WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.519 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:07.839 am six forty. 3 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:14.880 And now Handle on the news. 4 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:21.160 Ladies and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle, anybody, friends. 5 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:27.239 The long National Nightmare is nearly over. Neil Savedra returns 6 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.199 next week to take over hosting duties and then I 7 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.079 ski daddle Chris Merrill in for Bill one last time 8 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.159 this morning. It is as always an honor. I just 9 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.759 absolutely adore this this crew. I mean, you guys are 10 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:45.880 fantastic producer and is amazing. Kno is one of the 11 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:48.479 best at his job. And who doesn't love hearing Amy 12 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.920 King's voice every morning when they wake up? Just just 13 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:53.399 a wild brane to be a part of this. 14 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:54.960 We're gonna miss Okay, you can come back. 15 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.880 You're very thank you. That's all I was looking for. Really, 16 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.479 just wanted to return, invite. That's it. So, guys, thanks 17 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:04.519 so much for letting me play here this last week 18 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.159 and a half or whatever. It's been a blast. But 19 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.599 I am ready for a vacation myself, so I'm gonna 20 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:12.319 I'm gonna take that and indulge just a little bit 21 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:14.359 in some free time, which I don't know about you, 22 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.760 but free time for me. Means I've got a whole 23 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:18.560 list of chores I have to catch up on. So 24 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:22.599 there's gonna be a lot of yard work, little home repair, 25 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:24.879 that kind of stuff this next week. Whatever's on the 26 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:26.799 honeydew list, this is my chance to knock it out. 27 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.480 So good stuff. Somebody who's probably looking for a vacation 28 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.799 right about now is Pete Hegsiff, but he's not going 29 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.760 to get one. That is the Secretary of Defense. A 30 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:38.760 federal judge is now ordering that White House officials that 31 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.959 were involved in that signal app group chat on the 32 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.519 military strikes and Yemen, they're supposed to preserve their messages. Now. 33 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.920 The US District Court Judge James Boseburg, seems like we've 34 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.719 heard that name before, has now ordered members of President 35 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.120 Donald Trump's National security team to hang out to those messages. 36 00:01:58.280 --> 00:01:59.560 We're gonna want to see those. 37 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.879 Get a signed to this to this again. Is it 38 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:05.560 supposed to be a random pick of judges? 39 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.759 It is, Yeah, which I think kind of goes to 40 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.439 show just how many cases are flying through the district 41 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:13.639 courts in DC right now. 42 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.520 So you think it was a random. 43 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:18.000 Choice, I do, Yeah, I do that he just. 44 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.080 Happened to get two Trump cases back to back. 45 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.919 Yeah, and here, let me make this point in the 46 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.479 same way that Aileen Cannon ended up on two Trump 47 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.439 cases back to back in Florida, that district court judge, 48 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:29.960 right that, I. 49 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:30.840 Don't think that was random. 50 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:36.280 Oh I love this. Oh, go on with your conspiracies. 51 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.240 Girl, Friday Morning conspiracy. 52 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:41.080 All right. So during the during the Biden administration, Trump 53 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:43.319 got the judge of choice, but during the Trump administration 54 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:44.960 he's not getting of the judges. 55 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:48.439 It's fixed on both sides, but. 56 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:51.639 It seems to be always fixed against whoever's in the 57 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.240 White House. How does that happen? 58 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:59.680 Well, it's fixed. I'm just joging, I'm just king. 59 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:02.879 Yeah. So, anyway, there was a lawsuit that was filed 60 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.280 by American Oversight. They alleged the officials use of the 61 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.680 signal app violated federal records laws. A little bit later 62 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.560 on today, in fact, I think we may even have 63 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:15.520 some of this in the handle on the news and 64 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.280 that is that you know Mayor Bass's text messages during 65 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:22.080 the LA fires. She was like, Oh, my phone just 66 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:28.360 deleted those. How does that happen? This technology? This is 67 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.319 so wild. How was I even supposed to figure this out? 68 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:34.280 And she's been told no, no, you got to hang 69 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:36.319 onto those things for a couple of years. You can't go, 70 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:38.560 you can't go deleting them. And then lo and behold, 71 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.840 we're able to recover her messages. The signal app does 72 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:45.400 delete messages after a certain period of time, and so 73 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.879 what the judge is saying is, Nope, if you've got 74 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:49.960 to do screenshots or whatever you have to do, you 75 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:54.560 preserve those messages. Well, fortunately for the Department of Defense, 76 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:59.479 the National Security Advisors, for everybody else that's involved, the 77 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.879 Vice pro is it, the Secretary of State, the Atlantic 78 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:05.120 has gone ahead and screenshot at all of those things. 79 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:07.520 So it shouldn't be too tough to preserve those messages 80 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:11.039 because well they gave journalists and access to it. Well 81 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:12.039 you got that going forward. 82 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:15.159 You got to know that again that the guy Goldberg 83 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.879 who got him. Of course he's going to make a 84 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.839 copy of them to preserve for eternity immediately in case 85 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:22.639 something happens. 86 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.680 So I happened to see in some of the trades 87 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.000 there was reaction. As you know, talk radio is about 88 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:34.199 ninety five percent right wing talk, and one of the 89 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:37.720 questions was, what would happen if you were added to 90 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:39.720 that text, and some of them said, well, I'd like 91 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:44.079 to think that I would notify everybody in the chat 92 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.920 that I shouldn't be there. But Amy, if that were 93 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:50.839 you from a journalist stamp, because you're the closest thing 94 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.680 to a journalist we have from a journalist standpoint, Lord 95 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.879 knows it ain't me, would you notify, hey, everybody, I'm 96 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.000 not supposed to be in here, Or as a journalist, 97 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.040 would you start screenshotting and start saving things for posterity, 98 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.399 for for potential legal challenges, for anything, to cover your 99 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:09.959 own butt. 100 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.000 It's interesting that you ask, because we were just talking 101 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.160 about this last night and we were talking about how 102 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.800 as journalists and when you have relationships with different people, 103 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.480 you know, sometimes you get information that you're not supposed 104 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:24.560 to share and they say, well, we'll tell you, but 105 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.160 you can't. 106 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:26.720 You can't let this out. 107 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.439 And you know, I the record or embarga off the. 108 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.600 Record, embargoed whatever, and I have. I've had some really 109 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.839 great secrets. So that's why when people say can you 110 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:36.920 keep a secret, I'm like, yeah, I have a lot. 111 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:42.040 So I don't know, though, how you necessarily handle that 112 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.319 if you get invited in I would again I would 113 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:46.759 like to think that I would reach out to whoever 114 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.199 started and go, hey, guys, I don't I don't think 115 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:50.360 I'm supposed to be in here. 116 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:51.120 Not me. 117 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:53.800 You'd keep it, Oh, I would keep it. 118 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:55.279 I'd be like, this is going to be the greatest 119 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:59.639 story ever. I am on the verge of disclosing the 120 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:05.759 greatest screw up in decades. This is wonderful. But to 121 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.439 his credit, this this Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic, he 122 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.920 didn't out them while operations were going on. I mean 123 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.879 if he had said, if he had published something while 124 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.439 the attacks were being planned, that would have that would 125 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:24.839 have put troops in danger, wouldn't it. That would have 126 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:25.800 put pilots. 127 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.759 In So there was some restraint there. That was good. 128 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:29.680 Yeah, that's uh. 129 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.040 That would have been then a threat to national security. 130 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:35.519 And you know my prediction about somebody is going to 131 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:37.680 lose their job over this, and I said, oh, somebody's 132 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:39.160 gonna lose their job. And then I said, oh, you 133 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:40.839 know what. The next day, Trump came out and said, no, 134 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:44.000 everybody's great, we all learned our lessons. And I said, oh, 135 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:46.680 I might not. I'm kind of edging up back toward 136 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.680 the somebody might lose their job on this who I 137 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.800 don't know. There's a lot of behind the scenes, is 138 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.120 what I'm hearing about. Hegsith right now that he's he's 139 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.160 screwed a few things up, But I still think I 140 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:01.959 still think Mike Wilt that National Security advisor. 141 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.279 Because he's the one who started the chat or his office. 142 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.199 Invited him that. I mean, he's the one that screwed 143 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.199 things up. I had this. It's funny you were I 144 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:10.800 don't know who you were talking to last night as 145 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:15.279 you were debating the the the media ethics of the 146 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.600 whole situation, I was debating the reality TV of the 147 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:24.600 whole situation. If this were the apprentice, who would Trump fire? 148 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:27.120 If they all had to gather in that boardroom and 149 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.079 somebody had to be dismissed, who would Trump fire? Would 150 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.560 he get rid of Hegsith for, you know, disclosing the 151 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.480 information using his personal cell phone, which is something of course, 152 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:37.759 it was railed against when it came to Hillary Clinton. 153 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.360 Would he would he bag Hegxith? Or would he say 154 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:45.279 But this ultimately comes down to you, Waltz. You're the 155 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:47.680 guy that started this whole thing. If it hadn't been 156 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.560 for you, then nobody else would have been would have 157 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:53.759 been wrapped up in this, and for that reason, you're fired. 158 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.319 Who would he have fired on his show? That's what 159 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.600 I was debating in my head. And then then I 160 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.120 had a drink and I watched White Lotus, So that 161 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.439 was my night. Yep, all right to you? 162 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.759 Uh, ap is Oh wait, nope, I'm going back. Uh. 163 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.680 This this one was felt all the way into China. 164 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:21.199 A big old earthquake hit in me and mar happened 165 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:26.519 around midday local time. It collapsed buildings hundreds of miles 166 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:27.879 away in Thailand. 167 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:29.439 Away in Thailand. 168 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:30.480 Uh. 169 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.840 They are saying that rural villages. 170 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:38.159 Are super affected everywhere from you know, like just small 171 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:41.960 towns to glitzy high rises. And there's video of it 172 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.159 and it says when the shaking started, you could see 173 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.320 the building swaying. Traffic came to a stop, and they 174 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.159 said it was felt as far away as China. 175 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:53.399 Wow, A seven seven. 176 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:58.320 Seven seven, that's that's what with the Northwich north Ridge 177 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.240 was seven two seven one. 178 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.360 I wasn't here in that, Yeah, yeah, I mean wow, yeah, 179 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:06.879 and so far they really felt this so far away. 180 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:10.200 Yeah. They're saying that they have confirmed three people have 181 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.840 been killed, nineties are missing, and they're saying that there's 182 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.679 from the building collapses, there's people trapped in debris and stuff. 183 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:21.200 Oh no, oh yeah. When you hear those initial reports 184 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:22.720 and they say three people are lost, and you go, 185 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.320 well that number is gonna grow. Oh man, that is horrible. 186 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:31.279 And uh do you know I worked for the guy 187 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.320 in San Diego and he used to swear he could 188 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.600 feel everything. There'd be there would be a tremor in 189 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:39.840 Indio and he'd come into working on I felt it. 190 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.559 I felt that one. So you know, there's somebody that's 191 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.200 uh it's in Tokyo. That was like I think I 192 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.759 felt that too, you know, I think I felt it. 193 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:52.279 Somebody is saying that that is wild seven to seven. 194 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:57.120 And then, like you said, Myanmar and into Bangkok too, right, 195 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:59.120 they were feeling it and they had damn it was 196 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:00.519 it damage in Bangkok as well. 197 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.120 Yeah, wow, yeah, and it's this is all. It happened 198 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:08.759 midday local time, so we're still we're getting information and 199 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.080 it started as always, it's a little slow to come 200 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.120 in when big things like this happen. 201 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:16.320 Well, remember too, you've got to you've got a very 202 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:18.759 you have pockets there as you mentioned you've got some 203 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:20.919 glitzy high rises, but you've got pockets of some very 204 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:25.679 poor villages and so people that have been devastated by 205 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.000 some of the bloody battles that have gone on. The 206 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:32.480 economy is trash and they are literally just trying to survive, 207 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:37.200 and then they get hit with this earthquake, which you know, 208 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.639 God hates them, I guess is the only the only 209 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:43.679 conclusion we can come up with President Donald Trump saying 210 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:45.679 the United States is gonna go as far as we 211 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:47.679 have to. We're gonna go as far as we have 212 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:52.000 to go to get control of Greenland. If you'll recall 213 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.919 Vice President J. D. Vance is headed there today. Uh 214 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:59.200 he second Lady Usha Vance. I keep saying her name 215 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.039 wrong too, So my hologies on that. And Energy Secretary 216 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:04.200 Chris Wright is going to leave the United States delegation 217 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.080 lead excuse me, the delegation to visit the military base 218 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:14.759 in oh Is that a swear word pit to fit? 219 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.799 I don't speak Greenlandese, and I'm afraid of that. That's 220 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.279 a curse word in English. Anyway, they are scaling back 221 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.879 their plants for the broader and longer visit, mostly because 222 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:28.879 Greenland said, we don't want you here. They were going 223 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.279 to go to the capital and they will not. They 224 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:34.720 were going to visit the Greenland and capital and then 225 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:37.759 also take in a dog sled race, because that's what 226 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.759 you do in Greenland. Trump showing no indication of softening 227 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:43.919 is ambition to take control of the island, which of 228 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.360 course is a territory of Denmark. Trump saying we need 229 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:53.279 Greenland for national security and international security. This flies in 230 00:11:53.360 --> 00:12:00.120 the face of the non interventionalist, more isolationist pitch that 231 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.679 we got during the campaign. We're going to not be 232 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:05.240 involved in other people's wars. We are not going to 233 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.720 be sending our military abroad. But instead we're saying we 234 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:13.279 are sending our military abroad to pick fights. So how 235 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.000 much when he says we'll go as far as we 236 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.039 have to go, are we dispatching our own military to 237 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:21.600 Greenland beyond, of course the military that's already stationed there. 238 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.360 Trump says, I view it from a security standpoint, we 239 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.159 have to be there. Well, we are there, we do 240 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.320 have a base there. But do we need to take 241 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.919 their rare earth minerals. That's the question that we're all 242 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:39.200 facing right now. That's the question that the administration is considering, 243 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.639 and that's the question that we want answered as observers 244 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.759 of how our politicians behave Amy King. 245 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:53.240 AP says it's locked out. A veteran AP photographer and 246 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:58.080 White House correspondent testified yesterday that AP has struggled to 247 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.919 compete in its average of the Trump presidency since the 248 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:06.519 White House's decision to limit its access to presidential events, 249 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:11.320 the Oval Office and Air Force One. She said they're 250 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.279 really struggling to keep up with its competitors, particularly during 251 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.440 major news events that have happened during the opening weeks 252 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.799 of President Trump's second term. 253 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:25.080 Yeah, what's the endgame on this one? Is it to 254 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.720 bolster media that is friendly to the president. I mean 255 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.519 that's on the surfaces what people say AP was mean 256 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.200 to him. AP won't call it the Gulf of America. 257 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.559 So AP is going to pay the price. And AP 258 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.039 is saying we can't keep up with our competitors. On 259 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:42.200 the other hand, if you were some of the competitors, 260 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:44.559 you may have been saying, we can't possibly get a 261 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.679 foot in the door because AP is taking all of 262 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:52.919 the They're taking up all the seats, right, always the reporters, right, 263 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.039 they always get a seat, right, And so you have 264 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:58.279 others that have said, well, that's that's an unfair disadvantage 265 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.360 to us, because AP is all granted this seat. And 266 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.200 now the AP is saying, well, this is unfair to 267 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:06.639 us because we can't have the access that we've always had. 268 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:11.159 So we may just be seeing a shift in the 269 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.720 This might be the new world news order that we're witnessing. 270 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:20.000 The difference, though, is that the AP is an aggregate 271 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:23.000 news organization. It is not isolated too. It's not CNN, 272 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.559 it's not News Nation, it's not Fox, it's not One 273 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:28.200 America or whatever else. 274 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:29.120 It is. 275 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.519 A conglomerate of journalists who then distribute out to all 276 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:38.559 the other agencies. So CNN, Fox, News Nation, all these 277 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:43.440 others can still pull AP coverage provided they pay the 278 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:47.759 AP dues, which are not cheap. Incidentally, it was a 279 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:49.080 fight I used to have as a manager at a 280 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.879 station I was at for years. He said, do we 281 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.399 really need the AP? And I said, well, you don't 282 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.039 have a news department, so yeah, we do need the AP. 283 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:57.879 If we want to have any news product on our 284 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.200 news station, we're going to need to have access to AP. 285 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.279 But and now AP doesn't have access to the White House, 286 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.240 so how much value do they have to these places 287 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:11.399 that are paying those high fees to get their products. 288 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.919 Ever since news broke about the Trump officials discussing US 289 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.919 military attack plans in a group chat that inadvertently included 290 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:24.480 a journalist, Defense Secretary Pete Hexith, projecting unflinching confidence, he 291 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:30.279 said on Tuesday, I know exactly what I'm doing, do you? Though? 292 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:34.240 Because other Defense officials later in the week were increasingly skeptical, 293 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:38.840 especially after The Atlantic magazine then printed some of the 294 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:42.200 signal chat about the pending strike on the Hooti rebels 295 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:47.440 and Yemen. According to one Defense official talking with CNN, 296 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.120 it's safe to say that anybody in uniform would be 297 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:53.919 court martialed for this. My most junior analysts know not 298 00:15:54.039 --> 00:16:00.000 to do this. So some say Hexith looks particularly bad 299 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.360 given the level of detail that he shared in the chat. 300 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.919 So Hesith didn't realize that the chat was being shared 301 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:09.840 with the journalist, and he was just spilling all the tea. 302 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:13.879 You know, hey, we're leaving at this time, the bombs 303 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:17.039 will drop here at this time. It was very specific 304 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.919 and he was discussing it in detail, even though he 305 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.639 wasn't the guy that invited the journalist in there are 306 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.879 questions about his ability to do the job, mostly because 307 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:29.519 he was just given all the details in this signal app. 308 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.559 I gotta believe, and he was using his phone too. 309 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.399 I gotta believe. We've already seen the Chinese hacking into, 310 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:41.440 or at least attempting to hack into the private phones 311 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.840 of different elected officials. I gotta believe they are doubling 312 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:49.240 down on that effort. And I also have to believe 313 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.759 that Russia, who was sharing information with some of these 314 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.559 other groups, is happy to be able to try to 315 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.120 hack into somebody else's phone to watch what they're doing. 316 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:01.879 And all it takes is just to congratulations, you've won 317 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:05.200 a new car click here, and then somebody clicks on 318 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.079 it and go, that's weird. I didn't even know I 319 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:08.680 was looking for a new car, and then they click 320 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.640 on it and suddenly they've opened their phone up to 321 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.279 Russian hackers. So a lot of concerns about this, the 322 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:19.039 same concerns that people had about Hillary Clinton using her 323 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:22.039 BlackBerry back in the day. What I find to be 324 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.480 the most interesting on this signal chat breach is the 325 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:31.240 hypocrisy that is raining down from both sides. We have 326 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.480 people on the left that when Hillary Clinton had her BlackBerry, 327 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:38.720 they said, lots of officials use their phones. Colin Powell 328 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:42.039 us his phone, Hillary Clinton use. They're very safe phones 329 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.119 with there's nothing to worry about. I know you've got 330 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.279 that photo of Hillary Clinton on Air Force one using 331 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.359 her BlackBerry, but that's totally fine. You guys are blowing 332 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.000 this way out of proportion. And the Republicans at the 333 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.279 time said Hillary Clinton has jeopardized the lives of American soldiers. 334 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:05.559 Hillary clinton wanton disregard for security measures is putting American 335 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:10.440 lives of our heroes at risk. And Hillary Clinton should 336 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:13.359 be court martialed and hanged in the public square. Lock 337 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:17.519 her up, lock her up, lock her up. And now 338 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.960 it's completely flipped. So now you've got Democrats that want 339 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.319 to for although I haven't heard anybody saying that people 340 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.880 need to be criminally charged. There was a question that 341 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.799 was posed by media to Pam Bondi, the Attorney generalist, 342 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:34.920 said will there be a criminal investigation and she said nah, 343 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:37.440 So evidently we're not going to lock him up at all. 344 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.519 There will be none of that. But will there be 345 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.839 political fallout? Will hegsif lose his job? Will this National 346 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.559 Security advisor that invited the journalist onto the signal app 347 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:51.480 chat Mike Waltz lose his job. That remains to be seen, 348 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:58.119 but safe to say the confidence in the competency of 349 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:02.079 some of these officials is coming into question. Amy King 350 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:03.000 to you. 351 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:05.160 Elise is in limbo. 352 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:10.720 The White House has pulled Representative Elas Stephonics nomination to 353 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:15.480 become the next US ambassador to the United Nations. President 354 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.200 Trump said he was going to withdraw the nomination because 355 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.720 they've got such a narrow majority in the House he 356 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.200 needs to do everything he can to preserve that so 357 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:27.599 he can push forward his agenda and get his stuff passed. 358 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:29.559 He also said he didn't want to take a chance 359 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:33.920 on Stephanic's open seat in northern New York, that it 360 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.279 might go to the Democrats. It is heavily favored for 361 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:42.359 the Republicans now. Stephanic, since she was named as the 362 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:46.240 UN ambassador or the nominee to be, had to give 363 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:49.319 up her leadership post, so she's sort of in limbo 364 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:53.039 right now. She's still a congresswoman, but lost her power. 365 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:54.799 Position, but she still got the job. 366 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:55.759 She doesn't. 367 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.400 Both Trump and Johnson say they're going to find something 368 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.920 for her because she was like three in the house. 369 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.880 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, She's gonna be fine. One 370 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:06.559 of the things about this administration is that they tend 371 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:09.960 to say the quiet part out loud. I love that. 372 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:13.839 I mean, at least there's a certain and it's it's 373 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.200 funny to say from a president who will still argue 374 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:21.079 about crowd sizes. It is. It is funny to hear 375 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:25.920 just how blatantly honest they are about some of their tactics. 376 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:29.400 It's not you know, at least Stephonic is just she's 377 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.279 too important to the operations in the House and and 378 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:34.400 you know, we've got some other people with the un 379 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:38.599 and we're so thankful that she was willing to put 380 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.599 things aside for the good of her country. Instead they 381 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:45.559 go at least Stephonic, we need her vote. So basically, 382 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:48.000 she's gonna lose this better job because we really need 383 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:50.759 her vote and we don't want to take the chance 384 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:52.880 of losing all the crap we're trying to put through 385 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:56.240 the House. So I'm gonna find somebody else to do 386 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.000 the job, probably a relative. But Stephanic is going to 387 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:01.880 go back to the house and just be a house mom. 388 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:04.400 That's your thing. She can be a house mom from 389 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.480 here on out. And I so appreciate the honesty. 390 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:09.559 You know what, when you do your Donald Trump, you 391 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.160 sound like Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump. 392 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:13.519 See. I just think it's horrible. 393 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:14.400 I think it's fine. 394 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:19.319 It's one of those brutally bad impersonations, so terrible. Secretary 395 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:21.559 of State Marco Rubio says at least three hundred foreign 396 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.880 students I've had their visas revoked amid the Trump administration's 397 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.279 immigration crackdown. He said maybe more. He might be more 398 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:30.960 than three hundred at this point. So he says, we 399 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:32.559 do it every day. Every time I find one of 400 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:36.960 these lunatics, I take away their visa, and I hope 401 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:39.119