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Speaker 3: Good morning, Yes, that is correct, it is time for
Speaker 3: your morning wake up call, and I'm Michael Monks in
Speaker 3: for Amy King on this Monday morning, January twenty seventh,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. A bit of a change in the
Speaker 3: weather out there, and yes it is impacting lots of stuff.
Speaker 3: Some schools have closed, although some are reopening, so that's
Speaker 3: good news. But the roads not so good in some places.
Speaker 3: We'll have the full traffic report coming up today on
Speaker 3: wake up Call. We got all your local headlines, of course,
Speaker 3: fire stuff, weather stuff, traffic stuff, and the price of
Speaker 3: eggs winter Ralphs yesterday, as I do every Sunday, downtown LA.
Speaker 3: Nine dollars for a dozen eggs. Is there really no
Speaker 3: end in sight to this high cost? We're gonna have
Speaker 3: a live report on what that situation is and how
Speaker 3: much longer we can expect to endure those high prices
Speaker 3: for a dozen eggs. Also, how did the Nation of
Speaker 3: Columbia end up in the crosshairs of President Trump, a
Speaker 3: potential trade war erupted, and then it seemed to calm
Speaker 3: down all rather quickly. Yesterday it was head spinning. We'll
Speaker 3: have a live report on what went down, why it
Speaker 3: went down, what's going down right now, and what it
Speaker 3: all means. And there is no question that our president
Speaker 3: enjoys some camera time. He's already taken dozens of reporter
Speaker 3: questions in the White House on the road aboard Air
Speaker 3: Force One. We'll be joined live by a White House
Speaker 3: correspondent who has covered every president since Bill Clinton. We'll
Speaker 3: talk about what's different in the briefing room now that
Speaker 3: Trump is back in DC. And then we have this
Speaker 3: forthcoming release of classified documents. It's related to the assassinations
Speaker 3: of JFK, RFK, AN MLK. So why what else do
Speaker 3: we need to know about all of those events. We'll
Speaker 3: talk about that coming up in this hour as well.
Speaker 3: And don't forget it's six oh five. We've got Handle
Speaker 3: on the news, Bill, Handle, Nil, Savandra and me. We'll
Speaker 3: all be with you and hope you will join us
Speaker 3: as well. We'll start with some of the stories coming
Speaker 3: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom a winter
Speaker 3: storm warning issue through four o'clock this afternoon for the
Speaker 3: eastern San Gabriel Mountains. The National Weather Service is said
Speaker 3: to expect heavy snow up to fourteen inches in some areas,
Speaker 3: and more than an inch of snow has anticipated along Grapevine.
Speaker 3: Other parts of the region have a winter weather advisory.
Speaker 3: There's also a flood advisory for Pacific Palisades, including the Palisades,
Speaker 3: Burned scar and the far western San Fernando Valley, although
Speaker 3: that expired just about an hour ago. We still have
Speaker 3: a flood watch for the Santa Clarita Valley, western San
Speaker 3: Gabriel Mountains, and Highway fourteen Corridor. It's forecasted until ten
Speaker 3: o'clock this morning. Frost advisory showing how different the weather
Speaker 3: has gotten in recent hours. Tomorrow, in the early morning
Speaker 3: hours two to nine overnight, Calabasas A, Gore Hills, Central
Speaker 3: Ventura County Valleys, Lake Casitas, southeastern Ventura County Valleys, Ventura
Speaker 3: County Inland Coast, and the western San Fernando Valley beyond
Speaker 3: the lookout might see some frost in those overnight hours.
Speaker 3: And the Eton Fire almost fully contained today. Right now,
Speaker 3: it's at about ninety eight percent. That's the fire that
Speaker 3: ravaged Altadena parts of Pasadena. Firefighters are still there. They
Speaker 3: are still putting out some hot spots and Pasadena City
Speaker 3: Schools have begun the second phase of its school reopening.
Speaker 3: Five more schools have opened again today, but the Santa
Speaker 3: Monica Malibu Schools has closed its schools in Malibu because
Speaker 3: of dangerous road conditions and challenges with access. Malibu Canyon
Speaker 3: Road also expected to be closed between Payoma and Francisco
Speaker 3: Ranch Roads through five o'clock this afternoon due to concern
Speaker 3: about rock and mud slide. So that's the situation right
Speaker 3: now all across the region. Some challenges related to weather
Speaker 3: on the roads. The Trump administration is a week old
Speaker 3: today and the new president has been busy. Deportations are
Speaker 3: happening across the country. DEI is finished at the federal level,
Speaker 3: and we're possibly close to a trade war, maybe not
Speaker 3: with Columbia. And another noticeable change in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Now that there's a new resident at the White House.
Speaker 3: President Trump's Engagement of the Press. Our John Decker has
Speaker 3: been a correspondent during the ten years of seventeen press
Speaker 3: secretaries and every president since Bill Clinton. He's here to
Speaker 3: talk about what has changed since Trump returned to Pennsylvania Avenue.
Speaker 3: Good morning, John, sound like.
Speaker 4: An old coajure, but it is true. I have some
Speaker 4: institutional knowledge, and I can tell you that it is
Speaker 4: a very different atmosphere at the White House now than
Speaker 4: what existed, certainly in the final few weeks, final few
Speaker 4: months of President Joe Biden. A lot more energy at
Speaker 4: the White House. It's only been one week since Donald
Speaker 4: Trump has been office, and as you know, he has
Speaker 4: signed a slew of executive orders since taking office. And
Speaker 4: in addition to that, he's even taken a multi day
Speaker 4: trip to Asheville, North Carolina, and Los Angeles to inspect
Speaker 4: and view the two natural disasters that happen in those
Speaker 4: two disaster zones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's hit the ground running, of course. And I
Speaker 3: suppose that it's typical that a new administration sweeps into
Speaker 3: office and there's buzz, there's optimism, there's some goodwill being
Speaker 3: extended to folks before things turn south, as they do
Speaker 3: for administrations throughout history. But what's different about this first
Speaker 3: week compared to the first weeks of other presidents that
Speaker 3: you've covered.
Speaker 4: Well, you're right, you know, new presidents, new administrations do
Speaker 4: generally hit the ground running. You know, when George W.
Speaker 4: Bush came into office after Bill Clinton, he too signed
Speaker 4: plenty of executive voters to undo some of the things
Speaker 4: that Bill Clinton had put in place during his eight
Speaker 4: years in office. Similarly, when you have eight years later
Speaker 4: Obama replacing Bush, and he too signed executive actions undoing
Speaker 4: some of the things of the eight years of Bush
Speaker 4: and so on. But it's different this time simply because
Speaker 4: of the fact that this is the second term of
Speaker 4: Donald Trump. It's the final term of Donald Trump can't
Speaker 4: run again, and he realizes his administration, his team realizes
Speaker 4: that there's a narrow window to get done what they
Speaker 4: wished to get done. That narrow window is really over
Speaker 4: the course of the next two years with the Republicans
Speaker 4: in control of all of the leavers of government, the
Speaker 4: White House, the House, and the Senate.
Speaker 3: Let's talk a bit about what goes on in the
Speaker 3: briefing room at the White House. There are times where
Speaker 3: those press conferences become must SEETV. And I'm curious what's
Speaker 3: different in terms of the relationship between journalist and the
Speaker 3: White House since the keys of the White House changed
Speaker 3: hands last Monday.
Speaker 4: Well, we haven't had a White House press briefing yet
Speaker 4: with Caroline Leavitt, the new White House Press Secretary. I
Speaker 4: think the reason for that has to do with the
Speaker 4: fact that Donald Trump, in his first week in office,
Speaker 4: wanted to be the faith the voice of everything that
Speaker 4: was happening in this first week in office. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 4: get the start of regular briefings at the White House.
Speaker 4: When I walk into the briefing room every day, I
Speaker 4: see people I've never seen before in my life, and
Speaker 4: I don't know who these folks are in terms of
Speaker 4: which news organization that they may be with, if they're
Speaker 4: actually journalists, but they recognize that right now, unlike the
Speaker 4: past four years, this center of the universe is the
Speaker 4: White House because there's just so much news coming out
Speaker 4: of sixteen one hundred Pennsylvania Avenue every day.
Speaker 3: So when we think about the President and his relationship
Speaker 3: with the media, it's sort of a double edged sword.
Speaker 3: He loves a camera, he loves to talk, but he
Speaker 3: also expresses a lot of disdain for the media. He's
Speaker 3: coined the phrase fake news, and it's become a part
Speaker 3: of our daily language here in this country. But really,
Speaker 3: how do we expect his relationship to be with journalists
Speaker 3: this time around. Are you getting any indication about that
Speaker 3: from these early days of the new administration.
Speaker 4: Well, when he departed the White House on Friday for Ashville,
Speaker 4: North Carolina, left on the south lawn of the White House,
Speaker 4: departed on Marine one, he took some questions from the
Speaker 4: press corps. That was the norm with Donald Trump typically
Speaker 4: when he would leave to go on a trip outside
Speaker 4: of Washington, d C. Having a mini press conference. That's
Speaker 4: a good thing, you know, in the sense that he's
Speaker 4: taken questions from the press corps almost on a regular
Speaker 4: basis for an extended period of time. So I think
Speaker 4: the press that has that opportunity to ask questions of
Speaker 4: President Trump appreciates that. Now you know, we're going to
Speaker 4: ask tough questions of Trump, like I speak for myself,
Speaker 4: like I asked of President Joe Biden. And we'll see
Speaker 4: what that relationship develops like over the course of the
Speaker 4: next few weeks with Donald Trump, as he takes more
Speaker 4: questions from the press corps than certainly what we saw
Speaker 4: during Joe Biden's four years in the White House.
Speaker 3: You've covered a lot of presidents, as we mentioned, You've
Speaker 3: dealt with a lot of press secretaries. From your observation,
Speaker 3: what do you think fuels Trump's frankness and even when
Speaker 3: he's not necessarily speaking accurately, what fuels his frankness and
Speaker 3: willingness to talk to the press in spite of that
Speaker 3: weird relationship he has with journalists.
Speaker 4: The first time I interviewed Donald Trump was a long
Speaker 4: time ago, was back in nineteen ninety nine. So I've
Speaker 4: known him for many years and people ask me, well,
Speaker 4: what was he like in nineteen ninety nine, before it
Speaker 4: was even involved in politics, And it's essentially the same
Speaker 4: Donald Trump now that existed back in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 4: someone who does not edit his thoughts, that speaks frankly
Speaker 4: that you know, again, he may not like what he
Speaker 4: says or how he says it, but you're going to
Speaker 4: get an answer from Donald Trump to most questions that
Speaker 4: are posed to him. And I think that that's one
Speaker 4: of the things that those who like Donald Trump like
Speaker 4: most about him, that he's not a typical politician. He
Speaker 4: doesn't factor in well, if I answer a question this way,
Speaker 4: it may have this impact, you know, in terms of
Speaker 4: my approval ratings. He just answers questions. Damn the consequences,
Speaker 4: and I think that's what makes him so unique.
Speaker 3: White House Correspondent John Decker, thanks so much for spending
Speaker 3: some time with us. The administration is only a week old.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we will have much to talk about in
Speaker 3: the weeks and even years ahead. John, thanks so much.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you.
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Speaker 3: First of all, drive safely out there if you haven't
Speaker 3: left yet. Just know that the roads are a little
Speaker 3: weird in some spots and a little dangerous as well.
Speaker 3: And rain across the Southland has helped firefighters mop up
Speaker 3: the wildfires, but we're watching for the potential of toxic
Speaker 3: ash runoff and mud slides. La County, Cruz have spent
Speaker 3: much of the past week removing vegetation, shoring up slopes,
Speaker 3: and reinforcing roads in those devastated areas of the Palisades
Speaker 3: and eaten fires. Israel has allowed Palestinians to return north
Speaker 3: of the Gaza Strip, an area heavily destroyed during the
Speaker 3: country's war with Hamas. Thousands of Palestinians have headed that
Speaker 3: way today. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been extended.
Speaker 3: President Trump has pushed to have the Egypt and Jordan
Speaker 3: take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from Gaza, but
Speaker 3: those nations have said no. Trump told reporters aboard Air
Speaker 3: Force One over the weekend, moving about a million and
Speaker 3: a half people away from Gaza might mean, quote, we
Speaker 3: just clean out that whole thing. Jordan's foreign minister says
Speaker 3: his country's opposition to what Trump floated is firm and unwavering.
Speaker 3: Coming up at the top of the hour six oh five,
Speaker 3: handle on the news bill, handle Nil Sevadra and me
Speaker 3: and hopefully you too. We're going to move into some
Speaker 3: other stories that are coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 3: four hour newsroom. The CIA has reported it now believes
Speaker 3: the virus responsible for the COVID nineteen pandemic most likely
Speaker 3: originated from a lab. An assessment by the federal government
Speaker 3: points to China. Even while acknowledging the CIA has low
Speaker 3: confidence in its own conclusion, they say the finding isn't
Speaker 3: the result of any new intelligence and the report was
Speaker 3: completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former
Speaker 3: CIA Director William Burns. It was declined classified him released
Speaker 3: over the weekend on the order of President Trump's pick
Speaker 3: to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in
Speaker 3: last week as director. China's foreign minister has issued a
Speaker 3: veiled warning to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Foreign Minister
Speaker 3: Wang Yee conveyed a message of behavi yourself and a
Speaker 3: phone call on Friday that was their first conversation since
Speaker 3: Rubio has been confirmed as Secretary of State. Wang used
Speaker 3: a phrase typical of Chinese teacher or boss, warning a
Speaker 3: student or employee to behave and be responsible for their actions.
Speaker 3: The phrase, according to the AP, seemed aimed at Rubio's
Speaker 3: vocal criticism of China and its human rights record when
Speaker 3: he was a US senator, which prompted the Chinese government
Speaker 3: to put sanctions on him two times back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: We are going to talk about egg prices. Do we
Speaker 3: have our guest Robin? All right?
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 3: Indeed, a dozen eggs at Ralph's in downtown La put
Speaker 3: me back nine bucks yesterday. The presidential election saw the
Speaker 3: price of eggs and other groceries play an outsize role
Speaker 3: in shaping the debate around politics. But the guy who
Speaker 3: says he'd bring down grocery prices has won that election
Speaker 3: and returned to the White House for just one weekend,
Speaker 3: and it already seems like this may be a tall
Speaker 3: task for President Trump. The average price of a cart
Speaker 3: and of a dozen eggs has risen to four dollars
Speaker 3: and fifteen cents nationally. That's up fifty cents from November
Speaker 3: to December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and
Speaker 3: the forecast for egg prices is looking bleak. Our Rory
Speaker 3: O'Neill joins US Now Live to talk about eggs. Good
Speaker 3: Monday morning to you, Rory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good morning, and stop bragging about your egg purchases,
Speaker 5: all right, rest of.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm my guy who likes breakfast, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it looks like we're high above the national average
Speaker 3: here in the downtown Los Angeles. But like, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Why are the prices so high right now? Well, it's
Speaker 3: the bird flu.
Speaker 5: And look, as much as President Trump wants to bring prices,
Speaker 5: it's going to be tough to battle this bird flu.
Speaker 5: Just since October, about twenty six million egg laying hens
Speaker 5: have had to be destroyed in an effort to stop
Speaker 5: the spread of this avian flu. And of course it's
Speaker 5: just the old rule of supply and demand. If you
Speaker 5: could even find eggs with the demand that's out there,
Speaker 5: the supply is just coming up short and that's why
Speaker 5: prices are spiking. Yes, California paying the highest, as they
Speaker 5: usually do, but the national average around four fifteen. It
Speaker 5: was two fifty one for a dozen Grade A large
Speaker 5: eggs a year before. And the estimates are the prices
Speaker 5: are going to keep on climbing. We might finally get
Speaker 5: some relief, not surprisingly after.
Speaker 3: Easter after easter, how coincidental. But I'm noticing that the
Speaker 3: predictions about the state of egg prices they're kind of gloomy.
Speaker 3: I mean they're saying, look, we might be paying higher
Speaker 3: prices for the entire year. I mean, what's fueling those predictions.
Speaker 5: Well, it's really been an inability to get on top
Speaker 5: of this avian flu. We had a really bad outbreak
Speaker 5: of this back in twenty fifteen, but that lasted just
Speaker 5: one year. Here we are now, this is year three
Speaker 5: of this avian flu outbreak. This variant of the virus
Speaker 5: seems to be much more easily transmitted. You know, we've
Speaker 5: had stories of some egg farms losing their whole flocks repeatedly,
Speaker 5: and they get bailed out by the government, thankfully, but
Speaker 5: it takes a time in order for these hens to
Speaker 5: be replaced and get old enough to be laying eggs again.
Speaker 5: So it's a difficult cycle to work through, and it's
Speaker 5: turning out to be expensive for the rest of us
Speaker 5: either who would like to have eggs for breakfast or
Speaker 5: use eggs in so many other dishes.
Speaker 3: That's sort of my next question because obviously it hits
Speaker 3: us hard as individuals if you're paying twice as much
Speaker 3: as you typically do for eggs, and you're buying eggs
Speaker 3: every week. It's a staple of our it. But what's
Speaker 3: the additional economic impact that we might see. Is there
Speaker 3: such a thing? I mean, is the price of eggs
Speaker 3: impacting the economy outside of individual's purchasing power? O.
Speaker 5: Sure, now this goes into restaurants, grocery stores. How about
Speaker 5: this X factor, school lunch programs, something else that may
Speaker 5: not have factored in the price of eggs and the
Speaker 5: different ways it can impact the economy because it's one
Speaker 5: of those baseline ingredients in so many other products, and
Speaker 5: what we pay at retail typically, you know, like you said,
Speaker 5: you went into Ralphs to buy eggs, Oftentimes they actually
Speaker 5: lose money if you're just buying the dozen eggs. They
Speaker 5: depend on you buying the bread for your toast, the
Speaker 5: orange juice, the butter, the bacon that goes along with it.
Speaker 5: So they'll lose a buck on the eggs, but maybe
Speaker 5: they'll earn four dollars on the other stuff you buy.
Speaker 5: So that's why wholesale egg prices when we see them
Speaker 5: so high. A dozen large Midwest eggs seven dollars twenty
Speaker 5: seven sense again a dozen wholesale, and that's a significant
Speaker 5: cost for the restaurant and baking industries.
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this before we let you
Speaker 3: run and get on with your Monday. What's the plan?
Speaker 3: I mean, Donald Trump is somebody who does like to
Speaker 3: speak about ideas, whether they've been vetted or not. Does
Speaker 3: he have any ideas on what to do about the
Speaker 3: price of eggs?
Speaker 5: Well, his main focus to try to bring down inflation
Speaker 5: has been to increase boost our energy production. The President's
Speaker 5: thought is, if we can bring down energy costs as
Speaker 5: a baseline, then that will lower the cost of everything else,
Speaker 5: So that if the cost of delivering those eggs comes down,
Speaker 5: then the overall cost will come down or the cost
Speaker 5: of the fertilizer, for the feed, all those things. He
Speaker 5: thinks that the higher energy prices have been really responsible
Speaker 5: for all this inflation of the past three or four years.
Speaker 5: So that's his objective. But this bird flu is going
Speaker 5: to be tough to tackle.
Speaker 3: That's our Rory O'Neill, thank you so much for chatting
Speaker 3: about eggs. Looking forward to talk to you again. Have
Speaker 3: a great day, Roy. Thanks Michael, you too.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: am six forty.
Speaker 3: On Michael Monks filling in for Amy King this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being with us. Hope you're driving safely
Speaker 3: if you haven't left the house yet, though be aware
Speaker 3: can be a little treacherous in some parts out there
Speaker 3: are Will Cole Schreiber will have a full report on
Speaker 3: where to go where not to go around the LA
Speaker 3: region coming up just ahead. But we're a week into
Speaker 3: this new presidential administration, President Trump back in office now
Speaker 3: seven days. We've already gotten close to a trade war
Speaker 3: with an ally and it's not the country that you
Speaker 3: would expect, Canada, Mexico. Instead, it's Columbia, a country most
Speaker 3: of us probably don't realize plays a pretty big part
Speaker 3: in America's international economy. So here to talk about what's
Speaker 3: going on, what's not going on, Why it went down?
Speaker 3: ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers, Good Monday morning,
Speaker 3: to you, Karen.
Speaker 4: To you too.
Speaker 3: So this was something that transpired rather quickly, and it
Speaker 3: looked like it happened on social media more than anywhere else.
Speaker 3: I don't know what type of high level diplomatic cables
Speaker 3: were being passed around, but this all played out very publicly.
Speaker 6: What happened, Yeah, there was a conversation going back and forth,
Speaker 6: but you know, you're right, it did play out a
Speaker 6: bit on social media over the weekend, and it was
Speaker 6: one of those diplomatic stats that played out very quickly,
Speaker 6: seemed to come out of nowhere, and then appears to
Speaker 6: be resolved lease based on statements from the White House
Speaker 6: last night and from the Colombian side. And what happened
Speaker 6: was yesterday the Colombian president said he was not going
Speaker 6: to accept two military deportation flights that were already in
Speaker 6: routs to Colombia. Colombia, as you noted, is a strong
Speaker 6: ally of the United States, has a good relationship. It's
Speaker 6: been a very big ally of the United States in
Speaker 6: the region. They've done these flights before on the regular basis,
Speaker 6: but this time the Colombia and president said he was
Speaker 6: drawing a line because they were coming in on military
Speaker 6: aircraft and he was concerned that people weren't being treated
Speaker 6: with dignity and respect, as he put it, pointing to
Speaker 6: a flight that went to Brazil where authority say people
Speaker 6: were denied access to water and bathrooms, and so the
Speaker 6: Colombian said, you know, we are not going to do
Speaker 6: it under these circumstances. President Trump fired back and said
Speaker 6: that this is jeopardizing America's national security and economic security,
Speaker 6: and then threatened twenty five percent tariffs on all goods
Speaker 6: coming in from Colombia into the United States. It's a
Speaker 6: big deal because we import things like crude oil, coffee, bananas, flowers.
Speaker 6: Valentine's Day is coming up, so that's a big one.
Speaker 6: And for the Colombians, we're their biggest trade partner thorty
Speaker 6: four percent of all trades Colombia, which Columbia is with
Speaker 6: the United States. So this wasn't just an idle threat
Speaker 6: to them. They really took this seriously. But by late
Speaker 6: last night, the White House said that there was an
Speaker 6: agreement reached the Colombians were going to take these flights
Speaker 6: coming in and that this sent a message that countries
Speaker 6: around the world need to understand that they have to
Speaker 6: fully cooperate with the United States on this. And you know,
Speaker 6: all the things we're hearing from the administration is this
Speaker 6: is how they're doing business and this is how it's
Speaker 6: going to be.
Speaker 3: Now, the president of Columbia kind of stood his ground.
Speaker 3: At first he threatened to put tariffs on the US
Speaker 3: as well, but then it looks like that kind of
Speaker 3: went away.
Speaker 6: M hmm.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: You know, it was that tit for tat in a
Speaker 6: trade war, as it would be where the Columbia said,
Speaker 6: all right, you're going to put a twenty five percent
Speaker 6: tariffy with a thread of a fifty percent hike in
Speaker 6: a week where we're going to do the same thing
Speaker 6: on US products. And you know, experts will say, like,
Speaker 6: nobody wants to get into these trade wars. This is
Speaker 6: not good for the consumers. Those cost get passed on
Speaker 6: to consumers who are buying these products, and that is
Speaker 6: not great. But I think it's also an important thing
Speaker 6: to recognize here that this is the administration showing that
Speaker 6: this is how they're going to do business. And this
Speaker 6: is a tool that the president will turn to frequently
Speaker 6: in his tool when he wants a country to do
Speaker 6: what he wants. And you know we've seen this, as
Speaker 6: you mentioned with Mexico, Canada, China. This threat of tariffs
Speaker 6: is a significant means for the Trump administration to try
Speaker 6: and get cooperation on other issues, whether it's economic or
Speaker 6: on this one immigration.
Speaker 3: Well, that's certainly given us an indication of what to
Speaker 3: expect from Trump and his relationship with other nations, no
Speaker 3: doubt about that. But the situation with Colombia was particularly
Speaker 3: strange because you do know that these were military aircraft
Speaker 3: that were to drop off these deportees. It's not like
Speaker 3: Colombia is against having its people returned. I mean, they
Speaker 3: were accepting flights. What was unique about this.
Speaker 6: Situation it is what you mentioned, the fact that it
Speaker 6: was on military aircraft. You know, there has been an
Speaker 6: agreement with Columbia to accept deportation flights. This has been
Speaker 6: happening on a regular basis. It's not like this was
Speaker 6: the first flight going in and all of a sudden
Speaker 6: they said no, no, no, we're not going to do this.
Speaker 6: This has been a consistent between the United States and Columbia.
Speaker 6: But this because of the circumstances of how the flights
Speaker 6: were coming down, and again because of how the president
Speaker 6: of Columbia said he was concerned about the treatment of
Speaker 6: the people who were on the flights.
Speaker 3: ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers, we appreciate the
Speaker 3: report and hope to talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4: Thank you, have a great day.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
Speaker 2: Am six forty.
Speaker 3: I am Michael Monks filling in for Amy King this morning.
Speaker 3: One of President Trump's promises has been to release the
Speaker 3: classifying files related to the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator
Speaker 3: Robert F. Kennedy right here in LA, and Reverend Martin
Speaker 3: Luther King Junior. Trump says it's in our national interests
Speaker 3: to know everything. So what might still be left to learn?
Speaker 3: ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan is with us Live to
Speaker 3: explain good Monday morning to you.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 7: It's left to discover about the Kennedy assassination. Probably not
Speaker 7: a lot. I mean, there are still several thousand pages
Speaker 7: that are out there. But Joe Biden, during his presidency
Speaker 7: released several thousand. Donald Trump during his first term did likewise.
Speaker 7: But even Trump back in twenty seventeen held back on
Speaker 7: the release of some of the stuff based on a
Speaker 7: recommendation from the CIA and the FBI. Now President again
Speaker 7: and with Robert F. Kennedy Junior urging him on, He's
Speaker 7: decided to go ahead and release more documents.
Speaker 2: Now, does that.
Speaker 7: Mean that every single thing related to the Kennedy assassination
Speaker 7: will be turned loose? No, because some documents can't be
Speaker 7: released because they're under court seal even now, because they're
Speaker 7: owned by those documents are in some cases owned by
Speaker 7: private individuals who don't want them released, and they can
Speaker 7: set the rules. Then you also have grand jury testimony
Speaker 7: that's kept secret.
Speaker 3: Who is this for? Who's asking for this?
Speaker 7: Well? Trump is, I mean, he's long believed that something
Speaker 7: deeper went on, and certainly Robert F. Kennedy does as well.
Speaker 7: He thinks that somebody that the government was involved in
Speaker 7: the assassination of his uncle John F. Kennedy, of his
Speaker 7: father Robert F. Kennedy Senior, and of Martin Luther King Junior.
Speaker 7: So it's for them, but it's also you know, for
Speaker 7: Trump and for Kennedy Junior. But it's also in the
Speaker 7: public interests to you know, the order of the Trump
Speaker 7: sign says that this is it's up to the public
Speaker 7: to see this stuff and to decide about its veracity.
Speaker 3: So the public doesn't always react rationally to any piece
Speaker 3: of news. Can we expect? And I know you are
Speaker 3: a journalism professor as well, so I know you you've
Speaker 3: probably talked your students about the way that the audiences
Speaker 3: have changed over the years. But what can we expect,
Speaker 3: if you know, what can we expect from our fellow
Speaker 3: people in terms of their behavior about any new information?
Speaker 3: Could this be politicized in some manner? Well, yeah, I
Speaker 3: think it could be.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think if the goal in releasing these
Speaker 7: documents my history is to quell the suspicions, to answer
Speaker 7: the questions, and to in some of the conspiracy theories,
Speaker 7: I don't think it's going to happen. In fact, I
Speaker 7: suspect that it's going on to feed into new conspiracies.
Speaker 7: Why was this all held on to for so long?
Speaker 7: What does this little document mean that we found in
Speaker 7: the files? I think it will. I suspect there will
Speaker 7: be books based primarily on what we see in the
Speaker 7: next few months. What the practical terms of all this, Michael,
Speaker 7: Over the next fifteen days, the Attorney General and National
Speaker 7: Security Advisor's National Intelligence Director will come up with a
Speaker 7: plan on how to release the JFK documents related to
Speaker 7: his assassination here in Dallas. Within the next forty five days,
Speaker 7: those same two will have to come up with a
Speaker 7: plan for releasing the MLK and Robert F. Kennedy documents.
Speaker 7: So it's sort of a two phase process here.
Speaker 3: Okay, So we've got a several days to wait for that,
Speaker 3: But we got four years of President Trump. What do
Speaker 3: we know about his relationship to similar classified material and
Speaker 3: whether we might have some answers to lingering questions on
Speaker 3: other issues.
Speaker 7: Well, he's talked about Area fifty one too, and about
Speaker 7: how the documents related to that should be. Really, I
Speaker 7: think that's pretty much all been cleared out and put
Speaker 7: onto public display. Maybe not though, And so I think
Speaker 7: he sees in this an opportunity. People love to see
Speaker 7: things that they haven't seen before, maybe shouldn't have seen before,
Speaker 7: but suddenly can. And whether it's the Kennedy assassination, about
Speaker 7: about the moon landing, about Area fifty one, I think
Speaker 7: Trump is inclined to release all of it.
Speaker 3: ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan reporting live from Dallas this morning. Jim,
Speaker 3: always good to talk to you. Thanks for being with
Speaker 3: us today.
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Speaker 6: Yeah