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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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morning Padella's County. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna calling for federal
legislation banning stock trading and crypto by members of Congress.
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She's filed a procedure to allow.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The Restore Trust in Congress Act to skip committees and
go directly to the House floor, so the bill would
ban members of Congress, their spouses, dependent children, and trustees
from trading, owning, or buying stocks. Governor DeSantis was at
the news conference in Clearwater. He admitted there's little he
can do at the state level to limit federal officials
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from trading stocks, but he did suggest he would support
a law in Florida banning state leaders from trading stocks,
and he also wants a checkbox if people qualify to
run for office. He said the checkbox would be you
check the box saying if you intend to trade stocks
like a pledge, and if you don't then and say
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you don't check the box and you then trade stocks later,
you could be then held accountable by voters. So those
are some of the ideas that are coming out to
try and get federal officials held accountable for the big
money making that many have had during their time in office.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
This is what Anna Paulina Luna said during that press conference.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio seventeen thousand percent returns at performing
Warren Buffett on average, members that do engage in stock
trading on both sides are getting six hundred percent returns
and not performing the SMP.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'll be honest with you, I'm not I'm not great
at math. Six hundred percent return that's sounds pretty good.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, that'stad.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Seventeen thousand percent. That sounds better than Warren Buffett is good. Yeah,
that's pretty damn good. It just it makes no sense
that the only reason it makes sense that members of
Congress are doing this is because they want to keep
doing this.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
They're making a lot of money with us, they do.
Why wouldn't they From.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A voter perspective, it's insane that they're allowed to trade
stocks and all of that. One of the issues with
the bill has been whether or not it should extend
to the executive branch as well.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And I think the answer is, of course it should.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Of course it should. Yeah, all those people have the
inside information.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But then if you're the Trump family, I mean, I
think they're doing pretty well, you know, with some of
their crypto deals and things like that. I don't think
President Trump is going to want to sign on to that.
But that has been one of the issues with that bill.
But I think, you know what, at least take care
of Congress, you know, take care of Congress, and then
some other time down the road, when you think you
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can get a president to sign it, then maybe try
to take and add the executive branch onto that piece
of legislation. But right now, yes, that members of Congress
from I mean they're getting rich in office.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Floridian agrees with that. I mean Congressman Rick Scott or
Senator Rick Scott thinks that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
People should have the right to make money at the office. Yeah,
he does, and he's got a lot of money already. Yeah,
I think maybe he would have a different take on that.
But and then we're going to get to this with Rory,
our national correspondent Rory O'Neil coming up at seven thirty five.
The other big concern is the prediction betting markets polymarkets.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Members of Congress could just go and
do that and good enough insider information.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, that's right, all right? What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Chris Sarasota Republican Representative Fiona McFarlane pushing legislation requiring Florida
retailers to round cash transactions to the nearest nickel now
that the penny is no longer in production. HB nine
fifty one would amend state tax and consumer protection law
to create a uniform rounding system for cash purchases when
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exact change can't be made because of the lack of
one cent coin. Yes, now, it doesn't eliminate the penny,
and it doesn't require businesses to accepting it, but it
does establish rules for rounding now that it's not being
minted anymore. So, if you have a transaction in one
or two cents, that would be rounded down to zero.
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If you have three or four, go up to five.
If the transactions ended in six or seven, you round
down to five cents.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That's the good part. And then if it's eight or nine,
you round up to the next ten cents.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's very confusing, and then electronic transactions wouldn't be affected
at all because you don't need pennies for those.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Just round down.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, that would be a much more popular bill if
the whole thing was, you know what, just round down. Yeah,
I mean, I'm surprised that's how.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Rounding works though. You either you go or you know,
you go down and then you go up.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I give the people a break, just just round down.
You can write the law anyway you want.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yeah, but who doesn't have like a hubell You probably
don't because you don't like clutter, But like, doesn't everybody
have like a big jar of pennies somewhere? And how
we all need to start going to the coinstar machines
and turning the mine.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I used to, but I took all the publics and
just dumped them.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
In that thing.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, I think fee for that I've got.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I've got a big cup in my house. I should
probably just go through it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I remember there were there were a couple of times
where I did that, where I did the whole public's thing,
and you'd be surprised all of a sudden, you get
like twenty bucks out and something like that. I don't own.
I can say this with one hundred percent certainty. I
don't own any change. I actually I have no.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Change whatsoever through change Away. When I was cleaning out
my change Away and you know, like you find a
penny or a couple of pennies in a drawer and
they're kind of gross, I was just instead of taking
them to the cup or something like that or putting
them in my purse, I just tossed.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Them in the life. Yeah, actually finds one hundred Yeah,
it just tosses it. Just start going through.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, let's get to one more story. This is
I think this is a really fascinating uh study that
they're doing in like this could be a game.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So Lakeland will start using real time sensor data and
AI to conduct surveys to keep PEP up on road
conditions like potholes and cracks.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
All throughout the city.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So the City Commission unanimously approved a four year, two
hundred and forty thousand dollars contract with the company Roadway
Management Technologies. It's based on a little rock and they
provide pavement monitoring tools for local governments. So what will
happen is they'll put these monitors on vehicles and they'll
be able to scan the roads any vehicles, yeah, as
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they're driving around. The way it used to work is
that you would have a survey of the roads every
two or three years, and by the time they got
the whole report ready, a lot of the data on
the potholes and the cracks and the roads would be
out of datep So this way you can have some
real time information as to where the problem areas are
based on all the city vehicles driving around the city
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and you have AI looking at the roads in real time.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, it's still going to take two years to fix
the pothole, but I.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Was thinking where they are them in.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But that's such a smart idea. Drap these cameras or
this technology onto the city vehicles driving around and you
get real time information. That's fantastic. I mean, maybe they
could add in like if there's a bunch of crap
on the side of the road, you know, stuff like that,
it gets reported right back.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I don't know, but you could see where this could
be headed.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, I mean, I think this is a good example
of where AI is useful and can really you know,
provide a service that people wouldn't ordinarily be able to
do by themselves. You can imagine how difficult it would
be to go around all the city streets and manually
survey the roads or just depend on people's complaints about
where the problems are. This way, you're sort of seeing
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them all the time. It will take some time to
gather all the data, and we don't know how long
it'll take for them.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
To do the repairs and how much that'll cost, because.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
They're probably going to find a lot more problems than
they did in the past. But it certainly seems like
a good use of today's technology.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I can't wait for.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
The first AI report to come back where it reports
that there's a sinkhole in the middle of Main Street.
Misjudged Chris Treigman with today's Top Stories. Chris, thanks so
much for you. We bring in Natalie Rodriguez for today's
Top Stories. Good morning, Natalie, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Well, the legal buck may not stop with the federal
case against Veniceula's former dictator. Florida is looking into statutes
to figure out if state charges can in fact be
filed against Nicolas Malulu. Governor Ronda Santa says that the
attorney General's office is on top of this, since Maduto
is accused of bringing drugs right here to Florida.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
But you know what he would also do, and this
is not in the federal indictment in New York. He
would empty his prisons and send them to America across
the border, and we'd end up with some of these
people in Florida.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Desanta says that there is no risk of double jeopardy
because the state and FEDS are separate sovereignties. Now, the
state did something similar when they filed charges against Convictor
Trump Assas and Ryan Ruth after the Department of Justice
did so this isn't something new that would take president
at this point.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
No, and the drug charges, I could see they're potentially
being a way to charge Maduro with state charges on that.
But the like allowing people including criminals to come to
the US, I'm not sure what law.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
And I also think that it would be really difficult
to like trace the drugs back to him, you know
what I mean, Like which.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Drugs, Well, cocaine is what they're focused on in New York,
and that federal indictments and his support for the cartels
and the trafficking of all of those drugs.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Again, it'll be interesting to see what the Attorney General's
office ends up doing here. I'd love to see him
hit with state charges in addition to federal charges. And
when he's convicted here in Florida, I want him to
be forced to walk the streets of Durrell so everyone
can do this to him.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Now, in all seriousness, they are talking about possible death
sentence for Madudo, so that would be something.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, well we want that before he's put to death.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
We want him walk through Durrel so we can yell,
shames him, shame.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
All right, what else is going on this morning, Natalie?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Well, new developments as we go back to a case
that I brought you last month from Miami, the woman
whose body was discovered inside that dollar Tree freezer. Well,
we know that the victim was identified as thirty two
year old doctor Massiadai Sanchez, an anesthesiologist originally from Nicataua.
Police are now confirming that they have in fact reviewed
surveillance camera footage, ruling that mental illness was not a
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factor in her death. So it makes it even so
much more bizarre. Because foul play is also not a factor.
Detectives say that doctor Sanchez walked into the store one
Saturday night. She didn't buy anything. We know that she
goes to the back room into the freezer. It was
not obstructed. It's not like the door was in intentionally
locked behind her. And then her body was found by
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an employee the next morning, and so the case does
go on.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
This is so mysterious.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So she goes into that employee only area, she goes
into the freezer. She's there overnight, Like you said, Natalie,
the freezer door not blocked. It had an emergency release,
so it could be open from the inside. She wasn't
forced into the freezer. There's no mental illness that they
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can find. So she just walked into the freezer and died. Like,
I don't get it, sleepwalking. I was thinking sleepwalking.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Then if she's not, if there's no mental health and
we're assuming that she's not on drugs, yeah, and there's
no foul play, could it be that she was a
nocturnal walker.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't know. You gotta be opening like every possibility now,
don't you, because it just it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
There's really no explanation for it. So but did she
drive there? Do they have put in her getting out
of a car, because then I don't know how she
would be sleep while there.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Let me tell you what.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
There are some people who they do full on tasks
while they're asleep. I mean, they're more productive than we
are through a whole day while they're the while they're asleep.
But no, it's just because foul play was ruled out,
and now immediately after that was ruled out, you thought
maybe some kind of mental illness even though there was
no evidence of that or something. Yeah, it is just
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one of the crazier stories of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
And I don't know we're gonna get an answer. It
doesn't sound like that.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Sounds like they've done a pretty thorough investigation and nobody
knows why.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Man, all right, let's get to one more story. This
one also a little crazy. Oh boy, hold on to
your scooter for this one.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
This is a wild crime story out of a South
Florida Walmart.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
So prepare seventy five year old Lori Cavin.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
She is accused of arking a taser, claiming to be
the popo at this Walmart self checkout, to defend another
senior who was in this motor scooter. Witnesses say that
that senior was making racist remarks to an Hispanic customer
with family witnesses all around, and police are saying. Quote,
Laurie admitted pulling out the black taser and arguing it
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to cause a spark, though she claimed that she pointed
it at the ground. This is police who actually caught
up to this seventy five year old as she was
walking her doggie back to her car in the parking lot.
So Cabin was booked into jail on charges of aggravated
assault with intent to commit a felony impersonating a law
enforcement officer. She literally said, I'm a police officer. She's
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firing off her taser.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah. She was said to be released on her own recognizance.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So what a scene at Walmart. You've got a lot
going on here. You've got You've got the woman impersonating
a police officer with a taser. You got that, the
elderly woman and the scooter telling the victim in this
whole thing that she didn't belong in the country. And
this is all happening at a self checkout. You know,
there were probably two or three other peop people who
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just wanted to check out, and they're they're behind this
whole mess in front of them. I can only imagine
what a scene. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right, all right.
Natalie Rodriguez with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
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