WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.480 on the iHeartRadio app. A couple headlines actually today that 4 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:12.919 kind of covered what we just talked about, the three 5 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.839 big stories that are going to be shaping this presidential races. 6 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:18.960 We're now about a month out from election day. 7 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.039 You've got the hurricane that blew through those states in 8 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:26.440 the South. You've got the port strike. We'll talk about 9 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.760 that coming up in a couple of minutes. And this 10 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:31.760 issue that's going on in the Middle East. It seems 11 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:34.359 like the Middle East is always an issue obviously for 12 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:40.359 presidential elections, but this one, this time, seems to be 13 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:44.719 peaking right as we get down to elections, and even 14 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:47.079 in some places where elections have already started voting I 15 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.159 should say has already started. So the White House is 16 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.439 said to be working to try to limit the response 17 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.759 to the barrage of Iran's ballistic missiles that were fired 18 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:59.000 on Tuesday, where one hundred and eighty plus missiles came in. 19 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.799 What I saw is that maybe twelve of them actually 20 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:08.159 made contact with the ground and caused some amount of damage. 21 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.599 Still no word on any Israeli deaths, but a Palestinian 22 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:16.319 guy did die in the West Bank after debris from 23 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:22.599 a destroyed missile apparently fell on him. Several senior Administration 24 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.079 officials have said that Israeli officials have told them privately 25 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:29.079 they do not need feel the need to hit back 26 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.319 against Iran yet, at least not in any immediate and 27 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:36.280 massive way. But here in the United States and in Europe, 28 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.799 there is some fear that Israel could specifically target economic 29 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:47.040 targets in Iran that would prompt another escalatory reaction. And 30 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:51.439 Tehran has long been saying stay away from our oil 31 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:57.040 and gas industry, which if you really wanted to hurt Iran, 32 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:58.400 that's the way you do it. 33 00:01:58.480 --> 00:01:59.840 That's how they're making their money. 34 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:07.400 The other issue is would Israel potentially target nuclear sites 35 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:11.199 in Iran, which they've done before, although they do it 36 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.520 under the cover of darkness and they never actually admit 37 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.159 that they have done that. Dan Hoffman is a former 38 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:19.879 CIA Chief of Station, and he talked about the timing 39 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.919 of this. Where we stand in terms of approaching the 40 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.520 year anniversary of the Hamas attack in Israel from October seventh, 41 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:32.599 the current situation with hasblah in Lebanon, and how the 42 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:35.759 Israeli military has been making its ground offensive into southern 43 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.639 Lebanon with airstrikes and boots on the ground and tanks. 44 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:45.280 With all of that going on, the nuclear option, should say, 45 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.120 going after the nuke system there in Iran might be 46 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:49.719 on the table. 47 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:52.759 Well, Israel has taken the fight so effectively to Hamas 48 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.520 and to his look at his bula, Israel has taken 49 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.759 out roughly thirty his Bulo commanders, including their leader hasan As. 50 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:03.919 They've destroyed his Balla's ability to communicate, targeted their foot 51 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:08.280 soldiers and their rocket launch capabilities. And so Iran's proxies 52 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.360 are now weaker arguably than ever before in terms of 53 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:14.599 responding in some form or fashion to Israel. And that's 54 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:18.439 how Iran creates strategic depth, it's through their proxies. And 55 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.120 so now is the time Israelis would argue, including their 56 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.199 former Prime minister enough Tally Bennett, who says, go now 57 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.599 and destroy the nuclear program. Aron's a nuclear threshold state. 58 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.879 There's no better time than now to do it. 59 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.759 Yeah, And to flesh out that comment from enough Tally Bennett, 60 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.319 the former Israeli Prime minister, he said, we must act now, 61 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.560 to destroy Iran's nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and 62 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:44.120 to fatally cripple this terrorist regime. The octopus's tentacles are 63 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:48.759 temporarily paralyzed. Now comes the head again. That was the 64 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.840 former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett. President Biden has said he 65 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.759 said it yesterday, as late as yesterday, he does not 66 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:01.039 support an Israeli strike on nuclear sites. In response, a 67 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.960 senior Administration official has said that Israeli officials haven't even 68 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.199 discussed such a move, at least not in private conversations 69 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:10.560 with the United States. But there's some things that have 70 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.120 come out in the last say twenty four hours that 71 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:16.439 we didn't know about before. For one thing, the United 72 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:21.600 States State Department administration officials believed that they had a 73 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:27.920 ceasefire proposal with Hesba Lah. They believed that Israel was 74 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.480 about to sign off on it. But when the United 75 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.560 States and some other countries, including France, announced it publicly, 76 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:41.480 that's when Benjamin Natanyaho said absolutely not. Ian Bremer, a 77 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:47.079 former State Department official now president and founder of Eurasia Group, says, 78 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:51.439 what the Americans understand is that Iranians desperately don't want escalation, 79 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:54.199 at least not the people, and that reality means both 80 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.879 you're a little less concerned about escalation, but you're worried 81 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.720 the Israelis might try to do more, and says that 82 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.120 these Raeli's are on the front lines here, they are 83 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.120 the ones who feel the existential threat, but they also 84 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.720 certainly do not feel bound by American pressure, and that 85 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.480 makes us look bad. That's his quote. He says, that 86 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:21.959 makes Biden look bad. This Israel's in a very difficult place. 87 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.480 It has been for a very long time. It's there's 88 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:28.720 no new breath that's going to be breathed into this 89 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:33.639 conflict that has not already been fought for several hundred, 90 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:37.199 if not a couple thousand years. But the idea that 91 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:42.360 Israel is now committing air strikes on Hamas in Gaza, 92 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:48.120 They've been dropping bombs on Hesbelah in Lebanon, and now 93 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:51.000 looking at the possibility of some sort of a retaliatory 94 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:56.759 strike against Iran, they're fully capable of it. But if 95 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.879 it is true that Israeli officials have been saying privately 96 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:04.759 to American officials that they do not currently feel the 97 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:07.279 need to hit back against Iran in any sort of 98 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:11.879 immediate or massive way, maybe that's the sliver of daylight 99 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:16.879 towards some sort of I don't know, a day new mall. 100 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:20.439 I don't remember what that word means. I just remember 101 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:22.279 that I learned it in high school, and it's something 102 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:24.639 about the second half of the book. Maybe it's just 103 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.959 about this is the beginning of ramping down escalations that 104 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:33.920 hopefully one hundred and eighty ballistic missile strike from Iran 105 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.160 to Israel was the peak and it just slows down 106 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.120 from there, hopefully. Hey, reminder, the Pacific Air Show is 107 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.160 returning to Huntington Beach this weekend. It starts tomorrow, goes 108 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.480 through Sunday, bringing more of those stunts and sand action 109 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:50.639 than ever before. General admission tickets are only thirty dollars 110 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:54.560 plus booking fees if you go to Pacificairshow dot com. 111 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.600 The nation's largest air show by attendance, usually more than 112 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.360 three million people up and down Huntington Beach to watch 113 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:04.920 all of this and again, it starts tomorrow. In fact, 114 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:09.639 we'll be broadcasting live from south of the Pier tomorrow 115 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.879 the regular Gary and Shannon Show, just the outdoor beach 116 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.759 version of the Gary and Shannon Show. I was right, 117 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.800 I think when I said dey new mall, Hi mall. 118 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.759 There's a French word that means falling action. Yes, it's 119 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.680 events that occur in a story after the climax of 120 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:32.639 the story, that sort of wrap up the story. That's 121 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:33.240 day new Mall. 122 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:35.720 Well, we can hope, How's that we can hope that 123 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.720 this week is the day New mall of this conflict 124 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.920 in the Middle East. President Biden is going to be 125 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.519 in Florida and Georgia today to survey more damage from 126 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.360 Hurricane Helene. The second full day the President's going to 127 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:54.000 devote to the disaster. The report now is that at 128 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.879 least two hundred people are known to have died as 129 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.879 a result of that hurricane that since it made landfall 130 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.839 Florida a week ago. More than half of the deaths 131 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.279 have been in North Carolina, and in some places they 132 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:10.639 said entire communities were destroyed by several feet of fast 133 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.240 moving water. The hot temperatures, of course, will continue here 134 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.199 in southern California. That means we're going to see increased 135 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:21.120 fire danger. Heat warnings and advisories are up through about 136 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.040 eight o'clock tonight. By the way, I follow up to 137 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.480 a story and Shannon had actually mentioned this the other day, 138 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.160 we were trying to find out what was going on 139 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.639 with the Orange County Fire Authority hand crews that were 140 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.519 involved in that rollover crash. Well, two of those firefighters 141 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:38.240 have been moved to rehab centers this week as they 142 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:41.840 continue their road to recovery. At least one of them 143 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:44.960 has a pretty severe spinal injury. Two of the eight 144 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.679 firefighters were released the night of the crash, two went 145 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:51.480 home following day. The last four remained hospitalized for almost 146 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.879 two weeks. Then you've got two that were removed to 147 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:58.600 rehab centers yesterday, and still two others who are considered 148 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:04.559 or should say, are in the hospital. So we're day 149 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:08.399 three now of a dock worker port worker strike, if 150 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:10.399 you want to call that, on the East Coast and 151 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:16.159 the Gulf Coast, thirty six different ports, somewhere between twenty 152 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.360 and forty thousand dock workers. I've seen different numbers as 153 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:23.240 a matter of fact. And Johnny Dixon is the president 154 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:27.440 of the Fort Lauderdale chapter of the International Longshoreman's Association. 155 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.399 He says that members top out at about thirty nine 156 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.159 bucks an hour. They're looking for a seventy seven percent 157 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.759 increase over the next seven years. And he says, when 158 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.960 you look at the cost of inflation, that's more than reasonable. 159 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:44.840 We of course had a dock worker strike here on 160 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.559 the West Coast and represented by a different union, But 161 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.600 that's part of the reason why the East Coasters are 162 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.320 now on strike, because the guys out here on the 163 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.840 West Court West Coast make more, and in some cases 164 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:02.840 significant more. Pay for a long shortman is based on 165 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:06.600 the years of experience, and under the former contract, starting 166 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:09.120 pay for dock workers was twenty bucks an hour. That 167 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.799 rose to twenty four to seventy five after two years, 168 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.519 thirty one ninety after three years. In fact, it would 169 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.080 top out at thirty nine bucks, and that only took 170 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.960 about six years worth of service. And as I said, 171 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.399 they were looking for a seventy seven percent raise over 172 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.559 the next six years. That would be the equivalent of 173 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:31.159 about five dollars per hour increase for each year of 174 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:36.679 the contract. So the top wage just paid base wages, 175 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:39.279 would be about eighty one thousand dollars. But obviously you 176 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.960 can make extra money taken on extra shifts. For example, 177 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.279 the annual report from the Waterfront Commissioner in New York, 178 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.600 Harver said about a third of local longshoremen taking on 179 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.360 those extra shifts and overtime, et cetera, usually make about 180 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.759 two hundred thousand dollars a year. It's more typical that 181 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.399 it's over one hundred thousand, but that there are some 182 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:02.360 like I said, that can make the bigger amount just 183 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:05.759 based on their willingness to work a lot. Here's a reporter, 184 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.840 Brooke Taylor. Yeah, Brooke Taylor, who was talking to striking 185 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:11.919 workers outside of a port near Houston. 186 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.919 Experts say this is costing our economy up to four 187 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:19.360 point five billion dollars a day. Thirty six major US 188 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.960 ports stretching from Maine to Texas, like you mentioned, currently 189 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.039 shut down because of this. Many of the cargo ships 190 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:29.200 that usually deliver goods to East Coast and Gulf Coast 191 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:32.879 ports that come in are stuck offshore. More than three 192 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:37.600 hundred trade groups have joined together urging President Biden to intervene. 193 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.080 He's made it clear he's not going to do that now. 194 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.879 As a recap, these union workers are asking for two 195 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:47.039 major things, higher wages and a ban on automation that 196 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.200 would take jobs away from them. 197 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.399 William la Ganessa, reporter, also was talking about the importance 198 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.399 of having the West coast ports pick up the slack 199 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.720 if it gets to that, if it's necessary in this thing, 200 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.039 drive on for a couple of days or weeks. We 201 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.399 will see an increase in capacity here at the West 202 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:05.879 coast ports. 203 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.279 Well, right now La Long Beach has about room for 204 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.200 forty containerships a month extra. That's a lot, but it's 205 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:15.600 not gonna be enough. And remember, once a ship leaves 206 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.039 a port in Asi or Europe, it doesn't suddenly change course. 207 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:24.279 That cargo is already or will be stuck off New York, Baltimore, Houston. 208 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.679 But going forward, we are likely to see a shift 209 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:29.120 in bookings next week. 210 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:29.600 Okay. 211 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.039 So I also wanted to point out because I think 212 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.960 this is I don't know if it's important to the 213 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.159 story of these guys demanding this money that they want 214 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.399 to see more money on top of the regular thirty 215 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:45.360 nine dollars that they can top out at. They want 216 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:47.399 to see this seventy seven percent increase and see that 217 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.159 go up. So, like I said, the typical longshoreman salary 218 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.639 is over one hundred thousand dollars when you calculate in overtime, 219 00:12:55.080 --> 00:13:03.720 et cetera. But Harold Daggett is the international president of 220 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:10.200 the International Longshoreman's Association. Harold Daggett makes seven hundred and 221 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:14.000 twenty eight thousand dollars as the president of the ISLA 222 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.679 seven hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars and on top 223 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:21.279 of that another one hundred and seventy three thousand dollars 224 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.519 as the president emeritus of the Mechanics Local Chapter at 225 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:25.960 the Port Newark and New Jersey. 226 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:29.559 That's a that's a good job. 227 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:36.320 His son, his son heads the New Jersey local that 228 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:40.240 his father once led, and is now also the international 229 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:45.360 Executive vice President for the International Longshoreman's Association. 230 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:47.360 He has a. 231 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:54.600 Total income also over seven hundred thousand dollars. Now, again, 232 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.480 their labor their union officials, so part of their pay 233 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.000 is coming from union stuff as opposed to them just 234 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.480 humping cargo containers on a dock somewhere. But the head 235 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.200 of the union making close to a million dollars a year, 236 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.919 and his son, who took over again the local chapter, 237 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:16.120 making about seven hundred thousand dollars. 238 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:21.120 That seems like a lot. Now, what can the president do? 239 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:23.960 The president has the ability under the nineteen forty seven 240 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:26.960 Taft Hartleac to get a court order to send the 241 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.080 doc workers back to work for an eighty day cooling 242 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:33.200 off period in an attempt to make sure that the 243 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:35.879 economy doesn't continue to take it right in the shorts. 244 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.000 We shall see, But right now he has said President 245 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.480 Biden that he does not want to do that. He 246 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.799 said he wants to get these guys back into talks. 247 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:47.840 He wants to make sure that there's something on the 248 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:50.759 schedule that they've dealt with this before, for example the 249 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.200 West Coast. Look, dude, this is a John talk. 250 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.919 Because we Rember, we negotiated several more strike on the 251 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:00.480 West Coast people and they work it out. 252 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.200 It's time. They won't even talk, so let's get that done. 253 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.600 There are no new negotiations scheduled between the International Longshoreman's 254 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:14.320 Association and the employers, but the port owners, under pressure 255 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:15.960 from the White House to hike their pay and offer 256 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.320 a land deal, signed on on Wednesday that said that 257 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.039 they were open to some new talks. 258 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:21.519 So at least. 259 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:25.080 Forty five container vessels now unable to load or unload. 260 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.720 They're anchored up outside the East Coast and Gulf ports. 261 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:31.879 This is going to look like, at least very soon 262 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.600 similar to what we saw during the supply chain disruptions 263 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.240 that hit us so hard during COVID, and it is 264 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:41.799 likely that if this thing goes on for any amount 265 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.879 of time, you're going to see inflation once again. Pick 266 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.679 back up whose fault is? It depends? I guess which side. 267 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:50.639 If you like labor, you don't like labor, that's who 268 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.159 you're going to decide or how you're going to decide 269 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:55.200 who you think is at fault for this. A couple 270 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:58.720 headlines that we are following right now, just saw footage 271 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:02.559 of President Biden getting update on damage and recovery efforts 272 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.759 after Hurricane Helene made its way through Florida. He's in 273 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.320 Florida now, also travel to George at a survey some 274 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.600 of the damage. Mentioned that as of right now, the 275 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.320 death sol is over two hundred people have died as 276 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.679 a result of the carnage and the destruction. Federal prosecutors 277 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.879 have laid out their most extensive case to date against 278 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:24.320 former President Trump for his effort to overturn the twenty 279 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:28.600 twenty election. One hundred and sixty five page document offers 280 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.200 some a little new detail about some of the Special 281 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:35.399 Council investigation into the former president's efforts to lean on 282 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:39.039 state officials to paint a narrative of fraud. Prosecutors said 283 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:42.600 that Trump knew was untrue. We'll talk a little bit 284 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:46.200 more about it in swamp Watch about why in fact 285 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:49.639 this document was even put together, and then why the 286 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.639 judge decided to unseal it so that everybody could see it, 287 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.000 even if it is just before the election. 288 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:55.960 Hey are you doing Gary? 289 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.000 This is Rocky out in Los Angeles? Up Rocky? Hey, 290 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:03.080 we can hear Shannon bro. I think the Microsoft turn 291 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:03.320 it on. 292 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.720 Bro, Come on, we miss her doing a great job, brother, 293 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:08.759 keep it up. 294 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:10.039 Jacob, do you have her micro off? 295 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:10.640 Is that? What? 296 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:17.839 Do go Google? That's why we can't turn her microphone on. 297 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:20.240 That's fascinating. Yeah, I think tomorrow we'll have it. 298 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.920 That is a big bird, fascinating. 299 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:25.480 We'll turn it on. 300 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:29.880 Hello. A reminder, also, in a couple of minutes, we're 301 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.400 going to be talking about tracking your partner, the dark 302 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.400 side of tracking your partner's mobile phone. 303 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:36.960 Do you do it? 304 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.799 Does it get you in trouble? Or how about this question? 305 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:48.440 Do you track them and they don't know you track them? 306 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:51.400 You can leave us a talk back on the iHeart app. 307 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.079 All you do is hit that little microphone button while 308 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:55.640 you're listening on the app, and you can leave us 309 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:58.759 a quick thirty second message or show or so. It 310 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:02.640 seems as if the La Times has finally realized who 311 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.839 is sitting in the DA's office and it's George Gascon. 312 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:10.160 There is an article that came out regarding George Gascon's 313 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:14.079 policies giving a teenage killer a second chance, and guess 314 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:21.440 what she's charged with now killing again. In this case, 315 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:27.119 it's Shenise Dyer. She was a member of the Cryps 316 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:31.519 Street gang. She wanted to retaliate for killings by a 317 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:35.680 rival gang in August of twenty nineteen, and the target 318 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.319 was Alfredo Carrera and a close friend of his, who 319 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:46.680 happened to be an aspiring astrophysicist and uc Irvine Vasquez 320 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:51.480 was visiting his buddy Carrera to drop off a baby gift. Well, 321 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:53.599 the two of them are standing there. Car pulls up 322 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.720 Shenise Dyer's on the inside. There's an argument Shenise and 323 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:01.359 a couple other people. Alicia volley of gunfire. Both men 324 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:05.640 are killed and a complete innocent bystander third man down 325 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.359 the street hid in the back with a bullet as 326 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:10.680 he loaded his one year old daughter into a car seat. 327 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.960 She eventually sent text messages taking responsibility for the shooting, 328 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:19.799 said she in fact, was satisfied her word that this 329 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:23.359 thing was getting the news attention that it was. She 330 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:30.640 was tried as a juvenile, as a juvenile because she 331 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:34.519 was seventeen. She admitted to the murder charges a couple 332 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:38.279 of years later, and she was released in February. 333 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:40.279 Guess what happened. 334 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:44.279 It took her all of six months to get popped 335 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:50.920 once again, this time for a murder in Pomona. And again, 336 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:57.039 this is one of those issues where you it defies 337 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:03.480 any explanation using logic, because when George Gascon came in, 338 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:06.640 one of the things that he did was he said, 339 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:12.240 we got to keep kids out of adult prisons in California. 340 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:14.240 And one of his blanket policies when he came in 341 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.799 was We're not going to try any juvenile as an adult, 342 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.839 no matter how egregious the crime or even how close 343 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.400 they are to being an adult. And again, she was 344 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:31.799 seventeen when this thing happened. The juvenile policy does his 345 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:34.640 does fall in line with a broader policy around the 346 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.119 state of California, which again is to keep kids out 347 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.759 of adult prisons, but only a dozen teenagers were tried 348 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:44.599 in adult court last year. She would have could have 349 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:50.519 faced life in prison for the double murder if she 350 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:53.039 was tried in adult court, but she was again kept 351 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.440 in the juvenile courts and let out in February. Six 352 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:01.400 months later, she was involved with aa of Joshua Streeter, 353 00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:05.319 a twenty one year old guy. She lured him allegedly 354 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.559 to a Pomona strip mall, where he was eventually shot. 355 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.960 She did not pull the trigger, but was still charged 356 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.440 with murder. She's doing court next month. Her attorney, of course, 357 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.440 declined to comment. But think about think about that policy 358 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:25.000 that a seventeen year old so willing to shoot somebody, 359 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:29.480 that they killed two people and wound a third, and 360 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:31.559 then you try them as a juvenile so that they 361 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:33.359 can get out of jail in a couple of years 362 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:39.359 and do the whole thing again. One of the spokespeople 363 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:44.960 for George Gascon, Tiffany Blackmail, said it's unlikely that her 364 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.440 initial case would have even met the standard to go 365 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:51.759 to adult court even if George Gascon had not put 366 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:55.839 his policy in place, She said, because at the time 367 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:01.240 Shenise Dyer didn't have a criminal history, and that there 368 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:04.599 was no sorry, that there was evidence to indicate she 369 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.640 was told to do that by somebody in the gang. 370 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:12.960 Oh in that case, ugh, I was just following orders, apparently, 371 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:14.000 is the new argument. 372 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:19.039 She said. 373 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:21.920 Another teen suspect involved in the killings was also tried 374 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.039 as a juvenile and is actually doing well on probation. 375 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:28.240 And then an adult suspect in those killings is still 376 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:34.680 not gone to trial. It's very it's very hard now 377 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:40.759 to get a teenager transferred to an adult court, in 378 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:43.319 part because of a new bill. George Gascon, of course, 379 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:46.640 had his hands all over. It would require prosecutors prove 380 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:50.119 by clear and convincing evidence that a youth can't be 381 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:53.759 rehabilitated in juvenile custody before a judge can approve a transfer. 382 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:57.000 And again, that's just us sitting and waiting for the 383 00:22:57.039 --> 00:22:58.319 next bad thing to happen. 384 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:02.000 Again. 385 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:07.039 She proved when she was seventeen she's incapable of making 386 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:11.799 decisions about life and death, specifically the lives and deaths 387 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:14.599 of other people. But we'll just give her a chance. 388 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:20.720 A couple of years later, that makes perfect sense. Prosecutors 389 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.400 have said this new standard is almost impossible to get 390 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:26.519 a teenager tried in adult court. 391 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:30.519 For example, there was a case in Englewood. 392 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:33.359 A judge decided that a teenager who was accused of 393 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.839 shooting his girlfriend and her sister in Westchester before setting 394 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.680 the crime scene on fire still did not meet the 395 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:44.519 standard for adult court. 396 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:46.640 This is part of the reason. 397 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:49.279 Again, the reason I'm even discussing this is because it's 398 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:52.039 amazing that the La Times writes this in such a 399 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:55.640 way that it's almost a pearl clutchy breathless, Oh my gosh, 400 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:58.680 I can't believe that maybe George Gascone's policies might have 401 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:02.200