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you missed. It's posted a little bit after 4 o'clock. We are going to talk further now about Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary from the Trump administration, coming to Los Angeles, went to Union Station, had a press conference today.

And you heard the clip that we played.

He says, hey, it's been 17 years and $16 billion, and there's no high speed rail track.

There's no trains.

And there's $4 billion that the Biden administration has put aside to further, well, $4 billion to pour down the rat hole.

And he's doing a, what do they call it, a compliance?

Compliance review.

A compliance review.

Fancy word for an investigation.

The federal railroad administration is the specific bureaucracy that has jurisdiction over this project.

Let's, we are so far away from it running from San Francisco to L.A.

Let's get Susan Shelley on from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to talk about this.

Hi, John. Great to be with you.

Susan, I got a question.

Might sound out of left field.

Do you think they ever intended to really build a high-speed rail?

Or was this just a massive money laundering scheme? A way? Do you think they ever intended to really build a high-speed rail?

Or was this just a massive money laundering scheme away for all the political parasites to get rich?

You're exactly right.

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