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followed me too. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. Another day,
another stabbing on a metro bus. The guy was stabbed in the leg on
a bus in Lindwood yesterday morning. It happened near Long Beach Boulevard and Norton
Avenue. One person has been arrested. Former President Trump's criminal hush money trial
has ended for the week now that both sides have rested their cases. The
judge says he'll get final instructions to the prosecution and defense by the end of
the day. Tomorrow. We'll be talking with ABC's Peter Haralambus, who's been
in the courtroom to see it all unfold in just a couple of minutes.
There's a high price to pay to be part of the middle class in California.
To be considered middle class in the state, you need to make between
sixty one and one hundred eighty three thousand dollars. Go Banking rates shows that's
a big increase from twenty twenty two, when the middle class was made up
of people who earned forty to one hundred twenty three thousand dollars. Also coming
up later this hour, we've got our tech guru Rich Demiro. He's going
to be talking all things AI. Also, Amy's on it. What am
I on? I'm on the couch. I'll tell you what I'm watching.
At six oh five, it's handled on the news. Investigators have launched an
investigation into Matthew Perry's death, specifically where'd he get all that ketamine that killed
him. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A man is recovering from being stabbed in the leg
on a metro bus in Lynnwood. Monica Cassius lives in the area. She
says buses in La County have been sketchy for years, but crime is worse
than ever. They doing drugs in there and the bus drivers can't do anything.
They you know, my mom got here one day even with the person
there, and it's it's dangerous, like people are trying to go to work.
Ellie Kenny Sheriff's deputies responded to the stabbing just before eleven thirty yesterday morning,
where they quickly detained the attacker who had run off. Mayor Bass said
last week she is pushing to get police on metro buses and trains. Lawyers
have sued Orange County, claiming voting centers violate the election code by using the
Internet. There are two provisions in the California Elections Code that conflict with one
another. Lex Rex Institute President Alexander Hobberbusch says election code explicitly says no part
of the election system can be Internet connected. We're not alleging any kind of
election fraud. We're not even alleging any kind of irregularity or failure to comply
with California state law. This is strictly a statutory challenge. LC Registrar has
said state law allows poll books to be Internet connected, but no part of
the vote counting process is connected. A hearing is set for August in order
Orange County Corbin Carson KFI News. Amsterdam style cannabis cafes are one step closer
to becoming a reality in California. The State Assembly passed to bill on Monday
that would allow weed clubs to make and sell non cannabis food and non alcoholic
drinks. This is a bill that supports our legal small businesses that just want
to diversify their businesses and do the right thing. San Francisco Assemblyman Matt Haney
says his bill would create a level playing field for the legal cannabis industry that's
being forced to compete with the black market. It would also allow the cafes
to host live music and other performances. The bills now headed to the state
Senate. Several cities in California have ranked as the top one hundred places to
live in the US. The US News and World Report study looked at things
like quality of education, air quality, and crime rates. San Francisco was
the top ranked city in California came in at number twenty two. Santa Barbara
and San Diego are the only two cities in southern California to make the top
one hundreds to live in the US. Naples, Florida, let's say no
good morning now to ABC's Peter Harrelumbos Suh is in the court room for the
Trump trial in Manhattan. Peter, on the twenty first day they rested,
but before they did tell us what happened. Yeah, after twenty days in
court, Donald Trump is finally at the point in which he could take a
few days off. Ahead of these closing statements, the defense only called two
witnesses. The paral legal named Daniel Sitco, and Bob Costello, a former
legal advisor to Michael Cohen. Costello testified that Michael Cohen told him that Donald
Trump was involved in the hush money payment, that he was completely unaware of
it ahead of the twenty sixteen election, though con admitted earlier in his testimony
that he lied to Costello about that. Other than Costello and Sitco, the
defense called no further witnesses. They didn't call Donald Trump, despite the fact
that Trump is sent on multiple occasions he'd like to testify, resting their case
only about forty minutes into court yesterday. After that, the lawyers came back
in the afternoon to hash out parts of the jury instructions. Those are kind
of the instructions the judge will give the jury on the law and the evidence
in the case. Now, everyone is set to return on the Tuesday after
Memorial Day for a lengthy day of summations. Okay, And so when the
jury the judge is talking about the jury instructions, do the two sides have
any say in that or is it just the judge says, here's what's going
to happen. Or did the lawyers fight about that too? So the judge
will The judge has full discretion to instruct the jury however he'd like, but
he held a conference yesterday to at least hear both sides out. They both
made some requests. For example, the prosecution wanted it to make one of
the judge to tell the jury that Donald Trump can still be found guilty for
false fine business records, even if Trump never personally handled the records himself,
just getting to motion essentially the creation of those falsified business records. Defense lawyers
wanted the judge to say, but hush money is not inherently illegal. The
judge didn't seem in client to grant that request. Ultimately, it seems like
Mersham's going to stick pretty close to the standard legal instructions, telling the parties
he wants to make this as simple as possible for the jury in the case.
Kind of interesting with the request to say, hey, hush money isn't
necessarily illegal because it's not, and the judge wouldn't go along with that.
Yeah, defense lawyers have been making this argument since the early days of the
trial. Basically, there's nothing illegal with a non disclosure AGREEP, but essentially
paying for silence through a legal agreement, and defense lawyers have suggested that prosecutors
aren't being necessarily very sincere when they call it hush money, because it adds
a negative connotation, makes it sound illegal, when in reality, there's nothing
illegal about it. The judge, however, didn't really want to get into
it. The prosecution argued that if that instruction was included, the judge would
be basically making the defense's argument for them. So we'll see. The judges
said that he'd like to finalize those jury instructions by Thursday. Okay, And
Peter, what's the feeling in the courtroom? Like, does everything kind of
chill? Except for I know we had some issues with Costello and the judge,
but like, are people are they feeling anxious or just tired of it?
Or do you kind of get any sense of that? You know generally
and it's hard to save for sure for everyone. It seems like there's been
a bit of exhaustion over the last few weeks. I think the case got
rapidly as very major witnesses quickly, so since Stormy Daniels. Really it was
kind of NonStop in terms of some of these witnesses with Michael Cohen and Stormy
Daniels spending multiple days on the witness stand. It seems like it was a
lot o a way for the jury to kind of absorb. It seems as
though this six day break is something that's helpful, especially because the deliberations and
the summations are going to be intense next week. We think the summations are
going to take multiple hours as long as the entire day. The jury might
even have to stay late, and the deliberations will be unprecedented. We will
really have no warning when a verdict comes back. Within a matter of minutes,
it could go from you just deliberations to Donald Trump, the former United
States president current Republican nominee, being convicted of federal crime. So I think
this break is very welcome ahead ahead of next week as opposed to getting everything
done and start like because you said it's going to take several hours. So
is it expected that the closing arguments will be contained to one day or do
we know? The judge has said it's possible it rolls over to another day,
which means that we're looking at what six hours of summations over the course
of one day. I think Judge Mascham's strong preference is to do it all
in one day. He really doesn't like breaking uptimations. That's what he told
the jury yesterday, even if it means pushing past four point thirty, making
the jury stay till five or six o'clock at the evening, Okay, and
then hopefully they would start deliberating. Then maybe on Wednesday. Yeah, I
think Wednesday's a good guest. They normally don't sit on Wednesdays. But it
seems like, given the nature of all this summations go rapidly into deliberations,
the judge is going to make the request that they come in on their day
off to begin deliberating. Okay, perfect, Well, speaking of days off,
you get a couple of days off now, don't you. Oh I'm
very excited. I got to review some transcripts. But the nice long Memorial
Day weekend is something I'm very grateful for. Yeah. Well, you've been
sitting in a courtroom for a very very long time, and we appreciate all
the information that you've given us, Peter, and we look forward to talking
to you next week and see what happens then always my pleasure. All right,
takes your weekend, you too. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Dozens of pro Palestinian
protesters have rallied outside the CSU Chancellor's office in Long Beach, demanding the school
boycott Israel. Those protesters marched from Lincoln Park down Ocean Boulevard into the office
of the chancellor, where a meeting was in session. Cal State Fullerton student
Amy Parker says students are in the CSU system and know where the money's going,
and we are here to oppose that and get the CSU system to disclose
its investments and divest those investments. Protesters say they want CSU officials to sever
relationships with Boeing, raytheon An, Lockheed Martin because they believe the companies are
supporting Israel's attack on Gaza. About ten of the twenty three CSU campuses were
represented at yesterday's rally. Chris Adler KFI News. A counter protester has sued
uc Davis for how it has handled the pro Palestinian encampment on campus. Jonathan
Groveman is a resident of Davis and a member of the Davis October seventh Coalition.
He says he's been discriminated against and his First and fourteenth Amendment rights have
been violated. While they are indulging one set of students, they're infringing on
thousands and thousands of other students, faculty, staff, and Davis residents that
have the right to be on that public university. Is a veteran and has
back in knee injuries. He says he was blocked from walking on a footpath
on campus because of an encampment. One of the two women sexually assaulted along
the Venice Canals has been declared braindead. The attacks happened hours apart on April
sixth. Anthony Jones was arrested days later in San Diego. He's facing numerous
charges, including torture and attempted murder. Will and Ireland seeing we recognize you,
we respect you. Israel has recalled its ambassadors from Norway and Ireland for
recognizing a Palestinian state. Spain later announced it too, supports the statehood for
Palestinians. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris called it an historic, an important day
for Ireland and for Palestine, so oft for hope and encouragement to the people
of Palestine at one of their darkest hours. Israel's foreign minister said yesterday Ireland
and Norway intend to send a message to the Palestinians and the whole world that
terrorism pays. He made the comment before Spain announced its recognition of Palestinian statehood.
Officials in Mexico say temperatures are so hot howler monkeys are falling out of
trees and dying. Wildlife specialists say at least eighty three monkeys have been found
dead in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco. Others were rescued by people who
took them to local vets. By May ninth, at least nine cities in
Mexico had set temperature records. One city hit one hundred and seventeen degrees Poor
monkeys. Dozens have been arrested Following a week long operation to combat crime in
the IE, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department did probation and parole checks in
Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Adelanto, and San Bernardino and targeted those
prohibited from owning weapons and also known gang members. More than twenty weapons were
seized, including ghost guns, and fifty one people were arrested. A town
of about two thousand has been devastated by tornadoes that have ripped through town homes
or leveled. Cars and trees are scattered around and Authlorady say several people have
been killed in Greenville, Iowa, southwest of Des Moines. An eleven year
old girl is about to become the youngest person to ever graduate from Irvine Valley
College. Athena Elling will graduate with an associate's degree in Liberal Arts with a
GPA above three point five. She takes the youngest graduate title away from her
brother, who graduated from Irvine Valley College last year at the age of twelve.
Talk about an overachiever. Wow at six oh five, It's handle on
the news. Humanitarian eight has been moved off the pier the US built off
the coast of the Gaza Strip. But the Pentagon is saying none of that
is being delivered to Palestinians who so desperately need it. Let's say good morning
now to KTLA's tech guy and the host of Rich on Tech on KFI.
It's Rich Demiro. Rich. It's all about the AI this week? Oh
yeah, it's all about the AI. I was in Seattle for Microsoft events.
They had a couple events that I attended one being something called Build,
which is like their big developers conference, and it was actually kind of cool.
Surprise. Sam Altman of open Ai was on stage to chat and kind
of interesting among the controversy. I don't know if you've heard about this controversy
with the Scarlett Johansson similar sounding voice on sat GPT. Yeah, so he
didn't address that, but he did say that we are in a time that
is revolutionary. He likened it to the birth of sort of like mobile or
just the Internet in general, and he said, look, this is a
time when if you're a developer, you can really take advantage of these new
AI tools and build something that's transformative, disruptive and also just incredible for people.
Okay, So and then they did they unveil some new products. Yeah,
so they unveiled a new new products, but also a new class of
products. So the new class of computers are called Copilot plus PCs. So
these have AI baked into the architecture. So they have a special chip called
an NPU. Gets kind of nerdy, but that's neural processing unit that is
a chip that is dedicated to processing AI tasks. And so these computers have
a certain baseline of specs. It's got to have sixteen gigabytes of memory,
they have to have two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage plus this NPU.
That's also a certain level of quality. And so they have that which
people can now go to like a Best Buy and say, Okay, I
want one of these new Copilot Plus PCs because they're kind of engineered for the
next level of Windows. Right. But they also came out with two of
their own computers, which are the Surface Laptops and the Surface Pro and you
know, if you know what a surface is, it's kind of like their
tablet slash laptop. And they looked really good, really really nice. Computers
started one thousand bucks their available June eighteenth. Okay, and so those are
separate from the copilots. Yeah, well it built into that. Yeah,
so those are considered. So there's like a class of PCs. Like imagine
you've got like a MacBook, right, and now you've got a Copilot Plus
PC. It's kind of like a branding something. You go to a store
that you're like, they're like, do you want a MacBook? Do you
want a Chromebook? You're like, no, I want a Copilot Plus PC.
Like, oh, you want like the best Windows computer that's going to
handle the AI tasks that you know, we expect to be able to run
on these things now. Amy. The other thing they introduced, which was
probably the one of the most interesting features, is called Recall. And this
is a feature that is now going to be inside these new Windows eleven computers
that remembers everything that you do on your computer. So it almost takes a
screen recording of your entire day on your computer. And the idea is that
it uses AI to help you find any thing that you looked at on your
computer, even if you can only remember the color of the web page or
one picture or anything, and you can just type it in and it will
help you find that. Again, I think this is going to make us
all a lot dumber, No, seriously, because you're not using your brain
anymore. You're relying on the computer then more and more to do it,
so your brain doesn't have to exercise. Well, see, I liken it
to an address book. So back in the day, we all knew everyone's
phone number, and that took a lot of brain power, and nowadays,
of course, we don't know anyone's phone number, which I think you should
know at least a couple, you know, But our brains have been freed
up to take on bigger tasks, and I think that is a very positive
way of looking at all of this. But AI is the same thing because
obviously students and learners and everyone is using AI these days for so many tasks.
Theoretically, that frees up our brain to think about the bigger tasks and
issues in this world and maybe bigger problem solving and let this AI stuff do
like the smaller menial tasks. Okay, I like your optimism. Okay.
So Microsoft is also partnering with the Con Academy to give teachers an AI learning
tool. I think this is absolutely on incredible. Selcon also up on stage
at Build yesterday. I didn't know much about con Academy. I knew it
was a free way to learn. It's like a nonprofit that he started a
couple, you know, many years ago. But now they are giving away
a free AI tool to teacher that is kind of like a chat GBT,
but just for teachers. So it can it can help them plan their lessons,
It can give them ideas and how to teach in the classroom. It
can rewrite quizzes for them, like let's say they want to rewrite a quiz
for a different grade. It's just an amazing tool for teachers to use,
and they say it's going to save a teacher about five hours a week.
This is something that used to cost money, but Microsoft has now teamed up
and donated their computing services and now they're going to give it away to every
single teacher in the US for free K through twelve. It's called con Migo.
You know CON's friend Amigo. But Amy, I'm really impressed with this.
I think if you're a teacher, you should absolutely check this free benefit
out because I think it's really going to save teachers time. And they're of
course stressed out these days. Absolutely, So is it something that they'll get
through the schools or they go directly to Microsoft to get it. It looks
like, well it used to be through the schools, but now because it's
free, it looks like you can sign up directly. So I say check
it out. And now there's different levels, like students can also sign up
for this and stuff, but that is still all kind of like different.
This one thing is the teacher aspect of it. So I was just reading
through all the materials on it, and it's like, I want to become
a teacher now. I'm like, this is incredible, Like I want to
make quizzes and come up with ideas on how to teach in the classroom because
it just seems like it's such a forward way of thinking here. Yeah,
and we know that teachers work really hard and they work long hours and stuff.
They get summers off, but they work long hours and they work really
hard. So this maybe I'll give them a little bit of a break.
I like it. Yeah, And the stress of that job is not easy.
You know, you're the future of this world. Rest upon your shoulders,
all right, rich Demiro, thank you so much for the information.
Of course, you can hear all the great tech information and advice, and
I'm guessing you'll still be talking AI this weekend. We've got Rich on Tech.
It's Saturdays from eleven to two right here on KFI. You can also
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great, thank you, Rich Demiro, talk to you next week.
Okay, bye, bye bye. Investigators are looking into how Friends actor Matthew
Perry got the ketamine that killed him seven months ago. The LAPD, d
EA and US Postal Service are working together to find the source of the drug.
Contributing factors to Perry's death were listed as drowning, coronary artery disease,
and the effects of a drug commonly used to treat opioid use. He was
found unresponsive in a hot tub. Sean Combs, also known as Ditty,
is accused of sexual assault in a new lawsuit filed by former model Christy Crystal
McKinney. She says she was sexually assaulted by Combs in two thousand and three
in New York City after he gave her laced pot to smoke. McKinney's allegations
come after security video was released last week showing Combs attacking his ex girlfriend Cassie
Ventura in twenty sixteen, and after his homes were raided in connection with a
human trafficking investigation. Some proposed changes to ELA's city charter are moving forward.
The at Hawk Committee on City Governance spent five hours hearing from city departments about
ideas to put before the voters. Most of the ones accepted on Monday were
simple technical changes. Bigger issues like allowing more density in downtown construction projects,
as proposed by Vince Pertoni of the Planning Department, were deferred. Los Angeles
is a clobe with a to have a recognizeabole skyline. The building density issue
and others like whether the city should move to a two year budget cycle could
be heard again at a later date, but not before the ballot measure is
finalized in early July. Michael Monks KFI News. The ups driver who was
shot and killed in his truck in Irvine last week was shot fourteen times.
Police have arrested his childhood friend, forty six year old Ron Fontanosa. He's
charged with murder and could face the death penalty if convicted. Gas prices in
California slowly going down as we head into the summer driving season. Triple A
says weak domestic demand and oil costs have led to prices dropping about ten cents
a gallon from a week ago and about thirty cents less than a month ago.
In California gases averaging five twenty a gallon. Experts are predicting the downward
trajectory will continue into the summer. The Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing project over the
one to one Freeway in Agora Hills is ahead of schedule. Crews have installed
the last of the steel beam across the freeway and it's been done about three
weeks early. So the crane that lifted him into place is now going to
be removed from the center median, and overnight freeway closures will end after tonight.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Another day,
another attack on Metro, this time a guy was stabbed on a bus in
Lynnwood. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Stephen
Portnoy about how pro Palestinian protesters have moved from college campuses to Capitol Hill.
But right now, Aami's on it, Dami's on it, AMI's on it,
Damie's on it. What am I on? I'm on the stream lots
and lots of shows. In fact, there are several that I have in
the queue that I want to tell you about, but I'm kind of waiting.
Some of the series haven't finished yet, so I kind of want to
wait until all of the episodes have dropped to make a final determination. I
started watching one that I thought was going to be really good and it's not
so great. But anyway, I've got a lot of them lined up.
But dear gentle readers, right now, I'm going to tell you that I
am hooked on Bridgerton again. So season three, if Shonda Rhime's saga about
society life in London in the eighteen hundreds is out, and it continues the
stories of the characters in season one and two and then focuses on existing characters,
is their stories kind of blossomed? So the people who were at center
stage for season one are pretty much gone season two. They kind of make
an appearance in season three, but they're really not the focal point of it.
So what is Bridgerton. It's a story about the societal pressures, especially
for young women. I'm finding a husband, but it's a lot more than
that. The creator is Chris van Dusen. He says it is a period
piece because it's said in the eighteen hundreds. He says it's a little more
traditional, a little more conservative. But then I'm going to say it also
pushes the envelope of polite society and gets a little bit racy at times.
Van Dusen says it does push boundaries and challenges the idea of what a period
piece can really be. It's a story about friendship, it's a story about
love, it's a story about betrayal, secrets, disappointment, and hope.
And it's got several different storylines that all kind of are intertwined. And I
will tell you one of the things that I love about Bridgerton is one it's
not political. Because Shonda Rhime's with Gray's Anatomy, I think she's just jumped
the shark on it. It's so political and it's just I'm ready for that
to be over. But this one, there's like there's just no politics in
it. And the other thing that I think is really great is they have
these relationships where race doesn't matter. It's kind of like what the world should
be like. You know that we're kind of color blind and everybody's kind of
on an equal playing field and there's not one group that is marginalized and is
a victim or anything like that, at least in this show. And I
really like that it's more like I think that we should be like it.
Do you like the people and it's the content of the character, not the
color of their skin. So I love that she's done that with this.
I think the costumes are amazing. The characters have some cool depth. Queen
Charlotte's hair alone is a show stopper, like it's like three feet tall sometimes
and it's different like on every show. And I love Queen Charlotte's character.
I think it's funny, it's engaging, and each episode really leaves you waiting
for the next one. This season is half over. They drop the first
half of the season and then we have to wait till June thirteenth for the
second half. But I'm going to say, don't wait. I would just
go and watch it now because it is just really great and I don't even
want to tell you any of the storyline storyline, Just go watch it because
it's really a fun ride and it's Bridgerton. It's on Netflix. Oh and
I forgot to mention the music. Oh my gosh, the music you heard
Cono play and intro. So it takes contemporary songs set to classical music.
So there's something very familiar about it, but the songs are just the soundtrack
is amazing. I love it. So it's Bridgerton on Netflix. You won't
be alone when you watch it because it's the number one stream show on Netflix,
more than forty five million views this week. I say you should get
on it too. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man on probation who is suspected of
stabbing two German tourists and injuring a third person in Santa Monica has been charged
with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The Aally Kenny DA's office
says the man, who was out on parole, was arrested Sunday night,
shortly after the stabbings that happened near a parking structure on Fourth Street. He's
said to be arranged today. An ex LAPD detective convicted of killing her ex
boyfriend's wife in nineteen eighty six has been stopped from getting parole. Hearing for
Stephanie Lazarus on Monday included a number of people who spoke in favor of her
release and just as many against it. In April, the governor requested the
State Parole Board review Lazarus's eligibility, and yesterday morning, the board announced it
was going to have an additional hearing to figure out why a panel last fall
determined Lazarus was eligible for parole. The board said in its decision that concerns
from the governor, paired with testimony from the family of the woman Lazarus killed,
it wanted extra time to look at all the evidence before making a final
decision. Steve Gregor k finows eight Assembly members have rejected a floor vote on
a bill that would remove sanctuary state protections for child predators. This bill is
dead for the year, but you can guarantee that I will be bringing it
back next year when we come back in session. Assemblyman Bill as Sale from
the IE says he tried to force a vote on his bill yesterday because it
was not given a committee hearing. The motion to vote failed with fourteen votes
in favor thirty six against. The California Supreme Court will hear arguments for and
against the state's Proposition twenty two, which designates gig workers like uber and lift
drivers as independent cons It was passed by voters in twenty twenty. Industry experts
say that if the court reverses PROP twenty two, ride share prices could double.
New court documents say a federal judge claimed investigators had strong evidence former President
Trump committed crimes in his Classified Documents case months before he was charged. Judge
Beryl Howell says more documents were discovered at Mara a Lago after the FBI searched
the property in twenty twenty two. Owl says no excuse was given on how
Trump could have missed the documents in his bedroom. New photos were also revealed
of Trump aid Walt Nada moving boxes. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the
Arizona Diamondbacks, with the first pitch going out at seven o'clock. Hopefully they'll
win Tonight. Listen to every play of every Dodger's game on AM five to
seventy LA Sports and stream all games in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword
is AM five to seventy LA Sports powered by Lacare for all of LA.
Hunter Biden is expected to ask a federal judge in Downtown LA to postpone his
trial on nine federal tax charges because of scheduling conflicts with his other trial on
felony gun charges In Delaware, the trial on charges of tax evasion and failure
to pay taxes is scheduled to start in la June twentieth. Fulton County,
DA has taken a step towards keeping her job. Fannie Willis is handling the
election interference case against former President Trumpey's She's won her primary election in Georgia.
She'll face off against Republican Courtney Kramer in the fall. The judge overseeing the
Trump case, Scott McAfee, is also projected to win his race. The
California Senate has approved reparation proposals that include creating an agency to help black families
research their ancestry and determine if they're eligible for restitution. Lawmakers also passed bills
to, among other things, create a fund to compensate black families for property
the government seized using eminent domain. The proposal now head to the state Assembly.
We're just minutes away from a handle on the news. Want to buy
a house, Well, it's going to cost you. The state wide medium
price for a house has topped nine hundred thousand dollars in California for the first
time. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So,
Stephen, the pro Palestinian protests have made their way from college campuses right
onto Capitol Hill, and I'm sure they'll continue today as Secretary of State b.
Lincoln is before a couple of House committees, and yesterday some protesters tried
to interrupt his testimony for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But that's not out
of the ordinary here, and you see it from time to time, protesters
trying to stand up and demonstrate swiftly escorted out from the hearing room, and
as scheduled, a handful of people arrested. Again, not out of the
ordinary. And yet you know, it becomes a bit of a flashpoint because
you know, it's a bit into chorus, and so people stand up and
scream loudly that Blincoln is war criminal, and off they go. Yeah.
I think it's just amazing how people have just kind of, like you said,
the quorum, everybody's just lost all sense of society and good behavior and
that kind of stuff because they just need to yell. I guess, well,
look, it's not out of the historical norm. I mean, it's
certainly something we've seen in the past. You can go back to the Vietnam
era. But I think that this is and the Iraq War era, So
it's really very much in keeping with a pattern. But I think, you
know, you could draw a line between the activities of protesters and the activities
and members of Congress. That's a separate matter. Yeah, Okay. So
when Anthony Blinkn was able to speak, what did he talk about yesterday?
Well, look, the headline from the hearing from my perspective, was the
continued criticism of the International Criminal Court for its chief prosecutor this week calling for
the arrests of Benjamin et Yahoo and the Defense Minister you have Gallant in addition
to the arrests of Hamas leadership, the idea that there's some degree of equivalence
between the ISRAE leaders and the Hamas leaders, which has led to bipartisan condemnation
here in Washington, and yesterday the Secretary of State called it shameful. Now
the big question is will Congress now act to pass sanctions against the International Criminal
Court, an organization stood up about a quarter century ago to sort of be
a standing war crimes tribunal. Now, the United States has never recognized the
jurisdiction of the ICC, and in fact, in the early days of its
creation, about twenty five years ago, the United States Congress passed a law
that said that if the ICC were to think that it might prosecute an American
service member for alleged war crimes, the President of the United States is authorized
to use force, if necessary, to go in and get that service member
out of any kind of custody. So the idea is that the United States
does not recognize the jurisdiction of this international tribunal because we have our own system
of military justice here in the United States that we take extremely seriously, and
we're not our authority to some court that has no accountability to the American people.
The idea that Benjamin net Yaho might be subject to prosecution by this court
has run a foul of leaders of both parties here in Washington. The President
this week is called it outrageous. Yesterday I mentioned blinking, called it shameful,
and he signaled that the United States government might be open, that is,
the administration might be open to sanctions against the ICC, which is something
that Republican leaders are talking about here in Washington. So we'll see how it
all plays out. One other thing to mention yep, and that is that
despite the criticism that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has leveled at net yahou,
the idea that he's an obstacle piece, that he there ought to be new
elections in Israel. Yesterday, Chuck Schumer signaled his openness to hosting net Yahoo
in an address to a joint meeting of the Congress. The wins continue to
shift here, and with the ICC move the fierce blowback, you might even
see a bipartisan invitation to then Yahoo to speak to Congress. Wow. Okay.
And then the other thing that I believe Blinkn talked about was the State
Department says Israel is trying to get humanitarian aid into Gaza because there's been a
lot of talk that Israel's just not letting it in. Well, look,
I mean, the United States has been leaning on Israel to do more,
and the ideas is Israel doing more. And I guess if Blincoln said that,
then that's his perspective. Obviously, the protesters feel differently. I think
ultimately one of the bigger questions from a policy standpoint is will the United States
try to exert additional pressure on Israel? Will to be any further withholding of
weapons. I don't know. Will the Israelis go into Rafa, I don't
know. Will the United States stand in the way of this new push by
some European countries Spain and Ireland and Norway, I understand, who want the
United Nations to recognize Palestine as a freestanding member state. The United States repeatedly
in the way of that. And why Because if it were to be that
Palestine were a free standing member state, Israel be violating the UN Charter ostensibly
and engaging in war against a fellow UN member state, as opposed to,
you know, engaging in self defense against a non state actors such as Hamas.
And this is a difficult political question, a geopolitical question which has seen
in the United States consistently standing with Israel. It's also a possible pressure point
for the US Israel relationship, a possible point of leverage for the Biden administration.
Yeah, and when you just brought up a really interesting point too.
If Palestine became a member state and Israel was a member state, and they
were fighting against each other, and the UN is obligated to stand behind the
UN state member state, who would they side with well, that's I mean,
look, ultimately, you know, the UN was created in the post
World War era to kind of sort of mediate flick between countries, and the
charter suggests that, you know, one country should not go to war with
another or invade another. It hasn't stopped Russia, for example, from invading
its neighboring country Ukraine. So it's a complicated situation. What we talk about
international law is if it's anything other than gentlemen's agreements between powerful gentlemen. It's
not and there are sanctions that could be brought to bear, but at the
end of the day, the international community doesn't exactly have its own army.
So it would be a complicating factor in a tense and precarious political situation.
And you will continue to help us uncomplicated, and we appreciate that. Thank
you, Stephen Portnoy, I appreciate it. You bet. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A Metro writer's recovering from being stabbed in the leg on a
bus in Lynnwood. The man was stabbed as the bus came to a stop
on Long Beach Boulevard and Norton Street, where the attacker ran off but was
quickly detained. Monica Cassius as a local and says crime in La County in
general is out of control. It's very dangerous day and night. There's a
lot of things that shouldn't be going on. I've seemed the bad, the
good, and this is the worse. The man was stabbed just before eleven
thirty yesterday morning, and it's still unclear what may have provoked the attack,
if anything at all. Mayor Bass said last week the Metro isn't safe and
is pushing for police to board buses and trains. Chris Adler kf I News.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has pleaded not guilty to nine felony
charges in Arizona, stemming from his role in an effort to overturn the state's
twenty twenty election results. He called into his arraignment late, saying he got
the time wrong, eventually being cut off by the jodge as he started giving
his views on the case. I loofe and a complete embarrassment. ABC's Alex
Stone says the judge ordered Juliani to turn himself in in Arizona and set bond
at ten thousand dollars. Ten others, including former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelly
Ward, also pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, forgery and fraud charges. And
the USS Carl Vinson has into the Port of la for Fleetweek. It marks
the first visit to the port by a Nibbitts Class aircraft carrier in thirteen years.
They're so big. The Nimitts class includes ten nuclear powered carriers with the
US Navy. The ship is docked at Cabrio Beach. It offers views from
the angels Gate Lighthouse to the Outer Harbor Dock, where the ship will remain
through Memorial Day. Fleetweek is held every year to celebrate USC services and service
members. It officially kicks off this afternoon. We're going to go out and
about to Fleet Week, and we'll give you a sneak preview of it a
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