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Speaker 2: it's not for sale. What do you do with that?
Speaker 2: I insist you by It's almost like the Godfather. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make you an offer that you cannot refuse. No,
Speaker 2: it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Speaker 3: Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: It is KFI. It's a Thursday, March sixth Now. I'm
Speaker 2: still fighting this cold.
Speaker 3: It just drives me nuts.
Speaker 1: You sound pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I sounded. I just took some
Speaker 2: medication of some kind of some birth control or something
Speaker 2: we have in the first aid kit over there. I
Speaker 2: just grabb a little envelope and pop it, throw it
Speaker 2: at my mouth. So I have no idea what, but
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna be okay. In any case, Let's
Speaker 2: start with good mornings.
Speaker 3: I don't usually do that. I usually go into some
Speaker 3: kind of story of mind. But I really don't have
Speaker 3: left all.
Speaker 1: Right, even about Sheldon.
Speaker 3: It's quite a joke.
Speaker 2: I just said we would not this is my that
Speaker 2: would be my last day broadcasting.
Speaker 3: Oh that joke.
Speaker 1: You keep threatening.
Speaker 2: You know, my last day is really going to be spectacular.
Speaker 2: I mean I told you about Doobie, my friend who
Speaker 2: was in his Rael lead the gun's forces. He was
Speaker 2: a pilot, he flew F sixteens, and then when he retired,
Speaker 2: he went to l all and I knew when he
Speaker 2: was going to retire, and I called him and I said, Doobie,
Speaker 2: it's your last day flying. You have to go on
Speaker 2: the intercom and say, ladies.
Speaker 3: And gentlemen, welcome to all. Today.
Speaker 2: We'll be flying at thirty five thousand feet, but for
Speaker 2: you thirty two thousand feet.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Such a deal, bastard.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't do it. All right.
Speaker 1: I didn't just scream into the mic.
Speaker 2: We're gonna die, or in a very heavy Arabic accent accent,
Speaker 2: go good day, nice.
Speaker 3: This is Mohammed.
Speaker 1: What are you implying?
Speaker 2: I'm being completely what okay?
Speaker 1: Is today your last day?
Speaker 3: Sounds like it doesn't.
Speaker 4: They will start with Hi'm bill handled. There once was
Speaker 4: a man from Nantucket.
Speaker 2: All right, let us say, emails will keep on coming.
Speaker 2: I was once accused. I was sued once, No just once.
Speaker 2: I actually I have been sued five times. One every
Speaker 2: single time.
Speaker 5: Just to let you know, Amy, that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2: I'm thirty years when I should have been sued. I
Speaker 2: was never sued. I had some issues with a couple
Speaker 2: of surrogates who unfortunately decided in the midst of their contract,
Speaker 2: we have take them all off birth control, of course,
Speaker 2: because we get wanted to get pregnant. And one of
Speaker 2: the things they can't have sex with their husbands and
Speaker 2: boyfriends because.
Speaker 1: They might make their own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's exactly what happened. A couple of times
Speaker 2: they shook the boyfriend or the husband, and even though
Speaker 2: they have a contract, is you know, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? And the couple couple could have sued me
Speaker 2: easily because I'm the one that chose a surrogate or
Speaker 2: my agency did. And I sit down with him, I go, hey,
Speaker 2: bottom line is this is my fault. I screwed up.
Speaker 2: If you litigate, you're gonna win, no question about it.
Speaker 2: But you you want a child, and that's what we're
Speaker 2: here for. So I'll tell you what number one on
Speaker 2: my waiting list of couples just became number two.
Speaker 3: You get a free kid.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's I thought you were going to do
Speaker 1: it like half off.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, half off is what I should have
Speaker 2: done it. But I say, you get a free kid.
Speaker 2: And they never sued me. Now, the people that did
Speaker 2: sue me are were crazy and I just said no.
Speaker 2: And so anyways, I was sued and there was These
Speaker 2: were by employees. And one of the women that I had,
Speaker 2: this was years and years a year ago, was married
Speaker 2: to an African American. I had no idea and part
Speaker 2: and I was accused of racism. That's why I fired
Speaker 2: her because she was married to an African American, which
Speaker 2: is a complete cross because I didn't even know.
Speaker 1: Who she was married to. I had, i'm African Americans
Speaker 1: working for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the other thing.
Speaker 2: I was going to have Marjorie who worked for me,
Speaker 2: not my Marjorie, but Marjorie. And I was going to
Speaker 2: put her on the stand and say, did Bill ever
Speaker 2: mention that you were African American? He goes, I didn't
Speaker 2: even know Bill knew I was African American and she.
Speaker 3: Worked for me every day. Never came up.
Speaker 2: So anyway, their lawyer wrote to me, or this woman's
Speaker 2: lawyer wrote to me and said, we're suing you for discrimination,
Speaker 2: racial discrimination, and he knew I was a talk show host, Abby,
Speaker 2: and he said that I'm sure that will affect your
Speaker 2: career in a very negative way.
Speaker 3: So I suggest that you settle the case.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's pure extortion, that's against the canons
Speaker 2: of law. I threatened to have him disbarred for that
Speaker 2: one if he didn't if it didn't drop the case,
Speaker 2: and they didn't. They didn't, and I didn't disbar him
Speaker 2: because I figured, you know, I don't want to take
Speaker 2: the guys living away. So anyway, he said, so he
Speaker 2: writes the letter, our accusation that you are a racist
Speaker 2: will affect your career negatively. My lawyer wrote back one line,
Speaker 2: get in line, that was it.
Speaker 1: Did you tell them that your career was built upon
Speaker 1: your racism?
Speaker 2: No, no, I didn't say that, but that was it now,
Speaker 2: of course, And they tried to bring it up, and
Speaker 2: that was bounced immediately.
Speaker 3: We made a motion to.
Speaker 1: Bounce that because they lost the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah a couple. We killed them twelve to one, energy
Speaker 2: twelve or zero on the jury. But here's a little
Speaker 2: tidbit of law. The only way you can sue for
Speaker 2: racism is you have to be a protected class. You
Speaker 2: have to racism or discrimination is a legal concept much
Speaker 2: like Lemon law, and you have to be protected and
Speaker 2: it's race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age not so much, but
Speaker 2: that's one of the protected classes. Being married to a
Speaker 2: protected class does not make you protected. So we bounced
Speaker 2: that allegation. Unfortunately, Okay. I wish it had stayed in
Speaker 2: and you couldn't lost stories and Bill had.
Speaker 3: I lost stories at the same time.
Speaker 2: A little bit of law news for you, all right, Amy,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Hi Bill. Hi.
Speaker 3: By the way, don't correct me ever again. When did
Speaker 3: I correct you the passport business? When I said during
Speaker 3: the promo.
Speaker 5: You said you didn't listen to wake Up Call gold.
Speaker 2: I told you I do whenever, whenever I when he
Speaker 2: hears his name, whenever I can, I do.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: So it was just a clarification.
Speaker 6: You are talking about golden passports and Willy Wonka gave
Speaker 6: out golden tickets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a clarification.
Speaker 2: It was a straight out correction, and let's not do that, Okay.
Speaker 1: He was making a simile.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was actually maybe a metaphor.
Speaker 1: Or an illustration.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe all right, Cono, good morning, yeah, and good morning,
Speaker 2: and Neil.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's do it guy.
Speaker 1: Hi Bill, Hi, good morning, sir.
Speaker 2: Handle on the news with Amy Neil and me lead story.
Speaker 2: All right, Donald Trump issued what he said was the
Speaker 2: last warning to Comas to release all of the hostages
Speaker 2: in Gaza emediately and if he's and he said, release
Speaker 2: them all, the release all the hostages now, not later,
Speaker 2: and immediately return all the dead bodies of the people
Speaker 2: you murdered, or it is over now here is the
Speaker 2: problem for CAMAS.
Speaker 3: I would take it seriously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think he'd bombs ifness.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Donald Trump does not screw around. I mean
Speaker 2: he'd I mean he's mercurial. You know, thee tariffs were
Speaker 2: gonna come in and then three minutes later, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: hold him back for a month. Actually the tariffs were
Speaker 2: gonna come in, and they held off for a month,
Speaker 2: and he changed his mind and go, no, it's kicking
Speaker 2: in tonight. Then he said, wait a minute, I'll wait
Speaker 2: a month. This is on auto goods. The rest of
Speaker 2: it still kicks in, so you know, autos and auto parts.
Speaker 3: But on this one, I gotta tell.
Speaker 2: You, if I'm Hamas, I'm gonna do something. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna keep on going with this.
Speaker 1: So what happens, it's not like we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Have no no. What he said was.
Speaker 2: That he would send Israel everything it needs to finish
Speaker 2: the job, and not a single Hamas member will be
Speaker 2: safe if you don't do as I say.
Speaker 3: And what he's gonna do is give a green light
Speaker 3: to Israel.
Speaker 2: The only reason Israel has pulled back at all and
Speaker 2: has before now it's mainly because of the hostages and
Speaker 2: the pressure from a lot of the Israeli populous population
Speaker 2: is the United States has held back Israel.
Speaker 3: Come on, you have to you know, during.
Speaker 2: The Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel in
Speaker 2: addition to Kuwait, the United States forced Israel to stay
Speaker 2: out of it. You do not get involved in attacking Iraq,
Speaker 2: even though missiles were hitting Israel. And because we have
Speaker 2: an we have a coalition that consists primarily of Arab
Speaker 2: countries going against Hussein, and we are not going to
Speaker 2: get you involved in this one. And Israel immediately goes okay, okay, okay, okay, Well,
Speaker 2: now it's go to town, decimate Gaza, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: do everything we can to help you. And he's saying
Speaker 2: that to Nettine, Oh bad for Hamas very bad.
Speaker 5: All right, So cal Edison sued again.
Speaker 6: Los Angeles County is suing Southern California Edison, and so
Speaker 6: is so are the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre.
Speaker 6: It's the latest lawsuit claiming that Edison's equipment caused the
Speaker 6: fire and Eaton Canyon, which ended up destroying about nine
Speaker 6: thousand homes, killing seventeen people. More than forty lawsuits have
Speaker 6: been filed against the utility so far. The attorney for
Speaker 6: the county says, all evidence is pointing to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now I have a question, and as I said
Speaker 2: before all of this is done, we have to look
Speaker 2: at it the evidence. So, so the evidence now is pointing
Speaker 2: towards Edison, and the allegation is they either should have
Speaker 2: maintained their equipment so it didn't do this, or done
Speaker 2: a preemptive shutdown of the electrical system, so deactivate the
Speaker 2: electrical system. So let me ask you, when fires are
Speaker 2: hitting across the where winds of one hundred miles per
Speaker 2: hour are going across the entire Edison area, the only
Speaker 2: way that it really would have stopped fires from starting
Speaker 2: or at least moving forward.
Speaker 3: As if it was started by an electrical.
Speaker 2: Power a power line going down or a transmission tower
Speaker 2: would have been to deactivate the entire system. No one
Speaker 2: would have electricity. How many lawsuits would come as a
Speaker 2: result of that? When for two days done?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but maybe it's not that cut and dry. Maybe
Speaker 1: there was precedent.
Speaker 4: Maybe somebody had called on and seen sparks before, like
Speaker 4: we had heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but by then it's but by then it becomes
Speaker 2: too late because it was across the board. It was
Speaker 2: one hundred miles the hour. By the way, I'm not
Speaker 2: defending Edison. I'm just saying it's a lose lose. There's
Speaker 2: nothing they could have done, because if they go one way,
Speaker 2: they lose.
Speaker 3: If go the other way, they lose.
Speaker 1: They need to bury those lines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and what's that going to call? Oh? Just
Speaker 3: a dollar or two? All right? Moving on?
Speaker 4: All right, you have European leaders. They're getting together once
Speaker 4: again to grasp control of the negotiations of the war
Speaker 4: in Ukraine. This is all happening today. It's kind of
Speaker 4: this frantic tug of war against the US and Russia. God,
Speaker 4: I can't believe I'm saying that maybe nearing some sort
Speaker 4: of end, heads of twenty seven European Union nations, and
Speaker 4: Ukraine's President Zelensky are meeting at a special summit in
Speaker 4: Brussels to discuss some sort of path forward in the conflict.
Speaker 2: If this keeps on going the way it's going, the
Speaker 2: United States will not be allied with Europe.
Speaker 3: It'll be a just beyond a rift.
Speaker 4: And can you imagine what bizarre times that we're partnered
Speaker 4: with Russia.
Speaker 3: That's what it looks like. That's what Trump wants.
Speaker 4: So you have Republicans upset at anybody who seems to
Speaker 4: be a socialist, but it's okay to be with a
Speaker 4: dictator communist.
Speaker 2: Well, he's not a communist. They don't even pretend they're
Speaker 2: communists anymore in Russia. But it's a dictatorship, which Trump
Speaker 2: will never admit that Putin is a dictator during the war,
Speaker 2: Trump has only said that it is Zelenski who is
Speaker 2: a dictator because they bypassed the election. The election for
Speaker 2: president has already passed because they're at war, and that's
Speaker 2: the way the law works there.
Speaker 3: Trump and he says, I trust Putin.
Speaker 2: I believe he's going to keep his word on the deal,
Speaker 2: even though he hasn't kept once his word with anything
Speaker 2: that has come to fruition or any kind of an
Speaker 2: agreement that has come to fruition.
Speaker 3: He's broken every one of them.
Speaker 1: It's a strange day.
Speaker 3: It's a strange day.
Speaker 2: And the Republicans who heretofore would have screamed at this
Speaker 2: are all lining up. They're all lining up. Putin is
Speaker 2: our friend, the President is right. Our enemy is Ukraine,
Speaker 2: our enemy is well, he hasn't gone that far. But
Speaker 2: the rift between the US and Europe, I gotta tell
Speaker 2: you it's there's a whole history there where, and there's
Speaker 2: an argument that we should not any be the policeman
Speaker 2: of the world.
Speaker 3: We have gone.
Speaker 4: But we're snuggling up to someone. Yeah, yeah, we are
Speaker 4: so true. They're building Trump's going to build a hotel
Speaker 4: there called Putin on the Ritz.
Speaker 3: That's very good.
Speaker 1: No, it's not. I'm ashamed of make it.
Speaker 2: No, it's very strong. But anyway, it's we're not going
Speaker 2: to be allied with Russia. I mean, we're not going
Speaker 2: to formally be allied with Russia.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna pull back.
Speaker 2: We're going to pull back from protecting Europe being part
Speaker 2: of NATO because the biggest force in Europe is still
Speaker 2: American forces, the biggest NATO forces and matter and ahead
Speaker 2: of NATO or head of the military assmen, not the
Speaker 2: other part of the administrative part of NATO, but the
Speaker 2: head of the military aspect of MEATO is always an American.
Speaker 3: Always blocked again.
Speaker 6: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from making
Speaker 6: drastic cuts to medical research funding the new National Institutes
Speaker 6: of Health Policy with strip research groups of hundreds of
Speaker 6: millions of dollars to cover indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer's cancer,
Speaker 6: heart disease, and other illnesses, all the way from clinical
Speaker 6: trials of new treatments to basic lab research. US District
Speaker 6: judge had temporarily blocked the cuts last month. Yesterday she
Speaker 6: filed a preliminary injunction that puts the cuts on hold
Speaker 6: for longer.
Speaker 5: But they're still working through lawsuits. But the cuts are
Speaker 5: on hold.
Speaker 3: But this is exactly what the Trump administration has done.
Speaker 2: He cuts that spending Alzheimer's research, cancer research, arguing that
Speaker 2: it's up to private enterprise to do that. Well, historically
Speaker 2: it's been the United States. The polio vaccine was funded
Speaker 2: by the United States. The government the United States funded
Speaker 2: polio vaccines, it would not have happened today. It's a heartbreaker,
Speaker 2: it really is. And then we're going to see an
Speaker 2: executive order this morning coming down for the dismantling of
Speaker 2: the Department of Education completely. He wants had gone. And
Speaker 2: then there's arguments on both sides on that one. How
Speaker 2: much waste, how many people do you need? And how
Speaker 2: many good programs are there. It's a question of not
Speaker 2: only throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but also
Speaker 2: throwing out the bathtub and the bathroom and the house.
Speaker 4: Well, things have gotten so much better since the seventies
Speaker 4: when we instilled this right.
Speaker 3: Right, that's the point. That's exactly the point.
Speaker 1: Okay, never mind.
Speaker 4: The nation's top public health agency says about one hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty employees who were laid off two weeks ago can.
Speaker 1: Come back to work.
Speaker 3: Yay.
Speaker 4: They received a message that said read this email immediately.
Speaker 4: It said, after further review and consideration, a February fifteenth
Speaker 4: termination notice has been rescinded, and the employees were clear
Speaker 4: to return to work. They said, you should return to
Speaker 4: duty under your previous work schedule. We apologize for any disruption.
Speaker 3: Starts with oops. Right, they've done that with medical, that's
Speaker 3: the CDC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've got food safety, bird flu response, folks oversight,
Speaker 2: medical device oversight, nuke's, nuclear weapons, national parks. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of oops in those categories, a lot more no oops.
Speaker 2: And we'll be talking about that for sure. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: the recision has to do with Elon Musk and Amy.
Speaker 2: What else is going on?
Speaker 6: Well, apparently Elon Musk is moving beyond doge. He is
Speaker 6: joining or at least supporting, backing podcaster Ben Shapiro's Plea
Speaker 6: for President Trump two parts, and former Minnesota police officer
Speaker 6: Derek Chauvin. Of course, Chauvin was convicted for killing George
Speaker 6: Floyd in twenty twenty. He's serving a federal sentence of
Speaker 6: twenty one years twenty two and a half years on
Speaker 6: state charges. Shapiro, the podcast are very conservative, said on
Speaker 6: Tuesday that if you're going to issue pardons, there is
Speaker 6: one that should be included in that, and he said
Speaker 6: Derek Chauvin was basically railroaded.
Speaker 2: Come yeah, innocent. By the way, thank you for using
Speaker 2: the word. He's very conservative. You think I would go
Speaker 2: way beyond conservative, He said. Chauvin is innocent and it
Speaker 2: was a political conviction. By the way, if Trump does this,
Speaker 2: which of course he won't, there's no upside for Trump
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 5: No, and there's another round of riots like we had
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so I doubt this is going to happen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but Musk did tweet on X or whatever you
Speaker 6: do on X now said something to think about.
Speaker 3: Something to think about.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I'm sort of speechless.
Speaker 4: Trump preparing executive orders as he is wont to do,
Speaker 4: telling Education Secretary to dissolve the Department of Education. So
Speaker 4: apparently a draft of the executive order calls on Education
Speaker 4: Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate a department closure by taking
Speaker 4: all necessary steps and this is important in quotes permitted
Speaker 4: by law.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's he's not going to be able to
Speaker 2: dissolve the Education Department because that was set up by
Speaker 2: Congress and would need a congressional approval and would be
Speaker 2: subject to the filibuster, so sixty Senate rules, sixty Senate
Speaker 2: votes would be necessary. So he's not going to be
Speaker 2: able to disband it dismantle it. However, he decides how
Speaker 2: many people work there and what they do so he
Speaker 2: could effectively dismantle it. And that's a few hundred thousand
Speaker 2: people saying goodbye.
Speaker 5: Censure. So what I don't understand this whole censure thing.
Speaker 6: But Republican Dan Newhouse from Washington has introduced a resolution
Speaker 6: to censure Al Green. Of course, Al Green is the
Speaker 6: person who stood up during the President's speech on Tuesday
Speaker 6: night and was screaming and kind of waving his cane
Speaker 6: and then was escorted out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's a question. First of all, let me
Speaker 2: tell you what censure is. It's a vote by Congress,
Speaker 2: and effectively what it says. It's a resolution that says
Speaker 2: you've been a bad boy, right, bad boy.
Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. So that's who cares.
Speaker 2: That's and I would argue if I were Al Green,
Speaker 2: I would actually invite this as a badge of honor.
Speaker 6: Oh and he said he did say afterward they were
Speaker 6: talking to him and he's like, oh, yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 6: I did this big deal, but I got to go
Speaker 6: work on articles and impeachment.
Speaker 3: Now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's you know who was also censured and was not
Speaker 2: not voted to be removed from Congress, which they can do,
Speaker 2: is Joe McCarthy with what he did.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't go beyond the censure.
Speaker 2: And Marjorie Taylor Green, who wouldn't shut up during Biden's
Speaker 2: last and last State of the Union, which start screaming.
Speaker 2: No one threw her out, No one even asked for
Speaker 2: a censure. She was just allowed to heckle and heckle
Speaker 2: and heckle and hell she brought props. Yeah, she brought
Speaker 2: like cats and stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's just come on, guy, didn't al
Speaker 7: Green have some sexual claims leveled against him years ago?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I know that he sings. You know that. No, not that.
Speaker 3: Oh do I have the wrong al Green? I just
Speaker 3: really what.
Speaker 1: I remember a scandal of some kind.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to google it, and when I put in
Speaker 6: al Green and then get to sexual, the next word
Speaker 6: comes up his healing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 6: Okay, he was in two thousand and eight, a former
Speaker 6: staffer accused him of sex.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, everybody's accused espec.
Speaker 5: She withdrew the lawsuit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 4: US Supreme Court just yesterday cited against the Trump administration
Speaker 4: and upheld a lower court's decision to force the release
Speaker 4: of nearly two billion in foreign funds if you remember Trump.
Speaker 1: Put that on pause.
Speaker 4: The nation's High Court ruled five to four rejecting the
Speaker 4: Trump administration's request to cancel the foreign aid money, and
Speaker 4: Justice Samuel Alito, in his dissenting opinion, wrote that he
Speaker 4: was stunned by the Court's decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is going to be a fight across the board.
Speaker 2: How much power does the president have? How much power
Speaker 2: in the court? You got the conservative members of Congress,
Speaker 2: is going to give them unlimited power? This had do
Speaker 2: USA two billion dollars had already been allocated by Congress.
Speaker 2: Money was there and the President stopped it. Does he
Speaker 2: have the right to do that? Does he have the
Speaker 2: right to override Congress? And you've got the conservative members
Speaker 2: Supreme coursing absolutely. President's power is virtually unlimited and unbridled.
Speaker 2: So and there's a bunch of lawsuits coming up in
Speaker 2: front of the Supreme Court as to that.
Speaker 3: Exactly that issue a.
Speaker 6: Little breathing space. President Trump is granting a one month
Speaker 6: exemption on the new tariffs on imports from Mexico and
Speaker 6: Canada for cars. Trump talked to the leaders of the
Speaker 6: Big Three yesterday. For General Mooters in Stillantas and White
Speaker 6: House Pros Secretary Caroline Levitt said Trump was very blunt
Speaker 6: with them. He said that they should get on it,
Speaker 6: start investing, start moving shift production here to the US,
Speaker 6: or they are going to pay tariffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tariffs on Canadian goods, Canadian parts. You know, a
Speaker 2: bunch of cars are manufactured in Canada and especially a
Speaker 2: lot of parts. The problem is is that once these
Speaker 2: tariffs kick in and Canadian the Ontario Prime Minister with
Speaker 2: the State of Ontario the province said within ten days
Speaker 2: production in the United States is gonna stop because we're
Speaker 2: not We're not giving up.
Speaker 3: We'll shut it down. And now whoops.
Speaker 2: So I think what Trump is going to say, if
Speaker 2: you commit to moving building plants here, moving investment here,
Speaker 2: that's enough.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna say I won that.
Speaker 2: One problem is is that you know he can arbitrarily
Speaker 2: say terrorifts he did yesterday terror or Monday tariffs, we're
Speaker 2: going to go in.
Speaker 3: Oops.
Speaker 2: No, they're not gonna go in. I'm gonna wait a month. No,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna wait a month. I'm gonna make them
Speaker 2: happen tonight. I mean that can you can do them
Speaker 2: one day, build a factory in one day, Try that
Speaker 2: one build or move a car factory in one day.
Speaker 2: So what's going to happen is as he said, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be it's a little blip. There's gonna be.
Speaker 3: A slight adjustment. But Americans are ready for that.
Speaker 2: Okay, when a new car goes up three thousand dollars
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna talk about cars later on, At what
Speaker 2: time am I doing that?
Speaker 7: Oh that's eight point fifty. Okay, let's move on. This
Speaker 7: is a tough one. I mean, restructure, yes, but firing people.
Speaker 7: Trump administration is planning to cut tens of thousands of
Speaker 7: employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is just
Speaker 7: a tough I think we should be doing more for
Speaker 7: our veterans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and less.
Speaker 2: Now, under the Biden administration, it did expand. The Department
Speaker 2: did expand with more services, quicker services, more people.
Speaker 5: Didn't that happen in the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: First time out, and now it's going to go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Trump kept that policy going. There are a few things
Speaker 2: that Trump kept that Biden instituted. Either way, it's not everything.
Speaker 2: Now he's gone the other way. Now we're going to
Speaker 2: get rid of senty thousand.
Speaker 4: But how can you do that to our I mean, well,
Speaker 4: quite honestly, I think that should be a main focus
Speaker 4: of the homelessness issue, all of those things veterans.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: He's gonna argue doge is going to do that because
Speaker 2: it's a waste and it's fraud.
Speaker 3: See a lot of stuff he's calling fraud is not fraud.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: He may disagree, is inefficiency?
Speaker 2: No, or how about just political differences DEI. You may
Speaker 2: hate DEI programs granted, and not one of fund DEI programs,
Speaker 2: But where's the fraud.
Speaker 1: Well, if it's being misused or the money's not going
Speaker 1: to where it's supposed.
Speaker 3: To, I'm not arguing that. Well, you see, here's the
Speaker 3: Trump philosophy.
Speaker 2: Is any money going to DEI is misused, Which is fine, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the right, that's political, But you can't argue it's fraud.
Speaker 2: You cannot argue it's fraud there. And that's what's going on.
Speaker 2: It's all being lumped together and it has to be differentiated. Okay,
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