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#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)

The Fifth Column

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The Cruelty of Hotels in New York

There are 120,000 hotel rooms in New York. 50% of those hotels are taken up by migrants at $120 a night. The Pakistani government who bought the Roosevelt Hotel and was planning on reopening it is now made a deal with the government in New York City to give the turn it into a shelter. That is a half a billion dollars according to figures that I saw that seem plausible. If you were to say publicly, get those people out of there, honestly.

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