September 23, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (09/23) - Tune in now as Brooke Shafer from News Nation comes on the show to talk about Ryan Routh being found guilty of attempting to assassinate Pres. Trump. Kamala Harris gave a tepid endorsement of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The Arlington Public School District got complaints from parents that a man was in the women's locker room but the man claimed he was transgender and so the school district sided with the man.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't f I am six forty. You're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to
go right to Brook Schaeffer. She's a reporter for News
Nation and she was covering the trial today of Ryan Ruth.
He was the second guy who tried to assassinate Donald
Trump in the summer of twenty twenty four and today
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was a verdict. He was found guilty. And let's go
to Brook Shaeffer to give us the tales. Brook.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey there, John, Yeah, this was a dramatic afternoon in court.
I'll start with the verdict here. The jury deliberated for
about two and a half hours, and eventually they found
Ryan Ruth guilty on all five federal counts of attempting
to assassinate then presidential candidate Donald Trump last September. The
prosecution here had claimed that Ryan Ruth didn't like Trump
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and didn't want him to get reelected, and so he
hid in a sniper's nest outside of Trump's golf course
last September. He was eventually stopped by a Secret Service agent,
and the prosecution says that's the reason that his assassination
attempt was thwarted. So Ryan Ruth found guilty on all counts.
But here's where the drama comes in. Right as Ruth
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learned that he had been found guilty, he tried to
stab himself in the neck with a pen. Us marshals
had to jump in and literally jump on top of
Ryan Ruth. Witnesses who were inside that courtroom, they told
us that the marshals were trying to get Ruth's hands
away from his neck as he was trying to stab himself.
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He was eventually restrained put in shackles. Everyone who was
in the courtroom said he didn't appear seriously injured. He
was taken out of the room and eventually brought back in.
But a pretty dramatic scene unfolding there inside that Florida
courtroom this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
The jury he didn't spend much time deliberating.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They didn't. They deliberated for about two and a half hours.
I will say, you know, I talked to some attorneys
who thought it might be even faster than that. The
prosecution here, they had a lot of pretty compelling evidence. Granted,
some attorneys said a lot of it was kind of
circumstantial evidence, but even still, they had really a mountain
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of evidence against Ryan Ruth. They had his DNA on
the weapon found at the crime scene. They had that
Secret Service agent who said he looked Ryan Ruth in
the eye. They had text messages from this guy saying
that he didn't like Trump and that Trump needs to
go away. And then on the flip side, Ryan Ruth,
the you know, the man now found guilty in this case.
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He was representing himself in federal court, so he didn't
really have a great defense going up against these federal prosecutors.
He does not have a legal background. He you know,
stumbled a lot through this trial, and he was only
allowed to bring three witnesses to the stand. The judge
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had to interject a lot, so the cards were really
stacked against Ryan Ruth going into jury deliberations, and attorneys
I had spoken to said they thought this was going
to be a pretty quick guilty verdict, and sure enough,
only about two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Brook, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
On, absolutely, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Brook Schaeffer from NewsNation NewsNation on your cable systems. That
is an excellent news channel. Ryan Ruth, as Brooke said,
was defending himself and this was the defense he put up.
First of all, Well, I didn't kill him, did I.
He didn't actually pull the trigger. He brought this rifle
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and he stuck it through the opening of the fence,
but the Secret Service agent noticed it, and that's what
led to him being eventually captured. But then his defense is, well,
I didn't get him, did I. Then he was claiming
that the rifle wasn't powerful enough to reach Trump anyway,
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that if he had pulled the trigger, I don't know,
the bullet would have died out before it made it
to Trump's head. He claimed he didn't have the intent
that you know, he staked out the place for twelve hours.
He was living in his car. He'd somehow got and
win the Trump was going to play golf that day
and stayed in his car and then made his little
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nest outside the fence in the bushes, and finally a
Secret Service agent on the course noticed him, and then
a passerby noticed Ruth's car, and he called him three witnesses.
But he was asking him bizarre questions, and he asked
the jury the jury candidate's bizarre questions like what they
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thought of the US invading Greenland? For example? Seriously, so
clearly he's extremely mentally ill. And just based on a
rundown of his behavior. If he had an attorney, if
he didn't represent himself, he might have had an attorney
convince a few people that, hey, this guy is a
looney tune, no reason to send him to prison. Let's
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just lock him up in a mental health facility. And
eventually a lot of those guys get out right because
the experts come and say, oh, he's actually, he's perfectly fine,
and he's on medication. He's okay. But of course a
crazy person doesn't know they're crazy. He thinks he's perfectly rational,
and he thought he could talk his way out of it.
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I mean, you know, what else are you going to say?
It's your charge with the trying to assassinate a presidential candidate.
And it's like, well I didn't, did I? Yeah, all right,
I guess you win that point, except getting in position
to do it is a federal crime that's enough to
put you away in prisons. He wasn't charged with murder
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because he didn't kill Trump. He's charged with setting himself
up to kill Trump. So maybe, you know, a real
defense attorney would have pointed out that that's really not
a good idea to use the defense. I can't. There
was no defense other than I'm so mentally ill. I
had a psychotic break. I didn't know what I was doing.
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But he didn't do that. I mean, can you defend
yourself if you admit that you're mentally ill? Will they
even let you? They don't let you even be a
defendant if you're mentally ill enough. So I don't know
if you'd be able to. That was the card to play.
We got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
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Speaker 1 (06:39):
Moistline on Friday. There's so much to howl about eight
seven seven Moist eighty six. Get in now you have
to pass, well, it's like an audition. You have to
pass Eric Sklar's judgment. You get on the air eight
seven seven Moist to eighty six, or use the talkback
feature on the iHeart Radio in New York. I guess
(07:05):
the election is now six weeks away from mayor and
very likely at this point that Zorn Mondami is going
to be elected, and he's a communist, and New York
is about to elect a communist mayor. And this guy wants,
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for example, government run grocery stores which I've seen government
run grocery stores. In a communist station in Cuba, there
was no food on the shelves, seriously, really really nothing. No,
this is what happens. It's like in Russia. You know,
they have the long lines. That's why this is. Before
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I knew that Karen Bass was a groupie for Fidel Castro,
and now I see what she does. It's like, really,
at least I was there in person, and I could
see what it was like and how frightened the people
were there, and how what a struggle it was. Well,
Mandamie is of that ilk and hates Jewish people. He's
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fully on board with the Palestinians, and so this is
gonna be a lot of trouble in New York City.
And what do you know? Yesterday Kamala Harris started her
publicity tour for her book, which I'm sure is riveting.
(08:34):
Oh you haven't bought it yet? No, I decided no,
I think the best parts have already been excerpted. Her
trashing the other potential presidential candidates in twenty twenty eight
that I think that was the purpose of that. Anyway,
She goes on Rachel Maddow MSNBC friendliest host possible for
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Kamala Harris this side of the view, and Matt now
asks her about Donny as a.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Sort of talent spot err in the Democratic Party. What
do you think of him and his candidacy and what
do you think of mainline Democratic shyness and agitation about
the prospect that he's going to win.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Look, as far as I'm concerned, he's the Democratic nominee
and he should be supported.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Do you endorse his candidacy?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I support the Democrat in the race?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Sure, But let.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Me just say this.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Stop. Stop. She couldn't say his name. Do you notice
that she's so timid, she's so fearful. I'm supporting the
Democratic candidate in this race. You know he's the Democratic candidate.
She's not going to say I support Zorah and mom
Donnie because she's afraid then that's going to be the
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clip heard around the world. And she's trying to sell
a book. You can't be endorsing communists by name while
you're trying to sell a book place more.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
But let me just say this, He's not the only
star I know that. You know he's in New York,
and I know New Yorker is stick there in the
center of the world, and here we are in New
York having this interview.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It is the biggest city.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And I love New York, as the saying goes, I
really do. But I mean there are people like Barbara
Drummond in Mobile, Alabama, what Helena Moreno in New Orleans.
They're all running for mayor too, and they are stars.
So I hope that we.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Don't know they're not. I've never heard of those two. Mom.
Donnie's a big name because he's running to take over
New York City. Hown's wrong with and she's got that
weird laughing again, what do you think gummy? She took
a gummy too, I'm taking the fifth, the fifth gummy?
(10:49):
How many before you get giggley.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I don't take very many. I only do it once
in a while to help me sleep. So I don't
help you sleep. But is there No, it doesn't make
me giddy, it makes me You never do the bomb though, dude,
I've never even smoked.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, just the gummy?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Yes? Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Not for giggle by some morning. Is there a sleep
level and then there's a giggle level.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
The ones that I get it's.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
For sleepe Uh well, uh now, if you noticed in
that clip, we'll play What's left of the Rachel Maddow
called Harris a talent spotter.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I was going to ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Right at the beginning. She's a talent spotter. Yeah, well,
I guess. So she had to name a couple of
up and coming candidates. Okay, so she spotted this, right, Yeah,
play some more.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So I hope that we don't so over index on
New York City that we lose sight of the stars
throughout our country who are right now running for mayor
and many other offices, governor and and so on. So
that's where I am. We got a big tent, and
we got a.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Lot of stars over index, She says, I hope he
over index, and then she starts giggling again, as if
over index was a joke. She baffles me. I just
I just don't get her her existence now about mom, Donnie,
because everyone's baffled. How could how could you vote for
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a communist? Well, the competition is horrendous. You have Andrew
Cmo and the whole world knows about all his baggage,
his sexual baggage, and his corruption baggage. Eric Adams, the
previous mayor, he's running again, and uh, he's corrupt as well.
Apparently his administration is rife with all kinds of stuff.
(12:45):
You know, if you follow the New York papers, there's
there's a lot of detail there. And then they have
a Republican running Curtis Sliwah who's known as the Guardian
Angels guy who wears that beret and and he's a character,
but he's kind of kind of weird. He's also a
talk show host. But he's got zero chance of winning anyway.
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The four of them are gonna split up the vote,
and Mom Dommie, he's probably gonna come out ahead. I mean,
if the of all three of the opponents drop out,
then you might have a fifty to fifty race, but
that doesn't seem likely to happen. Every guy there is
his gunny is a big ego bag. But the reason
that he's popular, and oddly this may sound strange to you,
but I'm going to draw a parallel to Donald Trump
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while he's popular because over the last ten years, I've
had numerous people come up and say, why do people
like Trump? Tell me why? And I say, well, certain
demographics love him because he talks about things that really
affect their lives that no other politician would talk about.
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For example, all the jobs going overseas. You know, all
the A band did cities in the Rust Belt where
the jobs were shipped to China and Vietnam and Mexico.
This has been happening for decades. Both parties were in
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on it, and everybody said, yeah, we got to bring
jobs back to America, but they didn't actually do anything.
And he talked about it in detail, how it happened,
all these trade agreements that allowed these jobs to go overseas.
You know, he talked about the illegal emigration in detail.
Both parties in the past just allowed it to happen.
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And I heard people say, well, he's not going to
do anything about it, he can't bring those jobs back.
I go, you might be right. He might not be
able to do anything about it. Maybe it's not a
solvable problem. Maybe he's going to lose interest in it.
Maybe he's just talking about it to get elected. I
acknowledge all that, But he's talking about it, and the
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other candidates never did. You didn't get that from a
Hillary Clinton or a Jeb Bush or a Mitt Romney
or none of them ever talked about really, it's like,
here's why you all lost your job, here's why your
town has been destroyed. And it was because of two
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party policy for twenty five years trade agreements. Everybody thought
trade agreements was too esoteric. It's like, no, that's what
hollowed out our industrial base. He talked about that's all
you have to do sometimes is talk about so you
know what mom Donnie talked. He talks about the high
cost of living in New York. Now, none of his
solutions would work, but he's talking about it. You know,
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for a lot of people, they have to spend fifty
percent of their salary just on rent. So he wants
to expand government mandated rent control and all that is
a disaster, you know, government grocery stores because the price
of food is too His ideas have been proven for
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one hundred years to fail badly. Just look at Cuba, Venezuela, Russia,
the whole Eastern bloc in Eastern Europe. It's going to
fail badly. But he's talking about it. That's not something
Cuomo ever did. It's not what something Eric Adams ever did,
or at previous mayors, and they just didn't even raise
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the issue. And when you do that when you talk
about the most important issues for Trump, it was families
and cities that lost their industry. Nobody had a job anymore.
And mom Donnie is talking about the high price of everything,
especially the rent. How could he spend fifty percent on rent?
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It's impossible. And you know, there's one hundred reasons why
all this has happened. A lot of it has to
do with government interference. Same thing out here. Most of
our problems are government interference. That's why we have five
dollars gas. But first guy who talks about it, it's
gonna have a big boost, even if his solutions are insane.
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Best explanation come up with.
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that to next hour, so you be there. I got it.
I got a story to tell you. This happened in
Virginia and you're not gonna believe it. And this may
be the ultimate insanity when they decided to allow males
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to invade private female spaces under the guise of transgender rights.
If if you're I don't. I don't think there's any
woman who would agree that the following story should have
been allowed to happen. I can't imagine or any I mean,
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any decent person. This happened in Virginia, the Arlington Public Schools,
the women's locker room. This actually happened last year, but
only recently have they been able to get these records
made public. And you'll see it's kind of a simple story.
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People were complaining because at a woman's locker room in
Arlington Public Schools. The staff got complaints from parents because
there was a man in the women's locker room, but
he identified as a woman, and according to their policy,
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he could be there. The parents complained, they were told, sorry,
that's our policy. He's got the right because he identifies
as a woman. He didn't have any surgery, okay. According
to the director of Aquatics Management wrote in an email,
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the patron is an adult swim class participant. I have
spoken at the front desk with several people and I've
told him Arlington Public School policy is to provide equitable
and inclusive spaces for all community, and that the individual
using the locker room identifies as a female and therefore
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is permitted to use the women's locker room. Now, I'll
tell you who this guy is, and then I'll tell
you how long this has been going on. The guy
in question, Richard Cox, turned out to be a Tier
three sex offender, forbidden to be in close contact with children.
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He was convicted all the way back in nineteen ninety
two of taking indecent liberties with children. He exposed his
genitals and pleasured himself in front of a child at
a gym Court records. In two thousand and seven he
gets convicted again of six counts of possessing obscene material
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with a minor. So they found him with a kid,
and he had all kinds of filthy photos. I guess
they never checked his sex offender registry until the police
arrested him again last year on indecent exposure. They had
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been warned by residents about his history, but they never
looked it up. They'd been warned about his behavior in
the women's locker room, but they never looked it up.
So the Arlington Public School District permitted Richard Cox to
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use the women's facilities because their policy is males have
access to locker rooms if they identify as female. Same
thing with bathrooms. It's based on gender identity rather than
your actual sex. They're now in illegal war with the
Trump administration. Here's some of the incidents. One Virginia woman
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reported in September that she saw a male in the
women's locker room at the Washington Liberty Aquatic Center and
told the staff he sits there without clothes on, and
he watches the women and girls. She'd seen him multiple
times in the locker room while the children were present. Now,
this guy was convicted of sex crimes with children and
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he's sitting there watching children in the locker room, and
Arlington is going the Arlington Public School reps are going, well,
I mean, that's our policy. Can you imagine this? They
told the aquatics director four times, but all four times
she says he identifies as a woman. He identifies as
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a woman. She tried to get Cox to use the
family bathroom, but he won't. Jenn McDougall is a Virginian mother.
Her nine year old has swim practice at that aquatic center.
She told about Richard Cox's presence to the school board
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because Jenn McDougall saw Cox in the middle of the
locker room with his face and shoulders covered by a towel,
but his member was exposed. Complained to pool staff and
they told her, well, he identifies as a woman. He's
standing there with his penis hanging out underneath the towel
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while he identifies as a woman. In October of last year,
an executive assistant took a call from a Virginia woman
who'd encountered cocks in the locker room. The assistant said
she took a call a by a man that identifies
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as a woman who is creepy and uses the locker room.
He's in there fully clothed. He sits in the handicapped shower,
which doesn't work, so he's sitting in a dry shower,
so he's just looking and leering. He definitely lingers. Other
days he stands around naked in front of the elementary
school girls lingering. Arlington Public Schools still wouldn't kick the
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guy out. They put up a sign encouraging people to
minimize their time spent unclothed. I'm not making this up.
This is in the National Review. On October twenty second,
Two weeks later, police responded to to an indecent exposure
report at the same aquatic center Washington. Liberty woman enters
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the locker room, found a naked guy. She said, I
just want him to leave the locker room. I don't
want him arrested. Say that's a mistake. You want him arrested.
Despite multiple reports of police investigation, everybody in the district
here is aware that there's a guy exposing himself for
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long periods of time in the women's locker room. He
was allowed to come in again on October thirtieth. Another
email from a parent, My daughter is a swimmer at
Arlington Aquatic Club. Last night, at six point fifty, she
left to use the bathroom in the women's locker room,
she encountered a fully She encountered a fully naked man
standing by the sinks in front of the toilet saws.
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She was terrified, feared for her safety, and they wouldn't
do anything. And now all this stuff is in court.
I am in shock. I absolutely do not understand why
these progressives who have the responsibility to care for young
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children in schools, especially young girls. He's a three tier
sex offender. He's on the sex offender registry. He's been
standing around for over a year in the Arlington Public
School locker room and bathrooms at the Aquatic Center. Why
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why is this the hill they want to die on.
It's so disgusting, it's so frightening, it's so sick, it's
so weird and perverted. The guy is a garden variety
child molester and he's using He's not a transgender guy.
He's thinking it. He's faking so we could spend the
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day watching young girls on dress and walk around naked
in the locker room, so we could watch them shower.
The transgender thing is fake? How can they not see this?
Something something deeply sick in the society. More coming up.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (26:30):
Tomorrow three o'clock hour. We're gonna have the Santa Monica
Mayor Lenna ne Grete on. She has called me out
on social media, even posted a video over the things
I've said about Santa Monica, and we said, well, why
don't you come on and let's talk about it. I
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know what I see. I live very close and used
to go there a lot still have to go there
nearly every day for one reason or another, and it's bad.
You want to hear what she has to say. Yeah,
I haven't seen or heard this.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Someone just recently said it at dinner the other night,
that we live in this massive echo chamber online.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
If we disagree with someone, we just click away to
people who think exactly like us. But in real life,
disagreement requires patients, politeness, and care. We can't just exit
the room and go to another room where everybody agrees
with us.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
This matters in politics. Just this morning, I saw a
KFI radio host who has a large audience tens of
thousands of listeners, blamed ten years of what's been happening
in Santa Monica on myself as the mayor and city council,
everything from homelessness to storefront closures in Santa Monica public safety.
And this shows no understanding of how a charter city works,
how the rotation of a mayor works. I mean, I've
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only served as mayor since December. This type of misrepresentation
misleads thousands of listeners and it poisons public trust.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Okay, when when she said a certain KFI radio host
a picture from our Instagram page popped up, and so
everyone news she's.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Talking about me?
Speaker 9 (28:11):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
On her on her video, she spliced the picture of
you from our Instagram I see. So it's like, oh,
everyone knows that she's talking about you, and she's willing
to come on. Yep, we'll have her on right after
the three o'clock news tomorrow. I'm just describing what I see.
Uh I uh.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's a vast, vastly different Santa Monica than even just
a few years ago. And it's shocking how far it fell,
how fast it fell, and uh, all right, we'll talk.
We'll talk. What did she say?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
We got?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What were the words she uses? We're going to talk
politely peacefully? Yes, those kind of aren't She.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Says she's not a typical politician, and she tells it
like it is.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
All right, okay, all right, So you gotta hear that.
Lennon da Gritty coming on the Mayor of sam Monica
after three o'clock tomorrow, and Conway is next. We'll see
you tomorrow. We have Michael Krozer with the news live
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Can't f I am six forty. You're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to
go right to Brook Schaeffer. She's a reporter for News
Nation and she was covering the trial today of Ryan Ruth.
He was the second guy who tried to assassinate Donald
Trump in the summer of twenty twenty four and today
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was a verdict. He was found guilty. And let's go
to Brook Shaeffer to give us the tales. Brook.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey there, John, Yeah, this was a dramatic afternoon in court.
I'll start with the verdict here. The jury deliberated for
about two and a half hours, and eventually they found
Ryan Ruth guilty on all five federal counts of attempting
to assassinate then presidential candidate Donald Trump last September. The
prosecution here had claimed that Ryan Ruth didn't like Trump
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and didn't want him to get reelected, and so he
hid in a sniper's nest outside of Trump's golf course
last September. He was eventually stopped by a Secret Service agent,
and the prosecution says that's the reason that his assassination
attempt was thwarted. So Ryan Ruth found guilty on all counts.
But here's where the drama comes in. Right as Ruth
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learned that he had been found guilty, he tried to
stab himself in the neck with a pen. Us marshals
had to jump in and literally jump on top of
Ryan Ruth. Witnesses who were inside that courtroom, they told
us that the marshals were trying to get Ruth's hands
away from his neck as he was trying to stab himself.
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He was eventually restrained put in shackles. Everyone who was
in the courtroom said he didn't appear seriously injured. He
was taken out of the room and eventually brought back in.
But a pretty dramatic scene unfolding there inside that Florida
courtroom this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
The jury he didn't spend much time deliberating.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They didn't. They deliberated for about two and a half hours.
I will say, you know, I talked to some attorneys
who thought it might be even faster than that. The
prosecution here, they had a lot of pretty compelling evidence. Granted,
some attorneys said a lot of it was kind of
circumstantial evidence, but even still, they had really a mountain
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of evidence against Ryan Ruth. They had his DNA on
the weapon found at the crime scene. They had that
Secret Service agent who said he looked Ryan Ruth in
the eye. They had text messages from this guy saying
that he didn't like Trump and that Trump needs to
go away. And then on the flip side, Ryan Ruth,
the you know, the man now found guilty in this case.
(02:47):
He was representing himself in federal court, so he didn't
really have a great defense going up against these federal prosecutors.
He does not have a legal background. He you know,
stumbled a lot through this trial, and he was only
allowed to bring three witnesses to the stand. The judge
(03:08):
had to interject a lot, so the cards were really
stacked against Ryan Ruth going into jury deliberations, and attorneys
I had spoken to said they thought this was going
to be a pretty quick guilty verdict, and sure enough,
only about two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Brook, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
On, absolutely, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Brook Schaeffer from NewsNation NewsNation on your cable systems. That
is an excellent news channel. Ryan Ruth, as Brooke said,
was defending himself and this was the defense he put up.
First of all, Well, I didn't kill him, did I.
He didn't actually pull the trigger. He brought this rifle
(03:49):
and he stuck it through the opening of the fence,
but the Secret Service agent noticed it, and that's what
led to him being eventually captured. But then his defense is, well,
I didn't get him, did I. Then he was claiming
that the rifle wasn't powerful enough to reach Trump anyway,
(04:10):
that if he had pulled the trigger, I don't know,
the bullet would have died out before it made it
to Trump's head. He claimed he didn't have the intent
that you know, he staked out the place for twelve hours.
He was living in his car. He'd somehow got and
win the Trump was going to play golf that day
and stayed in his car and then made his little
(04:32):
nest outside the fence in the bushes, and finally a
Secret Service agent on the course noticed him, and then
a passerby noticed Ruth's car, and he called him three witnesses.
But he was asking him bizarre questions, and he asked
the jury the jury candidate's bizarre questions like what they
(04:55):
thought of the US invading Greenland? For example? Seriously, so
clearly he's extremely mentally ill. And just based on a
rundown of his behavior. If he had an attorney, if
he didn't represent himself, he might have had an attorney
convince a few people that, hey, this guy is a
looney tune, no reason to send him to prison. Let's
(05:16):
just lock him up in a mental health facility. And
eventually a lot of those guys get out right because
the experts come and say, oh, he's actually, he's perfectly fine,
and he's on medication. He's okay. But of course a
crazy person doesn't know they're crazy. He thinks he's perfectly rational,
and he thought he could talk his way out of it.
(05:36):
I mean, you know, what else are you going to say?
It's your charge with the trying to assassinate a presidential candidate.
And it's like, well I didn't, did I? Yeah, all right,
I guess you win that point, except getting in position
to do it is a federal crime that's enough to
put you away in prisons. He wasn't charged with murder
(05:56):
because he didn't kill Trump. He's charged with setting himself
up to kill Trump. So maybe, you know, a real
defense attorney would have pointed out that that's really not
a good idea to use the defense. I can't. There
was no defense other than I'm so mentally ill. I
had a psychotic break. I didn't know what I was doing.
(06:17):
But he didn't do that. I mean, can you defend
yourself if you admit that you're mentally ill? Will they
even let you? They don't let you even be a
defendant if you're mentally ill enough. So I don't know
if you'd be able to. That was the card to play.
We got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
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Speaker 1 (06:39):
Moistline on Friday. There's so much to howl about eight
seven seven Moist eighty six. Get in now you have
to pass, well, it's like an audition. You have to
pass Eric Sklar's judgment. You get on the air eight
seven seven Moist to eighty six, or use the talkback
feature on the iHeart Radio in New York. I guess
(07:05):
the election is now six weeks away from mayor and
very likely at this point that Zorn Mondami is going
to be elected, and he's a communist, and New York
is about to elect a communist mayor. And this guy wants,
(07:28):
for example, government run grocery stores which I've seen government
run grocery stores. In a communist station in Cuba, there
was no food on the shelves, seriously, really really nothing. No,
this is what happens. It's like in Russia. You know,
they have the long lines. That's why this is. Before
(07:51):
I knew that Karen Bass was a groupie for Fidel Castro,
and now I see what she does. It's like, really,
at least I was there in person, and I could
see what it was like and how frightened the people
were there, and how what a struggle it was. Well,
Mandamie is of that ilk and hates Jewish people. He's
(08:14):
fully on board with the Palestinians, and so this is
gonna be a lot of trouble in New York City.
And what do you know? Yesterday Kamala Harris started her
publicity tour for her book, which I'm sure is riveting.
(08:34):
Oh you haven't bought it yet? No, I decided no,
I think the best parts have already been excerpted. Her
trashing the other potential presidential candidates in twenty twenty eight
that I think that was the purpose of that. Anyway,
She goes on Rachel Maddow MSNBC friendliest host possible for
(08:56):
Kamala Harris this side of the view, and Matt now
asks her about Donny as a.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Sort of talent spot err in the Democratic Party. What
do you think of him and his candidacy and what
do you think of mainline Democratic shyness and agitation about
the prospect that he's going to win.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Look, as far as I'm concerned, he's the Democratic nominee
and he should be supported.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Do you endorse his candidacy?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I support the Democrat in the race?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Sure, But let.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Me just say this.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Stop. Stop. She couldn't say his name. Do you notice
that she's so timid, she's so fearful. I'm supporting the
Democratic candidate in this race. You know he's the Democratic candidate.
She's not going to say I support Zorah and mom
Donnie because she's afraid then that's going to be the
(09:50):
clip heard around the world. And she's trying to sell
a book. You can't be endorsing communists by name while
you're trying to sell a book place more.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
But let me just say this, He's not the only
star I know that. You know he's in New York,
and I know New Yorker is stick there in the
center of the world, and here we are in New
York having this interview.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It is the biggest city.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And I love New York, as the saying goes, I
really do. But I mean there are people like Barbara
Drummond in Mobile, Alabama, what Helena Moreno in New Orleans.
They're all running for mayor too, and they are stars.
So I hope that we.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Don't know they're not. I've never heard of those two. Mom.
Donnie's a big name because he's running to take over
New York City. Hown's wrong with and she's got that
weird laughing again, what do you think gummy? She took
a gummy too, I'm taking the fifth, the fifth gummy?
(10:49):
How many before you get giggley.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I don't take very many. I only do it once
in a while to help me sleep. So I don't
help you sleep. But is there No, it doesn't make
me giddy, it makes me You never do the bomb though, dude,
I've never even smoked.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, just the gummy?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Yes? Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Not for giggle by some morning. Is there a sleep
level and then there's a giggle level.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
The ones that I get it's.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
For sleepe Uh well, uh now, if you noticed in
that clip, we'll play What's left of the Rachel Maddow
called Harris a talent spotter.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I was going to ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Right at the beginning. She's a talent spotter. Yeah, well,
I guess. So she had to name a couple of
up and coming candidates. Okay, so she spotted this, right, Yeah,
play some more.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So I hope that we don't so over index on
New York City that we lose sight of the stars
throughout our country who are right now running for mayor
and many other offices, governor and and so on. So
that's where I am. We got a big tent, and
we got a.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Lot of stars over index, She says, I hope he
over index, and then she starts giggling again, as if
over index was a joke. She baffles me. I just
I just don't get her her existence now about mom, Donnie,
because everyone's baffled. How could how could you vote for
(12:22):
a communist? Well, the competition is horrendous. You have Andrew
Cmo and the whole world knows about all his baggage,
his sexual baggage, and his corruption baggage. Eric Adams, the
previous mayor, he's running again, and uh, he's corrupt as well.
Apparently his administration is rife with all kinds of stuff.
(12:45):
You know, if you follow the New York papers, there's
there's a lot of detail there. And then they have
a Republican running Curtis Sliwah who's known as the Guardian
Angels guy who wears that beret and and he's a character,
but he's kind of kind of weird. He's also a
talk show host. But he's got zero chance of winning anyway.
(13:08):
The four of them are gonna split up the vote,
and Mom Dommie, he's probably gonna come out ahead. I mean,
if the of all three of the opponents drop out,
then you might have a fifty to fifty race, but
that doesn't seem likely to happen. Every guy there is
his gunny is a big ego bag. But the reason
that he's popular, and oddly this may sound strange to you,
but I'm going to draw a parallel to Donald Trump
(13:30):
while he's popular because over the last ten years, I've
had numerous people come up and say, why do people
like Trump? Tell me why? And I say, well, certain
demographics love him because he talks about things that really
affect their lives that no other politician would talk about.
(13:53):
For example, all the jobs going overseas. You know, all
the A band did cities in the Rust Belt where
the jobs were shipped to China and Vietnam and Mexico.
This has been happening for decades. Both parties were in
(14:14):
on it, and everybody said, yeah, we got to bring
jobs back to America, but they didn't actually do anything.
And he talked about it in detail, how it happened,
all these trade agreements that allowed these jobs to go overseas.
You know, he talked about the illegal emigration in detail.
Both parties in the past just allowed it to happen.
(14:39):
And I heard people say, well, he's not going to
do anything about it, he can't bring those jobs back.
I go, you might be right. He might not be
able to do anything about it. Maybe it's not a
solvable problem. Maybe he's going to lose interest in it.
Maybe he's just talking about it to get elected. I
acknowledge all that, But he's talking about it, and the
(15:00):
other candidates never did. You didn't get that from a
Hillary Clinton or a Jeb Bush or a Mitt Romney
or none of them ever talked about really, it's like,
here's why you all lost your job, here's why your
town has been destroyed. And it was because of two
(15:22):
party policy for twenty five years trade agreements. Everybody thought
trade agreements was too esoteric. It's like, no, that's what
hollowed out our industrial base. He talked about that's all
you have to do sometimes is talk about so you
know what mom Donnie talked. He talks about the high
cost of living in New York. Now, none of his
solutions would work, but he's talking about it. You know,
(15:45):
for a lot of people, they have to spend fifty
percent of their salary just on rent. So he wants
to expand government mandated rent control and all that is
a disaster, you know, government grocery stores because the price
of food is too His ideas have been proven for
(16:07):
one hundred years to fail badly. Just look at Cuba, Venezuela, Russia,
the whole Eastern bloc in Eastern Europe. It's going to
fail badly. But he's talking about it. That's not something
Cuomo ever did. It's not what something Eric Adams ever did,
or at previous mayors, and they just didn't even raise
(16:30):
the issue. And when you do that when you talk
about the most important issues for Trump, it was families
and cities that lost their industry. Nobody had a job anymore.
And mom Donnie is talking about the high price of everything,
especially the rent. How could he spend fifty percent on rent?
(16:51):
It's impossible. And you know, there's one hundred reasons why
all this has happened. A lot of it has to
do with government interference. Same thing out here. Most of
our problems are government interference. That's why we have five
dollars gas. But first guy who talks about it, it's
gonna have a big boost, even if his solutions are insane.
(17:15):
Best explanation come up with.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
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Speaker 1 (17:23):
You can listen to us every day from one until
four o'clock, and then after four o'clock John Cobelt's show
on demand on the iHeart app. That's where you pick
up what you missed and we're going to be posting
that to next hour, so you be there. I got it.
I got a story to tell you. This happened in
Virginia and you're not gonna believe it. And this may
be the ultimate insanity when they decided to allow males
(17:48):
to invade private female spaces under the guise of transgender rights.
If if you're I don't. I don't think there's any
woman who would agree that the following story should have
been allowed to happen. I can't imagine or any I mean,
(18:10):
any decent person. This happened in Virginia, the Arlington Public Schools,
the women's locker room. This actually happened last year, but
only recently have they been able to get these records
made public. And you'll see it's kind of a simple story.
(18:33):
People were complaining because at a woman's locker room in
Arlington Public Schools. The staff got complaints from parents because
there was a man in the women's locker room, but
he identified as a woman, and according to their policy,
(18:55):
he could be there. The parents complained, they were told, sorry,
that's our policy. He's got the right because he identifies
as a woman. He didn't have any surgery, okay. According
to the director of Aquatics Management wrote in an email,
(19:17):
the patron is an adult swim class participant. I have
spoken at the front desk with several people and I've
told him Arlington Public School policy is to provide equitable
and inclusive spaces for all community, and that the individual
using the locker room identifies as a female and therefore
(19:39):
is permitted to use the women's locker room. Now, I'll
tell you who this guy is, and then I'll tell
you how long this has been going on. The guy
in question, Richard Cox, turned out to be a Tier
three sex offender, forbidden to be in close contact with children.
(20:00):
He was convicted all the way back in nineteen ninety
two of taking indecent liberties with children. He exposed his
genitals and pleasured himself in front of a child at
a gym Court records. In two thousand and seven he
gets convicted again of six counts of possessing obscene material
(20:20):
with a minor. So they found him with a kid,
and he had all kinds of filthy photos. I guess
they never checked his sex offender registry until the police
arrested him again last year on indecent exposure. They had
(20:44):
been warned by residents about his history, but they never
looked it up. They'd been warned about his behavior in
the women's locker room, but they never looked it up.
So the Arlington Public School District permitted Richard Cox to
(21:04):
use the women's facilities because their policy is males have
access to locker rooms if they identify as female. Same
thing with bathrooms. It's based on gender identity rather than
your actual sex. They're now in illegal war with the
Trump administration. Here's some of the incidents. One Virginia woman
(21:28):
reported in September that she saw a male in the
women's locker room at the Washington Liberty Aquatic Center and
told the staff he sits there without clothes on, and
he watches the women and girls. She'd seen him multiple
times in the locker room while the children were present. Now,
this guy was convicted of sex crimes with children and
(21:51):
he's sitting there watching children in the locker room, and
Arlington is going the Arlington Public School reps are going, well,
I mean, that's our policy. Can you imagine this? They
told the aquatics director four times, but all four times
she says he identifies as a woman. He identifies as
(22:12):
a woman. She tried to get Cox to use the
family bathroom, but he won't. Jenn McDougall is a Virginian mother.
Her nine year old has swim practice at that aquatic center.
She told about Richard Cox's presence to the school board
(22:35):
because Jenn McDougall saw Cox in the middle of the
locker room with his face and shoulders covered by a towel,
but his member was exposed. Complained to pool staff and
they told her, well, he identifies as a woman. He's
standing there with his penis hanging out underneath the towel
(22:57):
while he identifies as a woman. In October of last year,
an executive assistant took a call from a Virginia woman
who'd encountered cocks in the locker room. The assistant said
she took a call a by a man that identifies
(23:19):
as a woman who is creepy and uses the locker room.
He's in there fully clothed. He sits in the handicapped shower,
which doesn't work, so he's sitting in a dry shower,
so he's just looking and leering. He definitely lingers. Other
days he stands around naked in front of the elementary
school girls lingering. Arlington Public Schools still wouldn't kick the
(23:43):
guy out. They put up a sign encouraging people to
minimize their time spent unclothed. I'm not making this up.
This is in the National Review. On October twenty second,
Two weeks later, police responded to to an indecent exposure
report at the same aquatic center Washington. Liberty woman enters
(24:05):
the locker room, found a naked guy. She said, I
just want him to leave the locker room. I don't
want him arrested. Say that's a mistake. You want him arrested.
Despite multiple reports of police investigation, everybody in the district
here is aware that there's a guy exposing himself for
(24:25):
long periods of time in the women's locker room. He
was allowed to come in again on October thirtieth. Another
email from a parent, My daughter is a swimmer at
Arlington Aquatic Club. Last night, at six point fifty, she
left to use the bathroom in the women's locker room,
she encountered a fully She encountered a fully naked man
standing by the sinks in front of the toilet saws.
(24:46):
She was terrified, feared for her safety, and they wouldn't
do anything. And now all this stuff is in court.
I am in shock. I absolutely do not understand why
these progressives who have the responsibility to care for young
(25:10):
children in schools, especially young girls. He's a three tier
sex offender. He's on the sex offender registry. He's been
standing around for over a year in the Arlington Public
School locker room and bathrooms at the Aquatic Center. Why
(25:39):
why is this the hill they want to die on.
It's so disgusting, it's so frightening, it's so sick, it's
so weird and perverted. The guy is a garden variety
child molester and he's using He's not a transgender guy.
He's thinking it. He's faking so we could spend the
(26:01):
day watching young girls on dress and walk around naked
in the locker room, so we could watch them shower.
The transgender thing is fake? How can they not see this?
Something something deeply sick in the society. More coming up.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (26:30):
Tomorrow three o'clock hour. We're gonna have the Santa Monica
Mayor Lenna ne Grete on. She has called me out
on social media, even posted a video over the things
I've said about Santa Monica, and we said, well, why
don't you come on and let's talk about it. I
(26:50):
know what I see. I live very close and used
to go there a lot still have to go there
nearly every day for one reason or another, and it's bad.
You want to hear what she has to say. Yeah,
I haven't seen or heard this.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Someone just recently said it at dinner the other night,
that we live in this massive echo chamber online.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
If we disagree with someone, we just click away to
people who think exactly like us. But in real life,
disagreement requires patients, politeness, and care. We can't just exit
the room and go to another room where everybody agrees
with us.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
This matters in politics. Just this morning, I saw a
KFI radio host who has a large audience tens of
thousands of listeners, blamed ten years of what's been happening
in Santa Monica on myself as the mayor and city council,
everything from homelessness to storefront closures in Santa Monica public safety.
And this shows no understanding of how a charter city works,
how the rotation of a mayor works. I mean, I've
(27:49):
only served as mayor since December. This type of misrepresentation
misleads thousands of listeners and it poisons public trust.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Okay, when when she said a certain KFI radio host
a picture from our Instagram page popped up, and so
everyone news she's.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Talking about me?
Speaker 9 (28:11):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
On her on her video, she spliced the picture of
you from our Instagram I see. So it's like, oh,
everyone knows that she's talking about you, and she's willing
to come on. Yep, we'll have her on right after
the three o'clock news tomorrow. I'm just describing what I see.
Uh I uh.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's a vast, vastly different Santa Monica than even just
a few years ago. And it's shocking how far it fell,
how fast it fell, and uh, all right, we'll talk.
We'll talk. What did she say?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
We got?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What were the words she uses? We're going to talk
politely peacefully? Yes, those kind of aren't She.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Says she's not a typical politician, and she tells it
like it is.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
All right, okay, all right, So you gotta hear that.
Lennon da Gritty coming on the Mayor of sam Monica
after three o'clock tomorrow, and Conway is next. We'll see
you tomorrow. We have Michael Krozer with the news live
in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been
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