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OneLegUpAlex Media Says Selling Yosemite and Demolishing Kennedy Center UnAmerican 9-5-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, underneath the
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  Speaker 1: insanity of the Iranian war that continues, we have now
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  Speaker 1: struck more Iranian oil tankers. There's another conversation that's lingering
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  Speaker 1: underneath it, and it's two different items I want to
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  Speaker 1: bring to your attention at One Look Up Alex News
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  Speaker 1: that I haven't gotten to yet. Firstly, did you see
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  Speaker 1: that there was a piece of the ceiling that fell
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  Speaker 1: down at the Kennedy Center amid heavy rains in D.C.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a very important part to what I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to talk about because just a month ago, the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration actually argued for the demolition in a court
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  Speaker 1: filing of the beloved Kennedy Center and replacement with an
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  Speaker 1: outdoor amphitheater if blocked from moving forward with a two-year
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  Speaker 1: renovation and, oh, by the way, adding Trump's name to
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  Speaker 1: the building. Lawyers representing the Department of Justice argued in
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  Speaker 1: federal court that the arts complex is dangerously dilapidated, and unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: today's falling of the piece of tile from the ceiling
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  Speaker 1: amidst heavy rains is probably an example of that, that
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  Speaker 1: the arts complex is dangerously dilapidated and headed for a
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  Speaker 1: financial and structural death spiral without Trump-backed restoration efforts. If
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  Speaker 1: the building deteriorates past the point of repair, it might
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  Speaker 1: be torn down.
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  Speaker 2: But this looks like something.
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  Speaker 1: Where the legal battle over Trump's name being up there
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  Speaker 1: to begin with is what's driving the administration to say
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  Speaker 1: what Trump wants to say, which is, ah, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to tear it down or else I can put my
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  Speaker 1: name up there. It's a tit-for-tat type of thing, but
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  Speaker 1: it's an example, just like scaling back exercises with South
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  Speaker 1: Korea is an example of, if you don't go my way,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be punished for it. And is that
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  Speaker 1: the way we really want our White House to operate
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  Speaker 1: moving forward? Look, I still believe, and I'll say this
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  Speaker 1: on record, if the big RNC convention this week fails
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  Speaker 1: in November with the midterms not going the GOP way,
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  Speaker 1: if the big Iran war has not ended the way
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  Speaker 1: that people want it to be, especially on the right,
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  Speaker 1: which is, you know, I mean, think about this. They're
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  Speaker 1: focused on demolishing the Kennedy Center, which is a beloved
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  Speaker 1: art institution, but not wanting to demolish the Iranian regime completely.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really understand that one. I know they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do pizza, but it's not working.
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  Speaker 1: The proposed project, by the way, renovation is roughly $ 257
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  Speaker 1: million to renovate the Kennedy Center. But If all of
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  Speaker 1: that fails and they go after him again once they
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  Speaker 1: get the House and Senate, do we think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to resign?
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  Speaker 2: I think he might.
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  Speaker 1: But he's starting to lose it more and more. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Kennedy demolition is one thing, okay?
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  Speaker 2: But what about this? What about this headline, which I've
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  Speaker 2: been meaning to talk about? Yosemite is not for sale.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yosemite Park National Institution again. National Park. has been involved
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  Speaker 1: in a proposed deal to develop a private road into Yosemite.
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  Speaker 1: So Trump was going to sell off a bit of
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  Speaker 1: our land, Yosemite National Park, for a private developer to
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  Speaker 1: take control of a strip of land in the park
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  Speaker 1: for an access road to the park's main attractions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: California lawmakers have been a little wild with all their
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  Speaker 1: different thought processes, and Bacara as governor, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how well that would turn out.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Becerra.
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  Speaker 1: But a group of California lawmakers, according to KQED.org, says
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  Speaker 1: they call on federal officers to halt and reject a
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  Speaker 1: proposed land exchange in Yosemite National Park. Imagine one of
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  Speaker 1: our national parks having part of it sold off, sold
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  Speaker 1: off for a strip of land in the park for
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  Speaker 1: an access road to the park's main attractions.
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  Speaker 2: The letter to the.
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  Speaker 1: Department of Interior Secretary Doug Bergamo on Wednesday was signed
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  Speaker 1: by a bar-priority group of 61 state legislators, led by
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  Speaker 1: Assemblymember Greg Wallace, a Republican who represents Riverside and San Bernardino.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats from both houses of the legislature are
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  Speaker 1: standing together because some things are bigger than politics, Wallace
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  Speaker 1: said in his statement. Yosemite is not a subdivision, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a bargaining chip, and it is not for sale.
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  Speaker 2: A Republican's calling on the Trump administration to end this.
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  Speaker 2: That's how bad it is.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Burgum and this administration should put an end to
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  Speaker 1: this proposal. The proposed land exchange is counter to the
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  Speaker 1: mission of the National Park Service and the founding of
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  Speaker 1: the Yosemite in 1864.
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  Speaker 2: 1864! 1864!
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  Speaker 1: The group is saying, which set aside the state, the
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  Speaker 1: start of the park for public use and protection for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in the history of the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: The letter writes, Our national parks belong equally to every American.
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  Speaker 1: They are not the departments of trade away and they
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  Speaker 1: are not for sale. Just like the Kennedy building, Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: Center is not for demolition. The proposal was first reported
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  Speaker 1: by news outlets Notice, which published a story last week
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  Speaker 1: alleging that members of the Trump administration were meeting with
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  Speaker 1: representatives of Kings Barn Realty Capital, a private equity group
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  Speaker 1: that owns an 83-acre parcel next to the park.
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  Speaker 2: Kings Barn's lawyer, Lanny J.
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  Speaker 1: Davis, confirmed the group was pursuing land exchange to build
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  Speaker 1: a new access road from its property to the park.
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  Speaker 2: Previous owners had pushed for the same deal in the
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  Speaker 2: 2000 and failed in court.
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  Speaker 1: Assembly member of the state, Mark Berman of Menlo Park, Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: says if the Trump administration can't defend this publicly in
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  Speaker 1: broad daylight, then they shouldn't be doing it because it's indefensible.
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  Speaker 1: And there's worry that there's not enough opposition among his
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  Speaker 1: Republican colleagues in Congress to stop the administration's efforts. Well,
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  Speaker 1: This is where I don't feel entirely Republican and entirely Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm willing to call out this nonsense of selling
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  Speaker 1: off part of our national parkland for a road, of
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  Speaker 1: demolishing the Kennedy Center because your name won't be put
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  Speaker 1: on it, of scaling back exercise with South Korea because
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't support you in Iran. Meanwhile, Europe continually does
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  Speaker 1: deal with Iran, by the way. I mean, that's just
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  Speaker 1: a known fact. Are we going to stop supporting them too?
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  Speaker 1: Although we kind of have in some ways. This eye
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  Speaker 1: for an eye mentality is.
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  Speaker 2: Going to ruin us. And I don't think anything would
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  Speaker 2: have been a lot... I don't think things would have
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  Speaker 2: been a ton better with Kamala either.
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  Speaker 1: But this eye for an eye that we didn't see
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  Speaker 1: in the first term, by the way, that we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: more in the second term, is causing a lot of issues,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems.
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  Speaker 2: And it is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Something that will harm the Republicans in the midterms if,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these stories keep coming out that they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to demolish land, that they're trying to demolish a building,
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  Speaker 1: a beloved building.
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  Speaker 2: Such as the Kennedy Center, if they're trying to.
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  Speaker 1: sell off some of Yosemite National Park, any national park,
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  Speaker 1: it would be... indefensible as they write. It would be incorrigible.
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  Speaker 1: It would be un-American.
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  Speaker 2: It would be un-American to sell this land off. Are
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  Speaker 2: you kidding me, Donald Trump and the Trump administration? Are
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  Speaker 2: you kidding me right now? But... in some ways.
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  Speaker 2: The evening out of this would be.
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  Speaker 1: If the GOP lost the midterms. That's what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say. The evening out of this would be if
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  Speaker 1: the GOP lost the midterms. I've always said election day
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  Speaker 1: is for the good of the country, and I've always
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  Speaker 1: believed that, even back in 2020 when I voted for Biden.
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  Speaker 1: That felt like for the good of the country. not
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  Speaker 1: voting for either Harris or Trump personally felt like for
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  Speaker 1: the good of the country. And in the midterms here,
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  Speaker 1: for the good of country, although I do not like
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  Speaker 1: some of the ideals that these DSA candidates and DSA
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  Speaker 1: members have been spouting out, and especially the anti-Israel stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and especially wiping their ass on the American flag with
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  Speaker 1: the American flag.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what kind of rhetoric is that?
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  Speaker 1: And saying it was someone who said 9-11 was deserved,
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  Speaker 1: who What kind of rhetoric is that? And unfortunately, that's
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  Speaker 1: what the Democrats have been saddled with here. And I
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  Speaker 1: hope those candidates don't win for sure. But there has
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  Speaker 1: to be a balance of power here in November. That's
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line. There has to be. Or this train
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  Speaker 1: will continue to go off the tracks a little more,
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  Speaker 1: day by day.
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  Speaker 2: So we had a good financial jobs report. Great.
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  Speaker 1: But tell me about what's going on with the gas
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  Speaker 1: prices that I see down the street for me at
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  Speaker 1: $ 5 and change. Tell me about why people still feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're working week to week to try and survive.
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  Speaker 2: Answer those questions. And they just cannot.
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  Speaker 1: And they're trying to maybe rightfully paint all these other
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  Speaker 1: people as extremists.
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  Speaker 2: But then I look at these things.
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  Speaker 1: The deal being proposed to the Trump administration about selling
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  Speaker 1: off some of the Yosemite.
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  Speaker 2: Park for a strip of land. Or... Some....
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  Speaker 1: Someone writing that they want to demolish the Kennedy Center
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of the Trump administration. Those things have to
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  Speaker 1: be corrected. Those mentalities have to be corrected. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it's going to take to correct those.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the backdrop of all that, well, on the
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  Speaker 1: forefront of all that, is a war that everybody just
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  Speaker 1: cannot see ending. And that alone will cost the GOP
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. And where do we go from there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be more impeachment situation. That's why I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he'll stick around after midterms. I think he would resign,
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  Speaker 1: I really believe that, if the GOP lost. And I
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  Speaker 1: do sort of lean with my buddy Mert, my colleague Mert,
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  Speaker 1: who said, I was shaking off last week that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's not playing to win the midterms. He's playing to
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  Speaker 1: win his own agenda. And that's not American to me.
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  Speaker 2: Is it to you? I pose that question to you
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  Speaker 2: at One Look Up Alex Media.