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Speaker 4 (00:54):
Moving right ahead. It's August twenty seven now and almost
right into September. Fall is about here. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
This year has flown. I say that every year. I
say that January third Man, this year has flown. Okay,
A good morning to one and all.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Neil, good morning, good morning, Willie Wolf. How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm okay, I'm okay. I can't complain, Sure I can.
I always complain, doesn't matter when where what cono, good morning?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Good morning Bill?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh that was nice and perky amy, Hey, Bill, oh perky, perky.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
We're laughing. And well, now I can't be perky. Good
for you.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We'll give me, will give me the eor response, So good.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I'm so thrilled about the Taylor Swift news I can't
tell you.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah. That's the other thing, you know what. There were
two stories yesterday. One was putin is a about to
declare World War three?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
He's literally on the verge of declaring World War three?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
That was story number two after Taylor Swift, and that
was covered by everybody. That was the first half of
the news. I mean, come on, guys, he's on his knees,
he's proposing, there's the ring, there's a podcast with him.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And his brother there.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, fine, all right, what
do we have to do today? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't know. Cover some news you think so?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And there's some fun news that being one of them
there ridiculous, not them, how we respond to them, that's
the crazy part. But there's also some serious news we're
going to cover today. So why don't we get at
it and start with the news with Amy and Neil
and me. Lead story Psycho Killer. Yeah, that horrific story
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of baby Emmanuel Harrow. If you remember, it was only
a week ago that the parents said that the child
had been kidnapped. She was outside of a Big five
store changing his diaper. This was August fourteenth, a couple
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of weeks ago, and he he was picked up, she
was rendered unconscious, and then there were inconsistencies with her
story almost immediately. Police are pretty good about that when
they take statements, I mean, are they know what they're doing,
and they can tell pretty quickly whether you're truthful or
not or the story gets hinky. Well, the story got
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hinky almost immediately. And when they confronted her saying, hey,
you said this, but wait a minute, you just change
your story, she immediately shut up and stopped cooperating. Well,
both of them had just been charged with murder with malice.
And when you're talking about murder with malice, California still
has the death penalty. Now, there's a moratorium on actually
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executing people that Governor Newsom has put into place, but
that doesn't mean there isn't the That does not mean
that there isn't a death penalty. I think what's seven
hundred and something of people are on death.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Row right now, something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
So yeah, if they got that and Governor Handsome leaves,
does that all kick back in.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, because unless the new governor extends the moratorium, yeah,
we're back to square one. Although it takes thirty five
years basically to kill somebody, and all you need is
one judge along the way to knock the death penalty out. Unfortunately,
as much as I love the death penalty across the board,
I mean retribution, justice, closure, entertainment, which is a big one,
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the death penalty is hugely entertaining.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's just so expensive.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
By the time someone's killed, it's hundreds of millions of dollars.
Just I'd throw them in solitary confinement for the rest
of their life so they go completely nuts a matter
of six months. That's the answer. So anyway, murder, I
don't understand how how do you murder a seven month old?
You know, we talked about that yesterday. I can't wrap
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my head around it.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, I would hope not. I hope none of us
can wrap our head around that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I see, I mean that's true, but that's a
statement I think on behalf of everybody. That was not
a singular statement.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You know.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I had heard an interesting story that the woman had
gone into Big five or something and said, hey, my
car was broken into. Do you guys have security cameras
as kind of probably looking in to see if they
could check or verify her story or not.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
What if they.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Didn't know, because we don't know the answer to that,
but law enforcement has said that they have evident that
her story is false.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
So it could be, uh, it could be security footage.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That makes sense to me, because which store does not
have security footage anymore?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Out to the parking.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Lot the Trader Joe's in Burbank.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Doesn't have security footage.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
No, because I got in a little fender bender in
their parking lot and they said, I said, you have cameras.
They said, no, we don't have cameras in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh okay, little heads up, that's where you want to
go shoplifting or grabbing, uh great from other people, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
The burd Bank butt sniffers like, yeah, hey, thanks for
the hot tit.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Moving on FEMA foibles, so several employees at FEMA have
been placed on administrative leave a day after signing an
open letter warning Congress that the Trump administration's overhaul of
the agency could lead to catastrophic failures and disaster.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Response. Letter accuses President Trump and Homeland Security Christy Noam
of undermining the agency's capabilities. The group calls for FEMA
to be shielded from political interference and for its workforce
to be protected from politically motivated firings.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
There's no such thing anymore about protection for motivated firings.
The number one requirement now to be a federal employee
of any kind, from the bottom to the top, is
undying fealty to the president. That's it, nothing more, nothing less.
Credentials don't matter nothing. If you are loyal to the president,
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you're president, You're okay. And if you're not loyal, you're done.
And that doesn't matter. How good, how much experience you have.
What was it yesterday? Anybody cover that yesterday's cabinet meeting
that went on for three hours and every cabinet member
after another. Mister President, you're the greatest president that has
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ever lived. We will never have a country as good
as we have under your leadership. I mean, it was
so sycophantic all the way down. It almost seemed like
it was the polit bureau with Kim Jong un leading
the meeting.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You are the best, dear leader. It can't be better.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It was unbelievable and it went on for hours.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
He's making American cabinets great again.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Uh yeah, yeah, I mean it's just so you can't
say anything for one of retaliation. You can't if you
want your career, if you want to stay employed, you
have to be loyal to the president.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
And there's no such thing as independence anymore. Either.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Independent agencies are done. The FED done as an independent agencies.
Being very clear that he's putting people he can that
have much more loyalty him than to the economy of
the United States straight out. Matter of fact, the new
governor that he trying to appoint, because remember one of
them resigned, is both on the FED and as part
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of the Council of Economic Advisors, both in the White
House as well as the FED. And even Republicans are going,
come on, guys, I mean, you can't do that.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well, he's doing it. It's pretty depressing on that one.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'm not talking about policy either, you could agree disagree
with the policy.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's just that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
We are in the midst and about to go into
an imperial presidency and the only thing that's going to
be left and I guarantee this is going to happen
guarantee it. There will be a huge movement to redo
the Constitution to allow President Trump to be having third term.
(09:51):
Mark my words, Calendar this today, okay, and we'll talk
about this coming up in the next couple of years.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
All right, one morning, we'll take a break.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Neil, you got it, he said, He said, who do
you believe?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You know?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Terrorists or a warmonger.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Hamas said that none of the twenty one people killed
in the recent Israeli attack on the Nasser Hospital was
a member of the Palestinian movement, of course, not the
Israeli military claim that it had targeted this surveillance camera.
I guess they have a camera there, and the Israeli said, hey,
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that camera is looking for us in our movement on
the ground, and they targeted, and they said that six
fighters were killed in the attack. But of course Mos
says that they're just targeting journalists, medics, rescue workers and civilians.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Now, keep in mind, let's say there was a camera.
I'm going to give Israel the benefit of the doubt
for a moment. There was a camera they send in
either it was an artillery piece probably or a drone
or whatever they used. And then after it hit, They
waited for first responders to come, and then they hit
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it again. Double tap. That's how we're going to get
rid of a camera. Okay, the double hit. How about
the triple hit? Huh, it's horrific. What's going on? It
really is?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Okay, And at first I would think everything.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Hamas said is a bunch of eyes and Israel was
telling the truth.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Now a little different, isn't.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
It a two state solution and we're not talking about
Israel and Palestine. The top Republican in the California State
Assembly is James Gallagher. He says he has an alternate
plan to Governor Newsen's California redistricting plan, which is going
to be voted on in November. He says, instead of
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carving up individual congressional districts, why don't we just split
the state in two. The bluer coastal counties would be
separated from the more republic can heavy inland portions of
the state under his two state solution.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Normally, when you think of splitting California, you're thinking northern
California southern California. Right, that's sort of the general consensus.
What he says makes absolute sense if you're going to
split California, you go down basically the coast, the Bay area,
Los Angeles, San Diego, and you don't go very far
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inland either. And then you start going to, for example,
the Inland Empire, Sam Bernardino, is where the eastern part
of it would be eastern California, or you can you know,
western California is what would they do in that you
can describe as sex with people California. There are a
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lot of different ways to differentiate, but all the money
would be Western California. Eastern California is nothing but agriculture,
Sam Bernardino. When you think about the end Li Empire,
where do they have they have kno, but they have
fulfillment centers. That those are the big employers. Is these
huge fulfillment centers and those are not exactly high paying
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high tech jobs. Where the western part it makes a
lot of sense, except California would lose his political clout
for sure. Now is that ever gonna happen? Of course not,
but still it makes sense.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Uh yeah, let's hope. Okay, the cracker barrel. Everybody's going crazy.
New logo, conservative backlash. Never mind, they went back to
their original logo. People were flipping out. Even the President
of these United States had something to say about it.
They so Cracker Barrel folks said, hey, we said we'd listen,
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and we have. They posted this on social media. Our
new logo is going away, and our old timer, the
man in the chair, Uncle Herschel, will remain.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So that was it. No other comments after that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I'm doing the story at eight fifty, the last segment
of the show today. I'm missing something here and I'll
ask that question coming up at eight fifty when the
story is done here.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Almost done. Less than eight months after the Eaton and
Palisades fires destroyed sixteen thousand, mostly homes in La County,
the Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it is
getting ready to clear the wreckage from the last residential
parcel of land that opted to have the Corp of
Engineers come and clean it up for them. Federal contractors
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say they've cleared two and a half million tons of
fire debris from nearly ten thousand properties, finishing roughly four
months ahead of schedule. They thought they'd be done in
January of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's pretty impressive that when a governmental agency comes out
and beats its own scheduling in terms of finishing something.
It's a good analogy between this, for example, and the
bullet train, very very similar on time, very quickly, as
a matter of fact, even earlier than on time.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
So that's kind of neat. Although there was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
There's a lot of dissension here because you had to
pick the Army Corps of engineers or you did it
on your own. Of course, on your own it would
cost your fortune. And they didn't do certain toxic tests,
they didn't go below six inches of the ground level.
I mean, there were a lot of problems there. And
then where's the landfill where they put all this stuff?
(15:45):
I don't even know, do you know?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Amy?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
There are some there's several sites because remember there were
protests at that. I don't remember the exact locations, but
there are sites where they're taking it. And what happens
to it after that, we dont no.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, and that's a lot of debris.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's not cleaning it up, that's moving it somewhere.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, that's again I consider cleaning up.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
If you take my debris and move it to your backyard,
that's cleaning up. As far as i'm concerned. That's certainly
my definition of cleaning it up.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I want to hear from the people that are involved,
the people whose houses were were gone. They're the ones
I want to hear from, not some news story that says, look, what.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
A great job he did. I think people are thrilled
about it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, if you own, if you own a piece of
property or a home and it is nothing but rubble
and the rubble is cleared up.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yeah, I think you're gonna be okay with that.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Alrighty RFK Junior, the piece of work Health Secretary said
just yesterday that this study that he's doing on autism
and he's spearheading, you know, to find out what's causing it.
He said that there are interventions that could be causing
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this neurodevelopmental disorder. And he said the results from his
study would be released in September next month, So we
shall see. Trump seems to be very excited about what
might be coming out. Les say he goes it's vaccines.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Well, and he might do that, but then again, he's
going to go against what medical science says. I have
no problem with him making the decision. We have to
look at what causes autism. We don't know what causes autism.
That is a legitimate study that we want to do. However,
is it biased? Did he say to his scientists, let's
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make sure it's vaccines. That's what I want to hear.
Wits in clinical studies you can do. Do you know
that you can actually hire labs of course, excuse me,
to do clinical studies and you tell them what you
want to hear. I can do for example, I had
bagels and locks this morning. How unusual this morning. I
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can hire a lab to come up with a study
that says, this is the healthiest food that exists on
this planet. A bagel, cream, cheese, and smoked salmon, and
they will come up with that. And here is the
fear is you need double blind studies. There has to
be a premise, there has to be some kind of
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a study that has been created by legitimate medical science.
And I don't know if any of that's going to happen.
He just says outright, autism is caused by vaccines, because
you had one one debunked doctor saying that.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
There is zero percent chance that we're going to get
any kind of honesty out of it.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That's correct, that is absolutely correct. But it doesn't matter.
I'm fine with let's study it. Let's study it.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I like to know when.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
People question Western medicine. No bed ever questions Western medicine
when it comes to like broken bones.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
No they don't.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
This great sav that will help cure everything. What about
a broken bone? No, I still go the traditional route
with that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Do acupuncture on a gangreen leg and see what happens.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Okay, these crimes hit too close to home. A sophisticated
retail crime ring plundered home depots across southern California more
than six hundred thefts. They took about ten million dollars
worth of merchandise and just kept on doing it, and
doing it and doing it until they finally got caught.
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The Ventura County DA's office announced they filed a forty
eight count criminal complaint against nine people. Home Depot says
it's the largest targeted theft ring in its business's history.
Seventy one Home Depot locations in Ventura, La Orange, Riverside,
and San Bernardino counties were hit. Sometimes the same store
was hit several times in a day.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, and you wouldn't think it's breakers and dimmers and
switches and electrical plugs.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I guess you get enough of them. That adds up.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Also, we're just finding out that, contrary to popular belief,
the fact that there are no more people in the
parking lot of home Depot looking to work for you,
they've been kidnapped by this group, all of them.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
That last part was made up.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Really, Oh I thought I thought it was a discussion
about immigration and why there aren't any more.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
People in the pome Depot parking lot. Can't get casual
labor anymore? Okay, moving on.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Casual labor.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Casual labor, casual labor.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
That's a new term.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
No, that's what it's called for you look at your
insurance policies. It is casual labor read illegal immigrant label labor.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I see all right.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Oh, by the way, I'm not making that one up.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It is that is a legitimate term in terms of
insurance and just definitions.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
All right, moving on, okay.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
On Latista Santa Maka's first ever Latino police chief has
stepped away or will in October to be specific October fourth,
and that will be two weeks before his fourth anniversary
of being sworn in Santa Monica's eighteenth police chief. Yeah,
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so he's leaving it, and they're saying that it's kind
of a clash.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
With the administration there.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
And he has come out saying, my nearly forty years
of experience in public safety, in policing, my deeply held
sense of justice and following not only the spirit but
the letter of the law appear to be at odds from.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
The demand set by the new administration.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay, what is that He's not being very specific? Is
he as to here is why I'm leaving.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I'll tell you what I read into this.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
The guy's law and order type guy in Santa Monica
is anything but most of the time you go down
to it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
How did he ever get First of all, how do
you get a law and order chief of police in
Santa Monica to begin with?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Santa Monica is a two state solution, buddy, Yeah, I
know Santa Monica. In the world of I'm a friend
of mine. That eviction law, it's known as the People's
Republic of Santa Monica.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah, federal dollars could be pulled from California and Washington
and New Mexico. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said yesterday that California, Washington,
New Mexico could lose millions of dollars in federal funding
if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers.
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This all surrounds an investigation following a crash in Florida
where a big rig Try truck driven by an illegal
immigrant from India made an illegal U turn and ended
up killing three people. So apparently truckers are supposed to
be disqualified from how having the CDL the commercial driver's
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license if they can't demonstrate English proficient proficiency and transfer TOECT.
Easy for me to say, Transportation Secretary Duffy said the
driver involved in that crash should have never been given
a commercial driver's license because of his immigration status.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah. I have a couple of questions here. One makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But English proficiency beyond reading street signs and knowing the law.
If you know the speed limit is forty five miles
per hour for example, does it matter whether it's in
Spanish or English? If you know is forty five miles
an hour? No, but reading signs, yeah, you have to
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be able to do that. So I don't know where
English proficiency is. Also, if you believe Duffy, Transportation Secretary,
and there's no nobody's refuting this that California has conducted
thirty four thousand inspectors or inspections of these truck drivers.
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One violation was issued, according to Duffy.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
So is it true is it not? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You know, I wouldn't doubt it considering California. In any case,
they have to be able to follow rule. I'll tell
you what's even worse with trucks coming up from Mexico.
They don't have to comply, for example, with California rules
from what I understand, you know, the minimum breaking requirements
that the tires have to be at a certain thickness.
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And last, if I remember reporting on this, there was
an exemption under NAFTA. All right, and correct me if
I'm wrong on that one. But you can't because we're
out of time for this segment.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
All right.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Just days after the FBI searched his home Mark Twain
look alike, John Bolton has come out and started ripping
into Trump yet again, with the wit and wisdom that
only he can. But he he was, you know, in
the Justice Department, or no, he was actually working with.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
National scare advisor and ambassador to the UN during Trump's
first term, and so it was a huge Trump supporter
and then turned yeah, and then turned against him and
became one of the biggest attractors. Cause I remember the book.
I interviewed him for the book and I asked him
it happened, yeah, I asked him, a great book. By
the way, I asked him, when did the light bulb
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go off for you when you realized that this was
not quite the person that you thought he was. And
he said, it happened over a period of time. It
wasn't a light bulb moment, It wasn't an epiphanous moment.
It just sort of evolved there. And of course, as
I said earlier, if you're on the wrong side of Trump,
(25:53):
if you don't give him utter fealty, guess what. The
FBI came in and they searched his house and grabbed
hard drives and everything else. And we'll see what comes
out of that. Probably nothing. Okay, real quickly, we have
a couple more stories to do.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Seeking asylum again. Attorneys for kilmar Abrego Garcia have filed
an emergency motion to reopen his immigration case to seek
asylum you'll recall that Abrago Garcia is the guy from
Maryland swept up in an ice immigration raid by mistake.
He was sent off Dale Salvador, then brought back here,
and then he was taken into custody again, being held
(26:36):
in a detention center in Virginia. The federal government has
been blocked from deporting him temporarily pending further proceedings. And
so now his attorneys are saying that because Abrego Garcia
was deported and then brought back to the US, he's
eligible to apply for asylum within one year of his
last entry into the United States.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
He needs to become the poster child for both sides
of this.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The administration said this is a bad guy and he's
one of the people that initially was destined to be
deported upon capture, a member of MS thirteen, a gang.
His family says none of that is true whatsoever. He
was mistakenly sent to l Salvador, was in the prison,
brought back, and by the way, the administration was didn't
(27:23):
jump on bringing him back. And now it's either you
go to Costa Rica voluntarily, you plead guilty, you do
your time, and then you're gonna go to Costa Rica,
or we're gonna send you to Uganda right now, because
of course he speaks fluent you Ganes. Do they click
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in Uganda? Or is that another country down there that
they I.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Think that's a sub Saharan country.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
It probably is. Okay, you probably just said the F word. No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I didn't close what I did say as opposed to
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