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Speaker 3: you know what happened?
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Speaker 3: So maybe that'll do it. Yeah, hopefully it drives off,
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Speaker 1: Bill Handle.
Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty. Bill Handle.
Speaker 4: Here. It is a Thursday, November fourteenth. We're halfway through
Speaker 4: fun politics today. Ah, do we have stuff to talk about?
Speaker 4: Joe Larsguard coming in at eight o'clock. I just just
Speaker 4: some more fun Trump stuff only because this is going
Speaker 4: to be the most entertaining four years you have ever seen.
Speaker 4: And it started. It's starting with a roar to say
Speaker 4: the least. All right, good morning to everybody.
Speaker 3: Amy, good morning, Hi Bill.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 3: Aren't we happy campers? Yes, yes we are.
Speaker 4: Amy came in with a sweater. I thought I was
Speaker 4: on an acid trip this morning.
Speaker 3: And Verice, it's a little loud. I like it. I
Speaker 3: like it. I like cloud again. It's hard to guess,
Speaker 3: isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah? Anyway, purple and flower it is.
Speaker 4: Purple, flowery, yeah and cono. You're dressed up well this morning,
Speaker 4: as in do you let me ask you something? Is
Speaker 4: it one set of clothes you have? Or is it
Speaker 4: five sets of the exact same outfit?
Speaker 3: Five sets of the exact same They coming packs, They
Speaker 3: come in bulk like Costco. That's great.
Speaker 4: Then you have to you don't have to worry about,
Speaker 4: you know, changing and looking at what you're going to
Speaker 4: be wearing. It's just the same, you know, here we
Speaker 4: go this acually not a bad idea. There is an
Speaker 4: Australian television show, you know, so I love it.
Speaker 3: I love Australian TV. I'm trying to what it is.
Speaker 4: But this is a woman lawyer who'd write exactly the
Speaker 4: same outfit every single day, and she has half a
Speaker 4: dozen of them and it doesn't change.
Speaker 3: Makes it easy for her? Is my work attire? Though?
Speaker 3: Ye didn't they say that about Einstein? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Einstein have the same set of clothes so he didn't
Speaker 2: have to waste energy thinking about what he was going
Speaker 2: to wear.
Speaker 3: Don't know, I don't know. Maybe an old wives tale
Speaker 3: who knows Neil? How you doing? Good, sir.
Speaker 2: I'm humored by your assessment of people's clothing, because taking,
Speaker 2: you know, outfit advice from Bill Handle is like taking
Speaker 2: outfit advice from Bill Handle.
Speaker 4: Yeah. True, Oh, I know I'm wearing. Oh, I'm wearing
Speaker 4: my Zellman shirt today.
Speaker 3: I know. I know I'm gonna do some.
Speaker 2: How come you have a Zone's shirt and I don't exactly. Oh,
Speaker 2: but this is where you go. It's a food chain issue.
Speaker 3: It is a food chain issue. It's always a food
Speaker 3: chain issue. Yeah, and good morning, great to be here. Yeah. Still,
Speaker 3: you know, do I sound congested? I'm still. The thing
Speaker 3: is lingering and it's driving me crazy. You have to
Speaker 3: do something. It is driving me completely bonkers.
Speaker 4: And here I am in the studio and Ann is
Speaker 4: making damn sure that there are monitors between us at
Speaker 4: every point across this desk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna see. Let me tell you.
Speaker 4: By the time I'm finished today, you'll see a Jackson
Speaker 4: Pollock painting on the walls.
Speaker 2: The first time I've ever seen Anne wear a sneeze
Speaker 2: gar like a saliquer.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Nice, All right, guys, we have anything new?
Speaker 4: You know you want to bring to the table. No,
Speaker 4: anybody want to say anything.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll be broadcasting live on the twenty third in
Speaker 2: Lake Forest at the Smart and Final there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: Are you Because someone asked me yesterday I said, I
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 3: I will be there. I will be there. I tried
Speaker 3: to go, you'll see the whole show? Or are you
Speaker 3: just gonna walk come by? I don't know. I am
Speaker 3: decided yet. We can go shopping together, we could?
Speaker 6: I like to get ball?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, of course. Also we have a I'm trying
Speaker 4: something new. We're going to bring it to bring it
Speaker 4: to the show.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 4: Neil explain what we're going to do, because you have
Speaker 4: a better way of explaining it, or and all right,
Speaker 4: she's putting it together and what Neil explained. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be phone calls that are going to come in and
Speaker 4: people are gonna ask me questions. They're gonna be recorded,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna choose and and Neil gonna choose which questions,
Speaker 4: and then I'm going to answer them on the air,
Speaker 4: having not heard the question correct. So it'll be completely spontaneous.
Speaker 2: In the digital world, they call them amas or ask
Speaker 2: me anything, and people will be able to go on
Speaker 2: to the iHeartRadio app on their phone and there's a
Speaker 2: little red button with a microphone on it talk back,
Speaker 2: and you press that, you've got thirty seconds to ask
Speaker 2: a question. You will not know what they are and
Speaker 2: will and you'll answer any question that's asked of you.
Speaker 4: Now make it fifteen seconds, because thirty seconds is way
Speaker 4: too long to ask a question. And there'll be a
Speaker 4: couple of rules like I don't want to hear your
Speaker 4: political viewpoint. I don't give a rats ask Okay, keep
Speaker 4: those to yourself. It's asked me a question and I
Speaker 4: don't care what it is. It can be as personal
Speaker 4: as you want. Now, you know, you know how many
Speaker 4: times you know have I I've never been in the
Speaker 4: army bill have you ever had been discharged?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I've had some discharges. You know.
Speaker 4: I will answer personal questions. I don't have a problem
Speaker 4: with that.
Speaker 3: But just be great. Yeah, it's going to be very strong.
Speaker 3: It's the first one.
Speaker 4: I won't to start recording him. Maybe today and tomorrow,
Speaker 4: we'll do him next week.
Speaker 3: I just want to know when we're all going to
Speaker 3: have to look for a job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be all you're gonna edit him.
Speaker 3: So, No, it should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Should be a lot of fun, and I'm gonna try
Speaker 4: to be, you know, to the extent that I can. Obviously,
Speaker 4: there's some FCC limitations. There are some g I'd like
Speaker 4: to work here limitations.
Speaker 3: Cognitive limitation, Yeah.
Speaker 4: There are certainly cognitive there're Joe Biden limitations, certainly. But
Speaker 4: for the most part, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: And I hear him the same time you do. It
Speaker 4: will be like handling the law. I don't know what
Speaker 4: the questions are.
Speaker 2: Do you hear that there the Joe Biden Doctor Joe
Speaker 2: Biden is having a replica of the Oval Office built
Speaker 2: in their home so he doesn't get shocked by the change.
Speaker 3: I haven't. But that's not funny either, Okay, don't dare you?
Speaker 3: How dare you judge my humors?
Speaker 4: Yes, So anyway, we'll talk about it and how to
Speaker 4: do it sort of throughout the morning. I'm going to
Speaker 4: play with it today and tomorrow and maybe Monday Tuesday
Speaker 4: will do it to see if it works as a segment,
Speaker 4: because it sounds like fun.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, let's do it.
Speaker 4: Handle on the news with Amy, Neil and Me lead storry.
Speaker 3: Winging baby, and no surprise.
Speaker 4: The Republicans have one control of the House. They have
Speaker 4: one control of the Senate, and as predicted by many,
Speaker 4: they the Republicans now have control of the White House.
Speaker 4: Although I wouldn't call Donald Trump a Republican, I'd call
Speaker 4: him a Donald trumpst And now it gets really interesting.
Speaker 4: I mean, what is going to happen. Mike Johnson, the Speaker,
Speaker 4: has made it real clear his job is to promote
Speaker 4: Trump's legislative agenda. That's what Congress is there for, bottom line,
Speaker 4: nothing else, no dissension.
Speaker 3: Whatever you want, Master, I give you.
Speaker 2: Explain though, Bill that when you say that they have
Speaker 2: control over the Senate in the White House, that it's
Speaker 2: due to voting. I just don't want anybody think that
Speaker 2: there is you know, people breaking glass and or making
Speaker 2: into these.
Speaker 4: Yes understand, or overrunning the House itself. Congress people don't
Speaker 4: have to do that, because I don't insurge. Right, they
Speaker 4: already have it. They have the key. Yes, yeah, But
Speaker 4: and we're going to see a little bit later on.
Speaker 4: I'm going to do at seven o'clock, I'm going to
Speaker 4: do probably the craziest appointment so far, nomination that is
Speaker 4: just I'm still shaking my head as other Republicans are.
Speaker 3: I'll do that coming up at seven o'clock.
Speaker 5: Biden promises a smooth move in front of a roaring
Speaker 5: fire in the Oval Office. President elect Trump and President
Speaker 5: Biden sat down for a meeting yesterday. It was Trump's
Speaker 5: first time to the White House since he was voted
Speaker 5: out of office.
Speaker 6: They did a.
Speaker 5: Photo op, shook hands. Trump said the politics is tough,
Speaker 5: but thanked President Biden for making it a smooth transition.
Speaker 5: Biden said, you're welcome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's the way it's supposed.
Speaker 6: To be, right, it looks so normal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I mean, that's it. And no, here again
Speaker 4: my bitch about Trump. You know, last time around when
Speaker 4: there was an issue and we didn't even know if
Speaker 4: he was going to leave the White House because he
Speaker 4: still maintained he won the presidency. And finally he understood
Speaker 4: that he has to leave the White House because sticker
Speaker 4: surface would have thrown him out on January twentieth had
Speaker 4: he not. And you know, Biden comes back and he said,
Speaker 4: but it's a class act. You know, of course I'm
Speaker 4: going to invite you to the White House. It's tradition
Speaker 4: to have the incoming president. So you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: what's he gonna do? So, yeah, we're in for just
Speaker 4: a ride. And I keep on saying that.
Speaker 2: I'm just isn't it weird that when it's done right
Speaker 2: it makes the news.
Speaker 3: No, it only makes well.
Speaker 4: It would have made the news anyway, but it's it's
Speaker 4: only done right. It makes the news because it was
Speaker 4: done wrong the previous time.
Speaker 2: All right, coming out of the Trump administration that hasn't
Speaker 2: even been in the White House yet, a ton of curveballs.
Speaker 2: President Elect Trump announced Representative Matt Gates is going to
Speaker 2: serve as his attorney general. A loyal congressional ally. We've
Speaker 2: seen him. He's one of those yellers when he's sitting
Speaker 2: in the audience there. He himself was subject of a
Speaker 2: Justice Department investigation, and President elect Donald Trump said, it's
Speaker 2: my great honor to announce that Congressman Matt Gates of
Speaker 2: Florida is hereby nominated to be the Attorney General of
Speaker 2: the United States, and they're going to really focus on
Speaker 2: de weaponizing.
Speaker 3: Okay, justice.
Speaker 4: The couple comments Amy just came in during the break
Speaker 4: and what's happening Matt Gates is resigning his seat to
Speaker 4: go for the cabinet post. Oh and a few and
Speaker 4: there's more than I think there's two or three already
Speaker 4: that he has selected that are resigning their seats. And
Speaker 4: Amy said, doesn't that put the house in jeopard They go, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think there's an issue there.
Speaker 3: Interesting, I thought the same thing. Wait when happening?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And there's that, And then the selection of Matt
Speaker 4: Gates this morning with Ann, I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 4: we're trying to figure out his background. You know, what
Speaker 4: kind of background does he have? This is all we've
Speaker 4: come up with, and you can do your research. He
Speaker 4: went to William and Mary Law School. It's good law school,
Speaker 4: by the way, and he got out and started working
Speaker 4: as an attorney for three years at a nine man
Speaker 4: firm that does commercial litigation contracts. When you get out
Speaker 4: of law school and you start working for a law firm,
Speaker 4: you are at the bottom of the barrel. The first
Speaker 4: two three years you're not doing very much. You're sort
Speaker 4: of learning how to practice law. Then he goes into
Speaker 4: politics and runs for supervise. His entire legal background is
Speaker 4: working as a junior attorney for a nine person law
Speaker 4: firm and now he is nominated for Attorney General of
Speaker 4: the United States. I would feel better if a paralegal
Speaker 4: who had been involved in a law firm for ten
Speaker 4: years were nominated.
Speaker 2: That's like the equivalent of you being nominated exactly, except
Speaker 2: I practiced badly, but you can even But you can say,
Speaker 2: handle practice for twenty years, he practiced for three.
Speaker 3: How come there are no standards?
Speaker 4: Well, because the President can nominate anybody under any circumstances,
Speaker 4: and there is no requirement to be a Attorney general.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's required. Well, maybe there is, but
Speaker 3: it's maybe it's just you have to be a lawyer.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: The only judicial position in the United States that exists
Speaker 4: where you don't have to be a judge, and it's
Speaker 4: a judicial position one Supreme Court justice. You don't have
Speaker 4: to be have any legal background to be a justice
Speaker 4: Supreme Court. Everybody else you have to be a lawyer
Speaker 4: for five years or fifteen years, or be a judge
Speaker 4: or whatever for a given number of years.
Speaker 5: But do the people who end up on the Supreme
Speaker 5: Court are they're mostly judges?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all Yeah, they're all judges.
Speaker 4: They've all clerked for Supreme Court judges or there have
Speaker 4: been lawyers who have clerked and have deep knowledge of
Speaker 4: constitutional Yeah, I mean, you know you've got that.
Speaker 3: They today it's far more political.
Speaker 4: But even the most wildly political appointments like what Trump
Speaker 4: made with Barrett, and you know, when you have the
Speaker 4: Alitos and Kavanaugh, I mean, they are deeply credentialed. There
Speaker 4: is no way around the fact that they are. They
Speaker 4: have deep knowledge. You may disagree with them. This one
Speaker 4: is so crazy that I think even the Republicans are going,
Speaker 4: what is going on here? It's Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to get nominated. I think
Speaker 4: and when Amy come in, does he have much of
Speaker 4: a chance? I said, I, you know, be nominated. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to make it. I think
Speaker 4: he's gonna. I think Trump's gonna pull it. Has to,
Speaker 4: just has to.
Speaker 2: I mean, this it's doesn't He wasn't he accused of
Speaker 2: some Yeah he was, but they dropped the charges.
Speaker 4: And you're going to hear another accusation that he was
Speaker 4: suspended from the practice of law for a period of time,
Speaker 4: and that's crapola. By the way, he was suspended because
Speaker 4: he was late on his bar dues.
Speaker 3: And then he paid him and he was fine.
Speaker 4: I was suspended nineteen ninety three or nineteen ninety four
Speaker 4: because I missed the date where I had to submit
Speaker 4: the classes that I have to take for continuing education.
Speaker 3: He had to take certain number of classes.
Speaker 4: Work and I was late in submitting my classes that
Speaker 4: I took. Well, they don't screw around. You don't submit
Speaker 4: him on time. You are suspended until and what ended
Speaker 4: up happening. Of course, I whoops, and I you know,
Speaker 4: a week later, I was reinstated.
Speaker 3: But that's ridiculous. You know how late Kono is on
Speaker 3: his bar.
Speaker 6: Tab Okay, different kind of.
Speaker 3: Bar, Yeah, different kind of bar.
Speaker 4: I have a lower bar than he does, even if
Speaker 4: he goes down in the basement.
Speaker 6: Okay, Thun takes the room.
Speaker 5: Senate Republicans have elected Senator John Thune of South Dakota
Speaker 5: as the next Senate Majority leader. There was a secret
Speaker 5: ballot vote. Thun won it twenty nine to twenty four,
Speaker 5: beat out Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Florida's Governor
Speaker 5: Rick Scott.
Speaker 6: That's the one that Trump wanted.
Speaker 5: Thune is going to succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
Speaker 5: who's held the leader's position in the Senate for the
Speaker 5: Republicans since two thousand and seven.
Speaker 6: He's the longest serving Senate party leader in history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Thune is not as conservative as Cornyn or
Speaker 4: Rick Scott. And this is where the Senate has moved
Speaker 4: into a different direction. So you know, there's a little
Speaker 4: bit of wiggle room here where the Senate is being
Speaker 4: somewhat somewhat independent saying no, we want this guy over
Speaker 4: here and not who Trump wanted or not what the
Speaker 4: hard right wanted. I mean, he's conservative, don't misunderstand, but
Speaker 4: nothing like that.
Speaker 3: So there's a little bit of hope that there may
Speaker 3: be some rationality someplace Heaven forbid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, US government employee who worked in some capacity, we
Speaker 2: don't know if he was a contractor or specifically an employee,
Speaker 2: but at some capacity for the CIA basis charges over
Speaker 2: in an online leak of classified documents. Now, these documents
Speaker 2: were about Israel's potential plans for retaliatory strike against Iran.
Speaker 2: So don't say anything, handle, let me get through this.
Speaker 2: Federal prosecutors charged a sief Brahman, who held one of
Speaker 2: the highest levels of security clearance, with two counts of
Speaker 2: illegal transmission of notional defense information after classified government records
Speaker 2: were released about that said Israel's possible plans to strike
Speaker 2: surfaced online.
Speaker 3: Nothing to say, Yeah, kind of guy. I just thought
Speaker 3: you'd hear his name and no, no, just surprising you.
Speaker 3: That's all not Irish. You know what I'm saying. I understand. Okay,
Speaker 3: who didn't see that coming.
Speaker 5: The US is walking a fine line with Israel. So
Speaker 5: you'll remember that they put up a thirty day deadline
Speaker 5: for Israel to boost humanitarian aid access to Gaza or
Speaker 5: risk having some military assistance cut. And that thirty days
Speaker 5: has come and gone. And now the US is saying
Speaker 5: Israel has not breached American laws by blocking aid supplies.
Speaker 5: They say that Israel has taken a number of steps
Speaker 5: to address the demands to surge supplies into Gaza. More
Speaker 5: stuff is getting in, but not nearly enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not near, not even close enough. Israel is prog Yeah,
Speaker 4: in Israel's not doing nearly enough. I mean when you
Speaker 4: talk about humanitarian aid, I mean people living in tents,
Speaker 4: no water, no toilet facilities, food, medicine is at critical shortages. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm all in favor of Israel defending itself and
Speaker 4: pumbling the crap out of out of Gaza because of
Speaker 4: what Hamas did. But you know how many kids do
Speaker 4: you walk around that are scrawny and going, wait, they
Speaker 4: have to have food and the UN is prepared to
Speaker 4: do it. Now, there's another side of that, and that
Speaker 4: is how much food is going to Hamas? How much
Speaker 4: food UNRAD the United Nations Food Program. And I mean
Speaker 4: there's thirty thousand people work there. You know, how many
Speaker 4: of them are pro politically pro Palestinian.
Speaker 3: And the argument is some of them were even involved.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're talking about people that work for the
Speaker 4: UN involved in the attack on October seventh.
Speaker 2: Well, couldn't they start with women and children knowing that
Speaker 2: women and children are not going to be part of Hamas?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but who's going to But who's in a monitor?
Speaker 4: That that's the problem, you know, who is going to
Speaker 4: be the person who decides where or when? How?
Speaker 3: And so it's difficult. I mean, none of this is easy.
Speaker 3: It's a mess.
Speaker 4: I'm just hoping at some point the people in Gadzi realized, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what, maybe Kamas is really not on our
Speaker 4: side so much.
Speaker 3: People in Lebanon maybe.
Speaker 4: Hausbala shouldn't have attacked Israel just in solidarity because Israel
Speaker 4: was leaving us alone.
Speaker 3: Now what? All right?
Speaker 2: A bit of a bump in October with inflation after
Speaker 2: slowing for six straight months. So the annual rate of
Speaker 2: inflation moved higher last month for the first time since March.
Speaker 2: Was expected, but the underlying trend of remained favorable for
Speaker 2: another round of interest rates cuts. So maybe we'll see
Speaker 2: some soon enough.
Speaker 4: Inflation may really start going up. Wait until you see
Speaker 4: these teriffs coming in. Not the tariffs aren't good under
Speaker 4: certain circumstances, but one one of the possibilities, one of
Speaker 4: the fallouts, which and it's a given, inflation is going
Speaker 4: to go up.
Speaker 3: Just how much?
Speaker 4: How many jobs are going to be created and we're
Speaker 4: willing to pay for it or people willing to pay. Okay,
Speaker 4: we'll take inflation, but two hundred thousand jobs are going
Speaker 4: to be created.
Speaker 3: It's a whole formula there, and tariffs.
Speaker 2: A long term game, though not necessarily term, isn't it
Speaker 2: if you're trying to get jobs back there?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: No, the job's part, yes, because if you have manufacturing
Speaker 4: that's being brought in from Mexico, from China and goods
Speaker 4: are coming in and the country tariffs those goods and
Speaker 4: says we'd rather have American workers build those goods or
Speaker 4: simple you have to have a factory to do it,
Speaker 4: and that doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker 3: The tariff happens overnight.
Speaker 4: But you're right in terms of the fallout can take
Speaker 4: a long time. And if you're talking about a very
Speaker 4: high tech job, and a very high tech that's not
Speaker 4: built in three months. So it's the long game. It
Speaker 4: is a long game.
Speaker 5: Well, Smith's gonna quit. Jack Smith, the special counsel who's
Speaker 5: investigating two federal cases against President elect Trump, says he's
Speaker 5: going to wrap up his work and step down with
Speaker 5: his team before Trump takes office. It might be a
Speaker 5: preemptive thing because Trump has said that he intended to dismith,
Speaker 5: dismiss Jack Smith immediately when he took office.
Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely, he was going to fire Jack Smith. I
Speaker 4: mean the guy is leading the legal legal charge against him,
Speaker 4: a federal crime. Of course, said Trump's going to say that.
Speaker 4: But Jack Smith, to his credit, said, you're not firing me.
Speaker 4: I quit. Trump says, no, I'm firing you. Don't quit
Speaker 4: until I fire you. No, I quit first, you think.
Speaker 3: That's the conversation.
Speaker 2: What do you think it would have been worse if
Speaker 2: Trump let him stay and didn't fire him and just
Speaker 2: helped like he never knew if he was going to
Speaker 2: get fired or not, and is on pins and needles
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 4: And maybe a charge is finally filed against the president
Speaker 4: and then he dismisses the case and goes, hey, just kidding.
Speaker 4: It's a lot like the biblical world. You know, Abraham
Speaker 4: and Isaac. You know, the knife is about to go
Speaker 4: into Isaac's chest and God goes, hey, just kidding, not serious.
Speaker 3: Heir, whoa, whoa? You were gonna do it? Look at
Speaker 3: your face?
Speaker 2: Yeah, alrighty, this is the best story in the world.
Speaker 2: And if you haven't seen the video, go look at it.
Speaker 2: Some of the dumbest humans on the planet. Apparently you've
Speaker 2: got like four suspects here, three insurance claims involving what
Speaker 2: they said was a bear damaging their luxury car in
Speaker 2: Lake Arrowhead or big Bear or something like that, and
Speaker 2: it turns out to be fraud because it was a
Speaker 2: man in a bear costume. And you know the forks
Speaker 2: that they used to when you're cooking low and slow
Speaker 2: and you're doing barbecue when you have like pulled pork
Speaker 2: and stuff, there's these forks that you hold in your
Speaker 2: hands that pull them apart.
Speaker 6: That's what they use.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they use as the clause. So they're symmetrical. They're
Speaker 2: like an inch and a half apart. They look don't
Speaker 2: look like claws at all.
Speaker 4: And uh, it's this is I mean, this is so
Speaker 4: hilarious and even to the point where they went to
Speaker 4: a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Speaker 4: to review it and goes, yeah, that's a guy with
Speaker 4: a costume. It's obviously a guy with a costume.
Speaker 3: You've got to see the video.
Speaker 2: It's it is and the scratch marks are all symmetrical.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they were doing.
Speaker 2: Uh, but they're range in age between twenty six and
Speaker 2: thirty nine.
Speaker 4: And they all live in Glendale, well just down the stead,
Speaker 4: three or four of them.
Speaker 3: Do, and then one of them lives in Valley Village.
Speaker 4: But okay, North Hollywood that we're negotiating. In other words,
Speaker 4: it's all within three miles of year, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they said the bear entered their twenty ten rolls. Royce,
Speaker 2: I love it ghost. I love it all right.
Speaker 5: Big changes on day one in the DA's office. La
Speaker 5: County has a new district Attorney. It's Nathan Hawkman. He
Speaker 5: was elected a week ago. He'll be sworn in December.
Speaker 6: Second.
Speaker 5: He beat incumbent George Gascone by a landslide. He got
Speaker 5: over sixty percent of the vote. Gascon got just under
Speaker 5: forty percent. Hawkman said the people of La County chose
Speaker 5: public safety over politics. That's why Gascon will be leaving office,
Speaker 5: and says on day one he's going to eliminate Gascone's
Speaker 5: extreme pro criminal policies.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Cascone came into office on the legs, on the tails
Speaker 4: of the Black Lives Matter movement, where the police the
Speaker 4: prosecutors were bad people, and now it's gone the other way.
Speaker 3: The pendulum has swung as it does.
Speaker 4: And I've often said that when the prosecutors under George
Speaker 4: Gascone's office show up to prosecute a criminal defendant, both
Speaker 4: the prosecution and the defense sit at the same table
Speaker 4: because they're all on the same side. And I think
Speaker 4: it was that bad. So anyway, he's gone, no surprise,
Speaker 4: no surprise, get some law and order back.
Speaker 3: All righty.
Speaker 2: So everybody's scrambling in the White House and beyond to
Speaker 2: try and Trump proof everything. I suppose the Biden administration
Speaker 2: is now determined in its final months to help ensure
Speaker 2: that Ukraine can keep fighting off Russia's full scale invasion
Speaker 2: on into next year. So they're sending as much aid
Speaker 2: as gospel so they could they might hold Russian forces
Speaker 2: at bay as long as they can with the assumption
Speaker 2: that Trump is.
Speaker 3: Going to not send any more Aida. You don't know,
Speaker 3: I mean, Trump is equivocating on that.
Speaker 4: Vance has outright said we stop aiding Ukraine instantly.
Speaker 3: They're on their own.
Speaker 4: And I'll be talking a little bit later on about
Speaker 4: the kind of involvement US government is going to have internationally.
Speaker 4: Things are going to change pretty dramatically. But Biden is
Speaker 4: just going balls to the wall as much as he can.
Speaker 4: You know. Just it's like going to an all you
Speaker 4: can eat buffet and you're there near closing time, and
Speaker 4: you want to cram in as much as you possibly
Speaker 4: can before those doors close.
Speaker 3: I can understand that. Been there, done that profound thank you.
Speaker 5: Israel's not taking its foot off the gas. Israel's military
Speaker 5: ground owned operation in southern Lebanon has been expanded. The
Speaker 5: Defense Minister Israel Katz didn't say when the decision to
Speaker 5: expand operations would May, didn't offer details, but they launched
Speaker 5: a limited ground operation to get rid of Hesbeala early
Speaker 5: last month, and it's just intensified since then.
Speaker 3: Don't I don't understand Hesbelah.
Speaker 4: Israel was not particularly a threat to Hesbela, not interested
Speaker 4: in invading Lebanon. It was, I mean, it was not
Speaker 4: pleasant between the two, but there was not a big
Speaker 4: issue at least up to the.
Speaker 3: War in Gaza.
Speaker 4: And because Hamas unloaded onto Israel, Hesbela says, well, we're
Speaker 4: going to join the fight. Yeah, let me tell you
Speaker 4: what that's going to cost him. Yeah, they've done it before.
Speaker 4: Southern Lebanon is going to be a wasteland. I sometimes
Speaker 4: I just don't understand it well.
Speaker 3: Or you have your.
Speaker 4: Religious and political beliefs, your fundamentalist beliefs that are more
Speaker 4: important than your own people, than governance, than any of that.
Speaker 4: And that's the cases going on over there. And the
Speaker 4: only member left in the cabinet many Guns, who was
Speaker 4: sort of one it is considered a moderate gone gone.
Speaker 3: So now you have all hardliners. Oh, so great story.
Speaker 2: What Ukraine's border guards wanted to trademark the anti Russian
Speaker 2: wartime insult Russian warship go f yourself full word there,
Speaker 2: because it's a political slogan. The EU Court ruled that
Speaker 2: they can't. So it was this defiant response of Ukrainian
Speaker 2: defenders to a Russian warship calling for surrender in the
Speaker 2: early days of the Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.
Speaker 2: But there's no way for them.
Speaker 4: Well, if they wanted a copyright, they want a trademarket
Speaker 4: so they could sell merch.
Speaker 3: Can't they shirt?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they wanted to copyright it. They wanted to
Speaker 4: Russian warship go with yourself. They wanted that so they
Speaker 4: could own it. And the European Court said, no, you
Speaker 4: can't do that. This is political and so other people
Speaker 4: can go ahead and we can create t shirts that
Speaker 4: say that I think Russia.
Speaker 3: It'd be funny if Putin did just to fund the war.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that would be funny because it'd be a big seller.
Speaker 4: What's already a big cellar, but that would be a
Speaker 4: big sellar Ukraine.
Speaker 3: You go after yourself.
Speaker 2: It's like those those Dodgers shirts I see being sold
Speaker 2: in front of home depots. Now the where Dodgers is
Speaker 2: misspelled and they're like, hey, world champion.
Speaker 3: All right, we do one work.
Speaker 6: Overdose deaths are down.
Speaker 5: There were about ninety seven thousand deaths in the twelve
Speaker 5: months that ended June thirtieth, which is good news because
Speaker 5: that's down fourteen percent from the estimated one hundred and
Speaker 5: thirteen thousand from the previous twelve months. Officials are saying
Speaker 5: od deaths started climbing in the nineties because of opioid
Speaker 5: and then we had heroin and then fentanyl. But there
Speaker 5: was a slight decline for twenty twenty three, and then
Speaker 5: the new numbers are showing that that downward trend is continuing. Hello, Bill,
Speaker 5: very interesting story, Amy, What what were you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh it's time the lot out because we're changing our topics, Neil,
Speaker 4: and because you're leaving early, I have.
Speaker 3: To read we're still doing the show, dude.
Speaker 4: I thought we were walking out. I thought someone was
Speaker 4: going to walk out.
Speaker 3: Oh that mid June you lock out. I've been multitasking. Here,
Speaker 3: leave me alone.
Speaker 4: I'm rushing through a story that you are join me
Speaker 4: because you are leaving early.
Speaker 3: So I'm just seeing through.
Speaker 2: This whatever you need, mister Biden. Okay, pleasure of your stupidity.
Speaker 4: Okay, coming up a story that I'm just reading through
Speaker 4: right now, because we're moving it around so you can
Speaker 4: be in on it, Neil, because you are leaving early.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I get it. I'm leaving early. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Training wheels are coming off.
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