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joining me now is a Richard Roth founder

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of the Ross law firm and Jim Breslow

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attorney and hosts the hidden truth show

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gentlemen we thank you so much both for

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being here so it was in plenty of

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speculation about the motive here behind

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the president's move but is there any

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other way to interpret this other than

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retribution I mean that's what Donald

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Trump is best at doing let's not forget

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what he didn't mean see Pelosi when the

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antsy Pelosi objected to him he pulled

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the plane so she couldn't travel this is

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and not only that but in the tweet where

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he was sued he actually referred to this

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act of his I mean when is the last time

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we've heard of a government being behind

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in their projects and over budget in

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transportation it happens every day so

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why did that old Trump do this come on

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there's no there's no question here why

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he did it he's upset he's contriving to

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control the narrative as you said

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earlier in an earlier a broadcast and

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he's not he can't it's just too big of a

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narrative form to control so the end of

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the day at the end of the day let him

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try to pull the billion let him upset

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California he doesn't care about

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California but he may very well be upset

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other people because he just doesn't

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have no different than the enemies of

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the state of lying that he used he

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doesn't have the control that he thinks

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he has and I think it's quickly

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dwindling Jim what's your take well I

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think this was a dubious project to

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begin with Californians don't have a

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problem getting from Los Angeles to San

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Francisco they do it very easily there's

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a flights every half hour

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$150 roundtrip we have problems getting

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from home to work so the problem was the

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the the the project was dubious to begin

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with then it went way over budget

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with way behind schedule and it turns

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out the trains are going to be slower

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than high-speed rail so the governor was

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correct to acknowledge all this and to

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acknowledge that there is no path to

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build this anymore from Los Angeles to

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San Francisco the mistake he made though

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is still saving the project with Merced

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to Bakersfield but he tipped his hand he

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basically said why he's doing that he

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said we don't want to give three and a

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half billion dollars back to Donald

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Trump so he politicized the issue

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himself and then in a tweet he really

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egged it on to the next day by

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suggesting that Trump is just looking

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for money for his wall yeah we I think

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the governor stepped in it he under

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yeah necessarily politicize the issue

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and brought the federal government into

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it Jim we have the worst transportation

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system in the modern era we are so far

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behind what Obama promulgated back five

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ten years ago was to try to increase it

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improve the transportation system you're

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better off running from Atlanta to New

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York then taking a train it is

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embarrassing

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and so when California wants to it yes

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they're behind and yes sir over a bunch

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of big deal why pull it what does Donald

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Trump doing to assist us in improving

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our train system it's a disaster have

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you ever taken Amtrak there's one good

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line on Amtrak boss him to Washington

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that's it once you go south to

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Washington once you go west it's abysmal

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why is Donald Trump hurting that why is

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he despite what Richard says here very

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very quickly the federal government is

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actually allowed to pull the funding

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they are if if the project doesn't make

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adequate progress and and I think that

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as we just laid out this was first

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approved back in 2008 it's been 11 years

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it's been scaled back so I mean I

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suppose you can ask the question to play

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devil's advocate how much more time are

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you gonna give them I agree but is it

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odd that that he happens to pull pull

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the funding the day after California

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sues him for his exact for his emergency

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state act I mean it's it's is that a

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coincidence is it quits I don't he pulls

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a plane for the etsu Pelosi after she

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defies him she wants to jump in here you

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know ahead Jim I can't wait he was he

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was yeah he was already pulling that

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funding before the government made his

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remarks about the lawsuit so that was

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going to happen anyway and and and guess

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who's gonna pull the funding next it's

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gonna be the state of California there's

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going to be lawsuits as a result of this

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because the California voters approve a

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project that was Los Angeles to San

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Francisco that's what they approved

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their taxpayer money to go to the 10

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billion original 10 billion dollars

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that's not being built anymore now it's

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Bakersfield to Merced I mean that's

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that's a joke you that would be the

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punchline of a joke to say we're gonna

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build a high-speed rail from Bakersfield

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to Merced I'm not saying that we don't

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have infrastructure needs in the country

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we certainly do but this is not one of

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them not a high-speed rail from

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Bakersfield to Merced by the way there

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already

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is an Amtrak line that runs from

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Bakersfield to Merced it takes three

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hours that's reasonable all makes you

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wonder if New Jersey New York could see

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something similar though of course with

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a lot riding on the Gateway tunnel

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project Jim Jim Bressler Heather Richard