WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:05.040 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:08.519 six forty and good morning everybody. Bill Handle Here. 3 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:15.960 It is a Tuesday morning, November twenty six, and Neil 4 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:20.839 is out today Tomorrow. He's back Thursday the Thanksgiving show 5 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.239 that he does every year, filling in for me if 6 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:26.960 you will, six to nine. But it's his show where 7 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.839 he answers question to call in show and give you 8 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:34.880 tips on Thanksgiving cooking and eating. So that is this Thursday, 9 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.399 and then Friday. Filling in for me is Wayne Resnik, 10 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.200 and we're all back on Monday. And on Tuesday, we're 11 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.240 all at the Anaheim White House for Catarina's Club starting 12 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.640 at five am and at six am. 13 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:48.920 The rest of the rest of us go aboard real 14 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.280 jew bagels at six. 15 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:56.640 Always very impressive, and pastries, coffee, et cetera starting at 16 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:02.679 five now. Yesterday a special council, Jack Smith, formally asked 17 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:07.599 that the criminal cases against Donald Trump be dismissed and 18 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:11.599 no surprise there so he dropped the twenty twenty election 19 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:16.920 subversion prosecution and the charges accusing Trump of mishandling classified documents, 20 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:20.799 and he stressed decisions not about the strength of his case. 21 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:26.200 He thinks Trump is still guilty, but his reasoning was 22 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.519 based on the Justice Department's long held belief the Constitution 23 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:35.079 prohibits prosecutions against sitting presidents. And by the way, even 24 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:37.400 if prosecutors had believed they could have kept the cases 25 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:41.239 on life support, which was never going to happen, the 26 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:44.480 President elect had already said he's got to fire Smith instantly, 27 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.519 and so the case is going to be dropped. Now 28 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.599 that usually that breaches the usual norms of a special 29 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:59.239 Council investigation. But then again, the current administration is following 30 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:05.239 the special norms, following procedure that the Justice Apartment has 31 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.400 the fire wall between a president and the DOJ. 32 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:10.639 Trump is blowing that wide open. 33 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.439 The Justice Apartment is simply going to be part of 34 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:15.439 the executive branch. 35 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:17.560 That's it. He'll be telling it what to do. 36 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.599 There will be no separation, there will be absolutely no 37 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:22.840 firewall there. 38 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:24.520 So how did this happen? 39 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.800 Well, Trump's lawyers, who are very good, and clearly he 40 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:34.039 has the money to pay Trump's lawyers. The straw that 41 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.400 broke the Cammell's back was the slow walking courts. The 42 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:41.719 legal arguments, some of them are ridiculous by Trump's lawyers, 43 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:45.759 but still had to be heard and all of that. 44 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:47.639 It was delay that did it. 45 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.639 And the Supreme Court ruling in Trump's favor about immunity 46 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.719 for a sitting president if what he does is quote 47 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:58.039 as in a national as a national act by a 48 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:04.000 president president, and then we also have you what normally happens, 49 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.319 though it doesn't happen during a presidency. 50 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.599 Trump has said outright he is going to investigate. 51 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.560 Everybody who voted against him, who went as his prosecution, 52 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.080 straight out investigate. He said he will arrest those people 53 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:22.479 and he will put them in jail. And usually sitting 54 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:28.080 presidents don't say that. It's a very strange way of 55 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:34.240 doing it. And so the federal judge in Florida who 56 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.560 dismissed a lot of these federal cases is a woman 57 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.159 who's a Trump appointee. And I want to make something 58 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:46.280 very clear, is that he got this federal judge because 59 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:47.479 he pushed for it. 60 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:49.919 And the judiciary allowed him to have it. That's not 61 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:50.639 the way it works. 62 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.280 How it works is there is a rotating panel and 63 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.960 it is by luck you get a judge or you 64 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.240 don't get a judge. And in federal court, depending on 65 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:03.919 who the judge, is you're gonna get nailed if you're 66 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:05.759 gonna have a hanging judge, or you're gonna have. 67 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:06.919 A liberal judge. 68 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:12.520 Glorian for example, got the one judge that actually was 69 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:16.839 on his side when he argued that the federal government 70 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:17.639 set him up. 71 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.879 Why is that because this federal judge. 72 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.839 As a kid, was in an internment camp during World 73 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:28.600 War Two as a Japanese American, he did not trust 74 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.240 the government a whole lot. So in the case of 75 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.399 this judge, and her name is. 76 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:38.079 I always forget. 77 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:42.199 I'm so horrible at names in any case, I'll come 78 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:43.759 up with it and start screaming at it. In just 79 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:47.360 a moment, she was so pro Trump, is so pro Trump, 80 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:52.480 that virtually every motion made before her by the Trump 81 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:53.759 team she granted. 82 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:57.120 And at the end of that process. 83 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:01.160 Where she was on Trump's side the whole time, she 84 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:05.680 dismissed the entire case. Judge Eileen Cannon is her name, 85 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:11.160 And it was simply the former president the new president 86 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.879 getting just the best draw the cards that he could. 87 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.279 So there's pure luck there in that case. 88 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:25.079 And in terms of Trump's position, you remember when he said. 89 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.959 When he was running, I think the first time out. 90 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:33.040 I could stand on Broadway in New York high noon, 91 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.199 shoot someone and I would get acquitted. 92 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:40.639 You know that's true. I am absolutely believing that. 93 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:44.800 And there's going to be a presidency that is going 94 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.360 to be unlike any presidency we have ever seen. 95 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:51.000 And before we go, I want to ask Amy a 96 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:51.639 quick question. 97 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.240 Okay, because you're such a Disneyland fan, I'm digressing because how. 98 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:57.199 Unusual for this show. 99 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.079 How much do you think it would cost to go 100 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:07.959 to Disneyland today if you looked at inflation from nineteen 101 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.959 fifty five when Disneyland opened till today, how much you 102 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.399 think would be the cost of actually going to Disneyland 103 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:16.600 if you adjust for inflation? 104 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.240 I have no idea eleven dollars. 105 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:26.120 Now, granted, Disneyland is a very no, it's a very 106 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.959 different place. Yeah, and there's a twenty dollars twenty two 107 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.839 dollars minimum wage, you know, I mean. 108 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.399 Yes, I'm not arguing that was a dollar minimum wage. 109 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.199 I'm not arguing that. All I'm all I'm doing is 110 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.680 asking that question. Okay, Okay, Disneyland. 111 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:45.399 What year nineteen fifty five? Good? What month? Oh uh? 112 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.480 Where's Nick Poliochini When I need them? 113 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.720 I don't remember July. Oh, and it was super hot 114 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.399 and super hot. The pavement hadn't all the way that's right, 115 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.240 the asphalt people had said at Lottle heels, that's true. 116 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:02.399 Are you thinking into this cement? Who was it was televised. 117 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.040 I've done a whole history of that with ABC and 118 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:09.199 the connection. Do you know who the host was of 119 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:10.560 the of the televised broadcast? 120 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:13.160 Who was the host of artlind Cletter? Remember artlind Cletter? 121 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:15.199 I know the name. Okay. 122 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.920 He was the most highly paid television star on television 123 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:22.279 at the time. Friends of Walt Disney. Walt Disney asked 124 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.680 him to host the television broadcast. He said, now you 125 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:26.959 can't afford me, you know, just. 126 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:27.439 I'll do it. 127 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.040 I'll tell you what I'll do, Walt Disney, just give 128 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:35.959 me the concession for the Kodak booths selling the film 129 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.439 in Disneyland for ten years. 130 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.319 Smart. He said, it was the best deal he ever 131 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.079 made in his life. There's a whole story there. 132 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.560 It's a fun story about the opening of Disneyland, which 133 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:51.240 now it's history. 134 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:52.560 I love history, as you know. 135 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.639 All right, Day one tariffs are kicking in, according to 136 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:58.040 the President elect. 137 00:07:58.560 --> 00:07:59.480 And I'll tell you. 138 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.759 Who is is a group of people that are most 139 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.240 in favor of Donald Trump. We're going to get the 140 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.199 most nailed by Donald Trump. I'll explain that when we 141 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:14.160 come back. Bob Cummings also is there at Disneyland at 142 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:15.839 the opening. Who's Bob Cummings. 143 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:18.879 He was a big television star. Oh at that time too. 144 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.040 Yeah, all these obscure people go figure, you know what 145 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:23.120 was Hitler's dog name? 146 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.399 Blondie? Blonde Blondie. 147 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:29.040 Okay, for those of you that don't care or think 148 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:31.240 I'm spending too much time or not looking into it, 149 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:36.080 you should because life is going to change dramatically under 150 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:41.639 a Trump presidency, because it has sort of been the 151 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:46.519 same both through Republican and through democratic administrations over the last. 152 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:47.480 Twenty thirty years. 153 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.399 One of the things that the President lex said He's 154 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.960 going to impose tariffs on all products coming in the 155 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:57.440 United States from Canada, Mexico, and China his first day 156 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:57.960 in office. 157 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:00.960 What's that going to do is going to scramble supply chains. 158 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.840 It's going to impose pretty heavy costs and companies that 159 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:09.559 were American companies that rely doing business with these economies. 160 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.840 On truth social he mentioned caravan of immigrants making his 161 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:17.200 way to the United States. He's done that before. And 162 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:23.080 he said that these tariffs that he is imposing will 163 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:26.360 remain in effect until such time as drugs, in particular 164 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.759 fentanyl and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country. 165 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.240 So he's connecting the two and are they're not necessarily 166 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.120 connect the bull but there are some And in a 167 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:42.480 separate post, he threatened an additional ten percent on products 168 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:44.879 coming from China, although he has said one hundred percent. 169 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.200 We don't know it whether he's going to go one 170 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.120 way or the other. We know there's going to be tariffs, 171 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.360 so I think they're going to be tariffs. And this, 172 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:57.360 if you put them together, these threats, tariff threats, basically 173 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:00.759 an ultimatum against the three largest trading partner of the US, 174 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:06.159 and it's going to just create chaos and our diplomatic 175 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:11.279 economic relationships, probably even before it's already happening now before 176 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.200 January twentieth. The currencies of canaon Mexico are now sliding 177 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.399 against the dollar the Chinese embassy war. 178 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:21.159 No one will win a trade war. 179 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:27.240 There are some serious implications for American industry, auto manufacturers, 180 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:35.799 food packagers, particularly farmers, farmers are going to get nailed 181 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.360 because of the illegal alien situation. 182 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.279 Because the third of the farmers. 183 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:45.759 According to a study done by the Wall Street Journal 184 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.759 and the New York Times, a third of the farm 185 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:54.480 workers are illegal migrants. Now, the people will own the farms. 186 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:59.440 Technically they're following the rules, but they're not. And it's 187 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:01.559 very easy to break the rules on that. And then 188 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.240 the argument's going to be who's going to pick the strawberries? 189 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.879 Right Conservatives say, well, it's Americans will pick the strawberries 190 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:14.360 because these illegal aliens are taking jobs. How many people 191 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:21.679 do you know pick strawberries or cabbage or oranges. I 192 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:24.960 don't know any even if it was twenty dollars an 193 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:27.120 hour would they do that. They won't work, and they 194 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:33.480 won't work at fast food chains, much less pick vegetables. 195 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:35.440 Off of the ground. 196 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.919 Now, one of the things is that even during his administration, 197 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.759 prior Trump threatened tariffs and use them as a negotiating ploy. 198 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.080 And I want to say a word now about tariffs, 199 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:56.279 the threat of tariffs and dealing with foreign countries, particularly China. 200 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.919 Exports are more important to a country than imports. Balance 201 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.600 of trade, the healthier economy means that a company, a 202 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:08.279 country is exporting goods more than importing goods. We have 203 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:12.440 a balance of trade that is miserable. We have a 204 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:17.440 negative balance and have for years and years. And the 205 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:23.240 amount of money in terms of negative trade is it's 206 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:31.600 either three different levels insanely insane number. The second level 207 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.879 is a prohibitively punitive intergalactically number, and the third level 208 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:38.320 is gee. 209 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:43.799 I didn't even know we could do that number. And particularly. 210 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:50.960 China, because they're not fair and previous presidents have rolled over. 211 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:53.919 That's it. They've just rolled over with China. 212 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.080 China exports to us in a huge way, far more 213 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:02.080 than they import. They have tariffs, they have rules, they 214 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:06.159 make it possible country for companies to do business there. 215 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.120 I mean, we have trade agreements that they breach constantly. 216 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.440 And the only president that we've had that will in 217 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:18.720 fact hold them to the fire, I think is Trump. 218 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:21.000 Trump has balls that you have to give him. 219 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.039 Agree with him, don't agree with him, and I disagree 220 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:25.639 with him on so many issues. He's the only one 221 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.240 that had the guts to move the embassy in. 222 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:30.440 Israel to Jerusalem. 223 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:36.000 Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since nineteen forty eight, 224 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:40.039 when it was declared a sovereign country when it said, 225 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:41.399 we are an independent country. 226 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:48.200 This is our capital until Trump moved the capital to 227 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.720 Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, moved our embassy. 228 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:56.200 No one else would do that. So we're in for 229 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.679 a ride. Farmers are going to get nailed. I'll tell 230 00:13:58.679 --> 00:13:59.320 you that right now. 231 00:13:59.360 --> 00:13:59.919 They're going to end. 232 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:06.080 They're among the most supportive of the administration. They voted 233 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:12.159 in favor of Trump in massive numbers, overwhelmingly, and they're 234 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:14.759 they're gonna get nailed. 235 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.080 It's that simple. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. 236 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:19.799 I'm going to follow up on this one big time 237 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.960 and again I'm going to reiterate. If you think I'm 238 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.559 spending too much time on talking about what's happening or 239 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.000 what's going to happen during the Trump administration, mark my words. 240 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.840 It is going to affect us deeply across the board 241 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:35.960 in a way that I don't believe a president a 242 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:42.240 presidency has affected us. Okay, fair enough, Now, we passed 243 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:47.399 Prop thirty six overwhelmingly this past election, like seventy percent. 244 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:48.639 What Prop thirty six do? 245 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.559 It undid a lot of Prop forty seven, which we 246 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:58.440 pass to reduce the penalties for misdemeanor crimes or felony crimes, 247 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:03.120 especially in the shoplifting world, down to misdemeanors. And now 248 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:06.600 what that was during the movement of the anti police 249 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.480 movement that defund the police movement. Well those days are 250 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:12.559 gone and that's just dead as a doornail. Now we're 251 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:14.519 going the other way. Now we want to nail people 252 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.679 we don't like, criminals. And instead of blaming the police 253 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:21.879 and the courts, you know what, we're blaming criminals for 254 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:25.960 criminal acts. What a shocker, How novel is that? Well, 255 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.879 the problem is if we're making what used to be 256 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.399 felonies misdemeanors and bringing back to felonies, that means jail time. 257 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:38.960 And the problem with jails in La County is that 258 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:40.159 they suck. 259 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:47.519 Over crowding like crazy. 260 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.159 Not enough money you spent. Doesn't really even matter how 261 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.720 much money you spent. Men's Central Jail has to be 262 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:55.240 torn up billions of dollars and you even have, for examples, 263 00:15:55.480 --> 00:16:00.000 the Juvenile Hall, the largest juvenile facility that has to close. 264 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:05.879 And all of that is going to cost tons of money. 265 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.799 Peter Eliasburg, who is Chief Counsel of the Aslo of 266 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:13.080 Southern California, who was involved in filing a lawsuit against 267 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:15.879 the county, of which was settled, said, anyone who goes 268 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.519 into jails now, particularly men central, would be appalled to 269 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:25.879 the conditions. And if you add more crowding, that becomes crazy. 270 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:32.120 And he is effectively saying, you don't want what you 271 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:34.600 wish for what you want, you don't want. 272 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:36.080 Does that make sense, No, of course not. 273 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:43.399 What Prop thirty six did was effectively, we make certain 274 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:48.440 crimes well more serious. That means more jail time. Adding 275 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:53.000 thousands of inmates to state prisons and county jails would 276 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:57.440 slow down the system, not only the case resolution but 277 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:02.279 trials court systems slow it down and actually cut available 278 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.240 funds for mental health and drug treatment and victim services 279 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.559 by the tens of millions of dollars every year. And 280 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:12.480 part of Prop thirty six was to increase money for 281 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.519 those services. The new DA is looking at them. He 282 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.880 has not said anything, and that's Nathan Hawkman. He doesn't 283 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:27.160 know how he's gonna deal with the new increases and 284 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:30.720 what is now considered serious crimes which used to be 285 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:33.960 and then was, and then did not and now is again. 286 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:39.799 How do you describes himself? Is he a conservative who 287 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.720 wants to punish inmate. 288 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:43.920 Who wants to punish bad guys? 289 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.559 Is he a liberal who thinks that there's no such 290 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:49.720 thing as a bad guy. 291 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:51.519 It's our fault. 292 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:58.240 It's society's fault that creates bad people, that creates criminals. 293 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:01.799 He talks to himself. He described himself as having a. 294 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:03.279 Hard middle approach. 295 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:08.680 Doesn't like one, doesn't like the other, doesn't believe in 296 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.960 MOUs incarceration or dcarceration. 297 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.839 And his pledge is to ensure. 298 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:20.319 That LA Counties jails and juvenile halls are safe, constitutional, rehabilitative. 299 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:25.200 They're not. They are not safe, they're not. 300 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.200 Constitutional according to a federal judge or two that has 301 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:33.160 ordered them to change. And they're certainly not rehabilia to 302 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:34.880 how does that pronounce rehabilitative? 303 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:36.359 Rehabilitative? 304 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.119 Very good with words, and he paraphrased the quote, which 305 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:42.519 was really interesting. 306 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:44.680 You don't even usually hear a politicians say this. 307 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:53.319 He quoted from Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian novelists right Warren piece 308 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.839 who said you can judge the quality of a civilization 309 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:02.079 by the quality of its jails and prisons. Dan Hawkman said, 310 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:08.599 under that Lens La County has failed, and it has 311 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.640 so we don't know the outcome yet are we willing 312 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:14.240 to pay the. 313 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.559 Price which is very expensive to keep people in prison? 314 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:20.359 If the United States has more prisoners than any country 315 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:24.039 in the world, both in terms of number and per capita. 316 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.079 Now China would have more prisoners, but they just kill people. 317 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:35.079 You get a traffic ticket in China, they either shoot 318 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:37.119 you by the side of the road or they shoot 319 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:43.240 you in jail. So other countries, well, you go to 320 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:45.680 Scandinavian countries, virtually no crime. 321 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:48.960 Certainly there are no. 322 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.160 Gun crime because we're the only country of the world, 323 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.480 that civilized country, that is first world country. 324 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:58.319 We're just different that has gun ownership. We're just very different. 325 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:00.759 That's all. The problem is. 326 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:06.200 We have a huge number of criminals, more so per 327 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:10.359 capita than other countries, and more people in jail. And 328 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:14.000 under Prop thirty six, we're gonna have even more people 329 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:14.799 in jail. 330 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.480 All right, yesterday, big news in the world of the 331 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:20.599 Menendez brothers. 332 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:25.279 By the way, this story is being covered internationally all 333 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:25.880 over the world. 334 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:27.480 That's what internationally means. 335 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:30.319 I think, see, I gotta tell you, you listen to me, 336 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:36.960 you get the scoop It is a story of the 337 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:41.079 two brothers killing their parents and me, just as I said, 338 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.480 And it's a southern California story, so you could imagine 339 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:49.119 how it engaged. We are here and they were convicted 340 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.519 of killing mom and dad and sentenced to life imprisonment 341 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:54.839 without possibility of parole. 342 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:57.839 This was thirty five years ago. There were two trials. 343 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.680 First of when we had a hungary and a lot 344 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:05.160 of evidence was presented about the father raping Lyle. 345 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:07.279 I mean, sexual abuse of this kid. 346 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.160 Unbelievable, And the jury hung on this second trial and 347 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.799 the judge didn't let that information in, didn't let that 348 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:18.559 evidence in, so it was an easy conviction for the jury. 349 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:23.200 So here we are thirty five years later, and the 350 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:28.680 family members of the menandez brothers, I mean virtually all 351 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:32.960 of them are pleading with the court, pleading with the 352 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:38.119 judge to re sentence the brothers. Re sentencing them means 353 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.720 that they're walking out the door because they get credit 354 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:49.400 for time served. Also, the governor is being asked for clemency. 355 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:55.319 You know who asked them for clemency, George Gascon and others. 356 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:59.640 It's almost universal, all of us, and I put myself 357 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:04.440 in that category. Are on their side. One family members 358 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:09.440 against it, uncle and some prosecutors, but the rest of 359 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:13.400 the people out there, and if they took a poll, 360 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:17.119 it would be absolutely overwhelming. So we know what happened, 361 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:21.960 we know what's going on now legally. But I want 362 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.680 to share with you what these two have done in 363 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:30.839 their thirty five years in prison, not just model prisoners, 364 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:37.160 which means no disciplinary action, but have set up programs 365 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:42.000 to help other prisoners, and I mean a big, big way, 366 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:47.119 and not for publicity, not sake, not for the argument 367 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:50.680 that they should be resentenced, because they simply did this 368 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:55.640 to make their lives mean something. Lyle earned a BA 369 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:58.799 degree in sociology from UC Irvine this year, working on 370 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:02.680 his Masters and urban development. Eric is going to graduate 371 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:05.839 from UC Irvine with a degree in sociology this fall. 372 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:09.799 And one of the prisoners who we only have the 373 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:12.640 name Abro, said Eric gave me a sense of purpose. 374 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.400 By the way, Abro was sentenced to life without possibility 375 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:22.079 of parole. And what Abro said is that Eric gave him, 376 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:24.400 or Lyle gave. 377 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:27.279 Him a sense of purpose and was a mentor to me. 378 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:33.319 He and Lyle began a rehabilitation through the beautification project inmates, 379 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.680 worked on upgrades for the prison, creating green spaces, painting 380 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:42.519 a huge mural. Both of them have been involved in 381 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:47.160 setting up programs that simply help prisoners, even to the 382 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:50.799 point where not only did the prisoners admire them, but 383 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:58.559 the prison guards themselves think that these two should be released. 384 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:04.880 And why is it so different now? What has changed? 385 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:06.599 A couple things. 386 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:10.559 First of all, a lot of publicity talking about the 387 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:15.799 kind of sexual assaults that happened upon Lyle during the 388 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.960 course of growing up by his father. That's one TV movie, 389 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:25.519 a few documentaries there's that, and we look at sexual 390 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:30.519 abuse in a very different way. During the second trial, 391 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:35.440 I mean, Lyle still testified as to what his dad 392 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:37.880 did to him. The problem is there was no corroboration 393 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.920 during the first trial. There are all kinds of corroboration. 394 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:45.200 People talked about it, they knew about it, but it 395 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:48.920 was all secondhand stuff and it was the judge simply 396 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:52.200 wouldn't let that in a trial, so he talked about 397 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:54.480 it in the second trial about the abuse. One of 398 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:56.640 the prosecutors has set out, right, there's this thing. 399 00:24:56.599 --> 00:25:00.000 Is maile rape. It doesn't exist. Maile rape is just 400 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.519 not a thing. It's being made up. We know very 401 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:04.359