefore
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  Speaker 2: that's a big, big win because what ends up happening
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  Speaker 2: is these legislatures, which for the most part of Republican
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  Speaker 2: and all the red states are going to be voting
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  Speaker 2: for exactly not moving African American and minority voters into
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  Speaker 2: one area. And as far as Democrats are concerned, this
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  Speaker 2: is a game changer. I mean, this really changes big
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  Speaker 2: time the way voting is done in this country. And
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  Speaker 2: they're describing apocalyptic terms. In this case, the Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: getting a real heads up on this real advantage.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that's going to happen midterms.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans won't do as well because it's too late
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  Speaker 2: for them to redraw the maps before the midterms. For
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, it will be all over. And how
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  Speaker 2: did this all start. It didn't happen until President Trump
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  Speaker 2: asked Louisiana, I think to redraw its maps. But wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, don't they don't legislatures we dropped their maps
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  Speaker 2: every ten years when the census hits well, he asked
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  Speaker 2: them to nope, you do it midstream so we can
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  Speaker 2: get more seats. And that's exactly what is happening. So
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  Speaker 2: the battle now that the Republicans, if you will, have won,
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  Speaker 2: they're on track to claim as many as thirteen more
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  Speaker 2: districts across five states, including four in Florida, and so
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  Speaker 2: it is well, big advantage, big, big advantage for the Republicans. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other issue is is it going to do anything
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  Speaker 2: for the midterms. I don't think so. Do I think
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  Speaker 2: that the Democrats are going to prevail in the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: I think if he keeps on going the way it's going,
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  Speaker 2: I think Republicans are going to get thrashed. I think
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are going to clean their clock much like
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  Speaker 2: Obama in two years into his term I think lost
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  Speaker 2: forty three seats and the way he does described it
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  Speaker 2: as we the Democratic Party got a shellacking from the
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party, and so is the same thing going to
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  Speaker 2: happen on the other side?
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  Speaker 3: I think so. Look at oil prices.
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  Speaker 2: Gasoline went up seven cents a gallon overnight. We are
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  Speaker 2: now paying what's the average in California amy at this point,
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  Speaker 2: the average price.
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  Speaker 4: Of gas in California, it's six oh one.
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  Speaker 1: In La County it's six eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and then the and I'm paying way more than
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  Speaker 2: six dollars, and the rest of the country it's still
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  Speaker 2: about fifty less than that, but it's still astronomical prices.
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  Speaker 1: People are actually Yeah, the national price is four thirty.
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  Speaker 2: So two bucks ahead, basically two dollars dollars seventy five ahead,
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  Speaker 2: which is why it's so difficult to live in California.
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  Speaker 2: This one of the reasons California is the most expensive
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  Speaker 2: state in the United States to live in.
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  Speaker 3: But you're seeing big changes.
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  Speaker 2: Afoot yep, yep, big big vote yesterday, decision by the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. Okay, locally, you got red light cameras, which
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  Speaker 2: do a pretty good job of stopping people from blowing
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  Speaker 2: through red lights. Also in a really good revenue call
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  Speaker 2: for the city. Well, how about speeding cameras. Do they
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  Speaker 2: do a good job. Well, this is a year after
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  Speaker 2: cameras were installed in San Francisco and the data is
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  Speaker 2: in and no surprise, but I think the numbers are surprising.
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  Speaker 2: Drivers are slowing down. Experts say the technology is going
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  Speaker 2: to be the same or better ones. Cameras are installed
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. One year analysis that has occurred, and
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  Speaker 2: here's some figures. Excessive speeding that's ten miles per hour
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  Speaker 2: more than the speed limit has dropped nearly eighty percent.
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  Speaker 2: In San Francisco. Now there's no such thing as a
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  Speaker 2: speed limit anymore. It just doesn't exist. Go on the
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  Speaker 2: freeway and if you see anybody driving sixty five miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour, it's as if they're pedaling a bicycle.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you go.
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  Speaker 2: Past them seventy five miles an hour and I tend
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  Speaker 2: to try to keep it to between seventy and seventy five,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just sometimes not even keeping up with traffic. Well,
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  Speaker 2: freeways they have radar, but it doesn't matter. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they say radar controlled, and I guess they have airplanes
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  Speaker 2: flying overhead. I have no idea where these radar facilities
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  Speaker 2: are or the devices are on the freeway, but this is.
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  Speaker 3: On the streets. And what a success this is.
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  Speaker 2: So LA is installing one hundred and twenty five cameras
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  Speaker 2: part of the pilot program and looking for a reduction
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  Speaker 2: in speed because the number of deaths go up dramatically
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  Speaker 2: when speed occurs. If you're more than ten miles per
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  Speaker 2: hour above speed limit on the streets. That seems to
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  Speaker 2: be the magic number where all of a sudden critical
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  Speaker 2: mass is reached and the numbers start of debts start
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  Speaker 2: climbing fairly dramatically, and it's alarming. It's gotten worse and worse. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's go back to San Francisco. They have spent a
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  Speaker 2: year analyzing the data from these speed cameras and other
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  Speaker 2: sensing equipment, try to understand traffic patterns, track how many
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  Speaker 2: tickets are issued, and the people installing them are saying,
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  Speaker 2: this is not a revenue issue. It's not a revenue call,
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  Speaker 2: even though the city makes buckets of money. It's simply
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  Speaker 2: a safety I think it's both absolutely okay. Here we
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  Speaker 2: are one year mark in San Francisco. The drivers traveling
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  Speaker 2: ten miles per hour or more above the posted speed
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  Speaker 2: limit went from twenty five percent of all drivers a
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  Speaker 2: quarter of the drivers on the streets in San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: where you could drive, we're doing more than ten miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour above the speed limit. So in comes this
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  Speaker 2: pilot program with the cameras that drops to six percent,
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  Speaker 2: from twenty five percent to six percent. And in the
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  Speaker 2: last quarterly review, because they do this annually. But the
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  Speaker 2: last quarterly review, now we're talking about the drivers traveling
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  Speaker 2: at ten miles per hour or more above the posted
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  Speaker 2: speed limit went again from twenty five percent before they
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  Speaker 2: started the program to now two percent of drivers. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: these numbers are just incredible. Now there's three years of
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  Speaker 2: data coming from New York City and what they're finding,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and it makes sense. It goes by location.
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  Speaker 2: But and it takes a while, by the way, for
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  Speaker 2: this to kick in. It doesn't happen overnight. Over a
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  Speaker 2: five year period in New York saw a sixty percent
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  Speaker 2: decline and motors being cited more than twice. So you
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  Speaker 2: have to be sited a couple of times and it
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  Speaker 2: takes about a year for.
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  Speaker 3: This to kick in.
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  Speaker 2: But it looks like it's going to work, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see these and now we're going to not
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  Speaker 2: only have stenciled speed limits on the road itself. I
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  Speaker 2: like it when you know, for example, I'm in Orange
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  Speaker 2: County and getting on the five freeway with two lanes
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  Speaker 2: or one lane, there's several places where not only do
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  Speaker 2: they have the signage you know, make right turn or
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  Speaker 2: a freeway, but also on the road itself, you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at the painted road, which helps enormously. Well, this helps too,
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  Speaker 2: So you've got stencil speed limits on the road, speed bumps,
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  Speaker 2: red light cameras, all of it. Partnerships with the cops,
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  Speaker 2: public health officials.
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  Speaker 3: But this looks like a are you seriously good? Program?
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  Speaker 2: What's the last time you saw a governmental program that
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  Speaker 2: you could actually say it's good? And the government makes
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  Speaker 2: money out of it, and who can complain? I want
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  Speaker 2: to drive over ten miles per hour over the speed limit. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: are you gonna pay money for that one?
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  Speaker 3: Aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: This is a question I want to ask you.
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  Speaker 3: Would you buy a Chinese car? I would? No, good
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  Speaker 3: Old Kono is shaking his head. Let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 3: Would you buy a Chinese car if it was.
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  Speaker 2: Far less expensive and at least is good or better
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  Speaker 2: quality than an American car? They're saying no, Well, guess
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  Speaker 2: what most people would. And the only way the car
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  Speaker 2: industry is surviving, even in the United States is Chinese
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  Speaker 2: cars cannot be sold and there's a couple of rules
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  Speaker 2: that are in the works. Can't even be driven into
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  Speaker 2: the United States. Mexico is a place where Chinese cars
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  Speaker 2: are being bought. There's dealerships in Mexico that sell Chinese
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  Speaker 2: cars hybrids and evs and gas powered cars, and here
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  Speaker 2: the same car would be thirty five thousand dollars, give
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  Speaker 2: or take. There, they're twenty five thousand dollars. They're just
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  Speaker 2: better cars. The EV models are miles ahead of what
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  Speaker 2: we do here. And frankly, American car makers are absolutely
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  Speaker 2: scared because if Chinese cars are able to be sold here,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to well wipe out the American car market.
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  Speaker 1: Is it really apples to apples?
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  Speaker 4: Though they don't drive the amount of mileage that we
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  Speaker 4: do in the United States. They're not built for that
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  Speaker 4: kind of driving.
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  Speaker 1: And Oh boarded them.
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  Speaker 4: The cost would go up because they'd have to be
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  Speaker 4: to our regulations, not theirs.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. However, the Chinese, no, they would not be
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  Speaker 2: more expensive, not even close. So they're two thousand dollars more.
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  Speaker 2: It's very easy for the Chinese because they're so sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: and so good at these and especially yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Labor is far cheaper. You're absolutely right. You can call
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  Speaker 3: it slave labor.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to call it labor that gladly works on
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  Speaker 2: cars for thirty two cents an hour, and they're happy
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  Speaker 2: to do so. And they look at their kid who's
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  Speaker 2: about to go to work eight years old, and gee.
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  Speaker 3: Dad, I don't want to go to work today. Shut up,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to work.
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  Speaker 1: I just looked at these and I don't see that
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  Speaker 1: the math maths.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it does the way you think it does.
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  Speaker 2: It does. I'm telling you it does. And why are
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  Speaker 2: why are the American car manufacturers so frightened of this?
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  Speaker 2: Why are lawmakers pushing not only to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: Chinese cars are not being sold in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: but they can even be driven because right now the
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  Speaker 2: law says, if if someone has dual citizenship and resides
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  Speaker 2: in Mexico, let's say, can drive the Chinese car over
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  Speaker 2: the border. Very limited amount of cars are there. But
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  Speaker 2: what the Chinese cars are proving. It's like the European
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  Speaker 2: cars when the American car make manufacturers sort of left
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  Speaker 2: that market and didn't really bother because America owned the
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  Speaker 2: car market. So you had Volkswagen come in, you had
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  Speaker 2: other cars they slipped in, and American car manufacturers did
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  Speaker 2: not pay attention. Now it's what of cars or foreign
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  Speaker 2: cars being sold in the United States? And there they
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  Speaker 2: come in very inexpensively. Honda did that, and Nissan did that,
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  Speaker 2: and other Japanese companies Toyota did that, and they were
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  Speaker 2: cheap and.
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  Speaker 3: They were good.
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  Speaker 2: And then and the American car manufacturers, we don't really
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  Speaker 2: care well. They surrepetitiously produce better cars, less expensive cars.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what's happening here. And so do You've
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  Speaker 2: got dealers on the other side of the border. There's
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  Speaker 2: one dealer that sells Geelely cars.
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  Speaker 3: G E E l Y.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the brand names. Byd is the biggest
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  Speaker 2: car manufacturer in the world. Great Wall Motors. How clever
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  Speaker 2: is that?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: There's orange Chicken cars. No, there actually isn't. But what's
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  Speaker 2: happening is the American car manufacturers have left the low
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  Speaker 2: end market completely because there's not enough profit. Where they
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  Speaker 2: make their money is on high end SUVs and pickup trucks,
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  Speaker 2: where all the profit is. And that's where the American
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  Speaker 2: car manufacturers have left the market. And what these Chinese
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  Speaker 2: cars are doing. And there's room for this because there's
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  Speaker 2: a huge gap in the market. To allowed, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to fill it. And if allowed, they're going to do
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  Speaker 2: exactly what the Japanese car makers did, and China then
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  Speaker 2: Volkswagen did is just build better and better cars and
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  Speaker 2: start gobbling up, cannibalizing the market. And American lawmakers are
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  Speaker 2: so frightened of this. Bernie Marino Center Bernie Marito, Republican,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio has introduced a bill that would hermetically seal the
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  Speaker 2: US from Chinese automakers, where Canadian cars and Mexican cars
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  Speaker 2: read Chinese cars that are sold there could not even
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  Speaker 2: come into the country. A Mexican national who owns a
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  Speaker 2: Chinese car, who lets say works in the United States
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  Speaker 2: cannot drive his or her car over the border. You
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  Speaker 2: have to park it on this style on their side
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  Speaker 2: of the border. I guess walk or take a bus.
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  Speaker 2: That's how frightened it is. And that's how good these Chinese.
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  Speaker 3: Cars are.
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  Speaker 2: And the only thing that is saving the American car market.
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  Speaker 2: I have a Beamer right an election ev Beamer, and
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  Speaker 2: let's just say it is not inexpensive.
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  Speaker 3: That same car, I.
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  Speaker 2: Believe, although they don't the Chinese don't make this level
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  Speaker 2: of car would probably be twenty five percent lower. And Kno,
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  Speaker 2: when you're buying a car, I don't believe you for
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  Speaker 2: a second that you wouldn't buy a Chinese car if
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  Speaker 2: it were better and cheaper? Will would you buy a
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  Speaker 2: Chinese car?
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  Speaker 3: Of course you would? Okay, Aby, would you buy a
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  Speaker 3: Chinese car?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: I like the buy American thing, but I'm not married.
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  Speaker 1: I understood.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love buy American until you have something for
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  Speaker 2: half price. It's just a good because what do Americans do?
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  Speaker 2: They vote with their pocket book? Wait till November, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: American car? Would you buy a Chinese cart cheaper?
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  Speaker 1: Our cars are American?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Would you buy a Chinese car?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to it?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Hey, I know what the difference between a porcupine
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  Speaker 4: and a BMW is.
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  Speaker 1: A BMW porcupine has the pricks on the outside.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well said? And uh, and would you buy a
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  Speaker 3: Chinese car?
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  Speaker 1: I would?
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  Speaker 3: But minus gem and okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a gym in car too. So here's
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  Speaker 2: what we have. We have and I would. So there's one, two, three,
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  Speaker 2: four of us who would buy a Chinese car and
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  Speaker 2: one liar? Right, Kono, I don't support a slave labor.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a point. Why not.
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  Speaker 3: Say that?
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  Speaker 1: If we have I phones?
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  Speaker 3: What's what's run?
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  Speaker 1: Good point? Good point?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, okay, yes, so uh well not if you get
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  Speaker 2: a great car at a great price. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see great wall motor cars in the United States at
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  Speaker 2: some point. Okay, a couple of fun stories. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of depressing stories, but it was kind
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  Speaker 2: of fun. And this has to do with gifts given
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  Speaker 2: to the US president by foreign dignitaries, heads of state
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  Speaker 2: when they come to visit. So what happens when a
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  Speaker 2: president receives a gift, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Not his.
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  Speaker 2: Gifts from foreign governments worth more than four hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty dollars. I don't know what that figure is present
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  Speaker 2: our presidents that belong to the American people. President can't
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  Speaker 2: keep them. So the latest, and this was kind of fun,
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  Speaker 2: is that King Charles gave the president a bell a
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  Speaker 2: ship's bill that was on a World War Two submarine
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  Speaker 2: that fought in nineteen forty four, and the ship was
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  Speaker 2: HMS Trump eight. Now, now it wasn't renamed for Trump.
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  Speaker 2: It just happened to be named for Trump. It's sort
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  Speaker 2: of a clever gift given to the president and there's
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  Speaker 2: no connection.
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  Speaker 3: But I want to go into really nice gifts that
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  Speaker 3: the president guests.
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  Speaker 2: The big one is from a Qatar where there was
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  Speaker 2: a Boying seven forty seven eight which Katari government tried
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  Speaker 2: to sell worth four hundred million dollars, and so they
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  Speaker 2: gave it to the President and he said it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be air Force one until he leaves office, and
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  Speaker 2: then ownership would transfer to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he can do that or not,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: because it belongs to the American people. Trump in twenty
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: seventeen alone received eighty three gifts from Saudi Arabia swords, daggers,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: fur rows, scarves, shirts, a hoodie, a turquoise dress. I
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: guess for Trump to wear sandals, and he said it
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: would be stupid not to accept, especially the jet. Barack
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Obama got a surfboard, crocodile insurance from Australia, fifty pairs
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  Speaker 2: of hmm boxer shorts or boxer briefs from David Beckham,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: a horse sculpture from Saudi Arabia, a ping pong table
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: from UK Prime Minister David Cameron at a time, George W.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Bush set of skates with rysney and elbow pads from
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the Dutch Prime Minister. The Tanzanian president gave Bush a
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: stuffed lion and a leopard. These are terrific gifts, and
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: remember they belonged to us. Rich here's a good one.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Richard Nixon's wife pat while in China mentioned giant pandas
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: while she was there.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Chinese government sent two of them. And here's a fun one.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: During his tenure, Nixon received two grains of rice.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: What do you do with two grains of rice? Well,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: he also got a.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Magnifying glass because his portrait had been engraved on those
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: grains of rice. Winston Churchill, who was a painter, a
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: very gifted painter, gave Franklin Roosevelt an oil painting that
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: he did, which was bought by Angelina Joe Lee later
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: on and sold at auction for eleven million dollars, which
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: is pretty impressive. And there's a great line, great line
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  Speaker 2: in the Producers because Churchill was known as a painter
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and it's actually world class painter. And the German guy
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: forgot his name, said, Winston Churchill, you think he's a painter.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Adolf Hitler could paint an entire apartment two coats before
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Churchill could paint one of his. That's one of the
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: funniest lines. Ever, so, the these gifts are extraordinary. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: could go on and on because they're in the thousands
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: of gifts. I don't know if you can see them,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: if there's a museum that has these gifts. But I'm
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: going to end with a story that I started with
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: President Trump received that ship spell from the HMS Trump,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: her Majesty's Shrimp or his Masses Siege Submarine the Trump
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: no connection.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I think it's just a clever gift. All right.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Oh here's something now we go back to not so
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: much fun. There is a term called demand destruction and
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: what does it mean.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I'll explain that one.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And it's all about your life falling apart and making
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: you want to jump off of a structure, a parking
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: structure with a swan dive.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: And I'll explain that when we come back. KF I
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