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Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is indeed time
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Speaker 3: the dot. I am Michael Monk sitting in for Amy
Speaker 3: King on this Monday, February twenty fourth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: the very last week this February. I hope you've made
Speaker 3: the most of it. Here's what's a head on wake
Speaker 3: up call. It's the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of
Speaker 3: Ukraine and this costly war that has followed. Now you've
Speaker 3: got a new president in the White House, So what
Speaker 3: is America's relationship to that conflict. It appears to be shifting,
Speaker 3: to say the least. We'll have a live update on
Speaker 3: where the war stands, and we're the American govern stands
Speaker 3: as well. We've also got leaders of two of America's
Speaker 3: top allies coming to the White House this week. As
Speaker 3: our relationship with Ukraine evolves, so too does our relationship
Speaker 3: with Europe. Our White House correspondent is with us to
Speaker 3: explain and let me ask you this. Can you name
Speaker 3: five things you accomplished at work last week? If you
Speaker 3: work for the federal government, you better be able to
Speaker 3: Special Government employee Elon Musk has sent an email to
Speaker 3: all federal workers, but not everyone is going to respond
Speaker 3: to it despite its threatening nature. We'll have a live
Speaker 3: update on that story coming up this hour. Then, of course,
Speaker 3: at the top of the hour, we've got Bill Handle
Speaker 3: and Handle on the news. Bill Handle will be here,
Speaker 3: Neil Sevagri will be here and I'll be there too.
Speaker 3: Hope you'll join us for that. We'll start with some
Speaker 3: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 3: hour newsroom. It was just a dreadful weekend for pedestrians
Speaker 3: across Los Angeles, a deadly weekend. Indeed, an innocent bystander
Speaker 3: has died and another person has lost their legs after
Speaker 3: a crash in Commerce that followed a police chase. The
Speaker 3: California Highway Patrol says it tried to pull over a
Speaker 3: car headed in the wrong direction near Eastern and Florence
Speaker 3: Avenues on Saturday night. A person sitting on a bench
Speaker 3: was killed in the crash. And a pedestrian was hit
Speaker 3: in a crosswalk and had both legs severed. A woman
Speaker 3: crossing the street in South la has died after being
Speaker 3: hit by a Dodge Charger that was racing another car.
Speaker 3: The charger and a Chevy Tahoe both sped away from
Speaker 3: the scene and police are still looking for both of
Speaker 3: those cars. And a boy riding his bike in South
Speaker 3: LA has died near San Pedro in ninety ninth Streets
Speaker 3: after being hit by Toyota Corolla. The driver of that
Speaker 3: car also ran away from the scene, leaving his car
Speaker 3: behind and escaping on foot. And then a pedestrian was
Speaker 3: killed by a Union Pacific train in Boyle Heights. Happened
Speaker 3: yesterday afternoon and forced all trained traffic to stop nearby. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: a man has been scheduled to plead guilty today to
Speaker 3: a series of armed robberies of seven eleven stores over
Speaker 3: two months. The Angelo Spencer was charged with three others
Speaker 3: in those robberies from the winter of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: mostly in South la but they also hit a CVS
Speaker 3: store in Hollywood. Today marks the third anniversary of Russia's
Speaker 3: invasion of Ukraine and the war that followed. The conflict
Speaker 3: is the subject of debate at the United Nations. The
Speaker 3: US has presented one resolution to recognize the anniversary, while
Speaker 3: Ukraine and other European nations have another. President Trump has
Speaker 3: also called for an end to the conflict and has
Speaker 3: recently been at odds with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Our roy
Speaker 3: O'Neil joins US Live Now to talk about it. Good
Speaker 3: Monday morning to you, Rory.
Speaker 2: Hey there, Happy Monday, Michael.
Speaker 3: Monday to you. I mean, this is a pretty significant
Speaker 3: international conflict. It's had the attention of the world for
Speaker 3: three years now, but it seems like American policy towards
Speaker 3: it has shifted dramatically in recent weeks, even with some
Speaker 3: very public spats between our president and the Ukrainian president.
Speaker 3: So what can you tell us about where the US
Speaker 3: stands in relation to this thing.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's interesting because yes, the policy has shifted,
Speaker 2: but we're not exactly sure where too. You know, a
Speaker 2: lot of the European leaders and the Prime Minister of
Speaker 2: Canada travel to Ukraine today to show their support three
Speaker 2: years after the Russian invasion, but there's also trying to
Speaker 2: line up and show that they're unified because they're not
Speaker 2: sure what the next play will be by the US. Yes,
Speaker 2: we had Secretary of Saint Marco Rubio and his counterpart
Speaker 2: from Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia, maybe trying to get
Speaker 2: to some sort of a peace deal. Maybe there's a
Speaker 2: mineral rights deal in the works as well. But right
Speaker 2: now an awful lot of gray a.
Speaker 3: Well, what's going on with the conflict itself? What is
Speaker 3: the situation on the ground between Ukraine and Russia as
Speaker 3: we understand it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, still incredibly violent. In fact, last night Russia launched
Speaker 2: its biggest single drone attack of the year, launching two
Speaker 2: hundred sixty seven drones towards Ukraine. You know, Russia has
Speaker 2: made significant progress in capturing territory on the eastern side
Speaker 2: of Ukraine. And now the question is, if there is
Speaker 2: some sort of a peace deal, will Russia be forced
Speaker 2: to retreat, will Ukraine be forced to give up some
Speaker 2: of that land? And then, as I mentioned, the European
Speaker 2: leaders are meeting concern that maybe perhaps European troops will
Speaker 2: have some sort of a peace keeping role if there
Speaker 2: is some sort of a deal broker in the weeks ahead.
Speaker 3: Take us to the United Nations, because I'm not sure
Speaker 3: I fully understand what's going on. I know that there
Speaker 3: are symbolic resolutions taking at the UN all the time.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they get a little contentious depending on which countries
Speaker 3: favor a certain but that appears to be what's going down.
Speaker 3: I guess this week at the UN, the United States
Speaker 3: has a resolution about recognizing this war, but other people
Speaker 3: have a different perspective. What can you tell us right?
Speaker 2: One of the issues is just how much Russia needs
Speaker 2: to be or should be blamed for this conflict. The
Speaker 2: US has sort of signaled that it doesn't want to
Speaker 2: put the blame solely on Russia for launching this invasion,
Speaker 2: and that's not sitting well with a lot of European leaders,
Speaker 2: and it's certainly not Ukrainians who say, look, we are
Speaker 2: the victims here. Russia launched this unprovoked invasion, they say,
Speaker 2: three years ago today, and it's cost both sides hundreds
Speaker 2: of thousands of lives, billions in treasure, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like there's an end in sight anytime soon.
Speaker 3: So what does this type of conflict that the UN
Speaker 3: do for the United States and its relationship with other
Speaker 3: countries who seem to be staying the course on their
Speaker 3: position on Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Well, and you mentioned it that they go around, they
Speaker 2: pass a lot of resolutions and demand things and pound
Speaker 2: the table a lot, but typically not much comes from
Speaker 2: most of these UN actions, and that may be what
Speaker 2: we see here. But the US is pressuring Ukraine to
Speaker 2: withdraw this resolution that demands an immediate withdrawal of Russian
Speaker 2: forces from their country, and this is what the UN
Speaker 2: will be debating this week.
Speaker 3: Is there a US foreign policy goal that has been
Speaker 3: stated publicly to have a better relationship with Vladimir Putin
Speaker 3: and Russia?
Speaker 4: Clearly no.
Speaker 2: But I think by the actions of President Trump, you know,
Speaker 2: he had that ninety minute phone call with Putin more
Speaker 2: than a week ago. That is the first communication that
Speaker 2: the US has had with the Russian leader since the invasion. Again,
Speaker 2: the President setting up the meeting with Secretary Rubio and
Speaker 2: the Russian counterpart in Saudi Arabia. Again, meeting faced face,
Speaker 2: talk about face to face moting of meeting of Putin
Speaker 2: and Trump. All that's in the cards as well. So
Speaker 2: clearly things are very different, or they're setting a table
Speaker 2: to have a very different relationship than what we had
Speaker 2: during the Biden administration.
Speaker 3: After the invasion. Roy O'Neil, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: taking some time out of your Monday morning to updates
Speaker 3: on this. We'll continue to follow your reports on it,
Speaker 3: Thanks Michael. So there you go, Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Speaker 3: three years ago and a long, bloody and costly war
Speaker 3: that has followed, and now we see some shifting US
Speaker 3: policy towards this conflict. We'll keep an eye on what
Speaker 3: happens at the UN and also what is happening on
Speaker 3: the ground between Russia and Ukraine, and we'll provide you
Speaker 3: updates throughout the day right here on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 3: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Conservative Christian
Speaker 3: Democratic Union has won the national election in Germany. Political
Speaker 3: correspondent Thomas Spero says CDU leader Friedrich Murz now has
Speaker 3: to form a coalition government.
Speaker 5: The big question now is what coalition will be formed,
Speaker 5: because in Germany, and like in other countries, the party
Speaker 5: that finishes first does not necessarily end up governing. The
Speaker 5: party needs to then find partners to govern with.
Speaker 3: A coalition is necessary because provisional results show the CDU
Speaker 3: alliance did not win an outright majority, getting about twenty
Speaker 3: eight and a half percent of the vote. The far
Speaker 3: right Alternative for Germany came in second with almost twenty
Speaker 3: one percent of the vote, but it's unlikely to become
Speaker 3: part of that coalition government because other parties refuse to
Speaker 3: work with it. The Vatican says Pope Francis is awake
Speaker 3: and in good spirits. He's been in the hospital for
Speaker 3: ten days for a lung infection that has provoked the
Speaker 3: early stages of kidney failure. Doctors have said Francis's kidney
Speaker 3: condition is under control, though the Pope remains in critical condition.
Speaker 3: He is continuing to feed himself and is not receiving
Speaker 3: artificial or liquid nutrition. Howard Universe has created a new
Speaker 3: program to study racism. The historically black Institution in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. Has announced the appointment of Ebram X. Kendy
Speaker 3: as the director of its Institute for Advanced Study. Kendy
Speaker 3: drew national attention during the racial justice movement of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty with his book on How to Be an Anti Racist.
Speaker 3: Howard says the program would address perceived inequities in technology,
Speaker 3: the environment, healthcare, education, and the criminal justice system. The
Speaker 3: Screen Actors Guild Awards have been handed out.
Speaker 6: The movie Conclave and TV series Showgun taking the top prizes. Conclave,
Speaker 6: the film about the election of a new Pope, took
Speaker 6: home Best Motion Picture Award. Timothy Schallamey and Demi Moore
Speaker 6: captured the Leading Actor and Actress trophies. Showgun led television
Speaker 6: shows with four wins, including Best Lead Actor and Actress
Speaker 6: in a Drama Series, as well as Outstanding Performance by
Speaker 6: an Ensemble and a Drama Series. Only Murders in the
Speaker 6: Building received the award for Outstay Performance but Ensemble in
Speaker 6: a Comedy Series, while Martin Short one for Outstanding Mail
Speaker 6: Actor in a Comedy for the hit Hulu series I'm
Speaker 6: Jacqueline Carl.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything. Will have you seen anything that
Speaker 3: has you know been honored this award season And I
Speaker 3: feel so out of the loop because I have not
Speaker 3: seen anything. I just saw Wild Robot. The Wild Robot.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, good, gosh, so good. Uh take a
Speaker 7: cleanex you might need it. Did you cry or did
Speaker 7: you sneeze? I'm not saying all right.
Speaker 3: Governor Gavin Newsom has asked Congress to approve nearly forty
Speaker 3: billion dollars in aid to help LA recover from January's wildfires.
Speaker 3: Newsom sent a letter on Friday asking for support from
Speaker 3: federal lawmakers, vowing that the funding would be used to
Speaker 3: rebuild homes, infrastructure, business schools, churches, and health care facilities.
Speaker 3: The governor has said the fires could become the costliest
Speaker 3: natural disaster in US history. Estimates of the total loss
Speaker 3: have been estimated to top two hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 3: The Department of Government Efficiency has targeted the National Highway
Speaker 3: Traffic Safety Administration for layoffs. The agency says it's cut
Speaker 3: a modest amount of positions. DOGE is headed by Elon Musk,
Speaker 3: who also happens to head Tesla, a company that has
Speaker 3: been under investigation by the NHTSA for deadly crashes. Musk
Speaker 3: has accused the NHTSA of holding back progress on self
Speaker 3: driving technology with its investigations and recalls, and the University
Speaker 3: of Arizona has apologized to Brigham Young University for a
Speaker 3: chant at the team's basketball game on Saturday night. Online
Speaker 3: videos shows fans yelling a profane phrase directed at Mormons
Speaker 3: as the teams were leaving the court. BYU the flagship
Speaker 3: School of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Speaker 3: Saints won that game. Coming up at six oh five,
Speaker 3: We've got Bill Handel and Handle on the news. Bill, Neil,
Speaker 3: Sevijah and I will be there and we hope that
Speaker 3: you will join. As dues. We discuss all the big
Speaker 3: headlines from the day, including these. The leaders of two
Speaker 3: of America's closest allies will be paying separate visits to
Speaker 3: the White House this week, starting today, when French President
Speaker 3: Manuel Macron sits down with President Trump. UK Prime Minister
Speaker 3: Keir Starmer is also making his way across the ocean
Speaker 3: for an oval office trip. Our John Decker is live
Speaker 3: with us now to talk about it. Good Monday morning
Speaker 3: to you, John.
Speaker 4: Hey, Michael, thanks for having me on today. That's right.
Speaker 4: Within the past twenty minutes, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived
Speaker 4: at the White House. A full day at the White
Speaker 4: House today for the French President. There'll be a joint
Speaker 4: press conference early this afternoon two o'clock Eastern time hour
Speaker 4: for us. That's eleven o'clock for you. And I think
Speaker 4: that the top item on the agenda for both French
Speaker 4: President Macron today as well as British Prime Minister Keir
Speaker 4: Starmer on Thursday, the issues of security and trade. On
Speaker 4: the security front, certainly talking about Ukraine, what the security
Speaker 4: of Ukraine looks like when and if this war ends,
Speaker 4: the war exactly three years old today. And then of
Speaker 4: course the issue of trade, with the President threatening to
Speaker 4: impose trade tariffs on everyone of America's trading partners.
Speaker 3: So that seems to complicate in otherwise long and positive
Speaker 3: relationship between the nation of France and US. I'm wondering,
Speaker 3: based on your own observations, do you notice that foreign
Speaker 3: leaders like Immanuel Macron have any type of different posture
Speaker 3: at podiums when they're standing next to President Trump as
Speaker 3: opposed to any other president.
Speaker 4: Well, every leader is different that has come to Washington,
Speaker 4: that has come to the White House to meet with
Speaker 4: President Trump. I think that, for instance, President Macron is
Speaker 4: going to be different in terms of his body language
Speaker 4: and how he deals with the President versus the British
Speaker 4: Prime Minister, in the sense that he has a relationship
Speaker 4: with President Trump. Going back to President Trump's first term
Speaker 4: in the White House. In fact, you may recall Michael,
Speaker 4: just a few months ago, President Trump actually paid a
Speaker 4: visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Speaker 4: So because of that, I think that they have a
Speaker 4: good relationship. They understand each other, they respect each other,
Speaker 4: and that that will be evident when you see the
Speaker 4: French President and President Trump in the Oval office for
Speaker 4: the photo spray, the photo op as well as during
Speaker 4: the joint press conference that will happen early this afternoon.
Speaker 3: We do see US policy towards Ukraine shifting a little bit,
Speaker 3: certainly in terms of the public remarks made by the
Speaker 3: President versus what President Biden would say about that situation.
Speaker 3: Where does France stand on the issue?
Speaker 4: Well, France, as you may recall, last Monday, the French
Speaker 4: President brought together other European leaders to discuss the issue
Speaker 4: of Ukraine, and France is one of those few countries
Speaker 4: along with the UK, that says when and if there's
Speaker 4: a piece that has reached, a piece deal that's reached,
Speaker 4: France and the UK both say they would be committed
Speaker 4: to providing boots on the ground to maintaining the peace
Speaker 4: in Ukraine. They are one of the few European countries
Speaker 4: that have.
Speaker 3: Said that publicly.
Speaker 4: So the President will certainly discuss that with French President
Speaker 4: Macron today. And you know, as it relates to France
Speaker 4: and the UK, they've both contributed tens of billions of
Speaker 4: dollars to helping out Ukraine since the war began exactly
Speaker 4: three years ago. Today.
Speaker 3: Now we know that the President is a fan of tariffs.
Speaker 3: He's even threatened them to our closest allies and neighbors
Speaker 3: in Canada and Mexico. What are the possible trade differences
Speaker 3: that could emerge between the United States and France and
Speaker 3: that you expect these two to discuss today.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, look, I think that we saw the
Speaker 4: President impose tariffs on the European Union in his first term.
Speaker 4: The EU responded with retaliatory tariffs. So if the President
Speaker 4: imposes tariffs, it won't be on any individual European country,
Speaker 4: it will be on the European Union as a whole.
Speaker 4: And when the EU responded with retaliatory tariffs, it certainly
Speaker 4: impacted certain US companies, including I always think about how
Speaker 4: it really impacted Harley Davidson, which manufactures its motorcycles primarily
Speaker 4: in Wisconsin. While they slapped huge tariffs on those Harley
Speaker 4: Davidson motorcycles, which really impacted the bottom line of Harley
Speaker 4: Davidson in President Trump's first term in office, and I
Speaker 4: think that that memory is the reason why the EU
Speaker 4: and the US are treading, you know, very lightly in
Speaker 4: terms of whether or not to impose tariffs on each
Speaker 4: other's goods over the course of the next few months.
Speaker 3: You mentioned that, and Trump has a relationship from his
Speaker 3: first term with President macrona France. But here Starmer is
Speaker 3: a new prime minister in the UK. What should we
Speaker 3: look forward to this week when Prime Minister Starmer arrives.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the President Trump has met with quite a few
Speaker 4: British Prime ministers over the years, because they have, over
Speaker 4: the course of the past eight years, gone through many
Speaker 4: different prime ministers, Cure Starmer being the latest one. So
Speaker 4: it'll be a certainly a getting to know you process.
Speaker 4: When Cure Starmer visits the White House on Thursday, they
Speaker 4: too will have a joint press conference, so we'll get
Speaker 4: an opportunity to ask each of these leaders about the
Speaker 4: discussions that they had on these issues of security and
Speaker 4: also trade and any other issues that come up. You
Speaker 4: know that I think are important to both countries as
Speaker 4: it relates to the bilateral relationship between the US and
Speaker 4: the UK.
Speaker 3: John Decker, we appreciate you every time you come on
Speaker 3: and we'll look forward to your reports from these meetings.
Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, Michael, have a great day. Bye bye,
Speaker 4: bye bye.
Speaker 3: So some lucky thieves used a stolen card to buy
Speaker 3: a lottery ticket in France and listen to this the
Speaker 3: ticket hit. The lottery ticket won half a million euros
Speaker 3: or around five hundred and twenty three thousand US dollars.
Speaker 3: The man whose card was stolen says he wants to
Speaker 3: split the cash with the thieves, but those thieves have vanished,
Speaker 3: and the bad news is prosecutors could try to seize
Speaker 3: the winnings by considering them illegally obtained games. The thieves
Speaker 3: face the risk of arrest, of course, if they turn
Speaker 3: in the ticket. The victim's lawyer has asked the thieves
Speaker 3: to come forward so they can share the money. Francis
Speaker 3: State lottery operator said no one had submitted the ticket
Speaker 3: to cash out as of Saturday. So is that good luck?
Speaker 3: Is that bad luck? Not sure? It's crazy luck. I
Speaker 3: imagine eighteen riding a mini bike has been killed in
Speaker 3: a hit and run crash in South La. This witness
Speaker 3: tells KTLA what she saw I didn't see all signs
Speaker 3: of breathing. I didn't touch him or anything. I just
Speaker 3: looked and it was just really hard to see. I
Speaker 3: started crying.
Speaker 5: If I'm being honest.
Speaker 3: The crash happened early yesterday morning. The victim has been
Speaker 3: identified as a sixteen year old boy. The driver got
Speaker 3: out of his car and ran from the scene on foot.
Speaker 3: More than a dozen six sea lions have been spotted
Speaker 3: off the coast of Malibu in less than a week.
Speaker 3: The California Wildlife Center says it has responded to fourteen
Speaker 3: calls about ailing sea lions since early last week. Experts
Speaker 3: believe the animals may be suffering from exposure to demoic acid.
Speaker 3: The acid is a tux and commonly found in algae.
Speaker 3: It can build up in shellfish, sardines and anchovies, which,
Speaker 3: when eaten by sea lions, can affect their brains and hearts.
Speaker 3: I'm Daniel Martindale. More firings in the US government last
Speaker 3: week included the dismissal of the chairman of the Joint
Speaker 3: Chiefs of Staff and the top admiral of the US Navy.
Speaker 3: It marked the first time two members of the Joint
Speaker 3: chiefs of Staff have been removed from their senior military roles,
Speaker 3: So what is the motivation behind these firings. ABC News
Speaker 3: White House correspondent Karen Travers joins US Now Live. Good
Speaker 3: Monday morning to you.
Speaker 8: Karen, Happy Monday to you too. Hope you had a
Speaker 8: nice weekend.
Speaker 3: Saying to you, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Speaker 3: Staff is supposed to be non political and a political post.
Speaker 3: So is this about politics?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 8: And I think that's a really important thing for people
Speaker 8: to realize that the chair of the Joint chiefs of
Speaker 8: Staff is appointed to a four year term and it
Speaker 8: not it doesn't coincide with presidential elections.
Speaker 4: So c Q.
Speaker 8: Brown was appointed to this role back in twenty twenty
Speaker 8: three by President Biden. But you know, in theory he
Speaker 8: would have served it out over the next administration, and
Speaker 8: that's really done by design so that they don't come
Speaker 8: in with a new president. You could, in theory serve
Speaker 8: presidents of different parties.
Speaker 4: And t Q.
Speaker 8: Brown was also nominated and put in the position of
Speaker 8: Chief of Staff of the Air Force by President Trump
Speaker 8: back in twenty twenty. He had very positive things to
Speaker 8: say about him back then, so it's not like he's
Speaker 8: somebody that was completely forced upon the Trump administration by
Speaker 8: Joe Biden that said a president has authority to remove
Speaker 8: military officers and put in people that he wants. But still,
Speaker 8: I think, as you mentioned at the top there, it
Speaker 8: really is unprecedented to remove two members of the Joint
Speaker 8: chiefs of Staff like this at the same time when
Speaker 8: he took out Q. Brown as well as the Admiral
Speaker 8: of the Navy, Lisa frank Hetty also as fired on
Speaker 8: Friday night.
Speaker 3: What have we heard from the Secretary of Defense on
Speaker 3: this issue?
Speaker 8: You know, he, nos surprise, has supported the president on
Speaker 8: this and says that the president is allowed to make
Speaker 8: decisions on this. He's also pushed back on some of
Speaker 8: the criticism from Democrats who say that this could have
Speaker 8: a chilling effect on the Pentagon and the workforce there
Speaker 8: and across the military. Haig Seth has said that is ridiculous, essentially,
Speaker 8: but you know, notable when you look at the reasons
Speaker 8: for CQ Brown's firing. Haig Seth, before he had come
Speaker 8: into this role of Defense Secretary, had once called him
Speaker 8: a higher and that's kind of the root of all
Speaker 8: of this. The Trump administration has been pushing people out
Speaker 8: who have made that a priority. They had eliminated programs
Speaker 8: and offices across the federal government focused on diversity, equity,
Speaker 8: and inclusion, and Brown and others who were part of
Speaker 8: firings recently have talked about the importance of diversity as
Speaker 8: a military and other places in the government. And Brown
Speaker 8: has talked about how he himself experienced racism, so you know,
Speaker 8: there's certainly a factor here in all of this. Also,
Speaker 8: last week, we had reported that Brown and Admiral Franketti
Speaker 8: were on a list that had been sent around to
Speaker 8: Congressional Republicans of potential people senior in the military that
Speaker 8: the Defense Secretary was looking to fire. So, you know, surprising, unprecedented,
Speaker 8: but at the same time not unexpected because there had
Speaker 8: been rumblings of this last week.
Speaker 3: We know that some Democrats on Capitol Hill have criticized
Speaker 3: this decision to dismiss these two folks. What about military leadership,
Speaker 3: either current or retired. Have we heard any remarks from
Speaker 3: folks like.
Speaker 8: That retired have spoken out because they're retired, So it's
Speaker 8: a little bit easier to hear from some people who
Speaker 8: are not in the military anymore, not in the chain
Speaker 8: of command. General George Casey, for one, who has been
Speaker 8: a top military commander you know, said he was concerned
Speaker 8: by this move. But you know the people who are
Speaker 8: currently in the military, they're serving Donald Trump as commander
Speaker 8: in chief, and the military doesn't speak out like that.
Speaker 8: Even if you disagree with the move like this, I
Speaker 8: know you've.
Speaker 3: Got a run. But what can you tell us about
Speaker 3: the man named Raisin King.
Speaker 8: So he is a retired Air Force pilot, an F
Speaker 8: sixteen pilot, and the President has nominated him to now
Speaker 8: be the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He
Speaker 8: will have to come back into active duty into service
Speaker 8: because again he's retired. He will also have to be
Speaker 8: confirmed by the Senate. President had very good things to
Speaker 8: say about him and the work he did on the
Speaker 8: fight against ISIS during the president's first term. And we'll
Speaker 8: see how quickly now the Senate moves forward with the
Speaker 8: confirmation of withn in General Pain.
Speaker 3: ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers, thanks so much
Speaker 3: for your report this morning.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Now let's get an update on money and finances. Were
Speaker 3: joined live by Courtney Dona Hugh of Bloomberg. Good Monday
Speaker 3: morning to you, Courtney.
Speaker 9: Good morning, we're back in our desk today.
Speaker 3: Oh good to hear. Yeah for sure. Now listen, what's
Speaker 3: a good way to talk to kids about money before
Speaker 3: they become adults.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, Americans who grew up chatting with their parents
Speaker 9: about money and investing, they're more likely to apply healthy
Speaker 9: financial habits as adults.
Speaker 3: So this is interesting, is the.
Speaker 9: Way that your raise plays a very big role in
Speaker 9: shaping your relationship with money later in life. So, according
Speaker 9: to a survey that Bankray just did, adults were exposed
Speaker 9: to financial education in their youth are one and a
Speaker 9: half times more likely to succesfully negotiate raises during their careers.
Speaker 9: They're also more likely to pay their bills on time
Speaker 9: and save money for the future.
Speaker 3: So how do you start with your kids.
Speaker 9: You have to look for those teachable moments in everyday life,
Speaker 9: Like at the grocery store. I try to do that
Speaker 9: with my kids, give them a little bit of cash
Speaker 9: and say don't spend it on candy.
Speaker 3: Sometimes that doesn't work. Yeah, it's hard for me. Sometimes
Speaker 3: at the checkout I'll walk out without candy.
Speaker 4: Barley.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's let's talk a little bit about Apple,
Speaker 3: as in the computer company says it's adding some jobs.
Speaker 9: Yeah, twenty thousand new jobs in the US. They also
Speaker 9: plan to spend five hundred billion dollars domestically over the
Speaker 9: next four years. This comes days after President Trump and
Speaker 9: Apple CEO Tim Cook met in the Oval Office. Now,
Speaker 9: last week, President Trump implied that Apple is investing locally
Speaker 9: because it doesn't want to pay tariffs. And by the way,
Speaker 9: I want to point out that this would have been
Speaker 9: Steve Jobs' seventieth birthday today, the Apple co founder died
Speaker 9: in twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: Oh. Well, the markets have been a little rocky. They
Speaker 3: closed the week a little bit rough, but it looks
Speaker 3: like are we bouncing back.
Speaker 9: Well this morning we are seeing a rebound out. Futures
Speaker 9: are up two hundred and sixty five points. The key
Speaker 9: of end of the week is in Vidia's earnings report,
Speaker 9: which will be released on Wednesday. Now, on Friday, we
Speaker 9: had weaker than expected economic data that sent the S
Speaker 9: and P five hundred to its biggest loss of the
Speaker 9: new year on Friday, with the Dow tumbling seven hundred
Speaker 9: and forty nine points. But we do have breaking news
Speaker 9: just crossing that I know a lot of people are
Speaker 9: going to be watching today job cuts are on the
Speaker 9: way at Starbucks. The coffee chain is eliminating eleven hundred
Speaker 9: corporate jobs, not in the cafes. You have to point
Speaker 9: out the corporate jobs. They have a new CEO who
Speaker 9: came from Chipotle. He started in September and he's moved
Speaker 9: pretty quick to try to put in some changes to
Speaker 9: help the cafes run more smoothly. They brought back the
Speaker 9: conniment bars. They're limiting stores stores to paying customers only.
Speaker 9: So there's been a lot of things on the way
Speaker 9: for Starbucks, a lot of changes and a lot of restructuring.
Speaker 3: Something to watched today along with the markets, all the
Speaker 3: updates throughout and Courtney Dona Hue from Bloomberg, thank you
Speaker 3: so much for that update. We appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 9: I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 3: You got it. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 3: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3: MSNBC has canceled Joy Reid's evening new show The Readout.
Speaker 3: New network president Rebecca Cutler says she plans to replace
Speaker 3: the show, which has aired in that time slot at
Speaker 3: seven o'clock on weekdays since twenty twenty, with co host
Speaker 3: from the weekend. That show, which has aired on Saturday
Speaker 3: and Sunday mornings, has seen its viewership increase in that
Speaker 3: time slot by about forty percent, and today is National
Speaker 3: Tortilla Chip Day and Walter Trilla chips have long been
Speaker 3: considered a Mexican food. They were actually first mass produced
Speaker 3: in a little city called Los Angeles in the late
Speaker 3: nineteen forties. The credit for that goes to a woman
Speaker 3: named Rebecca Carranza, who ran a tortilla factory came up
Speaker 3: with the idea one day to start cutting her leftover
Speaker 3: tortillas into triangles and frying them. Recap of that deadly
Speaker 3: weekend for pedestrians across La including the death of an
Speaker 3: innocent bystander who died when another person also lost their
Speaker 3: legs in the same crash, and commerce that followed a
Speaker 3: police chase. The California Highway Patrol says it tried to
Speaker 3: pull over a car that was headed in the wrong
Speaker 3: direction near Eastern and Florence Avenues on Saturday night. A
Speaker 3: person sitting on a bench was killed in the crash,
Speaker 3: and a pedestrian was hit in the crosswalk and had
Speaker 3: both legs severed, and a woman crossing the street in
Speaker 3: South LA has died after being hit by a Dodge
Speaker 3: Charger that was racing another car. That charger and a
Speaker 3: Chevy Tahoe both sped away from the scene. Police are
Speaker 3: still looking for them. And then a boy, a sixteen
Speaker 3: year old boy riding his bike in South LA has
Speaker 3: died near San Pedro in ninety ninth Streets after being
Speaker 3: hit by a Toyota Corolla. The driver of that car
Speaker 3: got out and ran from the scene on foot. And
Speaker 3: then a pedestrian was killed by a Union Pacific train
Speaker 3: in Boyle Heights. That happened yesterday afternoon, forcing all train
Speaker 3: traffic stop in that area. A man has been scheduled
Speaker 3: to plead guilty today to a series of armed robberies
Speaker 3: of seven Eleven stores over two months. DiAngelo Spencer was
Speaker 3: charged with three others in those robberies from the winter
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty three, mostly seven eleven stores in South
Speaker 3: LA as well as a CVS store in Hollywood. And
Speaker 3: we are just minutes away at the top of the
Speaker 3: hour handle on the news bill handle, Nil Savidra and
Speaker 3: I will be there. We hope that you will join
Speaker 3: us too. If you work for the federal government. There
Speaker 3: may have been a curious item in your inbox. Even
Speaker 3: if you don't work for the federal government, you've probably
Speaker 3: seen the note on social media by now Elon Musk, who,
Speaker 3: in addition to being the richest person in the world,
Speaker 3: the owner of Tesla and ax et cetera, is also
Speaker 3: a special government employee under President Trump. He wants to
Speaker 3: know what workers got done last week, and he wants
Speaker 3: to know now, or at least by the end of
Speaker 3: the night. ABC News National correspondent Stephen Portnoy is with
Speaker 3: US Now to explain Good Money Day Morning, Steve, and
Speaker 3: I hope you know what you got done last week.
Speaker 10: I was on vacation for much of less reall that's
Speaker 10: not quick, which I was gonna say, might put other
Speaker 10: people who were similarly on vacation over the President's Day
Speaker 10: week in a bit of a pickle. Look, the bottom
Speaker 10: line is that nothing is simple when it comes to
Speaker 10: the operations of the federal government. That's why you're seeing
Speaker 10: this contradictory, confusing situation where a number of agency heads
Speaker 10: are saying to their own people, do not comply with
Speaker 10: this directive from the Office of Personnel Management, that email
Speaker 10: that says, what did you do last week that the
Speaker 10: agency will figure out how it's going to respond to
Speaker 10: all this.
Speaker 3: But for the moment, there's a lack of coordination. There
Speaker 3: is mass confusion, and.
Speaker 10: Elon Musk is doubling down, saying on his ex platform
Speaker 10: that those who don't take this email seriously will quote
Speaker 10: soon be furthering their career elsewhere. You know, there are
Speaker 10: tens of thousands of people undoubtedly across the Southland who
Speaker 10: are listening to this or certainly within the range of
Speaker 10: the signal of this radio station, who were for the
Speaker 10: federal government in.
Speaker 3: A wide array of roles.
Speaker 10: They might work for Fish and Wildlife, they might work
Speaker 10: for the National Park Service, they might work for the TSA,
Speaker 10: or the FAA, or the FBI or the Veterans Affairs Department,
Speaker 10: and they may be wondering what they're supposed to do
Speaker 10: and how they can necessarily distill all the things they
Speaker 10: did last week into five bullet points. You know, not
Speaker 10: every federal worker is a bureaucrat who sits behind a
Speaker 10: desk and makes decisions as to how federal money should
Speaker 10: be spent.
Speaker 3: But this has been one of the complaints that Elon
Speaker 3: Musk has had. He seems to be of the mind
Speaker 3: that there are a lot of people who work for
Speaker 3: the federal government who won don't go to the office
Speaker 3: at all. And two, if they work, they're not checking
Speaker 3: their email all. To say that they're just simply not productive,
Speaker 3: isn't that the message we're getting from him? Well, certainly
Speaker 3: that's his view.
Speaker 10: I mean, that's why he stood on the stage with
Speaker 10: a chainsaw last week, to try to say that he's
Speaker 10: going to be the man who cuts through all the
Speaker 10: stuff and eliminates the waste, the fraud as they see it,
Speaker 10: and the abuse. Look undoubtedly in any government endeavor, and
Speaker 10: that's certainly true at Los Angeles City Hall, as it
Speaker 10: is true in the county, as it is true in
Speaker 10: the state, as it is.
Speaker 3: True in the federal government.
Speaker 10: You have a lot of people who just have jobs,
Speaker 10: just to have jobs, and just sit there and do
Speaker 10: not much and take home an ice salary. And it's
Speaker 10: always a good thing for stewards of the taxpayer to
Speaker 10: go in and examine all that. That's really what Congress
Speaker 10: is supposed to do. That's their oversight responsibility. What Musk
Speaker 10: is talking about is sort of this wholesale chainsaw approach
Speaker 10: that he can do as he has done in the
Speaker 10: entities that he's bought and owns and holy controls. Well,
Speaker 10: in the federal system, it doesn't exactly work that way.
Speaker 10: And I made a list of some of the agencies
Speaker 10: that have widely different areas of responsibility and types of jobs.
Speaker 10: I mean, if you're a law enforcement officer, you might
Speaker 10: not have made an.
Speaker 3: Arrest last week.
Speaker 10: Well, what are you supposed to put down on your
Speaker 10: five bullet points? Well, maybe you just manned the watch,
Speaker 10: you worked your duty station, whatever it is you did.
Speaker 10: If you work for the Customs and Border Protection Agency
Speaker 10: and you stamped passports all day, what else did you do?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 3: What else am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 10: So these are questions that again, federal workers are asking,
Speaker 10: and not everybody it necessarily just takes home a fat
Speaker 10: paycheck and sits on their computer all day. A lot
Speaker 10: of federal workers actually do go into the office or
Speaker 10: go into the workplace on the work site, and they're
Speaker 10: lumped in with everybody else that Elon Musk is is
Speaker 10: portraying as a sort of a paragon of waste, fraud
Speaker 10: and abuse.
Speaker 3: Well, what authority does Elon Musk have to issue this directive?
Speaker 3: And I mean because it seems to me like it's
Speaker 3: not it's not the same authority that the Pope might
Speaker 3: have over Catholics, because we are seeing mixed responses from
Speaker 3: various government departments.
Speaker 10: Well, they answer to your questions, yes, zero authority. And
Speaker 10: I know that because I've seen it in court papers
Speaker 10: filed by the Justice Department defending some of this administration's actions.
Speaker 10: They say that Elon Musk serves as an advisor to
Speaker 10: the president, akin to Anita Dunn in the Lats of Administration.
Speaker 10: She was a senior aide to Joe Biden, but she
Speaker 10: didn't really have any directed authority over anybody. And Elon
Speaker 10: Musk serves as what's called a special government employee, which
Speaker 10: means he has a binature, a temporary role, and because
Speaker 10: he owns private enterprises, he's going to go.
Speaker 3: Back to that.
Speaker 10: It's understood, and you know there may be some conflicts.
Speaker 10: We've talked about that in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 10: He insists there he would never ever make a decision
Speaker 10: that could potentially run a foul conflict of interest and
Speaker 10: potentially implicate his own financial situation. Never mind his interest
Speaker 10: in shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which potentially
Speaker 10: may regulate the payment system that they're working on at
Speaker 10: X to kind of sort of compete with Venmo. Set
Speaker 10: all that aside, and the fact that he operates Twitter,
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, not just X, but also SpaceX and Tesla,
Speaker 10: which are certainly regulated companies. Set all that aside, and
Speaker 10: you have the fact that Elon Musk is making these
Speaker 10: directives on his X platform, which most Americans are not on,
Speaker 10: which adatedly most federal workers are not on, and a
Speaker 10: many federal work workers don't take their email home with them.
Speaker 10: They may not even have remote access to their email.
Speaker 10: Think about it again, those TSA workers, you think they
Speaker 10: have a TSA email address, every one of them? Not necessarily,
Speaker 10: and so you have to wonder how this is all
Speaker 10: going to play out.
Speaker 3: We do, indeed, and thankfully you are watching it for
Speaker 3: us and won't be able to check in with you
Speaker 3: again very soon, I hope. ABC News National correspondent Steven
Speaker 3: Portnoy always a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks for
Speaker 3: taking the time you bet and two Riverside police officers
Speaker 3: face misdemeanor vandalism charges for damage to a resident skateboard.
Speaker 3: Police Chief Larry Gonzalez says it happened last month and
Speaker 3: a video posted a YouTube shows six Riverside officers around
Speaker 3: a patio area outside of home when no one at
Speaker 3: the home answered the officers. For whatever reason, those officers
Speaker 3: were there. One of them started playing with the skateboard
Speaker 3: and tried to do a trick for the amusement of
Speaker 3: the other officers. So while this was going on, for
Speaker 3: officers left, two others stayed behind playing with the board
Speaker 3: and it ultimately broke. So now they're charged with misdemeanor vandalism.
Speaker 3: An American Airlines flight that took off from New York
Speaker 3: had to be diverted to Rome on Sunday after reports
Speaker 3: of a possible bomb on board. The flight was on
Speaker 3: its way to New Delhi when it requested a version.
Speaker 3: That request was granted and Italian fighter jets escorted the
Speaker 3: plane to Leonardo da Vinci Airport, where it landed safely
Speaker 3: and was met by law enforcement. Former Republican presidential candidate
Speaker 3: Vivek Ramaswami is expected to announce his candidacy for governor
Speaker 3: of Ohio today. The current governor, Republican Mike DeWine, is
Speaker 3: term limited. Ramaswami would join a GOP primary that also
Speaker 3: features State Attorney General Dave Yost. The Vatican has offered
Speaker 3: another update on Pope Francis.
Speaker 11: The Vatican says Pope Francis slept well on his tenth
Speaker 11: night in a hospital in Rome, but he remains in
Speaker 11: critical condition. The eighty eight year old is being treated
Speaker 11: for double pneumonia, but has not experienced any respiratory crisis
Speaker 11: since his condition was downgraded Saturday. Tests show early signs
Speaker 11: of kidney failure. The Pope's prognosis remains guarded. I'm rory O'Neil.
Speaker 3: And keeping with the theme of the Vatican Conclave, was
Speaker 3: a big winner at the SAG Awards last night, winning
Speaker 3: the honor for Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Speaker 3: Picture That is a movie about selecting a new Pope,
Speaker 3: and Showgun, the FX television series set in seventeenth century Japan,
Speaker 3: won four awards, including Best Ensemble Cast in a Motion
Speaker 3: Picture Excuse Me, Best Ensemble Cast in a Television Series,
Speaker 3: and the movie musical. Wicked had the most nominations. They
Speaker 3: had five nominations, but they left empty handed. No SAG
Speaker 3: Awards for Wicked. Next week is the Oscars. We already
Speaker 3: know we've got some street closures around that part of
Speaker 3: Hollywood where those awards are going to be handed out
Speaker 3: next Sunday. And I know everyone in town is a
Speaker 3: buzz about that. And this is KFON and KOSTHD two
Speaker 3: Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland Weather from KFI. We've got
Speaker 3: fog and clouds this morning, but they're going to clear
Speaker 3: out soon to make way for another sunny day. Highs
Speaker 3: in the low seventies across Metro La and the valley's
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Speaker 3: near seventy at the beaches and around seventy five to
Speaker 3: eighty in the Inland OC. Right now, it is forty
Speaker 3: nine in Santa Clarita, fifty one in Tustin. We lead
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