WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.320 You're listening to camp i AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:17.039 the iHeartRadio apps. Someone tuning in who never tuned in before literally think that 3 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:24.640 this station is must be out of Buffalos, Wyoming with an entire population of 4 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:29.960 two hundred people. And now Handle on the news, Ladies and gentlemen, 5 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:39.119 here's Bill Handle and good morning. It is, say, Monday morning, 6 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:45.320 July fifteenth. You think a weekend that was in the news. You know, 7 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:49.079 I say this over and over again. The weekends usually are dead, 8 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:57.640 which is why when whatever organization, political entity, subelebrity has to release some 9 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:03.520 kind of a statement, it's done Friday evening, so it disappears by Monday 10 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.040 when the new cycle starts. And how long have we been talking about new 11 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:12.000 cycling is gone? The new cycle now is twenty four hours. So here 12 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:17.359 was a weekend. Let me see the weather, It was hot? What 13 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:23.239 was going on? Oh yeah, and the presidential candidate, one Donald Jay 14 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:29.040 Trump there was an assassination attempt and he was hit, and of course that 15 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.040 has been on everyone's mind. We're gonna spend a lot of time talking about 16 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:36.680 today. First of all, the minute by minute, just exactly what happened. 17 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:41.640 Some of the big questions the Secret Service. Oh, there are questions 18 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.120 about the Secret Service. So I've got a few and I'm going to sound 19 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:51.799 I may sound a little misogynistic when I start talking about that. And then 20 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.799 what's going on as a result of what happened. The politics, of course 21 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:00.599 is who is it? Jd Vance, the Senator. I think it's from 22 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:07.120 Ohio, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton directly responsible. Now we're getting conspiracy conversations 23 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:15.159 that various people in government or outside of government ordered the assassination attempt, pick 24 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:22.240 up the phone and said, here is what you must do. The anti 25 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:27.000 Trumpets are saying that, and then some are saying this whole thing was a 26 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:36.280 red flag. It was done by the Trump organization to garner support. I 27 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:38.319 mean, just crazy stuff. So we'll be talking more about that later on. 28 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:43.919 And then just one segment that I want to do on Paris, maybe 29 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:49.400 too, because the Olympics are starting in a couple of weeks and we'll see 30 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.680 how crappy that city is going to be. And of course we've got today 31 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:00.080 the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, so it's going to be a phil full 32 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.879 two days. Okay, let me say a quick hello Amy, Good morning, 33 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.080 Hi Bill. Yeah, what a weekend? Huh? Oh my god? 34 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.879 Yeah. What were you doing when you found out? I think I 35 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:17.400 was at home. I was rewatching Dexter, I was watching Despicable me h. 36 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:22.039 My friends started like texting and calling. I'm like, would you let 37 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:25.879 me alone? And watching a movie? I know it was so of course. 38 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:32.199 Then I turned immediately on to then insert name of news outlet here, 39 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.879 and they went wall to wall, all of them. Did I know I 40 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.319 was doing the same thing? Channel? Yeah, and there was. And 41 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:43.319 the problem with wall to wall coverage is you repeat, they repeat, they 42 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:47.639 repeat, they repeat until a little bit of news comes out, and it's 43 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:53.560 a it's kind of boring. Although during the Kennedy assassination, and I was 44 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.479 just a kid at that time, I was pretty young, I watched it 45 00:03:55.639 --> 00:04:00.800 wall to wall for sure, and nine to eleven, of course we watched 46 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:02.719 it well to wall. Anyway, Good morning, Amy, there you go. 47 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:09.439 We'll talk a little bit about that today and good morning, good morning, 48 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:13.599 there you go. Leaning over the mic cono. Good morning morning, 49 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:19.360 Bill, welcome back, Cono gone all week? Actually today's oh yeah, 50 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.639 well, and I'll go back to end, don't okay it. Yeah, 51 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:26.399 I already talked about her coming back, and of course I already thought I 52 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.040 talked about it, so I completely forgot. So Cono, I'm going to 53 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.879 go back for a minute and happy to have you back. Oh it's a 54 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:39.279 pleasure. Yeah, And was gone for a week and went to New York 55 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.680 with her daughter, a mother and daughter. A week of taking a shower 56 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:45.759 in the morning. Because you take a shower in the morning, you step 57 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:50.800 outside of the hotel room onto the sidewalk and you've just taken another shower. 58 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:57.040 It's pretty hot. Cono, you were gone for just a couple of days, 59 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:00.000 right, yep, just the two all right, just enjoying yourself. 60 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.720 No, no, no, no, just moving. It's not fun. 61 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:10.319 It's not all. Oh. Yeah, and since you have no money, 62 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:13.800 you had to move yourself, right, that is why I took off. 63 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:15.920 Yes, I do it myself. You know, this is why God invented 64 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:19.079 moving companies. You know that, don't you. Well those are called my 65 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:24.600 brothers, and they have to help because we're related. And I assume you 66 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:28.079 served up pizza and beer beer. Yes, they had to buy their own 67 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:31.720 pizza. Again, I don't make any money, so okay for beer and 68 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:38.519 Wayne is off today. So uh, Neil, Neil is off today. 69 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.120 Wayne is also off today. He's been off since January. That's true, 70 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:47.959 but so what and then there is Neil is off today. I had we 71 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.480 had dinner last night. As a matter of fact, Fred Rogan is in, 72 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.319 Fred, good morning. You had dinner with the guy and you didn't 73 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.279 realize he was off today? Yeah, no, we talked about it, 74 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:03.519 but I completely forgot and Fred, we have to get the monitors working because 75 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.959 I can't see Yeah no, I just sent him a link. Okay, 76 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.959 yeah, because you know, as again, we look at each other on 77 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.519 monitors now. Because it's called zoom, Bill, and ye, there's also 78 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:21.199 there's also teams. There's also do we use zoom as a matter of fact, 79 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:26.279 Anne, this is one hundred percent. You're on zoom right now. 80 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.319 Okay, there's also studio cameras, but we use the zoom for this. 81 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:31.920 So there's a bunch of different ways. You're not going to see me, 82 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.279 Bill, it doesn't work. It doesn't work again, Anne, you're not 83 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:38.920 going to see me. I love you, but you can't see me. 84 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.240 So I can only allow people to see me at certain times. Apparently obviously 85 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.399 not now Okay, and as we often see, I keep on saying this 86 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:54.600 over and over again, that we have we're broadcasting in a whole different world 87 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.920 now where a lot of us have home studios. Fred, I'm assuming you're 88 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:00.519 at home, right, Yeah, well you can say that I am. 89 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:02.439 Yeah, No, I understand that. No, I'm saying that's the change 90 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:08.000 in the world. I mean, five years ago, pre COVID, if 91 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.560 you say, oh, I want to broadcast from the house, you know, 92 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.160 management would look at you like you're crazy. Well, those days have 93 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:15.560 changed, and it's kind of nice. Well no, they still kind of 94 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:19.959 look at you like you're crazy. Bill, Yeah, they still kind of 95 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:23.600 do that. I mean, you're the only one that doesn't think they do 96 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:28.399 that. They do. Huh. They got you like your crazy. Uh 97 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.040 yeah, that's true. But you know, I like my commute. It's 98 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:40.199 ten feet and it's it is not bad. And I don't shower until after 99 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.399 the show. Okay, that's enough. We don't need that. We don't 100 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.240 have to. Let me explain what I'm wearing under my shirt. That won't 101 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.839 be necessary. Pants, nope, nope, underwear, no, Bill, 102 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:53.639 please, Bill, Bill, Bill, Okay, it's okay, all right, 103 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:55.720 it's good. All right, you guys ready to do it. Yeah, 104 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.079 let's go. Let's do it. It's time for Handle on the News, 105 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.439 Amy, Fred, and for Neil Oh. And yesterday, by the 106 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:07.160 way, before we start, Neil and I went to that Basteel Day event 107 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:13.920 at the White House Anaheim White House and it was absolutely terrific French food, 108 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:20.120 and like many other restaurants and venues, they are now marketing themselves in various 109 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.439 ways. For example, bas Steel Day French Food, yesterday Bastile Day being 110 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:33.080 the French their July fourth effectively. So I went to Silvano, who is 111 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.720 the nephew of Bruno and manages the restaurant, and I think he's going to 112 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.679 do it. I think he's going to do it because I came up with 113 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:46.120 the best themed day that you could ever have for a restaurant. August sixth, 114 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:56.639 What is it bill? The day that Hiroshima was bombed? No sauteed 115 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.559 mushrooms? No, God, No, the guy thought it was good. 116 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:07.799 No, nobody thinks that's good. Nobody thinks that's good, but nobody. 117 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.360 Okay, let's do a story and then we'll move on. Handle on the 118 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:18.720 News, Amy and Fred and me lead story which deff me well, it's 119 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.240 a combination actually lead stories, one of course being the big one, the 120 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:30.919 assassination attempt former President Trump on Saturday and the opening of the Republican National Convention 121 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:37.600 today, and the two are going to be and are inextricably linked because of 122 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:45.440 the politics, the fallout, the crazy responses, the luck that Donald Trump 123 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.320 had, and it was horrific. I don't care what you think of Donald 124 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:54.720 Trump, yay or nay, Assassination attempts and assassinations should not be what America 125 00:09:54.799 --> 00:10:01.559 is about. And thank goodness that he wasn't hurt more than he was. 126 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.519 And then that poor firefighter who was hit and died. I mean, it's 127 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:07.039 just all of it heartbreaking, all right. So we got a lot of 128 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:11.440 that coming up. Taking a little pause, but not for long. The 129 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:20.960 assassination attempt on former President Trump has caused the Democratic Party to pause its advertising 130 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:28.159 and campaign for the President Biden. Yeah, I mean, look at the 131 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.480 difference you've got. This is when President Biden in the campaign would be spending 132 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:43.000 buckets of money to take the to take the light off of the RNC convention, 133 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.440 sort of move the attention over. Now that's gone because it's inappropriate for 134 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:54.120 him to do the attack ads, etc. Which they do. So America 135 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.480 is now concentrating on the RNC and the Democratic Party disappears for the next few 136 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:05.279 days, the presidential campaign of Biden, except that the Biden campaign says they 137 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:09.279 are going to be restarting. It could happen as soon as today. They 138 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.480 took the weekend off, and so they're kind of constantly evaluating. I would 139 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:18.240 like to see because the personal attacks on Trump, because the Biden campaign is 140 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:24.240 not Look how great Joe Biden is, that's not flying. It's basically anti 141 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.559 Trump. And in light of what happened, you can't be anti Trump, 142 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:33.279 not for a few days. This thing is way too fresh, it really 143 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.120 is. Normally I wouldn't pay attention. Yeah, no, I wouldn't care 144 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:41.519 about the acceptance speech because it's going to be the same that you hear every 145 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:46.919 time from every politician of every ilk on both sides. Everybody's going to be 146 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.480 watching Trump. Everybody, Hey, hey, Bill, what does it? 147 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.799 What does it mean for Trump? After what happened this weekend? He survives? 148 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:56.240 What does that? You know? In the end, I don't think 149 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:01.519 it's going to make a whole lot of difference. I think that it's so 150 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:07.440 baked in. And I don't think Independence are going to move towards Trump simply 151 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:13.440 because he was in thank goodness, just wounded a little tiny bit, I 152 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.960 mean two inches difference, and it would have been just unbelievable. But yeah, 153 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:18.879 I think in the end it's not going to make a whole lot of 154 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.360 money. Here's why I want to do football pool. How big is the 155 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.360 bandage is going to be on his ear? I say, it's going to 156 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:31.120 cover up his entire right side. I don't think he'll go out on stage 157 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.279 like that. He'll probably just have a band aid, is what he probably 158 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:37.159 will do. But you know, doesn't it do him more if his whole 159 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.639 right side is covered or a good part of it. Yeah, I don't 160 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.559 know, because then the accusation is going to be he's making too big a 161 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:50.159 deal about it now. And he got shot off. Yeah, but he 162 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.159 nicked his ear. It's not as if this is not by Tyson biting his 163 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.759 ear off. The ear is still there. It was a graze. Oh, 164 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:05.879 A reading story about it was blood was gushing from the wound, gushing. 165 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.879 No, and oh, I got all kinds of questions. I thought 166 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:16.720 the way Donald Trump handled it was brilliant as he's being shuffled off, well 167 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.120 shuffled off, thrown off the stage, and his defiance throwing his fist up 168 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:24.480 in the air. I mean, obviously it wasn't planned, but it couldn't 169 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:30.919 be more dramatic, and it just couldn't have been just more effective. I'm 170 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.879 looking at him, and I'm thinking, good for you. Instead of cowering, 171 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.919 which I would have done. He came back and he says nothing stopping 172 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:41.919 me. I can't wait to see the cover of Time and Newsweek this week. 173 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.000 It's oh, I haven't seen it. Which of those Which of those 174 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:50.360 photos are? I know, the fist up in the air? Wait? 175 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.080 Wait, Amy, Amy, Wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, 176 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.600 let's guess I haven't seen it yet. Okay, it's the one with 177 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.399 the female Secret Service in front of him, the guy behind him, the 178 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.480 flag there and his fist up. That's what I'm going with, Okay. 179 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.399 I would have gone for just him that one crop shot of him just putting 180 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:15.080 his fist up in the air and the blood coming down the side of his 181 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:18.440 face and a little bit on in front over his lip and coming down his 182 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.960 chin. I thought that would have been the most traumatic. But anyway, 183 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.759 what a weekend. I'm gonna we have a lot to talk about, questions 184 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:30.399 about the Secret Service. They're in trouble big time. And I'm a little 185 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:35.200 history of some assassination, assassination attempts which we've lived through. Fred, you 186 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.399 and I are old enough, Amy, You and I are old enough to 187 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:43.240 remember some of these. Yep. Jerald forod twice in a month wiki from 188 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.879 Ronald Reagan. And I'm going to go back through history too as to what 189 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:54.840 happened and unfortunately, how many real assassinations that is assassination, not just attempts, 190 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:01.320 but ones that panned out with the death of a president. Okay, 191 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.639 more on Fred, all right. Nicki Haley's going to speak at the Republican 192 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:11.919 Convention. The former candidate will be speaking. She has taken baby steps Bill 193 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:16.919 towards supporting Trump, and her speech will represent a full surrender to Trump's dominance 194 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:22.879 in the party. So for Nicki Haley, this is just basically survival exactly. 195 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:26.879 And she she's the last holdout. Well, she wasn't gonna speak until, 196 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.559 like they just announced it after the assassination and until he got shot. 197 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.399 Yeah, well, this is one of the things that happens in the Trump 198 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:41.279 world. And that is if you somehow, if you castigate him, if 199 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.600 you talk anyway in the negative about Trump, you are an enemy. If 200 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:50.440 you come back and basically kiss the ring he is, he appreciates loyalty and 201 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.840 believes that none of it happened before, or it doesn't matter. You're now 202 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.440 on my team as long as you support me, and she had to and 203 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:03.720 you're right for one is basically a survival. You can't survive in the Republican 204 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:11.320 Party today without being pro Trump can't do it. So she's gonna speak and 205 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.519 I cannot wait for the accolades to start. One hundred speakers, one hundred 206 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:22.840 speakers are going to come. It's going to be just piling on the greatest 207 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.679 guy in the world, our savior. By the way, that doesn't mean 208 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:29.799 that on the Democratic side you don't hear the same thing, just not to 209 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.919 the extent because of the engagement of Trump followers across the board. Because frankly, 210 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:40.879 a lot of Democrats are looking at Joe Biden as a negative you're hurting 211 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.960 me. There's not one Republican out there that is looking at his or her 212 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:52.720 association with Trump in a negative light. Not one. Kellie's London, a 213 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:59.360 few dozen helping hands to the RNC. Dozens of law enforcement officers from California 214 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.119 are headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Actually they're already there, so Governor Newsom 215 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:08.680 says sixty one law enforcement officers. There's forty CHP members, and then also 216 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:14.920 police officers from Bakersfield, Fresno, and Long Beach police departments. Now, 217 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:21.000 the governor also says this is not in response to the attempted assassination assassination on 218 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:26.880 Saturday, but that these plans have been in place since May. Yeah. 219 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.160 I mean, I don't know if that's true or not, because Davin Newsom 220 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.680 has a way of saying things that don't pan out or are not true. 221 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:37.400 But it makes sense. It makes sense because you want security. There aren't 222 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:44.599 enough Secret Service people. There certainly aren't enough local law enforcement. When you're 223 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.440 talking about how many people were at the convention, how many thousands of people, 224 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:49.880 and the securities has to be completely insane, especially in light of what 225 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:57.799 happened. So Corey Opetory, the man at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, 226 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:03.680 the firefighter who dove in front of his family to protect them and ultimately was 227 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:10.400 shot and killed by the assassin he is being hailed as a hero built Well, 228 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.920 he jumped. From what I understand, he jumped on top of his 229 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:18.000 family or his wife to protect her. I mean that is a legitimate hero. 230 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.720 On CNN, I was watching a woman or maybe NBC was being interviewed. 231 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.279 She was in the front row and the reporter was asking her, so, 232 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.839 what happened at that moment, and she said, if you look at 233 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.039 it, not one person in the front row went down. We were all 234 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:38.720 standing up and we were all about to grab hands to be in front of 235 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:44.720 the president to protect him. I'm thinking, what in the meantime, she 236 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:53.759 was the first one that hit the deck. Let's take a hey, welcome 237 00:18:53.839 --> 00:19:00.720 to Welcome to the world of politics. So Israel says it took out top 238 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.559 commander, but Hamas is saying not so fast. So the Israeli military says 239 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:10.039 a senior Hamas commander, Rafa Salama, who is said to be one of 240 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:14.880 the masterminds of the October seventh attack, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza 241 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:19.240 on Saturday. Hamas hasn't confirmed it. They say instead that Israel's air strike 242 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:26.000 hit a camp for displaced people in a designated humanitarian zone and killed ninety Palestinians. 243 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:30.720 Yeah, I mean, of course that happened. And what's happening is 244 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:36.359 Israel is calling these various zones humanitarian zones and safe zones, and then they 245 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:41.759 go in and blow them up across the board. So all right, now 246 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.480 wide, I mean, no one believes Israel anymore when they go you have 247 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.400 to evacuate over there because it's safe over there, and then they bomb and 248 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:49.759 attack over there. Well, how about going over there and the same thing 249 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:56.359 happens. I was reading an article in the New York Times. Hamas is 250 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:03.000 no longer a uniformed military f They are now all civilians. All the Hamas 251 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:10.920 militants are civilians now, or they're dressed as civilians, and no one knows, 252 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:18.240 and they're attacking Israeli soldiers and Israeli soldiers are basically shooting back. Because 253 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:23.519 the argument is going to be that if Israel does not have what they say 254 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:29.519 are is collateral damage, are they aiming at civilians? I don't think so. 255 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:30.599 I don't think that, Oh there's a kid, let's shoot that kid 256 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.759 up. Are they bombing that place? Yeah, because that's where the militants 257 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:40.680 are. So if you take into account civilian casualties. And you don't go 258 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:45.200 in an area where civilians you've just lost the war. Hamas has just won 259 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.400 it. You might as well say it's over. You can't attack Hamas can 260 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:52.240 attack you. You can't attack back. This is a mess. This is 261 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.839 a mess, and we're going to talk a lot more about that. But 262 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:02.640 Hamas is not giving up, not giving up his military strength and is fully 263 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:11.359 committed and is said, so, Palestinians are fodder. We will sacrifice the 264 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:17.920 buildings and we will sacrifice our population because of this holy war we have against 265 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:19.920 Israel. How do you fight that? Huh? No, you can't, 266 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:26.240 No, you can't. Shannon Dherty nine O two one oh star battled cancer 267 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.680 four years I think about ten years. Died over the weekend at the age 268 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:37.400 of fifty three. She first went public with the breast cancer diagnosis in twenty 269 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.920 fifteen. A lot of folks watched that show. I think it became part 270 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:48.400 of American pop culture. And her battle has come to an end at the 271 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.079 age of fifty three. You know, and you just you hear that fifty 272 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:56.640 three, You think, my god, how young. Oh that is unless 273 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:59.640 you're a teenager. Then you die. Then you die of old age at 274 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:03.319 fifteen, right, and as you get older. Now, Bill, somebody 275 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:04.519 looks at you and they go, you know, we just lost my friend. 276 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:07.599 How old? Eighty seven? Oh my god? How young? Yeah? 277 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.279 When you get that? Who was it that said one of it? 278 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:18.319 Could have been Mick Jagger in his mid twenties who said, don't trust or 279 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.839 anybody over thirty is considered too old or something along those lines. You can't 280 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:27.279 trust anybody over thirty. He's seventy six years old and still dancing on stages. 281 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:32.920 Yeah. I think Paul McCartney has already hit his eighties, hasn't he? 282 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:38.319 And he's still performed believe. Wow. Yeah. We also lost Richard 283 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:47.400 Simmons over the weekend and doctor Ruth. Yes, Bill, you used to 284 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:49.039 take a lot of sex advice from doctor Ruth, didn't you. Yeah? 285 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:52.720 And I not only did I take a lot of sex advice from doctor youth 286 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:59.359 Ruth, doctor Ruth, but I would actually follow that advice with Richard Simmons. 287 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:06.880 Oh my god, did I just come out? Oh? Oh, 288 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.480 okay, I retract. That wasn't bad, though, I got to give 289 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:12.720 you that. That was good. That actually was very good. You did 290 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:18.319 a sticker. Yeah, that was good, get the power back on or 291 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:23.799 else, says Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He's threatening to an issue an executive 292 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:30.599 order forcing an electrical provider called Center Point Energy to improve the reliability of its 293 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:34.559 equipment and its level of storm preparedness if it doesn't address concerns in the wake 294 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:40.440 of Hurricane Barrel about I think two million, maybe even three million customers were 295 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:42.319 in the dark at the height of it, and a week later, almost 296 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:48.960 three hundred thousands still don't have their power back on. It's Texas is very 297 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:52.119 weird with its power grid. You remember the big freeze where Texas, I 298 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:57.200 mean the whole state was just at a standstill. Couldn't you couldn't turn light 299 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:00.799 in the state. And that's peak because Texas decided they weren't going to be 300 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:03.799 part of the national grade because no federal government is going to tell us what 301 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.720 to do, and so they could have had power, but they didn't. 302 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:14.480 Well, now you've got well, how unusual you have a utility that is 303 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:18.640 being nailed. I think utilities here have a little bit of problem across the 304 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:23.079 country PG and E for example here in California. So we'll see what the 305 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:27.079 governor does with that. One. And I think governor has a lot of 306 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:30.880 power here. What happens if not? What happens if they don't do the 307 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.559 job? What do they do? What does he do to center point? 308 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:37.519 Shut him down? Then there's no power for anyone? Yeah, and then 309 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:42.440 what do you do? Yeah, here'll show you. Here's an interesting factoid. 310 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:48.640 I actually have a picture with Texas Governor Abbott. I just want that 311 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:51.640 on the record. I actually have a picture. Will wow, are you 312 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:56.720 patting his head? That is so wrong that you did that. That is 313 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:02.039 so wrong that you said. That is just so wrong. And you know 314 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:06.119 it. Let's just know it. Okay, all right? Is me? 315 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.759 Now? Ye? Do we keep going? Yeah? Yeah? Did you? 316 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:14.880 Sorry? Argentina Columbia. The game was in Miami. It went into 317 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:19.240 overtime. Argentina won the Coopa, but they had to delay the start of 318 00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:25.880 the game for almost an hour because fans were so unruly trying to get into 319 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:30.799 the stadium that they were storming the stadium and trying to climb over gates, 320 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:36.279 and the players were afraid. Fans were afraid. They had to call in 321 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:41.559 more police officers and delay the start bill because people were trying to storm the 322 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:44.440 stadium to get in. Yeah, and that's not unusual in the world of 323 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:48.279 soccer. You've reported this. How about that one game it was Columbia where 324 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:56.039 the referee made a bad call and the field was overrun and the crowd killed 325 00:25:56.119 --> 00:26:00.759 him. Let's it just killed them, stomped them to death. Yeah, 326 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.319 that was a bad call. Oh yeah, I understand it was a bad 327 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:07.640 call. Now why Yeah, that costs you your life. Yeah, soccer 328 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.559 fans are completely crazy, I mean, completely out of their minds. Fred, 329 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.160 Why are soccer fans completely out of their minds? They all are because 330 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.599 it's it's a gross generalization, but you know what I mean. No, 331 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.759 but I'll tell you it's a different mentality because it is part of their national 332 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:26.519 pride. In this country, we have a lot to do. And you 333 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:32.119 know, our sports basically are professional sports. In other countries, everybody plays 334 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:36.599 football and their national pride means an awful lot to them. Yeah, that's 335 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:38.400 true. That's a good point. That's a good analogy, good analysis. 336 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:45.079 I like that. Also, every time LA wins whatever kind of a championship, 337 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:48.240 everybody's going around is that our team won. Our team one. I 338 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.720 go, wait a minute, it's not your team. It's Jerry Buss's team, 339 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:56.039 and we explain if it was yours, you wouldn't have to pay two 340 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:00.960 hundred dollars to go see a game. Really not our team, but the 341 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:06.079 pride is such that overwhelms everything. And you're right. In these third world 342 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.799 countries, that's what they have. This is what they have. Yeah, 343 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:14.240 this is it. Yeah, so they are completely nuts. Excellent, Fred, 344 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:18.920 here's a candidate a lot of people, including me, could get behind. 345 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:26.920 Matthew McConaughey has teased a possible political run during the National Governor's Association summer 346 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:32.960 meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Happened on Friday. Apparently he had 347 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.759 been out drinking the night before with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and that they 348 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.839 were talking about stuff and he said, you know, I've thought about running 349 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:47.720 for office. He says he's out on a learning tour and probably has been 350 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:51.599 for the last six years. He's trying to understand what this category, as 351 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:52.440 he calls it, means. I don't know if that means he's going to 352 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:57.759 run for president. But Matthew McConaughey and politics with wait a minute, the 353 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:00.359 world, you said, here's an I can get behind. Why are you 354 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.880 going to get behind him. What is it about him aside from he'd probably 355 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:10.599 went because people know him and he enough charming and charismatic. And his argument 356 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.279 is that, like right now, what we're dealing with, the extremes are 357 00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:18.599 going further left and further right, decencies off the table, and he wants 358 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:21.960 to change that. But everybody is saying that also he, as you point 359 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:23.519 out, charming. He's very good looking, and if you look at a 360 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:27.000 close up picture, he's got quite the fruit package. Put all of that 361 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:32.079 together, is quite He's not quite what he has quite the fruit package. 362 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:36.640 Oh okay, well I didn't look that closely, Bill. Well there you 363 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:40.119 go. Now we're going to do a Richard Simmons story in a minute, 364 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:45.519 so it all works out anyway. We did mention Richard Simmons seventy six years 365 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.119 old. You could say he was colorful, and he certainly was that. 366 00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:53.559 He also, I think redefined the way people worked out. He made it 367 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:59.160 fun. He was one of the first people to do that, encouraging people 368 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:03.960 of all ages and basically sizes. Yeah, he was big too. He 369 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.519 was big. He had a personal interest in this. He but then he 370 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:10.160 lost all the weight. Yeah, that's the whole point. I mean, 371 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:15.079 he walked the walk. You know, he saw it from both sides. 372 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.680 I don't want to go there, but he he did. You know, 373 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:23.039 Fred, you're making me say this stuff. It's you. You know that 374 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:26.599 you are the incident. I'm not doing anything. I'm just sitting here. 375 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:32.079 I'm just sitting here. You get this way when I'm on with you. 376 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:34.680 But I'm not doing it. You are doing it, okay, and it's 377 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:38.279 kind of funny, but you you know you're doing it. I understood, 378 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:44.920 all right, God, Alec Baldwin has thanked his supporters. In a big 379 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:52.960 surprise. Late on Friday, Alec Baldwin's case was dismissed. They said that 380 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:57.359 he that the prosecution withheld evidence that had to do with some bullets. Of 381 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:02.400 course, the big question was how did life I'll get on the on the 382 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:06.920 scene of the Rust movie shooting or the movie set that turned into a movie 383 00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:11.599 shooting, and so the judge threw it out and Alec Baldwin burst into tears 384 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.519 when they announced that the case was dismissed without prejudice, which means they we 385 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.799 prejudice, are with with prejudice. Yeah, it means they can't file again. 386 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.640 It's over, it's done, and this is the prosecution just screwing the 387 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:26.480 pooch from the minute they got it. One of the things, you know, 388 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:32.799 originally it was a second degree murder charge, which the defense asked to 389 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:36.240 be dismissed, and the judge instantly dismissed it because number one, it's overreaching. 390 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:41.440 Number Two, that provision in that law didn't exist at the time that 391 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.880 Baldwin shot Helena Hutchins. It wasn't even on the books. Well, we 392 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.880 don't care, We're going to charge him with a law that didn't exist, 393 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:53.759 I mean, just insanity. And then this issue, the reason that they 394 00:30:53.839 --> 00:31:03.039 tossed it is because there was an armorer who knew Helena hutchins stepdad or stepmother 395 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.359 was very close, walked into the prosecution and said, I have some bullets 396 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:12.079 here that might have some influence on the case. These are live bullets and 397 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:18.480 they may actually be connected. Prosecutors not only would not take it as evidence, 398 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:21.200 or they did, they put a different number, put it on another 399 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:23.599 case and said we don't think it's relevant. Hey, it's not up to 400 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:29.920 prosecution to argue relevancy or not. It's up to the judge. And so 401 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:32.680 the judge got so pissed off, just said, you guys are done, 402 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:37.079 You're finished. And it was just just horrific. They were so anxious because 403 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:40.200 there was a national story. Oh I'm going to show you how good I 404 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:45.480 am. Just horrific. I alos thought that the case was crazy. Yeah, 405 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.920 but still in all for them to make that kind of mistake, I 406 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:53.279 mean, that is really very poorly executed. So horrible, horrible, and 407 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:56.839 now he can never be charged with this name with prejudice. He's done, 408 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:01.160 he's done. Now it's all Now, it's all civil liability, which should 409 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.880 be the case, should be the case, but and it is. I 410 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:07.519 mean, there are settlements all over the place, but criminality, no. 411 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:15.839 Lady Baka, the former La County sheriff who was suffering from Alzheimer's was lost 412 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:21.759 and wandering around and nobody could find him. He's eighty two years old in 413 00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:25.480 the San Marino area. They found him. He's okay. There was great 414 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:29.920 concern. You have an eighty two year old man suffering from Alzheimer's who was 415 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:37.160 lost, and the former sheriff was in fact found and he had been missing 416 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:39.160 since Sunday, so that is good news. Of course, Baca was the 417 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:44.519 sheriff from ninety eight to twenty fourteen. Big problems to federal prison. Yeah, 418 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:46.039 a lot of corruption, a lot of corruption there. And it's tough 419 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:52.599 to see these public figures suffering from Alzheimer's and you know they're they're just out 420 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.559 of their minds. Unfortunately, you lose your mind and you are you are 421 00:32:55.640 --> 00:33:00.920 not who you were. I was their joke here Fred, for your sake, 422 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:04.920 but don't do it. Okay. I thought it was pretty good. 423 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:07.519 I thought it was a good one. You got one, yeah, okay. 424 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:12.960 When they found him, he said I was the sheriff of La County. 425 00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:15.839 They go, come on, you have an eightyterial man. He goes, 426 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:17.759 No, you weren't. He goes, I was Napoleon. How about 427 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:23.440 that? Does that work? I told you it was bad, Actually it 428 00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:30.400 wasn't. I can't come on with you anymore. This is all. I 429 00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.799 can't let this happen. It's not even my job to monitor this stuff. 430 00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:37.000 And I can't let this stump it anymore. I can't allow it. All 431 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.480 right, let's do one more and then we'll go on. Steady as she 432 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:47.319 goes, US stock futures barely budged after the assassination attempt on former President Trump 433 00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:55.039 Saturday, signaling calm in the markets as Trump of course survived it. Yep, 434 00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:00.519 and that is this is where we talked about the fall out, Amy, 435 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.279 and you had asked does this change the politics? And people are looking 436 00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.079 I think Fred had brought this up to this assassination attempt, and I'm going 437 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.519 to go, I think it's not going to do much short term. Maybe 438 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:15.800 the market's nothing, nothing, And thank goodness, it was a nothing other 439 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.719 than that poor firefighter who was killed and the two people that are still critical. 440 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.920 Had there been a successful assassination, I think you would have seen worldwide 441 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:30.280 response financially. Also, all right, we're done, guys. Coming up, 442 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:32.440 Fred is always thank you for doing the news with us because I love 443 00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:38.079 it. Coming up a minute by minute timeline of what happened during the assassination, 444 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:44.000 some of the things that we found out as the story was breaking. 445 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:49.000 And how about the Secret Service? Huh? How about them? Yeah? 446 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.320 Yeah, they show they're metaled and they know you've seen. And then I'm 447 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:55.960 going to say something is probably misogynistic by the way, and I may get 448 00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.760 sure. No, no, I'm still here, Bill, Yeah, no, 449 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.360 I know you kissed me off, but I'm still sitting here kf I 450 00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:07.679 am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to the 451 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:12.440 Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine 452 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:15.480 am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.