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Camp. I am six forty.
You're listening to wake Up Call on demand

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time for your morning wake up call.

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Here's Jason Middleton. Good morning everyone, Monday, June nineteenth, juneteenth federal

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holiday markets closed and have more on
business and the market's a little bit later

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this hour. This is your wake
up call. My name is Jason Middleton.

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Got a new dishwasher yesterday for Father's
Day. Yeah you did, Yeah,

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I did. And my wife installed
it because that's that's her jam.

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She does all that stuff. Nice, Okay, it's outstanding. It was

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fantastic. I had to check it
to make sure it was on. It

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was so quiet. I'm not even
joking. It was. They have an

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indicator light so that you know that
it's actually working, because otherwise you can't

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hear it. Right. Yeah,
No, they've gotten tremendously quiet over the

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years. For sure. I have
not had I've not had a new appliance

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honestly in decades. I can't remember
the last time I lived with a dishwasher.

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Yeah. So I've been for you, man, I thank you.

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I've been doing everything by hand.
It's been. It's been that that's kind

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of cathartic and like mesmerizing. You
know, you do a little podcast listening

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and get you get the dishes done
and whatnot. Anyway, kitchen's my domain.

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But she was very very lovingly put
in a new dishwasher. Next up

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is a fridge hopefully. Um.
The US Open was this weekend as well.

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Watched a little bit of that.
We're gonna have more from the golf

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pro at Wilshire Country Club later this
hour to talk about that. Help us

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unpack it. And uh boy,
I bet, I bet. Golf fever

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is just sweeping your cross la this
week, So everybody's gonna be flooding tea

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times everywhere you play golf, Tyler, I do. I dabble with golf.

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Yeah, I actually shot some yesterday. Oh okay, cool, unimpressively,

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but I still did it. Hey, hey, that's great. I

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played twice a year. Okay,
that's it. But tobably be on the

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same wavelength of skill then okay.
Cool. But I mean when we have

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this guy home, we can ask
for some pro tips or something. Yeah,

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you'll take notes you want me to. Let's just roll on it and

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then we'll revisit it later. Let's
get a few headlights out before we get

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into the show. Secretary of State
Anthony Blincoln has been in China for high

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level meetings and things are looking a
little bit better. A meeting with President

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Jijn Ping had not been confirmed before
Blincoln arrived in Beijing, and now it's

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confirmed and it's teeing up one possibly
later this year in November, when Jijunping

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is in San Francisco. Dozens of
letters with suspicious white powder inside have spurred

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and FBI investigations. The letters landed
in Kansas late last week. Some GOP

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congress people are saying that Republicans are
being targeted. Everything so far, though,

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is conjecture. It's pretty early in
the investigation. It was a violent

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weekend across the US. At least
five people are dead and dozens injured in

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several shootings. More than twenty people
were shot, one fatally in a shooting

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at a gathering near Chicago. Other
shooting has claimed victims in Washington State,

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Saint Louis, Southern California, Baltimore, in Pennsylvania, where a state trooper

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was killed during an attack on state
police bearings, and some war headlines and

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some other news coming out of the
KFI twenty four our newsroom, where we

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always do lead local. The Speaker
of the House has visited Orange County to

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protest a visa waiver program that allowed
three hundred and fifty thousand Chileans to enter

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the US last year with no background
checks. I have memories of shattered glass

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and emptied drawers scattered everywhere. This
woman spoke of the gathering that included multiple

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Republican leaders about being part of the
national spike of Chilean gangs burglar rising homes.

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I feel like I'm living a nightmare. What if we had been home?

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How Speaker Kevin McCarthy says, if
the visa program's not fixed this week,

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Congress will cut its funding. He
recalled one story Friday about Chilean robbers

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who actually did get arrested. Two
days later, they get a call from

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a police chief in Washington say,
those are the people we were trying to

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catch because they were robbing us too. They're already out and when they're just

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provided a date to come back,
do you think they show up? No,

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Because of the criminal friendly laws makes
Range County d a tot. Spitzer

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says, some robbers wearing camouflage Gillie
suits to sneak in home still get out

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on zero bail. And guess what
the Chileans we have filed on in our

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prosecuting. We have one hundred percent
no show at future appearances. Big shocker

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at the Orange County DA's office,
Corbin Carson, kf I News. Ukraine

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made small advances in its counteroffensive amid
heavy fighting along the front line in the

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country south. That's according to British
intelligence. Russia's defensive operations were relatively effective,

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it also said, but a Russian
appointed official acknowledge that Ukraine had recaptured

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several villages so far in the counter
offensive along the one thousand kilometer six hundred

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and twenty mile front line, and
fighting is very heavy there. We do

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have ABC's Jim Ryan on the line
with us. Good morning, Jim,

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Hey Jason, Let's talk about this
online shopping phenomenon known as friendly fraud.

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I've not heard it turned that way. Why is it coming up now?

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Yeah? I haven't either, But
it's just really a matter of proportion.

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More people since the endemic, It
even before the pandemic, more people were

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shopping online. You know, they've
they've kind of trended away from the brick

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and mortars and moved to doing their
shopping through services that they can reach out

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to other computers. So they order
stuff, the stuff is delivered to them,

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or sometimes it's not delivered to them. People are satisfied with what they

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bought and what came delivered, or
they weren't satisfied. But it's what happens

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next that really has concern among merchants
because a lot of customers decide that,

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you know what, I'm just going
to go ahead and contact my credit card

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company instead of reaching out to the
merchant. About seventy two percent of consumers

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say that the bank chargeback is just
an alternative to asking for a refund from

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the merchant. Well, the merchant
ends up paying anyway, right, I

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mean, the chargeback goes back to
that company. If you, for example,

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order an item and it doesn't come
for a week or so, and

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you say, you know what,
this thing's not coming at all. So

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you contact your credit card company and
say, hey, this item didn't get

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delivered. To take the charge off
my credit card. So they do,

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and then the next day the item
comes. Right do you contact the credit

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card company and say, hey,
it came, go ahead and reinstate the

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charge. Probably not. Do you
reach out to the merchant? Probably not

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the merchant though, is you know
it loses the sale and loses the merchandise.

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Well, okay, I understand this
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the best in humanity and say that
it's an oversight on the consumer's part sometimes

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most of the time. How do
retailers combat this though? I mean,

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it seems like it would be really
easy to manipulate the system in favor of

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the recipient. Well, and it
is so a lot of retailers now they're

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requiring signatures. So you order an
item and they require a signature before it's

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delivered to you. That way,
you can't contact the credit card company and

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say, hey, it never came. Merchant reaches out and says, yes,

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it did come, and here's the
proof right here. It's also VISA

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is stepping up and also trying to
step in and help the merchants in this

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process as well, to ensure that
people aren't ripping off the company's intentional like

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sometimes it happens as an honest mistake. Other times, you know, the

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consumer is unwitting as to what the
what they're doing. They don't realize that

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this is costing merchants a lot of
money. So I think it's it's kind

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of public education as well to let
you know, if you are a customer

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of a company and you like that
company and you want them to stay in

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business, you want to make sure
that they're paid for the services or goods

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that they render. It makes sense
to me. And now in my personal

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experience, I know that I've gotten
something's delivered and I've said, hey,

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this isn't really working, Um,
how do I send it back because I

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didn't get one of the autoprint labels
that often come with those purchases or U

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and the vendor said, you know
what, just just keep it. Yeah,

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you know, And is that another
practice that maybe VISA would want to

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look at, because that's if that's
it's not okay, no, because you're

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dealing with the merchant directly, and
that's what merchants want. They want you

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to deal with the seller, the
retailer, the merchant one on one and

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say and let's work this out between
the two of us, you consumer,

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me merchant, or the other way
around, as opposed to going to the

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credit card company. The credit card
company just sees a charge thing it off

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they charge it back to the company
and they're done with it. Then you

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know, the company can the merchant
can challenge that, but then you're talking

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about a long drawn out process there
and more fees. So that's that's the

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preference of any merchandise that you deal
with them directly as opposed to going to

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the credit card company. Yeah,
you mentioned fees right there, So Visa

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and other credit card companies. You
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of vig on every transaction, and
so I would imagine that chargebacks are gonna

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maybe force all everybody's fees to go
up for these well including the consumers and

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fig I like that in nineteen forties
Gangs com movie. But yeah, chargebacks,

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according to a company that watches these
things in a company called Chargebacks nine

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one one says that that that process, so that practice, chargebacks are costing

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e commerce one hundred and seventeen billion
dollars this year alone. So that's in

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lost merchandise, that's in lost sales, and that's in the fees that are

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paid to the companies. It looks
like I did a story over the weekend

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on my other show, Online Sales
and Inflation Online inflation is down when you

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compare it to the CPI, the
Consumer Price index, which is more,

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you know, bigger, higher level, top of the funnel kind of stuff.

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Online sales and inflation, I mean, inflation down, sales up.

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Do we have an idea and can
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cumulative number you gave us a little
bit earlier. Yeah, So one hundred

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and seventeen billion, one hundred and
seventeen point four seven billion dollars this year

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alone. That's according again to chargebacks
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through their lens, that's what they
see happening out there. Friendly fraud constitutes

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about eighty six percent of all charge
box and it's it's called friendly fraud because

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you know, richards don't want to
make customers too mad by call and by

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accusing them are fraud. But at
the same time, some people are doing

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this intentionally. Okay, Jim,
thanks a lot for this. Thanks Jason,

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didn't know about it. ABC's Jim
Ryan right there talking with us about

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friendly fraud aka chargebacks. Um I
mentioned the prices though online prices online and

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May twenty twenty three fell two point
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the biggest decrease in inflation and in
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it's the ninth straight month of year. Every year price decreases for online and

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we get that from Adobe Analytics.
Let's get back to some of the stories

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coming out of the kf I twenty
four hour news room. The Small Business

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Administration says more than forty five businesses
have applied for help following the fatal mass

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shooting in Monterey Park. It's one
of the only times the SBA's made special

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natural disaster money available to businesses.
Lawmakers pushed the SBA to offer low interest,

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long term loans to businesses and nonprofits
impacted following the attack that killed eleven.

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The SBA says as of last week, it received forty seven applications at

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a special service center in Monterey Park. So far, two loans have been

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approved, totally five hundred ninety five
three hundred dollars. The money can be

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used for payroll, supplies and upgrades. Loan applications will be available through January

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if next year. Steve Gregory taf
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planning a controlled burn to clear one
hundred and ten acres of vegetation at Lakes

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Skinner. The Fire Department says drift
smoke may be visible from nearby communities,

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but that it will disperse quickly and
is not expected to be a health hazard.

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States along the Gulf Coast hit by
recent storms and tornadoes are preparing for

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more severe weather. Thirty million Americans
already under heat alerts from Texas to Mississippi,

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with record heat possible in Dallas,
New Orleans, and Houston. It

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could feel like one hundred and twenty
two degrees in some areas. ABC's rhiannon

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Ally says more storms are also expected. The extreme heat and humidity have fueled

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severe thunderstorms in North Texas, Oklahoma, the Lower Mississippi Valley, and parts

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of the Deep South. Self described
outsider Vivic Ramaswami is not lacking confidence as

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he rolls out his run for presidents
in twenty twenty four. The thirty seven

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year old businessman said on Fox News
yesterday he not only expects to win the

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Republican primary and the presidential election,
expects to win in a landslide. He

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compared his poll numbers to where former
President Trump's were in twenty fifteen. At

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this time golfer Wyndham Clark is celebrating
his first major championship. Clark finished a

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top the leaderboard yesterday at LA country
Club ten under par to win the US

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Open, second PGA Tour victory for
the twenty nine year old. His previous

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best in a major was seventy fifth
place, so this is a major upgrade

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for him. We're going to have
more on that later this hour with the

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golf pro from Willshare Country Club to
help us break that down. And The

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Flash is the winner of the weekend
box office race despite rather disappointing performance.

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I saw the flick. It's rather
disappointing flick two. The DC film made

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fifty five million dollars this weekend,
much lower than the expectations of seventy million

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dollars. More on movies too.
We're going to get ABC's political editor Steve

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Roberts at the bottom of the hour. He's going to be with us to

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recap the weekend news, slash yak
shows and how the indictment of former President

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Trump is playing. After a week
in the news, Let's get some more

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stories before we get to the business
time. LA is offering a free summer

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lunch program for kids at city parks. The LA Department of Recreation Parks will

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serve lunches to kids ages one to
eighteen at about one hundred different parks throughout

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the city. The city's Bertha Calderon
says the program was created to make sure

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kids get at least one free meal
when they're out of school. The lunches

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indeed to be eaten at the park
and its first come, first serve,

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but they usually serve usually like eleven
thirty to twelve. Calderon says lunches will

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be served Monday through Friday through August
fourth. Chris Adler ka FI News.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinkett has met
with Chinese President jij And Ping following a

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two day visit to Beijing. Before
the visit, Blincoln emphasized the importance of

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diplomacy. Intense competition requires sustained diplomacy
to ensure that competition does not beer into

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confrontation or confidence. President ge said
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on some specific issues, but he
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countries range from Taiwan to human rights
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was originally scheduled for February, but
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of the United States that kind of
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a completely useless feature, and it's
not autonomous driving. Toyota engineers are working

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on an electric car with a fake
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no purpose and would just be for
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you know, like children. Drivers
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and buck feeling if they select the
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will limit how far the shaking will
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real money they'll charge for that feature. Mark Ronner KFI News, Well,

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going to integrate chat GPT into the
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the idea is that this is going
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understand natural language and provide richer responses
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equipped with the Mbux infotainment system,
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in the day, the word infotainment. Anyway, it's going to be available

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to opt into a three month trial
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Hay, Mercedes, I want to
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your car right now, I apologize. I will say that Mercedes could use

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not good. I'm hoping it'll help
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Google instead of wanted built into your
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suffered the worst opening weekend in that
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reviews, that animated Flick brought in
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North America. Pixar's last release,
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and the results heat more pressure on
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company, Disney is also looking at
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up stories that I want to get
to. As far as the Wall

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Street situation goes now. Stocks fell
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the week, pretty strong gains across
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Reserve did pause its interest rate hike
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a talk, and a nomenclature matters. Jargon matters because a skip implies a

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finality. So a skip means that
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see another interest rate hike of probably
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corrected himself, but it was too
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well it's going to be I shouldn't
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of a quarter point or maybe even
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less likely, but a point is
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this is an update to a story
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mountainous credit card debt is something that's
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different Federal Reserve banks, the one
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now owe a record of nine hundred
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and the interest rate is north of
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to increase over the next two to
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but now it's getting back to one
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of a jittery zeitgeist on Wall Street
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week, Chair Jay Powell is going
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he has to do that twice a
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questions from the House Financial Services Committee
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are not necessarily out of the woods
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earlier this year, Silicon Valley banks, think at your bank first. Republic

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this week. I won't get into
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be indicative of where the economy is
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so you gotta watch FedEx that comes
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still doing okay, etc. And
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those credit cards. Maybe maybe a
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do have a volatility watch again this
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but that's really not too much,
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what Elon Musk does every week because
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was in Paris to talk about artificial
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took when he took office five years
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the northeastern part of Paris at just
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to become a tech hub, kind
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the European Union, and so he's
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in the States, Elon Musk has
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Twitter, and so the office building
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vacate the premises because they didn't pay
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seen that happen. Maybe ever,
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commercial real estate is in a bit
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the bills with something that Elon telegraphed
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and the landlord said, thanks for
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a couple of more. No,
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the trial has started in Russia for
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being held at a maximum Security Prison
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Moscow, where Navalni is serving a
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court. He exposed official corruption,
of course, and organized major anti Kremlin

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protests before his arrest in January of
twenty twenty one. He says, the

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new charges, of course, are
absurd, just choosing the right word there.

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Former US Attorney General Bill Barr says
former President Trump engages in reckless conduct

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that puts his followers and the GOP
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any farther into that one just now, because we have somebody on the line

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who is much better at this than
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parts of the US to begin the
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and Oklahoma late last week moved into
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Coast states yesterday. Hundreds of thousands
of customers still without power this morning.

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Wes Anderson's Asteroid City is notching the
strongest limited release opening weekend in years.

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The film made seven hundred and ninety
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make eight hundred and ninety thousand whenever
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Coming up at five fifty, Trevor
Rathoff will be on the line with us.

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He's the golf pro at Wilshire Country
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hot takes on the US Open that
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Club. I was rooting for Rory, but happy to see mister Clark winn.

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Right now, we have ABC's political
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It's a Monday morning quarterbacking of the
weekend news shows kind of as well as

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a fresh look at the post indictment
world for former President Trump. Welcome back

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in Steve, Thank you Jason,
and yes, look you may. You

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quoted an important phrase that Bill Barr, the former attorney general, is Donald

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Trump's hand picked attorney general, and
he looked at the indictment, the thirty

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seven count indictment, and described Trump's
behaviors reckless. Now that is not a

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legal term, you know, reckless
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it is a political crime. And
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the most important takeaway from this indictment
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political vulnerability. Because if there's one
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it is reckless. Because that's why
he lost in twenty twenty in many ways

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after winning a twenty sixteen, because
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voted for him before found his behavior, his temperament, his judgment Jason

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reckless, or in the words of
his Mark Esper. Mark Esper was Trump's

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own defense secretary, and on TV
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like reckless is not a legal crime, but it's a political vulnerability.

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to be found guilty in a court
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be rejected by the voters. That's
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realistic. Yeah, that makes a
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you think about president of the United
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reckless and irresponsible in the same sentence
or paragraph. So it seems like ten

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days ago Steve bill Barr was thrown
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and now it looks like he's rattling
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the rhetoric from at least Barr went
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and more, well, very tentatively
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hand, you know, stranglehold on
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percent of Republicans right now favorite Trump's
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round Des Angeles, is down at
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close to half of Republicans would like
somebody else. But if you step away

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from the primaries and look at the
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is very popularly young Republican. Governor
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looks at the numbers. It says
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in fact, he says, if
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governor in key states. And that's
a growing a small small Jason, but

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growing number of Republicans are willing to
say this publicly. But the dominant feeling,

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and the Republican Party is still getting
in line behind Trump because he has

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the ability, he's a very powerful
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outbursts. No one wants to cross
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But when Republicans look at the larger
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Trump at the top of the ticket, there's a growing sense of worry about

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that. You look at it.
NPR poll out this week, fifty six

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percent of Americans said the Trump should
drop out of the race cost of the

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indictment, and that's fifty eight percent
of independence. Those are the numbers that

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keep Republicans up at night. Yeah, I would imagine. So let me

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reintroduce you real quick. ABC's political
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us this morning. Steve, if
if the focus first of all, this

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new new name is a political blue
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that might have some attraction eventually,
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the GOP nomination right now, are
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extent, Yes, but they will
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we're talking about Trump's vulnerabilities, We're
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But there are Democrats who are equally
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here Jason's he keeps giving ammunition to
his opponents who say he's losing his mental

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faculties, that he's increasingly frail and
feeble. Joe Biden is four months older

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than me, Jason. I know
what it's like to be eighty years old,

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and I know that with that age
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lot of distractions. And so for
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the flip side of that is talk
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lack of comprehension. So the big
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of ammunition to throw with Joe Biden
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a lot of ammunition to throw a
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at the national averages, both Trump
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are stuck in the low forties in
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them comes close to commanding a positive
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means as you head into this election, there are a lot of voters in

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both parties unhappy with their choices,
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guys, one who's almost eighty,
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of drawbacks and a lot of negatives. Hasty, We appreciate your experience and

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context here. Okay, you called
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just so you know, I can't. Hey, you know I was.

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I was the Los Angeles correspondent to
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Well, that's for another conversation another
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follow before I have to let you
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Fox News over the weekend. Do
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fresh voice and a fresh face,
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ranks you have two candidates who have
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the former governor of South Carolina.
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Tim Scott, a Republican black Senator, also running for president. And that's

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good news for the Republican Party.
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the party of White America, but
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has a growing appeal beyond their white
base. Good take, Steve, always

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good to talk to you. Maybe
we'll talk again later this week, sure,

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anytime. ABC's political editor Steve Roberts
joining us this morning. Let's get

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back to some of the stories coming
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room this morning. LA County and
the acl you have agreed to settle a

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lawsuit over in humane conditions and overcrowding
at the Central Jail Downtown. The agreement

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prevents the country the county from holding
anyone at the inmate reception center for more

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than twenty four hours and from chaining
people to benches and other objects for more

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than four hours. The county also
has to provide clean and sanitary seals,

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access to medical and mental health services
to inmates, and increase staff. At

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least five people have been killed and
more than two dozen others injured in shootings

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in multiple states over the Father's Day
weekend. At least twenty three people were

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shot, one fatally during a Juneteenth
celebration in Willowbrook, Illinois, and a

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seventeen year old boy was killed during
a party in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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Merit to Shara Jones appealed to parents
for help. We must do everything we

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can to keep guns out of the
hands of our babies. Kyl Foreman with

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the Grant County Sheriff's Office in Washington
State, says two people there were killed

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at a music festival. The shooter
continued to shoot randomly into the crowd,

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and the suspect was eventually taken end
to custody. A state trooper was killed

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in central Pennsylvania when a shooter attacked
a state police barracks there. At least

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four Palestinians have been killed in fighting
between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the

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West Bank. A fifteen year old
boy was among those killed when Israeli helicopter

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gunships hit targets in the region.
The Israeli military says troops took on a

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massive exchange of fire during an arrest
raid and shot back at Palestinian gunman.

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Officials say palest Palestinian militants also set
off a roadside bomb next to an Israeli

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military vehicle. There's a new push
making it easier than ever to get a

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higher education. California Senator Alex Padilla
hope to reinduce the Reintroduce the College for

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All Act. The bill would allow
working class students to attend community colleges,

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trade schools, for year colleges,
all for free. And in the time

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it takes me to read this sentence, a new world record was set.

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A twenty one year old California man
is celebrating his tenth Guinness World Record.

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Actually that was about a tenth of
a second too long. Max Park solved

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a Rubik's cube in the fastest time
ever three point one three seconds. It

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was a three by three Rubik's cube. I've seen the video. I was

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going to talk about it last week
and I just didn't know if it would

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relate. But I just that's fascinating
stuff. It's five fifty two on your

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wake up Call. On the line
is Wilshire Country Club golf pro Trevor Rathoff

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Welcome back, Trevor, Good morning, Good morning. Okay, so I

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watched a Saturday and Sunday at least
a little bit. First think, the

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sun came out this weekend. That
was nice to see. And then on

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Saturday the marine layer moved back in
towards the end of the round. First

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of all, thanks to the golfers
for bringing some sunshine to southern California for

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the first time in a while.
Other than that, what really went down

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yesterday? Yeah, I mean we
saw a golf course that you know,

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really bounced back and got the best
of players yesterday. You know, Wyndham

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Clark, not so familiar name outside
of his first victory about a month ago,

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was able to hold on and claim
his first US Open title. Rory

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McIlroy, who was in contention all
day just you know, couldn't get it

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done. He fought hard, and
you know, at the end of the

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day, golf a tough game and
you're gonna have winners and losers, and

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this week Windham Clark was our winner. Yeah, Wyndham Clark was. I

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saw him walking up some fair ways
Jack Nicholas style, like he was storming

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some of those. He doesn't lack
for confidence does he no? And he

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know he mentioned that a lot that
his mental game has been the biggest kind

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of crutch and the thing that's been
holding him back. But you know,

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since he's gone to a new mental
coach, he's really bounced back and been

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a different player. So he said
he was going to go into this weekend

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playing cocky and still maintaining his aggressive
play style, and it looks like it

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paid off just grape for him.
So when you say it the course kind

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of fought back a little bit,
what do you mean by that? Were

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the fairways you know, narrowed or
did they move the cup placement? Yeah?

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So, I mean the biggest thing
was the course ride out that sunshine,

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the heat that we got, the
course is gonna dry out, so

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it's gonna play firmer and faster.
The other thing we saw from the USGA

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they put a lot more whole locations
on some a little bit more severe slopes,

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so you know, usually they kind
of put him in some flat areas.

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I know onund we had some pins
that were in spots that were you

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know, three to four percent graded
slope, which is a lot when you're

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trying to roll a put. So
it's something you have to be a little

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bit careful. You want to be
below the hole, so placements everything,

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and you know, if you get
a little pin high or above it,

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you know you're gonna have a slippery
put coming back where you know you don't

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make it. You look at another
eight ten peacome back the other way.

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So it creates a lot of pressure
on these players to really put the ball

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in a good position to be able
to attack and be aggressive. Let's pull

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back a little bit, get away
from the play just for a second.

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It's been eighty years or so since
we had one of these opens in Los

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Angeles. Is it gonna be another
eighty years before we get another one?

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No, So you know the next
one, you know, oddly enough,

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for the first time in the US
Open history, Elle Country Club is actually

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signed for two US Opens, not
just one. So we'll actually see it

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back here in twenty thirty nine,
another fifteen years. I'm sure there's gonna

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be a lot of changes between now
and then, but something they can plan

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for, you know, ahead of
time, kind of learned from this first

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one and make improvements to really make
the fan experience better, the player experience

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better. And now they have an
idea of how the players can perform on

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this course and kind of cater it
to their liking this so they can have

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that final score be what they wanted
to be. So when you're watching on

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television, and I guess I don't
play very often so, but but when

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when somebody but you hear, you
hear the crowd go getting a hole?

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Right? Come on? Is there
anything else that we can say right there?

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Are there anything that I'm missing that
people are saying on the course.

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It might be a little more fun
and a little lest you know, thirty

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five years old than getting the whole? I mean, it's definitely the most

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common one. Another one you hear. You don't hear them telecasts as much,

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but you know Howard Stern when we
heard the Bob the booie, we

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hear that a lot still on golf
courses. Or you hear Ripper magoo,

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you hear a little bit, you
know, depends on the trendy, the

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trend of the crowd that's walking through
there getting the whole? I mean,

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that was good when you hear them
out there. But hey, as long

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as they're keeping it appropriate for you
know, all the families to attend.

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I'm happy, hey have you know, get the crowd into it, get

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people yelling. I think it's,
you know, just a great environment,

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create some you know, great energy
for not just the players, but everyone

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else around them. All Right,
this question might be about golf, but

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I think it could be applied broadly. It's more of a philosophical thing.

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We saw yesterday eighteenth Green Royal mac
Rory McIlroy got a lot closer on that

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forty one foot put than any of
us would unless you're a pro. But

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what happens when you miss a shot
that is like supposed to be an easy

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shot and give me a six footer, let's say, five or six footer?

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M how do you shake that off
and get moving again as a golfer?

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And then I think that's why it
can spill over into other things.

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When you stub your toe. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's

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it's probably one of the toughest things
in golf. You know, So we're

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watching on TV, it looks a
lot closer than it really is. Then

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when you're there, you're you look
and you're like, wow, these guys

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make all these puts that I miss
every day. You know, that's what

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makes these guys so great is that
they're able to have a short term memory

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when it comes to bad shots.
They can miss a short put, you

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know, hit a bad shot,
maybe not recover from you know, a

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chip shot or getting up and down, but they're able to bounce back on

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that next toll or that next shot
and really kind of capitalize and put it

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behind them. So what they do
best better than anyone outside of their short

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games is they don't compound their errors
like your everyday golfer. So mentally,

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you know, their strength and fortitude
is just incredible that they can, you

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know, just be far and beyond
above everyone else and just you know,

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like I said, take advantage of
the moment, put the bad shots behind

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them, move forward, and just
try and keep playing better on you know,

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each each and every shot moving forward. Trevor, thanks again for the

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time this morning. I personally,
I am playing a golf one of my

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two times a year. I'm playing
it a famous course called De Bells in

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Griffith. Part of you hear to
that one, it's a part three ebody.

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Hey, thanks for your time,
have a great week. Hope you

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have a great round later this week. Thank you very much, thank you

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for having me. I appreciate it. Wilshire Country Club golf pro Trevor Ralfoff.

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Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty

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four hour newsroom before we get to
handle on the news. Four people are

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recovering from injuries caused by a suspected
drunk driver during a chase that ended in

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a crash in South Pasadena. The
HP says officers were trying to stop a

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driver on the North One ten early
yesterday, but he sped up. The

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guy rear ended two other cars where
the freeway ends at Glenarm. The CHP

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says the man was not wearing a
seatbelt and was killed in the crash.

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A hit and run driver who allegedly
killed a woman while doing street stunts in

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Long Beach has been arrested. The
guy walked into Long Beach police headquarters over

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the weekend and gave himself up.
The fatal crash happened Friday night. The

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driver was doing donuts at Willow Street
and Caspian Avenue when he hit an oncoming

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car, causing that driver to lose
control and smash into a tree. The

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woman was ejected. Celebrations are being
held across the country do you commemorate Juneteenth,

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which marks the end of slavery in
the US. It was designated a

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federal holiday in twenty twenty one.
Festivities here in southern California include festivals in

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Lymert Park, Hollywood, and Elsa
Gundo, which include food, music,

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arts and crafts, and cultural exhibitions. There's also a parade in Inglewood and

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a concert at the Greek Theater this
afternoon, and I believe Vice President Kamala

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Harris is expected at that Greek later
today. Officials in India sa a sweltering

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heatwave is killed about one hundred and
seventy people in two of the country's most

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populous states in recent days. Hospitals
have been overwhelmed, and routine power outages

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add to these challenges. Northern regions
of India are known for sweltering heat during

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the summer months, but the Indian
Meteorological Department says temperatures have been consistently above

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normal. Heighs have been one hundred
and ten or above. We lead local

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live from the KFI twenty four our
newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton. This has

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