WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:05.080 You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.639 six forty. 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:11.320 KFI AM six forty bill Handle. It is a Monday morning, 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:15.439 December two, tomorrow pasta thon at the Anaheim White House. 5 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.359 Please join us to help Caterina's Club. 6 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:20.280 Bring your sasa, SASA, bring your sauce and pasta. 7 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:24.120 Oh that's a combination, right, your SASA or your pause, 8 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.280 none of that works. Okay, that's tomorrow, and you can 9 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.840 go up to the website at bill Handle show and 10 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.280 I think you can see or KFI AM six forty 11 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.280 here's you go. Know. We just go to KFIAM six 12 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.719 forty dot com slash pasta fon Okay. Also, we are 13 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.399 now doing phone calls again for ask handle anything. 14 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.200 We do this on Friday where you record. 15 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.320 A question you got under fifteen seconds and I will 16 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.240 answer any question you have. And there's some embarrassing ones 17 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.759 that unfortunately I answered, and there was one or. 18 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:00.880 Two that were absolutely disgusting that I answered. 19 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.680 And well, it's let me put this way, ask handle 20 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:09.760 almost everything or anything. So you go to the iHeart app. 21 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.200 If you don't have it, download it. There is during 22 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:17.439 the course of the show, you'll see that we're broadcasting. 23 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.760 Go to the microphone and the other top right hand corner, 24 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:24.599 tap it, and you then have fifteen seconds to record 25 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.319 a question that Neil and Ann will go through and 26 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:32.000 I will answer those. On Friday, Neil and Ann will 27 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.359 select a few, usually embarrassing for me, to make me 28 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:38.920 look like an ass, and I usually succeed beyond your 29 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:44.640 wildest dreams. Now going to unfortunately the fire, the airport 30 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:48.200 fire that burned over twenty three thousand acres, and it 31 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:53.519 started with Orange County Public Works crew, a crew moving 32 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:59.439 boulders with heavy machinery, and they sparked a fire, the 33 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:06.719 fire and it caught with the vegetation, and you've got 34 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:11.960 folks that have lost their homes, one hundred and sixty structures, 35 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.000 twenty two people injured, thousands were forced to flee. And 36 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:21.639 usually there's a lawsuit that's going to be filed, and 37 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.319 usually those don't work. The fire department didn't do enough, 38 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:26.800 You didn't rescue me. You could have burned, you could 39 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:28.800 have saved my home. Yeah, and there was usually go 40 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:34.080 no place. This one a little bit different. Why because 41 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:37.759 there are emails and chat messages that have made available 42 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.840 by a public records request in which the anxiety level 43 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:43.680 of the department. 44 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.400 In the early stages of the fire. 45 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.080 You can see they they not only caused the fire, 46 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.400 they could have put it out and they didn't because 47 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.960 they didn't bring one of those water trucks, which as 48 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.240 a secondary description of what they do, is that all 49 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.639 those thousands of gallons of water could be used to 50 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:06.719 put out the fire. 51 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:09.560 And they didn't have one. 52 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.599 Matter of fact, they should have had one, And one 53 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:18.240 of the managers of the crews said, nah, turned it down. 54 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:24.800 Wow. They were there to put boulders. 55 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:27.080 Along the roadway to block off road vehicles from going 56 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:31.000 into private property. It was triple heat, triple digit heat 57 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.759 that day. The fire rating was high. One the crew 58 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.560 noticed smoke coming from the basket of one of. 59 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:40.759 These construction loaders. 60 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.680 The machine operator and a supervisor there tried unsuccessfully to 61 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.560 douse the planes with They have fire extinguishers, and they 62 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.759 called on nine to one one. They didn't have that 63 00:03:53.280 --> 00:04:00.240 water truck, which it was supposed to be there, and 64 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.319 the department did not follow best practices right there in 65 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:09.159 the procedures manual and man While this was going on, 66 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.759 you've got a chat with the deputy director of construction 67 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:19.839 talking to the manager saying, I'm going to talk about that. 68 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.279 We effing started a fire and it's bad. 69 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:30.279 The deputy director says, we yeah, and we have a 70 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:37.360 guy name redacted, and he adds t tyl lol tlculator 71 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:41.639 laugh out loud, and the reply is crap, except it's 72 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:45.360 spelled out what happened. I was trying not to put 73 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.360 it on teams. I didn't want this to go on 74 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:53.279 the chat. I didn't want to really admit this. Someone 75 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:54.519 didn't follow. 76 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:59.360 Directives straight out, straight out. 77 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:06.920 They didn't use best practices for the maintenance guidelines. The 78 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:12.480 messaging between officials indicates the crew was aware the fire 79 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.360 danger was high on the day it ignited the blaze. 80 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:22.879 The fire is lit, it begins, the work continues as 81 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:28.079 the fire grew. Now they're getting upset. One of the 82 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.360 managers or with the manager that was there, said it's 83 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:35.920 growing so fast. Later a project manager writes, holy crap. 84 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:37.800 It's growing faster and faster. 85 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:44.399 And then there is one line on that chat when 86 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:46.480 it became clear the fire was getting out of hand 87 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:51.319 in a message, I wish that guy had listened. 88 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:55.360 To his directives. Do you think there's a lawsuit there? 89 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.639 Twenty two homes gone now, twenty two injuries, one hundred 90 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:07.319 and sixty homes, and thousands of people evacuated. Now, Orange 91 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:11.399 County has already gone bankrupt once. I know very few 92 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.920 people remember that this was a couple of decades ago. 93 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:20.199 Orange County went bankrupt because the financial manager was investing 94 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:23.600 in these crazy investments on behalf of the county that 95 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:27.240 all went south. They had to go bankrupt. I think 96 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.600 this is going to be number two. I do believes 97 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.480 number two. If that is in the hell of a lawsuit, 98 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:37.800 I don't know what is. I told you earlier today, 99 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.759 I am going to euthanize. We are going to useonize 100 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:45.879 our dog. We're putting down our dog and it's a mess. 101 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:48.560 It had it was eaten by a coyote, attacked by 102 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:53.279 a coyote, and an infection set in and it's uncontrolled 103 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:56.000 and we can't save the dog. So if that came 104 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:00.759 over yesterday to put down the dog and the dog 105 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:02.920 was a mess, the vet walked in the room, dog 106 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:08.600 gets up, goes to the vet, does circus tricks, and 107 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:10.480 I'm saying, how do we put down? How do we 108 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.720 put down this dog? And the vet agreed with me. 109 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.399 Lindsey on the other hand, said, I've done this a bunch. 110 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:24.600 I've put down five dogs over the years, and this happens. 111 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:29.439 It's a rally just before they die. And she's absolutely 112 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:36.560 right because Gucci, the dog has spent the last three 113 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:39.720 weeks in bed, will not get up out of bed 114 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.319 except when the vet showed up. And the dog has 115 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.600 literally been in bed and won't get out of bed, 116 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.720 and pee's in bed and it's in pain. And you know, 117 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.480 when you have a dog that's in bed that much, 118 00:07:54.879 --> 00:08:00.319 you know something's wrong. Neil pointed out this morning. He said, Bill, 119 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.920 I suggest you never sleep in because you're gonna have 120 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:04.600 a big problem on your hands. 121 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:10.519 Your fiance kills dogs. She's forty years old. She has 122 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:12.800 killed five dogs in her life. 123 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:14.959 She's not forty, she's older than that. 124 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.199 She's killed five dogs, and you're gonna be next. 125 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:21.720 Yeah. 126 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:26.920 Yeah, dogs don't even have bank accounts and they were killed. 127 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:30.560 Yeah, going down, Bob, Yeah, I know, I know. He 128 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.240 is the black widow. I know. 129 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:35.159 And it was a shelter dog. Gucci was a sheelter dog. 130 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.360 As we have adopted shelter dogs, and they're tough, they 131 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.840 have all kinds of problems and we'll talk about that, 132 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:44.279 because I think I'm gonna get another dog, or we 133 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.200 are gonna get another dog. And this connects to a 134 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.960 story that was the Only Times yesterday. The number of 135 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:55.519 dogs euthanized by animal shelters run by the city has 136 00:08:55.519 --> 00:09:01.080 increased by seventy two percent since last year. And wow, 137 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.279 the animal the protective people, all of us. I mean, 138 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.200 who really wants to see a dog that shouldn't be euthanized? Now, 139 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.639 if a dog is hurting, if a dog has such 140 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.879 behavioral issues that it can't deal with anybody, I can 141 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:17.320 understand that. But you've got healthy dogs, You've got friendly 142 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:20.600 dogs that are being euthanized because the shelters can't deal 143 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:25.399 with them. And here's where there's never enough money. 144 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:25.919 What do you do. 145 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:31.919 You got the homeless problem that is insane, that's growing 146 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.440 like beyond belief, and you've got these shelters. And there 147 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.759 was a photo of dogs, a couple of dogs who 148 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:42.960 were on the euthanasia list, and their paws were through 149 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:48.080 the cage and you could see their faces begging to 150 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.559 be adopted and they're probably going to be put down. 151 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:56.360 It is absolutely heartbreaking, And there just aren't enough shelters, 152 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:00.919 there are not enough staff and the management, according to. 153 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:03.080 One of the. 154 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:09.960 One of the animal rights groups, and it's report by 155 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.039 Best Friends Animal site, it's a rescue group, says the 156 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:19.879 management of the shelters is horrible. The senior management is horrible. Well, 157 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.080 for one thing, the policy of euthanasia has changed five 158 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.759 times this year and the people who work in the 159 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.399 shelters don't know why. Now is there any good news 160 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:34.840 about this? Well, it used to be that the vast number, 161 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:38.200 the majority of animals brought into a shelter were euthanized. 162 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:43.519 Right now, it is ninety one percent of dogs are 163 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:49.919 adopted out, cats in the eighty percent range. Getting an 164 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.399 animal from a shelter, Getting a dog or a cat 165 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.639 from a shelter is now considered something to do. 166 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.000 It's a good thing, and people do it and it's 167 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:02.039 considered the right thing. 168 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:03.720 It used to be that the only people that went 169 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:08.080 to shelters to adopt these animals were animal rights and 170 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.919 rescue people, and they were very rare, and the majority 171 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:16.120 of animals were euthanized. Not so much anymore. I mean 172 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.080 we're talking from January September twelve hundred and twenty four 173 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:24.240 dogs were euthanized at the city six shelters, but that 174 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.960 is a seventy two percent increase with the same period 175 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.279 a year ago. And the number of dogs entering the 176 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:33.679 shelters has increased since twenty twenty two, and the number 177 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:34.080 put to. 178 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.159 Death has outpaced the population. 179 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:41.399 Gain that's going in. We're not doing enough. Where does 180 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:48.960 the money go? And frankly, seeing a dog that's begging 181 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:54.039 to be rescued through a cage really hits you far 182 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.519 more than a guy standing on the corner with a 183 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:57.519 sign that says. 184 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:58.639 Will work for food. 185 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:02.279 All right. 186 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.559 You know, usually I don't get this emotional. 187 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.039 You know, I don't care. But you know, I'm putting 188 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.120 down Gucci today and I go in there and she's 189 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:17.480 in bed, and I look at Gucci and I pet her, 190 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.000 and she looks at me in the and you can 191 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.399 see what she is saying in through her pain. 192 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.799 Please don't kill me, please. 193 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.559 Okay, saying don't leave me in the room with Lindsey 194 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:38.399 is what she's saying. Ye, he's got five notches on 195 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:43.080 her belt. And all right, what the belt is made of? 196 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.600 I think it's dog number one? 197 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:47.559 All right? 198 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.120 It is time for do they have a case with 199 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.320 Wayne Resnik, and we're not going to. 200 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:54.240 Do the first segment. 201 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:54.840 I don't want to do. 202 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:55.639 Do they have a case? 203 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.919 I want to ask you in your wheelhouse, what's going on? 204 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.840 Hunter Biden was pardoned by the president, which of course 205 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:03.879 a president's allowed to do. 206 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:04.360 He gave an. 207 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.879 Unconditional pardon, and he came up with all the reasons. 208 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:10.159 And Biden is a complete hypocrite. I wish he would 209 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:13.519 just be honest about it. He said that Hunter Biden 210 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:19.360 was prosecuted for political reasons. Trump said the same thing, 211 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:26.120 but Trump was prosecuted by a democratic administration. And there 212 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.519 was a firewall that Joe Biden totally upheld where a 213 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:37.360 special prosecutor independent prosecutor. Biden said it was a political 214 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.000 attack on his son and said, and this is what 215 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:46.480 I want to ask you anybody else in that same circumstance. 216 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:47.960 Convicted of a. 217 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:52.679 Gun violation because he put on the form I do 218 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.639 not use drugs, and it was proved that he did, 219 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.240 and he did that for eleven days and the gun 220 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:04.840 wasn't used. And tax evasion one point nine counts one 221 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:07.600 point four million dollars in taxes he didn't pay, which 222 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:11.519 he did pay back, and he was looking at some 223 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:12.279 jail time. 224 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.240 Now, the argument that Biden says. 225 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.480 Someone in similar circumstances wouldn't have been nailed by the 226 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.480 Justice Department, what say you? 227 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:29.600 The argument is he did what with the Justice Department? 228 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:34.679 That well, the Justice Department that he basically interfered or 229 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:35.200 you certain? 230 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.519 No, no, no, no, no, he let them know, no, no, 231 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:39.440 he let the Juste Department. 232 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.639 Do his thing. He did. He agreed to the firewall. 233 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.759 But he is saying that the reason his son was 234 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:48.919 prosecuted was for political reasons by his own administration, which 235 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.519 is a croc and except there was a special prosecutor, 236 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:57.600 so okay, and so that's completely independent. And Hunter Biden, 237 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.080 if he was not the son of a press would not. 238 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.120 Have gone through this. 239 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.919 That anybody in the same circumstances, not a president's son, 240 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:09.440 would not have been prosecuted. 241 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:14.720 Well, I can't speak to people's motivations, but I can 242 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:23.279 tell you someone else in Hunter Biden's situation would have 243 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:27.159 been treated the way that Hunter Biden was treated the 244 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:31.240 first time around, which is to say, he was offered 245 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:37.960 a very lenient plea arrangement to make it all go 246 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:42.759 away and not go to prison, and then something happened 247 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:46.399 at that plea hearing where there was a misunderstanding about 248 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:48.320 what it meant or didn't mean, or whether or not 249 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:52.200 he could be prosecuted for other tax crimes. And the 250 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.320 government said, yes, he can be prosecuted for other tax crimes, 251 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.759 and the defense said, that's not our understanding, and the 252 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:01.240 plea deal blew up, and so he found himself facing 253 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:06.120 these full charges. And also so the first thing is 254 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.720 he was treated differently at first, which is to say, 255 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.600 the way someone in his position would have been treated, 256 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:21.159 someone who had a lot of personal problems and drug 257 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:25.000 addictions and was in a state. 258 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:28.600 Of his life unlike most of the rest of his life. 259 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:34.039 The lawyers, it sounds like, caused a commotion, and then 260 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:40.440 they had a choice veer even further into leniency. Look, 261 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:41.960 we don't want this guy. We don't really want this 262 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:43.960 guy to go to jail. We don't even really need 263 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.679 convictions on all of this stuff. That's not going to 264 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:50.159 happen now. We can either veer left and drop. 265 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:51.000 Some charges or. 266 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.639 Straight ahead, which is full trial, full convictions. 267 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.120 And that's the choice that they made. 268 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.440 And did they make that choice because of who he was, Yes, 269 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.680 but they kind of had to because there was no 270 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:10.839 way they were going to survive veering the other way 271 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.200 and saying our lenient plea deal didn't work out. So 272 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.160 we're gonna wash our hands of the whole case and 273 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.079 you can walk away a free man that never would 274 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:21.920 have stood in the court of public opinion. 275 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.680 Okay, So the argument that he was treated differently because 276 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:33.559 he's Hunter Biden really is not the case. Starting out, 277 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.559 he was given the deal that anybody else would have 278 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:42.279 been given in the same circumstance, effectively, and something blew 279 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:45.920 up in trial or in the plea, in the plea agreement, 280 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:50.119 which is aberrational, and that's not normally what happens. So 281 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:55.079 the argument is that Joe Biden is not only wrong, 282 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.559 but he is a hypocrite, and he's saying this was 283 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:02.559 political and I wish god, I wish she was honest 284 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:06.039 about this and just say, you know, I'm pardoning him 285 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:07.200 because he's my son. 286 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:08.240 Thank you. 287 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:12.039 Next question, and this is what happened with Arnold Schwarzenegger. 288 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:15.559 When remember the son of Fabio Nunez who is convicted 289 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.000 and did seven years, or was convicted and was given 290 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:23.680 seven years for stabbing someone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was 291 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:27.359 friends with Fabio Nunez, who was an assemblyman Speaker of 292 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:32.160 the Assembly. He simply said, this is Arnold Schwarzenegger. When 293 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:33.960 he commuted it down to two years. 294 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:37.240 He said, the reason I'm doing this is Fabio is 295 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:37.720 a friend. 296 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:43.319 That's it. We thank you very much. Next, questionly allowable, right, 297 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:45.079 they have that power. 298 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.680 Can I ask you something about this Joe Biden pardoning 299 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.640 his son. He always said he would never interfere, he 300 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.680 would not disrupt or interfere with the Department Justice. 301 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.799 Okay, so this did is this? 302 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:04.920 Is this a loophole in that he can say I 303 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:10.079 didn't stop them from charging him, from demaking him. I 304 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:12.799 am going to stop them though, I am going to 305 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:14.720 stop them from sentencing him. 306 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:16.599 Yes, yes, and that's it. 307 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:21.759 But is it a loophole or in fact, has he interfered? 308 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:23.680 Oh no, I don't think he's interfered. 309 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:28.000 Well, he's interfering, he will Hunter Biden. 310 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:30.039 I was saying about this morning, and I was I 311 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:30.720 was on your side. 312 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.200 I was saying, well, he didn't really didn't technically interfere, 313 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:34.519 but it's kind of a loophole. 314 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:37.079 But now I'm thinking he did interfere. 315 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:39.640 Because he didn't let the case go all the way 316 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:44.079 to its conclusion. That's looking what sentence was imposed. We 317 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:46.119 then make a decision about whether he. 318 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:46.880 Will buy that pardon. 319 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:48.759 But then how does he do that when he is 320 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:49.920 out of the presidency. 321 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:53.759 Uh, well, the sentencing was gonna be in like a 322 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:55.640 week and a half. Well he was going to go 323 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:59.720 to trial. Uh oh, okay, so he will You're right. 324 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:03.079 No, he because it was convicted by a jury on 325 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:05.359 the gun charge and he ended up pleading guilty to 326 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:06.039 the tax stuff. 327 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:07.440 All right, we're done. 328 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:09.920 I just wanted your view on that because this is 329 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:11.200 in Wayne's wheelhouse. 330 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:13.400 Now we're gonna come back. Did interfere? That's great? 331 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:17.160 Okay, do they have a case with Wayne? As we 332 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:19.519 on the show, and you know the rules, Wayne, let's do. 333 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:23.160 It, all right, So getting the time machine with me, Bill, 334 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:26.680 I'm flying coach, you're flying business class because food chain 335 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:30.160 and we go back to nineteen seventy and we passed 336 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.359 the Controlled Substances Act and Nixon signs it, and it 337 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:37.319 creates the current regime of outlining a lot a lot 338 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:39.839 of drugs and the schedule one, two, three, four five 339 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:43.920 system that we have. Now we fast forward to twenty 340 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:47.839 twenty two and the Great State of Mississippi passes a 341 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:52.359 Medical Cannabis Act authorizing the sale and use of marijuana 342 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:56.480 for certain medicinal purposes. And in this law is a 343 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:02.599 provision that says you will be limited in when, where 344 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:08.079 and how you can advertise your legal in Mississippi medical 345 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:13.160 marijuana business. You can have a sign on your actual dispensary. 346 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:16.960 Of course, you can be listed in a business. 347 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:22.319 Directory like the phone book, medical publications, that kind of thing. 348 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.599 But you can't just like, for example, you can't take 349 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.000 out an ad in the newspaper, you can't run an 350 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:31.359 ad on the radio, you can't post on social media. 351 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.119 So here comes the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary 352 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.720 and he says, you're violating my First Amendment rights. And 353 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.039 the state says, well, hold up, buddy, you're talking about 354 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:47.880 commercial speech here, the advertising of a business, and you 355 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:50.480 have less rights with commercial speech as you might with 356 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:55.640 political speech, for example, and so we can regulate your speech. 357 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:03.279 And he says, listen, the first men protects stuff that's legal. 358 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:08.559 This is legal in Mississippi. 359 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:10.920 What I'm doing is legal, And they say, yes, it 360 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:16.440 is one hundred percent legal. Therefore, not letting me advertise 361 00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:21.480 my legal behavior is a violation. And they say, no, 362 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:24.920 it's not because and this is really the decision you 363 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:29.880 got to make. What you're doing is legal in Mississippi, 364 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:36.839 but what you're doing isn't legal because it's still illegal 365 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:41.960 at the federal level. Ooh, and therefore you don't have 366 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:48.799 any First Amendment protections for commercial speech for illegal behavior. 367 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:54.079 And he says, Ah, if the Feds wanted to outlaw 368 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:58.920 medical marijuana advertising, they could do it because they're the 369 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:03.039 ones for whom it is illegal, but for you, it's legal, 370 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.359 and therefore you cannot regulate it. And they say it 371 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.000 doesn't matter. It doesn't have to match up that way. 372 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:14.640 It is illegal, therefore it can be regulated. It doesn't 373 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:17.200 matter who made it illegal. It doesn't matter who's regulating. 374 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.720 So does he have a case or no? 375 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:22.799 I think he does. 376 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:26.599 I think all the medical marijuana laws in the country, 377 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:34.839 recreational medical marijuana, I think, are illegal, and the only 378 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:39.920 reason they're allowed is because the Feds aren't enforcing that's it, 379 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:44.240 and so federal law. A matter of fact, I would 380 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:47.079 even go to the point where even having the dispensary 381 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:51.920 itself is illegal and so their argument that it's the 382 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:55.519 First Amendment right to I don't think any of that works. 383 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:59.680 And the judges could go either way. If I were 384 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:03.720 a jud I'd say, you don't have an argument, and 385 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:06.000 the city doesn't have an argument, and the state doesn't 386 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.960 have an argument, So let's flip a coint and the 387 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.920 Feds could shut you down tomorrow. And I think that 388 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:16.039 argument fails on its face because federal law supersedes any 389 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:19.480 state or local law and is simply a question of enforcement, 390 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:20.640 which they don't want to do. 391 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:23.599 So I don't even care which way they go. Which 392 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:24.319 way do they go? 393 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:30.440 Well, the dispensary owner. 394 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:38.440 And the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals says, you have 395 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:43.240 no case. It doesn't matter that it's legal in Mississippi. 396 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:46.440 We can still prevent you from advertising it because it's 397 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:48.799 illegal federally. 398 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:53.400 Okay, that end of your case, sir, could have gone. 399 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:56.759 That way, and I think they went through the federal 400 00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:03.440 supremacy concept that federal law controls everything. Okay, we're done, 401 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:05.960