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The Cease Fire Holds | Trumps Huge Arch Gets Approved · 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. Here's some very good news and that is
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  Speaker 1: Iran has just announced this morning that the Strait of
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  Speaker 1: Horror Moves is now completely open to shipping, all shipping,
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  Speaker 1: oil and container ships and all of it. Which is well,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you what happened immediately is the price
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  Speaker 1: of oil dropped ten percent right off the bat. The
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  Speaker 1: Dow is up, it was up six hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: points right now. Four. I mean we're talking about, well,
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  Speaker 1: where what a reaction now? The part that I find
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  Speaker 1: interesting is the American blockade of ships that are either
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  Speaker 1: leaving or entering ports in Iran is still in effect. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The deal why the port is while why the strait
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  Speaker 1: is open with eur and Iran is no longer blockading
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  Speaker 1: any shipping is because of the peace of Israel and
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon or the ceasefire. And the ceasefire has just been
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  Speaker 1: announced it's ten days and Iran says, because that was
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  Speaker 1: a big sticking point. So Iran said, okay, that one
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  Speaker 1: is now off the table. We've gotten what we wanted,
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  Speaker 1: the ceasefire, which opens the way for negotiations for peace
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  Speaker 1: based on that we're opening the straits. So now the Americans,
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  Speaker 1: why the US is still blockading all of Iran sports
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  Speaker 1: and I mean there's massive number of warships there is
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  Speaker 1: because the deal isn't cut yet. And the President has said,
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  Speaker 1: when we get our deal, then we're going to unload
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  Speaker 1: or we're gonna just we're going to I'm sorry, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to unravel the blockade. We're gonna stop and ports
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  Speaker 1: will be open in Iran for shipping of vall kinds, containerships,
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  Speaker 1: oil ships, et cetera. So they blinked, Iran blinked, and
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  Speaker 1: the President is right on. President is would played chicken
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  Speaker 1: with Iran, and at this point he's winning. He is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely winning. It looks like he has at this point
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  Speaker 1: made the right choice Iran realizing okay, because it's going
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  Speaker 1: to affect Iran a lot more than it does the
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  Speaker 1: United States, there's no question, because we still have an economy.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what happens, it's going to be expensive, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to destroy our economy. With Iran, it
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  Speaker 1: destroys the economy this blockade because ninety percent of its
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  Speaker 1: revenue or eighty percent is oil, and there is no
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  Speaker 1: oil leaving those ports, there is no oil being transferred
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  Speaker 1: onto ships, and so we're going to see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: And then the big issue is, I just don't understand Iran,
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  Speaker 1: you know, giving up their nuclear capability of this enriched uranium,
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  Speaker 1: of which they have about nine hundred pounds, and their
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  Speaker 1: claiming is for people peaceful purposes, which is a complete croc.
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  Speaker 1: The only the only reason you would have this kind
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  Speaker 1: of enrichment with uranium is for nuclear arms. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That is the sole reason you would have it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a big stick sticking point with Iran. And you've
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  Speaker 1: got also Iran not not supporting the terrorists around the world,
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  Speaker 1: which it did up to this point. We'll see if
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  Speaker 1: it moves forward on that. But right now it looks
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  Speaker 1: like the president is winning this thing, and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. The only problem is not so much the president,
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  Speaker 1: but the Iranians are crazy. You know. As much as
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  Speaker 1: you may think or I think that our president in
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  Speaker 1: many ways is crazy, the crazy over there is because
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  Speaker 1: all Donald Trump is doing is making it difficult for
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  Speaker 1: us in the United States. And you may like the
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  Speaker 1: you may dislike the politics, and you may dislike where
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  Speaker 1: this country is going you may dislike a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this country. What he is not doing is destroying the
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  Speaker 1: economy of this country. The the Iranian clergy, the theocracy
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  Speaker 1: over there is they have no problem destroying the economy
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  Speaker 1: and letting their people starve, no problem whatsoever as long
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  Speaker 1: as they stay in power. So that's the latest. That
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  Speaker 1: is the latest. So we'll keep up with that. And
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  Speaker 1: the price of oil, as I said, drop ten percent immediately,
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  Speaker 1: and stocks amire up over eight hundred points right now. Yep, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's this the tw That's impressive. So we talked about
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  Speaker 1: the president who is known for understated elegance, because that's
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  Speaker 1: our president. If you look at the big beautiful ballroom,
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  Speaker 1: which changes the White House frontage completely, just changes the
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  Speaker 1: White House completely. The whole structure, I mean, curb appeal
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  Speaker 1: if you will, is just not the same. And some
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  Speaker 1: people were a little upset about it. I was a
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  Speaker 1: little upset about it, and I wanna spend a couple
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  Speaker 1: more minutes talking about the White House itself in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. But we now have the designs, the approval
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  Speaker 1: for early designs for the two hundred and fifty foot
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  Speaker 1: tall triumphal Arch. This happened yesterday where the committee members
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  Speaker 1: who have to sign off on this, who were all
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  Speaker 1: appointed by President Trump. He fired everybody else and he
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  Speaker 1: put in his own people. Strangely enough, they voted, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're okay with this arch. Now, there are some people
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  Speaker 1: that are a little upset about it. For example, there's
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  Speaker 1: a group of Vietnam veterans that have already filed a suit.
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  Speaker 1: And the arch at its height, that is meant to
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  Speaker 1: commemorate America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and I am
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  Speaker 1: looking at sort of a sketch here a blueprint of
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  Speaker 1: the arch. The White House is seventy feet tall. The
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Building is two hundred and eighty eight feet tall,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a huge tall building. With the dome, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be two hundred and fifty feet it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the largest arched arch in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and it's commemorating two hundred and fifty years, and it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be gaudy as hell. Now, there have been
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  Speaker 1: a couple of changes that handpicked organization said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really want the lions on top of this
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  Speaker 1: arch because America doesn't have many lions, and the eagle
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  Speaker 1: we have but they're too big and they're not in
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  Speaker 1: other words, let's tone it down a little bit. However,
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  Speaker 1: the chairman of the committee call the idea beautiful, and
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  Speaker 1: Interior Secretary Doug Bergham, who presented the plan, says it
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  Speaker 1: bodies American freedom, American unity, American strength, the American dream. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so now we're going to have hopefully not but we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have this huge arch which is going to
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  Speaker 1: it is going to be the biggest thing in Washington
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  Speaker 1: along them all, much bigger than the Lincoln Memorial. Now
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Memorial is taller, but the footprint is rather small.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be big stuff. So a word
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  Speaker 1: about this arch, and this is it's a horrible taste.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, most people think, unless you're a MAGA supporter,
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  Speaker 1: I think that the arch is not your favorite building.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to point something out because what America
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  Speaker 1: stands for and the power of this country when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to buildings, is relatively sedate. You look at the
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  Speaker 1: White House versus presidential palaces all over the world, and
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  Speaker 1: the White House is both a residence and it is
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  Speaker 1: a museum. And when you look at presidential palaces where
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  Speaker 1: other presidents and has a state live. They are enormous.
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  Speaker 1: The White House not so much. And this is where
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  Speaker 1: I'm jumping in and I'm going to give you a
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  Speaker 1: personal story. I have been in offices of these are
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  Speaker 1: museum offices in former heads of state. I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the office of Chang Kai Shehek, for example, which is
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  Speaker 1: a museum now in Taiwan. I've been in the office
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  Speaker 1: of Franco in Spain, also a museum. These offices are enormous.
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  Speaker 1: Old Trump would feel so comfortable in these offices. I
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  Speaker 1: mean thousands and thousands of square feet where you have
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  Speaker 1: the desk at one end, and then maybe fifty yards
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  Speaker 1: you come from the front door and you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: the desk and there are chairs, and there's couches, and
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  Speaker 1: there's meeting rooms or meeting areas with tables. Where do
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  Speaker 1: you think the President of the United States has his office?
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  Speaker 1: The oval office, which is small. It is not a
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  Speaker 1: big office at all. Everybody that's going through there, it
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  Speaker 1: is small. A middle manager or certainly a CEO of
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable sized company is going to have a bigger office.
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  Speaker 1: And the point is that the most powerful man in
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  Speaker 1: the world has a moderate office. And that's the way
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  Speaker 1: America runs. It's not gotty. The White House, well, it
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  Speaker 1: used to not be gotty, but now it is that big,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful ballroom, which changes everything. The footprint of the ballroom
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  Speaker 1: is bigger than the rest of the White House. So
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  Speaker 1: what President Trump is gone is gone from understated to gaudy.
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  Speaker 1: And if you look at the White if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the Oval Office itself, there's a lot of guilt.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of gold. You look at mar A Lago,
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  Speaker 1: you look at Trump's residence in New York. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it is gold and marble. I mean it is pretty
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  Speaker 1: out there, which is fine, except when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: monuments in Washington, when it comes to the White House
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  Speaker 1: and changing it completely. Yeah, is it going to happen? God?
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  Speaker 1: I hope not. I mean, there are lawsuits all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. And they did have and this is by law.
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  Speaker 1: They did have a period in which comments were to
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  Speaker 1: be taken and accepted by the committee that has to
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  Speaker 1: oversee this. About a thousand comments came in. One hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent were against it. Now it's fair to say, no
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  Speaker 1: one's going to come in. The people again, something are
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  Speaker 1: usually far more engaged and far more entrenched in their
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  Speaker 1: ideas than people who are in favor. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: happens across the board. But at the same time, a
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  Speaker 1: thousand comments, of which every single one, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what the committee seid, there wasn't one that was in
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  Speaker 1: favor of the arch And is it going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: Who knows. It's the Commission of Fine Arts, and it's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to go to Congress. It's not going to go
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  Speaker 1: to Congress. And by the time Congress rules on this,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be dead that it'll be built, much like what's
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  Speaker 1: happening with a big, beautiful ballroom. The court said, no, okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's building it anyway, all right. Moving over to illegal
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  Speaker 1: illegal migrants and being deported in this country. So immigration
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  Speaker 1: authorities are carrying out what President Trump has promised and
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  Speaker 1: is true the largest mass deportation operation in US history. Well,
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  Speaker 1: several states passed laws to keep kids out of foster
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  Speaker 1: care when they're detained. Parents have no family or friends
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  Speaker 1: available to take temporary custody. So when the parents are
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  Speaker 1: deported and the kids are here, because they can't deport
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  Speaker 1: American they can't deport an American citizen. Remember we have
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  Speaker 1: a fourteenth Amendment. You can't deport a citizen. So what
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  Speaker 1: ends up happening is these kids have nowhere to go
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  Speaker 1: and they end up in foster care, and that is well,
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  Speaker 1: it's problematic, to say the least. As of mid February,
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  Speaker 1: seventy thousand people were held by ICE seventy three thousand
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  Speaker 1: in detention in January, an eighty four percent increase compared
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  Speaker 1: with the year before. Parents in this from pro public
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  Speaker 1: parents of eleventh, eleven thousand kids who are US citizens
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  Speaker 1: were detained at the beginning of Trump's term. So it's
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  Speaker 1: all about separation of kids from their parents, hugely traumatic
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  Speaker 1: and all kinds of health and psychological issues that you
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  Speaker 1: would guess. And there's something called toxic stress associated with
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  Speaker 1: damage to areas of the brain responsible for learning and memory,
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  Speaker 1: according to Kaiser Family Foundation. So Maryland, New York, Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. Virginia amended their laws during Trump's first term
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  Speaker 1: to allow guardians to be granted temporary parental rights for
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  Speaker 1: immigration enforcement reasons, and the enforcement surge happened, and man,
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  Speaker 1: and now the states are realizing and they're looking at
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of kids who are up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: In New Jersey considering a bill to a mends state
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  Speaker 1: law that allows parents to nominate standby or temporary guardians
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  Speaker 1: in the cases of death, incapacity, or debilitation. The bill
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  Speaker 1: adds separation due to federal immigration rights. Novad in California
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  Speaker 1: last year passed the law. In California, the Family Preparedness
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  Speaker 1: Plan Act allows parents to nominate guardians and share custodial
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  Speaker 1: rights and or while their rights are suspended, while they're
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  Speaker 1: being obtained or they've been deported, and they regain their
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  Speaker 1: full print rights if they're released and is able to
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  Speaker 1: do so, to connect with their kids again. And the
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  Speaker 1: problem is is prior to this, that was a legal
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  Speaker 1: proceeding that had to be done to get kids that
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  Speaker 1: go into friends' families and not family members. The court
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  Speaker 1: had to okay it. And now we're talking about people
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  Speaker 1: going to court. Certainly the ones in detention can't go.
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  Speaker 1: So you have a friend that in order to get
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  Speaker 1: the child here before had to go into court, had
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  Speaker 1: to make an application. And that is a problem because
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  Speaker 1: you have people that don't have skills, may be here
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  Speaker 1: legally but maybe don't speak English, may be here illegally
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  Speaker 1: and asked for it. Because I don't think they ask
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  Speaker 1: for immigration status now people are afraid to do so
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  Speaker 1: because number one, they don't have the wherewithal to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy stuff making application to the courts on
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  Speaker 1: any circumstances, and they're fearful of the government knowing who
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  Speaker 1: they are and where they live. And so the states
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  Speaker 1: are making it much much easier. And here is a
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  Speaker 1: stat I want to end with this, and estimated five
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  Speaker 1: point six million kids are in are US citizens who
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  Speaker 1: live with a parent or family member who does not
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  Speaker 1: have legal status. This from the Brookings Institute. Within that
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  Speaker 1: group of five point six million kids, two point six
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  Speaker 1: a million of them have both parents lacking status. And
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  Speaker 1: if they are picked up and the parents are deported
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  Speaker 1: or in detention, now you've got kids that where do
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  Speaker 1: they go? Well, the states are passing law saying that
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  Speaker 1: the parents can nominate someone and that's done and we're finished.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have to go to court, they don't have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the entire legal system. And it makes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, these kids are really screwed. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I want to talk about San Diego. San
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  Speaker 1: Diego was at the forefront of the drought I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was a poster child for the drought. It now
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  Speaker 1: generates enough water to rescue entire areas. For example, Arizona
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  Speaker 1: and they're brewing beer. You've got to craft to beer facilities,
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  Speaker 1: these little restaurants and they're brewing beer from recycled sewage water.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're going to get there. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to get there. The science is there. There's no question
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  Speaker 1: that recycled sewage water is cleaner than water that you
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  Speaker 1: get from the springs or the city. The problem is,
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  Speaker 1: it's a mindset, it's a I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get there. So what's happening is you have Arizona and
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  Speaker 1: Nevada are cutting deals with San Diego County Water Authority
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  Speaker 1: to tap millions of gallons of freshwater produced by Carlsbad
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  Speaker 1: desalination plants, the largest one in North America. And that's
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  Speaker 1: because the Colorado River, which supplies water, is drying up
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's a source for forty million people in
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  Speaker 1: seven staits. But you have population growth, a growth, a
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  Speaker 1: warming climate fed by the river. Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir,
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  Speaker 1: which Hoover Dam, of course, is there. It was dropped
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  Speaker 1: to well the water dropped to an elevation of sixteen
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  Speaker 1: or one thousand feet. That's one hundred and sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: feet down from nineteen eighty three at his peak. Nearly
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  Speaker 1: thirty feet gone in just the past five years. It
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  Speaker 1: is not good. And so what's happening with this decline
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  Speaker 1: cutbacks mandatory and voluntary. Arizona users have cut water consumption
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  Speaker 1: by a third, and more reductions are in the works.
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  Speaker 1: And what happens is Western states are hunting for alternatives
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  Speaker 1: and they're doing it with San Diego the desalination plant
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  Speaker 1: and the sewage processing plants, and they have San Diego
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  Speaker 1: has so much water. There's an abundance of water. They're
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  Speaker 1: selling it because the usage is way down. You've got
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  Speaker 1: those two areas where water is being produced. And the
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  Speaker 1: way it works, water goes from place to place. These
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  Speaker 1: are water rights. For example, California has the biggest water
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  Speaker 1: rights to the Colorado River. I mean these are deals
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  Speaker 1: that were cut decades and decades ago. And so what
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  Speaker 1: it does is, for example, let's say Arizona, well, let's
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  Speaker 1: say San Diego, California, Southern California. There's a Southern California
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  Speaker 1: water district and it is part of the desalination plant
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  Speaker 1: and the sewage business, and it's producing enough water that
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  Speaker 1: it can give away or it can sell its water
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  Speaker 1: rights because it doesn't need it to states that need it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a transfer of rights. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You think about, you know, water going from one place
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  Speaker 1: to another. It doesn't it's all on paper, but it's
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  Speaker 1: on paper, and it does work and it is effective.
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  Speaker 1: And San Diego did this by necessity. During the five
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  Speaker 1: year drought inding in nineteen ninety two, the San Diego
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  Speaker 1: County Water Authority lost a third of its allocation. Because
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  Speaker 1: the water districts get their water get as much as
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  Speaker 1: the state or the Feds allow them to get, and
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  Speaker 1: in really tough years, the allocations can be literally a
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  Speaker 1: drop compared to what they need. Well, they don't need
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  Speaker 1: it now because usage is way down. They have these
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  Speaker 1: two additional they have this additional ability to create water
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  Speaker 1: and so itself sufficient. Matter of fact, San Diego slashes
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  Speaker 1: water imports from ninety however, the water rates stored sored.
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  Speaker 1: But still you know, supplies are growing and the usage
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  Speaker 1: is way down, and I think we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the same same category that we were years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that we had a water shortage problem and we
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  Speaker 1: were told don't flush the toilets, literally, don't flush the toilets,
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't. If it's yellow, let it mellow, mellow,
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  Speaker 1: if it's brown, flush it down right, And so in
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  Speaker 1: my call, oh we didn't. We're fine. Yeah, well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't flush the toilets anyway. It's just, uh, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: thrilled that now I'm you're in the same league as
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  Speaker 1: I am. You're in the same you're in you're in
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