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Greece which has the sole power to declare
war while he says the president does not

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have the authority to engage militarily
with Iran we have all the authority we need

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to do what we've done today Secretary of
State my comp aoe says the administration

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will take more action if
needed Schumer argues it needs

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a new war powers resolution and both chambers
of Congress have introduced versions

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we need Congress to be

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a check on this president who in turn
tweeted yesterday what he called

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a legal notice to Congress that he will
order more strikes on Iran if necessary

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solder mad at the White House Australia
continues to battle wildfires that have

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scorched millions of had tears across 3
states rain and cooler temperatures on

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Monday we're bringing some relief to
communities battling the fires Australia's

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his
country is willing to pay whatever it takes

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to help communities recover from the
deadly wildfire and to die that this is an

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initial and additional investment
of $2000000000.00 if more is needed

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and the cost is higher than more provided
$24.00 people have died since the blazes

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began 3 Americans one u.s.

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Military service member in 2 contractors
were killed by Somalia's militant group

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during an attack on Sunday on

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a military base in Kenya Reuters Sara
Charlton reports which is released by

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militant group al Shabaab Sunday claimed
to show the aftermath of an attack in

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Kenya which killed 3 Americans one u.s.

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Military service member in 2 contractors
were killed in Sunday's attack on

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a military base close to the Somali border
several others were wounded and the

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Kenyan military said

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a number of militants were dead now the
attack presents another crisis for

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Washington the Pentagon is grappling with

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a rapidly escalating standoff
with Iran following a u.s.

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Drone strike in Baghdad that killed
Iran's top military commander that Israel

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Reuters Sarah Charlton Venezuelan
opposition leader won by go in

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a rival lawmaker Luis Paula backed by
socialist lead. Nicolas Maduro claimed to be

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the country's parliament speaker today
after 2 separate votes in accusations of

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a parliamentary Kuku Why go
is recognized by the u.s.

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In nearly 60 other countries as the legitimate
president President I'm Jim Bertelli

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v.o.a.

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News. This

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is border crossings radio's number one
were placed our and now your host Larry

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London Hi there welcome to border crossings
on The Voice of America we're glad

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you're with us once again for another
week of requests of that occasions and if

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you're just joining us for the 1st time in

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a long time Happy 2020 this is the 1st
Monday of the new year we're happy to be

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with you and we've got your favorite song
to ask so we're going to play and if

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there is

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Chock in Guyana wants us to play Drake
cut line blame here on border crossings.

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Yeah. You used to call me almost the.

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Way you. Know the.

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Way. You know when I'm playing.

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Know you want to. You know when.

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You know you want. The since
I left school and. Got

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to play. Everybody not. Good got me

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got. To sell the since I left
school. Started the way.

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All classes are simply known
as flow. And you will soon

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be able. To call me almost. A nice way

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to me. Oh my so long. A

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way to me. I know we may lie and claim.

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To know you want. To know when I like.

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To know you want to. Know you. Don't let

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me just get along. Play me like. Going

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Places way for long.

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Larry would call. Because they told.

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You

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a song was hard to see before.
Me Oh My. Song. Playing

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tag blank you. Coming home ice cold.

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When you know. I know please.

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Know you want to.

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Know you want to. Do is one
you've been a know it was

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a song or. Some one else. Such as

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the for someone who don't need
no one. Know. Why you never.

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Should just be. Used to
call me on my cell phone.

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To me. Coming long.

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Way. I know I'm playing.

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Don't want to.

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Know you want to. Ever since I left.

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Border crossings Drake hotline playing
for keep chugging and. Drake last night

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teased a new song

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a new project he's working on with future
the 2 of them have put together some new

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music and yep it's coming out sometime in
the very near future the the project is

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called Life is good and that's what he
did as he said future plus Drake on his

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Instagram account so this new project
is coming out very soon so that'll be

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something new from Drake who's always
working on new music it seems I'm Larry

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London on border crossings thank you for
tuning into the show phone lines are open

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Larry London we're still accepting
registrations or requests for other calendars

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that we've been given away the
2020 calendars I do want to take

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a 2nd here. To thank

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a listener whose name is Emma anon
and Emma anon wrote in from Guyana

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and said hi sent me some nice messages
and. Also sent me from Ghana couple of

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calendars 2020 calendars from Guyana which
are really nice so Emma thank you so

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much for sending me these calendars here's
the interesting thing the package Emma

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sent me is postmarked July
30th and I just got them today

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so for those who always say hey what's
taking my cd so long or my calendar so long

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there you go keep that in mind we don't
control the speed of the post they do the

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best they can but you know Emma sent me
this beautiful calendar from Guyana and it

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took several months here we are in January
and she Senate July 30th so it does take

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time but thank you Emma for the calendar
also thank you Mary for checking in on our

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Facebook page Mary listens to us
also in Ghana I heard from c.

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Hom who said hello lyingly
seen a Diego's if t.n.

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Mecca is too near Livingstone mug is
joining us kid black Abdulla dear

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to wallow thought. Said hello some folks
in Bangladesh who listened to us on the

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radio also tuned in to say hi Walter Kane
said this is my 1st request of 2020 Well

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welcome Walter Emanuel's
Nona Farida John. Let's see

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a non. Vincent. A get

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a changin to me year and Calvin sure be
done it too so thank you everybody for

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making all your requests and dedications
at Facebook dot com slash v.o.a.

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Larry London here's a request from Lily
Daniel she's in Ethiopia ariana grande

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a released her live on tour album just

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a few weeks ago at the end of December
and it's called the sweetener world tour

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live that's what the album. Call and
author tour she was doing something that

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a lot of artists are starting to do right
now they're asking all of their young

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fans to register to vote and
last night that seemed to be

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a common message during the Golden Globes
Awards all of the stars on stage said

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register to vote this is one of the most
important elections in our lifetime so

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please register to vote in Arianna has been
asking your fans to register to vote at

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her concerts she's actually passed out
voter registration applications and things

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like that so she's really doing

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a great job of that here's Ariana
Grande day for Lilly This is God as

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a woman border crossings.

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Me.

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Some. Give.

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And the Beatlemania to be. When you join

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a company. That he's even as

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a company. If

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you.

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Order cuts.

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I don't believe that superstar organic
food would in foreign cause I don't

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believe the price of gold the certainty
of growing old that riot is pride and

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left Israel more than sad can't get along
there to east is east and west is with

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and be had for Islam is always
best but I believe the.

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I believe in the big. I believe in.

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Montana. And I bloody. You.

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for only those who congregate I like

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to thing good God is love he's down
below He's up above he's watching Pete

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everywhere he goes and does and doesn't
care and I am an old dairymaid

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sometimes I do but I am good I believe.

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I believe in Jesus. I believe in

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magic. And I blame. You.

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I know you would call my certainty
what's going on with me because of the.

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It's true. I.

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Don't believe that t.v.

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Is as common as it used to be. Working
days and sleep the night that black is

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black and white is one that Superman
and Robin Hood are still. In

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Hollywood that gasoline is in
short supply the rising cost of.

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The food. Chain.

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I'll be.

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I believe. I believe

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in.

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Border crossings on The Voice of America
Don Williams I believe in you that is

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a request for Mohamed. From Nigeria
listening to our show today thank you for

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tuning into border crossings we have

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a new giveaway for the month of Jan. All
throughout January we are giving away

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a copy of The New now compilation cd Now
that's what I call music volume 72 and

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some of the songs are cute Well actually
the way they decide on the songs for the

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cd is they come up with some songs that
were very big hits in the last few months

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they are big songs Shawn
Mendez can be like

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a bale saying you're Rita which
went up to number one ariana grande

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a we just heard the song is boyfriend
Taylor Swift you need to calm down Jonas

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Brothers only human post Malone
goodbyes baby which shook a little as

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a. Lead out of my head Sam said how
do you sleep nor Mani motivation Max

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and

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a song called Love Me less panic at the
disco hey look my mate Ellie Golding hate

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me as our Larson all the time marshmallow
with Cain brown one thing right. Now 72

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cd you have

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a chance to win that cd all month long
just for listening to border crossing so

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please make sure you tune us in and I wish
you nothing but luck you can register by

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going to our Facebook page which
is Facebook dot com slash v o

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a Larry London now we were all surprised
over the last few years that Whitney

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Houston had never been nominated for the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame she's been

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eligible since 2009 here we are in
2020 and she was just put on the

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ballot in October it was announced who
the nominees are and Whitney Houston is

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among the nominees along with notorious b.

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And 9 Inch Nails a number of other
16 other acts but she's up for entry

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a lot of people say it's

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a guarantee I mean how can you not say yes
to Whitney Houston so we shall see soon

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because I believe in March is when the
ceremony is and some sad news in the last

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couple of weeks in the family the Whitney
Houston family her adopted stepson.

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Nick Gordon was found dead unresponsive
at his home at age 30 and you may recall

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not only was he Whitney's stepson
he was also Christina's boyfriend.

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And somebody's fiance but Boyfriend for
sure they were dating her step brother and

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her were dating Kristina Brown Bobbi
Kristina and and she tragically passed

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away very similar to her
mom found unresponsive in

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a bathtub very similar circumstances
in 2015 and the new sources so

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far say that Nick Orton was struggling
with drugs and addiction however the cause

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of death has not been revealed yet Here's
Whitney Houston for Arthur in Seattle

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Washington this is Whitney's I have nothing
you're listening to border crossings.

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To. Me. Was on my

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watch. Like. For you.

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To. Test fire. And do everything

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you. Need to.

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Every much. To. Handle.

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All that. In there to.

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Stay.

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Home with.

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You.

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A.

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Lol. It

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was

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a little heavy love. Oh.

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Above.

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Easy junkies you hadn't.

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Doing.

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You with the band come up with
the list we was the place up in

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a bit. Telling this little love in the
film look at the nail would love.

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To see that see

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a pretty. Good mix of that Breaking
Bad so good today might just be

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a joke of the day you
might fall in love with

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a guy but at the Show Me.
From. The pick up by one.

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Of these it's got like you are
like oh my god why would you put.

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These you.

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Was the will. To do.

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a Philip that was. Meek

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in it.

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I. Think was the will. We.

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Was to. Let it.

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Border crossings

00:29:31
a request from Emanuel who in Guyana for
Meek Mill and Chris Brown all eyes on you

00:29:37
meek Mills real name is Robert William
says he's the ex of Nicki Minaj they had

00:29:43
a thing for

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a while quite well publicized Chris Brown
by the way has rereleased his Indigo

00:29:49
album an extended version deluxe version
with some new tracks on the Indigo version

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of but he had to Lux cd now and he's
been on tour promoting it also been busy

00:29:59
promoting his little daughter royalty put

00:30:03
a video of her dancing on his Instagram
account she's only 5 years old and he

00:30:09
captioned it with she dances like Daddy
says she was you know having fun bustin

00:30:14
a move Chris Brown also posted some photos
of his new baby son Aiko along with

00:30:21
his and I don't know if she's an ex-girlfriend
or not we can't figure that out but

00:30:25
Mika Harris apparently the mother
of his newborn son and royalty with

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NY agreement

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a few years ago so Chris Brown's doing well
beak Mills doing well everybody's doing

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well including border
crossings homicide to track

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a set high we heard from Jimmy Henry Walker.
Who's listening to us as well thank

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you very much for your message and request
so thank you he said I'm waiting for my

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calendar

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a lot of people are waiting for the calendar
and hopefully you'll get it soon but

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as I pointed out

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a little while ago even mail from Guyana
which was sent July 30th I just got.

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So it takes

00:31:03
a bit of time of the phone lines are open
that doesn't take time that's instant if

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you call 202-619-2077 you can make

00:31:11
a request and dedication to Vince right now
at 202-619-2077 email border crossings

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at v.o.a. Dodgy Ovi or go to
facebook dot com slash v.o.a.

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Larry London and I hang out on Facebook
and happy to send shout outs to everybody

00:31:28
who writes in and says hi just checked in
so hello Rachelle ball or on is listening

00:31:35
to us as well hello to Rochelle thank you
say Homme said Hi So hello to you Felix

00:31:42
Fernandez Augustina Joe's

00:31:43
a all of those folks have checked in on
Facebook Derek Levi thank you everybody

00:31:48
coming up next on Dottie made

00:31:50
a request for Lady Gaga who promised on
stage in Las Vegas last week that she will

00:31:57
keep making music she said
despite the success of

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a star is born and all the rave acting
review she's gotten and other film offers

00:32:06
she's getting she said to probably do
more acting because it's fun and easy she

00:32:12
says and all of that despite that she
said I've written songs and I still are

00:32:17
moving forward with my music career in fact
there are reports that she has extended

00:32:22
her residency in Las Vegas at the m.g.m.

00:32:25
Park Casino where she is playing through
this month and has been there for

00:32:30
a few months and reportedly was paid millions
of dollars for for the engagement so

00:32:36
she you know according to the reports now
is going to extend that residency I know

00:32:40
New Year's Eve She was spotted kissing
somebody other than the guy that she was

00:32:45
dating in the summer so she's got

00:32:47
a new mystery man in her life Here's Lady
Gaga for it on Dottie in Mombasa Kenya

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this is

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a perfect illusion. C

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C C C C your favorite music turned to me.

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4

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once.

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When. The.

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Industry. And.

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The.

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Big. Bang.

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Check.

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Out. Some cold blood.

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Cell.

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Beat.

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You.

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To. Michael Jackson border crossings

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that is. A Twitter request from Makkah
Ville Brown who is listening to us Vale

00:41:09
in the capital Brown thank you very much
he says call me Edward and I mean across

00:41:14
oh we're going to call you Edward since
that's what you asked us to call you that's

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the man in the mirror on border crossings
Michael Jackson whose This is it album

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was his last album before his death and
the 10th anniversary of his death this

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coming up June and also this year the 10th
anniversary of that cd will be marked

00:41:33
with

00:41:34
a new edition of the album some. New songs
that weren't on the original album this

00:41:40
is marking the 10th anniversary of
Michael's last album now in death Michael

00:41:45
Jackson continues to outperform some of
the stuff that he did even it when he was

00:41:51
alive because if you think about it back
in the day when Michael was releasing

00:41:54
music back in the ninety's eighty's
ninety's whatever they really didn't have

00:41:58
streaming they didn't have you know the
online Internet purchasing it was just kind

00:42:02
of getting started with i Tunes and whatnot
and since that time now that streaming

00:42:07
is so important in music in 2018 Michael's
music was streamed 1200000000 times

00:42:14
in 2019 Michael's music was Stream one
point $8000000000.00 times which that

00:42:20
coupled with the other
sales probably about

00:42:23
a 50 percent they're saying around 50 percent
increase in sales for Michael's music

00:42:27
from one year to the next year so where
that is how popular the King of Pop remains

00:42:32
to this very day Michael's musical m.j.

00:42:34
The musical opens this July on Broadway
which is all of Michael's music with

00:42:39
dancing and acting and should
be a lot of fun I hope to get

00:42:42
a chance to see that if I'm in New York I
want to say hi to trendy Dean who checked

00:42:47
in from Sierra Leone to let us know that
he's listening and say Happy New Year to

00:42:50
everybody tuned in to
border crossings in just

00:42:53
a couple of minutes will be given away our
1st of many copies of the now 72 cd so

00:42:59
stick around that's coming up
up next we have a request. From

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a well she. She wants me to play

00:43:07
a song from her Vonna over the
weekend on Saturday night there was

00:43:11
a reunion of the banner of Ana at the
Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles as

00:43:16
a part of the art of Elisi I'm Gallia

00:43:19
a gala that took place on
Saturday night in l.a.

00:43:22
And the late Kurt Cobain's family was there
but Dave Grohl who is now with the Foo

00:43:29
Fighters was once

00:43:30
a member of nirvana the drummer he organized
all of this Crist novus Aleck who was

00:43:36
one of the original members of Nirvana Pat
Smear they were all there they perform

00:43:40
some Nirvana songs about 6 Nirvana songs
and Dave Grohl brought his daughter up

00:43:46
Violet Grohl she's 13 and she sang some
of the Nirvana songs with the band which

00:43:51
was kind of cool this one for awhile she
from Nevada is called lithium here on

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border crossings.

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a. Solo. Group go. To

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bed. Ok.

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Clint

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clinically

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live

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. This hour of your day
is right here crossings.

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Ok.

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2 staring at our own young daughter in
Kenya requested that song here on The

00:52:34
Voice of America and we're
moving along we've got

00:52:36
a song to finish us up this is the
latest from one border crossings.

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Live.

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Live.

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Live.

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Live. Live.

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Live.

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Live.

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Live.

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Live. Border crossings and Liz though
her latest is called good as hell

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put something on social media
and she said It's amazing what

00:55:24
a decade can do she said 2009
my dad died 2019 I'm out

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here with the number one album and the
number one song she said 2009 I was living

00:55:36
in my car 2019 I'm nominated for

00:55:40
a Grammy awards she said Man
oh man it's amazing what

00:55:44
a decade can do sure is lives up here on
border crossings I'm Larry London and

00:55:49
before I go I will give away the now 72
cd I'm holding it in my hand this is the

00:55:54
1st one with little Mazza ax and post
Malone Taylor Swift Ariana Grande day today

00:55:59
our 1st winner for the month of January is
0 point 0 Jim McGregor University in New

00:56:05
to rule Nigeria. Oh glow Oh Jim
congratulations you've got the now 72

00:56:12
cd we're off and running will give
away another one tomorrow along with

00:56:15
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Burchill weeping amid Wales from

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a crowd of hundreds of thousands of mourners
Iran's supreme leader prayed over the

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remains of a top Iranian
general killed in a u.s.

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Airstrike

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a pizzeria Shaklee has more Iran's supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself

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prayed over the cause scads of celeb money
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a close relationship was slain Many wept
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prayers for the dead the daughter of today
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soldiers in Western Asia will spend their
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