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Speaker 3: Where were you gonna go?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I have to take toast out of the toaster of
Speaker 2: it because I don't want to wake up Lindsay. And
Speaker 2: it's a loud beat. So tell you what, Why don't
Speaker 2: you guys talk? Just talk about yourself. I'll be back
Speaker 2: in thirty second. By the way, this is real.
Speaker 3: I never will I'll write that, not even married yet
Speaker 3: and he's still what are those two little raisins on
Speaker 3: the Oh he left his testicles, that poor guy. Kf
Speaker 3: I am six forty. Good morning, everybody, it's the Bill
Speaker 3: Handles Show. You wouldn't know it because right before we started,
Speaker 3: right before I mean the music play, he goes, Oh wait,
Speaker 3: I'll be back in a minute, I'm like, what what
Speaker 3: do you what do you mean?
Speaker 2: And and face, hey, I missed the timing because Lindsay's
Speaker 2: just I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go upstairs and find
Speaker 4: out I missed my hand.
Speaker 3: Where she hits you?
Speaker 2: It's it is. It's a very loud beep. Sometimes, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a very loud beep, and sometimes it wakes her up.
Speaker 2: So I sort of went in very late, and I
Speaker 2: thought I was gonna grab it, but by the time
Speaker 2: it went in and the beep had already beeped off.
Speaker 3: So like a little kid, does she hurt you?
Speaker 4: Everybody hurts me?
Speaker 3: Wow? This is a Monday?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, it is Monday, by the way, And
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a fun week.
Speaker 4: It really is, because I'm off.
Speaker 2: On Friday for a couple of three weeks, so I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have a good time.
Speaker 3: I think you'll be off a couple times this week
Speaker 3: before then.
Speaker 4: No, I won't be I'm never off.
Speaker 3: No, it's no.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. Now there you go. I missed it completely.
Speaker 2: Is that kind of a morning?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, so it is good morning, so let me say hello.
Speaker 2: I saw will there for a second? Will you were
Speaker 2: on the screen and then you disappeared.
Speaker 4: I was I.
Speaker 2: Was fixing Amy's ipat there and okay, well I saw
Speaker 2: you enough to remind me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Friday, I didn't quite do it right. No, you
Speaker 4: got I got you.
Speaker 2: Just enough to you know, see you And okay, so
Speaker 2: now I can say hello hello.
Speaker 4: Then there's uh and good morning.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're eating, like a ramen something
Speaker 2: I want for practice.
Speaker 5: I'm having cream of wheat.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I love cream of wheat. Sugar takes me back, right, Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh I got that stuff. I got it in the
Speaker 3: entry sister, you know.
Speaker 5: Me love it?
Speaker 4: Now you do instant cream of weed? Or do you
Speaker 4: really cook it the way you're supposed to cook?
Speaker 5: No? No, no, they have we have little packets here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's instant the packet. Where where do we
Speaker 4: have little packets? Oh? We do.
Speaker 2: We also have oatmeal. I had oatmeal for the first
Speaker 2: time this weekend. You know, the brown sugar instant oatmeal.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good?
Speaker 5: Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 3: Don't we have a little drawer of stuff?
Speaker 4: Okay? Fair enough?
Speaker 3: Is does this how the four report sounds? Because if
Speaker 3: it does, I quit it sounds.
Speaker 2: Worse than this Cono, good morning and Amy, good morning,
Speaker 2: Hi Bill.
Speaker 4: You know what as some echo is going on, So
Speaker 4: somebody's got a mute. You know, we do this.
Speaker 2: You know, we're always talking about muting. And here's why
Speaker 2: I might as well give you a little bit inside baseball. Uh,
Speaker 2: the way we talk to each other through the monitors,
Speaker 2: we have to unmute and uh then we then when
Speaker 2: we start talking on the air, we have to mute,
Speaker 2: and it.
Speaker 4: Goes back and forth and we forget.
Speaker 2: So that's why you say, hey, mute, mute, because there's
Speaker 2: a there's an echo there, sort of a double broadcast.
Speaker 3: A second, I'd like to refocus us on the cream
Speaker 3: of wheat discussion. This just then from producer executive producer
Speaker 3: Michelle Cube. Make your instant cream of wheat and add
Speaker 3: in everything but the bagels seasoning. She says, it's amazing
Speaker 3: you heard, I mean, is that real? Yes, she said
Speaker 3: that you take it's a seasoning? Who makes that? Is
Speaker 3: that trading? You know what? Eight?
Speaker 2: She should know, Michelle should know not to interrupt our
Speaker 2: morning show, our deep uh introduction to news with stuff
Speaker 2: like that everything bagel season.
Speaker 3: She's not riding the horse anymore. She doesn't care where
Speaker 3: it goes.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, so let me talk about what's
Speaker 2: going on. That's and we are going to talk about
Speaker 2: it today. A lot of Trump stuff, of course, it's
Speaker 2: going on. A lot of must stuff is going on.
Speaker 3: So the show's gonna be real balanced.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not unbalanced.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bias, nothing that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Uh No, you know how biosed am I? I mean, legitimately,
Speaker 2: I try to be as I tried.
Speaker 4: To be even hand traffic southbound. Okay, thanks Will, Will?
Speaker 2: He was, Okay, you know, I understand that I try
Speaker 2: to be as as a une biased I can. So
Speaker 2: let's start with the people that were laughing the hardest
Speaker 2: at that. Uh, Amy, you were laughing when I said that.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm just generally a happy person.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you. Uh, you're wrong.
Speaker 5: Actually, I think we have less Trump stuff today than normal.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, all right, fair enough, let's do it, guys.
Speaker 2: We still uh, we have stuff to carry to cover,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Okay, stories, Okay, more cream of beat
Speaker 2: all day long. It's time for handle on the news
Speaker 2: on this Monday morning.
Speaker 4: Mark tenth.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's do it with Amy Neil and me lead
Speaker 2: story just shut down. Well, the House Republicans unveiled their
Speaker 2: spending bill on Saturday, and it's like every other spending
Speaker 2: bill to keep the agencies funded for a period of time.
Speaker 2: This is through September thirtieth, and looks like they're going
Speaker 2: to do it with a go it alone strategy. Usually
Speaker 2: has to be bipartisan, but they're going to try to
Speaker 2: go it alone. You can do it or they can
Speaker 2: do it. It's not easy to do, but if you
Speaker 2: have them majority, you can do it. And it's going
Speaker 2: to boost defense spending a little bit, trimming non defense
Speaker 2: spending below the twenty twenty four budget year levels.
Speaker 4: And the Democrats are.
Speaker 2: Going to go nuts, okay, and we'll see and if
Speaker 2: they can't agree and the fillerbuster doesn't work, guess what
Speaker 2: government shut down again? And then the only issue is
Speaker 2: who gets blamed the government shutdowns. Up to this point,
Speaker 2: the last few Republicans have gotten blamed for it, not
Speaker 2: that it translated into anything, but we'll see. Here's my
Speaker 2: prognostication and that is, come the midterms, I think the
Speaker 2: Republicans are going to get In the words of Barack
Speaker 2: Obama when he lost the first midterms. Salacked is the
Speaker 2: way he described the Democratic loss in his first two years,
Speaker 2: or after his first two years the midterms.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's all you have to say about that.
Speaker 4: That's all I have to say.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's a new sheriff in town. A.
Speaker 6: Canada's next prime minister has helped run two G seven
Speaker 6: economies in crisis and is now going to try to
Speaker 6: navigate to Canada's looming trade war with the US the
Speaker 6: threat of annexation. As of course, you know, Canada could
Speaker 6: become the fifty first state and an expected federal election.
Speaker 6: It's former central banker Mark Carney is going to be
Speaker 6: the prime minister. The governing Liberal Party elected him as
Speaker 6: its leader yesterday in a vote with eighty six percent support.
Speaker 2: And this guy is a serious economist. I mean he
Speaker 2: is has the credentials right at the top, unlike a
Speaker 2: lot of current major financial figures in the government who
Speaker 2: became assistant manager at your local Chase Bank and that's
Speaker 2: the background they have.
Speaker 4: This guy is for real. What did do he won? Oh,
Speaker 4: he went to.
Speaker 2: They brought him in to run the Bank of England
Speaker 2: and he ran it beautifully. The first non brick to
Speaker 2: run the Bank of England.
Speaker 3: A lot of polishing of gems and stuff or no,
Speaker 3: the Bank of England.
Speaker 2: Bank of England is one of the oldest institutions financial
Speaker 2: institutions in the world, and that was sixteen hundreds whenever.
Speaker 2: But England has really been at the forefront. The insurance
Speaker 2: and industry was created in London, Lloyd's of London. It
Speaker 2: was under a tree where they all sat together and
Speaker 2: decided they were going to start the insurance industry for
Speaker 2: maritime insurance. So England is sort of the start of
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. Also, the Beatles.
Speaker 4: Also one of the great desserts of all time. Spotted dick.
Speaker 3: I thought you had that cleared up.
Speaker 2: That's I did not, But that is that is the
Speaker 2: name of that dessert. No, no, actually it's utterly I'm
Speaker 2: not going to go there, but it is utterly delicious.
Speaker 2: It's sort of a custard with raisins and things in it.
Speaker 4: That's why I call it.
Speaker 3: Familiar with what it is? Okay, named after a bird,
Speaker 3: I believe, Oh it's not.
Speaker 4: You know what you can do so much with that? Oh?
Speaker 4: I thought it was named after Okay, why don't we
Speaker 4: take a break? Does that work?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I think it was how long did that take us?
Speaker 2: How long did that take us to get into that
Speaker 2: to the lowest common denominator, I waited till the end
Speaker 2: of the first start today it was like usually it's
Speaker 2: a minute and a half in all right, guys.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna redo this headline. Secret Service shoots a man
Speaker 3: brandishing a firearm but doesn't kill him. Seems odd to me.
Speaker 3: Secret Service shoots a man brandishing a firearm near the
Speaker 3: White House and he's still alive. I don't understand how
Speaker 3: that happens.
Speaker 4: Well, sometimes you get shot.
Speaker 2: You've heard people being shot five times eight times that
Speaker 2: they survived when you don't hit a vital organ.
Speaker 4: Happens all the time.
Speaker 3: Like that. That whole kid becoming a Secret Service, that
Speaker 3: was like for show, Right, he's not he's not there
Speaker 3: on the grounds.
Speaker 4: Oh no, he's the one that shot this guy.
Speaker 3: That kid's funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you see some of the video of him later saying,
Speaker 3: listen to you democrats, you start talking garbage about I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 4: I didn't say that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be on your bumper.
Speaker 4: Oh that's hilarious. No, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I just so this guy apparently was suicidal or something.
Speaker 3: Local police contacted the Secret Service saying that he was
Speaker 3: traveling to Washington from Indiana, and the Secret Service found
Speaker 3: the guy parked outside around midnight. When they approached the vehicle,
Speaker 3: he I guess, gets out and has a brandishes a firearm.
Speaker 3: There's a confrontation, and now he's in the hospital. His
Speaker 3: condition is unknown. But I think they you know.
Speaker 5: Are you saying they should have been a better shot?
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of like this is a Secret Service one
Speaker 3: guy that they've already been told about.
Speaker 6: Well, they also knew how he was suicidal, so maybe
Speaker 6: they didn't shoot to kill.
Speaker 3: I know that makes me feel a little better. But
Speaker 3: he's still at a gun in front of the White House.
Speaker 5: True, Okay, China's turn.
Speaker 6: Beijing started imposing tariffs on many farm products from the US.
Speaker 6: For China is the largest overseas market for the US.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in the middle of a trade war.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be it's going to be rough.
Speaker 2: And the president has gone from I'm going to lower
Speaker 2: prices day one, my first day in office. Prices are
Speaker 2: going to go down, and now it's sort of yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a little tough. Prices are going
Speaker 2: to go up, but long term, and he's right, probably
Speaker 2: long term is going to help. But I don't think
Speaker 2: that Americans buy into that.
Speaker 4: They don't. They certainly didn't buy into it with Biden.
Speaker 2: Where at the end of Biden's term inflation was under control.
Speaker 4: No one wanted to hear it.
Speaker 3: Well because the numbers are false. They've just done They've
Speaker 3: done a breakdown in a study of that showing that
Speaker 3: the unemployment numbers are false because it's based on people
Speaker 3: getting smaller jobs, part time jobs, or not going back
Speaker 3: into the work.
Speaker 4: I mean all of it. I mean all of it.
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is and and the Republicans realized
Speaker 2: that when Trump ran for office, it's hey, how much
Speaker 2: does it cost you to go to the grocery store
Speaker 2: today versus what it was four years ago? And the
Speaker 2: question is going to be how much is it going
Speaker 2: to cost you more to buy a car than it
Speaker 2: was before Trump became president? And it's going to be
Speaker 2: a crapload more, even if he is right, because to
Speaker 2: bring jobs back to the United States and to build
Speaker 2: factory it's a long term goal. And we do not
Speaker 2: have patients at all. That is not the way Americans work.
Speaker 2: We are not proactive. We are very reactive.
Speaker 3: You think he's going to come out and say, no,
Speaker 3: what I meant to say was I was going to
Speaker 3: save you money. He's always said that because you can't
Speaker 3: buy anything.
Speaker 2: He said, this is long term stuff. And so we'll
Speaker 2: see you We'll see what happens. It was brilliant when
Speaker 2: he ran for office and now well, and maybe it's
Speaker 2: because based on what is probably not going to happen
Speaker 2: what a lot of people hope what happened, there is
Speaker 2: not going to be another Trump a term of office,
Speaker 2: which means he can do whatever the hell he wants.
Speaker 4: And he learned.
Speaker 2: You know, that's something I want to talk about at
Speaker 2: some point, is that actually the best thing that happened
Speaker 2: to Trump and the Republicans was having lost.
Speaker 4: For those four years that Joe Biden went in your presidency.
Speaker 4: How it was good for the Republicans.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'll get into that because that's a
Speaker 2: good tease for a topic I'm going to do at
Speaker 2: some point.
Speaker 4: All right, let's move it on.
Speaker 3: All right, So this is a horrible story. You've got
Speaker 3: the Syrian government loyalists accused of executing civilians. You've got
Speaker 3: massive violence going on there, you got armed men that
Speaker 3: are loyal to Syrian, to the Syrian government carrying out
Speaker 3: field executions. They're literally going door to door. I'm talking
Speaker 3: about purifying the cun tree by making sure that that
Speaker 3: there's no one that still is loyal to former President Bashar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was able to get out.
Speaker 2: He jumped on an airplane and got out just as
Speaker 2: this thing was falling apart. In the meantime, his loyalists,
Speaker 2: the people that stayed, are being lined up and shot,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately entire families are being lined up and shot.
Speaker 4: But how do you know, Oh, you know, who's a
Speaker 4: loyalist or isn't you know?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's easy of this guy was you know,
Speaker 2: he had this job, he was in this security, this department.
Speaker 4: Or he you know, was a loyalist.
Speaker 2: This a politician who was fanatically pro a Sade. Not
Speaker 2: that they weren't all because he wanted to stay in office,
Speaker 2: but you know, you know who was there? Wow?
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 6: The head of d w P says she needs security
Speaker 6: and she needs seven hundred thousand dollars to pay for it.
Speaker 6: She's requested from the Board of Water and Power Commissioners
Speaker 6: to provide seven hundred thousand dollars for a one year
Speaker 6: contract for private security. She says she needs it because
Speaker 6: of an uptick in threats following the Palisades fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that because now, when in doubt you
Speaker 2: threaten people.
Speaker 4: It's just that kind of a climate.
Speaker 2: And those people that are bitching and moaning about a
Speaker 2: seven hundred thousand dollars pay for someone, Let's go to
Speaker 2: any other firm or a private firm in which you
Speaker 2: have the CEO who's running a multi billion dollar business
Speaker 2: or bureaucracy and see if they get only seven hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Those guys get tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 2: a year who run bureaucracy's organizations of this size. And
Speaker 2: this is pretty rarefied air to get people that know
Speaker 2: how to do this. You know, it's not like you
Speaker 2: start on on the power lines and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, twenty five years later, there you are as
Speaker 2: president of the company of the CEO. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is really rarefied era when you get to this position.
Speaker 4: So number one, damn right.
Speaker 2: She believes security needs security because of the threats that
Speaker 2: are going out there.
Speaker 4: And two, seven hundred thousand dollars. I gotta say, it's
Speaker 4: no big deal.
Speaker 2: And you compare it this story La Times the Omaha
Speaker 2: Public Power.
Speaker 4: District in Nebraska.
Speaker 2: The person gets the same pay, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District,
Speaker 2: same pay, and the DWP is the largest utility in
Speaker 2: the United States.
Speaker 3: Listen, I think, I think when she came out and spoke,
Speaker 3: she did a crap job. But she this whole, this
Speaker 3: whole thing about referring to her as a DEI hire
Speaker 3: because she's peking is as nine. And the fact that
Speaker 3: she has, you know, a mechanical engineering degree. She graduated
Speaker 3: with honors. She has two degrees. I know, it's a
Speaker 3: tough job. I think should be part of the equation.
Speaker 3: You would think, so, yeah, you know, think that people
Speaker 3: would see that.
Speaker 6: Well, and look what happened to the Chase guy. He
Speaker 6: didn't have any security with him.
Speaker 2: No people, if you do, yeah, if you do, look
Speaker 2: at her management. Not one of her underlings has hubcaps
Speaker 2: on their car anymore.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 2: By the way, that is an old Puerto Rican joke
Speaker 2: that you know, it's it's dated. Unfortunately, Yeah, it is dated. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it loses its less.
Speaker 3: Chico and the man dated.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is. It's unfortunately dated.
Speaker 2: Okay, for those who don't know, the Puerto Rican stealing
Speaker 2: hubcaps sort of was a thing. Okay, it's like what
Speaker 2: fifty two were in the fifties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what does Rex the Wonder Horse say about it?
Speaker 2: You know, he makes so much fun of me. Here's
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do. We're gonna take a break. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go and get my cup of coffee.
Speaker 3: I hope it doesn't beep if she wakes up.
Speaker 4: It's already I think it's already beaped. It's already beeped.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: I love this Department of Homeland Security has begun performing
Speaker 3: polygraph tests. Of course, it's what you call a light
Speaker 3: detector in Layman's terms. And they've started testing employees to
Speaker 3: determine who might be leaking information to the media about
Speaker 3: all the immigration operations, you know, because we keep hearing
Speaker 3: people know about them prior so they someone published this article.
Speaker 3: I think it was Bloomberg, and DHS said in a statement,
Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security, it's a national security agency.
Speaker 3: We can should and will polygraph personnel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now I have a question. There's two points I
Speaker 2: want to FPI do. Yeah, here's the I mean, there
Speaker 2: are leaks going on, and these are criminal, you know,
Speaker 2: these are activities are going after criminal I mean they
Speaker 2: are stings, they are raids. But how do you how
Speaker 2: is it possible that they're not going to be leaked
Speaker 2: when you're talking about you know, whole groups of ICE
Speaker 2: agents coming in.
Speaker 4: So that's one point I want to make.
Speaker 2: The other point I want to make if I don't
Speaker 2: know if you noticed, but every single one of those
Speaker 2: people that are performing the polygraph test they're all German.
Speaker 4: Hevy. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3: What is that even you feel? Talk boy, no more freebies.
Speaker 6: If Social Security accidentally overpays you, you're going to have
Speaker 6: to pay it back. So the Social Security Administration says
Speaker 6: it will begin recouping one hundred percent of overpayments to
Speaker 6: beneficiaries starting on March twenty seventh. That is a reversal
Speaker 6: of a change in twenty twenty four to withhold just
Speaker 6: ten percent of a recipient's benefits if there's an overpayment
Speaker 6: that was designed to reduce the financial hardship on people
Speaker 6: with overpayments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a little complicated. I get questions like
Speaker 2: this on handling the law. All the time. Can I
Speaker 2: keep the money because I've been overpaid, either by unemployment
Speaker 2: or Social Security? Do I have to give it back?
Speaker 2: I go, of course, you have to give it back.
Speaker 2: You've been overpaid and people are shocked. They have to
Speaker 2: give it back.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 2: Then the other issue is, okay, instead of taking ten
Speaker 2: percent at a time or limiting ten percent, we're going
Speaker 2: to take it all, and we're going to.
Speaker 4: Take it all now.
Speaker 2: So if you owe six months worth of Social Security,
Speaker 2: you're not going to get six months worth of Social Security.
Speaker 2: How many people actually pay attention to how big the
Speaker 2: checks are when it's wired into your account, particularly elderly
Speaker 2: people who have no concept of where the money is coming.
Speaker 2: I am my Social Security check and I pulled SOI
Speaker 2: Security when I was sixty five? Is it goes directly
Speaker 2: into my account? And if it were to increase, I
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't pay attention to it. And I pay attention
Speaker 2: to financials stuff. So it's a two sided coin, most
Speaker 2: coins are, you know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, those one sided ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a mobia strip. You can look at
Speaker 4: you it's the one sided piece.
Speaker 2: Of paper, you know, the old and the MOBI reference.
Speaker 2: Thank you A little scientific reference. Okay, you can look
Speaker 2: at up Mobius mob i us.
Speaker 3: Oh, look at Kona, look at up. He's gonna get
Speaker 3: smart right.
Speaker 2: Now, one sized piece of one sided piece of paper.
Speaker 4: How is that possible?
Speaker 3: Already?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Israel says it's cut the flow of electricity to the
Speaker 3: last facility in Gaza that was still receiving power from
Speaker 3: the Israeli or Israel Electric corporation. So this is interesting
Speaker 3: because after October seventh and the deplorable acts there that
Speaker 3: killed one hundred or twelve hundred people and two hundred
Speaker 3: fifty one hostage is taken is Israel's electric corporation, you know,
Speaker 3: had turned off the power and then they reconnected at
Speaker 3: some point to a wastewater treatment facility following a government directive.
Speaker 3: But now this one they find this is the last
Speaker 3: bit of power. I guess they've shut it down and
Speaker 3: it's done.
Speaker 4: It's Israel. A lot of people don't understand or don't.
Speaker 2: Get that Israel provides the clean water, provides the electricity
Speaker 2: that goes into Gaza. And the position now is and
Speaker 2: this is following President Trump, which is absolutely right, and
Speaker 2: that is telling Kamas you return all of the hostages,
Speaker 2: where all Hell is going to break loose do it
Speaker 2: by Saturday, which they didn't do. And Israel is saying
Speaker 2: we want the hostages now, enough of this crap and
Speaker 2: cuts off electricity and cut already cut off aid. And
Speaker 2: Hamas of course is saying it really isn't going to
Speaker 2: us because we're all in generators and.
Speaker 4: We have solar.
Speaker 2: How many people have solar and generators, there's nothing left.
Speaker 2: And Ramas is willing to let the rest of the
Speaker 2: people in Gaza die because they don't want to cut
Speaker 2: loose those hostages. They just it's their ammunition, it's their
Speaker 2: cards that they're holding. And once they let go of
Speaker 2: the hostages, they have no they they have nothing to
Speaker 2: negotiate with anymore, and are now hoping that Israel leaves.
Speaker 2: And Israel isn't going to I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 2: a it's a lose lose. All the reasons in the world,
Speaker 2: as far as Hamas is concerned, to hang on to
Speaker 2: the hostages, all the reasons in the world for Israel
Speaker 2: will say, you will lease the hostages. Now We're going
Speaker 2: to bomb you into oblivion. We're going to keep on going,
Speaker 2: and no one's willing to back down.
Speaker 6: All right, and Iran says no. Iran Supreme Leader Ayatola
Speaker 6: Ali Kamani rejected President Trump's push for nuclear deal talks.
Speaker 6: He had sent a letter to him and said hey,
Speaker 6: let's talk and homa and he said no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just basically saying no one's going to stop us
Speaker 2: from building this nuclear weapon.
Speaker 5: And you can't have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Israel says you can't have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: And when they get a nuclear weapon and Israel will
Speaker 2: not let them have a nuclear weapon, all hell is
Speaker 2: going to break loose. I don't know what is what
Speaker 2: we's going to do because their nuclear facilities are underground,
Speaker 2: and I mean way underground. And so that is that
Speaker 2: is going to be a whole new chapter.
Speaker 3: All right. Top US Health Agency makes twenty five thousand
Speaker 3: dollars buyout offer to most of its eighty thousand employees.
Speaker 3: So this is another round of trying to cut and
Speaker 3: this comes. It's for a very specific group that is
Speaker 3: responsible for researching disease, inspecting food.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Also the CDC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the CDC and Medicare and medicaid yeah, and NIH.
Speaker 3: Now Vegas annual budget of one point seven trillion dollars.
Speaker 3: There's got to be some fat in there.
Speaker 2: Oh, of course there is, of course there is, and
Speaker 2: this is Robert Kennedy's purview. And but here is the issue,
Speaker 2: as they're looking for fraud and waste, of which there
Speaker 2: is plenty.
Speaker 4: Let's just throw everybody out and we'll figure out on that.
Speaker 3: One weird way to do it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, Well, here's the devil's advocate thing on this
Speaker 6: where they offered the buyouts. So if they offer buyouts
Speaker 6: and people accept them, maybe they don't have to cut
Speaker 6: so much. And then they're getting rid of the people
Speaker 6: who really don't want to be there anyway.
Speaker 2: Or close to retirement or retirement or fear that if
Speaker 2: they don't take the buyout, they're going to get tossed anyway,
Speaker 2: because they're coming in with a very broad brush. So
Speaker 2: it is a little more complicated as always, but it's
Speaker 2: you know, Musk is going crazy. It's only a question
Speaker 2: of time between before Musk and Trump have this rift
Speaker 2: where Trump throws them out because Musk is too high profile.
Speaker 4: That's all. Okay, one more and then we're out of here.
Speaker 5: Okay, you get a little more time.
Speaker 6: FEMA has extended the deadline for wildfire victims to apply
Speaker 6: for federal aid to the end of March. It was
Speaker 6: supposed to be tonight at midnight. We had a guest
Speaker 6: on from FEMA last week's and do it now. Well,
Speaker 6: the governor said, we need a little more time, and
Speaker 6: so they've extended that deadline. You can apply for the
Speaker 6: FEMA grants until, as I mentioned, March thirty. Until March
Speaker 6: thirty first, they can go to cover rental assistance, temporary housing,
Speaker 6: home repairs, property losses, other disaster related needs. And so
Speaker 6: if you haven't applied, you think you might qualify. Even
Speaker 6: if your home was just damaged and not destroyed, you
Speaker 6: could qualify.
Speaker 5: So you can go check it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is in direct contradiction of Trump's position
Speaker 2: that he hates California and FEMA is a federal agency,
Speaker 2: and this is a pro California, pro fire victim move.
Speaker 2: So hates California, says we're going to cut off spending,
Speaker 2: and at the same time hate go ahead and extend
Speaker 2: because you guys have been victimized by this fire. So
Speaker 2: you know, you get a lot of contradictory moves, but
Speaker 2: this one is him helping and extending the time that
Speaker 2: application can be made.
Speaker 4: And these are grants. These are not loans. All right,
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