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repeat, repeat, you don't look at you. And I'm talking about
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Bill handle excuse me, and good morning everybody. Bill handle here? Oh
man? Who yeah? Oh well, what can I tell you? It's
a Monday, and we've got a couple of stories. The lead story I
want to talk about is they just came out over the weekend. There is
a woman in Alaska who has a pet clam that is the oldest clam in
existence. Okay, that's the lead story. Now the second story that we're
going to cover is this thing with Joe Biden. Well, yeah, you
know it's uh the clam, Yeah, I think so. Right. First
of all, it's let me say hello to everybody, and then we're gonna
get into well, some extraordinary historical stuff that oh man, I'm going to
go back into history a lot of it. A lot of us were alive
the last time anything like this happened, and so we've got a lot,
I mean a lot to talk about. Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill,
and good morning, Good morning Bill, and codo good morning. And
this entire week our man Petros actually kla cesman Petros. Petros heard every day
on five seven they la sports. I'm your man, Bill, you are
my man. I always enjoy having you filling in for Neil. And you'll
be here all week, which is great fun. And you get to wake
up the crack of the middle of the night, which the rest of us
do. What time are you up, by the way, Petros, when
you do this show, I like five fifteen? Okay, what time do
you normally wake up? Sometimes around that time? It's okay, schedule,
Okay? Is that true? By the way, do you yes? Okay?
All right? Fair enough. You wouldn't think a manly man like Petros
would do the very sort of the accusation is gay? Do you wear a
two two when you yoga? By the way Raboa just wear a pair of
shorts. Okay, Well, there you go and Codo good morning. Yeah
it's number two, but I appreciate it. Yeah, all right, just
because my memory is see, I have a memory issue, and there's a
lot of pressure for me to resigne by position because I'm just not the same.
I move a lot slower. I'm just I'm noticeable the shows from you
know, and I put him side by side on Twitter. It's great,
right, Okay, so let's do it, guys, get right into it.
Handle on the news with Amy Petros and me lead. Sorry, Well,
yesterday it happened no surprise, by the way. I had mentioned this
Thursday and Friday, and everybody was anticipating that Joe Biden would eliminate himself,
bail out of the race, remove himself, which anybody can do, by
the way, at any point a nominee can say no, thank you,
I'm done, and anybody elected president to say no, thank you, I'm
done during a presidency. I la Richard Nixon nineteen seventy three. So,
and we're gonna be talking at all a lot about this because there are so
many aspects to this. His resignation from the he has not yet won the
nomination, but it was well it's a lock. It's a lock because the
primaries are already done and today the primary system, of course, is how
we set up presidential nominations. Well, we're back to square one. I'm
gonna do a little bit of history when nominations were not based on primaries,
where going into the convention no one had any idea who was going to be
the nominee. And the concept of these nomination the parties nominating goes, well,
the first three presidents, it didn't exist. I think it was was
it the parties either? It was either Thomas Jefferson I think was the first
president that was nominated under a party. So there's a lot of history we're
going to talk about today and what happened and Donald Trump out doing himself,
still ripping into Joe Biden and just personal attacks. I mean, there's no
there was no reason for this. I mean, Biden is out of the
race, We're done, and yet it was attack after attack. The worst
president in the history of the United States. I mean, he's gone,
all right. I mean, just don't keep kicking him, you know,
don't kick a dead horse, which, by the way, Joe Biden does
the best impression of a dead horse that I have ever seen in my entire
life. It got pretty rough. It was, yeah, it was you
could see it evolving, and it was a shame. And Joe Biden,
and we'll talk a little bit about that, became more and more insular as
the not so much the attacks, as the call for his removal from the
race, of his withdrawal. And the last time this happened under these circumstances
was during Lynnon Johnson's run second run for the presidency, and we didn't know
he was going to bail either, and I remember watching him. He had
that pre addressed to the nation where he said, I will not run,
I will not accept the nomination of my party for the presidency. Whoa because
there was no Internet. It was just out of the blue. And it
was the Vietnam War that did it and the nineteen sixty eight demonstrations. But
anyway, there's just a whole lot more to talk about. Also, we
have the attempt at assassination news. The conspiracy theorists are going crazy, by
the way, it's on the other side now, now it's the whole thing
was set up. This is a red flag that was put up by the
Republican Party to engender even more support for former President Trump. Conspiracy theorists abound.
I love it. We are in a world of I feel conspiratorial.
Well, we have to come up with a conspiracy theory for the show,
and I don't know what it is, and will you get to work on
that please? Yeah? Okay. A big quick sign that people were ready
for Biden to get out. Democrats quickly started opening their wallets, donating more
than fifty million dollars just yesterday, like in the fifteen hours since Biden made
his announcement. It makes it the single biggest day for online democratic contribution since
the twenty twenty election. Donations spiked so before the announcement, the donations were
coming in at less than two hundred thousand dollars an hour, but then after
the announcement, nearly eleven and a half million dollars was donated in a single
hour. Now, think of this, why this makes so much sense because
the Democratic position is not so much. Here's our policy, here's what we're
going to do. It is beat Trump. That's number one, two or
three, Beat Trump. It's all they want to make it all about Trump.
Trump wants to make it all about Trump in a different way. And
so now Trump's position that Joe Biden was the worst president in the world,
there's never been. We had the worst economy under Joe Trump, under Joe
Biden, and why is that. Well, all you have to do is,
look, they took a Biden took a grown, growing economy and destroyed
it. By the way, which is not true. We have one of
the best economies we've ever had. We're just moving. We're still the strongest
economy in the world. But that's besides the point. And so the worst
president he's no longer in. Kamala Harris is can't be the worst president?
How about too old, too daughter ing, can't function? Can't do that
with Kamala Harris, can you? She can make all the arguments about Donald
Trump with a lot more credibility without being attacked. Now, I don't think
she is the most wonderful choice for president. I'm not a Kamala Harris fan,
but she is more apt to beat Trump. And I think that's what's
going on with the Democratic Party. The donors were just fleeing like crazy rats
office sinking ship. I shouldn't say that because that will immediate that quote.
Will Lemny go up Handle calls donors rats off of sinking ship a democratic donors?
Who are people that give money to political case? Oh, big,
big players right? Most people I know that would never even consider it,
you know. Yeah, how many How many billionaire friends do you get?
Have friends? None? I know? So I know. It's very interesting
though, like how people react in that way, like I want to give
this this like when after Trump got shot, same thing, you know everybody
you know those I want to give them money, And it's like those are
but they don't go after there's a grassroots effort where the presidential candidates and anybody
who's running, there's grassroots, and then there's major donors. The candidate can't
pick up the phone and talk to a donor, or won't to a donor
who gives twenty five bucks, someone who writes a check for two million dollars,
that person gets called and beg for money. That's how it works from
college football too, That's how you get on the plane with the team and
get there, you go, there you go. It's a golden rule.
Let your money, It's a golden rule. Yeah, he who has the
gold makes the rules. You get a little FaceTime with the candidate or the
press. Yeah, and that's why your sports station gets these advertisers who sell
things that your listeners would never ever buy because like female full body deodorant.
Yeah, good point, all right. Secret Service denied request for more security
resources at Trump events before the attempted assassination. I guess there is a hearing
this morning we're going to talk about. But they did repeatedly deny request the
Secret Service for more personnel and security resources from agents guarding former President Donald Trump
prior to the assassination attempt in Butler on July thirteenth. And it's because they
said they didn't have enough people. Yeah, and here's the question. Yeah,
let's get a little bit deeper into that, because at first glance,
oh my god, the Secret Service said no, the Trump organization, we
need more security Secret Services. No, Okay, a couple of things.
The reason they said no, from what we understand, is they said,
we, as Petros just pointed out, we don't have the resources. Now,
has the Secret Service been asking or has the executive branch been asking for
more money for Secret Service? That's number one. And if they didn't have
it, what do you do? You do have limited resources. By the
way, I don't know whether this is true or not, but looking at
it, let's consider that because it's not just a quick headline. And the
other situation is that quite often local law enforcement is used to augment Secret Service
protection because there are never enough agents to line the entire route to go on
top of every building. There just isn't there. There aren't those resources,
so you have local law enforcement. So let's look and see who's at fault.
Because we know a local cop went up there and saw the shooter and
then came down. And there's a whole story there that he went on the
roof and was looking, saw the shooter and then dropped down about eight feet
because his head was up. We're talking about the local cop dropped down and
why didn't he start screaming, shooter, shooter, shooter. Well, because
he drops down and I think six or eight seconds later is when the shots
are fired. So there are a lot of pieces here. By the way,
that doesn't mean the Secret Service didn't screw up at all. One of
them is how do you have four hundred and fifty feet line of sight with
the building that you don't have shooters up there that you don't have counter terrorists
up there. So it's not just this headline, and yeah, you have
to look at these stories run much deeper. There's a lot of nuance to
a lot of this stuff. Do you think the onion actually gets unpeeled or
do we just oh, yeah, no, no, no, the onion
gets Oh you're going to see the onion getting unpeeled. There. Not only
is Congress holding hearings immediately, but also majorcus has ordered a ordered a full
internal investigation. You know it's going to be unpeeled. It is okay,
and start of the some of the pealing is going to start today. And
the big question is can Kim survive. Kimberly Cheatle is the director of the
Secret Service, facing new calls to resign from a group of bipartisan lawmakers.
And of course that's coming in the of the information that we were just talking
about that the Secret Service denied requests repeatedly to increase security at Trump rally events.
A cheetah is scheduled to appear this morning at the House Oversight Committee hearing.
Yesterday, Representative Brendan Boyle actually on Saturday became the first Democrat in Congress
to call for her to resign. Yes, she'll go, she's gone.
Heads have to roll on this. And she could be. She could be
completely innocent, because the guarding of presidential candidate, the head Han show is
policy is not calling up and go how many agents do you have? So
it doesn't matter she's going, she's going. There has to be a scapegoat,
and it's gonna have to be her, even if she's innocent. She
may not be. She may not be. It could be just she's administratively
bad and she should go on that basis. And this is just the tip
at the bottom of the campbell. I don't care. Huh. Can anyone
fire her? Yeah? Oh absolutely, unless the civil service, which I
don't think it is. I think it's appointed. You bet. Head of
Homeland Security, my Orcis can can harass. And he's next. He's announced
an independent review of a Trump assassination plot. I don't know if he's in
trouble too. Alejandro Mayorcis will be there with a bipartisan independent review of the
thirteenth July thirteenth assassination attempt, and they're going to continue to talk about it
and try to get to the bottom of it. But it's very interesting because
I mean, none of these people like Trump, right, so there's always
that's that's going to be like an overriding sort of cloud over this where you
didn't like this guy, that's why you didn't send anybody to protect him.
Yeah, that's going to be the argument, and it's that may be the
political backlash on this now, have that they use that as a cudgel on
all these poor people. Well, they're certainly going to in this case.
Now, my orca is particularly he's in deep trouble to begin with because the
political attack. He is the poster child of the attacks. He's that dartboard
for the Republicans. Remember, they try to impeach him based on he somehow
violated the law with the border. And so the impeachment went nowhere, of
course, because frankly, it's his policy follows the policy of the president.
He serves at the pleasure of the president. So why would you impeach,
for example, a secretary, you know, as opposed to the guy who
set up the policy. You get rid of an underling, even though the
underling is working from the guy who made the order. So that's my orcus.
And yeah, he's going to stay there till the end of Trump's I
mean the end of Biden's term. Okay, mister Nettan Yahoo goes to Washington.
Got an interesting ring coon, huh So. Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanyah,
who is landing today in what Washington, d C. Is going to be
addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday. And while he's here, he's
being attacked back at home for leaving while the war with the Hamas rages on
and there are concerns that it could spread to Lebanon and Yemen. Oh yeah,
no, this thing is going south very very quickly. And there's that
one. There's so many pieces. One of the things I heard over the
weekend there was another facility that was bombed by Israel and it was another medical
facility. And just just a quick aside before we get back into the news,
and that is Israel says their claim is that all of these facilities that
they are bombing are headquarters and or positions where Hamas works out of civilian a
civilian targets, if you will. And Israel says, we're going after Hamas,
that's what we're doing. Hamas says, no, we have of absolutely
no military involvement in any of those places. We are not there. All
of the independent, all of the humanitarian workers, the medical workers who are
not part of the Hamas government or part of Kamas, they're all saying the
same thing. There is no fighting by Hamas and Israel. It's just Israel
attacking hospitals and schools. And they're all saying that. I haven't heard one
say, yeah, there were some Hamas fighters sitting in that operating room over
there. What we have is there is no fighting from Hamas. No Hamas
fighter has ever been connected to a hospital, a school, an apartment building.
That's what the independent, That's what the workers are saying, the aid
workers, where are they what there's no fighting going on, Where are they
fighting from? That's the part that I don't understand. I mean, I
just don't get it. But I'm sure we'll talk more about that. That
was just an aside, and I was talking about that over the weekend,
and I digress. So let's move on more news and talk about what's going
on. Cost a billion dollars, the CrowdStrike thing, the crippling global tech
outage on Friday, but figuring out who will pay for the damages could take
a little bit longer, So we'll see what happens when the CrowdStrike situation.
We have no idea. I'm going to do a story on this one because
this thing runs deep, it really does. And how the largest it outage
in history. Yeah, and it's not going to be the last. You
should have seen what happened at the Fox Football seminar. They had every famous
football from Terry Bradshaw to Howie Long to Tom Brady in a room and everybody's
flight got canceled at the same time. Would you like to be one of
those porous since trying to figure out how to get these guys back to their
mansions in Hyanna, Sport or whatever. It was very difficult day for everybody.
Yeah. Just blowing up the footballs back to their normal pressure. That'll
or you know that? How dare you bill? That's only in New England?
Oh okay. Joe Manchin was hinting that he might get into the race,
but apparently that didn't last. Independent West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said this
morning, I am not going to be a candidate for president. I watched
a show when he was like you know what. I'm considering it. But
now he's saying, no, he's not in. He did tell CNN's Cassie
or Casey Hunt that he was pursuing the process, but acknowledged it's almost impossible
for him to win the nomination. He did say that he wasn't he wasn't
really in supportive Harris. He thinks she's too far left and thinks there should
be a nominating process. Oh, there's going to be a nominating process,
and she's going to get nominated, right. Thinks other people should be involved.
Well, I'm sure he does. Okay, Now what are other people
going to be involved? There may be an I don't think so there.
I think she may get it by acclamation. I think she's gonna get it.
I mean, I cannot see anybody else making a fight, making a
fight for this, because there's too many people that are now on her side,
major players. I have not heard of one major Democrat even hinting that
someone else should be at least running for the nomination. Not that nothing.
Crickets Newsom, who was rumored to be somebody who might be put up immediately,
almost endorsed Harris yesterday. Oh yeah, yeah, he's going for the
vice presidency and then on a stepping stone for her for him to be the
next president. Who's the guy from Pennsylvania, Not doctor oz Shai Fetterman,
that's the other guy. Yeah there. I mean those are names that are
being bandied about, which doesn't hurt them for the future. But she,
she basically has it. And then you know, at first I thought she
was there's nothing there, or there's very little there but her. She has
some huge advantages. Woman mixed race democrat can get young. No one can
order uh, No one can say doddering old uh, losing cognitive abilities that
you can't say anymore. I'm just interested in the attacks. The Republicans have
already started attacking her, and I am just fascinated to see what Trump is
going to say about her. It's it's I just this has gotten so fascinating.
I thought it was just going to be Trump wins, done, finished,
and now a whole new spin has come into it. How many more
spins will there be? Tell me you know what, I I don't know.
I never thought this would happened. Would you ever think that Joe Biden
would bail out? Would you ever think that Joe Biden. Was that much
of a debacle in his debate. I mean I thought it was he was
going to do so good, but I mean the guy imploded. He got
hit by a truck. It was so bad, all right. Yeah,
it looks like JD. Vance left his Venmo public uh, and all the
connections that he has and all the people that he talks to, and all
the very powerful people because he's a Yale law school guy, are in there.
I don't know if he's sculling bones. You guys know about sculling bones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sculling bones. Man, the book,
that's where you that's where you want to go to. That's the game,
that's the club you want to be when you're in college, full doing pistols,
doing pistols all day, white rich connected. Well, that certainly wasn't
JD. Vance. Well, he was white and connected for the most part.
No, he's an outlier. JD. Vance and hill Billy elogy is
that? Do I have that right? The name wrote a book that's hugely
famous, and he's a very interesting guy to say the least. I mean,
he's kind of out there politically, But and then there's some stuff and
his social media. I gotta say Skull and Bones, that movie with Pacy
from Dawson's Creek and Craig T. Nelson. It's pretty sweet. Was it
called Skull and Bone? It was called skulls Oh yeah, they got rid
of the bones part. Yeah, okay, here's the story Amy. Yeah.
The Trump's used to back Kamala Harris. Yeah, and that's no big
deal. And I'll tell you why Donald Trump actually backed everybody pro abortion.
He was a Democrat. Ronald Reagan was a raging liberal in the thirties,
was a Democrat. It just so happens Ronald Reagan passed, if you can
imagine this, the most far reaching pro abortion bill in the United States when
he was governor. It happens. People have a past. Well, and
Trump said it when he was first campaigning, where they said, oh,
you donated to Hillary Clinton's campaign, he said, I donated to everybody.
Yeah. Man, that's what people at that level do. Is it because
of social media or just our lack of attention that we seem to like forget
the past quicker? Now? Yeah, it is. I think it's both.
I think it's both. You argue that was a lot of years ago,
although this wasn't a lot of years ago, and I've changed my wilket
Janie Vance was a virul and anti trumpist. I mean, this guy talked
about Trump and some of the most negative ways you can for a Republican and
so we can say, hey, I looked at it. I changed my
mind. He's my kind of guy, and he's not being attacked for that.
You joined the club and that's what happened. Oh and then this one,
let's end with this. Well, it's a tough situation. I'll tell
you that. And I'm on it. My computer went down, So I'm
oh, your computer went down. OK, No, I got it.
I got it. Worst president by far. Trump blast Biden after election withdrawal.
He really got after him. Bill. He pulled out the bazukah and
just killed the dead horse. Like you said, Yeah, I mean,
why would he do that? I mean, come on, guys, why
would he do that? And you know he's done, he's finished. I
can understand going after Kamala Harris. I get that because it's political. I
can understand going after Joe Biden during the presidential run. I can understand that
all the thing. I think Trump goes way, way, way too far.
But I can understand the basis of it. Joe Biden is done.
Come on, you're still gonna make fun of the fact that he is,
he's old, he's daughtering he was unfit to be the president. You got
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the Assembly, saying if Biden is unfit to
be the president, he should resign now, which I don't know have legs
you know, no, no, it doesn't. But why would Mike Johnson
do that? Because then on the ballot it says if Kamala Harris gets it,
it says president of the United States for what she does as a living
she becomes a sitting president. Wouldn't you want Biden to stay in until election
day or until next January twentieth, or I don't want her to see how
potentially bad she would do now? But there's not enough. But there's not
enough time for her to do anything bad or good other than maintain Joe Biden's
position socially, which she does and politically, which she does. Those two
were in lockstep. The batter good even matter anymore? Is it just optics?
When people talk and how they react on social media? Well, bad
or good has never in the last several decades mattered. So yes, it
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