WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.679 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:11.640 six forty. 3 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.400 What happened, Well, your hands were moving and your lips 4 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:14.839 were moving. 5 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.839 But you know what, can you hear me now? Yeah? Yeah, wow, 6 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:18.679 you know what happened? 7 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:24.160 I spilled some coffee on my microphone. I actually spilled 8 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:26.800 some call me on my microphone on off switch. 9 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.519 So maybe that'll do it. Yeah, hopefully it drives off, 10 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:31.280 so we'll see. 11 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:36.280 And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen. Here's 12 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:37.520 Bill Handle. 13 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:44.159 KFI AM six forty. Bill Handle. 14 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:49.799 Here. It is a Thursday, November fourteenth. We're halfway through 15 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:53.320 fun politics today. Ah, do we have stuff to talk about? 16 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:58.799 Joe Larsguard coming in at eight o'clock. I just just 17 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:02.079 some more fun Trump stuff only because this is going 18 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:05.079 to be the most entertaining four years you have ever seen. 19 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.400 And it started. It's starting with a roar to say 20 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:12.400 the least. All right, good morning to everybody. 21 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:13.840 Amy, good morning, Hi Bill. 22 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:14.200 Hi. 23 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.200 Aren't we happy campers? Yes, yes we are. 24 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:20.200 Amy came in with a sweater. I thought I was 25 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:21.680 on an acid trip this morning. 26 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.439 And Verice, it's a little loud. I like it. I 27 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:29.319 like it. I like cloud again. It's hard to guess, 28 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:29.719 isn't it. 29 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.519 Yeah? Anyway, purple and flower it is. 30 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.079 Purple, flowery, yeah and cono. You're dressed up well this morning, 31 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.959 as in do you let me ask you something? Is 32 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:40.879 it one set of clothes you have? Or is it 33 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.640 five sets of the exact same outfit? 34 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:48.120 Five sets of the exact same They coming packs, They 35 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.359 come in bulk like Costco. That's great. 36 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:52.959 Then you have to you don't have to worry about, 37 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.640 you know, changing and looking at what you're going to 38 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.480 be wearing. It's just the same, you know, here we 39 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.120 go this acually not a bad idea. There is an 40 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:05.319 Australian television show, you know, so I love it. 41 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.520 I love Australian TV. I'm trying to what it is. 42 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.000 But this is a woman lawyer who'd write exactly the 43 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:15.360 same outfit every single day, and she has half a 44 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:16.800 dozen of them and it doesn't change. 45 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.599 Makes it easy for her? Is my work attire? Though? 46 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.919 Ye didn't they say that about Einstein? I don't know. 47 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.759 Einstein have the same set of clothes so he didn't 48 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:29.919 have to waste energy thinking about what he was going 49 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:30.240 to wear. 50 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.319 Don't know, I don't know. Maybe an old wives tale 51 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:38.319 who knows Neil? How you doing? Good, sir. 52 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:42.840 I'm humored by your assessment of people's clothing, because taking, 53 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.719 you know, outfit advice from Bill Handle is like taking 54 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:51.120 outfit advice from Bill Handle. 55 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.000 Yeah. True, Oh, I know I'm wearing. Oh, I'm wearing 56 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:56.159 my Zellman shirt today. 57 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:58.400 I know. I know I'm gonna do some. 58 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:03.039 How come you have a Zone's shirt and I don't exactly. Oh, 59 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.360 but this is where you go. It's a food chain issue. 60 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.240 It is a food chain issue. It's always a food 61 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:12.439 chain issue. Yeah, and good morning, great to be here. Yeah. Still, 62 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.240 you know, do I sound congested? I'm still. The thing 63 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.960 is lingering and it's driving me crazy. You have to 64 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:21.319 do something. It is driving me completely bonkers. 65 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.719 And here I am in the studio and Ann is 66 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.680 making damn sure that there are monitors between us at 67 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:31.719 every point across this desk. 68 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:35.080 Yeah, you're gonna see. Let me tell you. 69 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:39.120 By the time I'm finished today, you'll see a Jackson 70 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.199 Pollock painting on the walls. 71 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.319 The first time I've ever seen Anne wear a sneeze 72 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.240 gar like a saliquer. 73 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:54.360 Yeah. Nice, All right, guys, we have anything new? 74 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.120 You know you want to bring to the table. No, 75 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:57.960 anybody want to say anything. 76 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.240 Oh, I'll be broadcasting live on the twenty third in 77 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.719 Lake Forest at the Smart and Final there. 78 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:04.800 Oh yeah, I'll be there. 79 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.639 Are you Because someone asked me yesterday I said, I 80 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:09.199 think so. 81 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:11.000 I will be there. I will be there. I tried 82 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.479 to go, you'll see the whole show? Or are you 83 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.960 just gonna walk come by? I don't know. I am 84 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.240 decided yet. We can go shopping together, we could? 85 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.319 I like to get ball? 86 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:26.600 Yeah, yeah, of course. Also we have a I'm trying 87 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.079 something new. We're going to bring it to bring it 88 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:29.879 to the show. 89 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:31.040 And. 90 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:34.399 Neil explain what we're going to do, because you have 91 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:38.079 a better way of explaining it, or and all right, 92 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:41.839 she's putting it together and what Neil explained. It's gonna 93 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.959 be phone calls that are going to come in and 94 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.360 people are gonna ask me questions. They're gonna be recorded, 95 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:51.639 and they're gonna choose and and Neil gonna choose which questions, 96 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:53.759 and then I'm going to answer them on the air, 97 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.759 having not heard the question correct. So it'll be completely spontaneous. 98 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.920 In the digital world, they call them amas or ask 99 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.680 me anything, and people will be able to go on 100 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.639 to the iHeartRadio app on their phone and there's a 101 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.759 little red button with a microphone on it talk back, 102 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.480 and you press that, you've got thirty seconds to ask 103 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.240 a question. You will not know what they are and 104 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:22.839 will and you'll answer any question that's asked of you. 105 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.040 Now make it fifteen seconds, because thirty seconds is way 106 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.680 too long to ask a question. And there'll be a 107 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.759 couple of rules like I don't want to hear your 108 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:35.360 political viewpoint. I don't give a rats ask Okay, keep 109 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.920 those to yourself. It's asked me a question and I 110 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.399 don't care what it is. It can be as personal 111 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.160 as you want. Now, you know, you know how many 112 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:48.360 times you know have I I've never been in the 113 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:50.519 army bill have you ever had been discharged? 114 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.480 Well, yeah, I've had some discharges. You know. 115 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.839 I will answer personal questions. I don't have a problem 116 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:56.120 with that. 117 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.439 But just be great. Yeah, it's going to be very strong. 118 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:01.000 It's the first one. 119 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.399 I won't to start recording him. Maybe today and tomorrow, 120 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:04.279 we'll do him next week. 121 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:06.519 I just want to know when we're all going to 122 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:07.480 have to look for a job. 123 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.279 Yeah, it should be all you're gonna edit him. 124 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.199 So, No, it should be a lot of fun. 125 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.160 Should be a lot of fun, and I'm gonna try 126 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.720 to be, you know, to the extent that I can. Obviously, 127 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.439 there's some FCC limitations. There are some g I'd like 128 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:21.759 to work here limitations. 129 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:23.959 Cognitive limitation, Yeah. 130 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:27.160 There are certainly cognitive there're Joe Biden limitations, certainly. But 131 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.639 for the most part, it's gonna be a lot of fun. 132 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.120 And I hear him the same time you do. It 133 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.120 will be like handling the law. I don't know what 134 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:33.879 the questions are. 135 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.720 Do you hear that there the Joe Biden Doctor Joe 136 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:41.040 Biden is having a replica of the Oval Office built 137 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:45.079 in their home so he doesn't get shocked by the change. 138 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:50.639 I haven't. But that's not funny either, Okay, don't dare you? 139 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:52.839 How dare you judge my humors? 140 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.160 Yes, So anyway, we'll talk about it and how to 141 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.519 do it sort of throughout the morning. I'm going to 142 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:01.360 play with it today and tomorrow and maybe Monday Tuesday 143 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:03.240 will do it to see if it works as a segment, 144 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:05.079 because it sounds like fun. 145 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.079 All right, guys, let's do it. 146 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:10.160 Handle on the news with Amy, Neil and Me lead storry. 147 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:13.839 Winging baby, and no surprise. 148 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:17.399 The Republicans have one control of the House. They have 149 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:22.800 one control of the Senate, and as predicted by many, 150 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.800 they the Republicans now have control of the White House. 151 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.879 Although I wouldn't call Donald Trump a Republican, I'd call 152 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:34.480 him a Donald trumpst And now it gets really interesting. 153 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.240 I mean, what is going to happen. Mike Johnson, the Speaker, 154 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:40.519 has made it real clear his job is to promote 155 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:45.199 Trump's legislative agenda. That's what Congress is there for, bottom line, 156 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:47.720 nothing else, no dissension. 157 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.839 Whatever you want, Master, I give you. 158 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:53.879 Explain though, Bill that when you say that they have 159 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.680 control over the Senate in the White House, that it's 160 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.079 due to voting. I just don't want anybody think that 161 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:06.519 there is you know, people breaking glass and or making 162 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:07.079 into these. 163 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.720 Yes understand, or overrunning the House itself. Congress people don't 164 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:13.720 have to do that, because I don't insurge. Right, they 165 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.680 already have it. They have the key. Yes, yeah, But 166 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:18.959 and we're going to see a little bit later on. 167 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.079 I'm going to do at seven o'clock, I'm going to 168 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:25.879 do probably the craziest appointment so far, nomination that is 169 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.639 just I'm still shaking my head as other Republicans are. 170 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:30.160 I'll do that coming up at seven o'clock. 171 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.679 Biden promises a smooth move in front of a roaring 172 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:40.360 fire in the Oval Office. President elect Trump and President 173 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:44.279 Biden sat down for a meeting yesterday. It was Trump's 174 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:46.039 first time to the White House since he was voted 175 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:46.840 out of office. 176 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:48.159 They did a. 177 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.519 Photo op, shook hands. Trump said the politics is tough, 178 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:55.360 but thanked President Biden for making it a smooth transition. 179 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:57.240 Biden said, you're welcome. 180 00:08:57.720 --> 00:08:59.600 Yeah, you know, that's the way it's supposed. 181 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.039 To be, right, it looks so normal. 182 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:02.960 Yeah, that's I mean, that's it. And no, here again 183 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:06.679 my bitch about Trump. You know, last time around when 184 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:08.879 there was an issue and we didn't even know if 185 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.120 he was going to leave the White House because he 186 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.600 still maintained he won the presidency. And finally he understood 187 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.600 that he has to leave the White House because sticker 188 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:21.639 surface would have thrown him out on January twentieth had 189 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:25.159 he not. And you know, Biden comes back and he said, 190 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:27.639 but it's a class act. You know, of course I'm 191 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.840 going to invite you to the White House. It's tradition 192 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:32.720 to have the incoming president. So you know, I mean, 193 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:37.840 what's he gonna do? So, yeah, we're in for just 194 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:39.519 a ride. And I keep on saying that. 195 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:42.639 I'm just isn't it weird that when it's done right 196 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:43.799 it makes the news. 197 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:45.519 No, it only makes well. 198 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:47.559 It would have made the news anyway, but it's it's 199 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:49.480 only done right. It makes the news because it was 200 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:51.519 done wrong the previous time. 201 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:55.799 All right, coming out of the Trump administration that hasn't 202 00:09:55.799 --> 00:10:00.759 even been in the White House yet, a ton of curveballs. 203 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:07.399 President Elect Trump announced Representative Matt Gates is going to 204 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:13.080 serve as his attorney general. A loyal congressional ally. We've 205 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.559 seen him. He's one of those yellers when he's sitting 206 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.840 in the audience there. He himself was subject of a 207 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:27.080 Justice Department investigation, and President elect Donald Trump said, it's 208 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:30.879 my great honor to announce that Congressman Matt Gates of 209 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.799 Florida is hereby nominated to be the Attorney General of 210 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.159 the United States, and they're going to really focus on 211 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:38.399 de weaponizing. 212 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:40.679 Okay, justice. 213 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.840 The couple comments Amy just came in during the break 214 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.159 and what's happening Matt Gates is resigning his seat to 215 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.600 go for the cabinet post. Oh and a few and 216 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:54.919 there's more than I think there's two or three already 217 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.600 that he has selected that are resigning their seats. And 218 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:00.720 Amy said, doesn't that put the house in jeopard They go, yeah, 219 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:02.120 I think there's an issue there. 220 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.840 Interesting, I thought the same thing. Wait when happening? 221 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.519 Yeah, And there's that, And then the selection of Matt 222 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:11.879 Gates this morning with Ann, I'm trying to figure out 223 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.120 we're trying to figure out his background. You know, what 224 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:19.919 kind of background does he have? This is all we've 225 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.399 come up with, and you can do your research. He 226 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.519 went to William and Mary Law School. It's good law school, 227 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.759 by the way, and he got out and started working 228 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:35.879 as an attorney for three years at a nine man 229 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:42.480 firm that does commercial litigation contracts. When you get out 230 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:46.000 of law school and you start working for a law firm, 231 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:50.159 you are at the bottom of the barrel. The first 232 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.240 two three years you're not doing very much. You're sort 233 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.279 of learning how to practice law. Then he goes into 234 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:04.000 politics and runs for supervise. His entire legal background is 235 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:09.879 working as a junior attorney for a nine person law 236 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:15.919 firm and now he is nominated for Attorney General of 237 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.919 the United States. I would feel better if a paralegal 238 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.799 who had been involved in a law firm for ten 239 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:23.399 years were nominated. 240 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:28.080 That's like the equivalent of you being nominated exactly, except 241 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.200 I practiced badly, but you can even But you can say, 242 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:35.440 handle practice for twenty years, he practiced for three. 243 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.120 How come there are no standards? 244 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.480 Well, because the President can nominate anybody under any circumstances, 245 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:46.399 and there is no requirement to be a Attorney general. 246 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.720 I don't think it's required. Well, maybe there is, but 247 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.360 it's maybe it's just you have to be a lawyer. 248 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:51.559 You know. 249 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.720 The only judicial position in the United States that exists 250 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.360 where you don't have to be a judge, and it's 251 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:01.440 a judicial position one Supreme Court justice. You don't have 252 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:04.879 to be have any legal background to be a justice 253 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:07.720 Supreme Court. Everybody else you have to be a lawyer 254 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:09.720 for five years or fifteen years, or be a judge 255 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:11.320 or whatever for a given number of years. 256 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:13.720 But do the people who end up on the Supreme 257 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.000 Court are they're mostly judges? 258 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:17.519 Yeah, they're all Yeah, they're all judges. 259 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.200 They've all clerked for Supreme Court judges or there have 260 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:23.639 been lawyers who have clerked and have deep knowledge of 261 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:26.799 constitutional Yeah, I mean, you know you've got that. 262 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.879 They today it's far more political. 263 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.799 But even the most wildly political appointments like what Trump 264 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.240 made with Barrett, and you know, when you have the 265 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:42.840 Alitos and Kavanaugh, I mean, they are deeply credentialed. There 266 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:45.960 is no way around the fact that they are. They 267 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.440 have deep knowledge. You may disagree with them. This one 268 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:52.919 is so crazy that I think even the Republicans are going, 269 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:59.879 what is going on here? It's Yeah, I don't get it. 270 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:01.600 I don't think he's going to get nominated. I think 271 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:03.559 and when Amy come in, does he have much of 272 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.159 a chance? I said, I, you know, be nominated. Yeah, 273 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:07.480 I don't think he's going to make it. I think 274 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.720 he's gonna. I think Trump's gonna pull it. Has to, 275 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:11.519 just has to. 276 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:15.440 I mean, this it's doesn't He wasn't he accused of 277 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:17.919 some Yeah he was, but they dropped the charges. 278 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.559 And you're going to hear another accusation that he was 279 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.799 suspended from the practice of law for a period of time, 280 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.720 and that's crapola. By the way, he was suspended because 281 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:29.720 he was late on his bar dues. 282 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.879 And then he paid him and he was fine. 283 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:35.639 I was suspended nineteen ninety three or nineteen ninety four 284 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.360 because I missed the date where I had to submit 285 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.320 the classes that I have to take for continuing education. 286 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:43.159 He had to take certain number of classes. 287 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:47.799 Work and I was late in submitting my classes that 288 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.840 I took. Well, they don't screw around. You don't submit 289 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:55.080 him on time. You are suspended until and what ended 290 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:57.519 up happening. Of course, I whoops, and I you know, 291 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:59.120 a week later, I was reinstated. 292 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:03.440 But that's ridiculous. You know how late Kono is on 293 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:04.039 his bar. 294 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.960 Tab Okay, different kind of. 295 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:09.120 Bar, Yeah, different kind of bar. 296 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:13.200 I have a lower bar than he does, even if 297 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:14.399 he goes down in the basement. 298 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.039 Okay, Thun takes the room. 299 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:23.120 Senate Republicans have elected Senator John Thune of South Dakota 300 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.879 as the next Senate Majority leader. There was a secret 301 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.480 ballot vote. Thun won it twenty nine to twenty four, 302 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:34.600 beat out Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Florida's Governor 303 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:35.320 Rick Scott. 304 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:36.840 That's the one that Trump wanted. 305 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.519 Thune is going to succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 306 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:44.960 who's held the leader's position in the Senate for the 307 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.799 Republicans since two thousand and seven. 308 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.960 He's the longest serving Senate party leader in history. 309 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:55.039 Yeah, and Thune is not as conservative as Cornyn or 310 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.799 Rick Scott. And this is where the Senate has moved 311 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:03.720 into a different direction. So you know, there's a little 312 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.440 bit of wiggle room here where the Senate is being 313 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:10.279 somewhat somewhat independent saying no, we want this guy over 314 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:14.320 here and not who Trump wanted or not what the 315 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.679 hard right wanted. I mean, he's conservative, don't misunderstand, but 316 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:18.919 nothing like that. 317 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.080 So there's a little bit of hope that there may 318 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:24.679 be some rationality someplace Heaven forbid. 319 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:29.279 Yeah, US government employee who worked in some capacity, we 320 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:33.799 don't know if he was a contractor or specifically an employee, 321 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.120 but at some capacity for the CIA basis charges over 322 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.799 in an online leak of classified documents. Now, these documents 323 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.320 were about Israel's potential plans for retaliatory strike against Iran. 324 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.919 So don't say anything, handle, let me get through this. 325 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:55.279 Federal prosecutors charged a sief Brahman, who held one of 326 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:58.080 the highest levels of security clearance, with two counts of 327 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.960 illegal transmission of notional defense information after classified government records 328 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.839 were released about that said Israel's possible plans to strike 329 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:09.319 surfaced online. 330 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.480 Nothing to say, Yeah, kind of guy. I just thought 331 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:20.440 you'd hear his name and no, no, just surprising you. 332 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:25.960 That's all not Irish. You know what I'm saying. I understand. Okay, 333 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:27.680 who didn't see that coming. 334 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:31.799 The US is walking a fine line with Israel. So 335 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:36.279 you'll remember that they put up a thirty day deadline 336 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:40.200 for Israel to boost humanitarian aid access to Gaza or 337 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:44.920 risk having some military assistance cut. And that thirty days 338 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:46.960 has come and gone. And now the US is saying 339 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.960 Israel has not breached American laws by blocking aid supplies. 340 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:52.839 They say that Israel has taken a number of steps 341 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.960 to address the demands to surge supplies into Gaza. More 342 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:57.920 stuff is getting in, but not nearly enough. 343 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.759 Yeah, not near, not even close enough. Israel is prog Yeah, 344 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:03.839 in Israel's not doing nearly enough. I mean when you 345 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.200 talk about humanitarian aid, I mean people living in tents, 346 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:15.559 no water, no toilet facilities, food, medicine is at critical shortages. Yeah, yeah, 347 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.839 I'm I'm all in favor of Israel defending itself and 348 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.559 pumbling the crap out of out of Gaza because of 349 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.200 what Hamas did. But you know how many kids do 350 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.240 you walk around that are scrawny and going, wait, they 351 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:30.960 have to have food and the UN is prepared to 352 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.200 do it. Now, there's another side of that, and that 353 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.319 is how much food is going to Hamas? How much 354 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:39.839 food UNRAD the United Nations Food Program. And I mean 355 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:42.400 there's thirty thousand people work there. You know, how many 356 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.720 of them are pro politically pro Palestinian. 357 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.920 And the argument is some of them were even involved. 358 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:50.799 I mean, we're talking about people that work for the 359 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:53.559 UN involved in the attack on October seventh. 360 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:56.759 Well, couldn't they start with women and children knowing that 361 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.079 women and children are not going to be part of Hamas? 362 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:01.160 Yeah, but who's going to But who's in a monitor? 363 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.359 That that's the problem, you know, who is going to 364 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.640 be the person who decides where or when? How? 365 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.759 And so it's difficult. I mean, none of this is easy. 366 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:11.720 It's a mess. 367 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:16.119 I'm just hoping at some point the people in Gadzi realized, hey, 368 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.200 you know what, maybe Kamas is really not on our 369 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:19.079 side so much. 370 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:22.039 People in Lebanon maybe. 371 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:26.839 Hausbala shouldn't have attacked Israel just in solidarity because Israel 372 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:27.839 was leaving us alone. 373 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:29.599 Now what? All right? 374 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:33.599 A bit of a bump in October with inflation after 375 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:36.480 slowing for six straight months. So the annual rate of 376 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.039 inflation moved higher last month for the first time since March. 377 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:47.640 Was expected, but the underlying trend of remained favorable for 378 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.200 another round of interest rates cuts. So maybe we'll see 379 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:52.400 some soon enough. 380 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:58.119 Inflation may really start going up. Wait until you see 381 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.440 these teriffs coming in. Not the tariffs aren't good under 382 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:05.400 certain circumstances, but one one of the possibilities, one of 383 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.119 the fallouts, which and it's a given, inflation is going 384 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:08.559 to go up. 385 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:09.400 Just how much? 386 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:12.559 How many jobs are going to be created and we're 387 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.200 willing to pay for it or people willing to pay. Okay, 388 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:17.599 we'll take inflation, but two hundred thousand jobs are going 389 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:18.200 to be created. 390 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.920 It's a whole formula there, and tariffs. 391 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.000 A long term game, though not necessarily term, isn't it 392 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.000 if you're trying to get jobs back there? 393 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:27.279 Okay? 394 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:31.079 No, the job's part, yes, because if you have manufacturing 395 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:34.920 that's being brought in from Mexico, from China and goods 396 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:39.640 are coming in and the country tariffs those goods and 397 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:44.039 says we'd rather have American workers build those goods or 398 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.559 simple you have to have a factory to do it, 399 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.559 and that doesn't happen overnight. 400 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:50.480 The tariff happens overnight. 401 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.039