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It is time. This is your wake up call for Wednesday, September twenty
seven. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Did you see the moon?
The moon was shining bright on the way and not quite full, but if
you get a chance, take a peek out the window. It's very pretty
this morning. It's National Morning Show host Day. I just found this out.
One of our news editors told us that, so in honor of it,
I'm gonna salute myself. No, actually, in honor of it,
I'm going to watch the next episode of the Morning Show on Apple TV today.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The writers strike over the WGA
accepted the agreement worked out with Hollywood Studios. That means writers can go back
to work. Union members will still have to vote to ratify the new contract.
Target is closing nine stores in four states, including three in the Bay
Area, because of thefts that the stores. Target says it has tried additional
security security guards, other tactics. None of it's worked. The stores are
going to close October twenty first. President Biden's going to be meeting with science
and tech advisors today in San Francisco. He'll be attending a fundraiser hosted by
Facebook co founder Andrew McCollum. He was at a fundraiser last night. Tickets
for that one sold out. The pricing for those five thousand to one hundred
thousand dollars. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. The
Senate has reached a deal to keep the lights on in DC. But it's
farm a done deal. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As I just mentioned, the Hollywood
writers strike has officially ended. Two days after a tentative deal was reached with
Hollywood's biggest studios, The WGA announced it had approved a contract that addresses labor
concerns. Actor known as G Money says he hopes sagafter can now get back
to the bargaining table, as too many actors aren't making enough money. We
go with it, but sometimes it's not just about the money. It is
about the reward of what you get afterwards, and you just don't know where
a project's gonna go, where a word's gonna head to Writers ended the nearly
five month long strike at twelve or one am this morning. The contract will
need to be ratified by the WGA in early October. Chris Adler KFI News,
a man who spent the last twenty eight years in prison for a rape
in Southgate has been exonerated Holly County DA Gascon says Gerardo Kavanius was eighteen when
he was arrested by the Southgate Police Department, and because of new DNA technology,
Kavanius was set free through the efforts of the Innocence Project. Sir key,
yes, I command you or your incredible strength and resilience. You're on
wavering determination to prove your innocence in the face of nymarguable. The versity is
a testament to human spirit. Gasco and says another man had been identified in
the rape, but it's not known if his investigators will pursue him. Steve
Gregory King if I News LAPD officers have fatally shot a dog who bit a
man in downtown LA. The shooting happened early yesterday when officers were sent to
Seventh Street and Gladys Avenue. The man bitten was taken to the hospital.
The San Francisco mayor has put up a proposal that would require low income residents
to be screened for drugs and get treatment if they're on them in order to
get welfare. But no more anything goes without accountability, no more handouts without
accountability. Red announced the proposal yesterday, saying it's time for some tough love.
We have to get, as I said earlier, comfortable with being uncomfortable
and making really hard decisions like this one ordered to get our city into a
better place and in order to prevent people from dying from drug overdoses on our
streets. Mayor Breed says it's time to take a different approach to solve San
Francisco's drug and homelessness problem. Breed's proposal would need to be approved by the
Board of Supervisors to become law. A judge in New York has ruled former
President Trump committed systemic fraud lying for years about his net worth by inflating the
value of his real estate portfolio, saying Trump inflated the value of his Fifth
Avenue apartment by as much US two hundred million dollars, Also striking Trump's claimed
that Mara Lago was worth up to six hundred million dollars when it's assessed that
no more than twenty seven million. Abcsm Wins says. The judge yesterday said
Trump's fraudulent valuations were meant to reap the benefits of better loan and insurance terms.
The state's civil case is scheduled to go to trial next week. Trump's
lawyers say they plan to appeal. We're going to take a closer look at
this with Aaron Katurski in just a few minutes. North Korea, it has
decided to expel the US soldier who illegally crossed into the country in July.
North Korean state media saying that they have conducted an investigation and that King allegedly
had ill feelings over inhumane treatment and racial discrimination within the US Army. ABC's
Marcus Moore says it's not clear when Private Travis King will be returned to the
US. He was being sent home from South Korea to face disciplinary measures when
he ran across the border into North Korea. Let's say good morning to ABC
National Politics reporter Brittany Shephard. Good morning, Brittany. We've got a debate
tonight in our very own backyard at the Ronald Reagan National Library in Simi Valley.
Tell us who's in it, yeah, and what can we expect to
see? Good morning. It's kind of a repeat of the first debate,
Sam as it ever was, as we say so, the candidates on stage,
it's everyone from the first debate save one person, but former Arkansas Governor
Asa Hutchinson. It didn't make polling or donor fresholds. So some background can
It seeded at least three percent support in two national polls or three percent in
one national poll as well as two polls from the four early voting stage.
That's Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and then there's some
donor thresholds too. Asa wasn't able to reach any of those. So instead
he's following former President Donald Trump, who's surprised is skipping out on this debate
as well and heading to Detroit instead to speak to auto workers, footballer workers,
essentially probably some Trump supporters too. This comes just a day after remend
President Joe Biden, who was just in Michigan yesterday striking with UHW workers.
The first time seeking president has ever done that. So some counter programming and
a split screen from Trump, ASA thinks, well, if I can't make
the debate stage, let me at least go to the guy who we haven't
been able to pin down at all. Now, Donald Trump hasn't really hit
the campaign trail in the way that of the other candidate pass so they haven't
had the opportunity to have that confrontation or praise and if that's what they'd like
to do, so that's gonna be interesting happening at Michigan at the very exact
same time as all those other folks are on stage and Semi Valley at the
ray Vans are very jealous and not going to be there. It's good over
over there in California, ste's here in DC, and it's gonna be really
interesting to see who is able to break out because a couple of people on
that stage really need a big moment. That's Florida Governor run to Santis,
you know, former Vice president and like Pence Worth, Dacota Governor, Doug
Burgham South Carolina sunder Tim Scott, former South Carolina Governor Nicky Haley, and
of course entrepreneur of the zach Ramaswamy. Because right now all of those people
are running about forty points south of Donald Trump, and if they're unable to
make a moment today, you know, it canna be really tricky for them.
Yeah, and I thought the last debate, I think that that it
was interesting. I liked to hear from some of them. But you've just
felt like the big dog wasn't there, and I think we're going to feel
that again tonight. And he wasn't there, but his spirit was there.
If you guys remember from that first I think the audience was like Trump's Greek
courts. If folks came on stage and they criticized Trump, they were screaming
and yelling at the stage, and if there was something that, you know,
Trump, they were trying to teut Trump's record. The audience was with
cheering and laughing, and so much so that the moderors a turn around and
say, hey, guys, maybe quite general a little bit when you get
through two hours of programming. And so I'll be really curious to see how
large Trump moves. Remember the indictments for kind of Top of Mind about a
month ago. Right now we're looking at a government shutdown in about three or
four days if Congress can't get something past here. We have an actual senator
on stage today, so I think there's an opportunity to talk a little bit
more about policy. Immigration is prop of mind for Republicans right now as we're
seeing this migrant flux, you know, in across the southern border in eco
kinds in Texas, and that's you know, kind of been top of mind
on Fox News every single day, and the flox business is moderating. So
I think it's really on these moderators to see how they could control how much
of the conversation veers into I am like Trump? Where aren't I am not
like Trump? For twys the ways instead of here all the policies through about
things icy and burn. Here's why you should vote for me. Yeah,
and then after tonight there's another debate. Is it next month? Yeah,
it's next month, and it's going to be in Miami and the pulling thresholds,
which yeah, hopefully just go down to that one. There's one percent
higher, so it's used to get four percent in all of those pools and
one hundred thousand more donors than you had to this time and this is around
the window when people start dropping out. Asa Hudgerson says he's not going to
drop out until maybe November when he reassesses with the state of his campaign.
But there's a lot of people on that stage shagging. People were about four
and a half months away from Iowa pocket seeing. Usually there's less than seven
people as an option, so probably be curious to see who kind of winnows
off and starts endorsing. Yep. Well, either way, I'm going to
be watching tonight because I'm fascinated by debates. Even when I don't agree with
everything's on what's being said on stage, I just dig watching them. So
thank you so much for your insight and your information. In Britney Shepherd with
ABC appreciate it, of course. By all right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Officials
in La say renters have accumulated more than one hundred eighty six million dollars in
back rent. Landlords filed around fifty thousand eviction notices from February to August.
Apartment Association of Greater Las Daniel Jugleson says one factor and back rent is the
major Hollywood strikes. If to look at some of these zip codes where a
large number of these three day notices are being issued, there zip codes that
are nearby major studios or major production facilities. Hollywood had the most notices that
nearly thirty six hundred ninety one percent of renters were given three day notices.
Blake Trolley k if I News. The Early School District has rescinded it's COVID
nineteen vaccine mandate for employees, contractors, vendors, volunteers, and charter schools.
The movie Yesterday ended a policy that's been in place for over two years
and has led to several lawsuits. The district says the decision comes in light
of evolving medical data and in consultation with local health authorities. A bill signed
in the law by Governor Newsom is one of the package of bills that are
intended to reduce gun violence in California. San Fernando Valle Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel authored
the bill. The places an eleven percent tax on gunmakers. This tax would
fund school safety, proven violence prevention measures, and a bunch of gun safety
measures that have proven to keep our communities safe, including things like removing guns
from domestic abusers. Gabriel says the law will generate one hundred sixty million dollars
annually. Senate leaders have announced a bill to fund the federal government through mid
November and avoid a shutdown. ABC's Stephen Portnoy says it provides additional funding for
disaster relief and four and a half billion dollars in aid for Ukraine. But
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been warned by far right Republicans to not put such a
measure on the floor of the House. If he does, it would probably
pass with bipartisan support, but it might also put his speaker ship in peril.
The White House says it's up to House Speaker McCarthy to keep the budget
deal he made with President Biden. He a NASA astronaut who broke the record
for spending the most time in space by an American, is back on Earth.
Frank Rubio and two cosmonauts returned home aboard a Soyo Soyo's spacecraft. It
undocked from the International Space Station this morning. Rubio has been spaced out for
three hundred and seventy one days. They landed in Kazakhstan around seven am this
morning, Eastern Time, and it is National Chocolate Milk Day. The chocolate
in goodness can be traced back to eighteen sixty seven, when an Irish botanist
working as a physician to a duke in Jamaica was introduced to the country's popular
chocolate water. He thought the drinks were too bitter, so he added milk
to make it taste better. Then he took it back to Europe and spread
the word about its health benefits like calcium in protein. It's now one of
the most popular drinks out there, with eight out of ten Americans drinking it
at least once a week. That's a lot of people drinking chocolate milk.
I haven't had chocolate milk since I was a kid. Oh well, maybe
I should go try it. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Semi Valley will
host the Republican Presidential Debate second one. Seven candidates will be on stage,
one less than last time because Asa Hutchinson didn't make the cut. Florida Governor
Rhonda Santis will be sitting in the or standing in the center spot. Former
President Trump is skipping this one. LA County is going to spend fifteen point
six million dollars on efforts to stop organized retail theft. The La Canny Board
of Supervisors voted yesterday to spend the money. It's going to come from a
state grant. Following a rise in smash and grab and flash mob style robberies
in recent months, two men who climbed half Dome at Yosemite have been struck
by lightning during a storm. One guy was hit in the knee, the
other in the back of the head. Both were able to make it back
down safely with their group after this storm passed. That's got to be scary.
At six oh five. It's handled on the news. Of course,
the writers can go back to work after one hundred forty eight days. Bill's
gonna tell you what they got in their new deal. But right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's senior investigating reporter, Aaron katski erin good morning,
Not a good day for former President Trump? Huh No, it wasn't.
Because a judge here in New York ruled Amy that he is liable for
fraud over a number of years, fraudulently inflating the value of his net worth
by overstating what his vast real estate portfolio is really worth. He has properties
all over the world. They are assessed at certain amounts, and Trump repeatedly,
the judge's ruling said, on financial statements that were turned over to lenders
and insurance companies and the like, repeatedly overvalued his properties. He tripled the
square footage artificially of his triplex apartment in Trump Tower. He said that his
Mara Lago state in Palm Beach, which was assessed at twenty seven million dollars,
was worth six hundred million dollars, and all told, overstated his own
net work by as much as two point two billion dollars. And that's what
I remember a long time ago. Everybody's screaming about this, saying, you
gotta let your taxes out, you got to give us financial statements, and
he wouldn't do it. But they've accused him of that for years and years.
So when you say that he is liable for fraud, what is that?
What does that mean? Well, the ruling does have immediate consequences,
and this is all the result of a civil lawsuit filed by the Attorney General
here in New York, Latitia James, And so there will be a trial
schedule to start next week. That will determine how much he's got to pay
in penalties, and the Attorney General's office has asked for at least fifty million
dollars in financial penalties. But there are consequences beyond that. The judge's ruling
means amy that Trump can no longer operate in New York. And while we
don't exactly know all of the potential fallout from that, it appears that the
ruling means he'll have to give up control of some of his properties here in
New York. So the very smell there, his need in the city that
made him famous, he may be forced to sell. And the judge can
say, okay, you did this, and so we're taking your we're taking
all of your licenses away, or something like that. Well, yeah,
he granted the Attorney General's motion for partial summary judgments. So in effect,
the judge decided the evidence of the fraud was so egregious and clear that there
didn't even need to be a trial with evidence and testimony. Now there still
will be to determine the discorchment and a few and a few other issues,
but the judge has, you know, without trial even beginning, has already
decided the core of the case, and that is that the statements of financial
condition that Trump submitted were fraudulent, okay. And so by elevating the value
of his holdings and his apartments and all of that stuff, how did he
benefit for it? He got like better better interest rates or something when he
did loans. That's exactly it. He duped lenders and insurance companies and other
business partners into giving him better terms than he otherwise would have deserved. And
the Attorney General's office says that that meant, you know, the playing field
wasn't even Trump has always denied wrongdoing. He says that you know, his
his uh, his portfolio is worth what it's worth, because he's got he's
called up priceless or compared it to priceless works. The part he says he
has the mona lisis of properties. Judge said, that's that's just not that's
it's not right according to the ruling, all right, And does this have
any effect on his campaign or his ability to run for president? Because it
doesn't, because it's civil right, it does. It does not have any
effect. It's a civil case, not a criminal case. And and you
know, even then he could run. But but it does undercut what had
been his central message, right, and that is he's a successful businessman,
you know, and and therefore deserves to run the country. And you know,
the success came on the back of a fraud according to this ruling.
Now, is that ultimately going to matter with his supporters? You tend to
doubt it based on his standing in the polls. A lot of us,
I think has been you know, out there for a long time. But
it is potentially, you know, financially anyway, devastating for the former president.
All Right, Aaron Katurski, thanks so much for explaining it all to
us. Thank you, Emmie. All right, have a great day.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. President Biden has traveled to northern California to raise money for his
reelection campaign. Tickets for last night's sold out reception in the Bay Area ranged
from five thousand to one hundred thousand dollars. Biden today is set to meet
with his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in San Francisco before he heads
to another fundraiser hosted by Facebook co founder Andrew McCollum Biden, then we'll be
back in Northern California for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summer Summer not Summer Summit
in November. Corrections deputy with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department has been charged with
a series of sexual offenses, including exploiting female inmates at a medium security facility.
Prosecutors say Christian Heideker recorded sexual encounters with inmates and then black mailed them.
Heid occur is in jail on a million dollars bail. Bailey Kenny Board
of Supervisors has approved a nearly two and a half two point six million dollars
settlement with a fire captain hurt when a fellow firefighter fatally shot another colleague in
twenty twenty one. Supervisor Katherine Barger says the shooting at Station eighty one in
Agua Dulce left the community with trauma. It is my hope that with the
new leadership change at our county's fire department and a greater focus on employee wellness,
an incident like this will be prevented and never occur again. The injured
captain sued the county last January, alleging serious injury, including paralysis. The
lawsuit says superiors knew the off duty shooter had a history of combative behavior.
You heard me talking with rich de Muro about this when he was telling us
about the launch of the iPhone fifteen, and that was that Apple has plans
to go carbon new troll, and one of the ways that they're planning to
do that is by introducing their new fine woven textile that they say is going
to replace all the leather that they use on like watch bands and on iPhone
cases and that kind of thing. It's sixty eight percent post consumer recycled material,
and you know, Apple was touting it as the next great thing,
but apparently it's a bust. So the new watches are out and the new
phones are out, and people are buying this fine woven thing that for phones.
It's a phone to a phone case is fifty nine bucks, which is
ten dollars more than the plastic or silicone versions, and of course it's a
lot more experience expensive than one of the cases that you get on Amazon.
But one blogger said that the holes on the case don't line up with the
port on the phone or the speakers, and from past experience with old iPhones,
that's a pain in the butt, okay. And then another one,
Federico Vetici, who is a blogger and podcaster and runs the Max Stories site,
says that it's awful. It scratches, it stains, it has this
weird slippery feel, and he said, I honestly think this is one of
the worst accessories Apple has ever produced. He says, I may just throw
this out now. That's not great for the environment. So Apple's new fine
woven. I haven't tried it out yet. I haven't seen it yet,
but I don't know that. I'm going to run to the store to go
get it after hearing the reviews on it. Right now, we're going to
check in with our very own Steve Gregory and Iraq war veteran from Torrance is
fighting to honor his dying parents wish. Sam Leon Junior used to work full
time for the federal government, but he had to quit to work full time
at home. They have to be here twenty four seven. Unfortunately, my
father and my mother they have false and I'm the only when it's here,
and I have to take care of him every little need that they need.
That's what I'm here. For Sam says, things used to be okay,
but all of a sudden, it seemed like everything came crashing down at once.
Well, my father beat cancer one time three years ago, and I
guess the lack of checking up on him through the VA. He recently had
to do a couple of ER visits at the beginning of this year, and
we had to do a proximate. On the fourth er visit, that's when
they determined that his cancer was back and it had spread aggressively, and that
he was stage four type of cancer in this case, said was bladder cancer
that spread to his rectum. You were talking about the VA not keeping an
eye on him, so you've did Was he another one of these mini statistics
in the VA that goes unchecked? Correct? What did the VA tell you
when you know, faced with this? Sorry? And while dealing with that
diagnosis, Sam was faced with even more bad news. What about your mom?
One? Was her diagnosis? She's had delivered disease now for I believe
about three years that we know of that dementia just happened at the beginning of
this year as well, and it just progressively gotten worse. Sam's mom is
in the hospital going through tests, but I was able to meet his dad,
Sam Senior. They all lived together in a modest department in Torrance.
Sam's dad is a Vietnam veteran and it's been going to the VA for medical
care. It was soon after Sam's dad was given the bad news it was
time to act. He had a talk with my mom before she was completely
gone mentally, and they both agreed that they would like to be buried together,
which brings us now to your dilemma. So being buried together is as
a costly venture. Did you start to research and try to figure this out?
Yes, I went to the cemetery. I went to the service hall.
Basically, if my dad let's the VIA take him, we don't know
what cemetery he's going to end up in because they're all getting full. The
LA's full, Riverside's full. Possibly San Diego he can get in, but
since him and my mother weren't married when he was in service, and she's
not a veteran, they won't put her with him. So it's either that
I let them take him and then I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do
with my mom, or in this case, I just keep them together.
And I keep him here in the South Bay or my dad is from.
Sam Senior says he's accepted his fate, but the thought of being buried alone
without his wife next to him scares him. I think it would. It
would make me feel so much better if I knew for sure where I was
going to have my last resting spot, and being with my wife in the
same place as she wishes would be most comforting. Have you picked a spot?
Oh? Yes, long time and go back when I was a little
boy where. It's in a cemetery called Pacific Crest Cemetery. It's located on
one one eighty second Ingwood Avenue. I have an uncle and a grandfather that's
been buried there since I was a little child. And you you decided as
a boy that that's where you wanted to be buried. Yes. I loved
my uncle quite quite highly, and my grandfather also. Sam Junior says it's
been a hell of a journey, but he's doing his best to stay positive.
I was a machine gunner in the Marine Corps. I served in Iraq
and Afghanistan for how long? I did a total of nine years nine years,
so that was pretty rough. Yes, sir I was the roughness of
that compared to the roughness of what you're going through now. Honestly, I
think that was easier. I'm losing my parents, No, man, it
was tough to lose brothers. Don't get me wrong, but these are my
parents. That's all I have in this world right now, or only child
right correct. What motivates you to get up every day? I have to
be strong so that my dad he's strong. The minute I'm not strong,
then he's gonna give up. I can't imagine what day to day is for
you, getting up not knowing whether today is the day or not. You
know what I mean. Yes, it's very scary because I do pop my
head in the room every once fall to make sure if I hear him breathing,
and every day it's scary when I open that door. You're watching me
interview your son, and you're listening to a little bit of what he's been
going through on a daily basis. What does that? What does that do
to you? Tears my heart out. I can't. I can't fathom what
my son has has given up just for me. I'm nobody. I'm just
or combat veteran who did his job for his country. Who everyone should that
can? I mean, if you love living here, by God, you
should stand up for it. The VA is a good place, but they
kind of dropped the ball now and now here we are with your kind of
person helping us, trying to reach that goal so that me and my wife
can be together for eternity, as we promised God when we got married.
Sam Junior says he needs help to finance the new burial plots, by the
caskets, burial clothes, funeral costs, in any other unforeseen expenses. I
would like assistance with the go fund me so I could get the finances.
I could take care of everything, preferably before they pass, because once they
pass it'll be too late. I just found out that hospice won't take my
father unless I already have the things arranged, and by law, he can
only be here two days once he's passed, so kind of put some pressure
on me. He says. It's a race against the clock to do everything
by the book while honoring the final wishes of his dying parents. For a
wake up call, I'm Steve Gregory KFI News. To learn how you can
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a parent. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Semi Valley is going to host the Republican presidential
debate the second one. Seven candidates are going to be on stage, one
fewer than the last debate because Asa Hutchinson didn't make the cut. Former President
Trump is skipping the debate. He's going to be in Detroit today. LA
County's going to spend fifteen point six million dollars on efforts to stop organized retail
theft. The LA County Board of Supervisors voted to spend the money that will
come from a state gramp grant following a rise in smashing, grab and flash
mob style robberies in recent months. Hey, twenty five years ago today,
Google was born. The search Giant actually started as a PhD project at Stanford
University in nineteen ninety eight. We are just a couple of minutes away from
Handle on the news this morning at a lot's stuff to talk about. Here's
one speaking of smashing grabs and flash mob robberies. Target is throwing its proverbial
hands up in the air, giving up. Theft has gotten so bad it's
closing nine stores, including three in California. Right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the Senate put together a stopgap measure
that could keep the lights on for a few weeks. Yeah, it has,
but it's not going to pass the House, So I guess you know
that's that. Look all right, thanks for calling today, Steve, Hey,
you bet, Matt listen, I'll tell you what you know. This
makes a government shut down a lot more likely. All right, So where
are we? The Senate yesterday announced to by partisan agreement that would keep the
government funded through November seventeenth, six billion dollars for disaster relief, six billion
dollars for Ukraine. Last night the House Speaker said, no, no,
thanks. Where we stand right now is Kevin McCarthy's trying to demonstrate to his
colleagues and of the country that he has a sense of where we're going to
go and how he's going to keep a government shutdown from happening. But he
has no particular plan and the pressure that he's under from his hard right flank
to avoid putting that Senate bill on the floor is intense. If you were
to do it, it would surely pass. You'd have all the Democrats on
board, and what you need four or five Republicans to cross the aisle and
avoid a government shutdown. That would probably happen, But he would be handing
his opponents in the Republican Conference a sword which they would use to take his
gabble, and so to keep control of the House, He's going to listen
to what his hard right members are saying, and he's going to try to
reshape the narrative. He's going to say, listen, this short term stop
gap might avoid a government shutdown, but it doesn't do what we need to
do as a country right now, and that's focused on the US Mexico border.
We need not just to have current funding levels, we need to increase
funding levels for the border, and this bill doesn't do that. Instead,
it spends six billion dollars in Ukraine. They don't need the money, he's
arguing, and yet he isn't sure that even if he were to craft a
short term spending measure that included additional funding for the border that it would necessarily
have the support of Republicans to pass the House. Probably wouldn't be a bipartisan
bill, it wouldn't get Democrats on board, and then what do you do
when it goes to the Senate. So the traditional way of dealing with these
problems is to have a bipartisan agreement emerge from the Senate, basically force it
upon the House. The recalcitant Republicans in the House know that play, and
they're trying to get ahead of it, and they're trying to say not this
time, Kevin. And so that's where we are. I will one more
point, and that is in past shutdowns that we remember from let's remember ten
years ago and Ted Cruz read out of green eggs and ham on the Senate
floor and there was a shutdown, and then in twenty eighteen there was a
shutdown lasted about a month. Everybody who works for the government ultimately is made
whole. But the difference in those shutdowns and the one that could happen starting
this weekend is prior to the shutdowns in twenty thirteen and twenty eighteen, there
was bipartisan agreement to fund the Department of Defense, and that meant that everyone
who works for the Department of Defense, including the active duty military and the
reservists and the National Guard members all get paid through the entirety of the shutdown.
That has not happened now, which means for the first time in a
long time, if ever, in the modern shutdown era, that you could
have a circumstance where military families have tremendous uncertainty as to how they're going to
pay their bills. That hasn't happened in the previous shutdowns. Today, the
House of Representatives is going to take up a full year Defense appropriations bill,
which would keep those military paychecks flowing. But I've taken a look at the
language. It includes provisions banning the use of funds on critical race theory,
drag Queen's story hour hormone replacement therapy, and surgery for gender affirming care.
Particular provision that would ban the use of government funds to extend security clearances to
people who signed the letter before the twenty twenty election that said that Hunter Biden's
laptop was rushing disinformation. These are things that are what we'd call poison pills
that the Democrats in the Senate would never accept that. The Democratic SIT's in
the White House would never enact and signing the law. So until there's agreement
between the House and Senate on how to fund the military, and there isn't
such an agreement, those military families will be affected in they shutdown in the
way they haven't been of late. And that's a point that needs to be
underscored. Okay, so you said that everybody will be eventually made hold.
So if the government did shut down and there was no provision to fund the
military during that time, once the government turned the lights back on, proverbially,
they would get that back pay. Yeah, that's right, but it's
it's going to leave them. It's not like they're making a ton of money
and probably mass amounts of money and savings that they can get through for a
couple of months. An increasing number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Yeah, what do you do when there's no paycheck? Right? You?
You incurred debt on your credit card and then owe to bank that interest?
What you turn to? Friends and charities? I mean, last time there
was a government shutdown here, there were food banks that were set up in
Washington, DC. To see two at the government workers could put food on
the table for their families. Because it lasted about a month, they missed
two pay cycles. So that could happen. And look, at the end
of the day, if you if you collect a paycheck from the US Treasury,
you're going to be made whole once Congress gets its act together and passes
something. But if you work for a government contractor if you work in a
government building and you're there on the cafeteria and you don't work for the for
the agency, but you work for a contract of the disbusiness with the agency,
you might be, in a polite way, the most polite way I
can put it, you might be affected, yeah by this, and until
there's a deal, you might not be made whole. And chances are you
will not be made whole if you work for a contractor right because you don't
get those hours back. Okay, Yeah, it's pretty far reaching. It's
sort of like the writer's strike was here and the sag strike here. It's
just the tentacles of it go into every sector of the economy. So okay,
so what happens next, Well, we wait and see what happens.
So the House is going to vote on something that would be dead on arrival
in the Senate. The Senate's going to vote on something, it'll be dead
on arrival in the House, and more days get wasted. Okay, I
hate to laugh, Stephen, because I know it's very serious, but my
goodness, it's just ridiculous. Thank you so much for your time today.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Target says it is closing nine stores across the country because of
crime and safety threats. The company says it's closing stores in New York City,
in Seattle, in Portland, Oregon, and in the San Francisco,
Oakland area. The stores are going to be closed for good October twenty one.
The WGA has approved a deal with major production companies and called an end
to the nearly five months long writer's strike. Striking actors are hoping to also
have a deal. Actor G. Money says actors and writers alike deserve a
fair deal that respects their art form. But we're just going to give pable
road, you know, and we got one take care of the There's a
lot of people out there take avenge you, and we know that we should
be a better taken to the Writer's Guild to prove the contract. Yesterday,
two days after announcing a tentative deal has been reached with studios, more than
eleven thousand members of the w g A still need to ratify the deal.
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