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‘Kids Can’t Read’ new report says. It blames UNIONS for putting money over kids' futures! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Kids in America. There's two problems that we now know about.
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Speaker 1: Number One, they can't do basic things like reading, writing,
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Speaker 1: and arithmetic. In fact, officials are now sounding the alarm
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Speaker 1: on just how bad it's gotten for kids when it
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Speaker 1: comes to them doing basic things like just reading. The
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Speaker 1: New York Times is now whistleblowing with a headline, kids
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Speaker 1: can't read the revolt that is taking on the education establishment.
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Speaker 1: The headline below that in suburban Houston, parents rose up
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Speaker 1: against a top rated school district demanding an entirely new
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Speaker 1: reading curriculum at an elementary school in Hutchinson, Minnesota, a
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Speaker 1: veteran teacher who is crusading for reform haunted by the
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Speaker 1: fear of that for twenty eight years she failed children
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Speaker 1: because she was not trained in the cognitive science behind reading,
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Speaker 1: and Ohio may become the latest state to overhaul reading
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Speaker 1: instruction under a plan by Governor Mike DeWine. DeWine, the governor, said,
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Speaker 1: the evidence is clear of the vert zen. A revolt
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Speaker 1: over how children are taught to read steadily building for years,
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Speaker 1: is now sweeping school board meetings and state houses around
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Speaker 1: the country. The movement under the banner of science of
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Speaker 1: reading is targeting the education establishment, school districts, literacy gurus, publishers,
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Speaker 1: and colleges of education, which critics say have failed to
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Speaker 1: embrace the cognitive science of how children learn to read.
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Speaker 1: Research shows that most children need systemic, sounded out instruction
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Speaker 1: known as phonics, as well as other direct support like
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Speaker 1: building vocabulary and expanding students knowledge of the world. The
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Speaker 1: movement has drawn support across the economic, racial, and political
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Speaker 1: lines except on school boards. Its champions include parents of
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Speaker 1: children with dyslexia, civil rights activists even with the NAACP,
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Speaker 1: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, and everyday teachers
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Speaker 1: and principles, excluding some teachers' unions. That's the problem, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, because together they're actually starting to get some results. Ohio, California,
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Speaker 1: and Georgia are the latest states to push for reform,
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Speaker 1: adding to almost twenty states that have made moves are
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Speaker 1: the past two years after there was a massive decline
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Speaker 1: and basic ability to read even at graduation. Even holdouts
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Speaker 1: in hardcore union cities like New York City, where hundreds
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Speaker 1: of elementary schools were loyal to a popular but heavily
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Speaker 1: criticized reading curriculum, or making changes now how do you
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Speaker 1: get these curriculums to stay in there. Well, we found
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Speaker 1: out it's all about lobbying about not actually what's about
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Speaker 1: best for your children. And that's where the criticism really
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Speaker 1: seems to be coming in. What we have found out
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Speaker 1: that the teachers' union and lobbying groups who are lobbying
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Speaker 1: the school boards are not actually doing what's best for
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Speaker 1: your kid. They're doing what's best for their bottom line,
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Speaker 1: what's best for their pocketbook, what makes them the most money.
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Speaker 1: Shocker there, and now we're seeing a big revolt. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get hit pause on this story for a
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Speaker 1: moment because it connects to the other story I wanted
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Speaker 1: to talk about today, and that is crime out of
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Speaker 1: control with young people. Over the weekend, there was a
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Speaker 1: shooting at an Alabama birthday party that killed four people
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Speaker 1: and wounded twenty eight others. Alabama law enforcement officers were
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Speaker 1: employing people to come forward with information about a shooting
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Speaker 1: that killed four people injured twenty eight others during a
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Speaker 1: teenager's birthday party. Among those killed was even a high
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Speaker 1: school senior who planned to play college football and was
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Speaker 1: celebrating his sister's sixteenth birthday. The shooting erupted Saturday night
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Speaker 1: at a dance studio. During two news conferences, the sergeant
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Burquette of the Alabama Law enforce An Agency did
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Speaker 1: not take questions. He did not say if a suspect
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Speaker 1: was in custody or if investigators knew about any motive.
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Speaker 1: He did not provide the names of those that were killed.
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Speaker 1: What he did say is we clearly have out of
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Speaker 1: control violence among kids. Yes, among kids. You fast forward
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Speaker 1: that to another story over the weekend as well of
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Speaker 1: kids out of control. And when you don't give kids
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Speaker 1: a future of reading, writing, and arithmetic that gives them
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Speaker 1: higher education, and when you dumb it down and you
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Speaker 1: pass kids through social promotion instead of actually doing work,
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Speaker 1: you get exactly what we saw this weekend in Chicago,
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Speaker 1: not just for one day, not just for two days,
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Speaker 1: not just for three days, but for four days. A
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Speaker 1: large group of teens, hundreds of teens, erupted into four
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Speaker 1: days of violence, days after Democrats choose Chicago for the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four convention and weeks after they elected their
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Speaker 1: new mayor who is an actual Communists, for a fourth
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Speaker 1: night in a row in a city that is championing
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Speaker 1: police reform, bare reform, prison reform, and basically there's virtually
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Speaker 1: no crime that a minor can commit without getting out
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Speaker 1: of jail. Pretty much right away, we're now seeing what
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Speaker 1: anarchy looks like. For a fourth night in a row,
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Speaker 1: the Chicago Police Department were forced to call for reinforcements
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Speaker 1: downtown as large numbers of teens, learning from the night before,
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Speaker 1: the night before the night before, gathered and engaged in rioting, looting,
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Speaker 1: straight up violence, and even a Saturday night shooting.
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Speaker 2: These are children under the age of eighteen.
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Speaker 1: The carnage began on Wednesday night, only four days after
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Speaker 1: the DNC chose Chicago for the site of its presidential convention,
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Speaker 1: despite that the city officials there are suffering one of
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Speaker 1: the nation's highest murder rates. I guess it's actually perfect
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Speaker 1: for Democrats to decide to go there. The Chicago Police
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Speaker 1: Department was first called out in force at around ten
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Speaker 1: o'clock Wednesday night, when more than two hundred teams erupted
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Speaker 1: in a mass fight in the city's popular Millennium Park
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Speaker 1: at the southern end of the mag Mile.
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Speaker 2: The Wednesday night.
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Speaker 1: Incident became the city's first quote large incident of the year.
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Speaker 1: According to the local CBS affiliate, the youth were reportedly
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Speaker 1: fighting and harassing other people at the park. According to
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Speaker 1: the reports and videos put up on social media, the
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Speaker 1: crowds of unruly teens under eighteen they were back after
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Speaker 1: police didn't arrest people on Wednesday night. They came back
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Speaker 1: from more on Thursday, and after they realized that no
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Speaker 1: one was going to stop them, they came back again
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Speaker 1: on Friday, and after they realized that no one was
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Speaker 1: going to stop them on Friday, they came back on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: As the local media put it, as police struggled to
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Speaker 1: head off the violence, videos started to emerge on social
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Speaker 1: media of gangs of teens jumping on top of mass
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Speaker 1: transit buses and rushing through the streets of Chicago. The
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Speaker 1: video showed Chicago Police Department officers desperately trying to corral
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Speaker 1: the gang of kids. But the problem is they don't
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Speaker 1: have enough officers in Chicago, and what happened was a
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Speaker 1: chaotic scene. Children going out, vandalizing anything they wanted to vandalize, gunfire, erupting, laughing, happening.
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Speaker 1: ABC seven Chicago put out the video of what was happening,
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Speaker 1: not just at night, but in broad daylight during the
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Speaker 1: daytime tourism hours. Fox Chicago reported that the roving gangs
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Speaker 1: of teens were also seen bashing in car windows after
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Speaker 1: shots were fired. They noted that they pulled their news
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Speaker 1: crews off the streets due to quote safety concerns. NBC
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Speaker 1: five Chicago also reported that two teens were wounded in
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Speaker 1: the Loop on Saturday, as hundreds and hundreds of teens
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Speaker 1: once again flooded the downtown area and engaged in spasms
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Speaker 1: of violence. How many arrests not many. The victims, two boys,
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Speaker 1: a sixteen year old and a seventeen year old, were
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Speaker 1: reportedly hit by bullets while standing among the crowd when
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Speaker 1: an unknown assailant fire the shots. It is not known
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Speaker 1: if the shots were fired during a fight nearby or
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Speaker 1: if it was just random, senseless shooting. Welcome to Chicago.
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Speaker 1: The Four Heights of Islands comes only three days after
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Speaker 1: Chicago said, Hey, we're going to choose Chicago is the
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Speaker 1: best site for the Democrat National Convention in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: It comes only ten days after the city elected a radical,
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Speaker 1: soft on crime defund the police. Communists Progressive to the
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Speaker 1: Mayor's office after they got rid of Lori Lightfoot. Late
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Speaker 1: last week, ahead of being sworn in in the Windy
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Speaker 1: City's next mayor, Brandon Johnson absurdly claimed the blame for
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Speaker 1: the city's rising crime rate could be laid at the
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Speaker 1: feet of businesses because, in his estimation, quote, seventy percent
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Speaker 1: don't pay corporate taxes. So therefore that's why we have
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Speaker 1: such high crime. I kid you not. The former union
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Speaker 1: organizer blasted the state struggling businesses, saying that seventy percent
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Speaker 1: of large corporations in the state of Illinois don't pay
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Speaker 1: a corporate tax. It's that type of restraint on our
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Speaker 1: budget that has caused a type of disent investment, he
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Speaker 1: called it, that has led to poverty and of course
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Speaker 1: has led to violence. He's not saying that we need
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Speaker 1: more police. He wants to defund the police. The self
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Speaker 1: professed progressive he's a communist, did not reveal his source,
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Speaker 1: by the way, for these seventy percent claim. Why because
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Speaker 1: he just made it up. Now, even as the violence
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Speaker 1: continues to spin out of control in Chicago, downtown in
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Speaker 1: California and Baltimore, in Saint Louis and other places in
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Speaker 1: New York City where they've defunded the police. Johnson said
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Speaker 1: that this was just mere platitudes about the unrest during
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Speaker 1: a Friday visit to Jesse, Jackson's Operation Push headquarters, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: my heart breaks for the families which should never have
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Speaker 1: to suffer the pain of a child being shot. As
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Speaker 1: a father, what I want for my own children is
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Speaker 1: that I want for every children in Chicago their safety. Well,
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Speaker 1: if that's true, then why don't you have damn police
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Speaker 1: officers out there?
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Speaker 2: Their safety?
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Speaker 1: Referring to children and they're healing from trauma will be
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Speaker 1: a priority of my administration from day one and beyond.
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Speaker 1: John and since in a statement on the recent violence,
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Speaker 1: really that's how you're going to fix this problem. He
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Speaker 1: also went on to conclude, quote, but we will not
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Speaker 1: just protect our children. We will love them and nurture
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Speaker 1: them and give every one of them the hope and
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Speaker 1: purpose they deserve. All Right, So let's just leave the
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Speaker 1: insanity of Chicago there, and let's go back to the
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Speaker 1: other headline, that is kids can't read in America. If
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Speaker 1: you want kids to grow up to be successful, they
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Speaker 1: got to know how to read. We know that our
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Speaker 1: education system is failing kids. And when you fail the kids,
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Speaker 1: they end up dropping out and not caring and turning
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Speaker 1: to violence at a very early and young age because
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Speaker 1: they've lost ambition.
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Speaker 1: the public school system in this country? Well, this is nationwide.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of good public schools and there's some
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Speaker 1: really crappy ones. So I still want you to think
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Speaker 1: about the overall numbers here, and it's much higher in
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Speaker 1: inner cities.
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Speaker 2: About one in three.
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Speaker 1: Children in the United States cannot read at a basic
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Speaker 1: level of comprehension, according to Key National exam that also,
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Speaker 1: by the way, counts private schools. The outcomes are particularly
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Speaker 1: troubling for Black and Native American children.
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Speaker 2: How bad is it in our inner cities?
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Speaker 1: Nearly half African American children score below quote basic on
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Speaker 1: reading by eighth grade, well below that in science and math.
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Speaker 2: The kids can't read.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to just say that is what Kareem Weaver on,
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Speaker 1: activists with the NAACP in Oakland, California, who has framed
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Speaker 1: literacy as a civil rights issue in Stars and a
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Speaker 1: new documentary, The Right to Read.
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Speaker 2: I love, by the way, that this is happening.
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Speaker 1: I love that there are people at the NAACP that
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Speaker 1: are waking up and activists are waking up and realizing
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Speaker 1: now that our public school systems are being run by
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Speaker 1: teachers unions who are getting kickbacks by pushing certain curriculum
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Speaker 1: that is not serving the children. Science of reading advocates
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Speaker 1: say the reason is simple. Many children are not being
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Speaker 1: correctly taught. Why are they not being correctly taught because
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Speaker 1: big dollar donors in the education industry are paying off
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Speaker 1: school board members with donations and paying off unions and
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Speaker 1: teachers groups with big donations to use curriculum that makes
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Speaker 1: them billions of dollars. A popular method of teaching, known
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Speaker 1: as balanced literacy, has focused less on phonics and more
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Speaker 1: on developing a love of books and ensuring students.
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Speaker 2: Understand the meaning of stories.
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Speaker 1: This is the problem with our public school system that
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Speaker 1: we're finding out doesn't work at times. It has included
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Speaker 1: dubious strategies like guiding children to guess words from pictures
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Speaker 1: instead of learning how to actually read. You're paying for
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Speaker 1: this with your tax dollars in public schools all over
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Speaker 1: the country. The push for reform picked up in twenty
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Speaker 1: nineteen when national reading scores showed significant improvements in just
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Speaker 1: two places in the whole country, Mississippi and Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: Both had required more phonics because that's how you learned
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Speaker 1: to read. Why did we get away from phonics in
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Speaker 1: this country, Well, we didn't do it in our private schools.
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Speaker 1: We did do it in our public schools. And it
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Speaker 1: was all because liberals wanted money. These liberal union groups,
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Speaker 1: teachers groups, they wanted donations in cash.
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Speaker 2: And what did these companies do.
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Speaker 1: They were more than happy to sell you a bunch
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Speaker 1: of books and tell you to teach kids to learn
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Speaker 1: to read by guessing words, like guessing actual words, guessing them,
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Speaker 1: not phonics, guessing them, which means they could sell you
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Speaker 1: more books, more books that would go home, more readers
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Speaker 1: that would go home, that would teach your kid how
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Speaker 1: to guess words and only be able to read when
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Speaker 1: there's a picture that correlates with a word.
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Speaker 2: It was a disaster from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: They knew that it was a disaster from the beginning,
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Speaker 1: and yet they still kept doing it because they were
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Speaker 1: making money. Republicans, by the way, were not a part
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Speaker 1: of any of this. Republicans were standing up for traditional phonics,
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Speaker 1: being taught. The New York Times put it this way,
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Speaker 1: But what might have remained a niche education issue was
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Speaker 1: supercharged by a storm of events, a pandemic that mobilized parents,
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen relief money that gave school district's flexibility to change,
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Speaker 1: a French spotlight on racial disparities, after the murder of
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Speaker 1: George Floyd in a hit education podcast with a passionate following.
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Speaker 1: There is this urgency around the story, this unbelievable grief,
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Speaker 1: said Emily Hanford, a journalist at American Public Media. Her
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Speaker 1: podcasts sold a story detailed our stars of the literacy
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Speaker 1: world and their publishers diverged from scientific research. It racked
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Speaker 1: up nearly eight million downloads. The movement has not been
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Speaker 1: universally popular. School districts in Connecticut and teachers' unions in
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Speaker 1: Ohio fought back against what they see as a heavy
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Speaker 1: handed interference in their classrooms of failure. They're failing there,
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Speaker 1: remember this, and then they're saying, get the hell out
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Speaker 1: of my classroom.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: This also goes back to parents getting involved, and what
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Speaker 1: did big tech, what did the media, what did the
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Speaker 1: government do? They decided to turn you into domestic terrorists.
16:43
Speaker 1: You showed up at a school board meeting, you, as
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Speaker 1: a parent, were a domestic terrorist.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that again.
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Speaker 1: You showed up at school board meeting, you voiced your opinion,
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Speaker 1: and they wanted to categorize you as a domestic terrorist.
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Speaker 1: Let that sink in the movement again. This is the
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Speaker 1: New York Times has not been universally popular. School districts
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Speaker 1: and teachers' unions have pushed back against what they see
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Speaker 1: as heavy handed interference in their classrooms. If you're failing,
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Speaker 1: you should be listening to the parents. If you are failing,
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Speaker 1: you should be looking at different curricula. If you are failing,
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Speaker 1: you should understand that you need to change course. If
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Speaker 1: you're not changing course, the question that has to be
17:29
Speaker 1: asked is why why are you not changing course? There's
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Speaker 1: one simple answer to that. Because somebody is getting paid.
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Speaker 1: Somebody is getting paid a hell of a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: Somebody is on the take. And I want you to
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Speaker 1: think about how evil you have to be to know
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Speaker 1: that what you're selling is hurting kids and making it
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Speaker 1: harder for them to read than easier for them to read.
17:57
Speaker 1: Tell me how disgusting that is. And the people that
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Speaker 1: we're doing this. Were not Republicans, they were Democrats. Even
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Speaker 1: within the movement quote, there are quiet rumblings of worry.
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Speaker 1: There is no established curriculum for science of reading. It
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Speaker 1: refers to a large body of research and must be
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Speaker 1: woven into the craft of teaching. The critics claim, can
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Speaker 1: such a sprawling and enthusiastic movement stick to the science
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Speaker 1: across thousands of schools and classrooms?
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Speaker 2: Can real change be executed and sustained?
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Speaker 1: Quote I saw this post where somebody said reading wars
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Speaker 1: are over science of reading one. That's what Mark Seidenberg,
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Speaker 1: a cognitive scientist at the University of Wisconsin said. He said, quote,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it will be on a T shirt soon,
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Speaker 1: but actually, nobody has won until we've actually seen we've
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Speaker 1: improved literacy outcomes, especially with kids and groups where there's
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Speaker 1: a long history of being left behind. Okay, well, we
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Speaker 1: have that in Mississippian Washington d C. In Mississippian Washington
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Speaker 1: d C, we have what this dude, just actual research
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Speaker 1: to teach kids to read and write by using phonics.
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Speaker 1: We also have a history of when phonics were actually
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Speaker 1: being higher reading and writing and arithmetic and connecting the.
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Speaker 2: Dots scores, So we do have this.
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Speaker 1: To imply that we don't have this is totally and
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Speaker 1: utterly absurd. We've had it folks the entire time. They
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Speaker 1: just don't want to go back and admit they screwed up.
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Speaker 1: And it's not because they don't want to admit they
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Speaker 1: screwed up. It's because they don't want to give up
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Speaker 1: the money that is coming in and the donations is
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Speaker 1: coming in politically, and the money that is coming in
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Speaker 1: politically to the unions and to these elected officials. You
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Speaker 1: look at crime, You look at what happened in Chicago,
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Speaker 1: you look at what's happened in Baltimore, You look at
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Speaker 1: what's happened all over the country with violent crime that's
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Speaker 1: taking place. Is there a chance that kids are turning
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Speaker 1: to crime for two reasons, One because I can't read
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Speaker 1: the right and they can't do arithmetic, so they don't
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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to have a.
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Speaker 2: Good job, a good career.
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Speaker 1: Is there a possibility that there's a direct connection between
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Speaker 1: lack of education and anarchy and violence.
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Speaker 2: The answer is yes.
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Speaker 1: Now what a Democrat say, They say, we did see
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Speaker 1: to have prison reform, bail reform, police reform, meaning get
20:17
Speaker 1: rid of the police, get rid of jails, and get
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Speaker 1: rid of arresting people and holding them accountable.
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Speaker 2: Mike Pence. And this is an endorsement of Mike Pence.
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Speaker 1: I will say this a million times in the lead
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Speaker 1: up to the twenty four, twenty four election. I'm going
20:29
Speaker 1: to play you soundbites too that either are thinking about
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Speaker 1: running for president or may run president. It does not
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Speaker 1: mean that I'm endorsing them when they say something that
20:36
Speaker 1: I like that makes sense. What Mike Pence said at
20:40
Speaker 1: the NA convention made sense. That's why I'm playing it
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Speaker 1: for you.
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Speaker 3: Listen, carefully suffered loss and injury in these unspeakable attacks,
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Speaker 3: ignoring the motivations of the transactivists who killed three children
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Speaker 3: and three adults at that Christian school in Nashville, and
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Speaker 3: ignoring the mental health health challenges of the man who
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Speaker 3: killed five people and injured eight others in Louisville. President
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Speaker 3: Biden the Democrats have returned to the same tired arguments
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Speaker 3: about gun control and gun confiscation. But we don't need
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Speaker 3: gun control, we need crime control.
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Speaker 1: We don't need gun control, we need crime control. Mike Pence,
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Speaker 1: by the way, is absolutely right. So what are Democrats saying,
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Speaker 1: let me give you another example. There's a hearing that's happening.
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Speaker 1: It's a hearing about out of control crime in New
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Speaker 1: York City, about Alvin Bragg not prosecuting people for committing
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Speaker 1: heinous crimes. Victims of violent crime in New York City
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Speaker 1: came to tell their testimony, and what did Democrats say? Well,
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Speaker 1: Representative Johnson called the witnesses who had been witnesses, who
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Speaker 1: are witnesses who've experienced heinous and violent crimes in New
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Speaker 1: York City and people that committed crimes against them that
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Speaker 1: had not been prosecuted by Alvin Bragg. What did he
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Speaker 1: call them? Call them props?
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Speaker 4: The Republican witnesses who have used their time to criticize
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Speaker 4: District Attorney Bragg has served as.
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Speaker 2: Props in a Maga Broadway production.
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Speaker 4: The real purpose in coming to New York City we have,
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Speaker 4: or the real purpose in coming.
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Speaker 3: To New York City, gentlemen, what'll suspend?
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Speaker 4: Stop the cluck.
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Speaker 2: For the audience.
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Speaker 3: I've said several times now that way committee has to
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Speaker 3: be in order. If if anyone continues, then we're going
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Speaker 3: to have to escort some people out.
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Speaker 2: Please don't talk about Please don't talk out to us witnesses.
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Speaker 2: Please there. It is.
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Speaker 1: These witnesses that come and talk about losing family members
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Speaker 1: to violent crime in New York City are referred to
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Speaker 1: by Democrats in Congress as nothing more than props and
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Speaker 1: a mega Broadway production. Many of the people that are
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Speaker 1: asked to testify, by the way, are Democrats, not Republicans,
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Speaker 1: and they came to testify and did testify about losing
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Speaker 1: loved ones to violence. They're talking about their deceased family members.
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Speaker 1: And when Democrats had a chance to chat the leaders
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Speaker 1: who are elected, like Representative Johnson, they referred to them
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Speaker 1: Kroger and Walmart exiting high crime, high poverty areas around
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Speaker 1: makeup around their stores. The NAACP, Jesse Jackson now Sharpton
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Speaker 1: liberal leaders came out demanding investigations and demanding that they
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Speaker 1: can these stores open. Kroger, other stores, Walmart, Target, et
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Speaker 1: cetera came forward with the crime staffs and they said,
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Speaker 1: we literally cannot afford to keep our stores open because
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Speaker 1: there's so much basically theft looting at our stores. There's
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Speaker 1: too much violence, there's too much loss. These stores are
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Speaker 1: was racism, and there were food deserts, as they described them,
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Speaker 1: food deserts because the community was not well policed. And
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Speaker 1: when a community is not well policed, you have anarchy.
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Speaker 1: And when you have anarchy, then what happens. You have chaos,
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Speaker 1: just like we saw in Chicago. And what happens if
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Speaker 1: you have a business you say I can't afford it
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Speaker 1: anymore and you shut it down. Well, now we're seeing
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Speaker 1: this happen all over the country. Walmart, Target, and other
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Speaker 1: major retailers are shuttering stores due to overwhelming theft in
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Speaker 1: liberal cities because when you commit a crime of theft
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Speaker 1: at their store, there are no accountability for stealing. Best
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Speaker 1: Buy and other mega retailers have shuttered stores throughout the
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Speaker 1: US due to an overwhelming uptick in theft. New report
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Speaker 1: states reliable important grocery stores and retail outlets have begun
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Speaker 1: to make do on their pledge to close stores if.
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Speaker 2: Crime continues to climb.
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Speaker 1: Just last week, Walmart closed as many as four stores
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Speaker 1: in Chicago alone.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: The simplest explanation is that collectively, our Chicago stores have
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Speaker 1: not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly
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Speaker 1: seventeen years ago, Walmart staid in a statement, these stores
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Speaker 1: lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their
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Speaker 1: annual loss is nearly doubled in just the last five years.
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Speaker 1: Why is it happening because of out of control stealing?
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Speaker 1: As a reporter John Nolty put it, left wing cities
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Speaker 1: and states have made shoplifting near fairly legal by letting
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Speaker 1: criminals off with barely a slap on the wrists. Chicago
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Speaker 1: has one problem, insane voters. We assumed, after the current
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Speaker 1: mayor Lightfoot loss the Democratic primary, that the city was
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Speaker 1: coming to its sense as well.
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Speaker 2: You would be wrong.
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Speaker 1: Lightfoot wasn't radical enough, apparently for the woke Chicago voting base,
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Speaker 1: so they booted her and brought in an even more
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Speaker 1: dangerous left wing radical by the name of Brandon Johnson.
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Speaker 1: He came into office on the promise to raise about
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Speaker 1: a billion dollars in taxes on corporations and to ensure
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Speaker 1: even more violent criminals run free. So Wallalmart saw the
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Speaker 1: writing on the wall. And by the way, it's unlikely
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Speaker 1: Walmart is worried about taxes or even violent criminals. The
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Speaker 1: problem is that shoplifting has been all but decriminalized, and
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Speaker 1: these retailers are losing billions. Walmart has now said they
27:52
Speaker 1: will shutter of their stores in Chicago proper. It comes
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Speaker 1: after it closed remaining Portland stores due to crime wave
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Speaker 1: in the Antifa native city. Walmart has nearly five thousand
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Speaker 1: stores across the US, and unfortunately, some do not meet
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Speaker 1: our financial expectations. While our underlying business is strong, these
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Speaker 1: specific stores haven't performed as well as we hope, the
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Speaker 1: companies said. In the latest statement, Walmart has shuddered as
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Speaker 1: many as seventeen stores across nine states. Whole Foods, which
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Speaker 1: is owned by Amazon, also recently closed its one store
28:26
Speaker 1: in downtown San Francisco due to rising criminal levels. Local
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Speaker 1: board of supervisor Matt Dorsey blamed the closure on the
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Speaker 1: city's lacks treatment of criminals, saying, quote, our neighborhood waited
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Speaker 1: a long time for this supermarket, but we're also well
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Speaker 1: aware of the problems we've experienced with drug related retail theft,
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Speaker 1: adjacent drug markets and the many safety issues related to them.
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Speaker 1: According to The Daily Mail, Target lost nearly fourgner million
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Speaker 1: in profit last year November due to organized gangs of
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Speaker 1: shoplifters who had been stealing merchandise from its stores, with
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Speaker 1: its CFO predicting that the company will have up to
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Speaker 1: six hundred million losses by the end of the year
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Speaker 1: because of gang and young people going in grabbing whatever
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Speaker 1: they want to. Stores on Baltimore Avenue and Maryland, for example,
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Speaker 1: Westlake Street and Minnesota, Chestnut Street in Pennsylvania and South
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Speaker 1: Washington Street in Virginia are all affected. All four smaller
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Speaker 1: format stores were rolled out about ten years ago as
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Speaker 1: a way to reach customers in the more urban areas.
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Speaker 1: They will all close on May the thirteenth. The company
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Speaker 1: stated why because of massive out of control retail theft.
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Speaker 1: One other thing you need to know, it's not just
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Speaker 1: these stores, it's also drug stores. Walmart isn't the only
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Speaker 1: ones saying goodbye. Walgreens has now closed as many as
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Speaker 1: five stores in San Francisco alone due to an uptick
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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three. This year, Walgreen's closed a store
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Speaker 1: in Chicago, one in Texas, to in Florida. Macy's and
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Speaker 1: Best Buy have also said they're going to have to
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