Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2: Forty NAACP President Derek Johnson said, our mission is to
Speaker 2: advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear
Speaker 2: that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.
Speaker 3: I always thought he'd liked college football. I guess not.
Speaker 3: That's the NCAA, NCAA ANDACP. It's all the same.
Speaker 1: No, no it's not.
Speaker 3: And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Speaker 3: Bill Handle. Good morning everybody. It is now a Wednesday,
Speaker 3: home day, June eighteenth, and we're we're into another day.
Speaker 3: Let me see what's going on today got a lot
Speaker 3: different than yesterday. Yesterday we had that really neat interview
Speaker 3: with Colonel Haig, which is kind of neat. I spent
Speaker 3: all of his time, most of my time talking to
Speaker 3: his kid, fourteen year old Asher, who was bored beyond belief.
Speaker 3: He was bored stiff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just started his summer vacation and they're like, here,
Speaker 2: let's go and do talks around the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. And then they went to the Dodger game
Speaker 3: last night. Who won?
Speaker 2: Instantly, The Dodgers won eight to six, and Colonel Haig
Speaker 2: threw an absolutely perfect.
Speaker 4: First ceremonial pitch. It was it was like spot on,
Speaker 4: he did such a great.
Speaker 3: Job and did show he o, Tony? Did he play?
Speaker 4: He did? And he got hit?
Speaker 3: Who he got hit by a ball? About huh a bird?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was.
Speaker 2: It was a little uh testy apparently last night because
Speaker 2: first a Dodger pitcher hit a Padres player and then
Speaker 2: shoe Hag got hit in the leg.
Speaker 4: Like the next inning they almost went to blows.
Speaker 3: Oh god, that would have been terrific. Oh that would
Speaker 3: have great.
Speaker 4: He see the bench clearing brawls that often anymore.
Speaker 3: No, there's a good stuff, great stuff. All right. Let
Speaker 3: me say hello, Amy, good morning, Well, good morning, Bill,
Speaker 3: good morning to you. And there is the lovely Neil.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Neil Cooper. Yo, there you go, Cono, good morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 3: Will you're the button down shirt this morning, Will. Well,
Speaker 3: after an astronaut came here, this place is legit.
Speaker 1: No, it's not.
Speaker 3: Now, Why why would you say that? He's yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: the day afterwards. And Anne is not here today. Michelle
Speaker 3: is filling in for Ann. Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4: She was at the game last night.
Speaker 3: Oh that's why she's not coming in this morning.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and her birthday's coming up.
Speaker 3: So I've always wondered about people who take there. I've
Speaker 3: never taken a day off on my birthday. Then how
Speaker 3: about people who take the week off for their birthday
Speaker 3: and this celebrate their birthday week?
Speaker 5: Come on, guys, I'll people take time off because friends
Speaker 5: and family are celebrating their birthday with them. You don't
Speaker 5: take time I've never nobody celebrating your birth at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The only time I ever took off a birthday was
Speaker 3: when I received my circumcision, and I took off a
Speaker 3: few days only to heal, and that was it. It
Speaker 3: was a rough time. By the way, I just thought
Speaker 3: I mentioned that.
Speaker 1: Put a little piece of toilet paper on the.
Speaker 3: No, no they did not, but that thank you for
Speaker 3: the thought. Or we're gonna get graphic here.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, it didn't seem like it's that big,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Now it's and it used to be that the oil
Speaker 3: used to actually do the cutting, and now it's like
Speaker 3: a device, a cigar cutter thing. It really is. It
Speaker 3: looks like that, and it's really interesting that's that they
Speaker 3: call that a brisk kit. Okay, it's probably.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 5: That's actually the only joke I think you've said that
Speaker 5: I haven't heard before.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, I think we should end the show.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 3: That was lyne azure. All right, guys, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: I hate it when you have a good over, when
Speaker 3: Neil has a great line two minutes in and then
Speaker 3: it goes downhill after that.
Speaker 1: Nory.
Speaker 3: Guys, are you ready to do it? It is the Kno.
Speaker 3: Did I say good morning to you? I think I did?
Speaker 1: Know you did it?
Speaker 3: Okay, good morning, Carno. Okay, there we go. I think
Speaker 3: I got everybody here and we're ready to go. It's
Speaker 3: time for handle on the news with Amy, Neil and
Speaker 3: me lead. Sorry John and you. Well, in light of
Speaker 3: what's going on, the Trump administration has doubled down activating
Speaker 3: an additional two thousand National Guard troops to LA and
Speaker 3: the Defense Secretary Peethe hexet and this is what all
Speaker 3: of these cases are about. Directed. The activation under Title
Speaker 3: ten allows the president to call in the National Guard
Speaker 3: into federal service when the country is under invasion or
Speaker 3: rebellion to protect federal functions, personnel, property in LA or
Speaker 3: in the LA area, or any area and then the
Speaker 3: question becomes, and here's what the courts are dealing with
Speaker 3: right now. Were these protests in open rebellion of the
Speaker 3: US government or were they just protests of what's going on?
Speaker 3: Is this an invasion like the migrant invasion? An invasion
Speaker 3: pursuant to law, and the of course lawsuits have been filed,
Speaker 3: and what the president is doing is arguing or the
Speaker 3: Attorney general is arguing that the president and decides what
Speaker 3: is a rebellion or invasion, and the courts have no
Speaker 3: ability to review that. And even a Trump appointee on
Speaker 3: the Appeals Court said, wait a minute, does that mean
Speaker 3: if the president declares a rebellion in Los Angeles, he
Speaker 3: can activate troops and all the National Guard in all
Speaker 3: fifty states. And the attorney for the government said, yep,
Speaker 3: sure can. It's the government's call. So I'll give you much.
Speaker 3: I'll give you more about that at seven am. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's what a lawsuit this is. It's really interesting. And
Speaker 3: this is, as I've said, this is an administration that
Speaker 3: is pushing the boundaries of presidential power unlike any other administration,
Speaker 3: arguing that presidential power is all encompassing and in certain
Speaker 3: areas it is the president who makes the determination under
Speaker 3: all circumstances, arguing total immunity, for example, which he has before,
Speaker 3: which a court gave it to him. By the way, yep,
Speaker 3: if you remember the immunity cases, the court said, anything
Speaker 3: he does in the national scope in furtherance of his job,
Speaker 3: he is totally immune for prosecution under any circumstances. Even
Speaker 3: how about ordering the assassination of someone. The administration said,
Speaker 3: you bet he can. If it's that's not.
Speaker 1: Just for him, that would be for any president.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, well, of course, yeah, it would be. It's
Speaker 3: not just No, it doesn't say Donald Trump is the
Speaker 3: only one allowed to do that. It is the president's
Speaker 3: power and it is and based on what he says.
Speaker 3: And by the way, he's only following history. The Congress
Speaker 3: has given more and more and more power to the
Speaker 3: presidency than has ever been had before. And this is
Speaker 3: historical over the last fifty years, and the courts have
Speaker 3: upheld it. So this is not being done in a vacuum.
Speaker 2: Ahead and go out, but be good. Mayor Bass has
Speaker 2: lifted the downtown La curfew. It's been in place overnights
Speaker 2: for a week, she said yesterday afternoon, and announcing that
Speaker 2: the curfew was being canceled, that the curfew, along with
Speaker 2: ongoing crime prevention efforts, have been largely successful in protecting stores, restaurants,
Speaker 2: businesses and communities. But she says, if you don't behave
Speaker 2: she can put the curfews back in place.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, yeah, she has no credibility with me
Speaker 3: at all. I'm just not a fan too. Yeah, not
Speaker 3: a fan. Ohanelle Gibson has credibility with me.
Speaker 5: You know, this guy has crazy face twenty four to seven. Now,
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is, but he looks nuts
Speaker 5: every time.
Speaker 1: I see him. Actor and director Mel Gibson.
Speaker 5: Lamb basted California Governor Devin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen
Speaker 5: Bass on Monday. He said, you know, to all of
Speaker 5: us here in Los Angeles, we need to oust the
Speaker 5: incompetent leaders. I agree with him, but he still has
Speaker 5: crazy face, so he.
Speaker 3: Says, and by the way he said it in Latin,
Speaker 3: you know that, No, he.
Speaker 5: Can't ele Purre Karen Basreeah.
Speaker 3: I just go for those people that don't want on
Speaker 3: are for referring to He's a fundamental, fundamental Catholic who
Speaker 3: still has the mass. He has his own chirts, and
Speaker 3: he's funded where the mass is done in Latin where
Speaker 3: I mean it's really really conservative stuff, so Malibu or something,
Speaker 3: or yeah, I think it is. He's insane.
Speaker 1: I know people who have gone.
Speaker 5: But anyway, so he you know, went on that saying
Speaker 5: that the civil unrest and all of that, you can't
Speaker 5: it's hard to disagree with him on that. However, he
Speaker 5: still has crazy face.
Speaker 4: The protests so nice, they're going to do it twice.
Speaker 2: Organizers for last weekends No King's Protests say it was huge,
Speaker 2: one of the the largest mass mass demonstrations in US history,
Speaker 2: So they're going to plan another one. Transformative Justice Coalition
Speaker 2: has announced the next protests are planned for July seventeenth,
Speaker 2: why to honor civil rights activist and lawmaker John Lewis,
Speaker 2: who died on July seventeenth in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: And the administration is planning for the biggest round of
Speaker 3: target practice on July seventeenth. And there's going to be
Speaker 3: a mistake or two made, I guarantee you.
Speaker 5: You know what, the protests did work. We don't have
Speaker 5: a king, so that's pretty impressive though, Okay, do you
Speaker 5: want no more dinosaurs?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that could be successful too.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, so I'm so far, so good. Okay, this
Speaker 5: could get more ugly, more ugly, morgugally. Thousands of people
Speaker 5: were fleeing to RN today after President Donald Trump said
Speaker 5: they should leave the capital. There are some some sources
Speaker 5: saying that Trump was considering options that include joining Israel
Speaker 5: and attacking Iranian nuclear sites.
Speaker 1: That could be that could be scary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, in order to successfully attack the nukes, it's
Speaker 3: the nuclear the production of nuclear weapons are actually a
Speaker 3: production of it enriched uranium. It has to be done
Speaker 3: with American bunkerbuster bombs, that's all, and delivered by American
Speaker 3: American airplanes, either the B two B fifty two it's
Speaker 3: not going to happen, or the B two bomber and
Speaker 3: they are the only ones that can deliver those bombs
Speaker 3: thirty pounds each. And tay Ron boy, there, you talk
Speaker 3: about being between a rock and a hard place. If
Speaker 3: they cave, now.
Speaker 1: Be a rock and a hard place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go back and talk about Iran and a
Speaker 3: hard place is more likely. Just sounded good, didn't it.
Speaker 3: In the meantime. Okay, in the meantime, for extra credit,
Speaker 3: in the meantime, you've got Tehran. What choices do they have?
Speaker 3: I mean, they are they're screwed. Do they hold off
Speaker 3: and wait for the attack to come because they're frightened.
Speaker 3: If they agree to negotiations, all of a sudden, they're
Speaker 3: looked at incredibly weak and there's big forces against them.
Speaker 3: Do they go forward? Do they do what Hamas has
Speaker 3: done and simply will stay to the last person, staying
Speaker 3: alive as long as there's two guys left that can
Speaker 3: hold on to the hostages. Nobody at this point knows. Now.
Speaker 3: Iran is very careful not to screw or attack any
Speaker 3: screw with or attack any American forces in the region.
Speaker 3: They're forty thousand of them in the media Mid East
Speaker 3: and or allied forces in the region. So we'll see.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk a lot about this, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Iranian Supreme Leader responded this morning, by the way, said
Speaker 5: we will never surrender.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course not. I mean, that's why their death
Speaker 3: is not surrendering. That's true. That's true. And he and
Speaker 3: the president hasn't decide it. I mean, he can wake
Speaker 3: up tomorrow morning, this afternoon and say let's go for it.
Speaker 3: We're attacking with the Israelis and then change his mind
Speaker 3: and then bring the planes back, and then change his
Speaker 3: mind and bring you know, move the planes over there
Speaker 3: until the planes wear out.
Speaker 2: Moving on, well, moving on actually a kind of a
Speaker 2: continuation of what you were just talking about.
Speaker 4: The bunker busters.
Speaker 2: The US has them, Israel needs them, and we know
Speaker 2: that there's talk that the US is sort of rolling
Speaker 2: over getting involved. Israel needs the bunker busters, the GBU
Speaker 2: fifty sevens, which can get targets that are deep underground.
Speaker 2: And Iran's main nuclear facility is deep underground in a mountain,
Speaker 2: and Israel doesn't have the bombs.
Speaker 4: To take it out, but the US does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Israel also doesn't have the planes to carry the
Speaker 2: bombs and the US does.
Speaker 3: Now, when you say the government is pondering and deciding
Speaker 3: and mowing it over, it's not the government. It's Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: It's his call. It's that simple, although it makes sense
Speaker 3: because the government is him and he is the government. Okay,
Speaker 3: one more before we take a break. I think what
Speaker 3: a heist, Hollywood type heist. You have seven people have
Speaker 3: been charging a federal indictment. This is tied to a.
Speaker 5: One hundred million dollar Brinks truck heist at a freeway
Speaker 5: rest stop brother just north of Los Angeles, kind of
Speaker 5: near San Francisco. Really so gold Diamonds, Rubies, Emeralds, high
Speaker 5: end watches. They were being transported from a jewelry show
Speaker 5: and they were stolen in this July twenty twenty two crime.
Speaker 5: And they said the DOJ said it was the largest
Speaker 5: jewelry theft in US history.
Speaker 3: Now if I remember correctly, they there were no massive
Speaker 3: amounts of security around this truck as it was traveling down.
Speaker 3: It was sort of on its own, and the hopes
Speaker 3: that no one really knew what was there. It just
Speaker 3: looked like another truck that was stopping off a rest stop.
Speaker 1: And they followed it. They folded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they somehow knew, They somehow knew. So that
Speaker 3: was one expensive p that that driver took.
Speaker 1: Oh of rest stop.
Speaker 4: It was, Yeah, it was the one at in Labec So,
Speaker 4: just north of the grape Vine.
Speaker 3: Have I been to that. I'm trying to remember. I'ven't
Speaker 3: been that one in a million years. I have traveled
Speaker 3: the Grapevine before, but I don't remember that one. Is
Speaker 3: that a big, wonderful, fancy one.
Speaker 4: I don't know, because I always go I don't go
Speaker 4: to the rest stop there.
Speaker 2: I always go to the Starbucks or the Arby's there.
Speaker 4: Okay, go stop, go stop.
Speaker 2: The US Department of Homeland Security has told staff that
Speaker 2: it is reversing guidance that was just given last week
Speaker 2: that agents should not do immigration raids at farms, hotels,
Speaker 2: and restaurants. Now the agents are told that they must
Speaker 2: continue conducting workforce site immigration raids on agricultural businesses, hotels,
Speaker 2: and restaurants as they continue to round up illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3: All right, so they're back to that position and has changed.
Speaker 3: How unusual that's today, I think. Right. Also, it's being
Speaker 3: reported on BBC that the t talk the final day
Speaker 3: of the TikTok sell off or shut down, which tomorrow.
Speaker 3: They're saying that Trump is expanding in another ninety days.
Speaker 3: That's what BBC is saying or about to. So we'll
Speaker 3: see day. You wake up in the morning and you
Speaker 3: don't know what the hell's going on. I think he
Speaker 3: wakes up in the morning and doesn't know what the
Speaker 3: hell's going on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a bummer. The civil stuff I think
Speaker 5: needs a different solve than the criminal stuff. Everybody's behind
Speaker 5: taking care of the criminal stuff, but the civil stuff
Speaker 5: man is just causing massive amounts of havoc.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and a lot of businesses are going to
Speaker 3: go under. It's that simple, just straight out going to
Speaker 3: go under. And it won't be a pandemic either. It
Speaker 3: won't be something beyond our control. It won't be that
Speaker 3: lab in Wuhan, China, right next to the Kentucky Fried
Speaker 3: Bat store which caused the pandemic to start. So it's
Speaker 3: not easy stuff, all right. Moving on?
Speaker 1: Okay, more Ice.
Speaker 5: New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander
Speaker 5: was He's released from custody just yesterday afternoon, about four
Speaker 5: hours after he was arrested by ICE agents. This had
Speaker 5: to do with the Department of Homeland Security said that
Speaker 5: Lander was arrested for assaulting law enforcement and impeding a
Speaker 5: federal officer.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it just gets more and more entertaining. I
Speaker 3: was having a breakfast with Steve Gregory yesterday and we
Speaker 3: were talking about Padilla, Alex Padia and how they were
Speaker 3: actually with the Secret Service, who probably didn't know who
Speaker 3: he was and he did not have his identification on
Speaker 3: his lapel showing as part of the Senate and he
Speaker 3: was giving another spin to the attack on Padia handcuffing him.
Speaker 3: So there are generally two sides to virtually every story.
Speaker 3: I disagreed with it, by the way, but that's besides
Speaker 3: the point. Someone in the room had to know who
Speaker 3: the hell he was.
Speaker 2: All I can say, people, is please knock it off.
Speaker 2: More people are using generative artificial intelligence to get their
Speaker 2: news for the first time. Significant numbers of people are
Speaker 2: using chatbots to get headlines and updates. Overall, seven percent
Speaker 2: are using AI to find news, but the proportion is
Speaker 2: higher among the younger set. That's twelve percent of people
Speaker 2: under thirty five and fifteen percent of people under twenty five.
Speaker 3: I'm missing the point here, and I don't quite understand
Speaker 3: how you use AI to find news as opposed to
Speaker 3: just finding news. You go to a news source, be
Speaker 3: it on the internet, be it.
Speaker 1: You can ask Rock.
Speaker 5: A lot of people ask Rock if you can ask
Speaker 5: all kinds of AI outlets, say give me the headlines
Speaker 5: or you know what. I'm noticing more and more is
Speaker 5: it being used in you know, whether it's you know,
Speaker 5: social media or what have you. It will people will
Speaker 5: ask is this real, and it will say this seems
Speaker 5: to be matching the day in the time of this event.
Speaker 1: It's most like.
Speaker 3: So then I can understand. So you're going They're not
Speaker 3: going there. They're going for the veracity of the story,
Speaker 3: whether it's true or not.
Speaker 4: No, they're asked. They're literally going to AI and saying,
Speaker 4: what are the big stories today?
Speaker 3: I know? But why And here's my point? Why would
Speaker 3: you go to AI as opposed to what are the
Speaker 3: big stories today? For example? Well, let me do this one,
Speaker 3: Hey Siri?
Speaker 1: Uh damn this thing I.
Speaker 3: Hate, Sirien. It's hey, Siri, what are the headline stories today?
Speaker 3: Here we go, uh Trump to again extend TikTok's reprieve.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, wait for the Panthers win second straight?
Speaker 1: What Surrey is AI? You idgit?
Speaker 5: You just asked AI to tell you what the I did. Yes,
Speaker 5: that's what Surrey is right now, use AI to find
Speaker 5: out what the top stories work?
Speaker 3: Okay? All right, hey Sirih.
Speaker 1: Unless there's a mid little tiny.
Speaker 3: Never mind, Okay. I like how she does that. She
Speaker 3: has a lot of that business. Yeah, I wonder if
Speaker 3: we can get a Donald Duck answer from those people.
Speaker 3: You can get anything on anything. Right.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's another thing that I see now, is you
Speaker 5: ask AI to tell you the news but in rhyme.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's crazy rhyme and Amy, are you
Speaker 3: still the voice of ways? Is that still you?
Speaker 2: M m?
Speaker 3: It is? Do you have residuals on that? Every time
Speaker 3: I ask? You? Know?
Speaker 5: Okay, So just yesterday, a big food giant known as
Speaker 5: craft Hinds you know, catch up box, mac and cheese,
Speaker 5: all that good stuff. They said that it would remove
Speaker 5: all chemical dyes from their products by the end of
Speaker 5: twenty twenty seven. That means cool a, jello, crystal light,
Speaker 5: all kinds of stuff. So they're going to get rid
Speaker 5: of red dye number forty, blue dye number one.
Speaker 1: And they've been ahead of the game.
Speaker 5: I think it was back in twenty sixteen that they
Speaker 5: actually changed and got rid of all those things, the
Speaker 5: artificial colors in the light from their mac and cheese.
Speaker 3: A lot of people I like kool Aid. Now we're
Speaker 3: going to get cherry kool aid. It's going to be gray.
Speaker 3: You're going to get lemon lime kool aid. It's going
Speaker 3: to be gray, and it's all going to be really
Speaker 3: tasty gray kool aid as well.
Speaker 1: With your eyes, yes, ray, Yes, it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: California continues to fight all things Trump. California Senator Tom
Speaker 2: Umberg has drafted a proposal that would prohibit offering big
Speaker 2: cash incentives to turn out voters in hotly contested elections.
Speaker 2: Sound familiar, well, Elon Musk, did it? Remember he gave
Speaker 2: out those one million dollar checks to people who registered
Speaker 2: to vote? He said, California Senator Umberg said, there's a
Speaker 2: fellow named Elon Musk. The bill would close what he
Speaker 2: calls a loophole in California's election law that he is
Speaker 2: afraid Musk and other rich people will explode exploit by
Speaker 2: hosting lotteries to boost voter turnout. It's already a crime
Speaker 2: in California under federal law to offer cash in exchange
Speaker 2: for votes.
Speaker 3: Right, But that's for a vote specifically, not joining a
Speaker 3: pack that's not signing petitions, so you know exactly who
Speaker 3: you're going after. And Trump received a lot of help,
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of help from Musk in the
Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of dollars, of which Musk is now
Speaker 3: taking credit for putting Trump on the White House. And Trump,
Speaker 3: of course is saying, no, that's not true. And we
Speaker 3: all know about the Trump Musk.
Speaker 5: Fight, the US fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday
Speaker 5: that the plans to dec seven species of pengolin endangered.
Speaker 5: And this is just different penalties for those who poach
Speaker 5: and smuggle what they refer to as the world's most
Speaker 5: heavily traffic mammal.
Speaker 3: If you're not familiar, I thought they're birds. You know
Speaker 3: they can't fly.
Speaker 5: That you see penguin, Oh okay, penglin looks like a
Speaker 5: rat that had sex with a pine cone.
Speaker 3: Ah okay, got it, Now I understand. Have you've seen
Speaker 3: those things? They are really weird. They're cute too.
Speaker 5: They're strange, but they're strange delicacy in some areas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't you hail it.
Speaker 1: Believe to heal liver and skin problems and all that.
Speaker 3: Rhino horns are supposed to give you, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: make sex so much better, extends sex life, you know
Speaker 3: in Asian country's rhino horns. You ever heard of viagra
Speaker 3: or cialis that actually works and rhinoceros don't die because
Speaker 3: of that? All right, We're done, guys, KF I A. M.
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