WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.000 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.320 am six forty. 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:15.240 Of course, Putin is freely elected, and strangely people that 4 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:17.679 run against them tend to be dead. They end up 5 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:19.879 not to show up, like Sadam Hussein. 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:23.039 He ran for the president of Iraq. 7 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:26.280 Over and over and over again, sometimes winning one hundred 8 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:30.000 and five percent of the vote, sometimes winning more than that. 9 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.679 And god forbid if you didn't vote those were elected. 10 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:39.560 And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's 11 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:40.759 Bill Handle. 12 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:46.520 And good morning everybody. Bill Handle. 13 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.240 Here it is a Friday morning of foody Friday, February 14 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:57.600 twenty one. Oh yes, as usual, we have tons and 15 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:01.560 tons of news. Let me start with a helloed one 16 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:05.920 and all will good morning, see wow, good morning. 17 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:06.719 You started with me. 18 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.280 Well, I saw you coming into the studio this morning, 19 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.879 so there you are, you know there you are can't 20 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:17.560 fight in the sky right here in the studio. 21 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.040 And as I mentioned in there. 22 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:24.879 If you were actually high, as in smoking you know, 23 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:28.840 smoking pot or maybe taking some other drug that gets 24 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.439 you to that point, it would truly be can'tfi in 25 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:31.799 the sky. 26 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.519 So see that works out. 27 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:39.560 Okay, cono, good morning, not much you know, someone has 28 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:40.959 to close the door here, because I can hear you 29 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.959 through the door. You can hear me, I can hear anybody. Oh, 30 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.040 I can hear programming through the door. I hear the music. 31 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.959 All right, someone will get it, or someone hasn't. 32 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:51.280 Muted yet, get it. 33 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.439 All right, Michelle. Michelle is here filling in for end 34 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:54.920 and is not around. 35 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:59.439 Good morning, and we've got It's a weird morning too, 36 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:02.799 with everybody here yesterday. 37 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:04.480 I'll tell you about that in a minute. Let me 38 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.080 finish saying hello to everybody. Amy, good morning, Hi Bill, 39 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:11.879 Happy Friday. Yeah, it is happy Friday. Neil, good morning, Bob. 40 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:12.319 Hey. 41 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:13.759 I can't see you on the monitor. 42 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:15.919 Well you know, move the monitor. 43 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.159 Yeah, the one guy not with you there you are, 44 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:22.120 who's a big boy. 45 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.240 Oh no, but I can't see you. Why I can't 46 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:27.479 I don't know. I just can't see you. 47 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.039 I can see you, I. 48 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.599 Understand, but I can't see you. Nils in. 49 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:32.960 It? 50 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:35.039 Is it? Really? That's well? 51 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.000 Say yeah, I just Niels in the other room. I mean, 52 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.280 because everybody is everybody all over there. 53 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:41.039 All over the. 54 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:46.960 Yeah, all right, there you go. And Michelle's coming in 55 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.080 here trying to figure out all right, Uh, yesterday, I 56 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.400 took some pictures, took some photos. 57 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:53.159 There's Neil. 58 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.199 And what ended up happening is I went to my 59 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.639 daughter Pamela's house and as I told you, I bought 60 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:01.240 those steaks that. 61 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.319 Cost more money than you could ever imagine. 62 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:08.000 So we grilled last night and it was I had 63 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:13.080 gone back to Costco. Of course I did twice thrice 64 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:17.280 weekly tripped to Costco and I bought the major food 65 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:20.759 again those steaks which were spectacular. 66 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.879 And I thick cuts there tenderloind Oh. 67 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.080 Man, I mean just beautiful. These were prime. 68 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:32.240 These were prime steaks and it was ah, they were unbelievable, 69 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.680 and so I used the they have a probe. She 70 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.159 has a tragger grill, which Neil and I talked about 71 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:39.960 and it's a smoking grill, but you can also use 72 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.360 it just to grill and it is oh man, those. 73 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:44.479 That the meats were good. 74 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.879 So with then I now have a sandwich in front 75 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.919 of me on a schiott Role that I also get 76 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:56.840 from Costco and made a garlic mayonnaise a year. 77 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:58.879 Yeah, yeah, hey, I was getting there. 78 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:02.159 But I'll tell you the there's there's a method to 79 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.520 this madness. There is an ongoing conversation here, and that 80 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:09.039 is uh, this garlic man is so garlicky that it 81 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:10.879 is already smelling up the entire studio. 82 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:12.800 I can smell it from here, even though the door 83 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:13.280 was closed. 84 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.680 There was something you could take. 85 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.480 I don't have I don't havelms with I don't have 86 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:19.399 zelmans with me. 87 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:22.519 It's in the car. Seriously, seriously. 88 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.199 And he was and he was going like go and 89 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:30.079 hate Conny, almost like he needs a fix. 90 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:34.680 Usually I could be in a sauna, a steam room, naked, 91 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.879 and I'll come up with a packet of zelmans. I 92 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.160 can't tell you where it comes from, but it'll still 93 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:41.759 have a packet of zelments with me. 94 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.839 Well, good old prison wallet comes out in the pinch. 95 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.959 I literally, you know the old saying spectacles, testicles, wallet, 96 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:51.839 and watch, you know, making sure you have all your 97 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:55.279 stuff on you when you leave the house. Spectacles, test 98 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:59.839 grab Well I got spectacles, testicles, wallet, watch, and zelman's. 99 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:01.319 I can't believe I leave the house. 100 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:04.360 Can't believe I left my zelmens in because I'm usually 101 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:05.560 religious about the zelmons. 102 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:05.800 Here. 103 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.600 All right, let's do it today. We have ass handle 104 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:13.120 anything at eight thirty, which we always do a little 105 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.360 modified Foody Friday with Neil eight twenty. So we only 106 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.079 have one segment with Neil this morning for Foody Friday, 107 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.120 but everything else as usual continues on. 108 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:24.120 So let's do it, guys. 109 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.879 It's time for Handle on the News with Neil and 110 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.120 Amy and me ConA. 111 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.480 Did I say good morning to you? 112 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:34.839 No? 113 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.240 Okay, good morning? See this time I remember you? 114 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:37.560 Yeah? 115 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:39.920 Did you were a second? 116 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:40.319 Okay? 117 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:44.279 Hold on all right, Cono and Amy and and like you, 118 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.839 Michelle is here and Neil. I'm counting on my fingers. 119 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.199 I am counting. It's now a finger count with everybody. 120 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:54.480 It's reached that way. 121 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.839 Let's do it, guys. Late story. 122 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:04.959 As I recounted yesterday, and this is still the big news. 123 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:07.079 One out of four bodies. 124 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.439 Well, this is another bit of news because the four 125 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:16.759 bodies were handed to the Israelis from the from Hamas. 126 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.360 And it was part of the negotiations. 127 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:22.879 Eleven hundred prisoners or several hundred prisoners that Israel has Palestinians, 128 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.240 most of which were being held without being charged. 129 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:27.040 Because they do that. 130 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.279 Israeli usually takes young men who throw stones against Israeli 131 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:36.360 soldiers and arrests them or even suspected young men. 132 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.079 Well, they're not suspected young men. They generally are young men, but. 133 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.759 They detain them, usually without charges or in many cases 134 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:47.560 without charges. Those were for the most part released, and 135 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:51.240 a few who were convicted of terrorist. 136 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:51.759 Acts were released. 137 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:57.680 For four bodies, for four bodies so families could have closure. 138 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:03.000 So it was a mother, two young sons among the 139 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:07.360 three of the four bodies, and it was not the 140 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:10.279 mom's body. Because they do forensic testing. I don't even 141 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:15.759 know how decomposed those bodies were. No one is saying, 142 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:21.319 but they have been in Gaza for five hundred days 143 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:25.240 and there ain't much electricity going on in Gaza these days, 144 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:28.199 so I don't know how many morgues refrigerated units the 145 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.879 whole bodies are up there. And my guess is Hamas 146 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:33.759 would rather refrigerate their own food than refrigerated bodies of 147 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:38.639 quote enemies like a toddler, a nine month old and 148 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:43.160 a four an infant and a four year old. And 149 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.399 so one of the bodies purported to be the mom 150 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:52.839 of the Bebas family, Shiri beebis it's not her, it's 151 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.600 not her, it's someone. 152 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.439 Else, and it's not another hostage. 153 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:02.199 Yeah, it doesn't seem to be so, and of course Israel, well, 154 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:06.480 Hamas is saying that they were killed in an Israeli airstrike. See, 155 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:10.319 no hostage is ever assassinated. It's an Israeli air strike. 156 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:14.319 Camas or Israel says they were just killed. They were 157 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:17.519 straight out assassinated. I would think it'd be fairly easy 158 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:17.959 to tell. 159 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:21.399 Yeah, wouldn't one shrapnel and one. 160 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:25.160 Yeah, you would think so. Or concussive wounds. I don't know. 161 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:29.240 And Israel is not talking, and Hamas certainly isn't talking. 162 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:34.480 And keep in mind there was no firefight between Hamas 163 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:38.360 doesn't have an army because Israel went in and no 164 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:41.960 one fought Israel because they went in arbitrarily and decided 165 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:47.200 to shoot up Gaza and kill civilians. Kamas only talks 166 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.519 about the forty eight thousand Palestinians, of which the majority, 167 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.639 by the way, are civilians, there's no question about it. 168 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.679 But the other third, who are militants, well, they're really 169 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.759 not militants. It is simply Israel is massacre people without 170 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.320 a fight. Now, on the other hand, if you look 171 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:06.600 at the release of these hostages, they're all done on 172 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:10.840 this stage that was built by Hamas, surrounded by the 173 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:17.519 militants and new uniforms by the hundreds and signs behind. 174 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.759 It's almost like a campaign, a political campaign up on 175 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:24.840 the stage and big signs behind. 176 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:25.399 Vulgar. 177 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.399 It is a greatly crass And now are they trying 178 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:29.720 to reprovoke? 179 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.559 Well, if they are, and they're succeeding, they're succeeding beautifully. 180 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:38.759 And at the same time, Amy, let's go ahead to 181 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:40.320 the next story before we take a break. 182 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.000 Buses have been bombed in central Israel. 183 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:47.120 Several buses exploded yesterday. 184 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.159 It's luckily it was supposed to happen during rush hour, 185 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:55.000 but luckily the buses were not. They were parked at 186 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.200 the time, and no one was hurt. The initial assessment 187 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.440 from the security establishment is that the plan for the 188 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.559 attack came from Iran and was carried out by Hamas 189 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:05.519 in the West Bank. 190 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.120 Yeah, and the reason no one was hurt is not 191 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:09.639 because this was a warning. 192 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:13.879 It's because someone who put the bombs on those buses 193 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.840 simply blew it. Well, didn't blow it. That's the whole 194 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.279 point is the bombs didn't go off. They did go off, 195 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.879 but after someone spotted one of the bombs, the bus 196 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:26.919 driver immediately took everybody out of the bus. They called 197 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.360 the bomb squad, and before the bomb squad could show up, 198 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:32.879 they exploded and. 199 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:36.279 None of them, none of them caused any casualties. 200 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:44.360 I think this also may exacerbate the warlike thinking of Israel. 201 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.279 Yeah, what is it? Arms is just poking the bear. 202 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.399 And by the way, when you poke the bear and 203 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.440 it's already eaten all of your family and you're the 204 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.759 only ones surviving, at what point do you simply give 205 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:02.240 it up and go, Okay, I'm done poking the bear. Hey, cono, 206 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.799 do you have the promo that we recorded yesterday? But 207 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.279 any chance, just I want to give a quicker introduction. 208 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.960 Do you have it? I can get it really quick. Yeah, 209 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:12.799 get it really quick. 210 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:17.480 So here is a new policy here at KFI, and 211 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.559 that is we are to record, and you're hearing it 212 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.320 a promo saying this is what we're going to be 213 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:29.919 doing today and tomorrow. And so I was asked to 214 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.399 read the promo and decide what we're going to talk 215 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:34.559 about today and tomorrow. 216 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:39.240 I couldn't really decide which topic. 217 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.799 It's hard for us to find out or to decide 218 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:43.000 the day before what topic. 219 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:47.279 So here here's the promo that we're running on. 220 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.080 The next bill Handle show, We'll be talking about topic 221 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:53.000 teas that's coming up at specific time you intend to 222 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.360 discuss it, don't know when tomorrow and the next bill 223 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.320 Handle show. Pause, and that's coming up at specific time 224 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:00.639 you intend to discuss it today and the next bill 225 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:04.200 Handle show. Now I'm confused because if I'm recording today 226 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:07.960 and it runs tomorrow, does that mean tomorrow was yesterday? 227 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:12.480 And should I have put that in there? That's Tony 228 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:17.639 Award winning really, thank you very much, and that's what 229 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:19.039 we're gonna run. Now. 230 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.080 The other promos I think are legitimate. You have Which 231 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:24.480 promo are you supposed to run today? 232 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:25.080 This one? 233 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.919 Or are you doing Dari and Shannon? Also the promo? 234 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.000 What do you mean that you can tell what it 235 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:32.799 would actually? It should sound like. 236 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.000 Oh, I mean they run throughout the day. Okay, you'll 237 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:36.639 hear one. 238 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.480 Okay, fair enough, so I'll get to it at some point. 239 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:44.120 All right, back we go, more Handle on the news, Amy, 240 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:44.919 Neil and me. 241 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.679 Well, you are going to listen to someone actually lose 242 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:50.360 faith in their mayor right now? 243 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:51.360 Man? 244 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.759 Oh man, you know I gave Bass the benefit of 245 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.559 the doubt, but now I am completely off that train 246 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:00.919 LA Time reports. You know, obviously, since the Palisades fire, 247 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:06.440 Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced repeated questions about why 248 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.399 she left for Ghana, even when she told us she 249 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:16.440 wasn't going to Well, now she's blaming it on She's 250 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:19.879 blaming it on someone else. She's blaming it on Crowley, 251 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.960 the fire chief. Fire Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley, 252 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.360 who had said on live TV that she had been 253 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:31.120 failed in her department, been failed by not being provided 254 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:35.159 with more funding and rest and resources a shot at Bass. 255 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.840 Now Bass is complimenting that, saying, you know, they didn't. 256 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.519 She didn't tell me, yes, tell me. 257 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:46.440 The story gets a little deeper than that, because here 258 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:51.320 is what Karen Bass's position was. Number One, she goes 259 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.679 to Ghana, even though during her campaign she promised she 260 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.960 would not leave the city. Number Two, I saw, like 261 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:02.639 Joe Biden, here she's in Ghana, no joke. She is 262 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:06.279 in Ghana and comes back and when asked repeatedly, as 263 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.320 you said, Neil, you were in Ghana, why were you 264 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.679 there during during this horrible situation, she said, I don't 265 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:17.080 want to talk about that. I want to be focused 266 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:21.240 on helping Los Angeles and bringing it back and restructuring it. 267 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.240 Why were you in Ghana. I don't want to concentrate 268 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.759 on that. That is not my focus. It's rebuilding La 269 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:33.679 the first thing she says when she does come back 270 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.960 or now, because remember, she doesn't want to talk about 271 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.879 it other than other than focusing on rebuilding, She says, 272 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:40.080 Crowley's fault. 273 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:43.480 Yeah, Crowley did not tell me because she should. 274 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.879 Crowley should have told me that there was this kind 275 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:47.519 of a risk, and she didn't tell me. 276 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.480 On January second, the National Weather Service warned on its 277 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:56.960 X feed of potential for extreme fire weather conditions beginning 278 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:01.080 January seventh. The agency's forecast esque on January third to 279 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:06.879 major risk take action critical fire conditions. Next day, Bess 280 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.120 left for Ghana. How could she not know, Anne. 281 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.519 Because she didn't know, because Crowley has to call her 282 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:13.080 and tell her. 283 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:14.600 That's the only way she could. 284 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:18.679 Know, and she even mayor I'm assuming it's her doing 285 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:23.480 this if not some lackey. She wrote on the sixth, 286 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:27.440 on her own ex there is an expected destructive and 287 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:32.720 potentially life threatening windstorm starting Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning. 288 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.759 So if she could text that life threatening and not 289 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:40.399 be here, she just completely lost me and is a 290 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:45.440 hack for going after her fire chief or who, for 291 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:49.279 altontents and purposes, seems incredibly dedicated. 292 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.120 A firefighter. So that's just crap. 293 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:55.480 You can tell me how long Crowley is going to last, 294 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.600 because when asked by a reporter, did you fail the 295 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:04.600 city u LAFD, Crowley said, yeah, we failed. Now you 296 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.000 watch Karen Bass come back and say she admitted she failed. 297 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:08.840 I'm going to fire her. 298 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.480 We'll see how long she lasts. We will see how 299 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:12.480 long Crowley lasts. 300 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.960 Moving on time to take a closer look. 301 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:22.120 US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was in town, went to 302 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.480 Union Station to make an announcement about California's high speed 303 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.200 rail project and said, we're going to look at whether 304 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.320 the California High Speed Rail Authority is actually complied with 305 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:36.519 agreements they've signed with the federal government and went on 306 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.080 to say we can't just say we're going to give 307 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:40.639 money and then not hold states accountable to how the 308 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:44.320 money was spent. And then he went on to say 309 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.919 this project's been going on since two thousand and eight, 310 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:52.120 was when voters first approved bond money. The project was 311 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.360 supposed to cost a total of thirty three billion. Now 312 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.399 those estimates are way up over one hundred billion dollars. 313 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.399 The first section of has not been completed. It was 314 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:03.679 supposed to be done by twenty twenty. Now they're saying 315 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:06.880 maybe twenty thirty three for them are said to Bakersfield 316 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.279 part of the line, and he said, with no end 317 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:10.799 in sight, we got to take a look at. 318 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:14.279 This, and now how many people commute from her said 319 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:19.880 to Bakersfield two exactly. Now, those people that are involved 320 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:23.319 in the as their sheephurders is what they are because 321 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:25.599 that's where all the sheep are up in that part 322 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:29.079 of the world or part of California. And so when 323 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:33.000 this finally ends up right now, it's slated to be 324 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.640 over one hundred billion dollars. I just can't wait for 325 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.599 this to happen. It's that we're never going to have 326 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:44.000 this working. And and if we ever do, what do 327 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:47.920 you think is going to cost La to San Francisco. 328 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.640 Oh, and it's not even gonna be high speed because 329 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:53.599 the amount of stopped right, the stops. 330 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.759 And the rails, they're not going to have part. 331 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:56.839 Of it high speed. 332 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:59.000 Well, yeah, it'll be a high speed for one hundred 333 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.759 miles and then then it's fifty miles has to slow down. 334 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:06.279 It's you know how they name cars and name they 335 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.599 name locomotives. You know they have the name the Golden 336 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:12.160 Zephyr and all that number one will be boone and 337 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:13.799 then the second. 338 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:17.720 Okay, pat boondoggle. 339 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:22.960 Yeah pretty much alrighty, so it has the bloom fallen 340 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:23.839 off the rose. 341 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:24.640 What's going on? 342 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:28.119 Senate Republicans took a major step to advance President Donald 343 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:33.440 Trump's sweeping agenda this morning, voting to adopt a budget 344 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:38.039 blueprint that sets up a major clash with House Republicans 345 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.400 who have put forward a competing plan. So Trump has 346 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:48.000 endorsed the competing plan from the House Republicans that's more expansive, 347 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:53.000 but that apparently didn't stop the Senate Republicans from forging ahead. 348 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.920 Well, no, it's the Senate Republicans, even though they are 349 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.720 in lockstep with the president. Look at all the nominees 350 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.599 have been confirmed, even the crazy ones. 351 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.160 So I mean Trump still controls. But how is this 352 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:09.519 lockstep if they're opposing? 353 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:14.319 Oh, the only thing they're opposing is one major bill 354 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:19.480 encompassing everything that Trump wants to do. That's what he wants, 355 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:23.799 and that's what the House Republicans want. The Senator is saying, oh, 356 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.839 we still agree with everything he does, but we want 357 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:28.720 to do it step by step. We want to look 358 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:36.480 at individual bills. It's effectively lemmings walking towards the cliff, 359 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.160 some jumping off immediately and other stopping for a restroom 360 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:43.359 break and then going back and then jumping over the cliff. 361 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:47.119 I think that's the analogy here. That's a nice visual. Yeah, 362 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:48.880 it's actually true. 363 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:55.000 Dodgers pitcher gets his bell rung out. Yeah, La. Dodgers 364 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.559 pitcher Bobby Miller was on the mound in the third inning, 365 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:04.079 throws a ball to Chicago Cubs player Michael Bush, who 366 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.640 rips a one hundred and five and a half mile 367 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:11.160 per hour line drive, hits Miller on the temple, knocks 368 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:13.839 him to the ground. He's got a big old goose 369 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:15.839 egg on his forehead, but he was able to get 370 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.680 up walk off the field on his own. Dodgers manager 371 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.720 Dave Roberts says, the ball squared him up pretty good. 372 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:23.680 Yeah, and you think it was a problem when he 373 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:27.599 went by himself, got up and went to the dugout 374 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:30.000 thinking he was a Napoleon. 375 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:31.759 No problem there. 376 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:36.200 You know what else they did yesterday during these games, 377 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.039 the MLB games in spring training, they used robo umpire. 378 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:43.359 Yeah, we're gonna do about that. Not only I know 379 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.039 it's fascinating. I'm going to talk about that. And I 380 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.960 really know this stuff because I'm a baseball nut, aren't I? 381 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:52.640 Because I know my stuff. I've gone to two baseball 382 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:53.759 games my entire life. 383 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:58.839 I get it. When I think balls, I think handle. 384 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:01.880 There you go, Okay, let's move. 385 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:04.000 All right. If you've ever wanted to lick the backside 386 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:09.599 of Betty White, man, come on, let me finish the story. 387 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:10.799 Now you made it awkward. 388 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:15.799 March twenty Angels, the United States Postal Service is going 389 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:20.519 to be issuing the Betty White stamp, legendary TV icon 390 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:23.200 Betty White, She's gonna be honored with that stamp, and 391 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:26.240 she deserves it. Not only for you know the Golden 392 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.759 Girls Married Tyler Moore show and all of her wonderful 393 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:31.799 acting and joy she brought to us, but she is 394 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:36.160 also very compassionate and an advocate for animals. So people 395 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.559 young and old like her. Oh yeah, everybody loved her. 396 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:43.880 She died just shy of her one hundredth birthday, and there, 397 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:46.200 how could you not adore that one. No, everybody does. 398 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:49.559 And I'm looking because she took herself. She was so 399 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:53.640 self deprecating and so wonderful, and I'm looking at the pit. 400 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:55.480 It's a great picture of Betty White. First of all, she. 401 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:58.000