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Clean Car Rules | IOC Closer to Reinstating Russia · 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.
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  Speaker 2: Handle here, Good morning, everybody, Monday morning, February sixteenth, and
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  Speaker 2: we are expecting rain amy and the rain is starting today. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: it's already up in the north in Ventura County, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 3: It's ruling into the Southland a little bit later this morning,
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  Speaker 3: expected to anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait, can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, once again, we promised we're not going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the administration, but we have absolutely no choice because
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  Speaker 2: some momentous decisions are made. Some of them are just
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  Speaker 2: kind of stupid, you know, as ridiculous. It is the
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  Speaker 2: Trump name on the Kennedy Center. Okay, that's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of it doesn't really affect us, just kind of dumb.
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  Speaker 2: But this rollback with the clean air rules, that's a big,
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  Speaker 2: big deal, and that is the clean car rules. And
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  Speaker 2: this is well, the United States will essentially have no
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  Speaker 2: laws anymore that can enforce how efficient are passenger cars
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  Speaker 2: and trucks are going to be? And that's the result
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  Speaker 2: of a Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks. Of this one is
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  Speaker 2: a big one because it's killing the Endangerment Finding, which
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  Speaker 2: is the scientific determination that requires the EPAD to regulate
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  Speaker 2: greenhouse gases. In other words, it's not just an arbitrary
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  Speaker 2: decision that EPA made in terms of reducing greenhouse gases.
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  Speaker 2: It is based on this endangerment finding. And since the
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  Speaker 2: US no longer has a mission emission standards because that finding,
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  Speaker 2: the government says no longer exists. Effectively, it's just fake.
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  Speaker 2: The scientific community that established this finding.
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  Speaker 1: They made it up up.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it was a hoax, although I don't think
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  Speaker 2: the word hoax was being used.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Margo Oje, who served as EPA's top vehicle emissions regulator
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  Speaker 2: under three different presidents, said that, well, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: an emissions regulation anymore. Nothing zero and not many countries
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  Speaker 2: have zero. And there's two issues involved, and how do
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  Speaker 2: they deal with emissions and the cause of greenhouse gases
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  Speaker 2: which then caused climate change. One is straight mileage based
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  Speaker 2: on the amount or straight amount of emissions based on health,
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  Speaker 2: and the other one the regulation that's based on economics.
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  Speaker 2: And California has vow to sue to maintain stricter standards.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, California suing the administration. A couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: Transportation is the largest single source of greenhouse gases in
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  Speaker 2: the United States, and last year the administration proposed weakening
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  Speaker 2: the fuel economy standards. As I said, it's the fuel
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  Speaker 2: economy and that's now become largely irrelevant. And well they're
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  Speaker 2: still there. I mean if you violate, if a company violates,
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  Speaker 2: there are civil penalties for violating the economy standards, the
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  Speaker 2: fuel economy standards. And you know what the civil penalties are,
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  Speaker 2: because it was monetary. The penalties, which are still in
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  Speaker 2: existence now are zero. Company violates, Car company violates, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you violated, here's the fine zero, which means automakers are
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  Speaker 2: basically making those rules voluntary. Now we have monitor mandatory
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  Speaker 2: fuel economy gone, and this is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we now become an outlier.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the nations of the industrialized nations of the
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  Speaker 2: world don't or have much stricter fuel economy standards, much quicker,
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  Speaker 2: much more serious, and they will not althy'll establish some levels.
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  Speaker 2: Now when I talk about the industrial nations, I'm obviously
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  Speaker 2: talking about first world countries. If you go to the Sudan,
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  Speaker 2: the emissions are a bunch of camel craps, and that
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  Speaker 2: is they regulated on that level. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: have some serious legal challenges. You can imagine the lawsuits
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  Speaker 2: are flying already. The finding is these lawsuits are based
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  Speaker 2: on a two thousand and nine scientific conclusion that greenhouse
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  Speaker 2: gas emissions are a danger to our health and our
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  Speaker 2: welfare because they're well, they're just dangerous methane, carbon dioxide,
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  Speaker 2: all of that. And if the EPA's decision hold, this
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  Speaker 2: is what the scientists are saying. The Environmental Defense Fund,
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  Speaker 2: an advocacy group, says this could increase the country's greenhouse
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  Speaker 2: gas emissions by ten percent over the next thirty years. Now,
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  Speaker 2: up to this point, we were to reduce emissions, that
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  Speaker 2: was the philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: We've gone the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's going to increase the amount of gas emissions
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  Speaker 2: that are put into the environment. And greenhouse emissions are
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  Speaker 2: the main driver of global climate change however, which of
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  Speaker 2: course we know intensifying heat waves, drought, hurricanes, floods, the
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  Speaker 2: glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising that you can
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  Speaker 2: point to, and the administration, particularly President Trump, says all
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  Speaker 2: of this is a hoax. This is all a scam.
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  Speaker 2: And even when you point to a slide rule or
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  Speaker 2: a just a scientific look at sea levels right here
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  Speaker 2: they are there are three inches higher than they were
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  Speaker 2: twenty years ago, or two inches higher. That's a hoax.
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  Speaker 2: None of that is true. That's like the theory of
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  Speaker 2: flight is a hoax. Let me give you an example. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you go to the airport and you're sitting there watching
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  Speaker 2: an airplane take off, and you say, the theory of
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  Speaker 2: flight is a hoax. It doesn't exist. But the glaciers
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  Speaker 2: are melting, sea level is rising, the levels of carbon
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  Speaker 2: dioxide and methane are rising. We have been able to
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  Speaker 2: measure that. Here is the science. We have the measurement.
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  Speaker 2: The theory of flight is a hoax. The theory of
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  Speaker 2: gravity is also a hoax. I want to point this out.
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  Speaker 2: Even though when you get out of bed, your hit
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  Speaker 2: your feet hit the floor instead of the ceiling, it
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  Speaker 2: is that theory.
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  Speaker 1: Is a hoax.
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  Speaker 4: I always thought that the hoax was the political side
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  Speaker 4: of it, and the fact that it's up in the air,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's man made or anacle of change.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. You think, people, how can.
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  Speaker 3: You deny the fact that there's change in the climate.
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  Speaker 2: Because the President has said it's a hoax, and Maga
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  Speaker 2: says it is a hoax. What's all you know, You're
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  Speaker 2: going to see, for example, Fulton County, Georgia, where the
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  Speaker 2: FBI has taken all of the voting records, all of them,
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  Speaker 2: and this will be the fourth count of those voting records.
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  Speaker 3: So the voting records caused the glaciers to melt.
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  Speaker 2: Quite quite true. I'm making an example here. It's an analogy.
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  Speaker 2: You will see the government even though there is no widespread,
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  Speaker 2: widespread fraud, the report that there is no widespread fraud
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  Speaker 2: is a hoax. The reality is that there is widespread fraud.
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  Speaker 2: The reality is in twenty twenty, Joe Biden really really
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  Speaker 2: won the election. That is a hoax that the election
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  Speaker 2: was won by Joe Biden. It is crazy out there,
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  Speaker 2: but this is dangerous stuff because the emission standards have
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  Speaker 2: been reduced. And here's the crazy part of it, because
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration has said that these emission standards are
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  Speaker 2: hereby released or what a word, are hereby invalidated based
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  Speaker 2: on this scientific view what some experts are saying. To
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  Speaker 2: reinstate those you have to now do the science again
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  Speaker 2: and that may take years. Now, moving on too, Olympic news,
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  Speaker 2: which of course we're in the middle of the story
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  Speaker 2: continues on with Russia, and as I did a story
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Thursday or Friday about the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Russia is still not allowed in the Olympics. Russian
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  Speaker 2: team is not allowed, the Russian flag is not allowed.
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  Speaker 2: Russian athletes are but under a neutral status. They cannot
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  Speaker 2: carry the flag or where the uniform of Russia, and
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  Speaker 2: they if they receive a medal, it's not under the
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  Speaker 2: Russian auspices. So now you have the IOC and they.
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  Speaker 1: Appear ready to lift the suspension.
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  Speaker 2: Of Russia and Belarus because that's together and now clearing
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  Speaker 2: the way for athletes from these countries to return to
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  Speaker 2: major international competition, maybe as early as the Olympics in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight here in la But those plans hit
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  Speaker 2: a snag because of the international show of support or
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  Speaker 2: as an example of the international show of support for
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainian skeleton slider, and Zagatvich disqualified from the Games because
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't he refused to compete without a helmet featuring
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  Speaker 2: images of people killed in the war, and the IOC said,
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  Speaker 2: you can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: We're not political.
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  Speaker 2: And the outrage of that ban got the attention of
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  Speaker 2: everyone because it looks like the IOC is going the
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  Speaker 2: other way. And IOC President Christy Coventry said, we're a
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  Speaker 2: sports organization. We understand politics. We don't operate in a vacuum.
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  Speaker 2: But the game is sport. So no matter what the
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  Speaker 2: Russians do or did, it's all sport and sport is
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  Speaker 2: international and we don't allow politics at politics involved. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they did twelve years ago involving politics. That was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different because the Russians were caught up in
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  Speaker 2: a doping scandal where athletes were getting drugs to make
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  Speaker 2: themselves stronger and faster and better. And it was the
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  Speaker 2: government of Russia was involved, not individuals like Lance Armstrong
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  Speaker 2: and the Tour de France. There was no governments involved there.
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  Speaker 2: So now it's twelve years later and the Russians are
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  Speaker 2: asking to well become part of the International Olympic Games,
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  Speaker 2: the community, the International Olympic community, but they're still not there.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that? I mean probably would have been, but
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  Speaker 2: the invasion of Ukraine. So let's go back to nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty the Games were in Moscow, and let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you about the politics.
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  Speaker 1: What end up happening.
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  Speaker 2: Russian invades Afghanistan, so Jimmy Carter, who is the president.
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  Speaker 1: The Games. It got sixty countries to join.
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  Speaker 2: So the Olympic Games without sixty countries, especially the United States, Eh,
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  Speaker 2: what does that do? So Russia turns around in Boycott's
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty four Games, and so we really didn't
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  Speaker 2: have international games for those two games.
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  Speaker 1: So now we go back and everything is hunky.
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  Speaker 2: Dory, except for the fact that the doping scandal turned
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  Speaker 2: it all around. And naturally the Kremlin is denying that
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  Speaker 2: it ever happened. For example, the Neivaldi murder that we
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  Speaker 2: now know the frog licking incident, that Nivaldi was killed
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  Speaker 2: by the Russian government. I mean, there seems to be
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  Speaker 2: very little doubt. No, we didn't do it. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: do any of that. So last December, the IOC called
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  Speaker 2: for Russian and Belarusian youth to be allowed to compete
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  Speaker 2: in the international competitions under their national flag and as
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  Speaker 2: teams to compete in the Youth Olympic Games this summer
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  Speaker 2: in Senegal. Well, the response from the international community says, oh, no, nope.
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  Speaker 2: And to give you an idea of the kind of
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  Speaker 2: sentiment when it was the March of the Athletes, when
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  Speaker 2: they entered the stadium here in Milan. The biggest ovation
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  Speaker 2: came when the Ukrainian team were part of the opening
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  Speaker 2: ceremonies and they started marching through the stadium. That is
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  Speaker 2: the politics of what's really happening. So what is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen? Well, if I had to guess, I think
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  Speaker 2: Russia is going to be allowed back in because the
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  Speaker 2: Olympics really aren't the Olympics with a powerhouse like Russia.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's going I believe that's going to
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  Speaker 2: overcome and the IOC is certainly part of it. Now.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that can make that go the
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  Speaker 2: other way is that the.
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  Speaker 1: National teams.
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  Speaker 2: Will not allow this or they it's a backlash from
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  Speaker 2: the national teams, and so without the national teams being
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  Speaker 2: part of this movement, it's going to be very, very difficult.
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  Speaker 2: And if the federations will not join the Olympics, especially
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  Speaker 2: competing in sports like judo and boxing where they Russia
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  Speaker 2: is a powerhouse, then it fractures everything. And so we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see the Russians. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: Russian is going to do because one of the things
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  Speaker 2: it's now a total dictatorship in Russia of course we're
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  Speaker 2: aware of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's whatever Putin thinks.
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  Speaker 2: Putin is Stalin, Putin is Hitler, Putin is Mao.
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  Speaker 1: Without the killing of tens of millions of people.
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  Speaker 2: The killings are very targeted, and they're not much there.
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  Speaker 2: And of course you have you run, which is a
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  Speaker 2: complete dictatorship with the mulas dictating which way the country's
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  Speaker 2: going to go, and there the killing is pretty rampant
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  Speaker 2: if they're protests, and there were, and some ten thousand
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  Speaker 2: protesters were killed and fifty thousand people were arrested. So
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  Speaker 2: all in all, is Russia coming back? Yeah, I think so,
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  Speaker 2: because that is the politics of the Olympics. Remember when
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  Speaker 2: the Israeli athletes were killed by the PLO under Yaser
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  Speaker 2: air Fat, and I think I think that was the
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight Olympics in Munich. If I'm not mistaken, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that year is right, don't hold
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  Speaker 2: me to that. And there was a call for okay,
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  Speaker 2: we have some massacred athletes here, we have to hold
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  Speaker 2: off the games, and Avery Brundage, who was head of
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  Speaker 2: the IOC at that time, said nope, We're going to
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, not even one day's delay.
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  Speaker 1: So politics are politics. This is a story.
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  Speaker 2: This actually was an op ed piece in the New
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  Speaker 2: York Times, and it is an attorney that writes. And
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  Speaker 2: it makes a lot of sense because this affects cities
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  Speaker 2: all over the United States. Zorn Mandani became mayor and
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  Speaker 2: one of the things he wanted to do in New
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  Speaker 2: York was to give free bus rides to everybody. Now,
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  Speaker 2: come on, does that make sense? Actually it does if
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  Speaker 2: you look at it the way he does, because it
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  Speaker 2: saves writers money, of course, but free buses deliver a
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  Speaker 2: whole slew of benefits, easing traffic, promoting public safety, and
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  Speaker 2: cities like Boston, Chapelhon, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Kansas City,
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  Speaker 2: Missouri have tried it pilot programs and it works.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the cost of it.
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  Speaker 2: Really isn't a cost. This revenue neutral. And here are
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  Speaker 2: the reasons. Eliminating bus fares. For example, clears junk cases
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  Speaker 2: out of the court system where there are already huge
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  Speaker 2: case loads, preventing judges and prosecutors and public defenders from
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  Speaker 2: focusing their attention on more serious crimes. Because resources are
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  Speaker 2: spent on arresting, processing, prosecuting those people that go under
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  Speaker 2: the turnstiles on the subway while the music is playing
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  Speaker 2: the limbo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you go under the turnstyle.
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  Speaker 2: And it criminalizes poverty because more people jump the turnstiles
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  Speaker 2: or get on buses and try to evade fairs that
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  Speaker 2: are poor.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: You get fines or defendants or order to attend community
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  Speaker 2: service or come back for more court dates. But how
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  Speaker 2: do you get there? You can't afford the fair because
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  Speaker 2: as you've jumped the style or tried to get on
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  Speaker 2: a free or free on a bus, So they get
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  Speaker 2: re arrested and then they face jail time.
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  Speaker 1: Now are jails how crowded are they?
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  Speaker 2: Free buses can also unclog the streets in Boston, for example,
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  Speaker 2: free to the riders. All kinds of time is saved
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  Speaker 2: because no one no one punches tickets, and it's saved
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  Speaker 2: boarding time by as much as twenty three percent, So
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  Speaker 2: everyone's trip was faster, better, cheaper, And it gives bus
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  Speaker 2: rides or riders or automobile owners car owners and.
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  Speaker 1: Incentive to leave their cars at home because the bus
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  Speaker 1: is free.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes the journey much faster because now we
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  Speaker 2: have fewer cars on the road.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all of this makes sense if you look
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  Speaker 1: at it. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Eric Adams of New York who got tossed out.
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  Speaker 1: For mindami, what he did is his.
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  Speaker 2: Move to deal with the evaders of fairs was he
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  Speaker 2: flooded the city with police officers transit officers. So in
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  Speaker 2: overtime pay from New York it was four million dollars
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. You now go to twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: overtime pay was one hundred and fifty five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Oops. So when you look at it, does it make sense? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I guess it does. Now does that mean if free
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  Speaker 2: buff bus rides are free? Am I going to get
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  Speaker 2: on the bus? Not even close? Can you take a
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  Speaker 2: bus usting now? I know, wait till they're free? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice the buses that are now transiting our
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  Speaker 2: city have bathrooms that are installed. No, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have bathrooms. They have aisles where people decide
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  Speaker 2: those are bathrooms.
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  Speaker 3: We are so asked backwards about this stuff. Are we
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  Speaker 3: gonna give them free bread too?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Or cake? Not bread, but cheese?
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  Speaker 3: Government cheese?
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  Speaker 1: Well we used to give We used to give government cheese.
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  Speaker 1: Go cheese was part and parcel going to school.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when I was in junior high school, a
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  Speaker 2: grilled cheese sandwich was twenty five percent. I love their
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  Speaker 2: twenty five cents. I love their grilled cheese sandwiches. And
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  Speaker 2: when free government cheese was handed out the surplus cheese
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  Speaker 2: that was bought by the government, those sandwiches were ten
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  Speaker 2: cents instead of twenty five cents. Oh yeah, baby, those
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  Speaker 2: were so good. That's how I put on eighty pounds
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  Speaker 2: in junior high school. Okay, are we done on that one?
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  Speaker 1: We are.
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  Speaker 2: California has always been at the forefront of also of
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  Speaker 2: social moves, but I'll tell you where it's way behind,
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  Speaker 2: and that is in the world of dui. We are
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  Speaker 2: behind many many states. And so what's happened this year
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  Speaker 2: is that ten bills have been introduced by lawmakers on
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the aisle. Everybody seems to be unified
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  Speaker 2: on this. And the question is why did it take
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  Speaker 2: so damn long to do this, Because let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you what has been going on, And it's a shonda
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  Speaker 2: because last year, for example, vehicular manslaughter isn't considered a
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  Speaker 2: violent felony in California. If you kill someone driving, it's
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  Speaker 2: not a felony, which means drivers who kill serve only
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  Speaker 2: a fraction of their time or can behind bars. And
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  Speaker 2: so one of the bills would add vehicular manslaughter to
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  Speaker 2: the state's list of violent felonies. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 2: how crazy it was or it has been. It used
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  Speaker 2: to be that killing someone while you were drunk was
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  Speaker 2: considered an accident, and then mad got involved mothers against
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  Speaker 2: trunk drivers and got it made into a crime.
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  Speaker 1: But we're so behind the times, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Just to give you an idea, California saw fifty percent
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  Speaker 2: spike in DUI related debts over the last ten years,
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  Speaker 2: more than twice that of the rest of the country
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  Speaker 2: because we have some of the weakest DUI laws in
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  Speaker 2: the country.
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  Speaker 1: And let me go through a few of them. What
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  Speaker 1: the proposed changes are going to be?
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  Speaker 2: Adding vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence to the list of
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: violent felonies, prison time for crashes with multiple victims and
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: drivers with prior felony d UI within ten years, Stiffened
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: penalties for hit and run collisions where the driver had
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: prior to UI. Also, the drivers who get drunk I
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: can get diversion. Isn't that special? So in practice that
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: means some California drivers get points added to their license.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: For speeding, but not for killing someone. Is that crazy enough.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Another California law that exists right now, licensed suspensions or
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: revocation start at the time of the conviction, not at
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the time of the end of a sentence, which can
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: make it much faster for someone to go back to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: picking up a license. Also, adding or charging duiss a
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: felony for a second offense right now it's a third offense.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Revoking the license of repeat dui offenders, it takes away
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the offenders driving privileges for three years repeat dui offenders
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: other states revoking for up to fifteen years, and even
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: issue lifetime bans. I mean, it goes on and on
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: as how lenient California is to drunk drivers, and finally
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: we're looking at something. I mean, there when there were
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: comments in front of the legislature when they were doing
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: committee hearings, it was parent and family member after family
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: member after parent. I mean, it went on four hours
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: of people who lost loved ones, and you saw the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: photographs of those that were killed by drunk drivers, saying
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you know this has to stop, and it does and
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: it does.
• 24:50
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