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California Vehicle Deaths Rise | Healthcare System Crisis · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: Here morning crew.
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  Speaker 2: Neil gone this week, and when I walk out of
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  Speaker 2: the door, I think it's next week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gone for the entire week. Neil will be filling
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  Speaker 1: in for me.
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  Speaker 2: It is a Monday, December fifteenth, second day of Hanukkah, Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: ten days away, and some of the big stories were
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  Speaker 2: looking at. Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were murdered
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  Speaker 2: and found yesterday at their home in Brentwood, and their
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  Speaker 2: son has been arrested for the killing of his parents.
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  Speaker 2: This is a story that's developing, and it's not only
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  Speaker 2: a national story as you would guess, but very much
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  Speaker 2: a local story also having them living virtually their entire
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  Speaker 2: lives in southern California, and the shooting at Brown University
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  Speaker 2: where two were killed, and then the shooting at Bondi
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  Speaker 2: Beach in Australia and Sydney where fifteen people or fourteen
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  Speaker 2: were killed and fifteen well fourteen were killed by the gunman.
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  Speaker 2: I don't consider the gunman a person at all, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a father and son who did the shooting. The
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  Speaker 2: father has been killed, the son is in the hospital. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: a story about drivers in California. It used to be
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  Speaker 2: that drunk drivers were given a slap on the wrist
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  Speaker 2: even when a death occurred. It was not really considered
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  Speaker 2: a crime until Mother's against Drunk Drivers came in mad
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  Speaker 2: and really made some movement. So you would look at
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  Speaker 2: California being at the forefront of dealing with drunk drivers,
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  Speaker 2: speeding drivers, etc. Well, they are at the forefront. California
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  Speaker 2: is at the forefront of ignoring it. There was a
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  Speaker 2: state committee meeting that this year and the director of
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  Speaker 2: Caltrans showed a chart and it showed black bars representing
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  Speaker 2: the death toll on California roads in each year of
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  Speaker 2: the past twenty years. If you stick at the chart,
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  Speaker 2: fatalities have been falling dramatically until twenty ten, and then
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  Speaker 2: it goes the other way.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody there could miss.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that more than sixty percent increase happened in depths.
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  Speaker 2: The head of cal Tran says, we're working to reverse
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  Speaker 2: that trend now at that hitting at that committee hearing,
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  Speaker 2: no legislator asked about the chart. No one asked the
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  Speaker 2: director what exactly was going on, and the hearing was
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  Speaker 2: three hours and the committee member asked a question about
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  Speaker 2: homeless encampments along the road, gas tax revenue, gender identity,
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  Speaker 2: on IDs, planning for the twenty twenty eight Olympics, not
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  Speaker 2: a word about the deaths on the highways. Over the
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  Speaker 2: past decades, nearly forty thousand people have died more than
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  Speaker 2: twenty have been injured on California roads.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: The cow Matters investigation shows that time and again the
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  Speaker 2: crashes were caused either by drunk drivers, chronic speeders, and
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  Speaker 2: motorists with a history of recklessness recklessness behind them, and
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  Speaker 2: year after year, nothing happens, not the governor, not the legislators,
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  Speaker 2: not the courts, not the DMV, Nobody acts on it.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, we have some of the weakest DUI
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  Speaker 2: laws in the nation. DUI related deaths have been rising
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  Speaker 2: more than twice as fast than the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: country per capita. Now, there were some bills, a bills
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  Speaker 2: specifically that it was introduced, and this was a bill
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  Speaker 2: regarding speeding, even to the point where it goes into recklessness.
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  Speaker 2: If you're speeding, and if you're hitting seventy five miles
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  Speaker 2: now or eighty five miles an hour, that's speeding if
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  Speaker 2: you're hitting one hundred miles an hour, and now we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about reckless driving, and two years in a row
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  Speaker 2: bills that would have required the use of speed limiting
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  Speaker 2: technology on cars that failed, specifically those monitors that either
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  Speaker 2: do not let the car go past a certain speed
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  Speaker 2: or breathalyzers. If someone's been accused of drunk driving convicted,
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  Speaker 2: the car doesn't start unless the breathalyzer is blown.
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  Speaker 1: Into and the meter shows.
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  Speaker 2: A zero or well below the level of drunk driving.
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  Speaker 1: And it was on the books, it was being passed.
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  Speaker 1: They did pass.
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill that required technology that alerts
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  Speaker 2: drivers when they're speed Babe, Babe, bape your speeding. The DMV,
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  Speaker 2: which can take dangerous drivers off the road, routinely allows
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  Speaker 2: drivers with histories of dangers driving to continue to operate
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  Speaker 2: on the roadways. Now, the guy who Knewsom chose to
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  Speaker 2: run the agency won't even talk about it. The only
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  Speaker 2: thing the ad Agency released was a statement talking about
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  Speaker 2: modernization efforts that reflect quote an ongoing commitment to enhancing
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  Speaker 2: accountability and transparency while continually refining our process to insure
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  Speaker 2: California roads are safer for everyone. Is there one guy
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  Speaker 2: who writes all of these pr hack reports about safety
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  Speaker 2: is our number one concern, That's what we care about. Please,
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  Speaker 2: So do you know who also fought the drunk driving
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  Speaker 2: one the breathalyzer, because that was also on the books
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  Speaker 2: that Newsome in fact said no to. You know who
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  Speaker 2: fought it, the ACLU. The ACLU had that bill, got it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this was before it even hit Newsome, this was in
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  Speaker 2: the legislature. And why is that because the drivers have
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  Speaker 2: to pay for it and have to pay one hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars a month to a private company to rent those
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  Speaker 2: breathalyzers that don't let someone who is drunk or blows
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  Speaker 2: a certain amount of alcohol in his or her system drive.
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  Speaker 2: And what the ACLU said, it is a form of
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  Speaker 2: racialized wealth extraction because poor people can't afford it. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: this is racist and they got to the bill, the
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  Speaker 2: acl you gutted the bill. So if you get hit
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  Speaker 2: by a drunk driver next time out, or you lose
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  Speaker 2: a loved one, God for just think of the ACLU,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you're a liberal, you know, I just think
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  Speaker 2: what the ACLU.
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  Speaker 1: Did on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Huh. All right, now, as you can imagine, there is
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  Speaker 2: survey after survey being.
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  Speaker 1: Done about this.
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  Speaker 2: There's a new Gallup poll that was just released and
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  Speaker 2: concerns and costs and access to healthcare. It actually has
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  Speaker 2: long dominated Gallup survey studying health problems facing the country.
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  Speaker 2: The number one problem with health care is the cost
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  Speaker 2: and are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: This is the part that I don't get.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty three percent of respondents said the system is in
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  Speaker 2: a state of crisis, which is among the highest readings
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  Speaker 2: Gallup has ever said. Twenty three percent. Do you believe
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  Speaker 2: it's such a low figure When I looked at this
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  Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, only twenty three percent say the system
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  Speaker 2: is in a state of crisis. Now we don't know
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  Speaker 2: how far up, because this is the way surveys are written.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe it's give it a ten, a nine,
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  Speaker 2: a seven. But it's really telling that I don't think
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  Speaker 2: people understand it, although their insurance is going to go
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  Speaker 2: up like crazy across the board, by the way, not
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  Speaker 2: just the Obamacare recipients.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: The negative perception, by the way, goes across party lines.
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  Speaker 2: Now you would think that it's probably bigger among Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: It would be eighty one percent of Democrats sixty four
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  Speaker 2: percent of Republicans said the system is in a crisis
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  Speaker 2: or of major problems, which is really interesting because that
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  Speaker 2: is in direct opposition with Gallup says. But the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line is that we know, we know how much trouble
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  Speaker 2: we're in in terms of health insurance, and you're going
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  Speaker 2: to see tens of millions of people who are insured
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  Speaker 2: under Obamacare lose their insurance because they just can't afford it,
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  Speaker 2: many cases double, in many cases triple because the subsidies
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  Speaker 2: that were given to the American taxpayer who was buying
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  Speaker 2: insurance under Obamacare, they went up dramatically. They were given
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  Speaker 2: to the taxpayer slash customer of Obamacare because of COVID now,
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  Speaker 2: and that was Grandfather. They was supposed to only go
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  Speaker 2: until actually a couple of months ago, Oh no until
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  Speaker 2: January first. It ends in two weeks. And this is
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  Speaker 2: what shut down the government for thirty eight days. Just
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  Speaker 2: is this issue of healthcare coverage, and the Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: going to be blamed if this thing falls apart. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: is scrambling now at this point. Republicans are trying to
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  Speaker 2: come up with some kind of an answer, which.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't for decades.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans have been saying, we have a better idea
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  Speaker 2: than the conventional plan that's out there, certainly since the
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  Speaker 2: first administration fort Trump administration, So we're not going back decades,
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  Speaker 2: but the Republicans and Donald Trump has said he ran
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  Speaker 2: on the fact he is going to come up with
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  Speaker 2: a health care plan his first day in office. He
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  Speaker 2: said we'll have a health care plan in two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And we've heard that over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats. It's easy for them, we just extend the subsidy,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, We're done.
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  Speaker 1: That's an easy one.
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  Speaker 2: For Republicans that have to replace all that, that's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more problematic. So if this thing falls apart,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to because there's no answer here, there's
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  Speaker 2: no way because the two sides are too far apart,
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans are going to get blamed. And this is
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  Speaker 2: going to hurt. This is going to hurt the Republicans. Now,
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  Speaker 2: is something going to happen before the midterms. I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you if two things happen before the midterms. Thing number
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  Speaker 2: one is inflation is not stopped and prices don't go down,
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  Speaker 2: which is impossible, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Prices cannot go down.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when Donald Trump said day one, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to cut the prices in half, you know that is
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  Speaker 2: so ridiculous. I gave it to him because that's just
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  Speaker 2: an insane political statement.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, give me a break.
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  Speaker 2: But prices were going to be lower, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: And when I opened up this morning, I said, I
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  Speaker 2: did a Costco run on Friday, and normally I was
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  Speaker 2: buying English muffins. And for the last several years, English
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  Speaker 2: muffins have been seven ninety nine for a package of four.
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  Speaker 2: They were nine forty nine a dollar and a half up.
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  Speaker 2: And as I was thinking, as I was going to
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  Speaker 2: the checkstand, you know what, nine is less than seven
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine because prices have dropped. I actually believe the
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  Speaker 2: President when he said prices are lower.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing is if an insurance plan is
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  Speaker 2: not put into place, those two are going to kill
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk more about that coming up over the
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  Speaker 1: next few days.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Republicans are in trouble, I really do,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll dive into that.
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  Speaker 1: What a day of news.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Monday, second day of Hanukkah, and in ten
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  Speaker 2: days it's going to be Christmas and this holiday season
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  Speaker 2: did not get off to a good start, certainly not
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  Speaker 2: this past weekend. And what have we heard this past weekend. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's some good news that just came in and that
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  Speaker 2: we heard about the US attorney in Los Angeles. I
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  Speaker 2: believe that's who I gave the press conference, so I
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  Speaker 2: have that right, Amy, I didn't hear the very beginning
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  Speaker 2: of it was the was it the US attorney?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it was US Attorney Bill Staley, And they're still going, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, yeah. But we got the meat of it,
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  Speaker 3: and that is that they've broken up a terror plot
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  Speaker 3: for people have been arrested. Michael Monks is going to
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  Speaker 3: join us at the top of the hour to bring
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  Speaker 3: us the latest.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and this was So that's the good news.
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  Speaker 2: Now let me give you the real bad news, starting
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  Speaker 2: locally with Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle being murdered
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  Speaker 2: in their home yesterday. Their son has been arrested for
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  Speaker 2: the murderer, and we're hearing some very grizzly details about
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  Speaker 2: that murder.
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  Speaker 1: That's horrific story.
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  Speaker 2: There also the Brown shooting, and I think that happened
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, Brown University gunman came in and shot shot
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  Speaker 2: up the school. And it's Saturday, you think, being nobody there,
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  Speaker 2: they were studying for finals. It was finals weeks and
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  Speaker 2: final finals week, and two students were murdered act of
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  Speaker 2: what is described as straight out terrorism and anti sentiment
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  Speaker 2: anti semitism, because the acts of anti Semitism have exploded
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  Speaker 2: throughout the world. And this is where I give President
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  Speaker 2: Trump a lot of credit. Is he is doing doing
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  Speaker 2: everything that on school campuses where anti Semitism is the
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  Speaker 2: most prevalent, he's shutting it down for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the anti wokeism. And so the horrific
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  Speaker 2: story came out of Australia. There's a beach, Bondye Beach,
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  Speaker 2: which is in one of the better area's, a big
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  Speaker 2: high end neighborhood. Two gunmen, a father and a son
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  Speaker 2: with long guns, were on a small overpass at the
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  Speaker 2: beach and started shooting. They killed fourteen people and is
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  Speaker 2: injured dozens of others. And if you see a video
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  Speaker 2: of a man who just tackled the father, I mean
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  Speaker 2: at great risk to him elf. And it's a Syrian.
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, it's a man from Syria who came to
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  Speaker 2: Australia in two thousand and six and immigrated and he
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  Speaker 2: is now considered a national hero, as he should be.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's just all of it has been horrific,
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  Speaker 2: it really has. Hoping that tomorrow we start the show
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  Speaker 2: with a little bit of good news. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon are up, Michael Monks is on his
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  Speaker 2: way to the press conference with the US Attorney as
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  Speaker 2: talking about that terrorist plot that has been foiled that
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  Speaker 2: was going to happen New Year's Eve. And so we'll
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  Speaker 2: be back tomorrow with hopefully better news, as I said, Amy,
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  Speaker 2: and will start with wake up call.
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  Speaker 1: Neil is not here this week, so I'm jumping aboard.
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  Speaker 2: And let's please, please, let's make it some better news.
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