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Speaker 4: Handle on the news with Amy Neil and me lead
Speaker 4: story to show you what kind of cockroaches Hamas is.
Speaker 4: Per the agreement that Hamas and Israel have set up
Speaker 4: and agreed to the remains for Israeli hostages, including a
Speaker 4: woman and her two children, the little ones. The father
Speaker 4: was released, the whole family was picked up. The mom
Speaker 4: and the two little babies were murdered. And what Hamas
Speaker 4: did is they return the remains and how do they
Speaker 4: return it? There was a stage, Yeah, there was this
Speaker 4: theatrical this turnover. There was music, triumphant music playing in
Speaker 4: the background. Hamas fighters surrounding this. There were Hebrew signs,
Speaker 4: a cartoon of Netanyahu. I tell you, if I was
Speaker 4: a praisely, I would just turn around and just rebomb everything.
Speaker 4: I would just take out every building that was left
Speaker 4: in Lebanon, excuse me, in Gaza. And to make the
Speaker 4: point said Netta, who said, we're not going to stop
Speaker 4: until we wipe out Hamas, until it's no longer an
Speaker 4: entity of any kind. Well, there are your hundreds and
Speaker 4: hundreds of Hamas fighters in brand new uniforms, people living
Speaker 4: in rags on the street. But they are crisp, well
Speaker 4: ironed and just to the te fabulous uniforms.
Speaker 3: And that was all part of it.
Speaker 4: And this is I mean triumphant music playing as the
Speaker 4: confidence of babies are being exchanged. And I tell you
Speaker 4: and netsonow, who's war cabinet? It is a war cabinet.
Speaker 4: A lot of them don't want to have any kind
Speaker 4: of peace. I just I would now Hamas is going
Speaker 4: to declare victory. It already has. Hamas has declared victory
Speaker 4: because victory, in their eyes is not succumbing to the
Speaker 4: Israeli pressure. If Israel is out to destroy Hamas and
Speaker 4: Hamas is not destroyed, it is a win.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: The fact that ninety percent of the Palestinians in guys
Speaker 4: that do not have a home and will not for
Speaker 4: a generation or two, small price to pay.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, so much for that. I get it. I
Speaker 3: get really exercise over this stuff. I really do.
Speaker 1: Didn't notice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the ultimate in fake news, that's what Ukraine's president
Speaker 6: Zelensky is saying that Trump is spewing. He said that
Speaker 6: the president is living in a Russian made disinformation space.
Speaker 6: Zelensky said he would like Trump's team to be more truthful.
Speaker 6: That was his first big response to a series of
Speaker 6: claims and accusations made by President Trump earlier, where Trump
Speaker 6: said that Zelensky was a dictator without elections and suggested
Speaker 6: that he was to blame for the war.
Speaker 3: That I don't think he suggested it. He said it.
Speaker 4: He said outright, Ukraine started this war, and also talked
Speaker 4: about Zelensky being a dictator in the sense that they
Speaker 4: have not had elections since the war started?
Speaker 6: Can they Can they have elections during a war?
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course you can. Yeah, civil war we had.
Speaker 4: Do you know that the Civil War that elections went
Speaker 4: on as right in the middle of the Civil War,
Speaker 4: there were elections in this country and it couldn't be
Speaker 4: more divisive than that a time. Sure, you just have elections,
Speaker 4: but most countries would not, and they did. And I
Speaker 4: don't know how was Zelenski did to legally stop the
Speaker 4: election or if there was a parliament, I don't know
Speaker 4: how they did or would part of the provision of
Speaker 4: constitution if there is one.
Speaker 3: But Trump technically is right.
Speaker 4: If you don't have an election and someone stays in power,
Speaker 4: I guess that is a dictatorship. Now, of course, Putin
Speaker 4: is freely elected, and strangely that the people that all
Speaker 4: the people that run against them tend to be dead.
Speaker 4: They end up not to show up. So well, it's
Speaker 4: like remember about Saddam Hussein. He ran for the president
Speaker 4: of Iraq over and over and over again, sometimes winning
Speaker 4: one hundred and five percent of the vote, sometimes winning
Speaker 4: more than that.
Speaker 3: And god forbid if you didn't vote. Those were elections.
Speaker 4: Putin's are the same veins, So come on, I mean,
Speaker 4: and here's the part that it just drives me crazy
Speaker 4: is that some Republican senators and congress people are saying,
Speaker 4: I mean, that's a little bit too far. Others right,
Speaker 4: A nine, that's right. Ukraine started this war, that's right.
Speaker 4: Didn't you see the mobilization? Did you see the tanks?
Speaker 4: Ukraine started this war? Okay, where do you go with that?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: Not quite two commercials yet, we'll do one more, all right.
Speaker 2: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked Trump the Trump
Speaker 2: administration's ban on birth order immigration from taking force on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: So a bit of a legal blow that can kick
Speaker 2: the issue in the hands of the Supreme Court.
Speaker 4: Tell you what I think is gonna happen. I don't
Speaker 4: think court's even going to hear it. Really, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't think on what ground. First of all, the constitution
Speaker 4: fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution says outright, anybody born in
Speaker 4: the United States is a citizen thereof, and it has
Speaker 4: been interpreted. The Court has already ruled on that saying
Speaker 4: that's exactly the case. So the lower court said no
Speaker 4: birthright denial of birthright citizenship. The Appeals Court just came
Speaker 4: down unanimously and said no to the Trump the policy
Speaker 4: that Trump is initiated, which is supposed to start on
Speaker 4: when are we supposed to start I think this week
Speaker 4: where people who were born states of people who are
Speaker 4: illegal are not citizens.
Speaker 3: That was supposed to start. That's been held up by
Speaker 3: the courts.
Speaker 4: And what happens is the Supreme Court, when it doesn't
Speaker 4: even want to deal with it or just doesn't think
Speaker 4: it's an important case, just says, no, we're not taking it,
Speaker 4: which means the Appeals court the decision that in fact prevails.
Speaker 3: So he's going no place with this. No place may
Speaker 3: be kind of.
Speaker 4: Sort of a legal argument, but the court has just
Speaker 4: knocked it down over and over again. For example, the
Speaker 4: argument I always make about the Second Amendment, How about
Speaker 4: the militia language? Is that involved at all? Should we
Speaker 4: even consider what a militia is? And is a militia
Speaker 4: a national guard? Is the militia some kind of armed services? Nope,
Speaker 4: we don't want to hear it.
Speaker 2: Well, then should you ask on the Fourteenth Amendment about
Speaker 2: what jurisdiction is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the court has basically decided to ignore that.
Speaker 4: Supreme Court like they did on the militia clause of
Speaker 4: the Second Amendment. Of course already said we don't want
Speaker 4: to pay attention that. Okay, done, all right, So that's
Speaker 4: what's happening. So the Trump administration is not going to
Speaker 4: win on that one, There's no way, because it doesn't.
Speaker 4: By the way, I don't necessarily disagree either, because I
Speaker 4: don't believe in anchor babies, people coming to the United
Speaker 4: States so their kids become United States citizens for the
Speaker 4: sole reason and doing so illegally. I'm not a huge
Speaker 4: wonderful fan of that either.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, dead people apparently are not getting paid.
Speaker 6: The new head of the Social Security Administration said that
Speaker 6: deceased centenarians are not necessarily receiving benefits, which contradicts claims
Speaker 6: that tens of millions of people dead and over the
Speaker 6: age of one hundred are getting payments of Social Security checks.
Speaker 6: Lee Dudek is the new acting Social Security Administrator or
Speaker 6: Administration Commissioner. He was put in place by President Trump,
Speaker 6: and he said that improper payments may have been made
Speaker 6: in including some to dead people, but the numbers thrown
Speaker 6: out by Trump and Elon Muster any interviews saying that
Speaker 6: millions were still getting paychecks is not accurate.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, what was that?
Speaker 4: The claim that must made that we're saving eight billion
Speaker 4: dollars in immediate savings and it turned out to be
Speaker 4: eight million dollars that were saved by some move he made. Okay,
Speaker 4: soar off a little bit billion million, Eh whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I still have to see and I'm waiting for this
Speaker 4: because I know there's fraud in wage.
Speaker 3: You can't have an organization.
Speaker 4: Like the US government with two point three million employees
Speaker 4: and not have some screw up somewhere. It's impossible. I'd
Speaker 4: like to see some massive fraud. I'd like to even
Speaker 4: see some moderate fraud, saying come on, you know, show
Speaker 4: me the beef. Where's the money. I haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 4: so we have Yeah, we'll see. And by the way,
Speaker 4: maybe it doesn't even matter. Maybe if you say it enough,
Speaker 4: it's true.
Speaker 1: Wow, didn't that work in Nazi Germany?
Speaker 3: Uh? That did?
Speaker 6: All?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does in general. Case in point, Gulf of America.
Speaker 4: I just I was just thinking about that. If you
Speaker 4: hear Gulf of America long enough, it's not the Gulf
Speaker 4: of Mexico anymore. At first, when I heard Gulf of America,
Speaker 4: I was jarring. It was like someone had just grabbed
Speaker 4: me and thrown me against the wag. Go wait a minute,
Speaker 4: Golf of America. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Now it's starting to sort of get comfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every time I hear Bill Handle attorney at law,
Speaker 2: I get that same kind of weird that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: I get that same kind of weird.
Speaker 1: So, all right, New York has some happenings.
Speaker 2: You've got the embattled mayor Eric Adams there in New
Speaker 2: York City proclaimed his it is since just yesterday before
Speaker 2: a federal judge considering a judge a Justice Department motion
Speaker 2: to dismiss corruption charges against him. But the judges holding
Speaker 2: off on making that decision yet.
Speaker 3: How once's his election up? Is it next year? Is
Speaker 3: he running next year for reelection.
Speaker 1: Not sure.
Speaker 3: I don't know how he was going to win this.
Speaker 3: Forget about the politics of this, you know, whether right left.
Speaker 4: But here's New York City, one of the biggest sanctuary cities,
Speaker 4: both not on German size but in terms of philosophy.
Speaker 4: Mayor Adams, a traditional liberalist liberal, is up looking at
Speaker 4: convictions investigations for selling the city office. And from what
Speaker 4: I understand, they had him. They had him, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, he becomes Trump's best friend, goes against
Speaker 4: the immigration policy and says, now I'm pro ice coming
Speaker 4: in and picking up people. And the Justice Department is
Speaker 4: dropping its case against him because it was a federal
Speaker 4: prosecution of corruption. How does he win the election after this?
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: We talked about him being forcibly removed from office by
Speaker 4: the governor, what never happened before.
Speaker 3: But he'll be done. It's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 6: By the way, the election is not that far off.
Speaker 6: He's up for reelection in November this year.
Speaker 4: Okay, how's he going to win? That makes even more
Speaker 4: And I don't know not the way it looks like.
Speaker 7: Now, what is a girl? What is a boy? Thank god?
Speaker 7: We finally have an explanation.
Speaker 6: The federal government released new guidelines regarding sex based definitions
Speaker 6: the administration, according to new Health and Human Services Secretary
Speaker 6: Robert F. Kennedy Junior, is that the administration is bringing
Speaker 6: back common sense and restoring biological truths to the federal government.
Speaker 6: The memo defines terms such as sex a person's immutable
Speaker 6: biological classification as either male or female.
Speaker 7: There you go.
Speaker 4: Now, realistically, what the Feds have to do with it?
Speaker 4: Because no birth certificates are federally issued, right, they go,
Speaker 4: what we your original birth certificate? So let's say I
Speaker 4: don't even know if this is possible, but say you
Speaker 4: have a sex change and you want to get your
Speaker 4: birth certificate amended.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if you can do this.
Speaker 4: I just I know you can get your If you're
Speaker 4: an adoptive kid or adoptive parents, the parents can get
Speaker 4: a birth certificate reissued in the name of the parents
Speaker 4: so that the child never even can may not even
Speaker 4: ever know that he or she has adopted. We do
Speaker 4: that in step parent adoptions all day long. When I
Speaker 4: did it in surrogate parenting, that the adopting mom, we
Speaker 4: amended the birth certificate and it became her and the dad.
Speaker 4: The surrogate had nothing to say with it or nothing
Speaker 4: to do with it. So I'm just wondering if you
Speaker 4: can do that, and who checks on those? I don't
Speaker 4: know the answer to that, is this just a philosophical conversation.
Speaker 3: Who knows? I think a lot of us do with.
Speaker 4: Sports, transgender and sports, and you know what you were
Speaker 4: born and what you were not born with? Brains in
Speaker 4: my case or if I only had a heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Panama is detaining in a hotel. There nearly three
Speaker 2: other people from various countries deported under President Trump. So
Speaker 2: at this point they're not allowing them to leave while
Speaker 2: waiting for international authorities to kind of iron everything out
Speaker 2: organize the return to their countries. More than forty percent
Speaker 2: of the migrants authorities say won't voluntarily return to their homeland.
Speaker 4: And if the countries won't accept them, where do they go.
Speaker 4: You can't deport someone into a country where the country
Speaker 4: says no, thank you, not coming into my country.
Speaker 1: Well, how does that work?
Speaker 3: I don't even know. I'm thinking about that. So someone
Speaker 3: is being deported, right they land in Panama City.
Speaker 1: But can't you just prove that they're from there. This
Speaker 1: is their Oh.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that matters.
Speaker 4: I think that a country can simply say no, I'm
Speaker 4: not taking I'm not taking this deportee.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happens under international law.
Speaker 4: But if you're talking about deporting one hundred Mexicans on
Speaker 4: a bus or two buses, mecha, and you go to
Speaker 4: the border, Mexico has to accept them. Other way, I
Speaker 4: can just or stop them at the border, say no,
Speaker 4: thank you, you're not coming in. Now what does the
Speaker 4: United States do?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: What does any country do? I guess you just throw
Speaker 4: them on the sidewalk, you pull up, and they just
Speaker 4: get off the bus and they just sit there and
Speaker 4: they are no man's land. Don't know the answer, although,
Speaker 4: because the United States is so powerful, the countries are
Speaker 4: lining up, falling into place, even to the point where
Speaker 4: Nicaragua is willing to take non Nicaraguans in pending whatever
Speaker 4: happens to them judicially.
Speaker 6: All right, Mexico's ask for a little help from its friends, apparently.
Speaker 6: President Claudia Scheinbaum says that surveillance drones flown by the
Speaker 6: US government over Mexico are happening in collaboration with and
Speaker 6: at the request of her government. President Trump had threatened
Speaker 6: twenty five percent tariffs on Mexican imports if they didn't
Speaker 6: crack down more on the border and the drug problems.
Speaker 6: And they've stepped up and have put National Guard troops
Speaker 6: on the border and are saying, hey, help us out,
Speaker 6: get those drones, help find the drugs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to move the argument that Mexico United States are
Speaker 4: in lockstep with each other in terms of the drug
Speaker 4: the fentanyl being brought in and droves by the cartels, etc.
Speaker 4: There was first an argument, this is sovereignty. You're invading
Speaker 4: our sovereignty. You heard that from certain certain circles within Mexico.
Speaker 4: American military drones flying in our country notwithstanding for any reason,
Speaker 4: and shine bombs and no know they did.
Speaker 3: It because we asked them to do it.
Speaker 4: So goes to show you when the president speaks, boy,
Speaker 4: do people listen across the board?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will skip a two
Speaker 2: day meeting of foreign ministers from the leading rich and
Speaker 2: developing nations starts today, But apparently he criticized the host
Speaker 2: of the event, South Africa's policies as anti American, So
Speaker 2: maybe he's going to sit this one out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very pro Palestinian.
Speaker 4: South Africa very much pro Palestinian and hates Israel and
Speaker 4: hates the States.
Speaker 3: The United States loves Israel.
Speaker 1: How'd that happen?
Speaker 3: It's really interesting what happens because you've got.
Speaker 4: The anti apartment apartheid type, and when you have a
Speaker 4: lot of Third world countries, especially ones that were created
Speaker 4: where there was incredible colonization or suppression of the populace,
Speaker 4: like South Africa with the whites that were the way
Speaker 4: the blacks were te did wow.
Speaker 3: Se'm historically a little bit of history for US.
Speaker 4: Is that they tend to go to the oppressed people.
Speaker 4: Those around the world that are truly oppressed read Palestinians.
Speaker 4: Third world countries all line up in favor of in
Speaker 4: favor of the Palestinians versus Israel across the board General Assembly.
Speaker 4: I mean, if General Assembly had power, you would never
Speaker 4: see the United States going any place. So anyway, that's
Speaker 4: South Africa hates the United States, and so Rubio was saying, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm not coming, won't play your game.
Speaker 7: Big cuts are coming.
Speaker 6: Defense Secretary peak heag Seth has told several different areas
Speaker 6: of the military they need to start planning for cuts.
Speaker 6: They're looking to cut budgets by about eight percent for
Speaker 6: all departments over the next five years, with the exception
Speaker 6: of border security.
Speaker 4: Now this is the left hand not knowing what the
Speaker 4: right hands is doing, because first of all, the proposal
Speaker 4: is to increase the budget by one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 4: that next year for the military, which Trump wants and
Speaker 4: Congress wants. And now you're getting something from Pete hex
Speaker 4: says saying no, we're going to decrease the budget.
Speaker 3: Hunt all within the same week. So I think, and
Speaker 3: this time is why.
Speaker 4: I think with a lot of new administrations, sort of
Speaker 4: as they figure who's saying what and where it contradicts
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 3: But I think that what's happening on these rounds, that's
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 2: So KFC, formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, well they're
Speaker 2: leaving the k part. They're leaving Kentucky. So Young Brands
Speaker 2: announced just Tuesday the KFC's corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky
Speaker 2: and moving to Texas, going to join their sister brand,
Speaker 2: Pizza Huts offices there in that little suburb of Dallas, Plano,
Speaker 2: Texas Lanoy No Plano.
Speaker 3: I thanks plant, I know, yeah, and their business.
Speaker 4: I'm reading the story from CNN business five percent drop
Speaker 4: in sales last year because you got Popeye wingstop raising canes,
Speaker 4: which I like his going. I like crazy because the
Speaker 4: KFC is insanely expensive. It may be the most overpriced
Speaker 4: chickens that you could possibly get out.
Speaker 1: There, very bougie chickens, very.
Speaker 4: Bougee chickens, especially when you ask them without the feathers.
Speaker 3: You want the drum sticks, and that costs even more.
Speaker 2: I bought three foot long sandwiches, two bags of chips,
Speaker 2: one soda the other day at subway and it was
Speaker 2: forty six dollars or something.
Speaker 1: Is is that not?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: When did that happen? That's creepy, isn't that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, and one of them didn't have any topics.
Speaker 2: One was just ham and cheese from a boy.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: U maybe trying to sideline lawsuit. It's Delta says it's
Speaker 6: going to write a check to everybody who was on
Speaker 6: board that regional jet that crashed and flipped upside down
Speaker 6: at Toronto's airport thirty thousand dollars. They say it's no
Speaker 6: strings attached and does not affect rights.
Speaker 7: So maybe they can still soon.
Speaker 3: Oh they can and they will. This is just a
Speaker 3: straight pr move.
Speaker 4: Or maybe I don't know if I could actually say
Speaker 4: this and believe it myself. Maybe someone said, hey, it's
Speaker 4: just the right thing to do. No matter what happens.
Speaker 4: These folks have to the family have to bury somebody
Speaker 4: or they have to No, no one died, but the
Speaker 4: family has to deal with this, and people had to
Speaker 4: fly for them.
Speaker 3: People who are taking to the hospital.
Speaker 4: The family members of course wherever they were from, flew
Speaker 4: in to meet with them and or.
Speaker 3: To stay with them. And maybe they just said, you
Speaker 3: know what, we're going to just do the right thing.
Speaker 2: Do they still believe it was the winds or something,
Speaker 2: or they don't know yet. I be hearing on do
Speaker 2: we know who thet is? Well a pilot team, No,
Speaker 2: they were.
Speaker 4: Giving big kudos, big kudos for not only flying it correctly,
Speaker 4: But it looked like it came in very very hard.
Speaker 4: But it looked like the wheels if you was watching
Speaker 4: a commentator, a pilot commentator upon it, so you watch
Speaker 4: the plane goes in and the wheels collapse. Now, was
Speaker 4: that a problem with the plane itself? Was there some defect?
Speaker 4: Was there an issue with maintenance or was it so
Speaker 4: hard the landing was so hard that it would cause
Speaker 4: the wheels collapse under any circumstances. We don't know yet,
Speaker 4: but they're not jumping in conclusions on this one.
Speaker 2: All right, So Sean Diddy Combs is moving to dismiss
Speaker 2: the federal charge, arguing states the statute's racist origins. Rather, so,
Speaker 2: he and his team says that he's been singled out
Speaker 2: because he's a powerful black man and that no white
Speaker 2: person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution.
Speaker 4: Which is violation of the Man Act taking a minor
Speaker 4: across four purposes of sex. And by the way, when
Speaker 4: Glene Maxwell was convicted of this, she also argued that
Speaker 4: she was a black man who was a successful, successful
Speaker 4: black man, and that the prosecution was going after her
Speaker 4: just because she was same argument, how about, hey, just
Speaker 4: say you didn't do it, Say you did. Try to
Speaker 4: throw some defense, but you're gonna really argue it's because
Speaker 4: I'm a successful black guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you do it?
Speaker 4: Well, that's incidental this whole process, right, all right.
Speaker 3: Let's move on.
Speaker 6: Zebras apparently do not change their stripes. A guy who
Speaker 6: is a sex offender dating back thirty or twenty years,
Speaker 6: who was featured on the TV show To Catch a Predator,
Speaker 6: has been arrested again, this time in Orange County on
Speaker 6: suspicion of sexually assaulting a minor. Officials aren't giving a
Speaker 6: lot of details, but they say that he was arrested
Speaker 6: in Garden Grove February third, sixty three year old Robert Salinis.
Speaker 6: It involves a victim between fourteen and fifteen years old.
Speaker 6: It happened on New Year's Day, so back in two
Speaker 6: thousand and seven when they got him, he was sending
Speaker 6: messages to what he thought was a thirteen year old
Speaker 6: girl promising to bring sandwiches an ice cream tour at home,
Speaker 6: but instead he walked into a sting investigation and got busted.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to go to trial because
Speaker 4: they have him on videotape saying yeah, I did it,
Speaker 4: and I asked forgiveness, not for this particularly, but for
Speaker 4: the previous episode. Now, normally that would not be introduced
Speaker 4: as evidence, but it can be introduced as a proof
Speaker 4: of a habit prior.
Speaker 3: Habit, so that's gonna be brought in. Wow, yep, I
Speaker 3: did it. Oh forgive me forgive me, forgive me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing worse than Chris Hansen walking in on you
Speaker 2: when you have a six pack of Dave's Hard lemonade
Speaker 2: and condoms. It's like, oh, I was I was here
Speaker 2: for coming to see their mother.
Speaker 3: You remember that show? I mean I saw that show.
Speaker 4: If you have a few episodes of that is still around,
Speaker 4: by the way, catch printer, I think it's been off.
Speaker 3: The air for a while.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of those shows didn't do the
Speaker 2: help that you think they did. I talked to some
Speaker 2: people in the FBI who dealt with crimes against minors
Speaker 2: and sex crimes and stuff, and they said, because they're
Speaker 2: not doing it, you know, dotting every I and crossing
Speaker 2: every T. I don't know this to be true, is
Speaker 2: what I was told. That a lot of times these
Speaker 2: people would get get off or they wouldn't get prosecuted
Speaker 2: and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're an idiot.
Speaker 4: Well, anybody who is stupid enough to get caught up
Speaker 4: in one of these if let's say you or I,
Speaker 4: which we're not going to, but any normal person with
Speaker 4: half a brain walks in and there's a TV camera,
Speaker 4: you just shut up and get the hell out of there.
Speaker 3: They start talking and explaining.
Speaker 4: I saw if you were the guy was trying to
Speaker 4: talk his way out of it, and it's a TV
Speaker 4: camera rolling you, moron, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: We'll see a lot of that played into why they
Speaker 2: couldn't prosecute them later because of the circumstances whatever.
Speaker 3: So anyway, he's going down.
Speaker 1: But don't they.
Speaker 2: Find isn't that the issue that they find that they're
Speaker 2: recidivism and all of that, that there's sex offenders or
Speaker 2: sex offenders are sex offenders and that's the issue.
Speaker 1: There's no way to.
Speaker 4: That has been the that's been sort of the mantra
Speaker 4: of the sex offender prosecution model, and that is the
Speaker 4: recidivism rate is very very high relative to other crimes.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know that.
Speaker 4: And I know we're sort of spinning here because we're
Speaker 4: way way under time that we have.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I'm I'm just chatting old pal, Yeah,
Speaker 2: asking questions.
Speaker 3: And can you look this one up?
Speaker 4: Recidivism rate of petos, Yes, pedos a relative to other
Speaker 4: major crimes.
Speaker 3: And so while we're doing that, everybody, I want you.
Speaker 1: To move to the next story.
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, So Andrew Lester, Kansas City man who pleaded
Speaker 2: guilty of felony assault in the second degree for the
Speaker 2: shooting of Ralph Yarrel.
Speaker 1: He died while awaiting sentence.
Speaker 2: Clay County Prosecutor Attorney Zachary Thompson announced on Wednesday, we've
Speaker 2: learned of the passing of Andrew Lester and extend our
Speaker 2: sincere condolences to his family during this difficult time.
Speaker 4: Remember that case where we had this guy coming to
Speaker 4: pick up a couple of kids to a birthday party,
Speaker 4: just went to the wrong address that's shut and was shot.
Speaker 1: This was a black teenager, right.
Speaker 4: And Lester, white guy. Old white guy shot him through
Speaker 4: the door. And I think the problem was his defense
Speaker 4: was well, I didn't know. I thought I was being
Speaker 4: broken into the house being broken into. Then he walked
Speaker 4: outside and shot him again. That's where he was going
Speaker 4: to get nailed. So that initial self defense, I don't
Speaker 4: know how far that went. But anyway, he's die. He's
Speaker 4: dead completely. So he saved the state a bunch of money.
Speaker 4: And do you have that information yet? No?
Speaker 7: But Amy does.
Speaker 2: Oh, all right, Amy's on it.
Speaker 4: I had asked Ann to do that, so I'm not
Speaker 4: conflating you too.
Speaker 6: So what I'm seeing is not a comparison of recidivism
Speaker 6: for pedophiles versus others, but for pedophiles specifically, the recidivism
Speaker 6: rate is about forty two percent.
Speaker 3: That's astronomically high. That is really high.
Speaker 7: Are reconvicted of sex crimes?
Speaker 3: How about murder?
Speaker 4: I mean, while we're at it, because we have a
Speaker 4: couple of minutes as we're looking this up, dude, do
Speaker 4: do do this my jeopardy?
Speaker 3: This is talk radio at its best, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: Really yes, So how are those dodgers doing?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 3: Now, we've got a lot on the tables. Usually have
Speaker 3: twelve stories, I know we usually do. But that's okay.
Speaker 6: So what recidivism rates for murders are very low? Two percent? Okay,
Speaker 6: rate of rearrest for murder after five years, but the
Speaker 6: rate of rearrest for any crime is fifty four.
Speaker 7: So that's that's looping and everything like petty theft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we don't know.
Speaker 4: It's kind of it's apples and oranges, depending on which
Speaker 4: one you're stealing or shoplifting apples or oranges.
Speaker 3: It all makes sense.
Speaker 4: So what we're to do today, just as a quick
Speaker 4: promo of what's going to happen. I've got a couple
Speaker 4: of topics, so I'm going to share with you. It's
Speaker 4: gonna be a lot of fun. Seven twenty, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do is story on the fires, another sidebar story on
Speaker 4: the fires the aftermath of the fires. Because we're going
Speaker 4: to see a lot of those kinds of stories. This
Speaker 4: one's really interesting. It's called building super Adobees. What's a
Speaker 4: super adobe. I'll tell you about that at seven twenty,
Speaker 4: and then at seven thirty. This is a story out
Speaker 4: of my own backyard. The city of Los Angeles is
Speaker 4: being sued, as you know, by so many of the
Speaker 4: people were victims of the fire, arguing that the fire
Speaker 4: trucks weren't there enough.
Speaker 3: You had that reservoir, I mean, goes over and over.
Speaker 4: And the law firm they hired, which is one of
Speaker 4: the better law firms in the United States, the partners
Speaker 4: charge one nine.
Speaker 3: Hundred and seventy five dollars an hour.
Speaker 4: And I'm saying, my god, you know when I started practicing, Oh, no,
Speaker 4: decimal was wrong. I was at nineteen dollars and seventy
Speaker 4: five cents an hour.
Speaker 3: This is just the decimal moved over a little bit.
Speaker 1: So is that the city that has hired those attorney.
Speaker 3: Cities hired this off firm.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, city attorneys don't have the expertise for this.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is really really about as special as
Speaker 4: I should can go. And I'll talk about this later on,
Speaker 4: because can you imagine actually being able to justify nineteen
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy five dollars an hour? Oh, by the way,
Speaker 4: that's a discount. If they that's a discount. Did they
Speaker 4: shop around or they just go to the first person? No,
Speaker 4: they shopped around and this and there's a lot that
Speaker 4: is taxpayer money it has to get. Oh yeah, of
Speaker 4: course taxpayer money.
Speaker 3: Of course it is.
Speaker 4: But I'll explain why it sort of has to happen
Speaker 4: that way anyway, all right, KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show.
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