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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
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Orange County, Ida. Wake Up
your host, Amy King, Good

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morning. It's five o'clock straight up
on this Monday morning wake up Call.

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It's January twenty second. I'm Amy
King. Thanks for getting your day started

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with us today. We've got rain
on the way now. When I came

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in, there was no rain,
and when Cono came in, it was

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pouring the whole way. So it
looks like the storm has arrived. They

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say that they're expecting or we are
expecting a couple inches of rain and so

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areas and the downpour is expected to
affect the morning commute. So if you're

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out and about again when the rainfalls
here, those roads get slick. And

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it's nothing compared to what they've been
dealing with back east or even up in

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the Northwest with the ice storms and
all of that. But we're not used

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to it every day, so it's
a big deal. So just be safe

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out there. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call. Ron DeSantis has dropped

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out of the race to be president
and has thrown his support behind former President

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Trump. Desanta's made the announcement yesterday, saying there was no path for him

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to win the nomination. The New
Hampshire primary is tomorrow. Trump and former

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley are the
two candidates left. About twenty nine thousand

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faculty and staff members at all twenty
three cal state campuses or walking off the

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job today for the first day of
a five day strike. See as you

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says, it's not canceling classes.
That could be interesting. Bunch of students

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show up, no professors there.
They do say that they're going to leave

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it up to the faculty members.
But I know somebody who says he knows

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he's walking off, and he knows
about everybody else he knows is walking off.

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Did that make sense? Heavy rain, as I mentioned, expected across

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the Southland before this latest storm moves
out. Between a half and two inches

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of rain could fall in the valleys
and along the coast. A floodwatch is

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in effect until tonight for the Inland
Empire. At six zh five, it's

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handle on the news. Prime Minister
Netanyahu has rejected the idea of a two

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state solution for the Palestinians. Once
the war with mos is over, let's

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get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour

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newsroom. As heavy rains descend on
the Southland, people living near Topanga Canyon

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have been told to get ready to
leave because of the risk of mud and

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debris flows. For do Go Fire
Academy chief Sam Digiana says, there are

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signs the ground is about to slide. Look for water or statue the areas

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that are normally not there. Look
for a movement of rocks and soils,

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fences or poles, they may be
tilted. Those are good signs that the

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earth is the land is starting to
shift, and evacuation warning is in place

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until six tomorrow morning. The warning
is also in place for the Agua Fire

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burned scar in the Santa Clarita Valley. Residents have been told to be ready

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to leave if needed. A candlelight
vigil has been held at Monterey Park City

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Hall on the first anniversary of the
mass shooting at a dance hall where eleven

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people were killed. Mayor Jose Sanchez
said last night that gun violence needs to

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end. The shooter went to a
different dance hall in Alhambra after the attack

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last year at the Star Ballroom dance
studio, but was stopped by a guy

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who chased him off. The shooter
killed himself the next day when he was

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pulled over by police outside of Strip
Mall in Torrance. Three of four men

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found dead at a home in Palmdale
have been identified. The Medical Examiner's office

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hasn't said how they died. Had
expound the men last week when they responded

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to a report about man men with
medical complications. A sheriff's official said it

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looked like the men had been dead
for a while. One man was in

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his sixties, the other three were
in their thirties. Jet Blue and Spirit

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Airlines say they're going to appeal a
judge's ruling blocking a merger between the two

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carriers. ABC's Geo Benitez says Jet
Blue made a nearly four billion dollar bid

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in twenty twenty two to acquire Spirit
Airlines, but the Justice Department had argued

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that a merger would reduce competition and
harm consumers looking for those deals. President

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Biden called the ruling blocking the merger
a win for consumers. Let's say good

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morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan So
Jim. The Justice Department report just came

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out about the Uvalde school shooting last
week, and now people want someone to

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pay. Yes, they want to
see criminal charges brought. That's been kind

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of the the call for a long
time. But it happened the day after

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the DOJ report came out. Coincidence, Well, the district attorney in Uvalde

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County says it was a coincidence that
she had been working on this for some

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time anyway. In fact, she
was opposed to have named day grand jury,

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seated a grand jury by the end
of last year. It didn't happen,

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But it did happen the day after
the DOJ report came out. That

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report, of course, a five
hundred and seventy five page document that was

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very critical of the police's response to
the rob Elementary school shooting. And now

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this twelve member of grand jury in
Uvality itself will decide whether any criminal charges

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should be brought against police commanders or
lower level police officers. Hey, okay,

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so then refresh our memory because I
know this came out late last week.

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But some of the failures, they
called it cascading failures. So what

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were some of the things that obviously
went wrong when people were killed, but

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the police response to it. Yeah, probably the number one problem that the

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DOJ found was a lack of urgency. The first person on the scene for

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law enforcer on the scene was the
head of the Uvalde School District Police department.

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He took this as a potential barricaded
person situation when it should have been

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handled as an active shooter. So
instead of mustering the forces and barging in

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taking out the shooter and saving as
many kids as possible, that they tried

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to negotiate with him. They tried
to get him to a toss down the

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gun, but protocol and policies said
that this was not a barricaded person,

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but this was an active shooter.
DOJ said that was a major and really

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foundational problem that led to this cascade
of problems afterward. Okay, and then

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you said that it could be that
they would be looking at potentially charging anywhere

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from the higher ups to the rank
and file people who responded, yes,

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what could the charges be? Could
be childhoo endangerment, It could be gross

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negligence. There could be some criminal
charges coming out of this, but it

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would it'd be a difficult case to
prove, you know, because in two

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thousand and five, the US Supreme
Court ruled that police officers do not have

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a constitutional duty to protect others from
harm. Oh that sounds like that kind

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of puts the end to the case
right there. It potentially could, but

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the DA said she felt compelled to
seat a grand jury, that this grand

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jury will hear the evidence from her
office and then decide whether six months or

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so from now, that's how long
it's expected to take any charges should be

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filed. You know what I start, you know, the wheels start turning,

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and I think of the outcomes,
and I think that it almost feels

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like, especially if it's going to
be a really high bar to get any

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kind of a conviction on this,
that it just prolongs the suffering of the

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families. You know, like she
felt compelled to investigate. But if you

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bring charges and then they're acquitted,
I mean, think of it's like the

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family have to relive this all over
again. Yes, and undoubtedly if it

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does go to trial, if charges
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some of them would have to testify, They would have to relive this whole

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thing again. Yeah, you're right, there's no great resolution to any of

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this. And I think that because
the eighteen year old gunman was killed that

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day, families are desperate. They're
grasping it something to make sense of all

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of this, and I think that
these potential criminal charges are one way to

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do that. And then the other
thing is the people who were involved who

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could find themselves charged. Don't we
think that they feel awful about what happened.

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I mean, it's not like they
went in there and said, Ha,

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we're just going to sit here and
let people this guy kill people.

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I mean, that wasn't their intent. And I wonder if they would have

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to prove intent. I don't think
they would. But I think you're right.

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I think there's not a police officer
who was assigned to that school that

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day, or a police officer who
was assigned to park at Parkland High School

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in Florida, or to columb Mine. I don't think there's a police officer

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involved in any of that who wouldn't
go back and change some things. And

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certainly that's the case at U Valley. Okay, so then what are we

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looking at next? So they're doing
an investigation, Yes, well, the

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DA it's her job to gather up
the evidence and a lot of that will

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come from the state investigative report that
came out over a year ago. She

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may also include some of the information
from the DOJ report, although a lot

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of that duplicates what was in the
state investigative report. So she presents the

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evidence to the grand jury. The
process, the panel will meet. It's

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a twelve member grand jury. They'll
meet you. If history is any indicator,

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they'll meet twice a month or so. It will take about six months

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to decide whether charges should be brought
or not. So and by the way,

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they're lucky they got to twelve people
for this grand jury. Two hundred

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were called up for this, No, I think it was three. Three

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hundred people got summons it's to come
down to the courthouse and to be a

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potential part of this grand jury.
Only sixty four showed up. So and

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you know, in the valley,
like everywhere else, it's hard to get

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people to show up for jeury duty. You wondered too, if if people

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said, I'm just I can't do
this potentially can't look at this again,

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yeah, or and you're right,
and what if they decide to what if

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the grandeury no bills and these officers
says, no, we don't see any

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criminal wrongdoing. They're going to be
pariahs in their town. Yeah. Yeah,

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really, it's just no good,
no resolution. This is all that's

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satisfied to anybody else. All Right, thank you so much for the information,

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Jim. We'll be we'll be watching
it right along with you. Thanks.

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Am. All right, take care. Now, let's get back to

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some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Florida

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Governor Ron DeSantis is out of the
race for president. He made the announcement

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yesterday, hours before New Hampshire's primary. If there was anything I could do

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to produce a favorable outcome, more
campaign stops, more interviews, I would

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do it. But I can't ask
our supporters to volunteer their time and donate

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their resources if we don't have a
clear path to victory. DeSantis has endorsed

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former President Trump, who praised DeSantis
last night. He read a really good

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campaign. I will tell you it's
not easy. Desanta's finished a distant second

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to Trump in the Iowa caucuses and
had, according to polls, just about

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six percent of the vote heading into
tomorrow's New Hampshire primary. A court has

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ordered the state and Huntington Beach to
resolve an affordable housing fight that's gone back

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and forth for years. Huntington Beach
has state affordable housing mandates are unrealistic and

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would redevelop the beach Town community into
high density housing. The state says Huntington

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Beach must do it's part to help
solve the housing crisis with more affordable housing.

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The state has sued to enforce the
mandate. The city has sued,

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claiming it's a charter city and therefore
exempt from the mandates. An appeals court

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Thursday tossed a lower court ruling that
paused enforcement of the mandate and ordered a

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hearing set for a trial date and
temporary relief by the end of the month

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in Orange County. KORbin Carson KFI
News. At least twenty seven people have

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been killed in an attack on a
Russian occupied area of eastern Ukraine. ABC's

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Lama Hassan says the strike yesterday targeted
a busy market in the Russian held city

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of Denetsk. The local leader of
the region calls it a horrendous strike and

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blames Ukraine for the attack, claiming
it was carried out during the market's busiest

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time. Russia's Foreign ministry called it
a barbaric terrorist attack against civilians. Saudi

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Arabia says it will not normalize relations
with Israel or contribute to Gaza's reconstruction without

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a credible pathway to a Palestinian state. ABC's Geordana Miller says Israeli Prime Minister

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Benjamin Natanyahu has rejected Palestinian statehood,
Natanya insisting it would only be a security

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risk. US Secretary of State Antony
Blincoln says establishing a Palestinian state would be

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the best way to protect Israel,
unite the Arab world, and isolate Iran.

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We're going to be finding out more
about what Netanyah who had to say.

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We'll be checking in with ABC's Geordana
Miller in about six minutes. Eating

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dark chocolate could reduce the risk of
high blood pressure. Good news for dark

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chocolate fans. A new study in
the journal Nature Scientific Reports of the journals

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called Nature Scientific Reports found that dark
chocolate may also decrease the risk of blood

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clotting. While an exact cause couldn't
be determined, Experts say the findings may

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warrant further research for any benefits in
combating cardiovascular diseases. I would imagine they

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wouldn't have a hard time finding people
to volunteer for that research. Residents living

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near Tipega Canyon have been told to
be ready to leave their homes, and

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evacuation warning is up because of the
thread of mud and debris flows along Santa

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Maria Road north of Tipanga Canyon Boulevard. Between a half inch and two inches

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of rain is expected today in the
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says several American service members have been
injured in a missile attack on an airbase

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in western Iraq. Wish She'll say. Iranian backed militants launched ballistic missiles at

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the Alisad air base on Saturday.
US Central Command says most of the missiles

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were intercepted, but some hit the
base. The four leading candidates for the

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Senate seat once held by late Diane
Feinstein will be facing off in a debate

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tonight. Democrats Adam Schiff, Barbara
Lee, and Katie Porter, along with

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Republican Steve Garvey, will take part
in the debate that will air at sixth

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on KFI, also on Fox eleven. Our own Mo Kelly is one of

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the moderators. We're going to be
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in about a half an hour,
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at six oh five. It's handled
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Santa's canceled all his Sunday News show
interviews and then canceled his campaign to be

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president. I'm sure Bill will have
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good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller. Jordana, the calls are mounting for

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Israel to back down or go with
a ceasefire. But Benjamin Natanielle who came

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out yesterday or over the weekend and
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to happen. That's right. He
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to end its war against Hamas right
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if it were to do that,
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to the terror group. Because it
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fourth month of this war and it
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is underground fortress, its city of
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south, and there is a lot
more quote unquote work to be done,

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according to Israel, to dismantle Hamas
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part of any governing body in the
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him to mess sickly. And of
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collision course with the Biden administration because
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a phased hostage deal that would ultimately
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Palestinian statehood. And he also said
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in Gaza. That all could change
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position right now, one that in
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to have because it keeps him in
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right wing partners who would essentially pull
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of you know, bring down the
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state. So you know, Natagielle
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well. So he's also coming under
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the hostages, who are now holding
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just a short while ago a group
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committee hearing at the Parliament and started
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enough to bring their loved ones home, that they should pull out of this

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government. And there's a lot of
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those families and growing among the public
that Nitaielle, you know, is more

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concerned with dismantling Hamas than bringing home
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no longer they can no longer work
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you do, damned if you don't
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if Nitagnell agrees to stop the war
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to know if there would be enough
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start the war again, and then
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getting rid of Hamas. Hamas will
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We can understand also Natannielle's position.
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once the war is over, and
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that chance that Natanya who won't be
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under a lot of criticism for possibly
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on October seventh and attacked, and
there are lots of calls, so he's

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also having to kind of walk that
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in power and still accomplish my goals? That's right, I mean nataniel is

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deeply, deeply unpopular and it was
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his UH coalition partners to pull out
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elections today, who would you vote
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went from its current thirty two seats
down to sixteen. And his war general

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who came in to join General Benny
Gantz, who's in charge of a he

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leads a centrist party. He shoots
up to thirty seven. So we can

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already see who is likely going to
be the next prime minister and why Natanya

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who is walking such a tight rope
he wants to stay in power, but

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you know, it's unclear if he
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goals he's set out for himself in
order to in some way, you know,

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we can say, you know,
somehow make up for the huge failure

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of October seventh, So clear,
Jordana. Last week we were talking about

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how there was some movement where the
they agreed to let some medical aid get

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to some of the hostages who are
critically in need of medicines. Did that

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aid get to them? I know
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a show and they were saying that
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hostages. Yeah. We actually haven't
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to be the ones verifying that Hamas
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to the hostages. We haven't heard
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that five trucks with a lot of
medicine, because for each box that you

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know, was set aside for the
hostages, there were hundreds of boxes put

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in or onto the trucks, loaded
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we do know that there was a
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which is desperately needed. We don't
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yet. Okay, all right,
Jordana, thank you so much for the

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update to pre shd it. Thanks
Tuck soon. All right, talk soon.

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four hour newsroom. Nearly thirty thousand
faculty members and other employees of the twenty

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three campus cal State University System are
going on strike. They're expected to take

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to the picket lions this morning and
a rally a set for later today at

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cal State Northridge. The five day
walkout is being held despite a tentative three

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year contract that was reached Friday between
the CSU system and the union representing more

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than a thousand skilled trade workers separate
groups. A headless body has been found

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by Spectrum workers in South la.
The head was found late yesterday under the

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body, which was said to be
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person. The family of a student
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Poly San Luis Obispo is suing the
university for wrongful death. The parents of

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Kristin Smart say university officials allowed their
daughter's killer to keep going to school despite

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the many previous allegations against him.
Paul Flores lived in Long Beach when he

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was arrested. He was eventually convicted
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The lawsuit says the university had a
duty to properly investigate students' harassments and stalking

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claims against Flores, and had they
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or expelled, preventing Kristen from being
raped and murdered. The university said he

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cannot comment on pending litigation. Steve
Gregory King if I News. Two Navy

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seals missing in the Gulf of Aden
for over a week are presumed dead.

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ABC's Lewis Martinez says US aircraft and
ships have been in the region since January

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eleventh looking for the seals. Bencom
now says the two seals are presumed to

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be deceased and the operation will switch
to a recovery mission. The two seals

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were part of a risky nine time
mission aboard of boats suspected of smuggling Iranian

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made weapons to the Huthi militants and
Yemen officials say one of the seals fell

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into the water during rough seas the
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has been seen since. Former President
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the defamation trial by writer E.
Gen Carroll, but the judge has ruled

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if Trump testifies today, he cannot
say Carol lied about her allegations, nor

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that she was motivated by financial or
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found that Trump sexually abused Carol.
Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the race

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to be president and has endorsed former
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saying there was no path for him
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Hampshire primary is tomorrow. Trump and
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two candidates left. And we're just
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Stephen Portnoy. He's gonna give us
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About twenty nine thousand faculty and staff
members at all twenty three cal State

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campuses are walking off the job today
for the first day of a five day

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strike. CSU says it is not
canceling classes. Heavy rains expected across the

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Southland. Before this latest storm moves
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rain could fall in the valleys and
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the mountains and foothills. A floodwatch
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Empire. If I pin fifty,
we're going to be talking with the host

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of Later with Moe Kelly, mister
Moe Kelly, because he's going to host

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a different show tonight. He's going
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debate, which you can hear right
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eleven. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Steven Portnoy. So,

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Steven, the big surprise Desantas is
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I mean, look, Ron DeSantis
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Hampshire and he lost to Donald Trump
and Iowa by thirty points. There wasn't

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really a path forward for him nationally. He obviously donors had indicated that he

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should not further dig a hole for
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I met several here in New Hampshire
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disloyal for not backing Trump. In
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the running, and he has endorsed
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He said in his video post that
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elevation of Anthony Fauci, he would
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nominee, and he says it shouldn't
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called Nicki Haley a repackaged form of
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of the running, the impact is
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He has endorsed Trump. Trump is
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to mock and degrade DeSantis for the
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sanctimonious. In fact that Donald Trump
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and even a terrific person. And
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my colleague Rachel Scott within the last
week, lamenting the fact that all you

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have to do is kiss Donald Trump's
ring and he'll change his mind about you.

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And that has borne out. So
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now a two person race here in
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But DeSantis with six percent support,
dropping out. The poll that put

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him at six percent also indicated that
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if they had to make a second
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in that survey by eleven points over
Nicki Haley, you can expect that margin

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to widen and for Trump to enjoy
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percent support in that pole, so
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and Niki Haley will give it as
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tomorrow night how well she places,
but I will tell you, having traveled

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to Haley events and Trump events throughout
the state here, Nicki Haley has enthusiasm

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behind her. But it's also people
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inclined, people who have not taken
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the entire time they've lived here,
but they feel now this is an opportunity

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for them to essentially stick at to
Trump, which is why Trump at his

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rallies is saying that it's Democrats who
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not Republicans. He says it's time
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And the challenge for Haley going forward
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open primaries. On Saturday night,
as if to demonstrate just how popular he

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is in Nicky Haley's home state,
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Hampshire's biggest arena, which was packed
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Governor of South Carolina, the state
treasurer, the attorney general, the speaker

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of the state House, and three
members of the state's congressional delegation, as

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if to demonstrate just how much of
the official political establishment of the GOP in

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South Carolina is backing him instead of
the immediate past governor. Yeah, and

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that included Ron Scott, who was
running for president has now endorsed Trump,

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right, Tim Scott and Tim Scott
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that he would be endorsing Donald Trump
as well, and Nicky Haley appointed Tim

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Scott to that seat about eleven years
ago. So look, the fact is

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it'll be a very difficult challenge for
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here. And her argument in the
closing days has been that she is an

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alternative to Donald Trump and Joe Biden
that she is someone who can bring the

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country together behind her candidacy, and
there's an emblem of that. You could

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see it in her enthusiasm that she
enjoys here in New Hampshire. But the

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challenge is it's hard to win a
Republican nomination against a former holder who won

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that nomination twice in closed Republican primaries
where he is the overwhelming favorite. It's

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easier in an open primary, but
that's not the contests ahead. You know,

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we've talked in the past weeks and
months that if everybody had dropped out

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and all of that support went to
the remaining candidate, they still wouldn't beat

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Trump. But it looks like as
they're dropping out, Trump is gaining the

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support. So it's not it's not
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I think that at what we have
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point is what has taken us to
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that Trump always had more support than
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support that the other candidates had,
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it stands to reason then that if
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Trump still has the most support.
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we be saying Trump is the presumptive
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Scott the other day that she's in
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that she's going to spend money in
South Carolina. She knows the state well,

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she's going to spend the next month, and it'll be a month trying

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to win support. Ron DeSantis said
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I'm curious to like, to me, it was a surprise that he dropped

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out. You're in New Hampshire and
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things. What kinds of things happen
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I want to, I can't.
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that the money dries up, or
is it supporters telling you know, or

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what kinds of things lead to that
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It's the donors who are saying,
buddy, you're not getting another dime out

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of me. I've already wasted enough
money on you. It's increasingly you're hearing

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from voters who are inclined to support
Trump. I'm not going to be with

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DeSantis in four years if he doesn't
drop out now. And DeSantis has been

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reflective of that, saying, well, maybe not this time, but maybe

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next time. And he's going to
need those Trump supporters the longer that the

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image is that Rond DeSantis is sanctimonious
and Ron DeSantis is a phony or whatever

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Trump might say, those messages sink
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the lasting damage that was done to
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Party as a function of what happened
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DeSantis was of a mind to say, now's the time to step aside so

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that I can have a political future. And he could. He's just forty

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five years old. Well, and
he's got more years to build on his

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record in Florida, which was the
strongest argument for his candidacy, that he

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could actually get things done as an
executive. The challenge for DeSantis was he

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wasn't a great politician. Yeah,
he just wasn't. He didn't He had

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trouble connecting with voters when he would
listen to him do interviews. He would

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he would sort of focus on the
tiny parochial things. He was on ABC's

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This Week last weekend. He was
given eight and a half minutes, almost

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nine minutes at the network television time, and he spent a good sixty seconds

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talking about the endorsement of one Congressman
from Texas named Chip Roy, who most

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Americans, in fact, I say
most Washington reporters really don't think a lot

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about so and it's tough when you
don't. There are certain candidates who just

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have that sort of it factor,
which is they're exactly right and you see

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it. You know, in the
initial enthusiasm for Ron DeSantis a year ago

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he was leading Hundle Trump in the
polls, was based on his image his

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record, But as more voters got
to see who he was and see how

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he performed, they lost their appetite. All right, Steven portnoy As always,

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thank you so much for the information. And inside it here it's cold

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in New Hampshire, not as cold
as Iowa, but cold. Oh it's

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balmy here that he was eighteen degrees
over the week and much better than nineteen

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below. Sweet. All right,
well, have fun, we'll talk to

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you soon, Stephen. Thank you. Let's get back to some of the

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stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. US Central Command says

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some American soldiers are being evaluated for
traumatic brain injuries following an attack on a

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US base in western Iraq. Official
say and I Ran backed militia fired several

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ballistic missiles and rockets at the base
overnight. National Security spokesman John Kirby says

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most were intercepted by air defense systems. One reason why there weren't more injuries

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or more extensive damage was because we
have taken necessary force protection precautions in the

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rear to try to prepare for these
kinds of attacks. Kirby says the US

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will continue to demand the attack stop
and will take steps to better defend itself

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in the region. Two men have
been stabbed at a party in LA's Waste

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Westlake Area. Police they both stabbings
yesterday may have happened during a robbery for

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beer money. Both of the people
injured were taken to the hospital. Two

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men in a large suv had been
killed in a crash into the San Gabriel

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River in Long Beach. The car
was headed south on Studebaker Road last night

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when it ended up under ten feet
of water. One man died at the

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hospital, the other was trapped inside
the suv and died at the scene.

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The Beekeeper has fallen short at the
box office at Becoming Queen Bee. That's

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because Fetch is still a thing for
the past. Like two weeks in a

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row, the new Mean Girl's musical
movie has crushed its competition. Now.

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Although the movie did see a steep
fifty nine percent drop in ticket sales this

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week, it still was able to
add nearly twelve million dollars to its domestic

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total. The movie now has accumulated
fifty million dollars domestically. Jason Statham's Beekeeper

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movie came in second once again,
netting about eight point three million dollars over

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the weekend, rounding out the top
three Wonka earning another six point seven million

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dollars. Andrew Caravella KFI News Residents
living near Topega Canyon have been told to

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be ready to get out quick,
and evacuation warning is in place because of

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the threat of mud and debris flows
along Santa Maria Road north of Topanga Canyon

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Boulevard. As I mentioned, between
a half inch and two inches of rain

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expected in the valleys and along the
coast today. The Pentagon says several American

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service members were injured in a missile
attack on an air base in western Iraq.

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Official say Iranian backed militants launched ballistic
missiles at the Alisada Airbase Saturday.

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US Central Command says most of the
missiles were intercepted, but some got through.

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The NFL Conference championships are set.
Baltimore beat Houston and the forty nine

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Ers Go. Niners top Green Bay. In the AFC. The Lion scored

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another post season win over the Buccaneers
and the defending Super Bowl champions each The

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Chiefs edged Buffalo. In the NFC, the Chiefs take on the Ravens,

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and San Francisco go's head to head
with Detroit on Sunday. Let's say good

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morning to the hosts of Later with
Mo Kelly, our very own Mo Kelly,

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who's doing a different kind of hosting
this evening. Good morning, mo,

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Good morning, Amy King. Tell
us tell us you're going to be

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moderating the debate, Yes, the
California Senate debate, which is going to

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be at USC's Beauvart Auditorium. You
have congresspeople Adam Schiff, Katie Porter,

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Barbara Lee, and also Republican businessman
Steve Garvey. Those are the top four

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polling candidates out of some twenty seven
names who are listed on the official ballot

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will be vying to become California's next
Senator to fill in the seat of the

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late Dianne Feinstein and also the seat
which is vacated by Lafonza Butler, Okay,

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you said that there's twenty seven people. How did they pick the four

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to participate, just top top top
four polling Yes, top four polling cons

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candidates. Okay, and you are
moderating along with whom I'm not moderating.

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I will have a role, but
it's gonna be moderated by Fox eleven and

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Politico Alex Michaelson and one of the
persons from Politico. They'll be moderating.

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I have submitted some questions in which
I will I guess I'll have some microphone

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time, and I've submitted some five
or so questions. They'll tell you which

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ones will be picked because there are
a number of organizations which are submitting questions

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and they want to make sure that
they're not all the same or not all

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about this item or that item.
But I can imagine that there will be

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some questions about former President Donald Trump. I can imagine that there will be

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some questions about immigration and immigration reform
or crime, things that are top of

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mind for you and me and all
of us who live in the state of

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California. Hey, I don't recall, and it's probably just because I wasn't

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paying attention, but I don't recall
a Senate debate recently being aired like this.

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I think it's no. This is
a huge deal now if you want

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to put it within the context of
the larger American politics. As California goes,

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usually the rest of the country goes, and if anything, you get

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a sense of the mood. And
yes, we know that California is a

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mostly Democratic state in terms of party
politics, but this time it's very different.

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We have the Senate which is going
to be on the line. It's

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in a presidential election season. You
have former President Trump, who's polling very

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well and could presumably return to the
oval office, and if you were,

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that meants means that his vice president
would have the tie breaking vote if there

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is a tie of the Senate,
and so the balance of the Senate is

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up for grabs, if you will, and also just the future of America.

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So this Senate debate, even though
we haven't had a Republican win as

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Senator since nineteen eighty eight, Steve
Garvey is doing exceptionally well. And with

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California's jungle primary system, the top
two vote getters in the primary will go

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on to the general election. So
mathematically it could shake out where the Democratic

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candidates would cut each other at the
knees, as they say, and cut

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into each other's votes. So you
could have a Democratic and Republican candidate go

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on to the general election and it's
anybody's game at that point. Or it

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could be two Democrats. It's just
the top two finishers. Two finishers,

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correct, correct, all right?
And is Steve Garvey's kind of He's getting

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a lot of buzz right now.
He's getting a lot of buzz because he

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is no nonsense plane talking less political
sounding rhetoric is very refreshing and I got

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to say, is something that is
going to resident with a lot of California

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voters. Here's the problem for Steve
Garvey. It comes down to the math.

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It's more than two to one non
Republicans. What I mean by that

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is registered Democrats and registered Independents outnumber
register Republicans two to one. So Steve

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Garvey's message will have to resonate with
either independence or Democrats registered Democrats for him

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to win come November. And probably
doesn't hurt that he was a dodger.

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No, it does not hurt,
if only because of name recognition, and

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that's always a part of this,
all right, And the win is the

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debate and where can we where can
we consume it? Well, you can

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consume it right here on KFI AM
six point forty. It's going to begin

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at six pm tonight. It's going
to run to about seven thirty and then

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later with Mo Kelly. It's going
to be broadcasting live from the Spin Room

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for the rest of the evening.
So it's our home to talk to all

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four of the candidates. You decide. People who listen to me know that

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I don't endorse candidates. I don't
donate two campaigns, So it's up to

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you to decide we want to talk
to all four that we've been reaching out

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to the campaigns. I'll be down
there nights at early today to make sure

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that no one runs away. Right
after the debate. I love that,

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So I didn't realize that you we're
going to do that on your show tonight.

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That's going to make it even better
because the debates are fun. But

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I love the spin room too,
so I'm looking forward to hearing that We're

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going to be right next to everything
that is going on, so we'll be

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able to hear the debate live on
KFI, and then you get to hear's

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some response from their answers of what
they thought about other candidates answers immediately thereafter.

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Okay, mo Kelly starting at six
with the big US Senate debate,

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and then followed immediately after with Mo
chasing them down and getting the real scoop.

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I love it. Can't wait.
All right, Thank you so much,

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Mo Kelly. Thanks for getting up
early to share the scoop with us

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this morning. Talk soon. All
right, let's get back to some of

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the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Rain is expected

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in southern California during your morning commute
and throughout the day. This storm is

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the strongest in a series of three
storms that have rolled through southern California since

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last week. Thunderstorm warnings were issued
overnight. People in some parts of Tapanga

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Canyon were told to prepare for evacuations
in case of flooding. The National Weather

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Services periods of rain are expected throughout
the day. A flood watch will be

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in effect most of the day in
Orange County coastal and inlet areas, along

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with the Santa Anna mountains and foothills. There's also a flood watch in effect

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in the Inland Empire. As we've
been talking about, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

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has dropped out of the race for
president. Republican Congressman Matt Gates told Trump

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supporters in New Hampshire yesterday that DeSantis
has endorsed Trump. Welcome home, Ron,

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Welcome back to the MAGA movement,
where you have always belonged, and

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where we will welcome you and be
honored to count you among our legion as

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we go forward unifying this Republican Party
for victory. DeSantis finished second to Trump

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in the Io Caucuses, a distant
second. Trump praised DeSantis last night for

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running a good campaign and making a
gracious exit. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Hayley

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held a rally in New Hampshire after
the news that Desantas had dropped out.

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Thank you so much, exitter,
thanks for coming out. Can you hear

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that sound. That's the sound of
a two person raise. Haley is still

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pulling far behind former President Trump.
Desanta says she represents the old Republican Guard,

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which he called a repackaged form of
warmed over corporatism. The former president

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and CEO of a medical clinic in
Whittier is facing decades in federal prison for

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bogus buildings to a medical program that
provides family planning services to low income people

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without health insurance. Vincenzo Rubino pleaded
guilty in August to nine counts of health

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care fraud and two counts of aggravated
identity theft. He could get up to

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ten years in federal prison for each
health care fraud count and a mandatory sentence

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of two consecutive years for each aggravated
identity theft count. This is KFI and

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kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County. We lead local live from the

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KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm
Amy King. This has been your wake

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up call, and if you missed
any wake up call, you can listen

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anytime on the iHeartRadio app you've been
listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy

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King. You can always hear Wake
Up Call five to six am Monday through

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Friday on kf I Am six forty, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app