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Speaker 2: Bill Handle Here. It is a Monday morning, June sixteenth,
Speaker 2: gonna be hot, hot outside. Summer is coming. I'm already
Speaker 2: in my summer uniform. Don't have my mandles on, so
Speaker 2: I have my sort of surgery boots. Still doing it thing.
Speaker 2: There's our training sheet. Thanks. Okay. Over the weekend, no surprise,
Speaker 2: they caught the guy who was suspected of shooting those
Speaker 2: two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in their homes. And
Speaker 2: this happened in Minnesota, as you probably know, and he
Speaker 2: was caught charged with a couple of degrees of second
Speaker 2: degree murder and attempted murder, and it was a man
Speaker 2: hunt extraordinaire almost two days, involving more than one hundred officers.
Speaker 2: And what ended up happening is he opens fire on
Speaker 2: State Senator John Hoffman and his wife in the suburb
Speaker 2: Minneapolis where they lived, and then drove ten miles to
Speaker 2: another suburb and shot Representative Melissa Hartman, who was the
Speaker 2: former speaker of the Minnesota House and her husband. Those
Speaker 2: two were killed and the first two were not. They
Speaker 2: underwent surgery, and it looks like they're going to survive.
Speaker 2: And this gets really strange. He poses a police officer
Speaker 2: to gain entry to the homes of the lawmakers, and
Speaker 2: he's dressed in a police uniform. He's wearing a mask,
Speaker 2: latex mask. He has an suv outside with the lights flashing,
Speaker 2: which you can get, which is very weird. I don't
Speaker 2: know how they sell those, but they do. And gunshots
Speaker 2: were heard. A neighbor called the police show up and
Speaker 2: he actually he's leaving the house after having killed the
Speaker 2: two inside, and he gets into a shootout the police.
Speaker 2: They see him shootout and says no one is hit
Speaker 2: at that point, and he escapes out the back and
Speaker 2: they're looking for him for two days now. And it
Speaker 2: was about nine pm local time when the cops apprehended him,
Speaker 2: and it was I don't think there was much excitement
Speaker 2: there when they took him, and he'd been out there,
Speaker 2: and I was watching some interviews, and you know, they
Speaker 2: had various police officers retired and you know, detectives that
Speaker 2: sort of thing, and saw one of them say there's
Speaker 2: gonna he's gonna get caught. I mean, there's no way
Speaker 2: around this one, you know. I'll there's so many security
Speaker 2: commerce out there. We know who it is. He's gonna
Speaker 2: he is going to ping with a credit card. Something
Speaker 2: is going to happen. Now, what makes this so strange
Speaker 2: is there's no evidence of him making previous threats to politicians.
Speaker 2: There's no manifesto. The authorities believe the shootings were deliberated,
Speaker 2: they were targeted, they were political. In one of his
Speaker 2: cars they found his car, there was a roster of
Speaker 2: dozens of names, Democratic lawmakers, people supportive of abortion rights,
Speaker 2: liberal causes, uh they and there was evidence that he
Speaker 2: may have wanted to attack one of Saturday's protests because
Speaker 2: he had found They found out no Kings flyers, and
Speaker 2: as part of their investigation, officials spoke with his wife
Speaker 2: and family members. They had no idea this was happening.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, his best friend, who he grew up
Speaker 2: and lived with part time, just he broke down and
Speaker 2: started crying. I mean, the guy started sobbing when he
Speaker 2: was interviewed. He just didn't understand at all. And to
Speaker 2: give you an idea of how strange he is, he
Speaker 2: was born again Christian. That's not strange. Sorry about that.
Speaker 2: He was a born again Christian and that was part
Speaker 2: of his and his entire philosophy and what he took
Speaker 2: on in addition to being basically crazy. He wanted to
Speaker 2: start a security firm, went to church every week, offer
Speaker 2: to help anyone complained about the Democrats, but not in
Speaker 2: the sense of threatening. The guy just was a conservative
Speaker 2: and didn't like Democrats. And he went to Africa for
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, came back and was trying to
Speaker 2: set up a security business. And when he returned, and
Speaker 2: this is the one that is so interesting, he took
Speaker 2: a job extracting eyeballs from dead bodies for organ donation. Now,
Speaker 2: as a kid, right, I don't know what you ever asked.
Speaker 2: We were asked, so, what do you want to do
Speaker 2: when you grow up? Little girls want to be ballerinas,
Speaker 2: and kids want to be cowboys and police officers and
Speaker 2: or president of the United States. I have never heard
Speaker 2: of anybody any kid asked what do you want to
Speaker 2: do when you grow up? Say I'd like to extract
Speaker 2: eyeballs at funeral homes for Oregon donations. That's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: It's just really strange. And then what he did is
Speaker 2: he sent a text message to his best friend Carlson
Speaker 2: and another friend, and this is what he said, I
Speaker 2: made some choices, and you guys don't know anything about this,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to be gone for a while, maybe
Speaker 2: dead shortly. So I just wanted to let you know
Speaker 2: I love you guys both, and I wish it hadn't
Speaker 2: gone that way. Clearly, he went completely squirrely, and the
Speaker 2: former speaker was just absolutely beloved, and the whole state,
Speaker 2: Tim Walls, the governor, just people were just we're really
Speaker 2: really upset because you have a retired speaker who was
Speaker 2: revered in the politics of that state. All right, we're
Speaker 2: done with that. Now. This is day four of the
Speaker 2: fight between Israel and Iran, and you have to call
Speaker 2: it a war, but it's only with missiles and drones
Speaker 2: at this point, no boots on the ground. There are
Speaker 2: no attacks with tanks or personnel carrier. It's strictly being
Speaker 2: done with aerial bombardment. Now, Iran doesn't have fighter planes,
Speaker 2: doesn't have bombers. What they have are drones and missiles.
Speaker 2: That's what they have. Israel has drones and missiles and
Speaker 2: also has a very robust anti missile defense system, and
Speaker 2: it's being helped by America and other allies. They have
Speaker 2: come to the aid of Israel In attempting to intercept
Speaker 2: and have done a good job of the missiles coming in.
Speaker 2: Some have gotten through because as the Israeli say, in
Speaker 2: all the military experts, nothing is one hundred percent to
Speaker 2: what Iran does. Is sends so many. The attempt is
Speaker 2: to overwhelm the defenses, and it works because you have
Speaker 2: a fair number that now are going through. But no
Speaker 2: one's coming to Iran's aid to shoot down the Israeli
Speaker 2: missiles just not happening. So what is going on, Well,
Speaker 2: this is all about what Netanyao who has said that
Speaker 2: the Iran was so close to having enough fissionable material,
Speaker 2: enough uranium that has been purified for weapons grade bombs,
Speaker 2: And it's all about purifying uranium. You need a very
Speaker 2: low level of purification to run power plants, nuclear power plants,
Speaker 2: and Iran is saying that's that's all we do. It's
Speaker 2: about nuclear power plants our own. Well, that's not true.
Speaker 2: They are creating fissionable material. They are purifying this erneum
Speaker 2: and bringing it up to weapons grade, and you need
Speaker 2: that in order to create the toomic bomb. According to
Speaker 2: Israeli intelligency, we're days away from hitting that mark and
Speaker 2: Israel has said over and over again that Iran having
Speaker 2: the bomb is basically the death knell of Israel. Iran
Speaker 2: has said that it's one of the most important things
Speaker 2: about Iran, the government, the moo laws who run it,
Speaker 2: is the destruction of Israel. That's it. That's what they want.
Speaker 2: It's that simple, and they're going balls to the wall
Speaker 2: to get the ability to do exactly that. So to Israel,
Speaker 2: it's an existential threat. And so they said over and
Speaker 2: over we cannot let Iran have the bomb. We just can't.
Speaker 2: Now what's going on with the rest of the world.
Speaker 2: A lot of lips service nailing Israel from all the
Speaker 2: Arab countries, but you noticed they're not coming to Iranian's aid.
Speaker 2: It's just not happening. Why because the Arab countries, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Speaker 2: the Emirates for the most part of Iraq, are are
Speaker 2: frightened more of Iran than they are of Israel, for sure.
Speaker 2: And so the centrifuge is the most important part of
Speaker 2: creating the weapons grade uranium is the centrifuges. And there's
Speaker 2: a little technical wonky stuff and that it's a purification
Speaker 2: process and you need a centrifuge. And you need a centrifuge,
Speaker 2: and you need a centrifuge, you need hundreds thousands of
Speaker 2: them spinning twenty four to seven in order to bring
Speaker 2: the plutonium to the uranium up to a weapons grade purity.
Speaker 2: Those can't be gotten to without the bunker busters, these
Speaker 2: massive bombs that are created to go deep into the
Speaker 2: ground and then explode with extraordinary power. Those are the
Speaker 2: only way that the centrifuges are going to be put
Speaker 2: out of commission. And Iran made it really simple, just
Speaker 2: put them deep enough underground they can't be touched. And
Speaker 2: the general consensus now is they weren't touched, and they're
Speaker 2: not being touched by the attacks that are happening right
Speaker 2: now from Israel. So and those weapons do exist, So
Speaker 2: what's going on? Why doesn't Israel have them? And two reasons.
Speaker 2: The only people in the world that have those that
Speaker 2: we think Russia may, but the only ones we know
Speaker 2: are the Americans. We're the ones that create those. And
Speaker 2: the second part of that is we're the only ones
Speaker 2: that can deliver it now sending arms to Israel, which
Speaker 2: we're doing still doing across the board, moving aircraft, munitions, personnel,
Speaker 2: carriers tanks. That is a given. They've never gotten that
Speaker 2: bunker buster bomb. Never the United States has withheld that.
Speaker 2: And the only way that those bunker busters can be
Speaker 2: introduced into the fight is not only the United States
Speaker 2: making the decision to move them over there, but the
Speaker 2: only way they can be delivered. There's two aircraft that
Speaker 2: can deliver be fifty twos, which no one really uses
Speaker 2: or I don't think they would use. And the other
Speaker 2: one is the B two stealth bomber that can deliver
Speaker 2: that bomb. And the only way that that is going
Speaker 2: to be used in Iran, the United States has to
Speaker 2: get involved. It will be the United States unleashing that bomb.
Speaker 2: And now we're talking about something that President Trump does
Speaker 2: not want to do, and that has had the United
Speaker 2: States involved in the fight. As far as supplying material
Speaker 2: to Israel, that's sort of a given because Israel is
Speaker 2: our ally, our strongest ally in that entire region and
Speaker 2: has been, and it's the only democracy, and it's something
Speaker 2: very very close. The United States was the first country
Speaker 2: to recognize Israel as a matter of fact on May fifteenth,
Speaker 2: when David Bengurion announced the creation of the State of Israel.
Speaker 2: Literally in that room that night. As he announced it,
Speaker 2: a note was handed to him in which he announced,
Speaker 2: the United States has recognized the sovereign state of Israel.
Speaker 2: That's how close Israel has been to this country. Is
Speaker 2: it going to happen? Is the bunker busters are going
Speaker 2: to happen? I don't think anytime soon, because the President
Speaker 2: is pretty adamant about not getting involved. He does not
Speaker 2: want to do that. Okay, so much for that. Moving on.
Speaker 2: Moving on, Homelessness in Los Angeles, particularly southern California, as
Speaker 2: you know, is completely crazy. I think we are the
Speaker 2: center of homelessness and the problem in the United States
Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. First of all, it's California. Second
Speaker 2: of all, the weather is pretty good. I don't know
Speaker 2: how many homeless people are for example, in Buffalo, New
Speaker 2: York during the winter, it's not very pleasant. So here
Speaker 2: we are homeless. And the program, and I've said this
Speaker 2: many times, and that is the problem is so overwhelming
Speaker 2: that it would take so much money in order to
Speaker 2: really make a dent. And so a lot of money
Speaker 2: is being thrown at this from the state and the
Speaker 2: city in the billions of dollars, and it's really not working.
Speaker 2: No surprise, there were settlements reached in the city with
Speaker 2: for example, the La Alliance for Human Rights sued on
Speaker 2: behalf of the homeless people, and by twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: there should have been twenty thousand new housing solution for
Speaker 2: homeless people and removing under ten thousand dollars encampments from
Speaker 2: the streets, and it didn't happen. Now, the judge overseeing
Speaker 2: this whenever there is a lawsuit filed, and it's a
Speaker 2: federal judge who is overseeing this and has forever. He
Speaker 2: was there walking along, for example, the Santa Anna River
Speaker 2: and walk with Todd Spitzer and looked at the encampments
Speaker 2: literally in Santa Anna along the river and ruled on that.
Speaker 2: What the judge is doing is by tomorrow, there's a
Speaker 2: hearing tomorrow in which he decides if he's going to
Speaker 2: take away the entire homeless program in the city of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles handed over to a receiver. Let's it turn
Speaker 2: it over to a person who's going to run the
Speaker 2: whole thing, where the city will have absolutely no say
Speaker 2: in dealing with the homeless problem. We'll still fund it
Speaker 2: still has to be money paid, but it just won't
Speaker 2: run it at all. So written briefs have to be
Speaker 2: filed by tomorrow. And this is a lawsuit that is
Speaker 2: brought together by a group of business owners, property owners, residents,
Speaker 2: and they're asking to appoint the receiver over the one
Speaker 2: billion dollars the city alone spends addressing homelessness every year,
Speaker 2: and so the city has to defend. So does the
Speaker 2: city bring in the city attorneys because they have handled
Speaker 2: the case five years old. City hires a Gibson Dunn,
Speaker 2: one of the premier law firms in the United States.
Speaker 2: Lawyers go for one thousand dollars an hour, I might add,
Speaker 2: if not more. And this is the firm that are
Speaker 2: you in the Supreme Court. I remember the City of
Speaker 2: Grant's past case in which Supreme Court reopened the door
Speaker 2: to arresting homeless people for illegal camping. That was illegal
Speaker 2: and that was it was. They turned it around and
Speaker 2: made it legal to do that. I think it was Oregon.
Speaker 2: Grand's passed an Oregon Yes it is. And what happened
Speaker 2: is at the previous hearing that just happened and the
Speaker 2: judge said, by Tuesday, I want final arguments. There was
Speaker 2: a seven day hearing and on day three there were
Speaker 2: four hundred and forty objections in one day that the
Speaker 2: judge overruled and said uh uh. And it has been
Speaker 2: in the hundreds over seven days of objections, and it
Speaker 2: is I mean, they have to decide some really narrow stuff.
Speaker 2: What does encampments actually mean? Ye? Is it people that
Speaker 2: have tents? Is it people that have, for example, cardboard boxes,
Speaker 2: are those encampments? Is it people that are there temporarily there?
Speaker 2: It goes on and on to decide that the minutia,
Speaker 2: and they're going into that. And if I had to guess,
Speaker 2: is the judge going to hand it over a receiver. Yes,
Speaker 2: And a receiver is going to be an independent overseer
Speaker 2: of the program, not political, just someone who has the expertise,
Speaker 2: the management expertise to do this. And Judge Carter may
Speaker 2: already have someone in mind. I'm sure he does, and
Speaker 2: will be paid a good chunk of money to do it.
Speaker 2: And we'll run the homeless program in the city of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. But you were done because the city for
Speaker 2: years and years has failed miserably in dealing with it.
Speaker 2: Even though Karen Back is talking about a huge success
Speaker 2: that she's had, no, not really, not for a billion
Speaker 2: dollars worth all right. There is obviously an accusation going
Speaker 2: on that the Border Patrol is conducting roving patrols and
Speaker 2: detaining not only illegal migrants, but people here are illegally,
Speaker 2: even US citizens. And there's a story in the LA
Speaker 2: Time about a guy named Brian Gavidia who was working
Speaker 2: on a car at a towyard in La arm Mass.
Speaker 2: Men Border patrol walk in there, actually rush him up
Speaker 2: against put him up against metalgate and demand know where
Speaker 2: he was born. He's Hispanic, and he said, I'm American, Bro,
Speaker 2: And a video was taken by a friend. The agent barked,
Speaker 2: what hospital were you born in? He goes, I don't know,
Speaker 2: dog East La Bro, I can show you I have
Speaker 2: my being real id of course, you know, using the
Speaker 2: actual you know, exploitive and this has been happening across
Speaker 2: southern California. Now I can't prove I'm a citizen. Who
Speaker 2: the hell keeps a passport or a birth certificate with them?
Speaker 2: But I know at hospital I was born. Uh? And
Speaker 2: the problem was is in Brazil. So uh, now what
Speaker 2: do I do? Well, what they're doing is stopping Hispanics
Speaker 2: to the point where contractor, I know, restaurant owners, I
Speaker 2: talked to them. I talked to businesses. Uh, they were
Speaker 2: losing half their people. They were so frightened they couldn't
Speaker 2: come in. I live in a gated community where a
Speaker 2: mile away is a dump where you have these trash
Speaker 2: trucks that and people drop off. Oh you mean a
Speaker 2: literal dump. Literal No, no, it wasn't you just being snobby?
Speaker 2: No no, no outside of my gated community. No no, no,
Speaker 2: it was a dump. No, no suburbia you jack. Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, there were and these trucks go where construction
Speaker 2: crews come and they you know, pick up trucks and
Speaker 2: big trucks to drop off stuff at the dump. So
Speaker 2: there's a major street about a quarter mile leading to
Speaker 2: that dump area about a mile maybe a mile and
Speaker 2: a half from me. The other day there were the
Speaker 2: ice trucks lined up with the you know, the lights
Speaker 2: going on and stopping people who've looked hispanic going to
Speaker 2: the dump. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with trucks, why would that be a place where
Speaker 1: you'd expect to find because they're coming from construction sites.
Speaker 2: Loading loading all this detrius from construction sites, you know,
Speaker 2: wood and extra cement detrius. That viterius that is a
Speaker 2: great word. So anyway, the Border Patrol says, no, that's
Speaker 2: absolutely not true. Department of Homeland Security, he says, Nope,
Speaker 2: that's absolutely not true. We are not stopping people, and
Speaker 2: the only ones we're arresting are criminals, and the ones
Speaker 2: that we're really getting aggressive with are those that are
Speaker 2: resisting arrest and resisting our questioning. So it's just does
Speaker 2: it just doesn't happen. In the meantime, the President had
Speaker 2: to pull back on the agriculture industry because they were
Speaker 2: just decimating that industry, picking it up the construction business, hospitality, Well, Neil,
Speaker 2: you've talked to restaurant owners. Oh yeah, how badly are
Speaker 2: they getting nailed?
Speaker 1: But it's interesting in certain in certain parts you've got
Speaker 1: I had a friend tell me that going to tie
Speaker 1: restaurants this weekend that some of them were closed because
Speaker 1: they said, we don't have the staff, the kitchen staff anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a Thai restaurant. So it that's why the whole
Speaker 1: thing about the civil side of things, should you know,
Speaker 1: that's a different subject from the criminal side of things,
Speaker 1: which are people that have been deported and then have
Speaker 1: come back, or people that have committed to God. But
Speaker 1: they're going after, they're sweeping. Originally it was for the
Speaker 1: criminals and now but they're just sweeping across the board
Speaker 1: and picking up and questioning anybody who looks hispanic. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like there's quotas though, because you earlier you
Speaker 1: were talking about how they're trying to do three thousand
Speaker 1: a day.
Speaker 2: Steve Miller, Yes, Steven Miller, that's quotas. Yep. Stephen Miller said,
Speaker 2: we want to we want three thousand arrests a day.
Speaker 1: So it's like a fishnet basically, yeah, pretty much direct.
Speaker 2: And what ended up happening is the president had to
Speaker 2: pull back. Why is that, Well, you have big players
Speaker 2: in the construction industry. We're talking about big, big players,
Speaker 2: and also in agriculture you know, CEOs, et cetera, and
Speaker 2: massive agriculture, not little tiny farms. It's big business. All
Speaker 2: came to him and said manufacturing all came to him
Speaker 2: and said, we're going to go out of business. You're
Speaker 2: killing our business. You are wiping out our companies just.
Speaker 1: Because everything has been woven into the fabric of places
Speaker 1: like Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Right, And he has come back and what he has
Speaker 2: said is he is now a hero by pulling back.
Speaker 2: It's you know, what's up is up? So anyway is
Speaker 2: that stopping? Yeah? As of right now, the policy, the
Speaker 2: policy is that when it comes to hospitality, they're not
Speaker 2: going to go in. When it comes to agriculture, they're
Speaker 2: not going to come in, when it comes to construction,
Speaker 2: the government is not going to come in and grab
Speaker 2: people just because they're Hispanic. And I want to point
Speaker 2: something out right now, Neil Savedra, it's a Hispanic name,
Speaker 2: is not a citizen.
Speaker 1: If you are listening, Ah, Bill, I had a tortilla
Speaker 1: this morning. I'm planning on having tacos later and maybe
Speaker 1: going out to Chemirillo. Okay, so I wouldn't worry about me, Bud,
Speaker 1: all right, we're coming back.
Speaker 2: I get hobby boo, I get a lot of go
Speaker 2: back where you came from. You should, I know, go
Speaker 2: back to Brazil. Would you like to see my US
Speaker 2: passport and your Brazilian passport, you trader? Yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting my Polish passport because my dad. Okay, KF,
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