WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.879 You're listening to KPI AM six forty the Bill Handle 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:13.160 Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey, here's the 3 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.519 bottom line. You have to be an American citizen to vote. 4 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:18.679 I don't get it. All you have to do is 5 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.920 say you're an American citizen. That's like being stopped by 6 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:24.399 a cop for blowing through a red light. Can I 7 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.559 see your license? I have one? Can I see it? No, 8 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.039 you can't see it. You have to take my word 9 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.640 that I have a driver's license. I have never understood this. 10 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:40.880 And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's 11 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:47.079 Bill Handle and word. Good morning everybody. It is Hey, 12 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:54.560 Monday morning, August twenty six, and over the weekend, stuff happened, 13 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.159 and I gotta tell you what I did over the weekend. 14 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.920 Not that you care. But since I'm behind the my 15 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:02.439 phone and you're not, you get my story. I don't 16 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:07.760 get yours. In the meantime, Hello to everybody. Good morning, Cono. 17 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.560 Hey first again, Yeah you are first again. That's true. 18 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.359 And the reason Amy is not is I can't see Amy. 19 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.120 Working on it. Okay, fair and chills in today. Normally 20 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.439 Ann does this? Wait a minute. What It's very easy 21 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.439 to do you need somebody, I'm kind of busy doing 22 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:26.239 other stuff. 23 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.040 No. Wait, wait, wait, babies, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. 24 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:32.879 This sounds like me. This sounds like you know. I wouldn't. 25 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.319 I wouldn't do my own printing in the morning. You 26 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.400 know that, Michelle. Have you noticed that I am now 27 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:40.359 doing my own printing and I'm pretty together. 28 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:41.799 I'm actually shocked. 29 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:47.760 I understand because for twenty no, for thirty years I've 30 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.359 been on the show. Now thirty one Morning Drive is 31 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:54.319 that's scary as hell. The I always have someone set 32 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.040 me up in the morning, and now I do it 33 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.560 on my own. Very excited. And when I brought podcast 34 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:04.760 from the house. I love the commute from the house. 35 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.799 It used to be from the Persian Palace where I lived. 36 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:12.319 It was a good fifteen seventeen minute commute. These days 37 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.960 it's a ten foot commute. It's much nicer. 38 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:20.719 Morning Neil, Good morning, Willie Wolf. Happy Monday to you, buddy. 39 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.800 Thank you. And there's Amy in sort of bluish purplesh 40 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:24.759 this morning. How are you? 41 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:25.879 It's Perry Winkle. 42 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.159 Oh got it an Perry Winkle. I've always wondered what 43 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:32.000 sort of I never understood Perry winkle. I just don't 44 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:33.639 understand that, like dope. 45 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:34.599 It's one of those quictures purple. 46 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.120 Why just said that blue purple kind of thing? And 47 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.680 you just heard Michelle's voice Michelle, good morning, Michelle in 48 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:45.520 for and this morning, Michelle, producer of this show for 49 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:46.919 what's twenty six years? 50 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:51.879 Yeah, yeah, all that time she printed for you, she did, 51 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.039 and she won't even she won't even start my eyepad 52 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:54.360 for me. 53 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:56.759 And you know, I'm pretty happy that I have to 54 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:01.000 be honest with you. When Michelle left, I was reasonably happy. 55 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:05.719 And I'll tell you why. Because Michelle, I am completely 56 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:09.520 whipped across the board. I have mentioned many times is 57 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:15.120 that the jar that is firm, filled with formaldehyde and 58 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:19.280 has my balls in it is transferred from woman to 59 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.560 woman in my life, starting with Michelle in the morning, 60 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.919 and going on with my partner, going on in the afternoon, 61 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:26.919 and then swinging home at night and coming out the 62 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.800 next morning, and Michelle I would ask for a you know, Michelle, 63 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:33.800 while you're up, can you get me a cup of coffee? 64 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:37.280 She would just laugh. She wouldn't say no, she would 65 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:38.919 just look at me and start laughing. 66 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.360 I used to do it when I first started but. 67 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:44.800 Yeah, you see, I know. See that's the problem. I 68 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.800 want new people starting every six months so I can 69 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.400 get my damn so I don't have to get my coffee. 70 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.960 I think that happens naturally every six months somebody wants 71 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:55.400 to leave. 72 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.719 Yeah, and happy birthday, handle. 73 00:03:58.520 --> 00:03:59.840 Oh thank you. That was yesterday. 74 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:01.759 Yeah, that was birthday. 75 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:03.919 Yeah. I don't care about birthdays. You know, you wake 76 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.719 up in the morning, Yeah, what are you different the 77 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:09.000 day before? And I've never I've never ever been impressed 78 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:13.439 with birthday. Why is that because of the accomplishment that 79 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.120 you have for having been born, and you celebrate the 80 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:20.879 day you were born because it's such a fabulous accomplishment. 81 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.959 You know, I call your mom, I know you. 82 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.040 I know you can understand. I can understand receiving the 83 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:31.879 Nobel Prize, I got it. You celebrate that understood being born. 84 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.720 Not so much. Okay, I think that's it. I was 85 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.360 going to go through a whole review, which we don't 86 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.600 have time to do, of what I did over the 87 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.959 weekend with my daughter, Pamela Vegas. I did. I did. 88 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.360 One of my best friends is there, Neil being the 89 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:48.800 other one? 90 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:56.759 Look at me, con O, Yeah, yeah, Cono, you're not 91 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:57.480 my best friend. 92 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.480 You've been you barely make acquaintance, to be honest with you. 93 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.680 All right, guys, are you ready to do it? Handle 94 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:11.480 on the news on Monday morning, August twenty sixth, with 95 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:18.759 Neil and Amy and me lead story. Well, the fear 96 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.439 of that regional war between You've got welcome as already 97 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:31.439 that were with Israel, but Lebanon and Iran has somewhat faded. 98 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:36.199 It has calmed down, and I will explain at seven 99 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:39.680 o'clock because there's a lot of moving parts involved with this. 100 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:45.759 But over the weekend it went the other way. Israel 101 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:51.560 and Iran particularly hasblah was we're moving just balls to 102 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:54.279 the wall towards a war. And now it has calmed down, 103 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.279 and I'll explain what and how and if coming up 104 00:05:58.279 --> 00:05:59.040 at seven o'clock. 105 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:05.360 Thousands stuck at seatack. So there was a suspected cyber 106 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:10.160 attack at the Seattle Airport, actually at the port over 107 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:14.399 the weekend, which left a lot of people missing flights, 108 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:19.480 missing connections, or just big delays. And as of yesterday, 109 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.360 the Port of Seattle's website was also was still down 110 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.319 and inaccessible, and passengers are saying that at the ticketing 111 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.279 counter they're having to manually enter information and it's just 112 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:33.839 causing a huge, huge headache. 113 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:42.480 No, that's it. Are you eating already? I'm too busy 114 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:44.040 with my shortbread cookies this morning. 115 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:45.759 Shortbread cookies. 116 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:50.519 Yeah, yeah, eleven Yeah, And it's perfect with a coffee. 117 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.360 There's just something about shortbread that just works with coffee. 118 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.959 And it just works. And it's the cheapest shortbread cookies 119 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.639 out out there. Sandy's or whatever. You know, they have 120 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.560 some really expensive cookies like Pepperidge farm or you know, 121 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.439 pretty pricey cookies. Yeah, these are. 122 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.720 I just happened to learn that the highest. But no, 123 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.399 but it's pretty high yourself. We're just letting some news 124 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:23.680 around your Ye see, I have the power to do that. 125 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:24.319 He did. 126 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.519 God, that's God shutting. 127 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:27.839 His mic off. 128 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.560 Okay, there he is, alrighty another. 129 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:35.720 You didn't answer Hold on, wait wait, you didn't answer 130 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.399 the question about the cookies. We didn't hear what about it? 131 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.519 I didn't hear you. What is uh? What is a 132 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.480 high end cookie that you pay a lot of money 133 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.079 for in the supermarket without going to one of those cookies? 134 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:52.079 Oh, I was talking about bakery supermarket. Yeah, Pepperidge Farmers, Milanos, 135 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:53.120 pepperch farm. 136 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:58.920 Oh do you know that Costco. You can buy a 137 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:03.199 big boss of the dark chocolate Mulano cookies. Yep, and 138 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:05.839 those two packs and I mean just like a palette 139 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:10.519 full of it for the best price out there. Okay, 140 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:11.639 let's go back to the news. 141 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:14.000 I thought that was the news. 142 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:16.600 That was the news. So we still have a story 143 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:17.920 to do before we take a break. 144 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:20.399 Wherever you're buying your cookies, try not to do them 145 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.560 at the seven to eleven store because they keep getting ransacked. 146 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:27.639 Another one this weekend on Saturday, large group of these 147 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:31.480 young folks, these whipper snappers, coming in the latest in 148 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.919 a string of very similar crimes throughout Los Angeles. And 149 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.480 now you have a councilman calling for the city to 150 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:43.120 provide more police officers and other safety resources after these 151 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:47.840 thieves got away. Similar to the ones back on August ninth, 152 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:53.120 round fifty young people coming in vandalizing on Olympic Boulevard, 153 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:55.480 another seven to eleven and they come in, they ransack them, 154 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.919 they take stuff obviously in the look. 155 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.879 I have a question, Neil, maybe you can answer. This 156 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.639 is the smash and grabs that go into the North 157 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.799 Strims and other majors they grab the jewelry, they grab 158 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:12.200 those really high and purses that go in the thousands 159 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:15.720 of dollars. Have we reached the point in society where 160 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:19.279 they're doing a smash and grab for big opes? Do 161 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:20.519 you find out a problem? 162 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.360 Actually, a couple of things might be going on. I 163 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.919 think it's thrill. I think you're getting large groups of 164 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:29.840 young people at the thrill is going in there and 165 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:34.720 breaking things up. However, what people don't realize is cigarettes. 166 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.960 Cigarette packs. The boxes go for about one hundred bucks, 167 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:43.200 and they have good resale value. 168 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.519 You're talking about the cases of it, you know, not 169 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.639 the case you remember, that's the packet. Yeah, that one. 170 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:53.360 I think this happened last week where car drove through 171 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.559 that smoke shop or whatever they've been going. They've been 172 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:59.799 hitting that same smoke shop a handful of times or whatever, 173 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.840 and they're stealing cartons of cigarettes. 174 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:03.320 That makes sense, I'll buy that. 175 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:06.080 So there are things that you may not think would 176 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.840 be worth money, but are valuable on the street. 177 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:10.960 Yeah, and let's not forget the big gulps, you know, 178 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:12.200 incredibly valuable. 179 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:15.919 All right, Even parking meters aren't safe from scammers anymore. 180 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:22.320 In Redondo Beach, they've discovered that fake QR codes had 181 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.480 been slapped on parking meters. It was affecting about one 182 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.600 hundred and fifty of them around this city. And so 183 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:30.879 basically what they would do is they get these stickers 184 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.320 with a QR code and say here, scan the QR 185 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:38.320 code to pay for your parking. Problem is, that's not 186 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:42.639 how you pay for parking in Redondo Beach. And officials said, 187 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:44.519 you've got to be really careful because it would take 188 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:49.000 you to a website that read poi by phone, poy 189 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:53.399 by phone dot online instead of pay by phone dot com, 190 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:55.639 which is the real official website. 191 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.919 I would think this works on Hawaii well, far more 192 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:05.080 than inside California. Boy, POI POI? Yeah? Do you ever 193 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.879 eaton pois? Don't? They never? 194 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:13.320 They never use those QR qudes. By the way, they 195 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:14.080 have an app. 196 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:18.519 Yes, there's two approved ways to pay for parking in 197 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:20.919 Redondo Beach in their apps websites. 198 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.960 All Right, the largest proposed grocery store merger in US 199 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:28.320 history is going to court. 200 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:28.559 Now. 201 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.840 You've got, as we've talked about on the show before, 202 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:34.320 Albertson's and Kroger wanting to merge. 203 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.480 But they got to face a very. 204 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:40.159 Skeptical US government in court first to figure out if 205 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.039 this is not an. 206 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:46.120 FTC problem, you know, it's they're saying that it would 207 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.440 be too much of the market, controlling too much of 208 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.480 the market. Right, Well, if you put Kroger and Ablerson together, 209 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:57.360 that would be thirteen percent. Walmart is at twenty two percent, 210 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.799 and the government can't do much about that. Google is 211 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:06.519 at ninety percent of the search market, but it is 212 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:11.440 a single company. So in some cases the government forces 213 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:15.200 companies to break up, like AT and T was broken 214 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:20.679 up and divisions were sold the international versus the local 215 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.759 part of AT and T and earlier on well way 216 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.919 back at antitrust, do you had standard oil that had 217 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:33.240 to be broken up? And that was of course the 218 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:37.000 Rockefellers and what else was broken up? Oh? The networks 219 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:42.120 were broken up, the networks. It was NBC that owned 220 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.919 virtually everything, and that was broken up and it's spun 221 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.759 off ABC. That's how ABC was created. 222 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.279 Wasn't the phone system as well? 223 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:53.600 Yeah? That AT and T exactly. Yeah, Yeah, that's absolutely correct. 224 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:55.879 So you know, I don't know, and they're saying no, 225 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.840 but if you're talking about thirteen percent of the market, 226 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.159 they don't want their teen percent. You know they're going 227 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:04.279 to fight it, so they're in court. Oh, by the way, 228 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:09.440 whenever in antitrust action is brought by the FTC, it's 229 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:11.879 a civil case and it has to go to court. 230 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:16.120 The court has to okay the breakup and order the breakup. 231 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.639 The Feds don't, They just filed a lawsuit. 232 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:28.960 The upside to a hurricane. Hurricane hone just passed south 233 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.360 of Hawaii on Sunday. It passed about forty five to 234 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.200 fifty miles offshore and dumped a whole lot of rain. 235 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.200 But that is good news because the National Weather Service 236 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.240 has called off its red flag warnings, saying that strong 237 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:44.320 winds could lead to wildfires on the dryer side of 238 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:44.799 the islands. 239 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:46.960 But so much rain fell, not a problem anymore. 240 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:50.080 Yeah, when you missed these things, look at the kind 241 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:54.360 of winds and that's the hurricane missing the island. When 242 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:59.960 something gets hit directly by a hurricane, it is just insanity. 243 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:05.840 Katrina and New Orleans direct hit Galveston, Texas. Back at 244 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.879 the turn of the last century, three thousand people died 245 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:12.360 wiped out Galveston, although in those days you didn't have 246 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:16.679 the warning system, so it's they dodged the bullet, which 247 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.559 is really good news, even though the flooding was just crazy. 248 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:27.320 All right, again, off again, on again, off again. Former 249 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:34.279 President Donald Trump. If you remember after the GOP presidential 250 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:38.679 when he became the GOP presidential nominee. Earlier this month, 251 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:43.039 he said that he would absolutely do a debate on 252 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.759 ABC with Vice President Kamala Harris. Now he's saying that 253 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:53.559 he might not because he watched ABC Fake News the 254 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.879 other morning and he said that they're so anti Trump 255 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.840 and had a panel of Trump haters, and it's like, 256 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:00.759 would I do this? 257 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.559 Right? So he wants to wants to go back to 258 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:09.519 only doing a debate on Fox News because Fox News 259 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:14.519 is the only unbiased platform that exists in the Donald 260 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:19.600 Trump world, and in front of a Fox audience that 261 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.559 is also important, and that is the only way he's 262 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:27.360 going to get an unbiased stage for a debate. Well, 263 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:28.039 he says. 264 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:34.759 He says on social media that Harris turned down Fox, NBC, CBS, 265 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:35.720 and even CNN. 266 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:37.360 Yeah she did. 267 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:40.519 She's only agreed to one. 268 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.639 And that was on ABC that was originally scheduled, I believe. 269 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.080 So we'll see what happens with that. And I guess 270 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:50.799 Trump is saying, if it's only ABC, then I'm not 271 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:52.200 going to do it, even though I said I was 272 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:53.559 going to do it. So it's up in the air. 273 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:55.080 In the end, is there going to be a debate 274 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.960 beyond ABC or not ABC? I don't know. But whoever 275 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.759 ever says no, I think is going to be at 276 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.080 a disadvantage is going to be regarded as a coward. 277 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:06.919 Well, then are they both at a disadvantage? 278 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.279 Yes, yes, absolutely who in the end, it's going to 279 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.000 be whoever says yes, I will appear in two or 280 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.159 three debates. Trump has already said I will appear in 281 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.320 as many three debates for debates, Harris said no, absolutely not. 282 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.039 And Harris is taking a huge chance on this. We 283 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:27.799 know what Trump is going to do. He knows what 284 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:29.799 he's going to do in the debates. It certainly worked 285 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.000 with Joe Biden. But I think there is a fear, 286 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.360 a genuine fear in the Trump camp that Kamala Harris 287 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.159 is that it's a given that she's going to do 288 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:45.159 far far better than Joe Biden is. Well, you know, 289 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.399 a dead armadillo would have done far far better than 290 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:50.759 what Joe Biden did. I'd watch that. 291 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.559 With you are the dumbest I've ever seen. 292 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:06.519 You're a faigure faking dying all right? Oh damn shortbread 293 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.000 cookies do it to you every time. 294 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:11.160 It was a heck of a hall for Harris. Vice 295 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.400 President Kamala Harris has raised five hundred and forty million 296 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.680 dollars in the month since she started her race to 297 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:22.519 be the president. Eighty two million of that came in 298 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:24.200 during the convention last week. 299 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.440 That's three to one. So we're gonna see what happens 300 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.000 on that one and one of three's one of three 301 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:36.200 things is going to happen with the race now between 302 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:40.359 Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. One, we know we're in 303 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.000 a honeymoon period, There's no question about that. That's not 304 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:47.400 unusual right after a convention, and her numbers grew fairly dramatically, 305 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.559 and she is now ahead of Donald Trump either a 306 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:55.599 little bit or a fair amount in those battleground states. 307 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.880 Nothing else matters if the honeymoon, if it flat lines 308 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.359 where it doesn't go up, doesn't go out, the goat 309 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.680 doesn't go down. During the the between now and the election, 310 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.079 it's a real fight. I mean, it is a real fight. 311 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:15.240 And you can flip a coin and if it continues 312 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:21.000 on this trend, then don Donald Trump becomes the runner up, 313 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:26.160 then he has a much bigger problem. And also the 314 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:29.400 argument is for those that are saying, well, she's starting 315 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.599 from scratch, and therefore she is not starting from scratch. 316 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:38.960 She inherited this massive democratic machine from Joe Biden, so 317 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.079 she's in pretty good shape. Her problem is number one 318 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:45.160 or politics, of course, because she's pretty left wing. Uh. 319 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:49.200 And also the country gets to know her, let's find out. 320 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:51.559 And she's not debating either, or excuse me, she's not 321 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.799 doing press conferences either, and she's getting nailed for that, 322 00:18:54.960 --> 00:19:00.240 as she should. So we'll see what happens. Lot of 323 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.039 money raised, I don't think that's ever been raised in 324 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.160 one month the most. Yeah, five hundred and forty million dollars. 325 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.680 That is a chunk of money. 326 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:13.839 How people can run for the biggest seat in the 327 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:19.039 world and not be mandated to talk to the public 328 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.799 or to debate is beyond me. I don't even know 329 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.279 why we give them an opportunity. Just says you're going 330 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:27.599 to have to do three debates. 331 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:31.880 And it's well, because who makes that determination is the candidate. 332 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:35.559 It's the candidate. It's as simple but shouldn't as well. 333 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:37.240 But who's going to make that decision. Who's going to 334 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:39.759 make that decision? You can do that law, Bill handle, 335 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:42.480 now you're gonna do that by law. There's already tons 336 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:46.559 of public pressure for Paris to do or press conference 337 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:50.799 and so, and there's tons of pressure for debates. It's 338 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:53.799 up to the candidate to debate or not. 339 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.400 Debate, and I'm saying it shouldn't. 340 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:59.279 When's the last time a candidate refused to debate. I'm 341 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:02.799 trying to remember or when that is. I don't remember. 342 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:08.720 I don't remember there has been. I don't know modern history, 343 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.759 there was no debate. I don't think Dwight Eisenhower debated. 344 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:16.720 I don't think Harry Truman debated. Certainly Kennedy and Nixon 345 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:22.440 had their famous debates. I don't think Lyndon Johnson debated. 346 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:24.759 Correct me if I'm wrong on that. But it's up 347 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.000 to the candidates, not even up to their party anymore. 348 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.839 Once the nomination hits the candidate makes all the decisions. 349 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:35.400 Then it's just a question of listening to advisors yes 350 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:35.799 or no. 351 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.960 Well, along the lines of a candidate making their own decisions. 352 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:47.599 You had Robert F. Kennedy Junior coming out, he stepped 353 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:54.119 down from his running and of course in big news 354 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:58.680 headlines and all supporting it, you have him backing Donald Trump. 355 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.480 Now the family is coming out and going, holy hell, 356 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:07.119 he is pulling his pants down. And and he went 357 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.240 to the position he Kennedy's have built. 358 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:11.559 Yeah, he went to Donald's. He went actually from what 359 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:15.000 I understand both campaigns and said, if you give me 360 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.680 an important post in the administration, maybe a cabinet post, 361 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.039 I will endorse you. I'll drop out and endorse you. 362 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:25.160 And it looks like and we don't know if it's 363 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:27.559 a quid pro quote by the way, we don't know 364 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:30.960 if Trump agrees to that, and or he gives him 365 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:35.160 a position that really has no power. So Robert Kennedy 366 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:40.559 Junior has dropped his campaign, which was basically his platform 367 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.319 is I am a whore, and he has joined the 368 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.400 Trump campaign. Let's take a break. Could kill a Perpectney. 369 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:51.680 You could sleep around, you could do anything if you're 370 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.319 a Kennedy, and they will. 371 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:53.720 Cover it up. 372 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:55.759 Except I don't know what. I don't think now anything 373 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:58.920 you partner with Trump, Well, now I don't know about 374 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.839 that anymore. I don't know if that's anymore. I don't know. 375 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.799 And also he's a conspiracy theorist. The boy his anti 376 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.920 vax position is at odds with most of America. 377 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:14.559 All Right, turns out flattery will get you everywhere. 378 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:18.839 Hr McMaster is the former national security advisor to former 379 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:19.559 President Trump. 380 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:20.880 He's got a new book coming out. 381 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.319 He said on Facination yesterday that Trump needs a competent 382 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:29.960 team around him because he is susceptible to being manipulated. 383 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:33.960 And he said people kind of know how to push 384 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:37.599 his buttons, especially buttons associated with maintaining the complete support 385 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:39.640 of his political base. 386 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:44.799 Yeah, he has the reputation of not listening to his advisors. 387 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:47.640 A matter of fact, he has said that he doesn't 388 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:52.000 particularly listen, that he in fact makes decisions, which she does. 389 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:54.920 But as I said earlier, Kamala Harris is going to 390 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:58.119 rely even if she becomes president, She's going to rely 391 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:02.920 enormously on advice and consultants and Donald Trump simply doesn't. 392 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:05.799 And we're getting more and more of that from people 393 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:10.960 that used to work for Donald Trump. Do you think 394 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:14.359 that kind of thing works handsome for him? It does, 395 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:17.599 But what happens is he makes decisions on the fly, 396 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:21.880 and some of them are very good decisions. He's given 397 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:25.559 a lot of credit for what happened in China dealing 398 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:31.160 with NATO, for example. A lot of people think, including me, 399 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.759 that him stuffing it to NATO, saying hey, we're out 400 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.000 of there unless you pay what you promise to pay, 401 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:40.720