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yeah, A little cough. It's the frekatas and the top of tea sauce
which every morning I coughed through those. I don't know why. And a
quick question, where do I get the fretatas? Yes, that's true,
no other place. Matter of fact, yesterday I did a cost go run.
How unusual? All right, some of the big stories Bill Handle here,
by the way, you're listening to KFI. Just In Kiitsch, you
didn't know that. It's Tuesday, July twenty third, just In kiss you
didn't know that. And the big, big, big story that we are
following is Kamala Harris, who wrapped up the replacement for Joe Biden as the
Democratic nominee for president. And she did it within twenty four hours or even
twelve hours. And I'm thinking, this is a woman who, and I
agree, has not earned her place there. But there are plenty of presidents.
You can say the same thing about some good, some great. Teddy
Roosevelt after the assassination of McKinley, Harry Truman, not great, but certainly
today considered a good president. And so that argument while it may hold water.
That's just the way we work. And I was thinking of why,
because I think under normal circumstances she wouldn't be the strongest. However, two
things that put her in a good position. One is there's nobody else by
default, and that's more because of the circumstances. The Democrats can't take any
time to vet anybody else through a primary or through the convention system, so
she has to have it. She has an enormous war chest. Also,
let's look at her as a candidate. She's effectively Joe Biden in address a
woman, by the way, because I don't want to indicate there's a man
in address, because that would be a very difficult sales sales job to do
with the American public. She's a woman, she's mixed race. She was
a former prosecutor, former or current vice president of the United States, senator,
prosecutor, attorney general of California, and vice president, so she's got
the creds. And she is much younger than Donald Trump. All of a
sudden, that age thing has reversed, where now it's Donald Trump who's seventy
eight years old, and the Republicans can't scream old and decrepit and doesn't have
the cognitive skills. She is a great debater. I mean, she is
sharp as hell. She's much younger, and a couple of vulnerabilities, and
I think they can be overcome, assuming Joe Biden and the Democratic Party is
okay with that. The big one is the attack on her with immigration.
She led the immigration charge against or led the immigration charge on behalf of Joe
Biden. She was it. She was the face of immigration, and I
think she can unravel that by saying, assuming Joe Biden and the Democrats sort
of allow this, and I think it would be a good move politically,
is that wasn't me. I worked for Joe Biden, that was his program
that he ordered. I would have done it much differently. Counter also,
she can argue, is Joe Biden came to the table. We came to
the table, We had a bipartisan agreement until Donald Trump stopped it cold.
Now is that going to register? I don't know. I have no idea,
And all of a sudden, you're going to see this debate in September,
which I don't think Donald Trump can say no to. You're not going
to see a meltdown. I don't believe you're going to see a meltdown.
I think you're going to be screaming. You're going to hear Donald Trump screaming.
Who is going to say to her, You're just Joe Biden? And
she can counter with are you blind? Let's bring your seeing dog out there?
Because what how am I Joe Biden? I'm not as old as you
are. I'm not the one that ordered the immigration process or the immigration policy.
That was Joe Biden. If you want to debate Joe Biden, go
right ahead, but you're debating me, so don't pretend that's who I am.
And I think she can get away with that. I think she can.
And when you think of the excitement level in the Democratic Party that has
turned around completely too completely turned around, where now you have massive donations coming
in, massive donors, big time donors writing checks. I mean, the
last few days, one hundred million dollars has poured into her campaign as well
as Joe Biden's war chest. We think the Republicans are fighting that, saying
that has to be returned to the donors. You'll see lawsuits on that one.
And all of a sudden, the Joe all of sudden Donald Trump's followers
and Donald Trump I think are going to be on the defense. He's always
going to be on the offense always, and I just don't know where he
is going to go. And if he gets personal with her, I think
that's going to be a problem for him. If he goes strictly to policy,
I think that is a legitimate race. I don't think he can.
I don't believe that Donald Trump can stick on policy. We found that out
when he accepted the nomination. We saw that the first day of the convention,
when he became introspective, when he was a changed man. We saw
that the guy had literally come within an inch of his losing his life,
and that affects people well. By the next day, all that was gone,
and by the night of his acceptance speech, he started that way for
the first ten minutes and then devolved instantly into the Donald Trump we know.
So in retrospect, I do think that she is probably the best candidate to
go against Trump by default. Possibly probably, But let me put it this
way. If Joe Biden were to be elected, then who would take his
place? And Donald Trump again runs? Because I think Donald Trump, as
long as he doesn't do his second term, There'll be overwhelming pressure in the
Republican Party and the MAGA people to keep on running him until he's one hundred
because he's Donald Trump. Who would go against him if he doesn't win a
second term. I think Kamala Harris. I think it's her both by default
and by she happens to be a good choice. And I'm not a fan,
not at all, but you know, I don't know which way it
would go otherwise, So it's going to be a hell of a race.
I mean a hell of a race, Okay. Jim Ryan from ABC has
joined us talking about the CrowdStrike scams that are going all have started like crazy,
and how exactly this all happened. First of all, Jim, I
know you're spending the extra time you were going to go home after your shift,
and thank you for joining us. You're welcome. You've been caught following
this and it's kind of weird. A couple of things. Why is I
don't know if you know that Delta is still involved with the other airlines I
have come back, and more importantly for us, unless you're a Delta passenger,
the scams that are going on base on CrowdStrike and that is Boy,
that happened instantly, didn't it. Oh yeah, yeah, it was just
And that's what made me my gut was to say, oh, now what,
who's done this? Who around the world might be responsible for taking down
American the industry, the airline industry. It's more to know what CrowdStrike does
first build. CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company. They provide what's called endpoint Detection
and Response to EDR to clients like Target, Amazon, Delta Airlines, American
Airlines, Alphabet. They have a whole list of clients that they provide this
eder to the endpoint detection response. It's a cybersecurity function. So Friday,
earlier in the morning, four o'clock in the morning Eastern time, I believe
they tried to update some of their software. So they load this update into
the system, and as soon as it was loaded in, it essentially broke
down. It collapsed, and it took with it all those clients, the
Target of the world, the Delta Airlines, the America, I mean,
the whole US air system. I looked at a map one of these the
flight aware maps, showing the country and all the flights that are over It
looked like nine to eleven because it was empty, it was scary. So
that was the result. I mean, it was an inadvertent mistake, it
was a problem, but it caused mayhem around the world, and it really
points out how shaky that whole cyber infrastructure is and how dependent it is on
little things like one person or one entity uploading an update, trying to do
something right and taking the whole system out all right, So vulnerability is easy.
So I got two more questions as a result of this, Do you
think major changes are going to happen or more companies are going to be relied
on? And just a word or two about the scams that we may get.
Well, you're right, I mean there's already there are people looking down
the road to say, maybe we needed to take a closer look at that
whole infrastructure. Maybe there should be more regulation, some more oversight over what's
happening out there. It's a private company and it's as private clients like Target,
like all the rest of them, but should there be some kind of
oversight to see that this doesn't happen again? So I mentioned some of the
clients, right, some of those big corporate clients, including Microsoft and these
huge clients that rely on this company. You don't hear a lot of individual
names because it's not something it's not like you know, McAfee that you have
on your computer or some other cybersecurity endpoints system you have, because it deals
with client. So that tells me something that if you get an email bill
and it says, dear mister handle, I'm with CrowdStrike and your computer has
been infected because of the thing happened Friday, and I need to get into
your computer and fix it. So call me at this number and we'll start
to work on this. And that's the kind of thing that's going on now.
So there are always these sort of these tech support scams, many of
them originating from South Asia, but this one has a special air of believability
because of what actually happened on Friday. So people might be inclined to say,
yeah, I heard about that. Maybe maybe this is CrowdStrike and they
need to get into my computer and fix this. Don't do it. Just
don't do it, okay. So it's just so when one of these happened,
it becomes instantaneous. A scammers come out because yeah, there's this air
of plausibility that goes with it now. Yeah, and I get I'm getting
these scams constantly. I just if it's unsolicited, I just leave it alone.
I mean, there's no way I answer, I call, I click
on. I just don't. And I just like the paper thing, you
know. I get these emails. Hey, your your PayPal account. There's
a problem with the billing. We need to get updated billing information. I
don't have a PayPal account. Bill, Yeah, neither do I. My
favorite one is the Philippines. Your child has been kidnapped and is in jail,
and we need to make bail. Right. Well, unfortunately that one
now is getting a lot of play too, because with AI and the ability
to spoof voices, to give a deep, vague fake voice, and they
call you up and say, hey, your son is in jail, and
it's your son calling. It sounds like your son, you know it's I
think we're on the losing end of this whole thing. Bill. Yeah,
I don't have to worry because I just say keep the kids. Probably,
by the way, that's let's less of a joke than you think, Jim.
Thanks again, we'll talk and newscaris correspondent. But now moving into what
Kamala Harris did, and she has coalesced uh the entire Democratic Party and is
the nominee and did this within twelve hours. A lot of it has to
do with her and the way she is viewed by the Democratic Party, and
a lot of it has to do with it just broke that way. There
was no choice. So the only issue is who's going to be the VP.
That really is the issue in the Democratic Party. Not that it really
matters, but it might matter. And here's a couple of things that you
are not going to see. Number One, Gavin Newsom, he's being touted
as a possible vice presidential pick. Ain't gonna happen. Just is not going
to happen. And I'll tell you why, because he is the governor of
California. She doesn't need californiaet She's got California. Adolf Hitler would have California
if he were a Democrat, so that is not a problem. Also,
you're not going to see any senators. Mark Kelly is being touted I think
out of Arizona. That is not going to happen because the majority that Democrats
in having the Senate are razor thin and they can't lose a Democrat at all.
And of course his party lines, so there's no chance anybody other than
a Democrat would be selected. So it's going to be a governor, that's
it. And it's going to be a governor in a swing state. It's
going to be a governor who is going to help the election, like Shapiro
out of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania very important state. So here you have a very
popular Democratic governor and add him to the ticket and he is a favorite son
of Pennsylvania. And it's happened before, and it does happen where even personal
relations don't really matter. Let's go back a little bit in history nineteen sixty
when JFK won the race, when he won the presidential and Lyndon Johnson was
his pit and I don't even know what was his pick because they hated each
other, I mean from day one. But JFK needed Texas. Without Texas,
he was not going to win the election. Lyndon Johnson delivered Texas for
John F. Kennedy. So if it's Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the
thought is he will deliver Pennsylvania. He went on a landslide, by the
way, in twenty twenty two, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, another critical
state. He won reelection in twenty twenty. He's term limited out and she
needs North Carolina desperately. Mark Kelly, as I said, out of Arizona,
I think he's gone. I don't even know why they're bringing him up
because he is a senator and they can't afford to lose any senator. She
can't. Kentucky Governor Andy Basher has been floated, and he is a Democrat
who was elected in a deep red state that Trump carried by twenty five points
in twenty twenty. Can he deliver? Probably not that much. So my
guess is it ain't going to happen because Kentucky is deep deep red. Illinois
another important state, Governor JB. Pritzker. By the way, if you
don't know who he is, have you ever heard of a Hyatt hotel.
Yeah, he's aired all of that money and he is very popular in Illinois.
He is a big, big well. He is certainly on the final
shortlist. Transportation Secretary Pete Buddhajic my favorite who I think I would vote for
it. I would pitch is a centrist and he is out of Indiana.
But he's only he was only a mayor, right, that's his background,
Insportation secretary. He got that position because he was an early proponent of Joe
Biden. And so when you're an early proponent of a candidate who wins,
boy, there you go, you get great stuff. I don't think she
is going to pick him for a couple reasons. His background's mayor, that's
it. And he's gay and as America ready for a gay president unfortunately,
no, No, I think we as American people would vote in a satanist
before a gay president at this point. So who are we going to see
governor Swing state? That's my guess, and we'll see if that's true.
Okay, we just got the news that Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle just resigned.
Yesterday. She was in front of a Congressional congress or a congressional hearing,
and she just kept on stonewalling the House Oversight Committee trying to pry information,
and she just wasn't giving it up. It was a no, thank
you. Now. A lot of people stonewall committees, and usually they're very
political whenever you talk about an investigative committee, because that's what these committees are.
They are there to investigate whatever issues in front of them, and for
some crazy reason, everybody gets an opening statement. I'm talking about the congressmen
and women on the committee, and it's all politics. That's it. Rattle
rattroler politics. And then the questioning starts. And if it's someone who is
a Democrat in front of the committee, then the Democrats give them softball questions
and the Republicans go nuts and attacking them. I mean, that's just it,
and the other way around too. So yesterday Cheadle, who is in
a Democratic administration, got attacked like crazy. But here's the difference. She
deserved it because she is head of the secret Service that screwed the pooch when
it came to protecting former President Trump at that rally in which he was shot
and came within an inch of having his brains blown out. And here the
Secret Service, I mean, there were all kinds of questions. The kid
crooks, they knew he was up on the roof, someone saw him,
The Secret Service knew he was someone of interest walking around the building. There
was a drone that he had flown over the site of the rally. I
mean, it just goes on and on. And keep in mind that when
he took that shot. This kid, twenty year old kid, was four
hundred and four hundred fifty feet from the president on top of a building that
had lineup sit. I mean a direct shot to the president, and any
good marksman would have hit the target. He probably wasn't or went very quickly
and unload the shots, because it was just a matter of seconds before the
police, and I think it was a secret service actually said there's a shooter
up on the building, and the word went out. But within eight seconds
the shots wrung out. So it's not how quickly the Secret Service reacted,
because I think they reacted pretty quickly. I mean they did their job by
jumping on top of former President Trump, protecting him, shuffling him over to
a waiting car, and so all that was pretty good. It's the intelligence
beforehand, and Cheatle just would not tell the committee virtually everything. She was
stone walling, and the call for her resignation went across the board, I
mean bipartisan call, and she said, I'm not doing it. I am
not resigning. That was yesterday this morning, She's resigning. And even if
it wasn't her fault, even if and her argument is I relied on people
heads had to roll. I said that yesterday, and the buck stops here,
and the buck stopped there, and today the buck was spent and Cheetle
is gone. So now the investigation continues, by the way, whether Cheetle
is at fault, whether her administrative abilities were horrible. There's all kinds of
arguments saying we've been wanting more resources the Trump administration wanted where the Trump team
wanted more resources, wanted more protection, of which a secret service was not
giving. And she said, we gave them everything they asked for this time
in Pennsylvania, but we have held because we don't have the resources, we
don't have the money. We rely on local law enforcement in many cases,
which is true. So are we going to get answers. Of course,
we're going to get answers, but we're just not going to get them from
Cheatle because she is now lining up her next job and she has to learn
how to make coffee with those machines at Starbucks. All right, this is
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