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for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. I love Kno.
You watched Elf yesterday, big elfan. I'm a huge fan. You know
what. It's twenty years of Elf and we actually Nick Poli Okatie and I
went out and did a lot something special that we'll share with you, probably
not today, but it was in celebration of elfin and as an ELF aficionado,
I think you will appreciate it. It is five o'clock on your wake
up call. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting up and
getting your day started with us. Today. Twelve days till Christmas, and
I have to tell you my two hundred dollars Christmas tree. It's already dried.
Out. It's beautiful, but it's already dried out. Here's what we're
following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Israel hasn't commented on it officially,
but the US Israel has started pumping seawater into the network of tunnels in
the Gaza strip used by Hamas. Family members of the hostages have said that
they fear their loved ones might be in the tunnels and could be killed if
they're flooded. We're going to be talking to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem more
about this than just a minute. A man accused of spray painting Nazi symbols
on a synagogue and other public and private property in Glendale and Burbank has been
charged with vandalism and ten counts of hate crimes. The thirty two year old
man was charged yesterday, faces up to twenty years in prison if convicted.
Taylor Swift turns thirty four today and to celebrate with her fans, her airs
to her movie that's made more than one hundred and fifty million dollars at the
box office, is available for streaming on Prime Video at six oho five.
It's handle on the news the world has a new climate deal, but does
it hold water. We'll take a closer look. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news from at least
five people have been hurt in a crash between an Amtrak train and a semi
truck Inventura County. They were taken to the hospital last night with minor to
moderate injuries. The collision on State Route ONE'T eighteen at Sand Canyon Road caused
a temporary suspension of the train service. A man has been fatally stabbed on
a Metro train in South la. The man was on the E line yesterday
afternoon when he was stabbed several times. Say he was able to drive himself
home after the attack. Someone at the home called for help. The man
then died at the hospital. LAPD Chief Moore says he's disappointed at the city
controller's mischaracterization of the department's Air Support division. Moore says the cost of the
department's seventeen helicopters is not an isolated expense, but a strategic investment. Be
crystal clear well sees Plaice Department helicopter patrols provide invaluable protection to police officers and
residents alike. City Controller Kenneth Mahea released a report Monday claiming sixty one percent
of the department's helicopter fleet is used for non emergencies, with an annual average
cost of forty seven million, and the airships fly mostly over communities of color.
Moore says he's reviewing the report with his Air Support Command staff Steve Gregor.
Ka Fineos, Tesla is recalling more than two million of its cars to
fix a defective system that's supposed to make sure drivers are paying attention while using
autopilot. The recall covers nearly all of the vehicles Teslas sold in the US
since it activated autopilot in late twenty fifteen. It follows a two year investigation
by US auto safety regulators into a series of crashes that happened while the autopilot
system was in use. Emmy winning actor Andre Brower has died. He was
best known for his roles on the series Homicide, Life on the Street and
Brooklyn Nine to nine. Hey, Captain, something's going on with this heist.
You tell us everything you know, and we'll tell you everything we know.
Jokes on you, We don't know anything. Well, good dab Brower's
publicist confirmed he died Monday following a brief illness, but didn't give any details.
Brower's survived by his wife and three sons. He was sixty one and
I loved him in Frequency with Dennis Quaid. You remember that movie. He
was so good in that. It's five oh six on your wake up call.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana,
the UN has passed a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian cease fire. But
does Israel have any obligation to abide by that They don't. Israel does not
because that is a non binding a resolution passed by you in General Assembly,
and so it really doesn't have any legal restraints that Israel has to has to
abide by. It is a symbolic resolution. It does show that some world
leaders are increasingly worried about the number of civilian casualties in the Gods of Strip
and the humanitarian situation there, which is dire. Yesterday, because Israel open
to second crossing, over two hundred trucks of eight got into the Gods of
Strip. But this is really just a drop in the bucket. The rains,
rainy season has started, and there are people you know, wet and
living in tents, and you know, the UN is continually warning about the
fear of disease spreading and hunger. So you know, there's it's easy to
understand why so many in the world would call for humanitarians use fire. Israel
and the United States don't agree with that position because it would leave Hamas in
a very good position to essentially just wait it out and you know, rebuild,
rearm and renew their attacks against Israel, and Israel's unwilling to allow that
to happen. The war is raging right now all across the Gaza Strip,
the largest battles in the south in hanunis a Hamas stronghold, but even in
the north, in one neighborhood near Gaza City, nine Israeli soldiers were killed
in an ambush late yesterday, which goes to show you that, you know,
Hamas is still a fight even in large areas that are large are by
and large controlled by the Israeli army. So there's still you know, as
the Events Minister says almost on a nightly basis, it's a difficult war and
there's still difficult days ahead, weeks, if not months, okay, And
the Health ministry is saying that about eighteen thousand Palestinians have been killed. Do
we know if those numbers are accurate? They are numbers that are given by
the Hamas run health Ministry. We won't really know if they're accurate until after
the war. But it's a huge number, and even if it's off by
a few thousand, it's still an enormous number. And the percentage of civilians,
women, children are estimated to be about sixty percent of those numbers,
so somewhere around eight thousand, and that's an incredibly high number, record breaking
really for a war that has only been you know, we're in now the
what are we in the eleventh week? So but this is part of you
know, this is part of war. Every war has collateral damage, but
it's also it is exacerbated by Hamas's strategy of embedding itself around civilians, and
that just cannot be overlooked the impact of that. It immeasurably creates so much
more danger for Gaza's ordinary Gazas. Yeah, and you mentioned that a second
crossing had opened. I know, we didn't talk to you yesterday, but
we heard from you because we had some news stories from you. But where
is that crossing and the two hundred that got in yesterday, is that supposed
to happen or expected to happen kind of every day or was that a one
time influx? Right? So, the Caramchalam crossing is situated in southern Gaza,
where southern Gaza and is all meat, and it opened yesterday. We
just got the numbers from the Israeli authority that runs that crossing. Almost two
hundred trucks of eight got in yesterday. We expect at least that many today.
The hope was that this crossing could get up to speed and check two
hundred trucks a day, while the other crossing, the Nisana crossing, could
also check about two hundred trucks a day, so really the levels of eight
could come up to four hundred, that is the goal. Yesterday we saw
only two hundred went in, so we're going to keep our eyes on that.
It's good news because obviously the people of Gaza are in They are in
desperate need of everything, more food, more powdable water, more medicine,
sleeping bags, tents, et cetera. So remember, once it gets in,
then there are other challenges. The UN has to distribute the aid and
that means traveling through areas that are now part of the war zone. So
you know, you solve one issue by getting more aiden, and there's still
another issue to solve. Yeah, and then real quick before we let you
go, we're hearing this morning that Israel has begun flooding those tunnels. Are
you hearing that? So the Israeli Army won't comment on that story. They
won't say anything about it. It was supported by American media and it was
based on US officials having been briefed by Israelis. But the army is not
commenting on that story. You know, the Israeli the head of the Israeli
Army, Herzelo Levey, said last week it's a good idea. You know,
there's a lot of ways to destroy the tunnels, so clearly it's one
of the options. But the EREL won't say officially if it's underway. Okay,
and so just in case you haven't heard about it yet, Basically,
what they're doing is they're pumping or the plan would be if they do in
fact do this, the plan would be to pump seawater in from the Mediterranean
and into those tunnels that are underneath Gaza. That's right, that's right.
The satellite shops show huge tubes going from the Mediterranean in northern Gaza through to
what you know look like areas where there are tunnels near the Alshati refugee camp.
And the idea would be to put the seatwater seawater through the tunnels to
flush out militants, so to speak, kill Hamas terraces who are hiding in
the tunnels and destroy their there any of their weapons that are there. The
one hundred and thirty five hostages are not believed to be in northern in northern
Gaza. They are believed to be held in southern Gaza. And that's one
of the reasons that in Israel is doing this. The north is a better
place to start. Okay, well, we'll definitely be watching that one because
that could lead to some major developments. Jordanah Miller, thank you so much,
as always for your information. We appreciate it. Thank you. Talk
all right, talk soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A family in Rancho Cucamonga has
been held at gunpoint during a home invasion robbery. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Departments's two men broke into the home early yesterday. Neighbors till KTLA they heard
about it when they woke up. All I've heard is that, yeah,
that they were held at gunpoint, that they were tied up, and that
the brother or the sign was hitting the head. Deputies were going door to
door searching for security video and other evidence. The robbers allegedly took off up
a horse trail. A guy on parole from a life sentence for armed robbery
has been sentenced to nearly fifteen years in prison for another armed robbery. Federal
prosecutors say in twenty twenty two, Greg James and an accomplice ambushed an armored
truck driver near a Bank of America in Harbor City. They say the driver
was shot and James got away with about one hundred and forty five thousand dollars
in cash. It was a rest a short time later and has been in
custody since his arrest. Ukraine's president says Russia has again targeted Kiev. It
was ballistic missiles. President Zelenski said during a meeting with Norway's Prime minister that
several buildings were damaged by Russia and targets civilian civilians, infrastructure, no military
infrastructure. He says more than fifty people were hurt. Air defenses in Kiev
were activated for the second time this week as explosions were heard at about three
in the morning. The mayor says debris from the intercepted missiles fell on the
city. Speaking of the city of la we know that there's lots and lots
of good restaurants. Well, here are a couple more to watch. Because
the Michelin Guide to Restaurants for twenty twenty four isn't coming out for a few
months, but they apparently tease restaurants that might be included in it this year,
and three of the seven additions to the Michelin Guide are in Los Angeles,
so that could mean that one of these or all of these restaurants would
either get a star or could be noted as like a new up and coming
restaurant. So one of them is Hibbi in Korea Town. It opened in
a strip mall with a focus on Japanese cuisine, but it has really changed
into a fine dining scene so the transformed Hibbi is a more modern Japanese Korean
restaurant with intricate dishes like blue fin with winter truffle vinaigrette and puffed rice,
Parmesan laced dry aged short rib guioza, and bincho tan grilled abaloni. I
can't even say it, but I bet it's good. And then there's also
Baru, which is a modern Korean restaurant. It's in the arts district,
recently named an La Times one oh one list Awardi, and it has a
tasting menu including nicely seared hulky dough I don't even know how it's how you
say scallop but in a pool of watercress with cubed seaweed jelly, and puffed
rice. And then there's Olivia in Koreatown, which is vegetarian. The pizzas
at Olivia apparently very popular, but they also have Mexican and Korean influences on
their menu, with things like fried squash blossoms filled with macadamia ricotta and pepita
sauce, and also a fried oyster mushroom with goju. Chang might have to
recommend that one to our very own and very vocal Vegan Deborah Mark. The
Department of Education has launched an investigation into ethnic discrimination on six college campuses,
including UCLA, U See, San Diego, and Stanford. The DOE is
looking into alleged violations of Title six, which prohibits discrimination based on race or
national origin. The LAPD has completed its more than three month investigation and a
former Dodgers pitcher, Julio Urius, and turned its findings over to the DA's
office. The LA District Attorney will now side whether to charge Urius with felony
domestic violence. Federal reserve rate cuts could come as soon as June. That's
according to the latest CNBC FED survey. More than half of the thirty five
experts asked built in a survey said that they expect a rate cut by June.
About seventy percent say that it could happen by July. They also say
the odds of a recession are at about forty one percent. That's down eight
points from the last survey in October at six oh five. It's handle on
the news. Inflation seems to be in check, but the cost of rent,
going out to eat, and car insurance remains stubbornly high. Right Now
let's say good morning to KTLA tech reporter and the host of Rich on Tech
right here on KFI, Rich Demiro, Good morning, Rich, Good morning
to you. Amy. So we should be playing a funeral dirge for E
three. Yeah, this is kind of sad. This was a big event
that happened every June in Los Angeles. I have attended many times E three
Electronic Entertainment Expo focused on the new latest video games. It's been happening since
nineteen ninety five and it is officially dead. Last couple of years have been
kind of rough. It's either been online, it's either been postponed or canceled.
And now this year they're saying, you know what, no more so
is it because there's no interest or they did? They say why, it's
just the changing landscape of everything. So it started with some of these companies
dropping out, like Nintendo would do their own thing, like a direct to
consumer kind of event, and then Sony said we're done with the whole event.
Xbox, Microsoft, they kind of stuck in there, but you know,
it just became a place where not everything was all in one place,
and of course that's not really fun for the people that attend so it's just
kind of it kind of broke apart basically. So it's sort of like Comicicon
was last year, where there were no actors or anything. So it just
didn't it didn't have the oomph that it used to have. Yes, but
I think Comicon didn't have the actors because of the strike. And this is
kind of more of a major shift in the industry where Sony saying, you
know what, we could put on a better event all by ourselves. We
don't have to share the headlines than anyone else. And by the way,
it costs us a whole lot less to do it on our own, and
that's kind of what we're doing. But I think the pressure here is on
these other major events because people are wondering after the pandemic, do we need
in person events like a cees, like all these little events that I go
to, do we need those? And I think that's a big challenge in
the industry right now. Yeah, okay, iPhone is getting a new little
feature which might have come in handy when my iPhone got stolen. Yes,
this is huge. This is actually kudos to my pal over at Wall Street
Journal, Joanna Stern. This was based on good old fashioned reporting. They
basically said, hey, we noticed that a lot of people are getting their
iPhones stolen by thieves watching them put in their passcode, so they knew the
pass code to the phone, and then they'd steal that person's phone. So
once they stole that phone, they could basically unlock anything on that device.
And here's the clincher here, when you use face ID on your iPhone,
if face ID doesn't work, it defaults back to the passcode. And that's
a problem because that means someone with your passcode can get into all of your
different accounts and people would have money stolen. So now Apple is going to
introduce this feature. We're basically if you're not at home or at work or
a trusted location and you try to like reset the password on this phone,
it's not going to work, or it's going to give you a major delay
of at least an hour. So that means if a thief gets your phone,
gets your passcode, takes it to their their layer, you know,
their underground layer, and tries to steal it, it's going to say sorry,
you can't do anything right now. Good. That makes me happy.
I was lucky when when my phone got stolen. They didn't get into it.
I think I saw it up on one of those trading sites like two
hours later, but they never got into it and got anything. So that's
good, all right, well good good goods. But this is coming out
in a new update to iOS. We just got one yesterday, but there's
gonna this is going to be the next one. Oh the next one.
So it's not yet available, but yeah, okay exactly, and then we
are ridding out of time as we always too rich. But you took a
ride in the Tesla of the Sea. Tell us just quickly about that,
and then where we can go watch you super super cool. It's called the
Arc One. This is a boat that's being built right here in Los Angeles.
It's an all electric speedboat. I went down to Long Beach, took
it for a spin, drove it, steered it, whatever you call it
for boats, and it was impressive. It's really really neat. It's very
expensive right now. But this company is a startup. They are like Tesla.
They are going to try to make cheaper, more affordable, mass market
versions. I will be on Ktla in just a few minutes to show you
what this boat looks like. It is seriously cool. I wanted one,
but you know the price. Yeah, well there's that all right. Well
that sounds really fun. And we already know that they have duffies, but
those are just for tool and a long. So this is a speedboat.
Yeah, this is not a duffy. This is like, this is a
serious boat, like, yeah, that you would want as always. Thank
you so much, rick A, Rick, I you know, I'm so
bad with names. Rich On Tech. This is KTLA's tech reporter, Rich
DeMuro, host of rich on Tech. You're on KFI Saturdays from eleven to
two. You can also follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech, and
his website is rich on tech dot tv. Rich. Thank you, thanks
Amy Alight, I'm the worst with names. I do that. It's the
King curse. It runs in my family. I swear we all do it.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. LA County's district attorney says recent hate crimes against Jewish people
point to us disturbing rise in anti semitism, and Das charged one man was
spraying anti Semitic graffiti on a temple, a church, and an apartment complex
in Burbank. Another man that's been charged with attacking an elderly Jewish couple in
Beverly Hills over the weekend. Our nation is facing a crisis of hate crime
and this case is our symptom sold out. Da Gascone says. The man
in the couple attacks suffered a laceration to his head. The alleged attacker is
facing life in prison like trolli kea Fye news Welly Kenny Sheriff's investigators are trying
to find a missing thirteen year old mom and her two week old baby.
They were last seen Sunday in South LA. Deputy say the teen mom might
have been headed to the East LA area. She's five' three with black
hair and brown eyes. She also has a tattoo of cursive writing on her
face. The baby is black and Hispanic, about ten pounds nineteen inches long,
black hair, brown eyes. Marvel's Studios has revealed a black Panther animated
series is in the work. Marvel executive Brad Winderbaum tease the project during an
event to promote another series. He says, Eyes of Wakanda will tell the
story of warriors who have traveled across the world to retrieve vibranium artifacts from Wakanda.
The studio is reportedly working on several series set in Wakanda Wakanda Forever.
The UN General Assembly has demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The General
Assembly got a two thirds majority yesterday and passed the resolution. Two amendments to
the ceasefire proposed by the US and Austria both failed. The US says it
doesn't support a full on ceasefire, but does support a pause in fighting.
A man accused of spray painting Nazi symbols on a synagogue and other public and
private property in Glendale and Burbank has been charged with vandalism and ten counts of
hate crimes. The thirty two year old man was charged yesterday, faces up
to twenty years in prison if convicted. Taylor Swift is thirty four years old
today and to celebrate her birthday with her fans. Her Era's Tour movie that's
made more than one hundred and fifty million dollars at the box office, is
now available for streaming on Prime Video at six oh five. It's handle on
the news. You could soon have your car help keep you from driving Drunk.
Bill will tell you all about that. At five point fifty, we're
gonna be talking with ABC Stephen Portnoy about what's next in the impeachment inquiry into
President Biden and when we could see that next step Amy's audience, Sami's on
this, Aami's on its on it? What am I on? I'm on
streaming movies, TV series, documentaries, new stuff, old stuff, stuff
you might have missed. And I was telling you that there's so much out
there, like you just don't know what to pick, and how do you
choose because there's good stuff out there and there's some not so good stuff out
there. And so I take recommendations from friends and then hopefully I can also
check them out for you and make a recommendation for you as well. And
I got this recommendation from my friend an our traffic guy, Nick Poli Jochini.
He said he have you watched Spirited? And I was like, no,
I don't even think I've heard of that, So I thought I better
check it out. So Spirited is on Apple TV. It's a full length
movie, not a series, just a movie, and it's a Christmas show
and it is It was released last year, and I have this vague recollection
of hearing about it but then never really heard like how it was and all
of that stuff. So I thought, I'm going to go check it out.
Last year or last week I told you about Candy Cane Lane, and
as much as I wanted to like it, I hated it. So as
much as I hated Candy Canlane, I loved Spirited. The movie takes a
look at a Christmas Carol, but from a different perspective. It's from the
perspective of the ghosts who live in a musical afterlife. It sounds a little
weird, but so and they say right at the outset that they do supernatural
simulations to try to redeem lost souls, you know, like empathizer Scrooge in
a Christmas Carol. But it's set in modern times. It stars Will Ferrell,
Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, and then there's someone else that you're going
to recognize, but I don't want to tell you who it is because you'll
know it when you hear it. You don't see the person, but you
hear them. So the story is set in the present, but it's also
in the past. It's also a little bit in the future, and Will
Ferrell is the ghost of Christmas Present and he's got his heart set on redeeming
one soul. So I said, it's a musical. So the characters do
break into song quite a bit, and the music is really solid. The
songs are catchy, they're fun, they're toe tappers, and one of they're
actually a couple of them are already sticking on my head. My favorite song
in the movie, and I'm just going to tell you the name is Good
Afternoon. I can't tell you any more about it because that would spoil it.
But when you hear it, you're going to understand why I love it.
And who knew that Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds could sing. I mean,
they're not, like, I don't know, they're no Taylor Swift,
but they seriously give solid performances and it's really fun to watch. The story
unfolds nicely. It's well thought out. All the pieces come together. The
story arc is really strong and entertaining. And if you haven't seen this one
or maybe even heard about it, I say please do watch it. The
Christmas classic. I don't know, maybe, but it even could be a
musical, Like I was watching going this could be on stage. The music
I thought was like I said, it was really good. So if you
want to get into a merry Christmas move watch Spirited and then let me know
what you think. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Israeli Defense forces have begun targeting the
tunnel system used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel flooding the vast labyrinth
of tunnels under Gaza where Hamas leaders are believed to be hiding. According to
US officials, the IDEF isn't commenting about the safety of the one hundred and
thirty five remaining hostages, including Americans, who may remain in those tunnels.
ABC's James Longman in Tel Aviv says it's not known for sure where the hostages
are. Some family members say they fear their loved ones might be in the
tunnels and could be killed by the flooding. Israeli forces say Hamas has used
the tunnels to move around the battlefield and to store rockets and ammunition. Israel's
media says at least seven Israeli soldiers have been killed in an ambush in Gaza
City, Israeli ground troops have been fighting Hamas militants in and around the city.
Zara has pulled ad photos that appeared to reference Israel's war against Tamas.
The photos for a line of jackets included what the company called unfinished sculptures in
a sculptor's studio, but it was met with backlash when some people argued the
mannequins resembled someone holding a corpse. The company apologized, saying the campaign was
conceived in July and then photographed in September. The Israel Hamas war began in
October. Nine people have been caught in a prostitution sting in Pomona. Police
say the operation yesterday targeted sex purchasers and human trafficking in the area near East
Holt Avenue and Indian Hill Boulevard. Police say they take a proactive approach to
fighting human trafficking. In twenty twenty two, Pomona police rescued eleventeens and several
adults. The ex director of an outclosed Los Angeles anti poverty agency, who
was also a well known fundraiser for former President Obama, has been since to
six months in prison and six months of home detention for embezzling money from the
nonprofit organization. Howard Slingerland was also ordered pay more than seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in fines and restitution, and performed two hundred hours of community service.
In his plea agreement, he admitted to spending thousands on personal expenses,
including his property taxes, family dinners of family members, tutoring, and home
computers and software. The thirteen year old mom and her two week old we
just told you about that we're missing from South LA have been found. The
mom and baby had last been seen on Sunday. Officials say that the two
were critically missing. The Lakeni Sheriff's Department says thanks to the public, the
media and deputies, the thirteen year old and the baby have been located.
No other details were given, lad they're back home. House Republicans have passed
a resolution to authorize a vote on whether to launch a formal impeachment investigation into
President Biden. House could vote on whether to move forward with the increy into
whether the president benefited from foreign business dealings with his son as early as today.
In fact, we're waiting to hear from Stephen Portnoy with ABC. He's
going to tell us a little bit more about this, dig into it,
a little bit that's coming up in just a minute. The LAPD has completed
it's more than three month investigation into former Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias and turned its
finding over to the DA's office. The LA County District Attorney will now decide
whether to charge Urius with felony domestic violence. We're just minutes away from a
handle on the news this morning, the New World has a new climate deal,
but does it hold water? Hey, do you know that Sears closed
all across the country, Well, guess what they're back. Hundreds of stores
closed in twenty eighteen, But two months ago the Sears in Burbank kind of
quietly turned its lights back on and opened up. There's only like twelve Seers
stores. And don't really know if they're trying to reopen a bunch of stores
or what, but it's open and there's appliances and mattresses and all kinds of
stuff in the series. I haven't been in it yet, but I think
I might go check it out. I know that remember Ken Moore impliances were
the kind of industry standard craftsmen tools still are, and then All State Insurance
kind of got it started at Sears too, So who knows. Maybe they're
back. Baby, are you ready to talk to Stephen? We're not ready
to talk to Stephen. Okay, fine, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Then a member
of the La County Sheriff's Department says the new sheriff has formed a hit squad.
Lieutenant John O'Donnell says Sheriff Luna and Luna's command staff targeted him for supporting
previous Shriff Alex Vanuava's reelection campaign. O'Donnell says a month before the election in
twenty twenty two, he was being transferred from the East LA station to the
Narcotics Bureau, but after Luna won the election, the promotion was rescinded without
explanation. O'Donnell has file the lawsuit with claims of whistleblow or retaliation, discrimination
and harassment, and says others who supported Via Nueva have also been targets.
The department says it cannot comment on pending litigation. Steve Gregory Kaya finans,
Okay, now we have Stephen Portnoy with ABC National News correspondent Steven the House
Republicans could be voting as soon as today on whether to launch a formal impeachment
inquiry into President Biden. We expect they will. We expect this is going
to pass on a party line vote later today to authorize the impeachment inquiry.
That's really been underway for a few months, but this vote formalizes it and
it gives more oomph to the investigation when the House has to go to court
to compel production of documents or testimony that they say they're being stonewall or steymied
in their attempts to get things, for example, such as emails that were
sent or received, or believed to have been sent and received by Joe Biden
at the time he was vice president from twenty nine to twenty seventeen under pseudonyms.
Now, why would a man use a pseudon him if he's the vice
president of the United States, Well, because he doesn't want to get emails
from you or me or anybody else if his email addresses circulating out there on
the internet. And so you see this often at at high levels of corporations
at the CEO level or government agencies. They'll have the principle with a sort
of a fake email address or an email address that the average member of the
public can't access. So the Republicans say, the White House, the National
Archives has been dragging its feet in getting that information to the committee. So
to bolster the efforts to enforce a subpoena, they're going to take this vote
today to formalize the process. So it just like you said, it just
gives them a little more oomph or kind of the law behind them, because
up until then they can say, nah, you don't have anything formal,
so we don't have to give it to you. The dynamic has essentially it's
a face off between two coequal branches of government, and within this inter branch
conflict, each branch is going to do all it can to protect its equities
and say you can't have it because it's mine, and you don't have the
power to compel it, because we don't have to listen to you, because
the separation of powers provides that you can't reach in too deep into what we're
up to. Well, that's fair, but what the courts have said over
the decades is that when the House of Representatives is conducting an impeachment inquiry or
working toward impeaching a president or any other official. The House is at the
as the lawyers put, at the apex of its power, that it's seeking
to invoke its constitutional power and of a grave matter. And when it's seeking
to do that, the court should give deference to that branch in the inter
branch conflict. So Congress, you win, President you lose. And that's
what the House is working toward today. Okay. And does it appear from
what you've seen that all the Republicans are on board because they only have a
three vote cushion. Well, look, some moderates who have not been convinced
by their colleagues that the president has done anything that's worthy of impeachment are nevertheless
going to vote for this inquiry resolution today because they are able to point to
what they see as obstruction. And the idea is that, well, all
right, you know, we would have tried playing nice, and now we
got to play a bit more hardball, okay, And then if they do
pass they launched this, then what happens, Well, then you'll see hearings
and other efforts to try to really narrow this investigation and try to produce evidence
that will be compelling. So far, the Democrats would tell you the Republicans
have not produced compelling evidence that's worthy of the drafting and passing of articles of
impeachment, triggering a trial in the Senate that might ultimately end in Joe Biden's
ouster and Kamala Harris becoming President of the United States. There's been a lot
of innuendo, a lot of suggestion that over this time he was vice president,
Joe Biden may have met with or had conversations with some of Hunter and
James Biden's clients, but the testimony so far has been that it was a
bunch of hey, how you doing, how's the weather, and not anything
substantive that would mean that Joe Biden's vice president took any direct actions on behalf
of the government to advance the interests of James and Hunter Biden's paying clients.
Okay, but this is also so the inquiry. They're going to do the
hearings just so we get the process straight. And if after all the hearings
they go okay, let's file articles of impeachment, then the House has to
vote and get a majority to do that yes, okay, and then after
that it would go to the Senate. And then do you just need a
simple majority, You need the two thirds if you really wanted to oust him.
Well remember, and I think we were getting a few steps ahead of
ourselves, but if it were to go to a trial in the Senate,
it would require a two thirds vote to convict a sitting president or any other
official and then ounced that man from office. When when Donald Trump was impeached
the second time, there were fifty seven votes that he was guilty, but
it wasn't enough. You needed sixty seven votes. And so you know,
yesterday Chuck Schumer was asked in a news conference whether if the House does approve
articles of impeachment, whether the House whether the Senate might dispense with those charges
and not conduct a trial. Schumer was not willing to engage in that.
But when you know, this was in when when Donald Trump was in peach,
not once but twice, that question rose, and the suggestion was that
the trial should proceed and hear all the evidence and then move to its conclusion.
It's sort of an unanswered question. We haven't had a circumstance where the
House of Representatives has impeached to sitting president, and the Senate has rejected those
charges and refused to hold a trial. Well, we'll be watching, all
right. Thank you so much, even Portno. I appreciate your information and
insight. Very helpful. You bet. All right, Let's get back to
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and sexually assaulted a twelve year old girl. I just thank God that she's
alive, she's breathing, she's healthy in all other aspects. The girl's parents
tell NBC four they think the intruder got in through a sliding door on December
second. The break in happened between two and three in the morning. Police
say the man left several hours later. The guy was caught on video.
He's white or Hispanic, average heightened build, and was wearing dark colored clothing
and a beanie. President Biden has told Ukraine's president the White House is set
aside two hundred million dollars in draw down funds for Ukraine. Draw Downs allow
the White House to use Defense Department stocks to deliver military aid in crisis situations.
ABC's Justin Finch says President Zelenski was in DC yesterday as Congress debates more
aid for Ukraine and other efforts. It's himelf for Congress to pass Ukraine aid
is heightening. House members now set to adjourn for the holiday tomorrow, followed
by the Senate Friday. President Biden did not say exactly what is in the
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