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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: Knows. And this is the part that I love. This
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  Speaker 2: is political speak at its best. The main theme of
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  Speaker 2: her speech is we Angelino's must come together ahead of
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: We all have to get along.
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  Speaker 2: She was a big fan of Rodney King clearly, and
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  Speaker 2: was thinking about him as she discussed what we have
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  Speaker 2: to do in the city.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to get along, all of us. And now
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  Speaker 1: Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning everybody, Wednesday morning, February the fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Just a quick one, guys, and well, first of hello.
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  Speaker 3: Amy morning, Well hello Bill, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, it's too happy for me? All right, Cono you're up?
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  Speaker 1: Oh hello?
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, too happy. Cole Schreiber, Hello, Bill Way way
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  Speaker 2: too happy. And finally, and and please save this.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Bad Billy.
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  Speaker 2: Bad that's my news to got it. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be the third tier traction at the Super Bowl halftime show, right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, next to bad Bunny.
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  Speaker 2: Y Hey, that promo that we're running, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get along. You're referring to Karen bass in or State
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  Speaker 2: of the city speech, right, you know, and obviously a
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  Speaker 2: reference to Rodney King when he was asked.
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  Speaker 1: About what happened with the LA riots.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I did I share this with you that
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  Speaker 2: I actually interviewed Rodney King on the show somewhat after
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  Speaker 2: some time after that. I have never had an interview
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  Speaker 2: like Rodney Kings and all the decades I've been doing radio,
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  Speaker 2: he grunted through the entire interview. He had his attorney
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  Speaker 2: with him who did some speaking, and I would turn
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  Speaker 2: to King and I would ask a question, what does
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  Speaker 2: that mean? And then the attorney would answer some throw
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  Speaker 2: some answer in there, and then a minute or two later,
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  Speaker 2: I would turn to Rodney King and go, so, let
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  Speaker 2: me ask you, what did you think at this point
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  Speaker 2: or at this time whatever? And he would answer with, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean. I've never had anybody grunt through
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  Speaker 2: an entire interview. It was one of the best. We
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  Speaker 2: should actually have that somewhere in the archives, because that's
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  Speaker 2: something that's always great fun to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had some real doozies interviews.
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  Speaker 2: Hung up on Arnold Schwarzenegger and wouldn't interview him anymore
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  Speaker 2: after the second or third time when his PR person
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  Speaker 2: called up, the governor would like to be on the show, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so I would ask him a question. He would
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  Speaker 2: have instantly answered well Bill, and then go into his
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  Speaker 2: talking points like any politician.
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  Speaker 1: I said, that's great, Governor. Now the question is and
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  Speaker 1: I'd ask the.
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  Speaker 2: Question, well Bill, and then repeat the talking point Governor,
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  Speaker 2: you're not answering the question, please, well Bill, and the
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  Speaker 2: talking points again, gotta go, thank you so much. And
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  Speaker 2: the next time the PR person or the communications guy
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  Speaker 2: calls and we really can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You know who?
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  Speaker 2: Historically and not giving you a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: history of this show, you know who. The greatest politician
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  Speaker 2: who I had on the show, who I absolutely admired
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  Speaker 2: beyond admiration, was John McCain when he was running for office.
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  Speaker 1: John McCain not only was a genuine hero.
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  Speaker 2: Trump's out of his mind saying that he wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: hero because he was captured by the.
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  Speaker 1: North Vietnam North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, but.
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  Speaker 2: Also he was then the least bs politician I've ever
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  Speaker 2: heard in my life. I'd ask him a question and
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  Speaker 2: he'd answer it straight out. I go, so, Senator, do
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  Speaker 2: you think that was a mistake, goes you bet, I did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just straight on, just a great interview.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course my fun escapade with Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: way way way before he ran for president. Okay, guys,
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  Speaker 2: let me see what do we have going? You know,
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  Speaker 2: the Savannah Guthries mom case. Man, that is so strange.
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  Speaker 2: And you know you cover this amy, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: you're a newsperson. How strange do you find both the
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  Speaker 2: reporting and the information that's coming out.
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  Speaker 1: On this case?
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  Speaker 3: Everything is so bizarre about it, like why would you
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  Speaker 3: kidnap an eighty four year old woman? Like what what's
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  Speaker 3: the motivation behind that? And now there's talking talk of
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  Speaker 3: possible ransom notes, but we don't know are those real
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  Speaker 3: ransom notes or were those maybe done by copycats because
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  Speaker 3: they said, well, we were not saying if there's any ransom,
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  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, ransom notes pop up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: TMZ reported that there was a ransom note, but also
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  Speaker 2: reported that it was not corroborated. TMZ is is I
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  Speaker 2: rely on TMZ far more than I do any other
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  Speaker 2: news outlet, if you want to call it a news outlet.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it that they're almost never wrong, right, So.
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  Speaker 3: But they're saying that they demand they're demanding millions in bitcoin,
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  Speaker 3: which then there's all this speculation, Well, who would call
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  Speaker 3: for bitcoin? It would be a younger person who's looking
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  Speaker 3: for bitcoin and.
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  Speaker 2: Or someone who has really looked into it and realizes
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  Speaker 2: that I cannot be traced. And it's not a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of one hundred dollars bills in a duffel bag you
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  Speaker 2: drop off at the foot of a bridge either where
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  Speaker 2: everybody can see where you are.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, it's just too strange.
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  Speaker 2: And is there any connection to the fact that this
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  Speaker 2: is Savannah got three mom?
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  Speaker 1: And that was the reason and.
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  Speaker 2: The kind of attention that it's getting it is and
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  Speaker 2: we're hearing nothing from the authorities.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We do know that it was determined to be a
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  Speaker 2: crime scene and an abduction that was made pretty clear,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that she needed medication that was life
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  Speaker 2: threatening if she.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't have it right, And they said that they did
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  Speaker 3: find a thing of pills at the house. And then
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  Speaker 3: there was also I was watching something and they were
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  Speaker 3: talking about how she had a ring camera, but people
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  Speaker 3: when authorities got there that looks like the camera had
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  Speaker 3: been taken off of its mount that sat outside her house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't recorded and
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  Speaker 2: kept somewhere in the cloud. I just put in an
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  Speaker 2: alarm system at my house with cameras and they're immediately recorded.
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  Speaker 2: And you can tear the cameras drown all you want,
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  Speaker 2: but you know the images are still recorded. All right, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it. Time for handle on the news. Notice
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say good morning to Neil because Neil is
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  Speaker 2: under the weather, which really we all are, because weather
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  Speaker 2: is around us all the time and it's above us.
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  Speaker 2: And I've under I've always wondered about that phrase. He
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  Speaker 2: is under the weather. Okay, yeah, he certainly is. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: why don't we do it. Time for handle on the news?
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  Speaker 2: And it's Amy and me lead story. It's shut down,
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  Speaker 2: as I had said. And by the way, this was
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  Speaker 2: no prescient move, and you know, there's no genius. The
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  Speaker 2: thinking here is that the government shut down did end
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  Speaker 2: after a couple of days, and the President of course
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  Speaker 2: signed the bill because he was very anxious to keep
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  Speaker 2: the government going, and the Democrats basically prevailed on this one.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part.
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  Speaker 2: The bill itself funds the entire government until next September,
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  Speaker 2: the entire fiscal year except for Department of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 2: which the ICE and Border Patrol is under the Department
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  Speaker 2: of Homeland Yes, Amy.
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  Speaker 3: Except that the ICE funding is separate we were.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to from, separate from the entire entire department.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So DHS, TSA, those FEMA, those things are under
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  Speaker 3: that two week But the ICE funding is already in place,
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  Speaker 3: and it's separate from this pack the spending.
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  Speaker 2: Pat now that I didn't know, so that has been funded.
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  Speaker 2: Ice the most controversial of all of the agencies or
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  Speaker 2: departments that has been funded well, while the rest of
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  Speaker 2: it has not.
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  Speaker 3: Right, But the fight is over ICE and the way
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  Speaker 3: that they're carrying out the immigration. But it's not for
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  Speaker 3: the funding of ICE.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the only thing Congress can do is
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  Speaker 2: fund Congress has no authority to tell ICE how it
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  Speaker 2: runs its operations or how Homeland Security oversees the border
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  Speaker 2: patrol and the way immigrants are dealt with deported, detained.
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  Speaker 2: That's fascinating, but fascinating. But in any case, the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: got their wish that there was no funding except for ICE,
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  Speaker 2: as Amy said, which I just I think it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of intuitive to everything the Democrats wanted, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: two week push.
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  Speaker 1: On this one to negotiate it separately. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: good news. Governments really is running it.
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  Speaker 2: That really didn't affect much of anybody because the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: weren't going to take a chance again. The Democrats weren't
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  Speaker 2: going to take a chance again because this time the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats could have been blamed for a lengthy shutdown, right, Amy, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we did this already.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we already talked about Savannah.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy got three in the ransom note. And you know
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  Speaker 2: my question this is I'd be interested. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: kind of medication she was on, Not that that has
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  Speaker 2: anything to do with the case, but it's the question
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  Speaker 2: of the transparency of the authorities. We talk a lot
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  Speaker 2: about transparency, and it's it's something that we all want
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  Speaker 2: to know, right, But.
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  Speaker 3: It falls I'm guessing that it would fall under HIPPA,
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  Speaker 3: so they can't tell us.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it does fall under.
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  Speaker 3: HIPPA because it's not health officials.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think because it's when you talk about the
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  Speaker 2: sheriff's department that's not a provider of medical services.
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  Speaker 1: And would you look that up.
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  Speaker 2: Does information released by a police authority fall under the
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  Speaker 2: HIPPA rules, which, of course says Amy just said, keeps
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  Speaker 2: all medical information private.
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  Speaker 1: For example, you would you.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot know how many times I, if ever, for example,
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  Speaker 2: had an STD three times.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Just before, Amy has some breaking news, pretty important news.
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  Speaker 2: We were discussing Anne Guthrie, who is the mother of
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  Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie, and her disappearance slash possible kidnapping.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And I had mentioned that the authorities are not letting
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  Speaker 2: us so, for example, in the medication in which the
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  Speaker 2: sheriff said she needs every day that's life threatening. And
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  Speaker 2: Amy said, well, maybe the sheriff can't because of HIPPO
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  Speaker 2: laws which keep medical information private. And I said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think HIPPO applies to authorities releasing information.
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  Speaker 1: And Ann looked it up and Amy, you.
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  Speaker 2: Are wrong, wrong, wrong, ron gue wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't claim to know for sure. I was surmising.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now, good word, Okay, Now back to the news.
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  Speaker 2: We have some pretty important stuff to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Amy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. President Trump's borders are Tom Holman is holding a
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  Speaker 3: press conference and it's just announced that seven hundred immigration
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  Speaker 3: officers are going to immediately be leaving Minnesota. He also
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  Speaker 3: said several counties are now cooperating with ICE agents. Holman
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  Speaker 3: went on to say that people who are violent and
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  Speaker 3: attack ICE agents will be prosecuted. He says he wants
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  Speaker 3: to see peace in the streets and implored people to
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  Speaker 3: stop resisting and to just peacefully protest.
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  Speaker 2: Now, have you noticed that the administration did not back
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  Speaker 2: down on their position.
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  Speaker 1: They never do. This administration will never admit that it's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: It's as simply not restating and stating and restating that
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  Speaker 2: the two victims were terrorists, Domestic terrorists were there to
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  Speaker 2: kill as many of ICE agents as possible, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not the agent's fault. Any shooting that occurred is of
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  Speaker 2: course the fault of the protesters who are still agitators.
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  Speaker 2: But he's seven hundred of the troops are going down.
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  Speaker 2: I guess three thousand that have been put there. And
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  Speaker 2: the reason that they're going that they're leaving is because
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  Speaker 2: the local authorities are cooperating now and therefore we don't
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  Speaker 2: need as many ICE agents. Nothing about we're leaving because
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  Speaker 2: there is a lot of political backlash and the people
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  Speaker 2: who have been Innesota we've got some contention. We're trying
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  Speaker 2: to make it as good as we possibly can. It's
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  Speaker 2: are you ever going to hear this administration agree or
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  Speaker 2: admit that it was wrong on any level, on any subject. No,
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  Speaker 2: the answer is absolutely not moving on.
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  Speaker 3: Two hundred million dollars slashed. The Yellow County Board of
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  Speaker 3: Supervisors has approved sweeping cuts to homeless services in the county.
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  Speaker 3: Some advocates say that's going to mean more people on
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  Speaker 3: the streets. County voters approved a sales tax increase in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four to help fight the homelessness crisis, but
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  Speaker 3: city officials say they face more than two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: seventy million dollars in a budget shortfall in trying to
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  Speaker 3: just maintain current homeless services operations, So they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be cutting outreach and navigation programs that help people who
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  Speaker 3: are homeless get into housing. Some forms of rental assistance
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  Speaker 3: are being cut, as well as a program that funds
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  Speaker 3: the acquisition of apartment buildings and to convert them into
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  Speaker 3: former homeless housing.
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  Speaker 2: How many units of housing have action been built or
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  Speaker 2: approved out of the what sixty thousand homeless people in
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  Speaker 2: the county? And I don't want to It's just I
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  Speaker 2: had said this. Any I helped for the homeless population
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  Speaker 2: is going to be incremental. It's just not going to hell. Also,
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  Speaker 2: you'll never get a number of how many homeless there are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they don't number one, admit it. How about
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  Speaker 2: the people that are homeless half the time and they're
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  Speaker 2: CouchSurfing or in homeless shelters for a few days. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a snapshot and the next day it may change.
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  Speaker 2: All we know is La County doesn't have any money
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  Speaker 2: and the homeless are getting nailed, which I find surprising
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  Speaker 2: because usually the homeless population or the homeless issue has
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  Speaker 2: been front burner literally for years and years. Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 2: ran the last time on homelessness, as did Karen Bass,
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  Speaker 2: as did Paul Caruso.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good news if you have bitcoin.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not not maybe just not. It's a big bummer
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  Speaker 3: for bitcoin. It hit its lowest level since November of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Bitcoin slumped like seven percent yesterday, fell
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  Speaker 3: below seventy three thousand dollars. It's down roughly forty percent
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  Speaker 3: since hitting a record high above one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 3: six thousand in October.
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  Speaker 2: I've never understood bitcoin when it first came out, and
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  Speaker 2: how many years did it come out?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty years ago?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty you know, two thousand and eight, so that's not
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  Speaker 2: even twenty years ago. And you could buy you could
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  Speaker 2: have bought bitcoin for several for a penny, So if
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  Speaker 2: you had five cents, for example, you would own let's
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  Speaker 2: say at least ten bitcoin or twelve bitcoin. And it
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  Speaker 2: hit over one hundred thousand dollars. That ain't bad for
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  Speaker 2: a penny investment, is it. I don't get bitcoin, never have,
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  Speaker 2: never will. How it all works anyway, and a corrollarily
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  Speaker 2: to that the other side of the coin, if you will, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: that's good is the fact that gold, which of course
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  Speaker 2: uncertainty hits gold blows up almost hit five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: an ounce.
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell you? It tells you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to keep on doing commercials for leer capital,
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  Speaker 2: is what it tells you. The people that buy, sell,
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  Speaker 2: and hold gold for you and kno, make sure that
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  Speaker 2: they get a bill for this plug.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Final moments of freedom. A man charged and convicted of
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  Speaker 3: trying to assassinate Donald Trump when he was running for
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  Speaker 3: president in twenty twenty four is sentenced or scheduled to
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  Speaker 3: be sentenced in Florida to He was convicted last fall
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  Speaker 3: for his attempt on Trump's life when then presidential candidate
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  Speaker 3: Trump was golfing at his club in West Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 3: Prosecutors are asking for a life sentence. His lawyer says
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  Speaker 3: he deserved to taste freedom.
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  Speaker 2: Again, that's interesting, interesting defense argument. I haven't heard that
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  Speaker 2: one very much. This is the guy who was at
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  Speaker 2: the golf course, at the fence, and we had a
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  Speaker 2: clear shot of the t but the FBI saw him,
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  Speaker 2: and he left his backpack, not very sophisticated, and was
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  Speaker 2: picked up.
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  Speaker 1: And he's going to get a lot of years, to
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  Speaker 1: say the least.
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  Speaker 3: So here's my question, legal question, Bill. Of course, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't actually pull a trigger, No attempt was actually made.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, pulling a trigger does not change the attempt,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think. Well, I mean shooting at and setting up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's much of a difference. But here
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  Speaker 2: is the basis of my legal reasoning. Here, I have
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  Speaker 2: absolutely no idea which is typical of what happens on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: But don't mishandle on the law.
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  Speaker 2: Eight to eleven o'clock every Saturday morning Marginal Legal Advice.
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  Speaker 3: Human trafficking targeted authorities in LA have announced the arrests
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  Speaker 3: of more than six hundred suspects and have rescued more
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  Speaker 3: than one hundred seventy suspected drug trafficking victims, sex trafficking
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  Speaker 3: victims lad La County DA Nathan Hoffman says this is
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  Speaker 3: nothing less than modern slavery, and this whole human trafficking
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  Speaker 3: thing is a multi billion dollar industry.
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  Speaker 2: It's also the investigation also is multime multi million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: We don't hear how expensive, how extensive. Not that it's
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  Speaker 2: not worth it, by the way, I want to make
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  Speaker 2: that really clear. But part of the news of these
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  Speaker 2: things is the enormous effort and the expense in the
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  Speaker 2: time and the number of agents that go into this.
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  Speaker 2: It is really expensive stuff. But clearly we have to
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  Speaker 2: do it. We just have to report that part of
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  Speaker 2: the story.
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  Speaker 3: Also, an alternative to Bad Bunny turning point, USA is
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  Speaker 3: holding its own Super Bowl halftime show. Bad Bunny was
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  Speaker 3: announced last fall as the headliner for Super Bowl sixty
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  Speaker 3: and conservatives not happy about it, so they said, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to do one of our own that's more family friendly.
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  Speaker 3: So it was announced on Monday that the lineup would
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  Speaker 3: be kid rock country singers Brentlee Gilbert, and Lee Brice
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  Speaker 3: and then Gabby Barrett, who came in third on season
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  Speaker 3: sixteen of American Idol.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, does anybody have any idea who she
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  Speaker 2: was prior to this announcement? Came in third on American Idol.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a question I want to ask. You have the
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl, then you have this Turning Point us a
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  Speaker 2: concert which is going to get more viewers the this concert,
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  Speaker 2: the Turning Point concert or the Puppy Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I love the Puppy bul There you are, I'm lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, line and Brandley Gilbert and Lee Brice. Yeah, it's bad,
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  Speaker 3: but you don't like country music. It's bad. Is so
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  Speaker 3: over come on.
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  Speaker 2: And the reaction has been I mean, it's not even
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  Speaker 2: an outrage or the progressives or liberals or the anti
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  Speaker 2: trumpets and or anti USA or anti USA Turning Point
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  Speaker 2: or is just no one's paying attention, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is probably driving them even more nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll have to wait and see, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: think it's going to be a huge response.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I don't think so. Puppy Bowl do well,
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  Speaker 2: But Puppy bowls before. Oh I thought it was during.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think they don't. They do the Puppy Bowl
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  Speaker 3: before the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I think they do it right during the Puppy Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: I mean during the Super Bowl. And you're a dog lover, yes, sir, okay,
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  Speaker 2: Puppy Bowl during or before?
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  Speaker 1: U before?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, look it up and we'll see. I'm saying during
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  Speaker 2: and Ann says that it's before, and we'll see that's
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  Speaker 2: before Super Bowl. Okay, then I am well r O
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  Speaker 2: N g U U E yes, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on, uh.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Demolishing Marilyn Monroe. A Brentwood couple you you've heard about
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  Speaker 3: this bought Marilyn Monroe's old house and they wanted to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: tear it down and then build their house next door
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: on make it bigger. And then they got all the permits,
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  Speaker 3: they did everything they were supposed to do, and then
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: somebody got wind of it and said, hold on, that's
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Marilyn Monroe's old home. And so there was a big
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  Speaker 3: outcry and the house has been declared National culturee where
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: is it? The LA Cultural Heritage Commission made it a landmark.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, LA landmark.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that just stopped it cold, right, and now
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  Speaker 2: there's argument, yeah, and the argument from the people that
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: now own it. There isn't an ioda of anything inside
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  Speaker 2: the house that is connected to Marilyn Monroe.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: It has bought and sold.
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  Speaker 2: Eight times and there isn't even a piece of wallpaper,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a small piece that is related to Marilyn Monroe. However,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: they're missing out at that facade is what is important.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Much like I remember when the White House burnt down
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  Speaker 2: in Anaheim and Bruno had to rebuild. Well, because it
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: was a landmark building. He had to keep the front
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: of it exactly as it was because it is also
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a protect home. It was built in nineteen ten. Also
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: a quick side story about Marilyn Monroe.
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  Speaker 1: You know she was buried.
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  Speaker 2: She's buried in a crypt at Hollywood Cemetery, and there
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: was a man who owned the crypt right above her.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I think he bought it and insisted that he get
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: buried face down because he wanted to be face down
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: with Maryland below him face up. And he paid millions
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: for it, and he died, and that happened. His wife
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: realized she could get three point eight or four billion dollars,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: immediately took him out of there, put him in another
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: crypt and sold it to someone else.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was a someone.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Else who wanted to I guess have death sex with
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Marilyn Monroe.
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  Speaker 1: I've had death sex before I was married.
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  Speaker 3: And okayful, careful, big boy, you're married now.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. All death sex continues on. Okay, not
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of movement, if you know what I mean. Okay, yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you know you got it all right.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Calling on Casey to quit, LA twenty eight Olympics committee
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: chair Casey Wasserman is facing more and more calls from
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: officials around LA to resign after that last batch of
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Epstein emails was released and he showed up in it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: There were some racy emails exchanged with the convicted sex offender,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Gillaine Maxwell. Supervisor Janice Hahn says having Casey Wasserman represent
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: us on the world stage distracts focus from our athletes
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  Speaker 3: and the enormous effort needed to prepare for twenty twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: M Are you disappointed that we haven't actually seen those
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: techs and you can redact you know, the actual words used,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: but still, you know, just because we're newspeople and it's
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: important that we get that news out, especially these kind
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: of comments on tech.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, is he going to survive this?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's pretty rough.
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  Speaker 2: You know, any connection to Jeffrey Epstein is toxic by anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the emails were from twenty years ago. Yeah, that
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: that doesn't make it any better.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And you know you and the argument is, for example,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: someone comes up with, you know, you made a racist
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: comment that happens a lot in with politicians, and you
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: say I was in grade school at the time. It
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It shows the way you're thinking. Nothing in context.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: There's no such thing as context anymore. And so what
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: can I tell you? You know, if all the texts
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: in the world were released, I think a lot of people,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: a lot of us, would be hugely embarrassed.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: How China is handling handles. China is banning hidden door
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: handles on cars, all of them sold in China. That
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: makes them the first country in the world it's going
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: to do this. The hidden door handles are pretty much
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: a signature feature on Tesla's The band comes as Elon
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Musk's company reports declining world worldwide sales and struggles with
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: competition in China, which has evs of its own. The
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Ministry of Information and Technology cited the inconvenience with operating
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: the exterior door handles. We just experienced this over the weekend,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: and also their inability to open after an accident as
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: a reason for the band.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: That is a big safety issue because if there isn't
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: power and it's all cut off.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Now there's a manual way of.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Doing it, but still it can be very dangerous. Also
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: it's very entertaining as you see people taking their finger
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and poking the entire door looking for the handle.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we drove last weekend and Amy could not
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: get into Luis's tesla. She was like, how do you
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: open this door? It was kind of funny.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's particularly funny when there's a fire inside
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: you're trying to get someone out. Yeah, that's when it's hilarious.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: A real life superhero, as Dori would say, just keep swimming,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: keep on swimming. Off the Australian coast, a thirteen year
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: old boy swam for like four hours and two and
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: a half miles back to shore. The family was from Perth.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: They were on vacation and out paddling around using kayaks
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: and paddle boards that they got from their hotel and
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: then the oceans got rough and the winds came along
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: and swept them out to sea. So the thirteen year
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: old swam back to the shore and basically saved his
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: mom Joanne, who's forty seven, his brother Bo who's twelve,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: and his eight year old sister Grace. He got back
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: and alerted authorities. They went out and got him.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Factoid. What is Perth famous for?
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: This relatively small city on the northeast side of northwest
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: side of Australia. When John Glenn was doing the first
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: orbitable flight of an American the people in Perth they
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: was going to go right over Perth. The people in
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Perth turned all their lights on and he could see it,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: and he mentioned, thank you very much to the people
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: of Perth. That's in case you already asked that on
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Jeopardy you'll know, very cool. Yeah, it is cool. You
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: can look that up.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Jill's murderous X. This is a weird story. The ex
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: husband a former First Lady Jill Biden, has been arrested
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: and charged with first degree murder in the killing of
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: his wife. This happened in Delaware. William Stevenson is seventy seven.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: His wife, Linda was sixty four. She was actually found
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: dead on December twenty eighth. They did a bunch of
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: investigations and then he was indicted earlier this week. Stevenson
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: was married to Jill Biden in the seventies. They were
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: married for about five years.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Weird story, isn't it And the first actual Donald Trump
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: story of the news and probably the last one in.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: The news hour.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has doubled down. He's still attacking Harvard and
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: demanding the Ivy League school pay a billion dollar settlement
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: to restore federal funding after months have failed negotiations. Some
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: of the schools have negotiated and Trump said, okay, you
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: can have your funding, but Harvard is not one of them.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're standing firm on all the demands that the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: President is making of them.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: And by the way, he used.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: To be five hundred million dollars and now he upped it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: He literally doubled down on this and he's and a
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: lot of this, I mean a lot of these schools
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: have gone to court and have won because this is
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: money that Congress has already appropriated for the most part
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: of federal funding that's going on that's not being given.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: To the schools.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: So hey, can I tell you get on the wrong
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: side of Donald Trump. You're kind of screwed in the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: story about Pexico pledging to cut price on snacks, which
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Amy already did. Okay, guys, we're done with the news.
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