California Crazy-LA's Maddening Mayor Race plus Iran & Israel Fire More Missiles at Each Other
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As America marks its 250th anniversary, we re looking back at two and a half centuries of rebellion and liberty through the eyes of the heroes who defended it. On Medal of Honor, Stories of Courage, we bring you the defining moments of valor that went above and beyond the call of duty.
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and Senator, we have got a lot of action happening right now in the Middle East. We're
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going to cover it the best we can because it's changing so quickly. Well, we are, but we're
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going to start with a very simple question. What in the hell is wrong with California?
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Look, I got to say the Los Angeles mayor race is as bizarre a race as I've ever seen. We're going
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to break down the results there. They're going to shock you. They're going to piss you off.
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We're going to talk about exactly what's going on. We're also going to talk about, as you noted,
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the Middle East. And in particular, Iran is firing missiles at Israel. Israel is firing
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senator if we're let's go back to california and start there i have a theory that when you make
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so many people miserable as soon as the same can get out they get out as fast as they can
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if you are a normal person and you're living in a place like la and you watch part of the city
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burn down and you see that the fire hydrants aren't working well and the reservoirs don't
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have the water they need and then you're dealing with all the crazies there in government you just
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leave so my question is this did all the same people basically leave LA therefore the only
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thing you have left is Karen Bass or a communist or a socialist and that's it because they've
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destroyed the entire city look there's still a whole lot of people there a lot of people have
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left they are fleeing like crazy but but there are a lot of people still there let's do the latest
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news. It's 11, 17 p.m. Sunday night. So as of right now, Karen Bass, the incumbent, is going
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to the runoff. She has been called. She has received so far 250,871 votes, which comes up to
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34.7 percent. Now, the election happened a week ago. Let's start with the fact that these imbeciles
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can't actually count the votes in an election. We're a week into it, and we only have 83 percent
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of the votes in. They have another 17% that they haven't counted yet. That is true statewide. We're
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going to break that down in a minute. But by the way, Texas, somehow we managed to have elections
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and no election night or late in the morning the next day. The results, because we actually count
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our damn votes. Apparently in California, vote counting keeps going until I guess they get the
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result they want. I mean, it is messed up. For much of the past week, Karen Bass was in first,
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and then Spencer Pratt was in second, but in a sizable second. He had a sizable lead. Then
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suddenly, today's vote count dropped. And Nitya Raman, who is the left-wing Marxist, who, by the
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way, thinks Karen Bass, the communist who palled around with Fidel Castro, is not left-wing enough.
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she has now surged into second place. So as of right now, Nitya Raman has 196,198 votes,
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which is 27.1%. And Spencer Pratt has 193,085 votes, which is 26.7%.
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Now, what does that mean? Well, I'm going to tell you, I looked on Kalshi right now,
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just to see what the betting odds were on who will be in second place. What do you think the
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The odds are, according to Kalshi, that Nitya Raman is in second place.
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So basically they're saying it's rigged and there's no way a Republican is going to come in second.
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Before we get into the process questions. All right. So Karen Bass, I think, has demonstrated
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she is the most incompetent mayor you could possibly imagine, being in charge of a podunk
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city, much less the second largest city in America. Much of her city burned down. She saw
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the most costly natural disaster in American history as the Pacific Palisades rage, mind you.
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This was after both LA and California had little to no fire mitigation. They allowed the overgrowth
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of brush. They didn't do anything to clear it out because apparently no one's figured out that
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there are fires in California. This is a really complicated thing for Democrats to figure out.
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On top of that, they didn't have water. They let the reservoir be empty. The fire hydrants had no
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water. And you remember, we played this on the podcast at the time. We did an entire pod
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on the preventable train wreck that was the LA wildfires. The public policy decisions that made
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the risks much greater and then made the ability to mitigate it, to stop it, to put it out much,
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much weaker. LA at the time, their fire chief and the top two deputies. Okay, this is almost
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something out of saturday night live is saturday night live was allowed to be funny anymore
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yeah the top three officials in the la fire department were all lesbians named kristin
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yeah yeah it was it was dei at its best like if you just want to be really honest
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it does that doesn't that sound like almost a rejected script for an snl let's have kristin
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one kristin two and kristin three they're all lesbians and and and we played an interview i
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think it was kristin too although to be honest i can't keep track um who was an african-american
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woman who was explaining that that that you know they they had as a high priority hiring hiring
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lots of women and women are great but but but she said you know some of you might be saying well
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what what if that little woman can't carry my husband out of a fire yeah and she says you know
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what when you when you see a firefighter you want someone who looks like you that's what you care
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most about. And if your husband's in a fire, that's his fault. He shouldn't have gotten himself
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in that position in the first place. Yep. Like it truly was unbelievable. Let me be very clear
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for the record. If I'm in a fire, I don't care what the firefighter who shows up looks like.
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Doesn't matter to me at all. I just want to carry me out. Someone big as hell who can throw my ass
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over his shoulder and get me out of there. That, that is, and by the way, you know, my mom, my mom
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is 91 years old. Yep. My, my mother, uh, lives in, in, in, in a high rise, uh, in, in Houston
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and she lives up in the 26th floor and a couple of years ago, uh, the, the, the, the power went
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out in the building and ended up having it had malfunctions. They shut the building down for
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a couple of months, but my mom is up on the 26th floor. The power is out there evacuating the
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building and the elevators aren't working. And my mom uses a walker. So, so there is no universe in
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which my mother is making it down 26 flights of stairs. That is just not something she is capable
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of doing at age 91. And so Houston firefighters, two Houston firefighters carried her down 26
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flights of stairs. Incredible. I promise you, my mother didn't say, okay, wait, I'm sorry. You guys
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are both big strapping dudes. No, I don't need that. I need, could you send two 90 year old
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ladies to carry me down. That's what I'd like. This is asinine. And at some point, and never
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mind the out-of-control crime, never mind the homelessness, never mind Venice Beach,
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the homeless camp there assaulting people, never mind the drug needles in parks,
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never mind the kids stepping on fentanyl needles, like watching what has happened to LA.
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it's tragic look i i spend a lot of time out out in california because because heidi's a native
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californian her whole family are californians it's a spectacularly beautiful state i have a
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lot of dear friends who live there when i look around they've got perfect weather they've got
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the pacific oceans they've got mountains i mean it's breathtaking it is absolutely beautiful
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and i look around i'm like how did they screw this up like like it's not and and and i want
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It takes effort to screw it up. It's easy to be successful if that's what you're given
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as your surroundings. You look at it and you go, I'd love to live here. Like you go to California
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and you look at California. I don't care what part of the coast you're up or down. You see it
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and you're like, this is amazing. The only way you could make people not want to go there is if you
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have terrible services, which you're describing insanely high taxes, which you're describing
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and anti-business policies which which they also have there and then it forces people to make a
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tough decision which is i love the the the land i love what i see but i got to get out of here i
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can't afford it and i want to be clear look i like to talk smack on the whole texas versus california
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thing and that that that's a fun thing to do yeah but but but let me be clear california destroying
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itself is tragic for the country. Look, California is our largest state. California historically has
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been this economic engine that has created enormous numbers of jobs. It's been really
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valuable for the American economy. And to watch people like Karen Bass, people like Gavin Newsom
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just destroy it and destroy it. Newsom, with this idiot wealth tax, has driven trillions of dollars
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out of the state. I mean, they're just fleeing like crazy. And listen, I don't know, Spencer
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Pratt never met the guy. I have no idea what his policies were. I will say the videos, the viral
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videos that his campaign put out, I watched every one of them. I love them. At one point I tweeted,
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how could you not vote for this guy? Yeah. Because he's just saying, and he was not running a right
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wing campaign. He was not running a conservative campaign. He was like, how about a mayor that will
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stop your house from burning down stop criminals from murdering you stop homeless people from
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harassing and assaulting your children and and pick up the needles in the park like is the
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Democrat that's not conservative or liberal that's just like can we get the basics right again
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so that we don't watch the city like continue to go up in flames and and the bizarre thing
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is the voters said, okay, so 34.7% said, hey, this is awesome. We want more of this. Give us
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an incompetent commie who doesn't know how to run a city. And then the second biggest group of
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people, 190,000, 198 said, you know what? She's not bat crap crazy enough. We've got someone
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that is full-on, it turns out incompetent Marxists is not far enough. And so they want
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full Mondami, I guess. You know, it is. We want everything for free. We don't want to have to
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I also have to ask you this question, though, and I go back because I was watching this explode on X.
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You mentioned earlier how long it's taken to get the vote in in a local election.
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This goes back to a lot of election issues that a lot of, I think, sane conservatives, non-conspiracy theorists.
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When you watch him go from second place and drop down to third all of a sudden, and it took a week to count,
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why would anybody have any faith in that system, Senator?
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And look, I think a lot of us post-COVID and all the lies that we were told about COVID,
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And, hey, six feet, stop the spread. The list goes on and on the vaccine and the list goes on and on.
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But there's people like me that look at this show like I'm going to I'm going to throw up a red flag here and say, if it takes you a week to count the votes, something just doesn't seem right with that.
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And this is where people genuinely start to have distrust in the election.
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And then that also means a lot of people then go, well, why don't I even vote? It's rigged. Right.
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That's that's what I don't want to happen. But that's what people think is maybe I shouldn't even vote.
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It's a waste of my time. It's it takes them a week. I don't believe my vote matters or even as counted correctly.
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Well, and listen, in California, it is illegal for officials to check a photo I.D.
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Yeah, we know that illegal aliens are voting. We know that illegal votes are counted.
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And it's worth reminding everyone that the last major bipartisan study of election integrity that was chaired by former Democrat President Jimmy Carter,
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chaired by former Republican Secretary of State James Baker, the Carter Baker Commission,
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concluded that voting by mail increases the chances of election fraud. And they also concluded
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that ballot harvesting, the ability of paid operatives to collect ballots and then send
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them in by mail, is the single most dangerous policy because what happens is a correct operative
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can say, go into a nursing home with the ballots of every person there and fill them out. And you
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can have people who are completely senile who are in a coma. They can fill out the ballot and vote
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for them. They can also see who the person votes for. And let's say someone has a moment of sanity
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and they vote for someone they don't like. A corrupt operative can just throw that ballot
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in the trash. So ballot harvesting makes voter fraud much more likely. What does California do?
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allows ballot harvesting. Now, let me say at the gubernatorial election, we don't know who's going
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to be in the runoff. It's a week into it. So far, they've concluded that Javier Becerra,
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who is the California attorney general, who is in the midst of a corruption scandal,
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who is incompetent, who is a far left radical, he's in first place. And then as of Sunday morning,
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conservative commentator Steve Hilton holds the lead for second place over billionaire Democrat
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Tom Steyer yeah Hilton was the top choice for 26.1 percent of voters and Steyer's for 21.3 percent
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of voters but you know what given the drop of ballots who knows maybe that could flip and
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and in fairly short order you'll see two Democrats but let me read a story from the San Francisco
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paper because it asks, how many votes are left to be counted? And it says, according to the
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California Secretary of State's office, there are approximately 3 million unprocessed votes
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as of Saturday evening. Over 6.3 million ballots have been counted. Updated vote totals normally
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drop in the evenings. Why does California take so long to count votes? The Secretary of State's
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Office explains on its site that there are a few reasons why Californians often wait days or weeks
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for the full results. Mail-in ballots that are received within a week of election day need
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processing, which means some of the ballots still in the mail system may need counting.
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Once a ballot is received, the Secretary of State says, quote, election officials must confirm each
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voter's registration status, verify each voter's signature on the vote-by-mail envelope, and ensure
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that each person did not vote elsewhere in the same election before the ballot can be counted.
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That's no small feat for a state as large as California,
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which has about as many residents as the entire population of Canada.
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Nonetheless, both Republicans and Democrats agree the process should be speedier.
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On Friday, a spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom told the San Francisco paper
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that Newsom, quote, wishes the vote count moved faster too.
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well doofus there is a way to fix it which is don't let people mail their damn ballot in on
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election day and mail-in ballots require the ballots be received by election day look we
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actually have in texas we have early voting we have two weeks of early voting yeah and and much
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of that most of that is in person and it's really quite easy to vote i i usually vote early and you
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go into the polling place and you can do it. If you vote early, there are almost never any lines.
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You wait in line, maybe five minutes, you go vote and it's quick and easy. You do a paper ballot,
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they put it in, they count it. And so the early votes right now in Texas, about two thirds of the
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votes are cast early and they're cast early in person. We have limited mail-in ballots for people
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who are seniors, people with disabilities, for military, those serving the military that
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overseas. So it's a limited number of exceptions. But we managed to get, and then the remainder of
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the ballots are in person on election day. And we don't have people mailing in ballots on election
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day. You've got to get your ballots in. And Texas, let's be clear, California has the highest
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population of the country, but what's number two? Texas. We managed to get our votes counted
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typically by election day or occasionally if it's a really close election, it may drag on a day or
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two. If it's down to like, if it's neck and neck, it could drag on a day or two. But that is the
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exception rather than the rule. By the way, Florida, same thing. They have the third highest
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population. Somehow Florida manages to count their damn ballots. And so listen, I don't know in LA
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if the loony communists surging ahead of Spencer Pratt is a result of voter fraud or a result of
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a bunch of voters who just say, you know what, it's so bad, I want it worse. But like nobody,
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and let's be clear, this is not just lefty Californians that are like, oh, I love abortion.
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Okay, fine. Look, the question of choice in life, I have no idea what Spencer Pratt's view is,
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but I can't believe he's anything but pro-choice. I have no reason to think anything else.
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It's not about gay rights. I'm not aware of any view Spencer Pratt has about gay rights.
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I assume that we're two years away from them making it mandatory for every child in the California public schools to be transgender.
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So, like, that's the path they're on is, Ben, congratulations, your three boys.
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We're now going to surgically sterilize them whether they want it or not.
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They're not quite there yet, but they ain't far.
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This was not socially we're liberal, blah, blah, blah.
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I don't agree with that, but that's not what this was over.
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This is people saying, no, I don't want a mayor who can hire a fire department who can
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No, I don't want a mayor who can actually hire police officers who could arrest murderers.
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No, I don't want a city that stops crackheads from leaving drugs on the streets, from people
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defecating on the streets, from putting needles on the streets, from threatening our kids.
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Apparently the people of LA are like, nope, nope, basic services, not interested in those.
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I just want, you know, it is somewhere between, you know,
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Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, and that's what they care about.
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If you do end up having even, let's say, Basslues, and you go to even more extreme Canada, it turns Mondani.
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What does that say about this country that are two of their biggest cities in the nation?
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have gone this far to the extreme it's not even the democratic party anymore we're talking about
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communism and socialism in our biggest cities on the west and east coast and by the way to be clear
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karen bass is already pretty much where madami is yeah like like there's not a whole lot of daylight
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so so so this loony leftist who thinks bass is too conservative i i shudder to think what the
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hell that means. Like it's getting to the point, it's not healthy for our country. And I have to
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assume that there are a lot of voters in LA who are not paying attention. Look, there are a lot
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of Republicans in California who are demoralized, who don't think it matters anymore, who stay home.
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That is a big factor. I'll tell you, as I said, I'm out in California quite a bit. And when I'm
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out there, I will have people in LA come up to me and then they'll sort of look to the ground
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and they'll furtively look around and they'll say, Ted, I'm the only conservative in California.
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And I'll tell them, no, no, you're not. No, you're not. And in fact, do you know what state has the
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most Republicans in it? California. Yes. There are more Republicans in California than there
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are in Texas. Now there are even more Democrats. They are outnumbered, but, but it's almost like
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when they come up to me, it's like the Christians in the ancient Colosseum, where with the foot,
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they make the shape of a fish in the sand. They are beaten down. And I will say an awful lot of
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All right, let's timestamp this. It is 1237 a.m. Eastern time as we are recording right now,
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Senator. And so let's talk about what's happening right now in the Middle East.
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We have had a flare-up. I think it's a fair way to put it. Israel involved, Iran involved
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hitting terrorist targets as well in Lebanon. This has turned into a bigger deal. The president
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trying to still get this deal done with Iran, making phone calls apparently to Bibi Netanyahu
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saying, hey, let's not go too heavy here. Let us see if we can keep this framework together,
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trying to keep that ceasefire together as well. There's an awful lot happening right now.
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Well, let's talk about the latest news. And as you noted, it is Sunday night, so things could
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break by Monday. By the time this podcast is out, we could have more news breaking.
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But as of right now, the latest news, Axios reported just a few minutes ago,
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quote, the Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on military targets in central and western Iran on
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Monday morning local time, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. The strikes in
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retaliation for an Iranian missile attack against Israel mark a new phase in a growing escalation
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that started on Sunday morning. This is the first time Israel has struck Iran since the April 8
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ceasefire. Further exchanges of fire could unravel the negotiations between the United States and
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Iran and lead to the resumption of the war. President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister
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Benjamin Netanyahu hours before the strikes not to retaliate after Tehran conducted a
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retaliatory attack on Israel. A U.S. defense official said the U.S. military was not involved
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in the Israeli strikes on Iran. The official said the Israeli strikes were relatively limited
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in their scope. So we have returned to firing missiles, active hostility between Iran and
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Israel. Both have fired missiles at each other in the past 24 hours. That certainly has the
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potential to escalate. And also Sunday morning, President Trump was on Meet the Press. He was
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asked about Iran. Here's what President Trump had to say.
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Do you know where all of Iran's nuclear material is?
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Would you unfreeze any Iranian assets or lift any sanctions up front as a part of any deal?
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If they behaved, if they do a good job, we start talking.
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Obama flew a Boeing 757, a plane I know very well.
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they took the seats out and they loaded it up with 1.7 billion dollars in cash from the banks
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in maryland and virginia and dc they emptied out the banks and they gave them 1.7 in green
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and they gave them tens of billions of dollars just kept giving them money and it didn't work
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would any again that never works but again mr president you promised that you were going to
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negotiate a better deal do you you listen to the president there and i do think it's really
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interesting to see how quick uh on meet the press they wanted to get back in his face to go but
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this is a disaster like he's like it's three months like what i'm doing right now is really
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tough others said they were in favor of what i'm doing they didn't do it the way i'm doing it i'm
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holding them accountable this goes back to just perspective here i i think is the biggest thing
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the president's saying? Well, what the president said that is very clear is he's drawn a red line
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and he's insisting that Iran comply with his red line. His red lines, which we've talked about at
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length, are number one, no nukes, no nuclear materials. They have no nuclear enrichment and
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they have to hand over the enriched uranium they have. Number two, they have to stop funding
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terrorism. Number three, they have to open the Strait of Hormuz. And you will not see, he has
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said, sanctions relief. You will not see money going to them until they comply with those
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conditions. That's the right way to negotiate. Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden just flooded
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billions into Iran. As the president said, Obama literally flew a plane filled with almost $2
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billion in cash, pallets of cash, into Iran in the dead of night. There was another exchange
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President Trump had with Meet the Press. Give a listen to this one.
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And they would have had a nuclear weapon five years ago.
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But Mr. President, I'm curious, because when you were campaigning, you said you would rip
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the iran nuclear deal but negotiate a better deal why didn't you negotiate a better deal
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at the time because after it was ripped up there weren't guardrails and they escalated
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their production of enriched uranium excuse me it takes years to do these things these people
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have been fighting for 47 years they've been killing americans they've been taking off their
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legs and their arm and their faces have been hurt so badly and so horribly uh i'm moving very fast
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I'm into three months, Vietnam lasted 19 years, I'm into my third month.
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And all I do is say, whoa, when are you gonna win?
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If I were a Democrat, nobody would be talking that way.
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But it doesn't matter to me, I've gotten so used to it.
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Look, we have totally destroyed their military.
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They have some missiles left, they have some drones left.
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They have some left, no, but I know almost to the number.
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And we know where their drones are, and we know where their drone factories are.
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Most of the drone factories have been knocked out.
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Most of the launching pads have been knocked out, and most of the missile manufacturing
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They have some missiles, they have some drones.
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I would say, percentage-wise, maybe 21, 22% of their missiles.
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It's a lot of missiles, but it's not what it was when we first attacked.
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So you're saying they have 21, 22 percent of their missiles left?
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I just, I got to say, I laugh at how they want him to tell them,
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and he's like, I'm not going to tell you that publicly.
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Because I'm not going to tell the enemy what I know on everything.
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This seems pretty normal, yet the entire interview had that level of hostility in it.
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Yeah, look, I mean, NBC, unfortunately, it is approaching this,
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and it has approached this like the rest of the corporate media.
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with effectively rooting for the United States to lose. As the president laid out,
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the United States has had extraordinary military results in this conflict. 80% of the missiles,
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80% of the drones destroyed, virtually all of the drone manufacturing and missile capacity
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destroyed, the air force in rubble, the Navy sunken at the bottom of the ocean, the Ayatollah
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dead, many of the mullahs dead, many of the leaders of the IRGC dead. And her question,
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And she says, well, why didn't you negotiate a better deal?
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You know, I'm listening to that wondering, you know, it's like someone saying to the
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police, why didn't you negotiate a better deal with Charles Manson?
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Why didn't you negotiate a better deal with Jeffrey Dahmer?
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Why didn't you negotiate a better deal with Ted Bundy?
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It is not possible to negotiate a deal with someone whose only objective is to murder
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they're like, you know, the right solution is send them billions of dollars. That's what Democrats
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want. It is complete appeasement. It is denial of the reality that when the Ayatollah says death
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to America, he means it. And the reason President Trump is waging this war is because if the Ayatollah
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got nuclear weapons, we could see hundreds of thousands of Americans murdered in a flash of
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an eye. And the president is not going to let that happen. And it is, I got to say, by the way,
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I'm quite confident the folks at NBC News are cheering the results of the L.A. mayor's race
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because the last thing they want is a mayor that can actually put out fires or arrest criminals.
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Yeah, that's a great point. We're going to keep you updated on both of these stories. Don't forget,
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