WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:07.839 You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from kf I AM six forty KFI 2 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:14.400 hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your 3 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:29.960 morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning. This is your 4 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:33.759 wake up call for Thursday, July thirteenth. I may be King. Here's 5 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:38.159 what's ahead on wake Up Call. No deal. The Screen Actors Guild did 6 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:43.000 not reach a contract deal with Hollywood Studios. The union says it'll vote today 7 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:49.079 on whether to strike. Their contract officially ran out at midnight. Heat warnings 8 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.719 and advisories are in effect for millions of people as temperatures in the Southland hit 9 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:58.399 triple digits in some areas again today. Big Mama, the sixteen foot python 10 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.640 who's been missing in Chatsworth for more than a week, has been found and 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.439 is back at home with our owners. At six oh five, it's handle 12 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.560 on the news. Bob Biker's going to stick around as Disney CEO for a 13 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.040 couple more years. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of 14 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.359 the twenty four hour KFI newsroom. The union representing film and TV actors could 15 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:21.799 officially vote to strike as early as this morning. ABC's Jason Nathanson says the 16 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:26.200 current sag After contract expired at midnight with no new deal. At an hour 17 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.959 after midnight, sag After put out a release saying it's negotiating committee voted unanimously 18 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.680 to recommend to the national board that the union goes on strike. That vote 19 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.719 will come later this morning, but it's pretty much a done deal after the 20 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.680 group's membership voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike before contract talks even started. The 21 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:49.439 studios say they offered historic pay raises and groundbreaking AI protection and that they're disappointed 22 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.280 sag After walked away from the table. Sag After, as president, called 23 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:59.159 the offers insulting and disrespectful. Disney CEO Bob Eiger gets to keep his job 24 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.400 as Topics of the Walt Disney Company for another two years. Iger stepped down 25 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:07.920 as the CEO and chairman in twenty twenty, following fifteen years in the role. 26 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.520 He returned in November when Disney removed Bob Chapock from the position. Iger 27 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:16.439 says there's still more to do before his time at Disney is done. Go 28 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:22.439 Bob Go. A lawsuit claims Uber is responsible for leaving a rider on the 29 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.520 ninety one Freeway where he was struck and killed in the fast lane. We're 30 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:30.680 still looking into what Uber's policies and procedures are regarding this sort of situation. 31 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:35.520 Lawyer Peter Corralla says Corey Hunter and some friends responsibly took an Uber home in 32 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.639 May after hanging out, but stop so someone could throw up. Mister Hunter 33 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:42.520 had fallen asleep, so they will come up abruptly asked him to get it 34 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:45.719 out of the car, and then mysteriously Uber driver laughed. They never called 35 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:49.439 the authorities, they never reported him missing. It's a little strange that he 36 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:53.080 would just disappear in that short period of time, so we're not sure exactly 37 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:55.479 how he ended up in the fast lane. Uber could not be reached for 38 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:01.439 comment. Corbin Carson ca if I News police two women and a nine year 39 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:06.639 old girl in Racita have been sexually assaulted by the same homeless man. The 40 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.879 man is accused of breaking into several apartments in the same half hour. LAPD 41 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:14.800 Detective Joseph Hampton says the man broke into one woman's apartment, who screamed and 42 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:16.639 scared the man away. Do you suspect he was attempting to break in for 43 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:22.240 a sexual assault based on what he had done to the other three victims. 44 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.199 Yes, the guy was founded a nearby homeless camp several days after the attacks 45 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:30.879 earlier this month. Police are asking any possible additional victims to come forward. 46 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:36.159 Like Trolley k if I news, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has 47 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:42.080 voted to oppose the release of sexual predators from other counties into their county. 48 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.719 The board voted unanimously Tuesday night to prohibits sexually violent offenders from being given housing 49 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:53.240 in local neighborhoods. Board chair Don Rowe said her county is not California's dumping 50 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.520 ground for these people. A letter from the board will be sent to the 51 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:00.319 state informing them of the decision. The board had successfully apt predators from Orange 52 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:06.159 and Ventura Counties from being placed in San Bernardino County. LA County Sheriff Luna 53 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.680 says a deputy struck two women during a traffic stop last year in Palmdale. 54 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.840 The department released bodycamp footage from a traffic stop last July showing a woman sitting 55 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:17.959 on the pavement holding the baby. Deputies try over and over to convince her 56 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.240 to hand over the child for its own safety. Luna says the woman was 57 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:25.319 one of four in the car with three infants. The driver was impaired, 58 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:30.399 had a suspended license, and was driving at night without headlights. No listen, 59 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.639 you're making the bag off stars, Luna says. The woman refused to 60 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.079 hand over the baby, and at one point, the deputy punches the woman 61 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.680 in the face twice while she was still holding the child. Luna says he's 62 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.000 turning over the case to the DA's office for criminal consideration. Steve Gregory t 63 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:55.680 if I News. Mayor Bass calls the video of the deputy's actions enraging and 64 00:04:55.759 --> 00:05:00.240 disturbing. She also says subjecting a kid to the child welfare system just because 65 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.240 they didn't have a car seat is an abuse of power. The National Weather 66 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:10.480 Services several tornadoes have touched down near Chicago, one close to O'Hare International Airport. 67 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:14.240 Hundreds of flights who were disrupted yesterday and passengers had to take cover. 68 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:18.600 In the town of McCook, Mayor Terry Carr says the workday was just ending 69 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:23.480 when a tornado touched down, ripping down trees and tearing up buildings. First 70 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:26.199 time I've ever seen something like this. Nobody even knew a storm was coming. 71 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:29.920 All of a sudden, the tornado cyrus going off. The storm moved 72 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:33.079 into Michigan before passing through the state and into Canada. Early this morning, 73 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.920 President Biden has given the keynote speech at the NATO summit in Lithuania. The 74 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:43.639 Alliance created a special council to give Ukraine an equal voice on key issues related 75 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:47.800 to its security. Biden says when Russian President Putin unleashed his brutal war on 76 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:53.720 Ukraine, he was betting NATO would break. He thought our unity would shatter 77 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:59.240 at the first test team. He thought democratic leaders would be weak, but 78 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:03.439 he are wrong. NATO also promised new support and eventual membership for Ukraine, 79 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.879 but no timeline was given for membership. We're gonna be talking to ABC's Tom 80 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:12.720 Rivers at five fifty to discuss how Russia has responded to the NATO Sound Summit 81 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.639 and the decisions and declarations made during it. The Hallmark Channel's first ever Holiday 82 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.920 at Sea Christmas Cruise is setting sail in twenty twenty four. Officials say the 83 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:25.759 ship will travel from Miami to the Bahamas in November of next year, and 84 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:31.160 we'll offer caroling, cookie decorating ugly sweater contests, Reindeer and more Reindeers on 85 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.560 a ship. Interesting. Presale registration is open through July nineteenth. Bookings open 86 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:41.079 to the public at eleven am July twenty first. I'm a huge Hallmark Finn. 87 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.240 Don't know if I want to do that cruise. Coming up at twenty 88 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:48.000 we're going to talk to ABC's crime and terrorism expert Brad Garrett about how ghost 89 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:53.000 guns are becoming a more deadly problem among teens. Right now, let's say 90 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.199 good morning to Nick polyo'keine. We've got some slowing in Riverside on the ninety 91 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.519 one. First thing this morning, Stokes and making the way westbound from before 92 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.319 Las Sierra, stretches of slowing for you. Continuing beyond the fifteen through the 93 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.040 Corona areas, you make great towards the two forty one toll Road. Also 94 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:10.279 seeing a busy one forty first thing coming through Marina Valley nor it's gone side 95 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.959 of the two fifteen. From Alisandro, passing the merger of the sixties, 96 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.920 you make great toward at UCR and the Riverside interchange, and coming out of 97 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.399 the high desert on the sunp on side of the fifteen. Gonna be busy 98 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:20.079 for you through Hysparia from the merger of the three ninety five, almost as 99 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:24.000 far back as Joshua Street, and you'll see those delays. Continuing through the 100 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.720 com Pass towards the one thirty eight. It does get a little easier for 101 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:28.800 you, at least for the moment, as you make way past clay Cord 102 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:30.920 and continuing towards Kenwood and beyond of the fifteen. I rather a two fifteen 103 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.319 split in Devor got an updated something slowing you down Pound two fifteen. Your 104 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.680 cell phone keyword is kfy traffic. Can't you make way south on along the 105 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.120 fourteen getting through the Actin area not quite as busy as it usually. It's 106 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.040 just kind of nice for a change, not seeing delays for you getting out 107 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:46.600 the Palmdale A Jason area from the merge of Para Blossom Highway, but through 108 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.279 Actin starting to see a few delays here and there. It will loosen up 109 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:54.480 for you for the time being past Escanado Canyon as you make way further Sutpo 110 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.240 on the fourteen, all the way towards the five and the new Hual Pass. 111 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.879 Okay, I find the guy helps get to there faster. I'm Nick 112 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.959 folio Keeney. Thanks Nick, it's five h eight on your wake up call. 113 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.720 Let's now say good morning to ABC's Caleb Silver. Caleb the Bureau of 114 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.720 Labor Statistics says inflation is easing up a bit. Where are we at. 115 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.680 Yeah, we're three percent, almost heading down to two percent, where the 116 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:18.560 Federal Reserve would like to see inflation to be. We've got the consumer Price 117 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.839 Index report yesterday for the month of June, and this is as low as 118 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.839 we've been in several years, the slowest pace of inflation since March or twenty 119 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.000 twenty one, and it's a big relief for memory. A year ago inflation 120 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.159 was nine point one percent. We're down to three percent now, Okay, 121 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.639 So when you say that it's three percent, does that that means for the 122 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.919 year prices are up three percent or they're three percent? Like, how what's 123 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.159 the difference there? Because that's all confusing to me. No, that's right, 124 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.679 three percent year over year growth in inflation, which sounds like growth and 125 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.759 it is, but it's the slowest pace of inflation in two years. Inflation 126 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.320 has been on a rocket ship up until July of twenty twenty one last year, 127 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.039 and then the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates to bring inflation down. 128 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.000 It took a while, but we're finally down around three percent. The Fed 129 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.919 would like to be around two and a half percent. So we'll probably see 130 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.080 the Federals or of hike interest rates when it meets in about two weeks. 131 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:15.080 Okay, So even though the inflation rate is slowing, it's still going up. 132 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.440 What's still going up and what's going down and what are because there's different. 133 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.480 What's gone down a lot is gas prices. And gas prices, if 134 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:24.000 you remember last year, we're sky high, especially out where you live. 135 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.600 They're always higher out where you live in here country. Yep. That puts 136 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.759 pressure on all kinds of other products because you need gas to transport goods, 137 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.559 You need trans gas to transport farm goods, et cetera. So food prices 138 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.240 have been high. They're coming down, still a little bit high though, 139 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:43.039 up about seven percent year over year. But things and shelter, which is 140 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:48.039 rent we're talking about mostly, that's still up about seven point eight percent. 141 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.480 So food and shelter still weighing on consumers right and hurting our pocketbooks. But 142 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.000 you've seen a real declining gas prices. You've seen a real declining used car 143 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.039 and truck prices, and even transportation, especially airline tickets would seem like the 144 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.200 high price, they've actually come down in price. So we're seeing some easing 145 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.360 in some areas of the economy, but still sticky high when it comes to 146 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.320 food and rent. Okay, yeah, and you say that food prices from 147 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.080 last year are up seven percent or is that from the start of this all 148 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.360 started on fire exactly, But if you go back three years, they're up 149 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:22.000 some eighteen to twenty percent. So the pace of growth is slowing, and 150 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.279 we've seen it in some products like eggs. Remember eggs were so expensive several 151 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:30.000 months ago, not necessarily an inflation result of inflation more than avian fluid, 152 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:31.960 but egg prices are very high. Beef and pulture prices are very high. 153 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.399 Those have all come down significantly. Bread prices and grain still remain pretty elevated, 154 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.679 but basically you've seen some relief in some parts of the grocery aisle and 155 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:45.159 definitely at the gas station that's good. And the bread and grain is that 156 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:48.320 affected by what's going on in Ukraine. Yeah, that's where about ten percent 157 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.759 of the world's grain as produced, so that's definitely been impacted by that, 158 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.679 But there's also demand you see in this time of year, and some drought 159 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.440 in several parts of the country in several parts of the world, that's affecting 160 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.960 grain production in the future prices. So that's what's impacting bread and grain prices. 161 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.519 On the other hand, as I said, you've seen some relief finally 162 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.519 in some beef, poultry, and other produce prices. Okay, And then 163 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.360 I know that you mentioned that the used car prices they're coming down. They 164 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.519 were crazy high for a while and then demand was high and supply was low. 165 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.200 Yeah, definitely an impact of the pandemic, right and the supply chain 166 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.360 issues, especially microchips, which we need to produce a lot of cars. 167 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.799 But there was hot demand for new and used cars coming out of the pandemic 168 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:30.440 when we were doing some spending. That has weighed significantly, some of that 169 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.559 as prices, some of that as interest rates. The cost of finance a 170 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:35.559 new or used car is very high right now, and that's back a lot 171 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.759 of buyers away from the car market. Same things happened in the housing market, 172 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:41.799 where those interest rates, especially for the thirty year fixed mortgage, those 173 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:48.399 who've been north of six percent, that has definitely put a cold blanket all 174 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.519 over the housing market for the past year plus. Yeah, So the interest 175 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.559 rates, I was just going to ask you about where are they right now? 176 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.759 Do we have like a definitive number. Yeah, they're between five and 177 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.399 five and a quarter percent. The Federal Reserve is going to meet again in 178 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.120 about thirteen fourteen days and they're probably going to raise interest rates another quarter of 179 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:07.039 a point, but that's probably going to be it for the year, and 180 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:11.519 then we expect interest rates to come down towards the end of this year and 181 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.039 into the next two years. But right now they're going to be higher for 182 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:18.120 longer. So consumers and your listeners should expect that credit card aprs are going 183 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.559 to remain high. Thirty or fixed mortgage rates and refinancing rates are going to 184 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.159 remain high and per and new car loans are also going to remain very high. 185 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:28.480 So high interest rates for a while, but they eventually subside. Okay. 186 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.960 And when you say it's at five percent, you can't get a home 187 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.919 loan for five percent now or five and a half percent can absolutely not. 188 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.320 That's the Fed Funds rate, and all interest rates are set off the Fed 189 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:39.039 Funds. Right This is what the Federal Reserve changes when it meets on interest 190 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.240 rates, and then everything from credit cards to home loans to car loans is 191 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.159 set off of the Fed funds rate that's between five and five and a quarter 192 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.919 percent. If you have terrific credit right now, walking in to buy a 193 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.519 new car, you can maybe get financing for six point eight or seven percent. 194 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.440 That's why it's so confusing to me because when they say, oh, 195 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.639 interest rates are five and a half percent, I'm like, I have a 196 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.639 home for five and a half percent, and I was, you know, 197 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.559 that's an old one that I thought was okay, but you can't get the 198 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:07.639 loan for that, And I think it's confusing with all the numbers. So 199 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.639 thank you for clarifyings, right, But that's why a lot of people aren't 200 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:13.000 selling them home because they have low interest rates like you doing. If you're 201 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.840 going to go buy a new one, you got to get an interest right 202 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.120 north of six percent. You don't want to do that, okay, But 203 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.360 we and you mentioned we are expecting another interest rate. When might that happen? 204 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.600 Hike that comes on a July twenty first, The Fed meets in about 205 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.759 fourteen days and about six hours and not that I'm counting that. That's when 206 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:31.159 we hear from the FED again, and that's what the expectation is. One 207 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.600 quarter of a percent hike, and that's probably going to be at for the 208 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.919 year. Okay, let's hope. So all right, Caleb Silver, thank 209 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:39.720 you so much for the information and the clarification helps my little brain a lot. 210 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:45.679 Thank you. Yeah, Okay, we're gonna be talking with ABC's crime 211 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.240 and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett in just a couple of minutes. In fact, 212 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.840 we have him right now. Brad, let's get started with the FBI. 213 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:58.480 Since Director Christopher Ray was on the hot seat yesterday testifying before a congressional committee, 214 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:03.320 Republican law makers went after him. And how is that damaging not only 215 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:07.759 to the FBI, but to other law enforcement. So when you make sweeping 216 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:15.679 statements about that the FBI has been politically weaponized and are doing things at the 217 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:22.200 direction of politicians or people outside the Department of Justice, you can really create 218 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:28.679 a corrosive effect on the public's perception of the FBI and maybe the law enforcement 219 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:33.840 in general. You know, law enforcement is only as good as the public 220 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:41.279 help them. Another word, solving homicides or a national security a terrorist threat 221 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.279 situation, it's many times human intelligence or people coming forward. If they don't 222 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:54.480 think that you are legitimate or honest or trustworthy, they may not contact you 223 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:01.799 and you will miss information. So you can make basically by making sort of 224 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:09.919 these statements that are very inflammatory, and you know, we have enough inflammation 225 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.840 going on in this country anyway, it just adds to that. I'm really 226 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:20.519 concerned about it, and they're not using good choices of words, and it's 227 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.960 going to have I think, potentially a corrosive effect. And you say, 228 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.320 it's not only going to affect like the FBI, but it's also going to 229 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:35.279 trickle down to other law enforcement. We'll think about it this way that over 230 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:41.799 the last few years, through Black Lives Matters and George Floyd, the people's 231 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.919 perception or at least some people's perception of law enforcement has diminished greatly since then 232 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:54.000 continuation and I'm not suggesting that things didn't need to be addressed, because they 233 00:15:54.080 --> 00:16:02.399 did, but I think sort of globalizing ones the sort of position and maybe 234 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.919 for I'm only going to guess the you know, Republicans obviously would like to 235 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:11.159 get President Trump reelected, and so some of this may be driven by that, 236 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:18.320 but the point being, you can't you can't be I suppose this using 237 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:26.559 words inflammatory words like you know, saying that the FBI are calling school board 238 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:33.120 members, you know, terrorists. Now that goes back to investigating where school 239 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.320 boards have been threatened over decisions about books or whatever it might be, and 240 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.200 obviously the law enforcement has to investigate those. I mean, it's obviously, 241 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.720 in my view of really poor choice of words, and it sends all sorts 242 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:52.120 of signals. So that's an example, okay. But the thing about the 243 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.879 threats and that kind of stuff that there there was a lot of talk that 244 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:00.559 school that parents were acting like terrorists. So isn't it be inflammatory in both 245 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:08.839 directions? I suppose. But all I'm suggesting is that when you make statements 246 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:15.279 and you add a number of them together, which the Republicans have done and 247 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.599 they did it yesterday with Director Ray, is it sends a message. It 248 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.920 sends a message that this is a bad outfit, that they are sort of 249 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.720 rotten to the core, and you shouldn't deal with them when you shouldn't trust 250 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:33.039 them. And that's all I'm suggesting is that's a dangerous road to go down. 251 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.359 Have they made mistakes, of course, they have. They've made a 252 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:41.680 number of them in reference to the twenty twenty election that they shouldn't have pursued 253 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:47.359 to the degree they did. But that doesn't mean that the whole outfit is 254 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:52.000 bad. That's poor decision makers, decisions made by people along the way, 255 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.400 and it happens all the time, whether it's in law enforcement or some other 256 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.519 discipline. Right. So, for example, because I was watching hearings for 257 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:06.440 a while yesterday and they were talking about the part that I was watching specifically, 258 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:10.240 it was talking about the classified documents, and so they said, you 259 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.359 know, and again like you said, it's all highly politically charged, but 260 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:17.319 talking about how Trump's home and Mara Lago was raided and all lot of stuff, 261 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:21.880 and then trying to compare it to the documents that were found at now 262 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.640 President Biden's home and saying, how can you prosecute one and not the other, 263 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:30.440 you know, And they went on and on about that. So it's 264 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.720 okay to point out specific things, but taking a broad brush to the whole 265 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.559 organization is where you think that there's real problems. Well, all right, 266 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:42.319 and even calling Marilago a raid because it wasn't, I mean, he had 267 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:47.839 the Secret Service walk them in and that was only done I can tell you 268 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:53.160 because they had painstakingly try to get these documents. I mean, the former 269 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:59.519 president Trump would never have been prosecuted in this if he hadn't gone through all 270 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.920 the concern see woman and movement and so forth and so on. I mean, 271 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.160 so he created the crime. In my view. Now they're I guess 272 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:12.200 they're upset that that's being investigated, but wouldn't they want anybody investigated in the 273 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:18.400 other cases. Yes, classified documents were found with Vice President Pence, with 274 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:22.039 President Biden. They've been found a number of times with former presidents and they 275 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:27.759 just turned them over and nothing ever happened. So again, it's an important 276 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:36.880 point. Making statements without the details to back it up. All that does 277 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.559 is make people angry, and all I'm suggesting is that's never productive. Gotcha, 278 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.000 Okay, So let's let's switch gears. I want to talk to you 279 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:51.720 about the ghost guns, which are becoming an increasingly deadly problem among teenagers. 280 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:59.160 So look at it this way. In most states are many states, to 281 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:03.599 buy a hand gun, you have to be twenty one. So if an 282 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:07.880 eighteen year old seventeen year old awards a firearm, he or she cannot go 283 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:12.000 down the street to a gun dealer and buy it, but they can buy 284 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:17.200 a ghost gun online. Because ghost guns are not defined as firearms because they're 285 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:23.160 disassembled, they require some minor alterations with a drill bit to make them into 286 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:26.960 a functioning firearm. So what happens is an ATF. You use this as 287 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.839 an example of you can go down, if you're a seventeen year old, 288 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:37.279 to a convenience store, get a debit card, use the debit card to 289 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:42.720 purchase these firearm components through a ghost gun manufacture, just like you'd order a 290 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:48.720 coffee pot or whatever you might order on Amazon or any place else. It's 291 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:55.160 shifted to you. You do the minor alterations, you put it together. 292 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:57.359 The I think even giving you instructions how to do all that. You now 293 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:02.240 have a fully functional firearm that has no serial number on it. Nobody knows 294 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:04.400 you have it. In some of these cases, the parents don't even know 295 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:10.240 the kids have them because it just comes through the US mail. And so 296 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:12.880 now you have a weapon out there that nobody knows about. And they get 297 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:19.559 used in crimes, they get used in homicides, and ATF can't trace them. 298 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:23.640 They're trying to change that, but the gun rights people are fighting them. 299 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:30.240 So why are the gun rights people fighting them? I mean it seems 300 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.559 so common sense that if you're going to have a weapon to me anyway, 301 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.640 you should have it registered. Then you just will just just like yeah, 302 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.839 just like if you or I or anyone else would go down the street to 303 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:48.680 buy a weapon from a license firearm dealer or a gun store, they would 304 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.440 do a background check. We would pass it. He picked a weapon up, 305 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.279 it's registered as far as the serial number where it was purchased. ATF 306 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.720 then has a record of it. So if it's used, let's say your 307 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:03.200 weapon stolen, that used in a crime, they can trace it. These 308 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:10.480 firearms you can't trace because there's no record of them. And it also goes 309 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:15.000 to how many of them are out there, and we have no idea how 310 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.759 many you are out there? Right, No, we don't. I'll give 311 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:22.599 you one quick stat and in ATF would tell you this is big time under 312 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:29.319 reporter. Between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty one, ATF, you know, 313 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:37.359 local jurisdictions lap D l as would send firearms maybe for ATF to trace them 314 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:42.200 because they're trying to figure out where this gun came from, and those jump 315 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:47.960 by a thousand percent in those years, from like sixteen hundred to like twenty 316 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.559 thousand. And that's just they think a drop in the bucket the number of 317 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.160 them that are out there. So to think about that, think about drug 318 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:02.200 cartels, think about terrorist groups could make weapons, either get them as ghost 319 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:06.039 guns, or you can also make weapons if you have the correct three D 320 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:11.359 printer and you make the parts with the printer and then assemble it. And 321 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:15.200 it seems like the law abiding citizens we're going to go purchase a gun, 322 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:18.720 those aren't the ones we're as worried about as the ones like this where they're 323 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.720 doing it kind of behind the scenes so nobody knows they have them. I 324 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.440 mean, it seems like more the criminal element is more prone to get and 325 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:33.160 assemble and have the ghost guns. At least people right, people under eighteen, 326 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:38.960 which you may or not be criminally inclined, and obviously people have felowy 327 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:45.640 connections cannot get them. And I think there are just some people that believe, 328 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:49.559 to go to the gun rights folks that you should just be able to 329 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:56.799 purchase weapons without any record of them. So, yeah, it's a battle 330 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:02.720 that is not going to get settled anytime soon, I would imagine no doubt. 331 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:04.200 All Right, Bred Garrett, thank you so much for the time this 332 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.640 morning. Really appreciate it. Okay, So you may or may not know, 333 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:11.400 but I'm a huge Disney fan, as is our traffic guru, Nick 334 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.720 Pauli O'KINI. Good morning, Now, good morning, Amy. So Van 335 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:23.359 Eaton Galleries is presenting the Joel McGee Disney Collection. So Joel McGee is obviously 336 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:29.279 a big Disney fan, and he's been collecting Disney artifacts I guess you can 337 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:33.720 call them for like thirty five years, and now he's decided he's auctioning them 338 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:38.880 off. There are like fifteen hundred items being auctioned, and you can go 339 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:44.640 and see them before the auction in Burbank at the old bed Bath and Beyond. 340 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:48.200 That's next to the old Sears store in the Burbank Town Center. And 341 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:52.119 Nick and I went yesterday and boy did we see some cool stuff. We 342 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.319 saw some amazing things. Have a couple of my favorites were I love the 343 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:00.240 Christmas at the Disneyland Resort, and I've always loved the toy soldiers from the 344 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:07.720 Old Babies and Toyland was an old movie and so you can actually get if 345 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:14.079 you so choose to invest a good several thousand dollars in a really amazing um. 346 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:17.960 Well, actually, one of the full costumes that was in the parade 347 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:22.000 for a fantasy Christmas Fantasy Parade, and then the other one that I loved 348 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:26.440 was over in the adventure Land area was what you and I talked about would 349 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:33.039 be a great coffee table. They have an amazing imagineering the original creation for 350 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:37.759 Indiana Jones Adventure. Yeah. So it's like a mini it's a little miniature 351 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:44.119 of of what the Indiana Jones ride is and like where It's so cool because 352 00:25:44.119 --> 00:25:47.400 I saw another guy sitting there, like you could watch him kind of going 353 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:48.640 through the path. Okay, you go in there and you go through there, 354 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.880 and but it's like a little miniature and it's covered in glass. Yeah, 355 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.880 Nick and I like that'd be a cool wealfy no kidding, So we 356 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:59.319 could reimagine it. We could be imagined as ourselves. Yeah, we should 357 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:03.920 be okay at this point. And they have they have some big items, 358 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.880 like they have one of Peter Pans from Peter Pan's flight. They have one 359 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:11.759 of the flying sailing ships. And in fact, we did a little Instagram 360 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:15.160 video. You can check it out it at Amy K King on Instagram. 361 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:22.039 And then also one of the dumboum what is it ride vehicles? Right vehicles? 362 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:26.319 Yeah, yeah, and it's in like perfect condition. Meant, did 363 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.799 you go for like four or five hundred thousand dollars? Yeah, And that's 364 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:33.839 other than the only thing. I'm sorry to step on you, but the 365 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:37.480 coolest thing was for me and I think we both agreed upon this. A 366 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.000 lot of these things, just like that the flying ship from Peter Pan and 367 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.920 for the Dumbo Flying Adventure or the Dumbo Attraction. You can get on those 368 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:49.000 rides and so you know, it's really cool to be up close and personal 369 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:52.880 with them. But some of these things you can never get as close as 370 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:55.759 we were able to get to. So that was the coolest thing is to 371 00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:57.839 be able to They have a little Small World thing, and there's actually some 372 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:06.279 of the parapets, the toppers from the Small World out like facade were available, 373 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:07.480 like you can see them up close and personal, and some of the 374 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:11.279 dolls from Small World like right there. You can't touch them obviously, but 375 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.000 you can. It's close enough that you could reach out and touch them, 376 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.880 something you never get to experience even at Disneyland. Yeah, and then so 377 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:21.680 and they we're talking about like some of the big ticket items, but there's 378 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:25.079 some other stuff that's not super expensive. So if you're if you're interested in 379 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:30.240 some Disney paraphernalia, like they had some really cool like signs you mentioned Christmas. 380 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.759 They had a Christmas at Disneyland sign that's expected to go for like two 381 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:38.000 to four hundred dollars. They have like an an estimated value doesn't mean what 382 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:41.160 it's going to actually go for when it comes to the auction. And it's 383 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:45.839 got some stuff like from the Wayback Machine, what was the Adventure through Innerspace, 384 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:51.000 which was a ride from like thirty or forty years ago, and they 385 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:55.440 have little pieces of that and stuff. So they have really really interesting stuff. 386 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:56.160 And then of course they have a gift shop if you just want to 387 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.799 go buy something, which I did. I mean, let's be real, 388 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:00.920 I bought a really cool you know, I'm the traffic guy, so I 389 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:06.000 bought a traffic cone hats that they had at Disney California Venture shortly after it 390 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:08.839 opened back in two thousand and one. So yeah, pretty pretty cool. 391 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:12.519 And oh and we didn't even talk about the Haunted Mansion. They had some 392 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:17.599 really cool stuff from the Haunted Mansion. So if you are at all a 393 00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:19.480 Disney person, and you don't have to be like crazy Disney like like Nick 394 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:23.680 and I are, but really really cool stuff. And like I said, 395 00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:27.440 there's stuff that it's going to go for tens of thousands or in some instances 396 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.759 even hundreds of thousands of dollars, but there's also stuff that's going to probably 397 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.680 go for hundreds of dollars. And so if you want to have something like 398 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:38.160 maybe tune into the auction, and if you don't want to buy anything, 399 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:41.200 you could always still go. It's like a little mini museum that's up and 400 00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:47.440 again it's at the old bed Bath and Beyond, which is between the cost 401 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:52.720 Plus World Market and the Sears store in the Burbank Town Center. Yeah, 402 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:56.240 and there's a part Stretch garage yeah West Garage. Yeah. Yeah, it's 403 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.319 right off the five Freeway and that's going to be open all weekend. And 404 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:02.920 do we I don't know the hours, do you remember the Yeah, eleven 405 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.240 am until seven pm. But the biggest thing that you're you're totally missing it's 406 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:08.799 free to go do this, so like and free ninety nine just like we 407 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.799 talked about on this weekend with Nick here on KA Findering Labor with Mo Kelly. 408 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:15.519 Um. Yeah, it's the best thing because it's you're going to a 409 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.160 museum, just like Amy said, kind of in a museum adjacent experience, 410 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:21.680 but it's free to go check it out, and so it's totally worth your 411 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:25.440 time, absolutely, and then if you decide you want to try to buy 412 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:29.599 something. The auction starts on Monday, and we were talking to Joel yesterday 413 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.000 and they're gonna do like two hundred items on Monday evening. It starts at 414 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:38.240 five, and then on Tuesday and Wednesday they're going to power through like eight 415 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:44.160 hundred items each day. So there's a lot, a lot to see. 416 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.000 It's great And do you know where they're doing it online? Like you could 417 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:49.160 go to the auction, but they're also doing it online if you don't want 418 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:52.039 to go to the place and you're interested, so you can do it in 419 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.400 person at Long Beach Town Center at Burbank Town Center, but you can also 420 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.519 visit ka if I am six forty dot com forward slash Nick and the details 421 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:06.039 for how to view the auction online there are there for you as well as 422 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:10.039 if you wanted to register to become a bidder and do virtual bidding from home 423 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:11.480 and be able to check out the live stream. You can get all those 424 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:17.160 details there perfect. And you know that website that Nick has is what's the 425 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:21.440 KFI website, but it's Nick's page has all kinds of interesting stuff. He 426 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:26.240 does this weekend with Nick with mo while that'll happen tomorrow evening at eight o'clock. 427 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:29.200 And if you want to know what's going on around the South Line, 428 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:33.160 definitely go check that out. It's KFI AM six forty dot com slash Nick. 429 00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:37.559 Yeah, okay, and don't forget to go check out my Instagram. 430 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.279 There's some really fun stuff that we got to see ye a good time yesterday. 431 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.680 It was really worth it. So if you've not had plans for this 432 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:49.119 weekend, definitely go check it out, especially because the ac is pun bettah. 433 00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:52.359 All right, So there you go, Thanks Nick. Right now, 434 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:57.720 let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. So the NATO summit is wrapped 435 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:03.359 up. NATO's moving forward with accepting Sweden into the Alliance. Finland was admitted 436 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.400 in April. They're not taking in Ukraine just yet. How was Russia taking 437 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:12.279 all of this. Yeah, we've got some reaction now from the Foreign Ministry 438 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:17.400 and Moscow very very predictably. There are a number of threads to this, 439 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:19.839 but they're saying, look, it's pretty negative news if you want to put 440 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:23.920 it in that connotation. With regards to Moscow, as the headline is, 441 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:30.359 they're congratulating the bidendministration for re entering the Cold War. We thought we put 442 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:33.599 that to bed about thirty two years ago. But Moscow says, nope, 443 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.319 it is back, it is front, it is centered once again, so 444 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:40.960 you know, we could be looking at it yet again another arms race, 445 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.720 as if there's money for that in this day and age. Other parts of 446 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:52.880 it, they criticize France for the pledge to supply long range missiles to Ukraine. 447 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.759 Moscow says, I've a lonely prolong this conflict. And with regard to 448 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:01.720 as you alluded to Finland and Sweden, um, basically Moscow's line is that 449 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.680 Russia will take early and adequate measures in response to that, ie monitoring along 450 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:12.119 for instance, in the in the case of Finland, a very very long 451 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:17.039 border. So it's something else that both sides will have to pour more depends 452 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:21.960 money into in the coming years. Okay, so you just mentioned that Russias 453 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:28.160 said that it would take early and adequate measures in response. What does that 454 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:34.319 mean, because that's a very big language. Yet it doesn't mean a heck 455 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.359 of a lot in and of itself. But they have to monitor those quote 456 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:43.599 unquote NATO countries that are now on their border. And again it's in an 457 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.920 old argument. Everybody says, this conflict began seventeen months ago. Um, 458 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:52.960 if you go back further back to the days of the Cold War and the 459 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:57.799 reunification of Germany. At that time, Gorbachev said, okay, stalking with 460 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.119 Secretary of State Baker saying, Okay, you guys can have a reunited Germany 461 00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:06.839 and it can be NATO, but don't come close to our border, just 462 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.599 like the US didn't like, if you will, Soviet assets in Cuba. 463 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:15.119 Back in those days, there were sixteen countries in the NATO Club. Now 464 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:19.880 with Finland and Sweden, you're doubling that. You're talking about thirty two thirty 465 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.640 two countries, and of course Mosto is very very mindful of that, and 466 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:28.440 they don't like it. That's interesting that you say that, because they hadn't 467 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.759 really thought about it that way like we don't get We're not happy when they're 468 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:35.599 in Cuba, and we probably wouldn't be happy if somehow or other they ended 469 00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.519 up in Mexico because they'd be closer to our borders. But yeah, we're 470 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.359 right next to Russia now with NATO, well very much. So look at 471 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:47.839 the bases, look at the maps, hundreds of bases border. So they 472 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:52.480 have reason, if you will to be to be concerned in that agreement between 473 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.519 Gorbachev and Baker Hill. For a few years it was if you will, 474 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:04.519 jumped over, starting with the Clinton administration. Since then, more countries have 475 00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.679 jumped in, and as I say, the total is out double what it 476 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:14.039 was back when the Berlin Wall fell. So you mentioned the Cold War and 477 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:17.119 that it ended like thirty two years ago, and Russia is now saying, 478 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.840 well, we're back in one. What does that mean for for us? 479 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:29.480 Well, for you, it means the tax dollars that can help your schools, 480 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.960 help your hospitals. It means the pious smaller for those kinds of things 481 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.320 building bridges or fixing bitch bridges, and more money is you know, plowed 482 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:42.760 into defense expenditures. You know, that is the way it is. That's 483 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:46.440 the stark reality. You either like it or you don't, but that's that's 484 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:50.400 the way this country is going as far as the government goes. So during 485 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:54.280 the Cold War, they there was just lots and lots of military spending. 486 00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:58.559 We were spending a lot, The USSR was spending a lot, and we 487 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:02.800 were building up our are arsenals basically but not actually firing anything and saying hey, 488 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:06.159 if you do that, you know I'm going to make more weapons, 489 00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:08.079 and I'm going to make more weapons. But there was no actual conflict. 490 00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:15.000 So that's what the Cold War is, or could potentially be again very much 491 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:20.880 though, And again there's always the issue of an accident taking place and then 492 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:25.880 the tender is struck and then you're off into a realm you don't want even 493 00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.599 consider. Yeah, but yeah, it is a dangerous, dangerous poker game. 494 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:34.119 There's a lot of people don't want to think about it in this day 495 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:37.599 and age. But if you're of a certain age, you'll remember duck can 496 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.800 cover in school? Uh that if that was going to help you. But 497 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.679 yeah, the world has certainly change and it is not a video game. 498 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:50.119 It is it is a real, real, stark reality out there, and 499 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.800 it's kind of scary when some experts come forward and say, oh, you 500 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.880 can win a nuclear war. As prudent says, nobody. Nobody wins in 501 00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:00.519 a nuclear war. So how is there any way to cool things down? 502 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.599 I mean, because it seems like we kind of are not we, but 503 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:10.559 NATO kind of non literally figured literally fired the shot across the bow by taking 504 00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:15.000 in Sweden and Finland. Yeah, well exactly, I think you know how 505 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.039 to. You could go back and say Minsk too, agreement would have solved 506 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:23.440 this. Nobody would have died and the eastern part of Ukraine would have been 507 00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:29.400 U have some self autonomy. Those are all Russian speaking people, and they 508 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:34.079 look to Moscow, they don't look to keep That could have saved a whole 509 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:38.760 lot in treasure and in blood. But again that did not happen. Eventually, 510 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:43.360 this thing will eventually go around a table. Doesn't look like there's any 511 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:46.239 talk, zero talk of that in Vilnius, and China, for one, 512 00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:50.159 says we're here, We're a big player in this day and age. We're 513 00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:54.400 willing to mediate and basically hitting a stiff arm from from NATO, from the 514 00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:58.599 US saying no, we don't want to hear that. We want to carry 515 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.639 on with more and more weapons. Each and every week, another announcement full 516 00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:06.119 in the blank X number of hundreds of millions of dollars with the weapons going 517 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:10.039 to Ukraine. Is anyone talking with Russia about ending this or are they just 518 00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:15.159 not talking right now? They're not talking. Moscow says it's it's ready to 519 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:21.079 sit down at the table tomorrow, no preconditions, and the West says, 520 00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:27.239 no, we don't want to hear that. Why, there have money to 521 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:31.119 be made. It's a big world and they'll follow the money. You think 522 00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:37.079 about what Julian Assana said about Afghanistan. The US was not looking there to 523 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:44.159 have a decisive, quick, overpowering victory. Asara says that America wanted an 524 00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:49.039 endless war. And you're looking at kind of a very similar situation right now 525 00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:53.679 developing in Ukraine. Well, that is scary in and of itself. Tom 526 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.519 Rivers, thank you so much for the time this morning and the insight you 527 00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:01.159 helped helped us understand some things today. Take care, all right, take 528 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:06.760 care hey. You know we always have all the death and destruction and devastation 529 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:08.920 in Ukraine. So I found this story that I wanted to share because I 530 00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:15.079 think it's really kind of it's a little heartbreaking but also heartwarming. During the 531 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:20.840 war and everything that's going on Ukraine, a successful heart transplant has been performed 532 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:24.599 on a six year old girl in Kiev. It was a three three hour 533 00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:29.719 operation. It happened just four days ago on Sunday evening. The girl got 534 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:34.280 the heart of a four year old boy who doctors had declared brain dead after 535 00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.559 he suffered an aneurysm. It was the first time a heart transplant has been 536 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:40.519 performed in Ukraine on children so young and unique that both the donor and the 537 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:45.239 recipient were, you know, just little kids. The Heart Institute released images 538 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:51.480 from the operation. The mother of the boy whose heart was donated was standing 539 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:57.320 by the girl's bedside, and I just think that that it's really powerful because 540 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:02.000 you know, it's a little bit of humanity and very inhumane activity that's going 541 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.440 on right now. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 542 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:09.199 I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call. Now, 543 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.960 let's you've been listening to wake up call. You know you can always listen 544 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:16.920 live on KFI a M six forty weekdays from five to six am, and 545 00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:21.159 anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,