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Tara Hoot

Tara Hoot

Oct 6, 2026

Jeb BakkeCORRESPONDENT
17:28
What have you seen already sizably shift in your action here so far? I think that what I would love is to bring
17:34
back professionals who know about the arts to be at the Kennedy Center, right? To the people that were running it and doing amazing things.
17:41
The Reach was really meant to have smaller performances, to do outreach, to reach out to the community.
17:48
And there was a social impact team that reached out to me, and they were amazing.
17:52
And they were one of the first ones fired because...
17:54
they were doing the hard work of bringing different communities together, bringing the arts from the Kennedy Center to the different communities in Washington, D.C., and the educational part of the Kennedy Center.
18:05
It's not just a place for fancy musicals and operas and all of that stuff.

6 MINS LATER

Jeb BakkeCORRESPONDENT
24:04
feel like
speaker_4UNKNOWN
71:35
Is this right? Is this right?
71:36
I did.
71:37
Uh, 2011, 2012, I spent, uh, two summers undercover working in, uh, some of your fine gay clubs right here in Washington, DC.
speaker_34UNKNOWN
72:38
Not for me.
72:39
So, it was me and, uh, and one of my buddies who was assigned to the Sixth District, which is east of the Anacostia River.
72:46
And, uh, the two of us got temporarily detailed to 2D, and we were part of this investigation, and we were going into a bunch of different gay clubs.
72:54
The first club we went to was Fireplace.
72:57
And, um...

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