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What else has occurred with the court, so 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,960 we have We got a federal appeals court that has 12 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,399 allowed President Donald Trump to be president. 13 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,679 Speaker 2: So that's fantastic. That was good news too. 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's allowed to maintain control of the California National 15 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:52,719 Guard troops. In response to THELA protests, A federal appeals 16 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:59,960 court has indefinitely blocked an effort by California Governor Gavin Newsome. 17 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:04,439 Why do people not call him gavernor Newsom. I'm going 18 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:10,400 to start calling him gavernor Newsom California gaverner. Anyway, he 19 00:01:10,439 --> 00:01:13,480 wanted to reclaim control of the National Guard troops, and. 20 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,879 Speaker 2: I guess that's just tyranny. It's not for our democracy. 21 00:01:18,719 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: A three judge panel of San Francisco based Ninth Circus 22 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:27,400 Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Trump appeared to have 23 00:01:27,519 --> 00:01:31,439 acted within his authority when he took control of four 24 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,920 thousand California National Guard troops under a law that has 25 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,599 never been invoked without the consent of a state governor. 26 00:01:38,879 --> 00:01:43,920 That's I don't think that's true Politico. That's like a 27 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,959 week or so ago when he did it. We talked 28 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,680 about the times when it has been done, notably to 29 00:01:51,799 --> 00:01:55,000 you know, force Democrats to give up their indentured servants 30 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,480 and such. Anyway, despite a debate over the level of 31 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:04,560 violence accompanying the protest, the judges concluded that the law 32 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,360 gives Trump enormous latitude to determine that the protests and 33 00:02:09,439 --> 00:02:14,319 the related violence were interfering with the execution of federal law. 34 00:02:14,599 --> 00:02:19,080 Which is like literally what the law says that he 35 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,800 can take control of the National Guard in order to 36 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:29,520 effectuate the enforcement and execution of federal law. And what 37 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:35,080 were the protests and the violence doing. They were obstructing 38 00:02:35,759 --> 00:02:37,639 the execution of federal law. 39 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 2: That's the point. 40 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,439 Speaker 1: They were attacking ice agents, they were blocking their pathways 41 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:47,479 in such their roads, and so they were obstructing those efforts, 42 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,080 and so they said, you know what, We're going to 43 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,159 send the Guard into let the Ice and Border Patrol 44 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,599 continue their ops. 45 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:55,879 Speaker 2: How did you. 46 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: By the way, the three judge panel two pointed by 47 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,719 Trump and one of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden, 48 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:09,639 but it was unanimous. The judges said, there are limits 49 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,479 to the president's ability to call up the Guard, but 50 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,560 there was enough evidence of civil unrest and danger to 51 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:23,360 federal officials to justify Trump's actions. Yeah, clearly, it's all 52 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,120 on video. The ruling indefinitely sets aside a decision by 53 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,840 the lower court US District Judge Charles Bryer, who is 54 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:36,000 the son of the former US Supreme Court Justice Steven Bryer. 55 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:43,840 If I recall correctly, Charles Bryer last week issued a 56 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:48,479 temporary restraining order against Trump's deployment of the Guard. Now 57 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:51,280 Brier is scheduled to hold another hearing in the case 58 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,080 today to consider Gaviner Newsom's request for a longer term 59 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,280 block of both the Guard deployment and Trump's subsequent deployment 60 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,039 of seven hundred marines. So we'll see how that works 61 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,280 out for him. By the way, Gavin Or put out 62 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,360 a statement. 63 00:04:13,199 --> 00:04:14,199 Speaker 2: On Twitter. 64 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:18,959 Speaker 3: Donald Trump is not sorry. Donald Trump is not a king, 65 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:23,399 not above the law. Tonight, the court rightly rejected Trump's 66 00:04:23,399 --> 00:04:25,720 claim that he can do whatever he wants with the 67 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,759 National Guard and not have to explain himself to a court. 68 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,079 We will not let this authoritarian use of military soldiers 69 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:38,000 against citizens go unchecked. Okay, to be fair, the National 70 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:42,439 Guard is not doing anything against the citizens. Unless people 71 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,959 start attacking law enforcement or the Guard, they would be responding, okay, 72 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:48,480 number one. 73 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:54,759 Speaker 1: Number two, why is Gavin sounding like he won this thing? Well, 74 00:04:55,519 --> 00:04:59,319 there was one part. There was one part of the ruling, 75 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,879 and that what he is using here to claim victory, 76 00:05:04,519 --> 00:05:09,079 which he did not right because they rejected his argument. 77 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,560 So here's the part to do here. It is from Politico. 78 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:21,800 Despite ultimately ruling for Trump, all three judges flatly rejected 79 00:05:22,079 --> 00:05:25,399 the administration's claimed that the courts had no role in 80 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:28,519 reviewing his call up of the military to Los Angeles. 81 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,879 That was one of their arguments. They made several arguments. 82 00:05:31,079 --> 00:05:36,079 One of the arguments was that the courts don't have 83 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,639 any authority to be intervening in this. He's you know, 84 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,959 operating under his Article two powers, and so the Article 85 00:05:43,959 --> 00:05:47,759 three branch has no role in adjudicating any of this, 86 00:05:47,879 --> 00:05:52,360 and the judges said, yes, we do, because they say, like, 87 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:55,600 if his you know, call up of the guard had 88 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,839 been quote obviously absurd or made in bad faith something right, 89 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:03,040 then the courts would clearly have. 90 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,399 Speaker 2: A role in assessing that. 91 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: But he does, like, he has a right to do 92 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:19,560 what he has done. Newsom could ask a larger eleven 93 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,040 judge panel of the Appeals Court to take up the 94 00:06:22,079 --> 00:06:27,240 issue or seek emergency relief from the US Supreme Court. 95 00:06:27,399 --> 00:06:28,879 Speaker 2: Does he do this? I don't know. 96 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,759 Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any prediction on this, but 97 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,879 I mean, the violence has largely subsided in Los Angeles now. 98 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,639 Newsom and his attorneys had argued that Trump's involvement of 99 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,480 the National Guard was likely to fuel more anger from 100 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:50,399 protesters and inflame an already tense situation on the streets 101 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:54,439 of La Sorry, like, do not send the guard here. 102 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,519 People are burning and rioting and looting stuff. We just 103 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,000 have to let them express themselves and it will eventually 104 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,319 burn out or the whole city will burn down. Like 105 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,680 either way, it'll be over at that point, Okay, So 106 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:10,120 you just got to let these things play out. 107 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 2: We got it under control. 108 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,199 Speaker 1: The problem was they did not have it under control, 109 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,120 particularly when it came to defending ICE agents and Border 110 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,279 Patrol agents and other officers who were working with ICE 111 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:33,439 on these deportation operations. Right In one case which actually 112 00:07:33,439 --> 00:07:36,720 triggered the call up of the Guard was that the 113 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:40,360 ICE folks got surrounded, I think in one of the 114 00:07:40,399 --> 00:07:43,879 facilities and they could not get out, They could not 115 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:49,040 get get the rioters to disperse. They call the LAPD 116 00:07:49,519 --> 00:07:51,600 and it takes some more than two hours to get 117 00:07:51,639 --> 00:07:55,959 down there, and they're only like a mile away, So like, 118 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,199 why would it take that long to do that? Why 119 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:04,439 would you not be rolling immediately? The appeals court judges said, 120 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,079 those concerns of you know, the it could fuel more anger, 121 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:13,360 it could fuel more protesting, it could lead to more violence. 122 00:08:13,639 --> 00:08:17,839 And the judges were like, yeah, that's we don't know 123 00:08:17,879 --> 00:08:20,839 that to be true. You don't know that to be true. 124 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:26,040 They said, California's concerns about escalation and interference with local 125 00:08:26,079 --> 00:08:31,360 law enforcement are too speculative. In other words, you're just 126 00:08:31,399 --> 00:08:34,320 making stuff up, guy, What are you doing. We do 127 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,320 not know whether future protests will grow due to the 128 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:40,240 deployment of the National Guard, and we do not know 129 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,720 what emergencies may occur in California while the Guard is deployed, 130 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,519 because they were arguing, what if we need the guard 131 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,200 for something else? Well, you know, you don't send them 132 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:49,639 in for forest fires. 133 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 2: So like. 134 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: The protests and altercations have now you know, dissipated, they 135 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,240 have diminished. The mayor set a curfew up, but only 136 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,879 after the guard was there. So the curfew was put 137 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,559 in now and they actually lifted it on Tuesday. The 138 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,399 Ninth Circuit also concluded that a technical aspect of the 139 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,240 law you heard this argument too at the time, a 140 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,960 requirement that Trump issue his order to call up the 141 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:21,240 guard through quote unquote through the gaverner. They say that 142 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,360 was not violated. The order was delivered to newsome subordinate, 143 00:09:26,639 --> 00:09:28,919 and even if it were a violation, it would not 144 00:09:29,159 --> 00:09:37,039 justify the lower courts ruling to rescind the order all together. So, surprise, surprise, 145 00:09:38,039 --> 00:09:41,080 a lawyer with a wardrobe change and a leftist ideology 146 00:09:42,039 --> 00:09:45,279 just got bigfooted. 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Alrighty, 168 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:54,840 So another cord ruling here, this one in uh North Carolina. 169 00:10:55,159 --> 00:10:59,440 This story from The Carolina Journal. North Carolina's second highest 170 00:10:59,519 --> 00:11:05,000 court could decide whether state regulators made the wrong choice 171 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,240 when they allowed one healthcare provider to maintain a monopoly 172 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:14,159 on MRI machines up in the northeastern area of North Carolina. 173 00:11:15,399 --> 00:11:18,320 So there's a three judge Court of Appeals panel heard 174 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:23,559 oral arguments this week in a case that pits Virginia 175 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:33,000 based Chesapeake Diagnostic Imaging Centers against Centaura Advanced Imaging Solutions 176 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,240 and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Okay, 177 00:11:38,519 --> 00:11:42,200 so you got this Virginia company and you got Centaura 178 00:11:42,519 --> 00:11:47,960 and the DHS on opposite sides. DHS picked Centaura over 179 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:54,519 Chesapeake to get what's called a certificate of need or 180 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:02,120 CON or CON as I like to call them. Complete 181 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:07,720 distortion of the market. This, this system needs to be 182 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,720 ripped out from its roots in North Carolina. 183 00:12:11,799 --> 00:12:14,919 Speaker 2: It is awful. The CON system is awful. 184 00:12:16,159 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: So the government literally picks winners and losers, and in 185 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,440 this case they picked Centaura as the winner and the 186 00:12:24,519 --> 00:12:31,039 loser is Chesapeake. Okay, so Centaura gets this certificate of need, 187 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:31,919 gets the CON. 188 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 2: This is back in twenty twenty two. 189 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:42,919 Speaker 1: For a new MRI machine, a machine one, a single machine, 190 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:49,320 GOVCO says, I bequeathed to you the ability to buy 191 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:56,840 and offer for medical use a single MRI for Pasquatank, 192 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:05,039 Perkemons not Pokemons, Perquimans, Kuratuck, and Camden Counties. All four 193 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:10,600 of these counties shall have a single MRI and you 194 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,120 shall be the purveyor of it. 195 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 2: CENTAA. 196 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:21,399 Speaker 1: Now Centaura already operated two existing MRI machines, So now 197 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,879 Cintaura gets a third. So okay, So they got three 198 00:13:23,919 --> 00:13:28,639 machines for one, two, three, four counties. So at some 199 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,919 point in the future we may even see Centaura get 200 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,759 a fourth machine. So you would have one MRI machine 201 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,759 per county. Man, you guys would be just living high 202 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:46,120 on the hog there. So Cintaura already had two machines. 203 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:52,200 But CHESAPEAE Chesapeake was hoping to enter the region and 204 00:13:52,279 --> 00:13:57,679 to do something that I like to call compete. They 205 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,960 wanted to offer some level of competition. And I remember 206 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:06,200 somewhere along the line in my education, I think I 207 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,039 remember hearing something about competition driving down costs or something 208 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:16,200 like that, right, being better for the consumer. Trying to 209 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,000 remember it'll come to me. But see, here's the problem 210 00:14:20,039 --> 00:14:23,120 is that Chesapeake didn't get the con. Well, they got CON, 211 00:14:23,159 --> 00:14:24,559 but they didn't get the CON. They didn't get the 212 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:28,159 CON the certificate of need from the state, so they're 213 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:31,960 not allowed to enter the northeastern North Carolina market. You 214 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,840 can't set up an MRI machine here. We don't want 215 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:39,320 to know what's going on inside people, and if we do, 216 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:44,480 we want these guys to do it, not you. So 217 00:14:44,799 --> 00:14:50,679 Chesapeake's lawyers argued that Health Regulator's decision favoring Centaura was 218 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:57,159 a mistake, an agency error, and that error caused substantial 219 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:04,120 prejudice against Chesapeake. Chesapeake has to prove an agency error 220 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:08,519 and substantial prejudice if they want to reverse a con 221 00:15:08,639 --> 00:15:12,960 decision in court. You see the problem here, like you 222 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:16,960 have this system, this certificate of needs system, and then 223 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,759 there's this this scaffolding that is constructed all around the 224 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,480 system for how do you object to it, how do 225 00:15:25,559 --> 00:15:26,399 you overturn it? 226 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:27,639 Speaker 2: How do you get an appeal? 227 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:30,799 Speaker 1: All these rules that are necessary rather than you know, 228 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:33,799 just let Chesapeake come into the market and set up 229 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,600 some MRI machines and if they don't do a good job, 230 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:41,279 if people don't use their service, they'll go out of business. 231 00:15:41,279 --> 00:15:43,240 And then you know what happens to the MRI machines, 232 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,799 somebody else will buy them, right because Chessapeake will be 233 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,240 looking to unload inventory and then maybe Centaurs like, oh, 234 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,039 we can get a really good deal on that MRI 235 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:54,960 machine that they're not going to use anymore, and so 236 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,840 they'll buy it at a discount, and then you would 237 00:15:58,879 --> 00:16:04,120 end up with the same amount of machines. Right, But no, 238 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:06,879 you're not allowed to do that. In North Carolina. We 239 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,360 got dovec in charge. And who doesn't want government making 240 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,519 your decisions on access to care? I mean besides Democrats. 241 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:20,440 Noah huff Stettler is one of the lawyers for Chesapeake 242 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:27,279 and argued against Centaura. Centaura said that during the statee 243 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:36,200 con process that its new machine would increase competition. Centaura 244 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:39,960 said that the one Centaura is the company that already 245 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,039 has the two machines, and they are asking for the 246 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,799 third machine. And in the in the asking process, they 247 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:54,799 say giving us a third machine will increase competition. And 248 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:00,720 huff Stetler says that's pretty rich, pointing to centaur success 249 00:17:00,759 --> 00:17:05,440 in convincing state regulators five years in a row to 250 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:11,880 remove a new MRI scanner from its plans. So Centaura had, apparently, 251 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,559 I guess, wanted to put a new MRI machine in 252 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:21,799 for five straight years, or said they did, and then 253 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,319 kept taking it out of the plan. But when Chesapeake 254 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,519 comes in now, Centaura is like, oh, no, we're going 255 00:17:29,599 --> 00:17:32,240 to do it now. Well, yeah, we have to have 256 00:17:32,279 --> 00:17:34,559 this one now. Now is the time. I know, we've 257 00:17:34,559 --> 00:17:36,319 been pulling it out of the plan for the last 258 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:40,240 five years. And that obviously sent the market signal, which 259 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:43,839 is a foreign concept apparently even to the Republican legislature 260 00:17:43,839 --> 00:17:46,640 that still won't get rid of the con probably because 261 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:51,799 of the lobbying dollars from the medical industry, But that 262 00:17:51,839 --> 00:17:54,680 would send a market signal. Right when Centaura is not 263 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:59,240 doing another machine repeatedly in order to constrain supply to 264 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,240 drive up, and Chesapeake says, hey, you know what, we. 265 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:03,799 Speaker 2: Can come in there. 266 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: Let's try to get in there and we could do 267 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,640 another machine and we can compete. No, no, no, Now, 268 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,720 Centaur is like, we're going to add another machine. When 269 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:15,160 Chesapeake successfully advocated to keep the new MRI machine in 270 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,759 the state's twenty twenty two health Plan Facilities plan, that's 271 00:18:18,759 --> 00:18:21,680 when Centaura flipped one hundred and eighty degrees. He says, 272 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,799 not only is it needed, but we need it here. 273 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:31,400 So this is the government centrally planning access to medical 274 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:36,759 devices and care Centaura countered in the appeals court argument 275 00:18:36,759 --> 00:18:39,559 that Chesapeake has no legal basis to overturn a valid 276 00:18:39,559 --> 00:18:45,200 decision from gov CO. Alexander Gormley said both applications were 277 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,519 found to be conforming, and then they applied a number 278 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:50,200 of comparative factors and Centaura won by a three to 279 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,839 two vote. What tipped the scales is they won on 280 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:58,039 geographic accessibility. They proposed to put their MRI in Kurtuk 281 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:02,759 County where none exists. Where's Chesapeake proposed to put theirs 282 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,960 right on top of the existing MRI. So I think 283 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,960 the agency exercised a lot of wisdom and common sense. 284 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,640 So they're like, we're going to put ours in some 285 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,680 other county. So geographically that's what swung us or swung 286 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,079 them to give it to us, right, but where's the population? 287 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,119 State Deputy Special Deputy Attorney General Derek Hunter also urged 288 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,839 the appeals court to reject it, saying the con law 289 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,119 is not designed to level the playing field between healthcare providers. 290 00:19:31,319 --> 00:19:34,200 Its purpose is to ensure that all North Carolinians, and 291 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,920 particularly those in rural areas, are able to access necessary, 292 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,319 cost effective healthcare. 293 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:43,799 Speaker 2: The con law. 294 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: It's just an abomination here's a great idea. How about 295 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:51,759 making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway 296 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:54,200 in western North Carolina. 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Subject line call me crazy, You're crazy, Scott. 323 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:35,240 But does it feel like government is nothing more than 324 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:40,640 the four ls? Legal maneuvering, litigation, lobbying, and lying. 325 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 2: Maybe I missed one. 326 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 3: I don't know. 327 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 1: I feel like legal maneuvering and litigation might be kind 328 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:51,519 of the same thing. We could just go like litigation, lobbying, lying, 329 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,559 and lying, or maybe. 330 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 2: Just three l's. 331 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: Well, here's w a US Agency for International Development contracting 332 00:22:05,799 --> 00:22:11,599 officer so USAID, right are our favorite organization? A contracting 333 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,599 officer for USAID and three company leaders all pleaded guilty 334 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,640 to a bribery scheme that was connected to over five 335 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:22,559 hundred and fifty million dollars in taxpayer money. According to 336 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:27,000 the DOJ, the scheme spanned a decade and was tied 337 00:22:27,039 --> 00:22:32,880 to at least fourteen USAID contracts that cost taxpayers over 338 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,559 five hundred and fifty million dollars. Fifty seven year old 339 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,519 Roderick Watson of Woodstock, Maryland, admitted to bribery of a 340 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:45,000 government official while working as a contracting officer. The scheme 341 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:49,279 began in twenty thirteen. He received bribes from Darryl Britt 342 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:56,400 of Mayaca City, Florida to use his influence to use 343 00:22:56,839 --> 00:23:01,200 Watson's influence to award contracts to britain It's small business, 344 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,400 which was enrolled in a federal business development program that 345 00:23:05,519 --> 00:23:11,480 was supposed to grow disadvantaged businesses. After Britt's business graduated 346 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:20,319 from the program, it swapped places with another firm. That 347 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:25,880 firm was owned by Walter Barnes of Potomac, Maryland. Barnes's 348 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:33,039 firm was once a subcontractor to BRIT's firm on one 349 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:37,960 of the very contracts that were secured through the USAID 350 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:43,279 guy Watson's influence and then he became a prime contractor 351 00:23:43,279 --> 00:23:46,680 with USAID under the program for four years while Britt's 352 00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:53,680 firm served as a subcontractor to Barnes's firm. Watson received 353 00:23:53,759 --> 00:23:59,440 bribe's worth about a million dollars, including cash, laptops, thousands 354 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,079 of dollars, and tickets to a suite at an NBA game, 355 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,720 a country club, wedding down, payments on two residential mortgages, 356 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,480 cell phones, as well as jobs for relatives. These bribes 357 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,559 were in exchange for awarding the contracts by quote manipulating 358 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:23,720 the procurement process at USAID. Barnes and Britt paid Watson 359 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:28,640 the bribes through another guy named Paul Young at a Columbia, Maryland. 360 00:24:29,559 --> 00:24:33,759 Paul Young is the president of another firm that was 361 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:41,680 a subcontractor to both Barnes and Britt. Watson faces up 362 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,359 to fifteen years behind bars. Barnes, Britt, and Young each 363 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:50,799 looking at five years. Both Barnes's company and BRIT's company 364 00:24:50,839 --> 00:24:54,759 admitted to involvement in the bribery scheme and they agreed 365 00:24:54,799 --> 00:25:00,119 to cooperate with the DOJ. But wait, it gets worse. Yes, 366 00:25:00,759 --> 00:25:04,440 there's a very lengthy write up by Luke Rosiak at 367 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,119 The Daily Wire. President Joe Biden's USAID awarded an eight 368 00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:11,960 hundred million dollar contract to a business operating out of 369 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,799 Virginia out of a Virginia home, even after it formally 370 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,440 ruled that its key manager lacked honesty and integrity, a 371 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:23,599 reference to the fact that, according to a May twelfth 372 00:25:23,599 --> 00:25:27,680 guilty plea, he had secured USAID contracts through bribery for 373 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,519 a decade. The contract was for addressing quote issues affecting 374 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:36,359 the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to 375 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:36,960 the US. 376 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:37,799 Speaker 2: Do you remember that. 377 00:25:38,559 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was what Kamala Harris was supposed to get at, 378 00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:45,880 which she never actually did address. The Department of Justice 379 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,960 announced that Walter Barnes and Roderick Watson pleaded guilty to 380 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,559 a bribery scheme in which Barnes and two other companies 381 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,680 conspired to pay Watson a million dollars in exchange. That's 382 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,039 the bribe in exchange for contracts totaling nearly half a 383 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,519 billion dollars. What has not been reported, though, is the 384 00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:12,079 Biden administration continued to steer contracts to them even after 385 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:19,079 it knew of the massive corruption. Yeah, there was another contract, 386 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,960 the migration contract, even larger than the five hundred and 387 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,839 forty four million dollars in the indictment. There are other 388 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,440 contracts that are still active. The eight hundred million dollar 389 00:26:28,519 --> 00:26:32,640 contract went to a joint venture between Barnes's company and 390 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,000 some other guy in Falls Church, Virginia named Richard Crespin, 391 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,799 the amazing one who runs it out of his house. 392 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:46,400 They got eight hundred million dollars. 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So have you heard well? 420 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:23,920 First off, do you have any phobias that induce like 421 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:25,599 debilitating anxiety. 422 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 4: I used to have a phobia of. 423 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 2: Bats, bataphobia, I've heard metaphobia. 424 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 4: And I but I just I lost it somewhere along 425 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:33,519 the way. 426 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:34,559 Speaker 2: Was it around COVID time? 427 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 5: No? 428 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,759 Speaker 4: No, no, it was well before that. It was well 429 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:38,160 before that. 430 00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: There may be a connect okay, but I was gonna say, 431 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,200 because there could have been a connection. 432 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:42,759 Speaker 2: I lost it. 433 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,759 Speaker 1: It could have been like big Bat. That's trying to 434 00:28:44,799 --> 00:28:48,359 make people more comfortable with that, right, The COVID was 435 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:48,920 a delivery. 436 00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 2: No, yeah, I don't like that. Okay. 437 00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: So apparently there is a an employee of the bank 438 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,519 Truest Bank out in Nash County. They have a phobia 439 00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:02,359 of doll like dolls. 440 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:06,279 Speaker 2: Like stuffed dolls, like Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. I don't 441 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:07,759 know about the Russian nesting dolls. 442 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 5: Oh. 443 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: I like those, but they're not really dolls. There's like eggs. 444 00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:15,319 Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, that makes sense, go ahead, Yeah, so continue. 445 00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:19,359 Speaker 1: This person is now suing the Charlotte based bank over 446 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:25,079 discrimination and retaliation claims because she says the situation was 447 00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:26,799 exacerbated by Chucky. 448 00:29:28,279 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 4: Oh, Chucky, sure a doll, very familiar with that. 449 00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: They say that due to her disabilities, she experienced discrimination 450 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:42,680 and retaliation, which include major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, autoimmune disorder, 451 00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:45,680 post traumatic stress disorder. Come on, yeah, yeah, and that 452 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:50,319 the PTSD. That's a new diagnosis after the incident with Chucky. 453 00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 4: What did Chucky do? 454 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: In June of twenty twenty four. During her last week 455 00:29:56,319 --> 00:30:00,880 of her initial training, her manager put a chucky doll 456 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:06,680 in her chair. Wow, that worsened her medical conditions. Her 457 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,480 manager knew about our fear of dolls, and then he 458 00:30:10,839 --> 00:30:13,279 put it there and then laughed, he said, just to 459 00:30:13,319 --> 00:30:16,680 see her reaction to the chucky doll. She was treated 460 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,400 by her medical provider that same day and put on 461 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,480 eight weeks of medical leave to treat her disabilities. 462 00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:26,279 Speaker 4: To be de chucked, to. 463 00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:31,079 Speaker 1: Be unchucked, unchucked, I think so that's how long it takes. 464 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,319 Speaker 2: Eight weeks. 465 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: She had an accommodation to leave work at three pm 466 00:30:35,599 --> 00:30:40,240 three times a week for treatment of I feel like 467 00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:41,839 we've jumped the shark on something. 468 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 2: No, no, do you think I have? 469 00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: I feel like you get to like your working banker's 470 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,279 hours already, yes, and now three days a week you 471 00:30:51,319 --> 00:30:52,799 get to leave at three pm. 472 00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:57,359 Speaker 4: Okay. I don't know if I want to talk about 473 00:30:57,359 --> 00:30:59,039 this or not. I'm going to just do it. 474 00:30:59,160 --> 00:30:59,599 Speaker 2: Just do it. 475 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,519 Speaker 5: When I was in San Diego, I had a boardop 476 00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:05,960 who was across the glass from me, and I went 477 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,920 down the hall and there was a clown mask that 478 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,920 somebody had left on a desk. Oh and I walked 479 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,720 into during a commercial break. I walked into my studio 480 00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:21,400 adjacent to where he was. 481 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 4: He saw me. 482 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:28,119 Speaker 5: I had the clown mask on, and he lost his marbles. 483 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,839 Speaker 2: That's people are terrified of clowns. Some people are, but. 484 00:31:32,839 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 5: It was obviously me with a mask. It was like 485 00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:37,119 a well oversized mask. 486 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:37,599 Speaker 4: It was all. 487 00:31:38,319 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 2: Did he get eight weeks of medical leave? 488 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:42,039 Speaker 4: He did not. He did not. 489 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 5: In fact, to tie it all together, at the end 490 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,119 of the shift, he had to stay later, like fifteen 491 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,839 minutes because the next board op wasn't there, and he 492 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,400 grabbed the mask and he threw it down the hall. 493 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,599 That's rating and I had no reason to know that 494 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,279 he was upset about that. 495 00:31:59,359 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: Right, that's radio. You get that kind of PTSD and 496 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,319 you got to work longer. 497 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 2: All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you 498 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:08,480 so much for listening. 499 00:32:08,599 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: I could not do the show without your support and 500 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:13,480 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 501 00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:15,920 So if you'd like, please support them too and tell 502 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,680 them you heard it here. You can also become a 503 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,359 patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, 504 00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:25,160 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything. 505 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:30,160 While I'm gone,