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RICH RETURNS | US Correspondent Rich Reynolds back from the States and live on BayRadio
Dec 11, 2024
BayRadio International's US Correspondent Rich Reynolds joined Kal live this week, recovering from open-wallet surgery after a trip to the States for Thanksgiving.
- Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting charged with murder by New York prosecutors
- Nationwide milk testing in a bid to stop spread of bird flu in cows
- US jobs bounce back after hurricanes and strikes
- Biden shrinks from view ahead of Donald Trump’s return to Washington
There was even a mention of Dorothy's ruby slippers and how much they sold for at auction.
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on Billboard December 1994 RM what's the Frequency kenthy know when we mention
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billboard on Bay radio International that we will be joined by our us
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correspondent and the rich is back how's it going Merry Christmas it's a merry
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Christmas for everybody how was the US of a for Thanksgiving very expensive uh
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I had sticker shock from uh just eating out and living in a hotel for about 10
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or 11 days we went to cele CBR at my daughter's birthday and we were back in New Orleans which is a place where my
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wife and I Liv for a long time and just had a had a wonderful time it's it was great to be back but it's great to be
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back here glad to you were worried about the prices that that's what you mean by sticker shock
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right was inexpensive yeah how much is a bay brute these days I mean I'm telling you I'm telling you I
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almost got into a fist fight with a guy at a bodega cuz he charged me twice as much for a candy bar as he should have
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and I was not having it so they're I mention Babe Ruth because we don't have
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them here oh yeah well they're delicious anyway and the other thing of course we be just while we're on the candy thing
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um about uh Hershey's being taken over by the company that owns Cadbury could be the biggest chocolate here in the
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world that is uh that is big news cuz Hershey's sells themselves as the Great American chocolate bar and it's
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Hershey's are good yeah what chocolate is not good that's what I want to know there you go they're all good you said
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you were going to be cutting back you do have the cut back I gained so much weight I have no idea how much but
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all I know is my my the buttons on my shirt are screaming a little bit every time I put him on please tell us you
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weren't stuck in a hotel for Thanksgiving like we see in all the movies I was not but well a hotel or or
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an airport generally on film no we did Miss dinner that night because our flight was delayed so we ended it we had
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uh kebabs at a kebab place for Thanksgiving so hope it was Turkey it was okay it was all right it was
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something right it wasab yeah yeah yeah right um so plenty has been going on over the past couple of weeks yeah what
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have I missed I threw out about 10 stories this morning when I when I was getting stuff together um yeah so much
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and of course least in the last few days where uh Syria is being hit by us and
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Israeli air strikes the war bloggers are worrying about the threat to the two Russian bases there there's an air base
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and then there's a base on the Mediterranean which actually has been hit from what I can tell today I was getting stuff from the um other bloggers
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around Europe about about what's been happening at the Russian bases but I think we were both talking before we went on air about how surprised we were
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that this happened well it was just the quickness of it as well overnight no inkling that this was going to happen and then and then Americans were really
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happy about Assad who is in my opinion a lot of people's opinions he's a thug and
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a murderer and and that sort of thing so people are glad he's gone and nobody's surprised that he ended up in Moscow no
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no well we w sure where he was for a while Swit a transponder off in the plane he just disappeared and then
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suddenly cropped up oh yes his mate Vlad allowed him to to to have Asylum but look at the look at the guy that
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replaced him he's from Al-Qaeda so when everybody was getting all excited going well that's great Assad's not anymore
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yay well he says he's changed but we'll we'll see different countries are treating that in a in slightly different
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ways um it was weird because Trump had just said at the reopening of the
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cathedral in Paris he basically just said to people wow the world's crazy
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right now and that was before this and you inherit it and it's going to get even crazier with him in there yeah
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there's no question um so what do you what do we foresee here I guess well
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Israel keeps saying yeah we're not we're not we're not going for Damascus but the latest pictures show the their tanks
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about 20 M 20 miles away from Damascus um obviously what I guess the big powers
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that are involved there the US and the uh Israelis they don't want a vacuum
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where something could break out that they perhaps don't want and of course there are a lot of al-Qaeda uh people in
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the country least of all those who were in The prisons as well yeah I I was kind of surprised that they opened up the
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prisons and they let everybody off their off their debts and saying that uh uh all the uh everything that women were
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required to do that suddenly off the table and everybody had complete freedom and that's it's one of these things that
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sounds great now we we'll see how it sounds in about a month or two when they take over I mean this is like the dog
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running after the car fin they finally caught the car let's see what they do with the car so uh I don't I don't
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really know exactly what's what's going to happen but um I I would I'm a little surprised at all the violence I'm I'm
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really surprised now that the the rebels have taken over the country or at least
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or at least Damascus I'm really surprised that there's much uh there's that much fighting going on I thought it
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had pretty much settled down that not that it was bloodless but that it was it was going to be taken care of pretty
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quickly but uh as with everything that happens in Syria in Israel um it's uh
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complicated yeah it's been a proxy war for a while for some and of course Turkish borders and Israeli borders
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they're the ones that really need to make sure that they're in control of their own space um before anything else
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happens in the country course those Russian warships fled the tus um uh uh
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what's it called Harbor straight way and they're out in the med um I I don't know what uh and the US apparently doesn't
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know what to do about this they seem very very confused they just know that they want to make sure there are no
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nuclear weapons that there are no chemical weapons and that sort of thing they did actually um yeah I think they
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bomb the chemical weapons they um so this saying who's running this because
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you know Joe Biden kind of we'll talk about a little bit later has taken a little bit of a backseat it seems since
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uh Trump's reelection um so the administration continues whilst there's still money to run it right yeah and
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they're still giving money for instance to Israelis and they're they've allocated more money uh before the
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inauguration uh to go to huge package for Ukraine for Ukraine another billion for Ukraine so uh we're going to talk
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about that too but um yeah it seems to me that the US right now doesn't know what to do uh they I know they want to
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back the anti-assad uh revolutionaries but you know to what extent I don't know they
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don't want to put boots on the ground I don't think anybody wants to get in the middle of the thing there's about 9,000
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American troops in Syria anyway yeah that's right that's well they do have boots on the ground but they do um I
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mean they're not but they're not engaged in combat as such and that's apart from defense but right um I did see calls
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actually on us breakfast TV early breakfast TV uh to say that um there are
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calls to pull them out and not have them involved so that may well happen quite quickly you don't know all right um also
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we've been hearing quite a lot about Tick Tock in the state recently um there's a ban pretty much
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going to happen it looks like but they're asking for a pause on that ban Tik Tok well Tik Tok has asked that uh
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uh first of all in a court in a in a high court in the US uh there is a uh
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they've been told to close Tik Tock down by the 25th of January of next year and
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I think the 25th or 19th I'm not quite sure which day they're looking at doing
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19 19 I'm sorry early January 19th of uh January uh they'll be closing Tik Tock
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down unless they were sold to a non-communist a non-chinese um uh company there's huge concern about
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huge concerns about mobiles in the states we don't call them mob you call them sales but having Chinese um
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intelligence in them yeah and and that's a I think it's this is just my opinion I think it's a very valid concern and the
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facts that the fact that the it has widespread support by the Senate and
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also Joe Biden about closing Tik Tok down because of these fears however and Trump on the other hand is saying he
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likes Tik Tock he he sees the value and he does he's not bothered by the whole Chinese support thing so he wants to
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keep Tik Tock going so so this is another thing that the administration are trying to do before the inauguration
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one day before the inauguration so that's what the significance of the 19th is um but it it's my opinion that Tik
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Tok is such a valuable thing I don't know how much it would fetch it's it you're not going to close down the the
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influence it has on the world uh you got 170 million Americans per month that are
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on Tik Tok and God knows how many people around the world and the fact is that
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it's got so much value somebody should be able to buy the company if I'm Elon Musk God help don't you know first word
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to apologize for that musk or Zuckerberg or any one of a number of people if I'm
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out there it it it's such a cash cow I would look at it and say I mean you don't have to create any content the
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content is all there all you have to do is Own It insert some ads and Away you go and and just you know vacuum the
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money up but when you look at it I don't know why anybody wouldn't want to buy that company I would I would think
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somebody May step in at the last minute and rescue it and say okay I'm going to buy the company but in a at a fire sale
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price yeah but I don't why going for this now anyway because Trump already said he's just going to overturn it anyway so yeah that's true but what
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they're hoping it'll go to the Supreme Court which is very conser very conservative and supported by Trump and
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uh and what happens if it does go to Supreme Court I don't know which way this is going to go uh but you know they
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may just say no uh tick tocking continue as as is if that's the case the minut and a Democrat gets into into office in
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a couple years let's say the whole thing is going to happen all over again but I believe that there it's valid and all
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you all you need to do is sit in your living room and talk about something with your partner and then all of a
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sudden you're getting ad for shoes or dry cleaning or cars or whatever it's kind of worrying yeah yeah my wife and I
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were sitting in the living room just talking about what each of us wants for Christmas we both looked at our phones and there were those things wow but but
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this happens to everybody it's not you know certainly not just us and we look at it and go if you don't think your phone's not paying attention to you you
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are way out of League how many times I have to shout hey Google don't mine now is he Luigi mangion or is he
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Mark Rosario uh this is the man that's been charged with the murder of the
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healthc Care CEO after a lengthy Manhunt following him from uh New York you've
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been following this one quite closely yeah he's he's quite a good-looking guy unfortunately and a murderer so he's the
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whole package you know everybody they're all these memes about him because he's you know he's really goodlooking and cut
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and all that stuff but uh um that's that's absolutely a cartoon name is that
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a name you'd see in a in a scorsi movie well the other one too what's his
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name Mar Rosario but that was license so we think that his real name is Luigi M
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Manion uh do we know anything about the motive here no uh I don't know but this
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guy is a a conspiracy theorist theorist and he he hates anybody in power and he
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apparently he's something has happened with him and Healthcare to make him one of his one of his roommates was saying
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that he'd had a bad but I'm not quite sure how much that has you don't go out and kill the president of the the
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company you know he he might be cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs you know he's a he's a little uh a little out there but however
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there's got to be but he's a young guy he's only 26 and he's from he's quite a welltoo family as well that he's from
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apparently but there's quite a lot to be said is they not though for people's frustration let's say over healthc care
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in the US OFA well yeah everybody's uh uh frustrated by Healthcare and what it
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costs and you know I if if you have a procedure here in Spain it might cost you Zer doar or Euro zero euros and you
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go back to the US and you would pay you could pay up to half a million dollars uh for something and I was talking to a
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friend of mine over at dinner the other night back there and he he and I had had the same procedure and they're still
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paying it off after a number of years just for things like anesthesia and staying in the in the room and blah blah
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blah which you would expect in some cases your health care to cover would you would think you would think but but
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turns out as a matter of fact there's and I don't I I I'm not going to hang United Healthcare out to dry on this but one uh
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Healthcare company said that starting next year they were going to only cover
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6 hours of anesthesia and a in an operation so what happens if you run out if they wake you up that's a good
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question so in other words they cover up to six hours and anything after 6 hours you're on your you're on your own uh and
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turns out they they moonwalk that back and so they're not going to do that cuz it that's absolutely absolutely
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ridiculous um anybody would uh probably agree with that but uh so there are some things we know he had a a gun and a
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silencer um similar to what they thought was used in that shooting on December 4th um possibly it was a 3D printed one
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you had the fake driver's license with the other name on it um and hand page uh handwritten three-page letter or some
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networks were calling it a Manifesto uh condemning health care for the healthcare industry as a whole for
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putting profits over patience uh and this is a quote these parasites had it
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coming um well I I think this guy is pretty much toast because what happens is they I do apologize for any strife
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and trauma but it had to be done he wrote well shooting a man in the back as
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he walked down the street and the guy's got a wife and family I i' I'd say yeah you caused a quite a bit of strife me
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but my one thing that that I'd like to call attention to is how quickly in a city in a country of 330 million people
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they found this guy 300 miles from from New York he could have gone anywhere I
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mean he was masked well you were medical mask in some photos you know who was covered up in others but there were
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there was one full shot of his face and there was a shot of his eyes um and then he was recognized in McDonald's right
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yeah and and you know I I know the UK has especially London has a ple camera
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on every cor camera on every corner and and other people go oh it's so terrible and I'm feel like I'm always being
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watched but I'm one of those guys that says say you know if you got nothing to hide it's not a problem as long as you
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don't put them in toilets and as long as you don't put them in people's homes that's fine but with in the US because
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shoplifting is such a big thing because crime rears its ugly head I think this is a good and if you didn't have the
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cameras you wouldn't have caught this guy God bless this guy in McDonald's as as yeah I think was actually I think as
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I was seeing this morning on USV was uh one of the customers who thought that
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they recognized the person and an elderly employee at McDonald's had called the police so um they think
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they've got their man they're pretty sure they do cuz they also they also have yeah they have his DNA too so we'll
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we'll find out in the next day or so but boy I'll tell you it was less than a week and they found this guy and he could have been he could have been on a
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on a plane he could have been anywhere and uh he I don't think he was very smart because wouldn't you leave the
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country wouldn't you you called already yeah yeah but wouldn't you but initially they said they saw the gun and they and
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and saw reports that said was this a Hitman was this guy a professional and was he going to go after somebody else
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was possible you know cuz he kept the gun he could have thrown it in Lake in Central Park but obviously didn't they were looking for something weren they
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they were they went the divers went down in the lake in Central Park what a great job that would be diving in Central Park
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in December wow great chilly oh thanks boss um never too far away from another
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big Health worry in the states um and Nationwide milk testings undergo about
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to undergo because the spread of bird flu in cows mhm it's not cow flu it's
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bird flu in cows that's better that's the better kind 700 hers infected in 15
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states that that's quite extensive that's worrying isn't it yeah and 58 people have been infected with the flu
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um but luckily none of them severely and I guess they get uh flu symptoms or they
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get they get a little bit ill but they don't nobody has died from this and it's also a problem in the UK MH uh in
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Yorkshire right so this is H 5 N1 as opposed to H1N1 which is the bird flu
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strain that we heard so much about in previous scar well the only people that need to be afraid of this thing is if
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you're drinking raw milk and there are a lot of people who like to drink raw milk
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um and this is one of those cases where I would say at least for now I wouldn't be drinking any raw milk I drink
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pasteurized milk and I I happen to love I love drinking I love a cold glass of milk I think it's there's nothing like
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it but uh in this particular case um just stick to the pasteurized milk and
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you'll be fine I'm I'm sure they'll be they'll be uh solving this pretty soon and they've already developed a a
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vaccine for this so um coming towards the end of the democratic uh rule or
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presidency and US jobs have bounced back after the hurricans and Strikes this is what the Democrats are trying to say
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ahead of the election it's it's all right everything's good we're fine uh you know people there's money um but of
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course people didn't feel that in their pockets especially the blue collar workers who most notably um not vote
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Democrat this time around yeah there there are all kinds of problems about that but 227,000 jobs a day that's
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that's not chicken uh feed chicken feed yeah it's I mean that's a significant number it's not cow feed either no uh
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but there I have to tell you there's mainly in the areas of healthcare restaurants and bars that's where the
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uptick was and I think you pointed out that with the hurricane coming and and knocking out several States and a lot of
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really crucial cities that were devastated like Asheville which is a tourist destination um they're slowly
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slowly coming back but um my hat is off to the US economy I mean everything is
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uh everything is more expensive over there but the economy sees to have bounced back if they could have just felt it about six months earlier perhaps
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for the Democrats it's it's it's just unfortunate it's unfortunate that that the pandemic hit that prices went up uh
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that everybody remembers the uh where you couldn't get stuff because of the block in the in the ports the uh supply
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chain slow down uh that seemed to kill everything and drive up prices and boy
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look it took two years to kind of rebound from that but right now uh yeah things are definitely on the upswing as
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far as the economy Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell though isn't thinking about cutting rates very
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quickly so that that'll just that's going to slow things down a bit surely well he rose them slowly he rose them a
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quarter of a point at a time and now he's backing off but uh from everything
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I've read he may not because they meet quarterly uh he may not drop the rates
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anymore the next time you know usually o over the past year he every quarter he's
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dropped in another quarter point but I think he when they think everything is going right you know they don't uh he's
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not going to drop it more on the subject of money would be great if he did yeah while we're on the subject of money
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issues during the Obama Administration we saw a shutdown uh of things like parks and museums and so on because uh
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there was no Government funding and we're about N9 days away from that possibility again well it's uh you know
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the phrase is kicking the can and what they do that what what the Senate does is Kick the Can meaning they instead of
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adopting a a budget that's going to span a year or two years what they do is they say we're going to fund the government
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for three months we're going to fund it for 30 days this is exhausting I if you're a legislator and you've got to be
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constantly looking at way is that you can get what you want in order to fund
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the government because you're right uh when Obama was President uh he had a a
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republican leg Yeah and they said well we're going to close the government down no no you're not well they did they
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closed it for about I want to say about three weeks so so if the Democrats want to kick the Republicans now because the
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house Speaker Mike Johnson needs the Democrats to to help them it's thin margins isn't it so they could well all
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all the Democrats want right now they have they have you know they they're not holding a hand of anything they're
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sitting at the table holding Deuces they got nothing right now they have no no leverage with the Republicans right now
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and so what they're doing is saying the one thing we want because because the
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the the speaker of the house and the Republicans need Democratic votes you can't do this just with what they have
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you need the Democrats to come to the table on this it's truly bipartisan and it should be you know it's a budget so
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what happens is uh all they're asking is more money for dis relief and as the as
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the uh uh climate change affects things more and more you get more hurricanes you get more floods you get more you got
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winter coming and I'm telling you there are a lot well we've got fires and storms at the same time in the space
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California is actually that's been moving quite quickly today that story yeah and the fire has another thing that
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happens quite a bit too is people don't think about outside of these areas so that in the spring when the snow melts
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these these cities especially along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers they flood so they're going to hold out for
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more money for disaster they want like another 100 million and then they'll the bill pass yeah and I that that pass that
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thing will pass and this will take us to around late March early April and that's
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about that's by which time maybe just one guy has to say increase it and that'll be it you that's pretty much it
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and uh we were mentioning the Democrats Joe Brien seems to be shrinking from view ahead of the return of Donald Trump
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um Jill when to the Big Gig in the in the that was in Paris last week um and
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actually uh Mr Trump President elect was the one that all the focus was on despite the fact that she was there to
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represent the states I thought it was kind of weird to look at the whole thing I I looked at the footage and I was out
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of town when I saw this and I said well there's Joe Biden that sounds that that looks great there's macron and and
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everything else what's what's this clown doing sitting there representing the country I thought it was kind of weird
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and I thought it was inap you can't call him this clown clown he's the next president of the United States of America president clown I'm sorry but I
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thought that I thought that uh it's not like Joe Biden has so much to do he
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doesn't but I think he he missed an opportunity by not going to uh to Paris
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he absolutely should have represented the country I I nothing against the first lady but there's a certain
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gravitas for him to appear and the fact that Trump was there was uh pretty
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indicative of how things are going well you're just back from the states and um there's there a feeling that nobody's in
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charge right yeah there there is kind of a feeling about that and I know the uh people higher up in the Democratic party
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are are really frustrated that Joe is not taking control of anything and if you watch any American TV Comm just
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disappeared there was a picture of her this morning but that that's the first thing I've seen apart from that one interview she did since um she didn't
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well the reason seemed to be that Joe Joe feels that nothing he says and this is according to people close to him Joe
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feels that nothing he says is of any consequence now and everything he does should be made toward making the Trump
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transition um which they've talked about smoothly but also that he's he's really
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ticked off that um that he was pushed out it's it's really bothering him and
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so he's basically abdicating going well I'm not going to do anything you know he's only spoken uh what I read was
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seven words in the past two weeks that was Depon his son and that was dep paron his son that didn't help either there
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are a lot of people who are upset about that I'm not one of them but but you know you can pardon who you want I mean
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let's look forward then um quite a lot of drama about uh Donald Trump's picks
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for his cabinet uh Peak hegi cash Patel tsy gabard Robert F Kennedy Jr are
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leading those stories but there are a number of others um that um people a bit concerned about well the thing is that
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everybody that you have a lot of people in the cabinet you have I believe it's 15 or 16 people and they keep adding uh
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seats in the cabinet but what happens is these people all have to go through approval by by Congress and the thing
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that happens is anytime a new president comes in the Congress kind of it it may go they may get in by one vote and they
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may get in by acclamation but they eventually get in I mean the the Congress very seldom stands in front of
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the the new president and go no you're not getting your pick you're not going to do that cuz that would side might
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might happen here yeah it might happened here just with these four um you know there was the talk about danis getting
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in in a position but in fact danis as much as I dislike him and a lot of people dislike him he you know he has a
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military background he may be a good choice um you you wouldn't want to put anybody in Secretary defense who is you
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wouldn't want to put me in there for instance you know you want somebody that's got a some gravitas as more of a
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background more of backg perhaps the man that's been nominated yeah but but hesketh uh you know is continuing to
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dodge this whole thing about his his behavior and and his views on women in in combat now he says oh there are a lot
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of great women out there and women are great soldiers but he's on he's on record as saying women should not be in
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the military um there's also his drinking uh his womanizing and that sort of thing my feeling is that he's not
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going to pass I don't think he's going to pass through I think people are softening about him but ultimately the
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heat is going to be turned off to where I don't think he's going through and you're going to see somebody else's Secretary of Defense I could be wrong
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but that's just my feeling cash Patel this guy is really dangerous they want him as head of the FBI and he's a
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conspiracy theorist and he believes that there's a deep State and everything is politicized so uh I don't know what's
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going to happen with him his only claim to fame is that he is a trump loyalist to the nth degree well I guess it's a
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loyalist that he's looking for surely yeah that's what he wants but they still have to pass mustard telsey Gabbert is a
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was a real sympathizer SP about her before yeah she is a she was a real uh um Assad sympathizer we'll see what
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happens now but certainly with Assad being tossed out she may be back in the news of course with those recent
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developments yeah and RFK Jr we all know about him and his his theory so these
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four are going to be problematic the rest the other 10 or 12 they're going to they're going to kind of walk in Democrats have nothing they have no
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reason they can't stand up and they're not and if you don't put anybody in there nobody's running the department so
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you got you got to have somebody running the department okay what about this thin majority then in the house how is that
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going to affect things he's not going to be able to get everything all his own way Donald Trump or is he no he's not
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going to get everything he wants the Republicans have a a very slim majority right now uh with with the weakest in
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the last century people saying yeah correct correct and and what happens is they took he he plucked three members of
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Congress three Republican members of Congress out of Congress to put them into cabinet positions that means that
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there are three fewer Republicans in the in the Senate meaning they have a very
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slim majority it's there the majority is I I believe it's with these other two or three going out I believe their majority
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is two and so they can only lose two votes if every this is under the argument that every Republican is going
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to vote one way every Democrat is going to vote the other way which isn't always doesn't happen that way it doesn't happen but there are two uh there are
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two senators woman from Maine and a and a senator from Alaska who are outliers
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and they frequently vote with the Democrats and if that happens Republicans are kind of screwed well all
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you want in democracy is that sort of possibility where things can go either way otherwise it's just one way totally
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yeah yeah so it's going to be it it's going to be kind of touch and go for the next four years on the other headlines
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concerning the next president or the president-elect I suppose we should call him really um is that he will pardon the
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US camp Capital writers and uh end Birthright citizenship what is birthright citizenship Birthright
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citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th amend Amendment which says that anybody
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born in the United States is a is an American you don't have to petition you
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don't have to do anything you if you are there if you are from the UK and you're visiting
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Chicago and you give birth to that child that child is an American citizen so therefore could be president right you
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have to be born in the to be president yes you have to be born in the states to be pres you can't be naturalized I remember when they tried to bring all
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that up about Obama as well not only that but when schn when schwar schnortz when schw Schwarzenegger was governor of
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California they were talking about he he could be president and he knew he couldn't because he was born in Austria he's born in Austria so that wasn't
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going to be the case but what Trump wants to do is he wants to make it so right now if you come over to the
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country illegally this is about sending people back exactly your parents are in illegally but they they have their child
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born in the state so the child is an American and he wants to get rid of it that's what this is aimed at it's it's
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making sure that uh children who are born here are they become a a a resident of Mexico
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or Nicaragua or Venezuela wherever they come from but not American I don't think he's going to pass this it's got to be a
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constitutional amendment what about pardoning the January the 6th writers that'll go through right oh my God that
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I can't think of anything more controversial go through I think I think he's going to be able to Pardon a lot of
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them I don't think he's going to Pardon all of them there are some CU he doesn't have to really get anybody to do that he can do it himself can he he can he can
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he can literally go there and he could literally go and to a prison and say I'm letting everybody out and there's
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nothing anybody could do about it but this is this would there would be a major uproar about this especially among
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Democrats because the the a lot of these people were trespassing a lot of these people were breaking windows and and
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killed a few people so to you know to to uh to free somebody or to Pardon
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somebody that has done some Grievous harm to the building or to somebody else would be a major major problem I'm sure
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we'll be talking about it more in the next couple of weeks now finally I knew this story would be uh right on your
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message here because you're such a lovey uh Dorothy's ruby slippers sold for 28
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million doll at auction we're talking about Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz here and how did you come up with the
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money to buy them that's what I wanted that was the question Merry Christmas I'm looking at that and you're wearing
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them now a size four you know and they were stolen you
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know every remember yeah there were four pair and somebody stole uh one of them thinking that those were real crystals
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real diamonds or rubies I'm sorry rubies ruby slippers Ru sers ruby slippers and it turns out they were just pieces of
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glass and the guy stole them and uh they found them and about but it doesn't come much bigger than this does it Hollywood
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memorabilia big stuff yeah big stuff but anyhow I just probably probably double that in about 5 years oh yeah 28 million
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at least snip at least okay hey look forward again to talking to you next week
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