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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good evening. I'm Bob Lonsberg and from the banks the
Mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York. This is downtown section
third Patoon. Much cause to thank God up at our
house these days. As I mentioned last night. Last week,
two of my sons almost died. One of them climbing
a mountain out in Idaho, came offul close to being

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struck by lightning. They were on a ridge way up high.
Storm cell was moving in and he's a little shaggy,
you know, he's at that stage of life, twenty one
years of age, howling at the moon, and all of
a sudden his hair stood up straight from his head,
all of it. That means, my outdoor friends, that you're

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about to be struck by lightning. Right death is imminent,
and what you're supposed to do in that situation, to
be honest with you, changes over time. The very best
advice right now is run like hell, get to shelter,
get inside a vehicle. My son and his friends, as

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it turns out, they quickly not recognizing that lightning was
about to strike. We only discovered this when a random
photo showed, Holy hell, what's going on with your hair? Buddy?
They ducked beneath a ledge to wait out the twenty
minute storm or wait for the opening and the clouds

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that the radar on their phone told them was coming.
Then Friday, I had another sun early forties motorcyclist the
last year and a half. He's on a six lane
highway and a car drives into him right where he is,
and he goes flying and then rolls out of the road,

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not getting run over by subsequent vehicles, and as it
turns out, not injured in the least. And I tell
you what you think about those things. And yesterday I
was at the point of my gosh, whosh, and you
thank the Lord for his blessings. Well, and then there

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was today. I told the story last night. We we
we've had some we had we had problems with a
bat over the weekend Friday. In the overnight, my son Scott,
I hear him faintly in the night, his voice and uh,
I don't know if he said help or if he
sell said mom or whatever it was, but you know,

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I I went in there, you okay, buddy, And he
sleeps on a top bunk and he said, yeah, there's
a something's flying around. There's a moth or a bat
or something like that. And so I've got the light
in his room. You know, we've got my daughter and
her family staying with us until you know, their house closes.

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But you know, he's got you know, three of my
grandsons sleeping in there in his room with him. In
the adjoining room, it's two more of my sons. And
we look. My wife gets up. We're looking, and I
don't see anything, buddy, And you know, maybe it's a
bad dream, maybe you imagined it, who knows what. But

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we went back to bed and didn't didn't give it
another thought. Okay, And Saturday was an incredible day, much fun,
was sad it rounded out. We went to the drive
in down in Perry, saw the Spider Man movie like
that pretty good by the look of ticket sales, so
did everyone else in the world. But you know, we

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come home, it's eleven thirty midnights something like that, and
the little kids go up in the house and then
all of a sudden they come out excitedly. There's a
bat in the house. There's a bat in the house.
And you go in there and sure enough, on the
ceiling in the living room is a bat and Anyway,

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my son in law comes in and like a champion
lacrosse player with a fishing net, he catches that bat first,
first pass by, and at any rate, So that kind
of put what happened Friday night into perspective. Hold it,
there was a bat in the house. Okay. Bats can

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sometimes have rab's and okay, so if he was in
the room where sleeping people were, that means there's a
possible exposure to bats. That means there's a possible problem. Right,
and so here's a deal. Call your county Health department.
There wonderful people. They will square you away. They've got instructions. Okay, Uh,

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don't talk to your brother in law, don't talk to
the little Chapter of Bats of America. Call your county
Health department. And at any rate, they said, you've got
to go on and get the shots. All right, you got
to going to get the shots and the shots given
at the emergency room. We went down to Dansville. Uh,
yesterday my sons Robbie, Scott and Sam went and great

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people the hospital, good experience. You know, they got shots
that they had fun with it. And today my grandsons
went down and uh, you know that to get their shots,
because there were six of them in these two rooms
where you know, we figure the bat was well. Uh,

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while the boys are getting their shots, there's a doctor
there and he says, let me look you over, just
for the heck of it. And so the doctor looks
the boys over and finds on the thigh of one
of them just some small little red marks that, if

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you take a picture and enlarge it on your phone,
look like little holes, kind of perfectly round holes, honest
with you. And the doctor says, yeah, that's you got
bit by a bat. And if you go to Google
and you say, what's it look like when you get
bit by a bat? Pictures pop up and it's like,

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holy cats. A doctor knows what he's talking about, or
she I wasn't there. I don't know. But so we
had a little boy bitten by a bat in his sleep.
Healthy bats don't do that. Ate insects. Okay, if you're

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leaving them alone, they're leaving you alone. They don't bite people.
We don't have vampires anymore. Okay, more about this in
a second. This is Downtown Section, third Platoon on news
radio Wham eleven eighty. Welcome back. This is Downtown Section
third patoon. Forgive me. I'm kind of like I'm a
little shot right now, sort of like emotionally a little

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bit empty. There have been some feelings, okay, and you know,
being a he man like I am, I'm not accustomed
to having feelings. Okay, if I were a pansy like you,
i'd cry or something like that. But being a he man,
uh uh sorry, But talking about this weird thing with
a bat. My son, Scott fifteen, woke up in the

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middle of the night Friday thinking there was a bat
in his room. Couldn't find anything. We come home Saturday
night late from watching a drive in movie down in
Perry and there was a bat hanging off the ceiling
in the living room all of a sudden. That raised
this questions about could be a possible exposure to a bat.
Called the County Health Department, which is what you're supposed

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to do and which you must do if you ever
get near a bat. They're smart, they'll let you know
what you're supposed to do. You guys got to come
and get shots. Okay, you got to come and get
the shots just in case. Grandsons yesterday they were down.
My I had sons go yesterday Monday. My grandsons went
today this afternoon and uh, you know, get get their shots.

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The doctor's looking them over and one of them boys,
he points to his thigh and says, what's this right here?
And uh, he looks at it and he goes, that's
that's a bat bite right there. And the boy had
been bitten by a bat. Now, thanks to the Health
Apartment people Livingston County, thanks to the emergency staff at

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Noise Memorial Hospital, part of the u R Family, these
boys are on their shots. They're gonna he's gonna be okay.
Without those shots, he would have died. Right. You don't
get better from rabies. You die from rabies. You die
a horrible, horrible death from rabies. And at any rate,

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without those shots, my grandson in time would have died.
And here's the thing you think about that, how did
we come to get the shots? Two things had to happen.
One Scott had to wake up Friday night, right, Scott

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had to wake up Friday night. If it was not
planted in our mind the possibility that a bat had
been in the bedroom, then the little boy dies because
he's not getting any shots. No doctor's checking him out.
For bite marks, all right, and then Friday night, if

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the bat had not been there hanging in the living room,
we never would have thought anything about Friday night, right,
It was just Scott woke up, had a bad dream
or something, I don't know. We couldn't find anything. Everything's okay,
So Scott had to wake up Friday night and we
had to see the bat in their Saturday night. If

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either of those things had not happened, the little grandson
would not have gotten the shot, would not have been
examined by the doctor, would not have discovered the rabies
until he was symptomatic, until he was doomed. Right. And

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this afternoon, as you know, we found out about the bite.
Those realizations come to you, and they are there. They
shake you a little bit, right. You don't always in

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life realize how close to the edge you're coming. But
in all honesty, from last Wednesday to this Tuesday today,
I've had two sons and one grandson who have been
involved in possible life ending events. But in each one

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of them we were ritually blessed by the Lord. In one,
they almost instinctively dodged under a ledge and lightning failed
to strike. In another, he's thrown over a vehicle and
yet lands without breaking anything, doesn't get run over by

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subsequent cars. And in a third, this arrangement of two
very different things that had to happen happened so that
the little boy vulnerability was discovered and remediated. Now, I
thank God for that, but I understand that the Lord

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wakes I on my knees for the rest of my
life with gratitude in my heart and tears in my eyes,
thank God for them. But I recognize in the wisdom
of God somehow, in ways that we can't understand. Here,
we don't always get our prayers answered. The miracle, what

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we call a miracle, doesn't always happen. There's a family
mourning a fourteen year old girl in the city of Rochester.
There's another family mourning a thirty five year old woman
in the city of Rochester up at Galasano and at
the cancer hospital. And that's strong. There are people who
pass away every day who are loved and who are

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prayed over. Every day. There are miracles what we call
and every day there are heartbreaks what we call. And
I don't know all things, but I do know that
God loves us, and I do know that there are
times when our prayers are answered in a way that
brings us great joy, and I am in that situation currently.

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I pray every night that the Lord will watch over
my children, my grandchildren, my sons and daughters in law,
the whole fam family, to protect them against whatever might come.
And I know that we all live in a world where,
you know, stuff happens, where happenstance is real. But I

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also know that there's a God who oversees this world,
and sometimes for his reasons, he puts his thumb on
the scale and things get changed just a little bit
and we sit here in humble rejoicing. So anyway, that's
what's going on in my world. Also tomorrow, that same

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sun who almost got hit by lightning last week, he's
climbing Grand Teeton with some friends, a trip they've been
planning for for a couple months. And they hiked in
from their base care to their base camp today. Set
that up, and tomorrow they're all day up the mountain
and down the mountain. And so keep praying, if you
would please. This is Downtown Section third Platoon on news

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radio Wham eleven eighty. Welcome back. This is Downtown Section
third patoon. You have the Channel thirteen app on your phone?
You should. You should probably have the Channel thirteen app,
the Channel ten app, and the Channel eight app. They're
pretty useful anyway. Plus, if you have more apps on
your phone, doesn't that make you a better person? I think?

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Aren't we judged by the number of apps? We have?
I believe? So I want to read you a post
from this afternoon, details of a crime. It says written
by staff here, so I don't know who to give
credit for this, but it says a man. I'm gonna
read this to you now, Okay, pay attention. A man

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faces charges after police said he tried to shoot someone
on the city's northeast side last week while riding a bicycle.
Riding a bicycle, Yeah yeah, riding a bicycle, crazy crazy

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cycle bastard. Officers responded to Portland Avenue near Norton Street
around nine a m. July twenty eighth. I was Wednesday
for a report of shots fired. Police said investigators determined
Miguel Lopez, fifty two, fired at least one shot from

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a bicycle towards someone walking on a sidewalk. No one
was struck and no injuries were reported. A United States
Marshalls Service Task Force found Lopez and took him into
custody Monday on Chapin Street. DETECTA detectives execute day search
warrant at his nearby home and recovered a loaded ghost gun.

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I'll listen to this. Lopez was charged with menacing and
two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. Police said
he was ineligible to possess a gun in New York
State due to pass convictions for burglary, criminal possession of
a controlled substance, attempted criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment,

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and other felony crimes. So that's Miguel Lopez right there,
fifty two years of age. I hate to be judgmental.
Come on, though, I do it for a living. No, no,
it's my thing. Do something publicly. I'll judge it. No,
I'll be fine. But I don't want to be judge.

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But what kind of pans he asked, Nobody at fifty
two is riding a bicycle down the s sidewalk trying
to do a gangbanger shoot by? Okay you sir, You
sir flunked out of mafia school. Okay, you are not
a bad ass. I want here's the thing. When I
see this, what I will you? And I want to
know you what my follow up is. You know what my

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unanswer question is. I want to see a picture of
the bike. Okay, I gotta see this BSI gletta right,
That's what I want, because you know what I'm picturing this.
I'm picturing this. It's like one of them banana bikes
from a long time ago, with that crazy long ass
seat on there, and he's like high up handlebars here,
and you got a thing on the back he lean

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back against. You got a card and the spokes. Okay. Also,
your bike is pink, and it's got those little frilly
things coming out of the little thing on the end
of the handlebar, blowing the wind, kind of shout to
passers by. I want to be a cheerleader when I
grow up. Maybe it says Barbie someplace on it. Maybe

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what's that Josie and the Pussycats. I don't know, but
it's I can see this fifty two year old guy.
Uh what's the name, Miguel Lopez, No sabe. Uh yeah,
Miguel Lopez fifty two on his uh pink banana bike.
Uh paddling for Ali's worth and pew pu peo PuO

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PuO peo Peo peo pew with his badass ghost gun. Right.
Oh my gosh. Here's the thing when you when he
goes back to prison, now, listen, I don't want to
presume he's guilty by any means. And you know what,
maybe he was framed up by the police. That's what
it was. Yeah, you know what, it's the school to
prison pipeline. It's catching up fifty two year olds all

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the time. But anyway, when he's back at the Big House,
that's what they call it. You know, when he's back
at the prison and he's hanging there in the yard,
that's what they call it. You know. Uh, he's during
the yard, uh, huddling on his SHIV dreaming about Bubba

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high electorist. And when he's there at the Big House whittlin'
on the SCHEV, dreaming about Bubba, they're gonna come up
and say, well you in for mac and uh, and
he's gonna go, why did a drive by from a
bicycle And they're gonna look at him and say, I'm sorry,
Pansy asked. You are out of our gang right now?

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You are go over there stand in the other corner. Okay,
you're not by uhh no no, no, no, no no, and
you can't use our weights anymore. All right. So anyway,
here's a question that some some might ask. Okay, if
one has prior family convictions for burglary, criminal possession of

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a controlled substance, what do you think that was plutonium?
Do you think is that this has come off like
a plutonium criminal to you? Um attempted criminal possession of
a weapon, honest with you, that's a plead down. Okay,
a homeboy had the gun, we all know that. And
reckless endangerment. No, it means there's been some anyway, you

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look at these convictions and say how long has he
been out of prison? What kind of parle is he
on now? And anyway, I don't going on about this,
but it used to be used to be Rochester had
organized crime. Okay, we had guys blowing each other up
over card games and stuff like that, going to restaurants

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named after fancy flowers, driving expensive American made automobiles. That's
back when you crook in Rochester knew how to be
a crook. Okay, they grew up and wrote books like
anybody gave rats. Ask what the hell they did back
in the day. But in those days, in those days,

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there were no drive buys done from bicycles. Okay. So
here's the thing, middle aged guy with a bicycle. Either
a fitness nut or you have a dwy okay, or
you just really like Barbie. You know, there's nothing wrong. Hey, hey,
nothing wrong with Barbie. Okay. She's a career woman and
she is setting her own destiny, her fate, and she

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can do whatever she wants. Okay, just leave her. Barbie
is very We have got grandkids staying at the house.
One of them loves Barbie. Ranger our dog, wonderful dog,
never choose anything. He ate one of the Barbie's legs
the other day. Is pretty nasty injury. I had a tourniquet,
So we're okay. It's a downtown section third Platoon on

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news radio Wham eleven eighty down Section third Platoon. I
have not followed the career of Jeanine Piro. She used
to be judge Janine or something like that, right, and
she would yell at people and things along those lines
years ago. I guess she was some kind of prosecutor
in Manhattan or something. Along those lines, and then she
got what turned out to be an extraordinarily successful television show.

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Very happy for her. Unfortunately, seems like she took some
of that money she made and put into face surgery.
To all you famous people, don't get a facelift, leave
your face alone, right, That's my thinking. Maybe yours is different,
and maybe I'm wrong on this, but I understand that

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people age and that their faces change. I wish that
I didn't age. I wish that my face didn't change.
But I have a mirror, and occasionally I have just
enough self awareness and honesty to recognize that, frig I

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look like crap. But I also recognize that's how life goes,
and you know, maybe we should learn something from it.
I don't know. But you get these rich people, famous people,
and they go off and they get face surgery, facelift
wherever they call it, and I, to me, I can

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always tell I always find it off putting, and it always,
to me looks a little unnatural, sometimes disquietingly. So it's
like I'm looking a little bit at space alien or
something like that. That's not the way a human face
is supposed to look. Okay, again, it's your face and
your money and not my business. But it's just like

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guys with two pays. Okay, I don't even know if
they do two pays anymore. When they went out of business.
That was probably a good idea. But anybody with a
two pay, it goes that guy's got a two pay
on and then that's all you can look at or
think about. Oh, that's the guy with a two pay,
And I don't believe that's what he intended. Whereas there
are guys with shaved heads who are bald or something

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like that all over the place and you never notice that. Right.
So for me, face surgery is the same like a
two pay. I see it and I go, what the
free did you do that? That's grotesque man. And Jeanine
Pirol all I know about her is and that's not
the way a human face looks. Okay, she's had some
work done anyway. This all began with never followed her,

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But of late I've been I think i've in recent
days I've become an admirer of her a little bit.
She's been a friend of Donald Trump's for forty years,
right since the eighties, and it's a long time to
be friends at any rate. That long term friendship and
her support for him led to her being nominated by

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him to be the United States Attorney for the District
of Columbia. And it was not just friendship. She certainly
is qualified to hold such an office and discharge such duties,
maybe more so than President Trump anticipated her hope. So
she's there in Washington. And as you know, you know,

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just being honest about my guy Trump, I voted for
him three times. Trump is clearly using his time and
power and his control over the Justice Department to prosecute
his political enemies. Right. That whole probable cost thing kind
of gets caught up in the President wants this one prosecuted,
and so this one gets prosecuted. It ought not to

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be that way, but it is the way it is,
at least for now at any rate. So here's Janine
Pirol and we got this guy, you know, Trump does
the reflecting pool. Okay, for whatever reason, he's all jacked
up about the reflecting pool. It's a Russ job. It's
a no bid contract. Surprise, surprise, millions of government dollars paid,

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and immediately it goes to crap. Okay, the stuff's peeling
up off the bottom. Trump can't acknowledge that, you know, okay,
we hired their own people, or we rush this, or
we just after the project up. It is someone did
this to it. To us, it's vandalism. It's vandalism against America.
I want these people hung high. Long comes some defac

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who reaches in and he's playing with that, saying wonder
what's on there? And he goes off to prison or
to jail rather to be charged. And there was a
press conference and Pierrot when the first thing came, said
he did wrong, he's bad, we're going to hold him accountable. Well,
an actual investigation was done, actual evidence was reviewed, and

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the investigation showed that the man committed no crime. The
issue with the appealing stuff was not vandalism. It was
very shoddy work done by a no bid, multimillion dollar
government contract. And so Janeine Piro last Friday announced quietly

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that a fouled paperwork rather that we're not going to
prosecute this man, and she wrote an explanation that he
did nothing wrong. The problems at the reflecting pool were
shoddy workmanship. Told the truth. Okay, now that shouldn't be
exceptional or unusual. However, it immediately earned her the ire

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and the condemnation of President Trump. He denounced her on
social media. Yesterday at the White House, he said she
was one hundred percent wrong, said she folded like an umbrella,
refused to say that he had confidence in her and
that she could keep her job. And last night she
was called to the White House where she got reamed
pretty good. And you know, at this point, we don't

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know if she keeps her job as US eternity for
the District of Columbia or not. And I begin this
by saying that I admire her because she clearly knew.
She's been a Trump friend for forty years. She clearly
knew that he would be pissed off, and she clearly
knew that he retaliates, he crushes people who disappoint him.

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She knew he'd be upset with her. But she also
knew what her duty was. She knew where the law
and the facts took her, and she acted accordingly. I
consider that integrity, and she may well lose her job
over it, but she will be able to retain her

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integrity and self respect. And I admire that do the
right thing, and no matter who it pisses off, no
matter how much hard time it brings you. And an
old judge, what's your name, Janine? She demonstrated that in
recent days, and I tipped my hat to her from
the banks of the Mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York.

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This is Downtown Section, third Platoon, and we are ten
to seven on the night