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Today, Judge Alsop has denied Trump's

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request to block the under oath

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testimony of the head of the

0:34

Office of Personnel Management in court.

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Republicans in Congress are cobbling together

0:39

a terrible resolution to fund the

0:41

government. A Justice Department official was

0:43

fired when she refused to restore

0:45

Mel Gibson's gun rights. Ukraine and

0:48

Russia have agreed to a 30-day

0:50

ceasefire. A Texas man has been

0:52

accused of violent assault on an

0:54

American Airlines flight from Wichita to

0:57

DC. and steel in response to

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their tax hike on our electricity,

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a court hands Trump whose third

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appellate loss on birthright citizenship, a

1:06

judge has ordered the urgent release

1:08

of Doge records in a foil

1:11

lawsuit, and Pro Publica has obtained

1:13

an email from USAID's acting executive

1:15

secretary directing employees to empty safes

1:18

and shred documents. I'm Allison Gil.

1:20

And I'm Dana Goldberg. Welcome

1:25

to fascism! Oh my God, it's... Yeah,

1:27

I can't, and I just want to

1:29

say, I'm not sure if we'll get

1:31

it on the back end, if for

1:33

some reason you all hear helicopters or

1:35

something during this recording, there seems to

1:37

be an issue in the neighborhood, but

1:39

we're going to be the best we

1:42

can to, yeah, it's action, there's action

1:44

happening, so it's an action podcast today.

1:46

Well, I'm just hoping that you're safe over

1:49

there. I know there's a lot of

1:51

activity in your neighborhood and we'll see

1:53

if we can follow up on what all went

1:55

down tomorrow. But we have a lot of news

1:57

to get to today, news we're going to swear

1:59

a lot. Today. Later in the show,

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I'm honored to be joined by

2:04

Congressman Jake Auchincloss. He represents Massachusetts'

2:06

fourth congressional district in the U.S.

2:09

House. He's been there since 2021,

2:11

and we're going to discuss Ukraine,

2:13

the continuing resolution, budget reconciliation, and

2:16

Congress in the media. So I

2:18

look forward to speaking with him.

2:20

He's a veteran. I got to

2:23

work with him and vote vets

2:25

to help fund Ukraine aid last

2:27

year. when Congress, Republicans and Congress,

2:29

were trying to block it. So

2:31

I look forward to speaking to

2:33

him. We have, like I said,

2:35

tons of news to get to,

2:37

as you could tell by the

2:39

headlines in the opener. So let's

2:42

start with some quick hits. First

2:44

up, US President Donald Trump suffered

2:46

another legal defeat on Tuesday and

2:48

his effort to curtail automatic birthright

2:50

citizenship nationwide. As a third federal

2:52

appeals court refused to lift one

2:54

of the court orders blocking the

2:56

Republicans executive order. Now this is

2:59

the Boston-based first U.S. Circuit Court

3:01

of Appeals. They rejected the Trump

3:03

administration's request to pause a nationwide

3:05

injunction issued by a federal judge

3:07

in Massachusetts at the urging of

3:09

immigrant rights groups and Democratic attorneys

3:11

general from 18 states and the

3:13

District of Columbia. So whomp, another

3:16

loss for him on birthright citizenship.

3:18

Yeah, there's been a lot lately,

3:20

actually, which has been lovely. This

3:22

one's from the times the Justice

3:24

Department's pardon attorney was dismissed. A

3:26

day after she refused to recommend

3:28

the actor, Mel Gibson, as we

3:30

know a prominent supporter of President

3:32

Trump, Yeah, not surprised there. Should

3:35

have his gun rights restored, that's

3:37

according to the attorney and others

3:39

familiar with the situation. Elizabeth G.

3:41

Oyer, she's the former pardon attorney,

3:43

described the sequence of events as

3:45

an alarming departure from longstanding practice,

3:47

one that put public safety and

3:49

the department's integrity at risk. Mr.

3:52

Gibson had lost his gun rights

3:54

as a result of a 2011

3:56

domestic violence misdemeanor conviction. Quote, this

3:58

is dangerous. This is a safety

4:00

issue. Now Ms. Oyer said in

4:02

an interview with the New York

4:04

Times as she described the internal

4:06

discussions about whether to give gun

4:09

rights back to people with domestic

4:11

violence convictions. And I think I

4:13

know where you stand on that

4:15

Allison and I stand the same.

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No. No. You lose your rights.

4:19

No. And that seems to be

4:21

a big thing for this particular

4:23

administration is restoring the gun rights

4:26

to domestic violence offenders like some

4:28

of the January 6th. people that

4:30

were pardoned by Trump. They're trying

4:32

to extend it to other like,

4:34

you know, gun law violations and

4:36

and and especially with domestic violence

4:38

abusers. So this seems to be

4:40

like a hill they want to

4:42

die on is to give guns

4:45

back to people who beat up

4:47

women or people with spouses just

4:49

in general. Next up from Brett

4:51

Murphy at this is this is

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a huge breaking story. It's like

4:55

breaking as we're recording this. But

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pro publica just obtained a remarkable

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directive to those remaining at USAID.

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It says empty the safes with

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the classified and personnel records and

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then shred, this is a quote,

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shred as many documents first and

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reserve the burn bags for when

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the shredder becomes unavailable or needs

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a break. Now this email came

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from the agency's acting executive secretary.

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And this person from Pro Publica

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asked Kell McClanahan, national security counselors,

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the guy who's suing on behalf

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of a bunch of OPM employees,

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asked if this was legal, and

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he said, no, it is not,

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citing the Federal Records Act, quote,

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classified records are still federal records.

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Now McClanahan just filed an unauthorized

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disposition complaint with the National Archives

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and asked them to quote, take

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immediate measures to stop the destruction

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of vast quantities of federal records.

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And another thing just popped up

5:48

to labor groups, according to Adam

5:50

Classfeld, are now suing the Trump

5:52

administration. They're filing an emergency motion.

5:55

for a temporary restraining order blocking

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the imminent and ongoing destruction of

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evidence, referring to this USAID officials

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directive to clear the classified safes

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and shred everything that you can.

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And once the shredder is overheat,

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put it all in burn bags.

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This is just bananas. Oh boy.

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All right, this one's from Politico.

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A federal judge has ruled that

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Elon Musk's Department of Government efficiency

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is wielding so much power that

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its records would likely have to

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be opened to the public under

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federal law. The U.S. District Judge

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Christopher Cooper said the vast and

6:29

unprecedented authority of Doge, formerly known

6:31

as the U.S. Digital Service, combined

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with its quote, unusual secrecy, warned

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the urgent release of its internal

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documents under the Freedom of Information

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Act. Yeah, the Trump administration has

6:41

housed the Doge operation within the

6:43

executive office of the president and

6:45

what appeared to be an attempt

6:48

to shield it from FOIA. Yep,

6:50

told you. Yeah, most of visions

6:52

within the EOP are exempt from

6:54

FOIA, but a few deemed to

6:56

exercise independent authority are subject to

6:58

the transparency law. The Trump administration

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has also asserted that Musk himself

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isn't part of Doge, except that

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one time when he said it

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on camera in front of Congress.

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isn't part of Doge apparatus, but

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is serving as a direct advisor

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to Trump. Play the tape. Cooper's

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ruling is a win for the

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Citizens of Responsibility and Ethics in

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Washington, which sued to demand the

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urgent release of Doge-related documents. The

7:24

lie detector said, that was a

7:26

lie. We need to bring that

7:28

back. You are the father of

7:30

Doge. Elon Musk, you are the

7:32

father. Well, we got a title

7:34

for this episode. Yeah, I know,

7:36

get it. So, by the way,

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this judge also offered some criticism

7:41

of the way the Trump administration

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litigates this case, like you said,

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noting that its lawyers offered virtually

7:47

nothing in the way of evidence

7:49

about Doja's operations or management. He

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goes, indeed, the court wonders whether.

7:53

this decision was strategic. He said,

7:55

this is the judge noting that

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the Trump administration lawyers had taken

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competing positions, including that Doge qualifies

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as an agency under some sections

8:04

of law, but not others when

8:06

it suits it. Quote, thus, Doge

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becomes, on defendant's view, a Goldilocks

8:10

entity. Judge Cooper wrote, not an

8:12

agency when it is burdensome, but

8:15

an agency when it is convenient.

8:17

So, yeah, judges on to you.

8:19

Yeah, big time. All right, last

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in this section, this is from

8:23

CBS. The U.S. and Ukraine said

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Kiev would accept a 30-day ceasefire

8:27

from Russia after talks in Saudi

8:29

Arabia on Tuesday, with Washington pledging

8:32

to immediately lift a freeze on

8:34

intelligence sharing and military aid to

8:36

Ukraine, which is bullshit in the

8:38

first place. And I quote, Ukraine

8:40

expressed readiness to accept the U.S.

8:42

proposal to enact an immediate interim

8:44

30-day ceasefire, which can be extended

8:46

by mutual agreement of the parties,

8:48

and which is subject to accept

8:51

it. and concurrent implementation by the

8:53

Russian Federation. The US and Ukraine

8:55

said that in a joint statement

8:57

released by the State Department. And

8:59

I quote, the United States will

9:01

communicate to Russia that Russia reciprocity

9:03

is the key to achieving peace.

9:05

Will he? Will he communicate that?

9:08

It's always just a big farce.

9:10

I mean, I really do feel

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like sometimes when like they can

9:14

tell that we're ready to burn

9:16

this country down with, you know,

9:18

everyone in it. they're all the

9:20

sudden like let's give him a

9:22

little bit of like let's show

9:25

that maybe he's just a little

9:27

bit stronger against Putin you know

9:29

what I mean like every time

9:31

it looks like he's in bed

9:33

with him they're like why don't

9:35

you go ahead and say on

9:37

camera that you're gonna be tough

9:39

on Russia and that Russia has

9:42

to make sure that they honor

9:44

the ceasefire do that And then

9:46

they won't. Well, this could be

9:48

a gift to Russia, who might

9:50

need 30 days to regroup and

9:52

replan and get some North Korean

9:54

troops down there. But I imagine

9:56

Zalenski way smarter than me or

9:58

Zalenski is. Yeah. Also probably better

10:01

comedy than I am, let's be

10:03

honest. I was in the Navy

10:05

under Clinton, so we didn't do

10:07

a lot of strategic warfare there.

10:09

But, you know, I imagine him

10:11

being like, all right, well, this

10:13

will immediately lift Trump's freeze on

10:15

aid to Ukraine, right, which is

10:18

illegal anyway to freeze that aid

10:20

because it's congressionally appropriated. But he's

10:22

like, all right, we can immediately

10:24

lift the freeze on aid. And

10:26

while it gives Russia time to

10:28

regroup, if Russia violates this ceasefire,

10:30

then... I'm going in, you know,

10:32

like I'm assuming that Zilenski and

10:35

Ukraine agreed to this because they

10:37

see it as favorable to them

10:39

or at least keeping the odds

10:41

even. I don't know. We'll see

10:43

what ends up happening. I don't,

10:45

I'm, it's, I'm skeptical about for

10:47

sure. Russia and Trump doing stuff

10:49

with Ukraine. There's got to be

10:52

ulterior motives. Well, maybe we'll find

10:54

out what they are. All right,

10:56

we have a lot more news

10:58

to get to, but we have

11:00

to take a quick break. So

11:02

stick around. We'll be right back.

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hot notes. Hot notes. All right,

12:54

first up is a court filing.

12:56

Now, remember yesterday Dana, when I

12:58

talked about Judge Alsop, requiring Azelle,

13:01

who's the head of the Office

13:03

of Personnel Management, OPM, to testify

13:05

under oath at a court hearing

13:07

about these mass probationary firings. And

13:09

rather than face that testimony, the

13:11

Trump administration asked the court to

13:13

simply grant the good guy's motion

13:16

for a preliminary injunction. Like, just

13:18

go ahead and granted, we're not

13:20

going to testify, basically. Well, the

13:22

judge came back and said, uh,

13:24

fuck no. But in judge speak,

13:26

he didn't actually say, fuck no.

13:28

He said, the hearing on a

13:31

preliminary injunction will proceed as scheduled

13:33

on Thursday, March 13th. The government

13:35

argues that the March 13th evidentiary

13:37

hearing and any depositions are unnecessary

13:39

in light of OPM's compliance with

13:41

the temporary restraining order and their

13:43

willingness to convert the court's temporary

13:46

restraining order into a preliminary injunction.

13:48

The problem is that plaintiffs seek

13:50

broader relief than what was provided

13:52

by the temporary restraining order now

13:54

in place. Even if the court

13:56

must rule based solely on the

13:59

record submitted during the temporary restraining

14:01

order proceeding, it will do so

14:03

on or shortly after the March

14:05

13th hearing. Defendants next argue that

14:07

the testimony of Acting Director Azelle

14:09

should not be compelled because to

14:11

do so would quote, inappropriately intrude

14:14

on the workings of a coordinate

14:16

branch of government and pose avoidable

14:18

and unnecessary separation of powers concerns.

14:20

The problem here, the judge said,

14:22

is that acting director Azel submitted

14:24

a sworn declaration in support of

14:26

the defendant's position, but now refuses

14:29

to appear to be cross-examined or

14:31

to be deposed, despite it should

14:33

be added, the government's counsel embracing

14:35

that very idea during the temporary

14:37

restraining order hearing. So, bro, you

14:39

gave a statement, you have to

14:41

come in and answer questions about

14:44

it, your lawyer said you were

14:46

cool with that, and now you're

14:48

saying no. So the court's order

14:50

that he appear or be deposed

14:52

will not be vacated, nor will

14:54

the hearing on March 13th. If

14:56

the Zell does not appear in

14:59

violation of this order, then the

15:01

court will have to decide on

15:03

the sanction, including whether or not

15:05

to strike or limit his sworn

15:07

declaration. Meaning that thing that you

15:09

wrote that said we didn't just

15:11

sweepingly fire a bunch of probationary

15:14

employees, trash. We're going to shred

15:16

it with the USA documents, bro.

15:18

I was paraphrasing. However, with respect

15:20

to those other government employees who

15:22

have not submitted declarations, they need

15:24

not be produced at the March

15:26

13th hearing. We will address the

15:29

necessity, if any, of their testimony

15:31

in due course. Plaintiffs remain free

15:33

to bring those witnesses. Who will

15:35

appear voluntarily? Council shall advise the

15:37

court whether they intend to produce

15:39

any live witnesses by March 11th,

15:41

2025. That's yesterday at 5 p.m.

15:44

If the answer is no on

15:46

all counts. then the hearing will

15:48

be moved to 1 p.m. so

15:50

the court need not interrupt an

15:52

ongoing criminal trial. But if the

15:54

answer is yes and live testimony

15:57

will be heard, then the hearing

15:59

will take place as scheduled at

16:01

and we're going to bump that

16:03

criminal trial. We'll know Dana in

16:05

fewer than 24 hours what Azelle

16:07

and the Trump administration decide to

16:09

do, but if they produce him,

16:12

they're either going to produce him

16:14

and he's going to be a

16:16

dick. I don't know, I don't

16:18

recall, you know, that kind of

16:20

bullshit that they do. Or he

16:22

won't show up and then we'll

16:24

be able to see what kind

16:27

of sanction the court will impose

16:29

for violating a direct order. We

16:31

will see. All right, this one's

16:33

from Rob Weil at NBC. President

16:35

Donald Trump said Tuesday he will

16:37

double the tariffs imposed on steel

16:39

and aluminum imported from Canada. That's

16:42

an escalation of the brewing economic

16:44

feud between the US and its

16:46

largest trading partner. Trump posted to

16:48

his social media true social platform

16:50

that the terrorists would go from

16:52

25% to 50% starting Wednesday. A

16:54

move that comes in response to

16:57

the province of Ontario placing a

16:59

25% tariff on electricity. coming into

17:01

the United States, Trump added that

17:03

he would be declaring a quote

17:05

national emergency for the three states

17:07

Ontario is targeted so that the

17:09

tariffs could go into effect. Trump

17:12

also called on Canada to drop

17:14

its duties on American dairy products

17:16

and threaten to quote substantially increased

17:18

tariffs on cars imported into the

17:20

US if Canada did not drop

17:22

their egregious longtime tariffs. The auto

17:24

tariffs, Trump warned, without citing evidence

17:27

as he often does, quote, essentially

17:29

permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing

17:31

business in Canada. Trump then doubled

17:33

down on some of his recent

17:35

rhetoric about making Canada part of

17:37

the United States, though he added

17:39

it would get to keep its

17:42

national anthem. What the fuck? Oh

17:44

boy. Okay, and I quote, the

17:46

only thing that makes sense is

17:48

for candidate to become our cherished

17:50

51state. That's what Trump wrote. This

17:52

would make all tariffs and everything

17:54

else totally disappear. CNBC reported that

17:57

Trump had not yet signed formal

17:59

paperwork to officially increase the tariffs

18:01

to 50% citing a senior administration.

18:03

official who added it was quote

18:05

in the works and remained a

18:07

threat rather than an action I'm

18:10

sure he's got what is it

18:12

plans did their plans semblance plans

18:14

an action until the paperwork was

18:16

prepared in two weeks that's right

18:18

markets nevertheless unfortunately responded negatively to

18:20

Trump's threat the S&P 500 was

18:22

down as much as 1.2% early

18:25

Tuesday afternoon while the Dow Jones

18:27

industrial average gave up as many

18:29

as 600 points declining more than

18:31

1.6% make an America Great again.

18:33

Tuesday afternoon, newly appointed Canadian Prime

18:35

Minister Mark Kearney called Trump's threats,

18:37

quote, an attack on Canadian workers'

18:40

families and businesses. He said, my

18:42

government will ensure our response has

18:44

maximum impact on the US and

18:46

minimal impact on Canada while supporting

18:48

the workers impacted. That's what Kearney

18:50

said. He said Canadian tariffs on

18:52

US goods would remain in place,

18:55

quote, until the Americans show us

18:57

respect and make credible, reliable commitments

18:59

to free and fair trade. And

19:01

I wish he would be more

19:03

specific in that statement and not

19:05

just say Americans, because there's a

19:07

lot of us that also want

19:10

to tell the guy he's dealing

19:12

with. to go fuck off. Yeah,

19:14

until Trump shows us respect and

19:16

makes credible, reliable commitments to free

19:18

and fair trade. The analyst at

19:20

Morgan Stanley warned that given that

19:22

the US is a net importer

19:25

of steel and aluminum from Canada,

19:27

the tariffs would lead to higher

19:29

domestic prices as tariffs do because

19:31

that's how they work. As an

19:33

example, although steelmaker Alcoa's state-side facilities

19:35

would benefit from higher tariffs, it

19:37

has an even larger presence north

19:40

of the border. Well, we expect

19:42

a, yep, we expect a net

19:44

negative impact to the company as

19:46

a whole. That's what analysts wrote.

19:48

Some investors disagreed, sharing shares of

19:50

the Pennsylvania-based firm more than 2%

19:52

higher Tuesday. Ontario Premier Doug Ford

19:55

had on Monday announced a 25%

19:57

surcharge on electricity tapped by some

19:59

1.5 million residents of Michigan, Minnesota,

20:01

New York. to Trump's recent Billicose

20:03

language toward Canada. Billicose. I love

20:05

when they use these words. Well

20:08

Mexico has faced similar terror of

20:10

threats and rhetoric. Trump's reason shitty

20:12

language towards Canada. I guess I

20:14

can't put that in the article.

20:16

Well Mexico has faced similar terror

20:18

of threats and rhetoric that country's

20:20

president, Claudia Shinbaum, she has succeeded

20:23

in assuaging Trump. The strategy probably

20:25

because Trump's wife... doesn't light up

20:27

when she sees Claudia Scheinbaum, but

20:29

does light up when she saw

20:31

Justin Trudeau. The strategy has not

20:33

worked for Canadian officials who have

20:35

more aggressively retaliated with tariffs and

20:38

public comments. And I quote, I'm

20:40

not too sure why he continues

20:42

to attack his closest friends and

20:44

allies, but we need the American

20:46

people to speak up, Ontario's Ford

20:48

said Tuesday, in an appearance on

20:50

CNBC. We need those CEOs to

20:53

actually get a backbone and stand

20:55

in front of them and tell

20:57

them this is going to be

20:59

a disaster. It's mass chaos right

21:01

now. I agree with him. New

21:03

York independent system operator, which manages

21:05

the state's grid, has said that

21:08

There is enough generating capacity to

21:10

transition from Canadian sources. I'm not

21:12

sure about that. A spokesperson for

21:14

Michigan's Public Service Commission told the

21:16

Associated Press Monday the impact on

21:18

that state's residence was likely to

21:20

be small. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls,

21:23

as we know, is Kamla Harris'

21:25

running mate, likewise expected minimal impact

21:27

for his state. So, yeah. Well,

21:29

we'll see what happens. Next up

21:31

from CBS, last Friday, Agriculture Secretary

21:33

Brooke Rollins stated on Twitter that

21:35

a $600,000 grant to Southern University

21:38

in Louisiana was being revoked for

21:40

studying, quote, menstrual cycles in transgender

21:42

men. This is the latest mischaracterization

21:44

of a grant that was then

21:46

canceled by the Trump administration's Doge.

21:48

Doge highlighted the Rollins post, reposting

21:50

it on the official doge.gov website

21:53

and on Twitter. The grant was

21:55

actually intended for research on the

21:57

potential health risks posed by. synthetic

21:59

feminine hygiene products and for developing

22:01

alternatives using natural fibers and fabrics

22:03

and that's according to the project's

22:06

documentation which was publicly filed on

22:08

the USDA website. According to that

22:10

documentation the goals of the grant

22:12

were to develop sustainable feminine hygiene

22:14

products using regenerative cotton wool and

22:16

industrial hemp while enhancing education through

22:18

an extension program that teaches women

22:21

and girls about menstrual health and

22:23

reusable products. It also would have

22:25

funded a fiber processing center for

22:27

locally grown fibers in Louisiana, potentially

22:29

benefiting a state with some of

22:31

the highest unemployment and poverty rates

22:33

in the country. The USDA's decision

22:36

to cancel the grant appears to

22:38

have been the result of the

22:40

grant being flagged to the Trump

22:42

administration by the American Principles Project,

22:44

a conservative think tank, and I

22:46

think we need to remove the

22:48

word think from conservative think tank

22:51

and just call it a conservative

22:53

tank. Can we just do that?

22:55

Kaley Myers, a spokesperson for the

22:57

American Principles Project, said in an

22:59

email to CBS, this grant clearly

23:01

denies biological reality. Men don't menstruate,

23:03

but did not provide any evidence

23:06

that the grant funded research into

23:08

menstrual cycles in transgender men. A

23:10

USDA spokesperson confirmed this reasoning in

23:12

a statement emailed to CBS News,

23:14

saying the taxpayer-funded education component of

23:16

the grant prioritized women identifying as

23:18

men who might menstruate. Now, this

23:21

mission, quote, certainly does not align

23:23

with the priorities and policies of

23:25

the Trump administration, which maintains there

23:27

are two sexes male and female.

23:29

That's the statement. Now, while the

23:31

grant language does include a single

23:33

sentence acknowledging that transgender men are

23:36

among those who menstruate, there was

23:38

no indication that they were the

23:40

focus of the grant or even

23:42

part of it. The passing reference

23:44

to transgender men in the original

23:46

grant application appears to be the

23:48

sole justification for the cancellation of

23:51

the entire grant. The description of

23:53

the grant's goals, objectives, and project

23:55

methods contains no mention of prioritizing

23:57

transgender men and focuses solely on

23:59

the development of menstrual products made

24:01

from natural fibers. The grant repeatedly

24:03

notes that it would focus on

24:06

efforts to quote educate young women

24:08

and adolescent girls about menstrual hygiene

24:10

products. The USDA asked in a

24:12

follow-up question whether it had any

24:14

evidence that the study prioritized transgender

24:16

men. They did not respond. The

24:19

true purpose of the project, according

24:21

to the grant, was to address

24:23

the growing concerns and issues surrounding

24:25

menstruation, including potential health risks posed

24:27

to users for synthetic feminine hygiene

24:29

products. According to a 2022 study

24:31

published in the journal Current Environmental

24:34

Health Reports, there have only been

24:36

limited studies on the risks of

24:38

environmental contamination from synthetic hygiene products,

24:40

despite potential for toxic chemical exposure.

24:43

Some of the concerns include whether

24:45

exposure to heavy metals and peafas

24:47

chemicals could be harmful or cancer

24:50

causing. Dr. Sammy Kennedy Benson, who

24:52

oversaw the program, told the local

24:54

NBC affiliate WVLA, the program held

24:56

potential for U.S. farmers. Quote, our

24:59

local fiber processing facility will benefit

25:01

local farmers who often grow fibers

25:03

on a smaller scale. And so

25:05

we'll also have the ability to

25:07

provide something local, Benson said. and an

25:09

email Benson told CBS, she received

25:11

notification, her grant had been canceled on

25:13

Saturday, but had not been aware of

25:16

why until CBS reached out to her. Southern

25:18

University, which is a public

25:20

historically black land grant university

25:22

in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told

25:24

CBS, quote, the term transgender men was

25:27

used once to state that this project,

25:29

through the development of safer

25:31

and healthier FHPs feminine hygiene

25:33

products, would benefit all biological

25:35

women. A statement from Southern University

25:37

said the grant was reviewed by

25:39

researchers from throughout the country before

25:41

going forward. Although the overall dollar amount

25:44

of the grant is small in the

25:46

larger context of government spending, it was

25:48

posted by a Trump cabinet secretary and

25:50

reshared by Doge. As a result, the tweets

25:52

reached over 5 million people on Twitter by

25:54

Sunday evening. It was also covered by Fox

25:57

News and other conservative news outlets.

25:59

Thanks so much. This is all from

26:01

what CBS News has learned. It

26:03

occurred five weeks to the day

26:05

after the crash for allegedly beating

26:07

one passenger, attempting to strike another,

26:09

injuring a second passenger, and vulgarly

26:11

berating a flight attendant aboard an

26:14

American Airlines flight from Wichita to

26:16

Washington Reagan National Airport earlier this

26:18

month. This is all from what

26:20

CBS News has learned. It occurred

26:22

five weeks to the day after

26:24

the crash of the American Airlines

26:26

flight on the same route. Now, mysterious,

26:28

I apologize, Rulamka, Rulamka,

26:30

a serious Rulamka was sitting in the

26:32

14th row of the aircraft when he

26:35

allegedly got up just before the

26:37

flight was landing on the night

26:39

of March 5th, approached a flight

26:41

attendant and threatened to quote, to

26:43

fuck him up upon landing. That's

26:45

according to an FBI affidavit reviewed

26:48

by CBS News, Rulamka is

26:50

also accused of referencing President

26:52

Trump during an FBI interview

26:54

after the flight landed. Quote,

26:56

several passengers observing the

26:58

threatening behavior started filming

27:01

on their cell phones. This is what the

27:03

affidavit said. Charging documents alleged Rulamka

27:05

approached one of the passengers

27:07

who was recording a video and

27:09

began attacking him, grabbing his arms

27:12

and verbally threatening him as he did

27:14

the flight attendant. Quote, at one point he

27:16

struck the victim in the face near his

27:19

left eye, causing a bruise and a bloodshot

27:21

eye. Now the FBI affidavit said

27:23

Rulamka repeatedly struck the passenger before

27:25

he attempted to strike a second

27:27

passenger. The second victim, quote, was

27:29

able to move out of the way in time to

27:32

avoid being struck. Again, this is what

27:34

the affidavit said, but he cut his finger

27:36

and broke a fingernail in the process. According

27:38

to records from the Justice Department,

27:40

the incident on American Eagle Flight

27:43

5574 occurred just before 9 p.m.

27:45

Nearly the precise time... of night as

27:47

the crash that occurred on another

27:49

American Airlines fight from Wichita to

27:51

Reagan National five weeks earlier. So

27:53

just very, very similarities, I'm not

27:55

sure if they matter. But, and

27:57

I quote, we do not tolerate violence.

27:59

and thank our team members for

28:02

their professionalism. An American airline spokesperson

28:04

told that to CBS News. Charging documents

28:06

submitted to the judge also alleged that

28:08

Relomka, quote, started running up and down

28:11

the cabin. It took three passengers in

28:13

the flight attendants to secure him in

28:15

a seat near his original seat before

28:18

the plane landed. That's according to other

28:20

documents. The FBI affidavit said, upon

28:22

the flight's arrival, the defendant

28:24

made several statements, including that

28:27

he had come to DC to speak

28:29

to President Trump. When asked why he

28:31

wanted to speak to the president, he

28:33

stated that he was mad. Now, Rulamka

28:35

is currently being hailed in jail and

28:37

he faces a federal assault charge. He's

28:39

scheduled to beer in federal court in

28:41

Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday for preliminary

28:44

hearing, or the judge will determine

28:46

if he should be held in

28:48

jail pending trial. My goodness. Same flight.

28:50

as the one that crashed with the

28:52

helicopter. So interesting. Yeah, weird. All right,

28:54

everybody, it's time for some good trouble.

28:57

What are you guys doing? All right,

28:59

you're good trouble. Today is from the

29:01

ACLU. From day one, the Trump

29:03

administration has relentlessly attacked transgender people's

29:05

basic freedoms. Now, Trump's State Department

29:07

is denying accurate passports to trans,

29:10

intersex, and non-binary binary people. All

29:12

of us need accurate and consistent

29:14

identity documents that reflect who we

29:16

are. Banning accurate IDs and forcing

29:19

trans people to out themselves whenever

29:21

they show an ID will only

29:23

push trans people out of public

29:25

life and expose us to discrimination

29:27

and violence. So tell the State

29:30

Department. Everyone deserves accurate passports that

29:32

match who we are. These attacks

29:34

on trans-intersex and non-binary Americans must

29:36

be stopped. And your input matters.

29:39

It is most impactful to add

29:41

in your own reasons why the

29:43

State Department should not ban people

29:45

from getting passports that match who

29:47

they are. If you're concerned about

29:49

having your name on the record,

29:52

you can submit comments anonymously on

29:54

the Federal Register website. Application for

29:56

Passport, DS11, renewal application DS82, and

29:58

replacement name change. So you can

30:00

submit those anonymous public comments using

30:03

the link in the show notes.

30:05

Yeah, I just, and I want

30:07

to unpack this for a second

30:09

for people that are like, what,

30:11

this is really basically now, it

30:13

goes past the trans issue, and I

30:16

just want you to hear me out

30:18

for a second. This is now starting

30:20

to police how people look. and what's

30:22

acceptable to the way they look in

30:24

society. So even if someone weren't to

30:27

be trans and they have their passport

30:29

and it says, you know, F on

30:31

there, but maybe it's a very butch

30:33

lesbian and unfortunately black butch lesbians are

30:35

being targeted more than any others right now.

30:37

So someone could look at that and go,

30:40

I'm not letting you in, even though it

30:42

matches their identity, it matches their birth certificate,

30:44

how they identify all of it. This

30:46

is so problematic. This is so problematic.

30:49

And so this good trouble you can

30:51

make definitely, if this is something you

30:53

feel you can do it. Let's flood

30:56

this. Agreed. Thank you so much, my

30:58

friend. Everybody stick around. We'll

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Hey, everybody, welcome back. Super

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honored today to be joined by

33:16

the man who's representing Massachusetts Fourth

33:19

Congressional District since 2021 in the

33:21

U.S. House. Please welcome Congressman Jake

33:23

Ockencloss. Jake, hello. Allison, thanks

33:25

for having me on. Congressman, I'm so

33:28

happy to talk to you today. And

33:30

first of all, just thanks for

33:32

me personally. I came out with

33:34

vote vets when we spoke at

33:36

the Capitol last year to help

33:39

fund Ukraine. It was you, Senator

33:41

Duckworth, Ted Liu, Tim Kane, candidate

33:43

at the time, candidate Eugene Vinman.

33:45

And I think we did a

33:47

lot of great work with the

33:49

vote vets organization to get Ukraine

33:51

funded. You're a veteran. I'm a

33:53

veteran. Help us understand. This Republican

33:56

betrayal of our allies and NATO

33:58

in Ukraine because it's so... backwards

34:00

to what we've been, you

34:02

know, our allyships from the

34:04

last 80 years and our

34:06

promise to protect Ukraine after

34:09

they gave up their nukes

34:11

for us. It's making Americans

34:13

ashamed and afraid. I just

34:15

did a town hall in

34:17

the biggest city in my

34:19

district, Fall River, Massachusetts, which

34:22

voted for Donald Trump. And

34:24

at this town hall, the most

34:26

electric issue was Ukraine.

34:28

My constituents could not believe that

34:31

they watched an exchange in the

34:33

Oval Office in which an American

34:35

president did not know the difference

34:38

between good and evil. American presidents

34:40

for the last 70 years have

34:42

definitely not always gotten it right

34:45

on foreign policy, but I do

34:47

think that since FDR and the

34:49

reign of the Pax Americana, there

34:51

has been... a general confidence amongst

34:54

Americans that presidents are at least

34:56

trying to do the right thing,

34:58

that where they see freedom and

35:01

democracy, they want to be on

35:03

that side. And what we saw in

35:05

the Oval Office felt like

35:07

a complete reversal of America's

35:09

place in the world. And so

35:12

they're angry and they're afraid

35:14

by it. I think it's

35:16

important, Allison, to understand

35:18

how magga... thinks and talks about

35:20

this. I spend a lot of time

35:23

in Congress always seeking out the

35:25

strongest argument against whatever I

35:27

believe, because it's too easy

35:29

for politicians to create a

35:31

strong man, right? Like we need to

35:33

find a steel man and really wrestle

35:35

with it. And the Maga case basically

35:38

goes like this. The Maga case is,

35:40

Donald Trump is doing a reverse Nixon.

35:42

He is taking the more powerful

35:45

partner, China. and he is wedging the

35:47

weaker junior partner Russia out of

35:49

an alliance with China. And they called

35:51

the reverse Nixon because 50 years

35:53

ago Nixon did this, but he did

35:56

this with China. Russia at that point

35:58

was more powerful of the two. and

36:00

he so he went to China

36:02

and wedged China away from Russia.

36:05

The problem with that

36:07

argument is that it

36:09

bulks. It makes literally

36:11

no sense. The Chinese right now

36:13

are looking at American acquiescence

36:16

to the unraveling

36:18

of a rules-based order

36:20

in which big countries cannot

36:22

bully small countries. and

36:24

in which ethanol nationalism is bound

36:26

up in at least some amount

36:29

of respect for the rule of

36:31

law. And they're watching this and

36:33

they're saying, this is exactly

36:35

what we're looking for in the

36:38

Indo-Pacific. Yes, please. This is the

36:40

kind of American weakness that will

36:42

help us take Taiwan, that will help

36:44

us bully the Philippines, that will

36:46

help us turn the South China

36:48

Sea into a Chinese lake. They can't

36:51

believe they're good fortune. in

36:53

getting Donald Trump on

36:55

board with Vladimir

36:57

Putin's revanchism. And what

36:59

do you think of the,

37:02

you know, it's just breaking

37:04

a couple hours ago, a

37:06

30-day ceasefire brokered by Rubio

37:08

and Jeddah between Russia and

37:10

Ukraine, which, apparently, immediately

37:12

lifts the freeze on

37:15

aid to Ukraine, congressionally

37:18

appropriated aid to Ukraine. with a

37:20

30-day ceasefire. I'm skeptical, like I'm not

37:22

quite sure what all this is about,

37:24

and it's just breaking. We don't have

37:27

a lot of details, but is there

37:29

anything that you've heard about this?

37:31

Your skepticism is well earned, given

37:34

that Donald Trump sent his

37:36

lieutenants overseas, and between Hegseth,

37:38

Vance, and Rubio, They gave away

37:41

half of the leverage that America

37:43

had before they even sat down

37:46

across the table from Russia's technocrats

37:48

in Saudi Arabia. It was the

37:50

junior varsity squad of American

37:53

diplomacy. Everybody wants to

37:55

see the war end, of course, but I

37:57

think you and I understand that we

37:59

must negotiate from strength, not a

38:02

piece from weakness, that we have

38:04

to have a clear understanding aligned

38:06

with Ukraine about what victory means.

38:09

I think that's a secure Eastern

38:11

border. I think that's freedom of

38:13

navigation in the Black Sea. I think that's

38:15

a session to the European Union.

38:18

And we have to have strong

38:20

NATO-wide consensus about how we

38:22

provision for Ukraine security. And

38:24

the good news there is we have

38:26

the money. There's 300 billion

38:29

euros sitting in Brussels, Russian

38:31

assets, that we can direct both

38:33

the principle and the interest

38:36

towards the probably about

38:38

20 to 40 billion dollars a

38:40

year that it will take Ukraine

38:43

to secure its eastern border. Yeah,

38:45

and I think I read that like 250

38:47

million of it like the bulk of it

38:49

isn't controlled by the United States And so

38:51

I think maybe the EU can do that

38:53

unilaterally Which would be good to see but

38:56

you know we were calling you were calling

38:58

vote vets We're calling to unfreeze those Russian

39:00

assets a long time ago to help support

39:02

Ukraine's war and their reconstruction and there's

39:04

precedent Joe Biden helped negotiate a

39:07

$50 billion economic lifeline underwritten by

39:09

the principle of those Russian frozen

39:11

assets. So it's all interest payments

39:13

that will help fund that economically

39:16

development. Obviously the interest payments are

39:18

still useful, so we don't want to take

39:20

all the principal all at once because we

39:22

wanted to earn some interest, but we do

39:24

want to start dipping into the principal as

39:27

well now. And, you know, if you divide

39:29

300 by, call it 30, you get 10

39:31

years worth of the funding necessary for

39:33

Ukraine to feel the multi-layer defense. a

39:35

frontline Eastern perimeter defense force, a strategic

39:38

rapid response force to plug in a

39:40

gap that the Russians could potentially exploit.

39:42

And then finally, the aerial and maritime

39:44

defense is necessary for critical infrastructure and

39:46

for their cities. So we have the

39:49

money. We have the tactical know-how. The

39:51

Ukrainians have been inventive and courageous

39:53

on the front lines. What we're missing is the

39:55

political will. And that's where

39:57

congressional Republicans need to step up.

40:00

We know the president is a sycophant for

40:02

Putin, but if congressional Republicans, even

40:04

a third to a half of

40:06

them, would join congressional Democrats in

40:08

clear bipartisan signals of congressional support,

40:10

we could get our European allies to move

40:13

boldly in the provision of funds and

40:15

security guarantees to Ukraine. Yeah, I agree.

40:17

I'm just concerned. I know that

40:19

Congressman Dan Goldman when I spoke

40:21

to him was saying that a

40:23

lot of Republicans are worried about

40:25

like physical threats. You know, we

40:28

saw a lot of this in

40:30

the January 6th hearings and stuff

40:32

with Rusty Bowers and Raffensberger and

40:34

his family that they're just

40:36

actually concerned about their physical safety

40:38

if they defy the Trump regime.

40:40

So I'm hoping that they can

40:43

get over that. Something else, people

40:45

are mad. First of all, I'm really glad

40:47

to hear that the number one issue at

40:49

that town hall, especially in a red area that

40:51

went for Trump, was the Ukraine, the

40:53

embarrassment of what happened in the Oval

40:55

Office. And something else I've noticed in

40:57

a lot of these town halls, but

40:59

while they were still having them, they've

41:02

pulled all their town halls on the

41:04

Republican side, was that people are really

41:06

angry about Elon Musk and the

41:08

unelected Elon Musk and Doge. and what

41:10

they're doing to the government and

41:12

as you know particularly speaking from

41:15

a perspective from veterans you know

41:17

where they're like you're firing like

41:19

30% of these federal workers are veterans

41:21

so I wanted to talk about Something

41:24

that's happening now is this battle to

41:26

fund the government, the continuing resolution. And

41:28

I wanted to talk about that because

41:31

the feeling I'm getting, I've got my

41:33

finger on the pulse of a lot

41:35

of folks in the Democratic Party is

41:38

that they do not want Democrats. to

41:40

help fund what this government, what Doge

41:42

is doing via a continuing resolution. There's

41:44

all kinds of garbage in this latest

41:47

version, but people are really concerned. And

41:49

I think Rep McGovern was like, hey,

41:51

Republicans, you claim you have a mandate.

41:54

I think he said, put on your

41:56

mandate pants and you figure it out,

41:58

which I thought was. That was a

42:00

great episode title for a podcast, but

42:03

on your mandate, pants. But what's

42:05

going on right now? What's the

42:07

lead us in this continuing resolution?

42:09

And are Democrats united on

42:11

refusing to help Republicans

42:13

pass this continuing resolution?

42:16

In about 15 minutes, I'll be walking

42:18

to the House floor to vote against

42:20

this continuing resolution. Democrats

42:22

needed to use this moment

42:24

of maximum leverage to accomplish

42:26

two things in order for us to get to

42:29

yes. One would be to push back on the chaos

42:31

and corruption of Trump and Doge and

42:33

the general aura of lawlessness that pervades

42:35

this administration. People may think there's

42:37

waste fraud in abuse in government,

42:40

there's waste fraud in abuse in

42:42

every big bureaucracy. I don't think

42:44

my constituents think that weather forecasters

42:46

for air traffic control is wasteful.

42:48

I don't think they think that

42:50

the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality at

42:53

the Food and Drug Administration is

42:55

in a ridiculous use of money.

42:57

EPA officials who make sure that

42:59

our rivers are clean, are wasteful.

43:01

Veterans crisis line. The

43:03

list goes on. Federal employees

43:05

are 4% of the federal

43:07

government's budget. And to claim that

43:10

they are saving money by creating

43:12

an environment of uncertainty

43:14

for job creators and investors

43:17

and undermine the programs

43:19

that make Americans feel safe

43:21

and allow them to buy with

43:23

confidence. It's just intellectually dishonest.

43:26

So we needed to box

43:28

in the president and his

43:30

just his refusal to abide by the

43:32

norms of appropriations where Congress

43:34

tells him how to spend the money and

43:36

he spends it that way. He has to,

43:39

you know, as his oath says, take care

43:41

that the laws are faithfully executed. The number

43:43

two thing we had to do is we

43:45

had to get some wins for the middle

43:47

class. You know, the president gave

43:49

a 100-minute speech in his joint address.

43:52

And he spent two minutes of those hundred

43:54

talking about the cost of living. And half

43:56

of that time, he was saying the cost

43:58

was going to go up. And I need to see

44:01

something that's going to help the

44:03

middle class out, because what they're

44:05

about to face is higher home

44:07

insurance, higher car insurance, higher utility

44:09

bills. They're going to see higher

44:11

health insurance bills because of his

44:13

Medicaid cuts. And we got to get them

44:16

something. Last Congress, at the end

44:18

of the last Congress, Speaker Johnson

44:20

axed a bipartisan bill to lower

44:23

prescription drug prices, for example, by

44:25

taking on health insurance abuses. You

44:27

will believe this, but sometimes I

44:30

can't even believe it myself. He

44:32

asked it because Elon Musk tweeted

44:34

about it. So... I believe it. In this

44:36

bill, to get to a yes on this

44:38

continuing resolution, we needed

44:41

to get strong constitutional provisions

44:43

against the chaos and corruption

44:46

of Trump, and we had to

44:48

get some winds to lower costs for

44:50

middle class. This bill does neither of

44:52

those things. And we try. It does,

44:54

in fact, it actually expands the

44:57

envelope. by which Trump can abuse his office

44:59

and does absolutely nothing to lower cost

45:01

for the middle class except it extends

45:03

his tariffs that will make their home insurance

45:05

and car insurance bills and utility bills spike.

45:07

So this one's a no. We're here to

45:09

work with Republicans if they want

45:11

to break with the president and get

45:14

serious about funding the government responsibly, but

45:16

this one is not it. Now, is there a

45:18

point where you to agree to fund

45:20

the government to cleanly, as is, including

45:22

doge in the government cuts that are

45:24

happening, or is that something that is

45:26

non-negotiable? Republicans control the House, the Senate,

45:29

and the presidency. They are responsible

45:31

for everything that happens or fails

45:33

to happen in Washington, D.C., including

45:35

a government shutdown. Nobody wants a

45:37

government shutdown. It's not the right way

45:39

to run the greatest country in the world.

45:41

But it's even more irresponsible to provide

45:43

money to a president who does not

45:45

spend money. in accordance with congressional intent.

45:48

Because if Congress loses the power of

45:50

the first, we're not a legislature anymore.

45:52

We are a board of advisors. Yeah,

45:54

no, I'm really glad to hear you say that.

45:56

I am always against a government shutdown. I

45:58

was a federal employee for military. I'm always

46:00

against a government shutdown. When the government's

46:02

functioning, at least relatively properly. And I

46:05

don't see it as doing such. But

46:07

like you said, you're right. They control

46:09

both houses. They control the White House.

46:12

This is put on your mandate pants

46:14

and pass your resolution if you can,

46:16

if you're able. But I am really

46:19

glad to hear you say that. I

46:21

have a technical question about

46:23

like congressional rules. There's

46:25

also something going on this

46:27

thing, this big huge... budget reconciliation

46:29

bill, Mike Johnson's pet project, to

46:32

raise the debt ceiling, cut taxes

46:34

for the wealthy on the backs

46:36

of the rest of us, right,

46:38

by cutting Medicare, Medicaid, veterans,

46:40

benefits, etc. This is just a

46:42

kind of, I guess, kind of a

46:44

question because I honestly don't know how

46:46

this works. If they pass this budget

46:48

resolution, I know it takes, it's a

46:51

pretty big dance and could take a

46:53

while, assuming they can't pass a budget. reconciliation

46:56

before the government shuts down. But if

46:58

they could, would that alleviate the need

47:00

for a continuing resolution if they pass

47:03

that budget reconciliation or is there still

47:05

a CR that's needed to fund the

47:07

government each time? No, the budget

47:09

reconciliation, I think I understand

47:12

the budget reconciliation process and

47:14

the appropriations process for the

47:16

government are always going to be

47:18

distinct. They could, you know, you can attach anything

47:21

you want. to appropriations, I

47:23

guess, but the reverse doesn't work.

47:25

And the reverse doesn't work because

47:27

reconciliation is a partisan maneuver. It's

47:29

a maneuver that bypasses the filibuster.

47:31

And when you do that, you take

47:33

on a lot of constraints about what

47:35

you're allowed to put in that package.

47:37

It has to be primarily about spending,

47:39

not about policy. And appropriations bills have

47:42

a ton of policy associated with them.

47:44

And so they're not appropriate for reconciliation

47:47

maneuvers. I'm glad you raised the reconciliation

47:49

attempt, though. Asterix, I might put on

47:51

it, is that it's actually not Speaker

47:54

Johnson's pet project, to be clear.

47:56

It is Donald Trump's mission. Speaker

47:58

Johnson is a courtier hat. the, you

48:00

know, at the court of Maralago, and he's

48:02

being cold to do this. He has

48:04

been told, go and find four and

48:06

a half trillion dollars to give tax

48:08

cuts to people who don't need tax

48:10

cuts. And the only way he can find

48:13

that four and a half trillion dollars

48:15

is by taking away health care from

48:17

people who do need health care. PS

48:19

also by exploding the federal debt

48:21

by trillions of dollars. Right. And so

48:23

the Republicans are in this position

48:26

of confabulation where they were told

48:28

to do something and now they

48:30

have to pretend to their constituents

48:33

like, no, no, we got here for

48:35

sound policy reasons. There's $880 billion

48:37

of waste fraud and abuse in

48:40

Medicaid. Really? Tell that to the

48:42

40% of American kids who get

48:44

preventative and primary care through Medicaid.

48:46

Tell that to the 45% of

48:49

American women who get parinatal care

48:51

through Medicaid. Medicare does not cover

48:53

long-term care and supports. I don't

48:55

think they view that as waste fraud

48:57

and abuse. Again, can every federal program

48:59

be tightened up and can you make

49:02

reforms? Of course, and if Republicans want

49:04

to come and talk about, you know,

49:06

provider taxes or federal matching rates and

49:08

where can we, you know, get some,

49:10

get some savings and deliver care more

49:12

efficiently? Sure, of course. That's our

49:14

job here in Congress. We'll wrestle

49:16

with that. That's not what they're

49:18

doing. They were given a number and they

49:20

were handed a chainsaw. and they were told to

49:23

carve out that number from the body

49:25

politics need for health care and that's

49:27

what they were doing. Yeah, no, I totally

49:29

get it when I worked at the Department

49:31

of Veterans Affairs. One of the biggest parts

49:34

of my job, I spent a lot of

49:36

my time, a lot of my time, a

49:38

lot of my day, making sure that the

49:40

Department of Defense paid the bills for active

49:42

duty service members that got care at the

49:45

VA. They were paying a six-figure job to

49:47

make sure the government paid the government. through

49:49

a third party that was getting a cut

49:51

of it. So yeah, is there fraud waste

49:53

and abuse there? And yes, I spent the

49:55

last two years of my job trying to

49:57

eliminate my job because I thought it was...

50:00

redundant and it seemed kind of idiotic

50:02

and that was before then Trump came

50:04

in and removed it because I had

50:06

a podcast about the Mueller investigation

50:09

but that's neither here nor there

50:11

but that's the kind of fraud waste

50:13

and abuse we want to look out

50:15

for and we want to do not

50:17

cutting these things like wholesale you know

50:19

I mean and especially of Rick Scots

50:21

on board who's one of the biggest

50:23

Medicare fraudsters in the history of the

50:25

program so it's it's the hypocrisy is

50:27

real but we know the end game,

50:29

they want to break the government so

50:31

that they can say we must privatize

50:33

it and then they can line their

50:35

own pockets with the privatization and contracts

50:37

so with AI for Musk and all

50:40

that other stuff that on the backs of the

50:42

middle class and more wealth gap widening

50:44

I think is what we're looking at. I'm glad

50:46

you raised the the misdirection of

50:48

what they're doing because I think it's

50:50

so important for us to bring this

50:52

home to Americans. The claims about Social

50:55

Security fraud that the president made

50:57

in the joint address were lies.

50:59

The database with all of those

51:01

beneficiaries in there who are deceased, they

51:03

are not getting benefits. And the reason

51:06

that it's so concerning that he's

51:08

saying that is not because he's lying,

51:10

because he lies all the time and I

51:12

think Americans know that. It's because the

51:14

lie is preceding a truth. And the

51:16

truth is the Republicans have

51:18

wanted to privatize Social Security since

51:21

George W. Bush when they first

51:23

tried. And Democrats stop them. And

51:25

we will stop them again. But

51:27

I'm worried about constituents who get hurt

51:29

along the way. They are trying to

51:32

close the Social Security office already in

51:34

my district. Big city, multi-ethnic,

51:36

working-class city. People really use

51:38

that Social Security office. And

51:41

they're saying it's a non-core asset, and

51:43

they're trying to shut it down. And

51:45

that is the beginning ripples of what

51:47

I worry is a tsunami that they

51:49

are trying to build for Social Security

51:51

privatization. Yeah, and this might be a little

51:54

tin foil hatty, but I think that's

51:56

why Doge wants right access to Social

51:58

Security Administration system so that they could

52:00

create fraud where it didn't exist in

52:02

the first place. You know, like, hey,

52:04

just, you know, just, you know, just, hey,

52:06

DOJ, investigate the, you know, the

52:08

election and my buddies, my Republican

52:10

buddies in Congress. will do the

52:12

rest. You know what, the congressman,

52:14

I want to thank you so

52:17

much for doing this podcast and

52:19

for doing other podcasts because,

52:21

you know, there's a lot of old

52:23

guard Dems out there who kind of

52:25

look down their noses at independent

52:27

media and think that performance and

52:29

going viral and things like that

52:32

or beneath the party and I'm

52:34

hoping that that tide changes because

52:36

the kinds of media that you

52:38

do Max Frost, Jasmine Crockett, AOC,

52:40

you know, I think that there's

52:43

really a benefit to that and

52:45

I appreciate you coming onto our

52:47

podcast and other podcasts and speaking

52:49

out about these things because it

52:51

just kind of grows our entire

52:53

media base and I'm very thankful

52:55

that you decided to join me

52:58

today. Well I agree Allison and

53:00

I'm thankful that you had me on.

53:02

Well I hope we can do it

53:04

again soon. Go vote. Go do the

53:06

thing and let us know how it

53:08

goes. Thanks so much. Everybody stick around.

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beans pod.com, click on contact. First up

55:41

from Shannon, pronoun she and her, greetings

55:44

and salutations. First of all, I appreciate

55:46

the leguminati so much. Not sure if

55:48

I spelled that, right, but you get

55:50

it, right? I live in a perpetual

55:52

state of fear and loathing. I hate

55:55

everything. I walk around mad as fuck

55:57

all day, all day, every day. Okay,

55:59

maybe not. people are suffering or will

56:01

be suffering soon, I have given up trying

56:03

to understand how anyone could support so

56:06

much senseless cruelty. Of course, the caveat

56:08

to that is until it affects them

56:10

personally. And even then, it seems as

56:12

though some of those people, the Maga

56:14

cult folks, would be happy to end

56:16

up penniless, homeless, living in a ditch

56:19

so long as the people they don't

56:21

like are being hurt too. Trump really

56:23

did bring out the ugly and people.

56:25

and they fully embraced it and wave

56:27

it proudly. You know, and I want

56:29

to interrupt here, Dana, have you read

56:32

the article in the Atlantic, the parent

56:34

whose kid died of measles in Texas,

56:36

and is still saying we just thought

56:38

the vaccine was too dangerous? No.

56:41

Yeah. It's a death call, man. This leads

56:43

me to my good trouble. Thank you

56:45

Shannon. I was able to attend a

56:47

rally the other day that was organized

56:49

by Queen City United. Stand in solidarity.

56:51

Stand in solidarity. It made my heart

56:53

happy to see so many different kinds

56:55

of people attending this rally. The turnout

56:57

was really good and it was peaceful

56:59

and the speakers were great. It was

57:01

nice to feel love and hope for

57:03

a few hours. I'm including a few

57:05

pictures from the rally. A couple of

57:07

my favorite signs and just general crowd

57:09

picks. I'm looking forward to attending future

57:11

rallies and marches and whatever else I

57:13

can get around in this area. I

57:15

hope more people begin to realize how

57:17

fucked we really are in this country.

57:19

It took a cheeto-dusted shit weasel less

57:21

than two months to terror our government

57:23

apart and turn the country into a

57:25

fucking pariah. Do we even have any

57:27

allies left? It's absolutely terrifying. But I

57:29

will get out there as much as

57:31

I can and do as much as

57:33

I can for as long as I

57:36

can to cause good. For Podpet Tax,

57:38

I'm including a picture of my Malcolm,

57:40

aka Captain Fuzzy Pants, named for Captain

57:42

Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly. Ah, nice. I

57:44

had a lyric in a song that

57:46

said, Captain Archer, what a guy, but

57:48

he's no Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. No.

57:51

I lost him in September of last

57:53

year, but I still think about him

57:55

every day. Okay. He looks so cute

57:57

as Alf. He does. I love it.

58:00

All right, look at these great

58:02

signs. Yeah. Orange lies matter. Mr.

58:04

Putin, go back to Russia.

58:06

Mrs. Putin. Mrs. Oh, Mrs.

58:09

Putin. Okay. Yeah. That's Trump

58:11

in a wedding dress. And

58:13

my goodness, that is one ugly

58:15

bride. Oh, yeah. Yikes. Thank you

58:17

for that. Thank you for that.

58:20

And thank you for that rally.

58:22

And Shannon Dana, I'm going to

58:24

be attending the empty seat, Darryl

58:26

Issa rally in Escondito on March

58:28

23rd Sunday. I'm going to be

58:30

a guest speaker and a guest

58:32

panelist because Darryl Issa is not

58:35

going to be showing up for

58:37

his town hall. So we're going

58:39

to host one ourselves. That's amazing.

58:41

All right, this one's from Suzanne,

58:43

Pronown, she and her. Hello, Queens. I'm

58:45

a new listener. I'm a new listener.

58:48

canvassing for Judge Crawford. It is very

58:50

red county in Southwestern Wisconsin. He

58:52

did the same thing in the

58:54

fall for Kamala. I absolutely hate

58:56

canvassing but was so inspired by

58:58

his determination that I canvass for

59:00

Judge Crawford last week and will

59:03

canvass two more weekends before the

59:05

election. Judge Crawford is one of

59:07

the two candidates running for a

59:09

Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin. This

59:11

is a very important election

59:13

as electing Judge Crawford will keep

59:15

extremist Brad Schimmel off the court.

59:18

Schimmel's campaign is being flooded with

59:20

Musk money and is already facing

59:22

ethics complaints. Big surprise. I'm hoping

59:25

the current anger at Trump Musk

59:27

Vance will propel Judge Crawford to

59:29

victory. Early voting starts March 18th

59:32

with the election on April 1st. I

59:34

also wanted to give a shout out

59:36

to Medicaid. My son has developmental disabilities

59:39

and I didn't know what we do if the

59:41

program is cut. And a shout out to

59:43

ACA, my self-employed farmer brother, would not

59:45

have health insurance without it. Finally, I've

59:48

been engaging in as much activism as

59:50

possible. Yesterday there was an anti-musks slash

59:52

Trump rally at the state capital on

59:54

the day before I attended a pop-up

59:57

postcard writing party to get the vote

59:59

out for Judge Crawford. I've also

1:00:01

spammed mailboxes, as suggested on

1:00:03

your show. My favorite so

1:00:05

far was submitting a job

1:00:07

application to Doosh on behalf

1:00:09

of the Wisconsin Senator Ron

1:00:11

Johnson. He's not interested in serving

1:00:14

the people of Wisconsin, so I

1:00:16

thought he should look for work

1:00:18

elsewhere. Although he's more on the senior side,

1:00:20

I thought he'd fit right in over there.

1:00:22

I'm sure man-splining is a top talent,

1:00:24

a doge. Yeah, and being a Russian

1:00:27

asset too. Yeah, yeah. Also shout

1:00:29

out to the Satanic Temple. There's

1:00:31

a wonderful documentary about them titled,

1:00:33

Hail Satan. And I'm so pleased you

1:00:35

talked about them on previous episode, Hail

1:00:37

Satan. And there is an official trailer

1:00:39

link that we're going to put in

1:00:41

the show notes, so you can watch

1:00:43

that. My pot pet tax, I'm submitting

1:00:45

a picture of our dogs Dustin

1:00:47

and Dolly. Dolly's a 17-year-old mini

1:00:50

Schnauzer. She was brought to our

1:00:52

vet almost four years ago by

1:00:54

a caregiver. Her owner had died

1:00:56

and the caregiver wanted her euthanized

1:00:59

because she had developed a seizure

1:01:01

disorder. Our vet basically said, fuck

1:01:03

that, because she was in good

1:01:06

health and seizures are easily controlled

1:01:08

by medication. Dolly was surrendered on

1:01:10

the spot. Our vet then called

1:01:12

the biggest saps on her clientless.

1:01:15

That's us. We had agreed to

1:01:17

foster Dolly. Of course, she's been

1:01:19

with us ever since. Dolly is

1:01:21

super prickly and shows us she

1:01:23

loves us by allowing us to scratch

1:01:25

her ears. Oh, Dustin is the Maltese.

1:01:28

He arrived over the summer after

1:01:30

he was seized from a

1:01:32

24-dog hoarding situation. Wow. He is

1:01:34

all cuddles all the time. Thank

1:01:36

you for everything you do. I'd

1:01:38

be lost without you. Keep up

1:01:40

the grape work. Look at the

1:01:43

look on the Maltese's face. I

1:01:45

know. Maltese is like, don't touch

1:01:47

my schnauzer buddy. That brow is

1:01:49

like, yeah, back off a dolly.

1:01:51

Dustin's got protected. Yeah. He

1:01:53

protect. He attacked. He attacked.

1:01:56

So sweet. Thank you, Suzanne

1:01:58

for that. Great. Excellent. Excellent

1:02:00

information and stories about your activism.

1:02:02

Next up, Mitch pronouncing him, just

1:02:04

heard about a wonderful bookstore in

1:02:06

Smyrna, Tennessee, called The Spine Bookshop.

1:02:08

They have started something called the

1:02:10

Band Book Brigade. They are collecting

1:02:13

books that have been banned by

1:02:15

local schools or they are frequently

1:02:17

the target of the magga zealotry.

1:02:19

Kids who want to pick up

1:02:21

these books can grab a copy

1:02:23

for free. Thanks to the support

1:02:25

from like-minded souls. We'll have a

1:02:27

link in the shownotes if you

1:02:29

want to support the Spine bookshop

1:02:31

and this awesome campaign to get

1:02:33

free band books to kids. For

1:02:35

pot bet tax, I submit Kevin

1:02:37

and Lucy. Now in double-decker sunbathing

1:02:39

mode. I like Kevin and Lucy.

1:02:42

I'm going to grab the next one

1:02:44

too, since that one was pretty short.

1:02:46

Next up, NC Transplant. Pronoun, she and

1:02:48

her. Hi AG and DG. I've been

1:02:50

waiting for the past two years to

1:02:52

be able to write this good news.

1:02:54

Oh my goodness. On Friday, I was

1:02:57

notified the remainder of a consolidated loan

1:02:59

that we had been paying on since

1:03:01

1992 has finally been forgiven.

1:03:03

We were terrified when the Pino took

1:03:05

over, that's president in name only, took

1:03:08

over that we would be stuck paying

1:03:10

on the portion of the consolidation loan

1:03:12

that fell under my husband. It was

1:03:14

frustrating and a difficult journey,

1:03:17

but it finally happened. The

1:03:19

remaining $49, 228.11 was forgiven

1:03:21

as of Friday, March 7,

1:03:23

2025, two years after we had

1:03:25

met our 120 payments for the

1:03:28

second time. Wow. Fucknell-Net and

1:03:30

Devas. For pet tax, I

1:03:32

submit my retired racing gray

1:03:34

hounds, Lucy Black and White,

1:03:36

and Julia Brindolin White. And

1:03:38

Diva, the black foster who's

1:03:40

looking for her forever home,

1:03:43

Lily, her orange highness, and

1:03:45

Harley, an old man, Maine

1:03:47

coon. Keep up the good

1:03:49

work that you do for

1:03:51

your loyal listeners, sisters in

1:03:53

the resistance. And so transplant,

1:03:55

congratulations. Look at these beautiful

1:03:58

aminals. That's so sweet. and

1:04:00

pet the kitties. All right, thanks, A.G.

1:04:02

And this one is from Boat Down

1:04:04

Ballot Blue. And pronouns are he him. I

1:04:06

know when I started listening to The

1:04:08

Daily Beans because the first thing I

1:04:10

can remember is the announcement of the

1:04:12

new pod, You Don't Know Jack. thinking

1:04:15

that's going to be a trademark nightmare.

1:04:17

We get our dose of beans on our

1:04:19

way to high school each morning. No

1:04:21

offense to Andy, Pete, Harry, or John,

1:04:23

but Dana is the family favorite. So

1:04:25

I listen to the other pods after

1:04:27

drop-off on my way to work. Thank

1:04:29

you for that, by the way. My

1:04:31

good news is that finally, after two

1:04:34

years of promise, hey, hey, I'm talking

1:04:36

about co-hosts. Zip it. My good news

1:04:38

is that finally, this is my moment,

1:04:40

my good news is that finally after

1:04:42

two years of promising the teens that

1:04:44

we would become patrons, I have made

1:04:47

good on that and I'm officially a,

1:04:49

okay. Here is where we start

1:04:51

to veer off the rails. I

1:04:53

absolutely love the epithet Leguminati, just

1:04:55

brilliant. My issue is that coffee

1:04:58

beans aren't legumes. I've tried to

1:05:00

come up with a name for

1:05:02

a splinter sect of coffee lovers,

1:05:04

but I'm not creative enough. Perhaps

1:05:07

a fellow listener can help a

1:05:09

brother out? As penance from my

1:05:11

leggard leggard, leggardly? Laggardly,

1:05:14

there we go, laggardly, that's the

1:05:16

right word. As penance for my

1:05:18

laggardly performance in becoming a patron,

1:05:20

we've also sponsored two other memberships,

1:05:22

who's, as behind the scenes got

1:05:24

myself, I wanted to just not

1:05:27

thank the incredible on-air talent, but

1:05:29

all the incredibly talented team that

1:05:31

works in the shadows, making sure we

1:05:33

get our daily dose. Yes, they are

1:05:35

incredible. We are three-generation family

1:05:37

unit of seven with

1:05:40

three octogenarian elders, two

1:05:42

teenage twins, and me and my

1:05:44

amazing wife stuck in the middle. All

1:05:46

seven of us are as blue as

1:05:48

blue can be. I even tried to

1:05:50

write a song. I vote those down

1:05:52

ballot blues to the tune of St.

1:05:54

Louis blues by W.C. Handy. My kids

1:05:56

are mad that they turn voting age

1:05:59

just days at terms. Given that

1:06:01

we are full-time caregivers for our

1:06:03

elders, we don't have any pets

1:06:05

at this time. For my pod

1:06:07

pet tax, I include a photo

1:06:09

of beans, my oxalotal. Their model

1:06:11

is basic gray and black

1:06:13

and white flex. Their model, MODEL,

1:06:15

is 100% recycled plastic pellets from

1:06:18

the Petting Zoo. My daughter

1:06:20

calls them my emotional support oxalato

1:06:22

as I clutch it to

1:06:24

my chest while my teens

1:06:26

learn to drive. This is fantastic.

1:06:29

This is a submission. A

1:06:31

great submission. Oh this is amazing.

1:06:33

Vote down ballot blue I just need

1:06:35

to let you know that it originally

1:06:37

the Daily Beans wasn't based on coffee

1:06:40

beans. It was based on legumes beans

1:06:42

and we used to get tons of

1:06:44

Rancho Gordo beans in the mail. And

1:06:46

then it kind of, it kind of

1:06:49

became coffee because it made sense because

1:06:51

it's the morning and you get your

1:06:53

news, etc., etc. But either way, good

1:06:55

to know. I actually didn't know coffee

1:06:58

beans weren't legumes. So now I know

1:07:00

I learned something today. Thanks everybody

1:07:02

for your good news, incredible submissions.

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you wrote. Really, really appreciate everything.

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Do you have any final thoughts today, my

1:07:31

friend? I don't think I do. I don't. I'm

1:07:33

tapped. I'm tap too, but my final

1:07:35

thought I guess is that I

1:07:37

love y'all. And we'll be back

1:07:39

on your earth tomorrow. Until then,

1:07:41

please take care of yourselves, take

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care of each other, take care

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of your mental health, and take

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AG. And I've been DG. And

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I've been DG. And I've been

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