WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to kf I AM six forty. The Bill 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.839 handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f. 3 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:08.759 Now, first hundred days. 4 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:13.119 I think today is the first of the first hundred days, 5 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.800 if I'm not mistaken. And what ends up happening with 6 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:21.640 every president for some reason, the first hundred days is 7 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.480 some kind of bell weather as to where the presidency 8 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:28.480 is going. This actually came out of FDR Franklin Roosevelt, 9 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.039 of which Donald Trump has compared himself, both positively and 10 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.119 negatively several times, sort of bounces back and forth on this. 11 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.920 What FDR did in the first hundred days was change America, 12 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:45.039 just up ended America. Donald Trump much the same thing, 13 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.479 has revolutionized the way Americans look at each other. 14 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.640 The way we look at the world. Some differences, yeah, 15 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:53.280 pretty much. 16 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:58.479 Starting with FDR Franklin Roosevelt comes into the presidency in 17 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:04.519 nineteen thirty two, at the beginning, well into the Great Depression. 18 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.159 It was one of the worst episodes in the history 19 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:13.159 of this country. The entire economic system that we had 20 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:13.879 fell apart. 21 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.079 The stock market plunged. That was Black Tuesday. 22 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.760 I mean, we went into a ten year or at 23 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.200 least an eight year depression. 24 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:23.879 That caused so much misery. 25 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.840 So Herbert Hoover, the previous president, just kept on saying, 26 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:27.799 this is just a blip. 27 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:30.120 It's not going to be a problem. We're going to 28 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:30.599 come back. 29 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.920 As more and more people were losing their jobs, as 30 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.599 more and more people were losing their homes, their farms, 31 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:41.920 as they started to starve, it's not that complicated. And 32 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:47.040 so FDR comes in and he starts passing legislation, and 33 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.799 I mean immediately things like the National Recovery Act and 34 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.480 the NRA and then the Civilian Conservation Corps. And then 35 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.040 it comes in in nineteen thirty five. 36 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:01.040 With Social Security, just changes everything. 37 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.959 And the difference is here was a president who had 38 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:13.120 wild support, not nearly as of polarized, because keep in mind, 39 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.520 he came into a Congress that was not particularly in 40 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:20.919 favor of him. An FDR had overwhelming bipartisan support. And 41 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.039 whether you agree or not, and yes, a lot of 42 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:25.159 socialism came in. 43 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:27.680 What is medicare if not socialism? 44 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:34.520 Then what happened was Congress was just totally in favor 45 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:39.240 of him. He passed those bills with Congress, and he 46 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:43.560 drafted the legislation with Congress in mind. 47 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:45.840 Now, what Trump is doing. 48 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.280 Is it's all executive order because he's not going to 49 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.360 be able to get Congress to agree on this stuff. 50 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:53.840 So it's all then by executive order, which did not 51 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:59.000 happen in FDRs, in FDR's era. And the difference is 52 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.719 DR inherited a calamity of gargantuan's proportions, even as President 53 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.520 Trump says he inherited the worst economy in the history 54 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.919 of the United States. The most the decay, our decay, 55 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:16.039 in morals, our decay, and how we function as a country. 56 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:19.800 He is coming back and saving us from ourselves, actually 57 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.879 saving us from the Biden administration, saving us from the Liberals, 58 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:24.039 saving us. 59 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:25.759 From the previous congresses. 60 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:30.159 He is going to knock inflation down because inflation is 61 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:33.240 out of control. Well not really, and of course all 62 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:37.120 the day ones, day one, I'm going to do this, 63 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:38.319 and it didn't happen. 64 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:39.599 It didn't happen. 65 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:44.560 And so the difference is that President Trump has taken 66 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:46.240 a country. 67 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.280 That was in relatively good shape, at least financially. 68 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.759 You can argue about the moral decay one way or 69 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:54.000 the other. That's a value judgment, but you can't argue facts. 70 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.800 You can't argue that the economy the day he took 71 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:01.520 it over was in good shap. Unemployment was down to 72 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:06.199 four percent, We had inflation that was under control by 73 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:10.840 the time he took office. Immigration it's a different issue now. 74 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.479 Do I believe that immigration is the most important thing 75 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.399 in our country right now? 76 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:17.920 No? 77 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:22.160 I have any illegal aliens, any illegal migrants taken my job? 78 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:25.519 No? Have they taken your job? 79 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.680 No? Is there an invasion. You can argue yes or 80 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.759 no about that. I think that's up for argument. But 81 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.519 as far as it's destroying our country, yeah, I got 82 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:41.680 other things to think about DEI destroying our country, wiping 83 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:42.040 it out. 84 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.759 I got other things to talk about. Wokeness. 85 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:49.040 You know, I'm not happy with woke But is that 86 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:52.160 more important than, for example, where the economy is going. 87 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:54.800 That's important to me. 88 00:04:56.199 --> 00:05:01.480 And then this issue of tariffs, the immigration issue is 89 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:06.480 getting more attention now than Terra's for the last few days. 90 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:12.199 Tariffs are going to cost you your job. It's costing 91 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.160 me my business because my partner and I import from 92 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.199 China and the cookwaar we import is made out of 93 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:25.720 aluminum or stainless steel, and so we're looking at one 94 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:28.480 hundred and forty five percent tariff plus the twenty five 95 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.639 percent tariff on top of that for the stainless steel. 96 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.399 So we have goods coming in from China. They're on 97 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:37.560 a ship right now coming in. I got a container 98 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:42.160 full of this cookware. For every one hundred dollars worth 99 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:45.879 of goods that we're buying, we have to write a 100 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.879 check to the government for another one hundred and eighty 101 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:50.839 five dollars. 102 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.560 Keep on doing that. We're done. 103 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.920 Hundreds of thousands of businesses are done, finished, And wait 104 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.879 till that really hits home. If this tariff war continues, 105 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:04.839 That to me is a lot more important than the 106 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:06.120 immigration issue. 107 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:08.000 I mean, you know, it's not wonderful. 108 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.120 I get it, and I give kudos to Trump to 109 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.240 shutting down the border. No one's getting in, that's for sure, 110 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.600 and there's an argument to be said that that is 111 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:20.360 where we should go, because we just don't have room 112 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.839 anymore for all the people that want to come in 113 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.319 the United States, and for those people that say we 114 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.319 have to house these people, we have to allow them in. 115 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.000 We are a country of immigrants. We were a country 116 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.120 of immigrants. We are no longer a country of immigrants. 117 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.040 I mean, you know, certainly the progeny of what came in. 118 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:41.439 We are, that's who we are. 119 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.480 But there's no room anymore. There's no economy for millions 120 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:48.079 of people coming in over the border. 121 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:54.279 So to his credit, shutting down is I think legitimate 122 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.160 the way he's doing it. I'm not thrilled about the 123 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:59.240 way deportations are happening without due process. Yeah, yeah, I'm 124 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.879 not thrilled about that. And the big problem is even 125 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:05.759 those people that agree with what Donald Trump is doing, 126 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:07.839 and now look at his approval level, which is now 127 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:11.879 dropping like a rock. Even those who agree with him 128 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.079 think that he is taking too broad a brush here, 129 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:20.560 moving too quickly, doing too much in too little time. 130 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:25.000 So as you here compare himself to FDR. FDR came 131 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:26.959 in at one of the worst times in the history 132 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:32.199 of this country and literally saved millions of people from starving. 133 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:38.959 That is not what's happening here. Okay, coming up, I'll 134 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.519 tell you what is happening here. We have a little 135 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:45.240 bit of an issue with conflict of interest between Elon 136 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:49.759 Musk and the United States government. And I'll tell you 137 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.439 two people who don't think it's a conflict. One is 138 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:55.720 Elon Musk. The other one, yeah, you guess we'll be 139 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:56.199 back with that. 140 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.720 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from K six forty. 141 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.560 On a Taco Tuesday, April twenty nine. Some of the 142 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.560 stories we are looking at. The president has been the 143 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.720 president for one hundred days. First hundred days is up, 144 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.680 which is sort of an arbitrary line in the sand 145 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.360 kind of date, but it goes back to FDR's first 146 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.639 hundred dates. And I just did a segment on what 147 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.439 it actually means, certainly in my life in my opinion. 148 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:25.560 So that's up. 149 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.360 You listen to that on demand. And then today La 150 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:33.600 County the workers are on strike, fifty five thousand of them, 151 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:37.679 and so and you've got and as I said earlier, 152 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:40.399 and this is a good news in one sense is 153 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.960 if you're going to a county hospital and you're waiting 154 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.000 for the er, you'll never be able to tell that 155 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:50.679 there's nobody there helping anybody, because you're sitting there, whether 156 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:58.320 they are or aren't. Now, conflict of interests, it used. 157 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.480 To be that way. 158 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:03.440 Anybody he had anything to do with the government and 159 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:08.960 was a business person. The separation had to be virtually complete. 160 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.159 For example, who was it Ruben? Who was its secretary? 161 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:17.639 The Treasure's Secretary of the Treasury Department I think was 162 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:21.679 under George Bush. Very wealthy guy, immediately put everything he 163 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:25.440 had into a blind trust, a lot of money. He 164 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.080 wasn't going to touch it. I mean, that is the 165 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.559 way it goes. The presidents have done that. Those who 166 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:33.799 have an enormous amount of money or those that are 167 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:38.320 reasonably wealthy blind trust. You know, no conflict. Well, let 168 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.000 me tell you about this administration and conflict. 169 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.440 Let me tell you about Elon Musk, because that's really 170 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:44.000 the story. 171 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.279 Elon Musk has a very high position and head of 172 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.639 DOGE this new department. At the same time he has 173 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:57.960 companies that do a tremendous amount of business with the 174 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:02.200 federal government, and and that spells conflict. 175 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:06.039 But in this day and age, there's no conflict. 176 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:10.240 President Trump by far the wealthiest president we have ever had. 177 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.440 If it were anybody else, everything he owned in blind 178 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.799 trust not have any idea of how the money was 179 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.080 invested and not invested in, and what normally happens when 180 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:21.120 it goes into a blind trust. 181 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.360 The trustee does nothing. The money either doesn't grow or 182 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:24.960 it even. 183 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.679 Decreases a little bit because the trustee is there just 184 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:32.320 to hold on to the assets. Well, there's no blind 185 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.960 trust here with the president doesn't exist. The president still 186 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.000 owns everything. His children are running it. Now do they 187 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:40.000 talk to him about it? 188 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:41.080 Who the hell knows? 189 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:45.240 I would argue that they probably do, because he's the 190 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:50.639 brains behind the money, behind the Trump. So Elon Musk 191 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:53.519 is on a level conflict that we have rarely seen. 192 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.799 Elon Musk and his companies right now in terms of 193 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:03.200 the conflict of insts, some absolute that have been proven, 194 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.679 some have been accused of two point three seven billion 195 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:09.759 dollars in fines and penalties. 196 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:13.320 That was the day that Donald Trump took office. 197 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:17.440 Forty three page memo issued by the Minority staff of 198 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:21.960 the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, led by Senator Richard Blumenthal, 199 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:24.559 Democrat out of Connecticut. Keep in mind this was the 200 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:29.799 minority report. This was the Democratic report that came out 201 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:35.240 says that this is well. The memo found that as 202 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.919 of January twentieth, the dated President Trump took office, Musk 203 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:42.799 and his companies were subject to at least sixty five actual, 204 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.519 ongoing or potential actions by eleven different federal agencies. Forty 205 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.919 of those created two point three seven billion dollars. 206 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:53.919 In potential liabilities. 207 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.120 Now, as far as the Trump administration and the Republicans 208 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.600 that there is no conflict. 209 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.360 You know why there's no conflict because Elon Musk. 210 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:09.159 Says there's no conflict, and President Trump says there's no conflict, 211 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.639 even though you have a guy who's running a governmental agency, 212 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.159 who is sitting on twelve billion dollars of contracts from 213 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:22.320 the government, And not only does he have sales from 214 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:25.039 the government, not only does his sell the government SpaceX 215 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:30.159 for example, all these contracts with all these contracts with NASA. 216 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.240 But he also gets grants from the government. 217 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:40.600 For some of his companies, for example his Neurolink company. Now, 218 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.919 what the spokesperson for the president has said, one of 219 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:48.360 the spokespeople, mister Musk has never used his position for 220 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:53.279 personal or financial gain, and any assertion otherwise is completely 221 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:59.919 false in defamatory talking about Dick Blubenthal, Dick is clearly 222 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:04.799 suffering from a debilitating and uncurable case of Trump derangement syndrome. 223 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:07.120 No conflict. 224 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.960 I would love to be head of a department of 225 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:16.639 government in this administration and at the same time sell 226 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.600 my brains, my services, my product to the federal government 227 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.840 and have the federal government say there is no conflict 228 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.840 there because I don't get any personal gain. The fact 229 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.120 that I own the companies that get gain. You can't 230 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.440 argue that that's personal gain. 231 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:38.440 Hey, Bill, what's the Is there an organization, a watch 232 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:40.360 organization that checks these? 233 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:41.200 Oh? 234 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.600 Sure, oh sure, there are tons of them out there. 235 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.679 I mean, because didn't Trump have to not divest, But 236 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:53.000 didn't he have to have family members run the Trump 237 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:54.480 Organization things like that? 238 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.240 Nope, Nope, he doesn't have to do anything. A president 239 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:01.080 does not have to divest a trumpet. A president doesn't 240 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.440 have to deal with conflict. There's no rule, there's no 241 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:06.159 law that says that a president can't be conflicted up 242 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:09.159 to his eyeballs. Now, he is not allowed to be 243 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.960 paid emollients under the constitution. He's not allowed to receive 244 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:20.080 anything from the government personally. But it's not personal as 245 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.080 far as he's concerned. Because his sons now own the business. 246 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.240 There's no personal involvement just because my kids own it. Therefore, 247 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.480 I don't know, you know. It's it's like Menendez who 248 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:35.559 got tagged for all the gold and those thout hundreds 249 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.559 of thousands of dollars in cash and selling, you know, 250 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:43.279 doing favors the Egyptian government, the senators of Menendez, And 251 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:45.080 all he had to argue was wasn't me. 252 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.639 It was my wife. She's the one that got four 253 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:49.200 hundred thousand dollars, not me. 254 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.320 Well, that flies with the president, and certainly it looks 255 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:00.360 like it flies with Elon Musk. By the way, think 256 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:04.519 that Elon Musk is in fact violating the law. I 257 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:06.759 don't know if there is law that talks about conflict. 258 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:11.080 You must recuse yourself. You must not have a conflict. 259 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:12.879 You cannot lead a governmental. 260 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:18.799 Agency or even be a federal employee. Okay, Oh, here's 261 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:19.559 a fun topic. 262 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:25.039 Hyphenating your name once you get married, mainly women, but 263 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:26.039 sometimes men. 264 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.879 And I'm in the middle of that one right now. 265 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:31.919 And or are you going to take on her name? 266 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:37.320 I'm thinking about it, handles hyphen I'm thinking of taking on. Yes, 267 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.559 I'm thinking on taking on her name. And then I 268 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:41.879 have a story about that because we had this discussion 269 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.320 yesterday about a hyphenated name. 270 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.559 Hey, is that a new skirt you're wearing. Yes, it is. 271 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:52.159 And there's a federal law that just came in and 272 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.879 this has a lot to do with hyphenating names. Well, 273 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:57.360 hyphenating names has a lot to do with a new 274 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.480 federal law unintended consequences. 275 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:00.600 I love stories like that. 276 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:05.639 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 277 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:06.240 six forty. 278 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:07.200 Some of the stories. 279 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.000 We're looking at one hundred days now for President Trump, 280 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.519 he's been in office, and then that symbolic, it doesn't 281 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:17.519 really mean a whole lot. Symbolic one hundred days mean 282 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:22.960 almost nothing in terms of legislation. But FDR started that 283 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:24.440 and we talked a little bit more about that, and 284 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:27.000 we'll will be in the next few days. Also, more 285 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.519 than fifty five thousand LA County workers went on strike 286 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.840 last night and it'll happen until tomorrow night. Wages are 287 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.759 in dispute, some benefits. All right, there's a story I 288 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:38.240 want to share with you, and this is kind of 289 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:44.559 a neat story. There is a law, well, it's going 290 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.200 to be a law, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. 291 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:53.080 It's called the SAVE Act, and it passed Congress Republican 292 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.159 controlled Congress early this month, and we don't know how 293 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:58.840 it's going to do in the Senate, but looks like 294 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.080 it's going to go and what it says, is it 295 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:06.319 requires folks to prove their citizenship in person before registering 296 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:09.039 to vote. Now, I happen to be a fan of 297 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:15.640 that personally, because voting is limited to US citizens, and 298 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:20.319 to not ask someone to prove citizenship, you know what 299 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:23.920 it's I don't get it. And I understand the argument that, 300 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:27.720 you know, people who are marginalized who can't prove it 301 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:30.440 should not be precluded from voting. But at the same time, 302 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:36.200 I just don't understand how you cannot ask someone to 303 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.799 prove a requirement to vote. Certainly, driving you have to 304 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:43.400 have a driver's license, Certainly anything else you have to have. 305 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:45.680 You can't go to school, for example, without having a 306 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:49.200 birth certificate. Oh, actually you can't public school. They can't 307 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.480 even ask you anymore. But so, how do you prove 308 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.119 your citizenship? This is for this act. How do you 309 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:59.720 prove that you are a citizen? Well, you produce a 310 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:06.200 burst certificate, okay, or any other quote acceptable document. What 311 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.599 if you change your name after your wedding? What if 312 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:13.119 you hyphenate your name, your birth certificate is not matching, 313 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:17.599 you now have a different name, and the hoops you 314 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:19.079 have to go through. I'm in the middle of that 315 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.759 right now, and then the stats are fascinating. Republicans are 316 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.920 much more likely to retain or take on husband's names. 317 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.559 This is almost always a husband's names being taken a 318 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.960 small percentage the other way. The issue is taking on 319 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:39.119 a husband's name versus a hyphenated name or keeping your 320 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:42.680 own name. The majority of people women simply take on 321 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:47.200 a husband's name. There are some women who keep their 322 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:49.880 own name, you see that quite often. And there's some 323 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:53.759 that hyphenate their names. Now, women who keep their own names, 324 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:56.000 that's easy. It's their own name, so they have to 325 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.839 worry about any of this. Oh, let's talk about passports 326 00:18:58.839 --> 00:18:59.200 for a moment. 327 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.160 All I have to show you passport. You know, fifty 328 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:06.640 two percent of Americans don't have a passport. So what 329 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.480 do you do with that? And when is the last 330 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:11.920 time you saw your birth certificate? 331 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:16.559 And if you've been married and changed your name, when 332 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:18.960 you looked at it and did it match it did not? 333 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:24.200 I mean, this is a mess if this bill passes. 334 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:28.599 So what happens with these hyphenated names? And I told 335 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.519 you I'm in the middle of this right now. Okay, 336 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:35.880 My wife Lindsay, Okay, her last name is soprano and 337 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.960 I told her, keep soprano. 338 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:38.799 It's just easier. 339 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:44.559 Nope, she's having a hyphenated name now, even within that 340 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:46.799 because that's fair equals the you. 341 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:48.079 Know, even Stephen. 342 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:53.200 Even then that sort of gives the edge to the 343 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.440 male name. And this is what this is all about, 344 00:19:55.559 --> 00:20:00.599 because when you're talking historically name, male names take over everything. 345 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.720 Wives take on their husband's names, and you just change 346 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:08.279 your name, you're a different person. So the hyphenated names, 347 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.400 which name always goes last as a last name, it's 348 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:16.880 a husband's name. Lindsey is going to be soprano. Handled, 349 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.839 I told her stay soprano. Oh. 350 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.359 I think if men knew just how complicated it is 351 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:29.240 for women to go through all that Michigan in changing 352 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.519 their names, this would have been done a long time ago. 353 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:34.599 Yeah, what do you do it? And there's you know 354 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:35.119 I had. 355 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:38.880 I had a woman tell me once that she was 356 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.720 changing her name because she didn't want a man's name. 357 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.279 She wanted her maid maiden name. And I said, your 358 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:45.920 maiden name is a man's name. 359 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:48.200 Yeah. Good point. By the way, is Tracy use your 360 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:53.799 name or she used her own last? She uses her name? Yeah? Yeah, 361 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:54.720 what makes sense? 362 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:58.960 Married our late thirties, It's like, why change all that? 363 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:00.960 It didn't make sense to me. 364 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.000 I'm getting married my late eighties and it doesn't make 365 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:04.599 any sense. 366 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:09.000 Or I just feel that way. You should take her 367 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:10.440 name enough. 368 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:13.559 You know. At one point, this quick aside, Lindsey actually 369 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:17.000 was talking about converting and I said, no, no, no, no, no, 370 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:19.480 you're not going to convert. I'm not going to marry 371 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:21.920 a Jewish woman. I've done that once. We're not going 372 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:26.400 to go through that twice. And so I having a 373 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:28.359 wife that has a and it's not easy. You have 374 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:33.599 to change everything with the last name, passports, so security, 375 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:36.000 all of that. You keep your last name. You're done, 376 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:41.920 You're finished. You just happen to be married. So I'm 377 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:46.559 staying handled no matter what. All right, We're done. Coming 378 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.359 up sixty minutes. Boy, what a story that was a 379 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.480 couple of days ago. Scott Pelley, who is one of 380 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:58.359 their premier reporters, ripped into the corporation. 381 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:01.440 And this is big news and I'll share that with 382 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:02.400 you when we come back. 383 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:06.519 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 384 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:07.119 six forty. 385 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:10.160 Some of the big stories we are looking at. The 386 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:13.079 president has been in office for one hundred days. White 387 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:17.599 House touting tariffs immigration crackdown is the biggest accomplishment so far. 388 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:24.440 Tariffs don't know about the crackdown and immigration, well, it is. 389 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:26.519 It is now. Whether you agree with it or not 390 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:27.359 is a different issue. 391 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:30.160 And then we'll be talking about that, especially the tariff part, 392 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:32.319 over the next few days, weeks, months. 393 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:34.880 And then fifty five thousand LA. 394 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.519 County workers on strike, thank you, done for at least 395 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:39.680 until tomorrow night. 396 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.440 And then the LA County talking about. 397 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:46.880 That board of Supervisors will approve four billion dollars in 398 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:50.319 a settlement of more than sixty eight hundred claims of 399 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:54.440 sexual abuse juvenile facilities, foster care going back to the 400 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:58.640 nineteen eighties. Oh okay, I don't know if you're a 401 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:02.680