WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:04.839 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:05.799 six forty. 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.800 KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:13.359 It's the Bill Handle Show. And Bill is coming back 5 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:17.320 from his holiday vacation on Monday. I did talk to 6 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:21.320 him two days ago. He's very excited to come back 7 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:24.320 and speak with you all. Wayne Resnick sitting in until 8 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:29.320 nine and we're going to I'm going to try to 9 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.600 synthesize a tremendous amount of information that I've been taking 10 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:38.119 in about new things that have been learned visa VI 11 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:43.960 the terrorist attack in New Orleans, and also what looks 12 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.399 now like a car bombing or I guess technically a 13 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:53.320 cyber truck bombing in Las Vegas. The death toll in 14 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:58.320 New Orleans is now at least fifteen, and in Vegas 15 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.880 there was only one fatality, and it was the person 16 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:05.879 in the truck who is apparently the perpetrator of the incident. 17 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:10.200 Although several people were injured, luckily those people, it was 18 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:14.040 minor injuries for some bystanders that were in the area. 19 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.400 And the first thing is that the authorities are now 20 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.400 looking at whether or not there could be a connection 21 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:27.519 between these two events. Now There is one connection in 22 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:31.680 that both of them involved a vehicle, and in New Orleans, 23 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:36.359 as you know, the perpetrator drove the vehicle into the 24 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:38.439 crowd of people and then got out and started shooting 25 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:42.719 and was killed in a gunfight with the cops. Both 26 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:47.040 of those vehicles were rented, and they were both rented 27 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.640 not from Avis or Hertz or Enterprise. They were rented 28 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:56.079 through an app called Turo, which I had not heard of, 29 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.920 probably because this is not something I would ever do. 30 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:05.200 Turo is an app where you can It's kind of 31 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:09.719 like an AIRB and B for cars. You can rent 32 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:15.360 a car through Touro from some guy who rents out 33 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:21.000 his car. The appeal of it, and if somebody were 34 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.759 to try to sell you on why Touro is cool, 35 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.479 it would be because you would be able to rent 36 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:30.000 interesting cars. That hurts inn Avis and those places won't 37 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:36.800 have maybe old cars, maybe custom cars, but a lot 38 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.919 of the cars are just basic cars. So you're renting 39 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:45.120 somebody's car. I imagine some people doing that like Airbnb. 40 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:47.840 Some people rent out their own home or part of 41 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.439 their own home. Other people have properties that are only 42 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.199 for the purpose of renting them out. And I assume 43 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:57.120 they're people who have cars that are only for the 44 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.599 purpose of renting them out, and other people may be 45 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.240 rent out the car that they drive when you're not 46 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:09.080 renting it. So both of these people finger quotes people 47 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:13.680 given what they did, in my opinion, rented through Turo 48 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:17.319 and Turo says they are cooperating with the FEDS in 49 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:18.240 the investigation. 50 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:22.080 Now there's another link. Both of them served in the military. 51 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:26.000 We've had some information for a day or so about 52 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.479 the New Orleans suspect, shamsu Den Jabbar. 53 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.960 Now it's believed that the man. 54 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.439 Who rented the cyber truck and is the perpetrator of 55 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:40.199 the explosion, there is somebody named or who was named 56 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:46.240 Matthew Littlelsberger, and assuming that is the person that we 57 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:50.039 should be talking about, he has a history of serving 58 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:54.840 in the military as well. Now they haven't identified the 59 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:56.680 person who is behind the wheel of the truck in 60 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.240 Vegas because, as you might imagine, it's not in very 61 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:04.719 good condition. So they're working to do that through forensics. 62 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:07.439 But they were able to get the information about who 63 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:11.319 rented it, and they were also able to track not 64 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:15.360 in real time, but after the fact, the drive of 65 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:20.720 the car from Colorado where it was rented through to 66 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:24.680 Vegas by because as whoever drove it drove it from 67 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:30.839 Colorado to Las Vegas, it passed through many license plate readers, 68 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:35.160 and so they're able to get that data and look 69 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:39.319 at the path that was taken. The FBI is conducting 70 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:45.720 searches and investigations in Colorado Springs. We know that there 71 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:49.639 were search warrants served at the place where the New 72 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:54.600 Orleans perpetrator was staying in New Orleans, and so both 73 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:57.639 of these Both of these events have a lot in common, 74 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.560 both in terms of how the investigations are being being handled. 75 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.360 They're both in kind of the same stages of investigation, 76 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.560 and they both involve people who served in the military, 77 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.759 both of them for many many years. Beyond that, we 78 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.040 don't know if there are any other similarities, and by 79 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.639 the way, similarities obviously are not the same as connections. 80 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.959 The idea that possibly these two people knew each other 81 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:30.040 in some way and agreed to do different types of 82 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:33.759 terror attacks in different parts of the country seems to 83 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.759 me right now, seems far fetched, But I do think this. 84 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.519 They're throwing everything they can at it, and they usually 85 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:44.319 are pretty successful at coming up with additional information at 86 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.759 this stage of an investigation, So obviously KFI is keeping 87 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.040 an eye on this. Anything that comes out that's relevant, 88 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:51.959 we will bring it to you as soon as it happens. 89 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.240 And I think Michelle a little bit later in the show, 90 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:02.040 we can revisit this again through the prism of where 91 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:06.040 did the authorities go wrong in trying to prevent what 92 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:09.680 happened in New Orleans? And was there anything they did wrong? 93 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.839 And was there anything they could have done? But for now, 94 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.720 let's move on to some other things that are going 95 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.680 on in the world. And what are we going to 96 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:25.399 do with this entire generation of people who are not 97 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:31.199 growing up? Who am I talking about? I'm talking about 98 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:37.079 the people in their thirties man. Today, let me start 99 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:43.680 it differently. If you look at film and photographs of 100 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:50.079 people who were in their thirties back in say the 101 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:55.680 forties and the fifties and even the sixties, they all 102 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.120 look old as dirt. 103 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:01.319 They look old. 104 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:09.639 There they are in their house with their wife or husband, kids, 105 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:16.680 the car. And if I showed you photos of people 106 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.439 from the forties and the fifties and I said how 107 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.800 old are these people? I guarantee you because this is 108 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.759 what I used to do till I learned better. I 109 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.319 would say, I don't know that guy's forty five, No, 110 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:33.920 he's like thirty two. I really do believe that physically 111 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.519 we have changed in terms of how aged we look. 112 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:45.839 But so today now, if you're in your thirties, you 113 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.839 really maybe have never looked less like a grown up. 114 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:55.399 There's a physical manifestation of the phenomenon that. 115 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:57.000 I'm about to tell you about. 116 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:02.160 I think I honestly believe people are looking younger, and 117 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:06.399 I don't know if it's because of the fact that 118 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:13.319 they're living younger, but maybe there's a connection. Americans in 119 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:20.120 their thirties are not hitting the three big milestones of 120 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.839 being a grown up adult, owning a home, getting married, 121 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:30.399 pounded out the babies, and some of them are doing 122 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:36.000 that on purpose. There is a big swing away from 123 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:44.759 in particular marriage and having children. The percentage of Americans 124 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:50.240 in their thirties now who are not married is significantly 125 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:56.360 higher than it was even twenty years ago. One third 126 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.519 of today's young adults will never ever get married. I mean, 127 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.080 at least that's what the Institute for Family Studies says. 128 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:10.360 They're a conservative thing tank, and if you go back, 129 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:17.399 say twenty years, maybe fifteen percent say I'll never be married. 130 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.759 The projection was fifteen percent of people will never get married. 131 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.759 Let's talk to some adults who don't have kids. Will 132 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:35.039 you have kids? Well, it used to be back in 133 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:40.200 twenty eighteen, thirty seven percent of childless adults who are 134 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:42.759 under fifty, You can't. It's not fair to ask people 135 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.159 who are over fifty who don't have kids, do you 136 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.879 think you're gonna have kids? Because there's no way. But 137 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:50.879 like thirty five year old, you don't have kids yet? 138 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.600 Are you gonna have kids? And in twenty eighteen it 139 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:55.799 was already sizable, it was about a third of them, 140 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:58.879 and now it's almost fifty percent, and that's according to 141 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:04.159 the Pew Research Center. And a lot of it is 142 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.320 by choice, is people don't value marriage anymore, they don't 143 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:13.440 want to have kids. But even the choice there, particularly 144 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:18.039 the choice not to want to have kids, is not 145 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:21.759 one hundred percent a free choice. Because the other thing 146 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.639 that's going on is some of these aspects of the 147 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:31.360 American dream of being an adult is not possible. They 148 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.519 don't have a choice. That's the home ownership part of it. 149 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.559 Right it's a crazy housing market right now, it has 150 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:45.039 been for a while, is probably going to continue to 151 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:49.600 be for a long time. And today home ownership is 152 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.840 out of reach for a much bigger percentage of people 153 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.399 in their thirties than ever. 154 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:57.000 Ever. 155 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.399 There was a time in this country where everybody their 156 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:04.879 mid thirties, almost everybody who wanted to buy a house 157 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:09.519 bought a house. It really wasn't I don't want to 158 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:11.279 say it this way, but it wasn't that. 159 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.240 Big of a deal. 160 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:18.600 It was reasonably affordable to buy a house anywhere. 161 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:22.320 And now it's the opposite. 162 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:25.039 It's like, please show me the zip codes in this 163 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:28.200 country where it's reasonably affordable to buy a house. 164 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:32.120 And it's not. 165 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:35.840 Because although some people think the economy sucks, and some 166 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.759 people think that like people in their thirties now simply 167 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.000 don't have the same income or don't have the same 168 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.519 financial wherewithal as people in the thirties and previous generations. 169 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.360 That's not true. 170 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:52.559 The fact is, median wages for full time workers are 171 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:59.519 up sixteen percent since two thousand, and the wealth the 172 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:04.320 wealth of people in their thirties has gone up sixty 173 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.679 six percent between nineteen eighty nine and twenty twenty two. 174 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.559 I think is the most recent numbers on that. 175 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:16.639 So in fact, the current thirty year olds are in 176 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:21.159 a better financial condition on average. Now, now the aside, 177 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:25.679 these are statistics, and we're talking about averages and medians. 178 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:29.799 So obviously there are a lot of people in their 179 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:34.159 thirties who fall below that and are struggling even by 180 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:38.240 objective economic standards. But it also means that they're thirty 181 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:43.200 year olds who are doing even better than that. But 182 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:47.360 the thing is, the attitude is different. This has been 183 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.159 an ongoing thing. It was really highlighted during the election 184 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:55.080 that so many people have a dimmer view of the 185 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:02.559 economy than the actual economy would warrant, and that's true 186 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.480 amongst the people in their thirties. Only twenty one percent 187 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:08.960 of adults in their thirties said the overall economy was 188 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.720 good or excellent last year, but by objective measures it 189 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:15.240 was pretty good. 190 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:19.919 When you ask them a more. 191 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:27.600 Grandiose question, like you know what you think you're going 192 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:32.200 to quote achieve the American dream, which is very vague 193 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:37.320 and subjective, but they do ask people that, and people 194 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:39.600 in their thirties are far less likely than people in 195 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:45.879 their fifties or sixties to say that it's still a possibility. 196 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:49.320 That was a Wall Street Journal poll just in July. 197 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:57.559 So there's a pessimism. A lot of people think they're 198 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:04.360 worse off than they objectively are are, and their view 199 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:11.559 of the future is more pessimistic than objective facts might support. 200 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:18.360 And I think it's the housing thing. I really do 201 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:23.759 believe this, because the housing thing objectively is bad. That 202 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.360 cannot be sugarcoated. There's no statistics I could give you 203 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:31.320 to try to then say, see, the housing situation's not 204 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:32.440 as bad as you think it is. 205 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.519 The housing situation really is. 206 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.960 And I know some people who are younger than me, 207 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:43.919 and it is a big source of frustration and malaise 208 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:49.080 that they cannot afford a home. And I think there 209 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:51.639 are a lot of people in their thirties that are 210 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:56.200 preoccupied and I'm not saying wrongly, so they're preoccupied with 211 00:14:56.279 --> 00:15:00.440 the true objective reality that they simply cannot afford a home. 212 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.879 And it's not their fault. It's the housing market. 213 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.720 And when you can't do that, and it's really important 214 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:09.639 to you, I mean a home. Owning a home is 215 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.519 kind of the core of stability as an adult, isn't it. 216 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.919 Most people used to you would buy a house first 217 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:21.039 and then you'd start a family. So the idea that 218 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:26.000 that's the initial lynch pin of being an adult is 219 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:30.000 being able to get a house, and you can't. And 220 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:34.679 what's happening is so many younger people they're saying, I 221 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:38.440 can't be an adult because I can't get a house. 222 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.240 They don't realize that that's the equation that they're making 223 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.159 in their head. But that's what's going on, and that's why. 224 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.639 And the pandemic didn't help. By the way, Hey cameo 225 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:53.000 appearance by the pandemic in this topic because a lot 226 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:56.639 of young people move back home, kind of regressing in 227 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.600 terms of what their lives look like heired to their 228 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:04.720 age and now when at least in terms of the pandemic, 229 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.279 there's no reason you shouldn't be able to buy a house. 230 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:10.120 The economics are making it impossible. And so. 231 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:13.519 I don't know if this is going to continue where 232 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:15.480 it's going to be people in their forties and their 233 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.480 fifties who've never done any of these things. 234 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:23.159 But that's what's happening right now. Let's get into this. 235 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.240 President elect Donald Trump has promised he's going to crack 236 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:32.080 down on illegal immigration and he wants to spearhead significant 237 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.000 changes to various immigration laws. 238 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:37.320 I am so not interested in. 239 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.879 Arguing about whether he should or whether he shouldn't, or 240 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.360 is he a jerk, or is he this you know, 241 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:46.559 the smartest man in America for finally dealing with this problem. 242 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:48.279 Should he. 243 00:16:49.919 --> 00:17:00.240 Is irrelevant if he can't. So let's look practically some 244 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:04.279 of the hurdles that are in place to see what 245 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:09.960 he's up against. Let's go here we go. Number one, 246 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:14.519 there's a massive backlog in the immigration courts. 247 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:19.319 The way the law works now, with few exceptions. 248 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.519 Immigrants here illegally cannot be deported without a hearing an 249 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:27.039 immigration court. This gives them a chance to ask for 250 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:31.599 asylum or maybe another way to stay in the country, 251 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.640 and it's required by law. There are some exceptions, but 252 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:39.599 they're not relevant to the big discussion here. The courts 253 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:44.279 are so backlogged that today somebody who gets a hearing 254 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:50.279 scheduled will be expected to come to their hearing in 255 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:55.559 twenty twenty eight or twenty twenty nine. Yeah, that's how 256 00:17:55.599 --> 00:18:03.640 far backed up the courts are. Now, you get a 257 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:09.960 hearing date, and you are given a work permit, and 258 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:15.359 you can find employment in the US legally and President 259 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:17.960 elect Trump and the people close to him say, Hey, 260 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.880 first of all, that's not a good idea, because this 261 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:25.640 is why, this is why so many people are coming 262 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:30.319 to the border, because they know that even if at 263 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:34.000 the end of the process they don't get to stay 264 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:41.839 that for years, they can be here and work. So 265 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.599 what do we have to do to solve this problem. Well, 266 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:52.839 right now, there's about five hundred immigration judges. And immigration 267 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:57.960 judges are not like Article three federal judges. They are 268 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:06.759 they really are employees and they do have to follow directives. 269 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.559 And there's about five hundred of them. So they're various 270 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:17.839 experts that have done projections and calculations, and they say 271 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:24.240 Congress will have to hire five thousand more immigration judges. 272 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:27.640 So it's not like we have five hundred and we 273 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.799 need six fifty. That's not what's going on here. Massive 274 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:35.799 amounts of money will have to be spent to hire 275 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:40.240 ten times as many immigration judges as we have. Now, 276 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:44.200 this raises a question in my mind, particularly as to 277 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:45.279 the cost of doing this. 278 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:47.000 Then you got to have. 279 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:51.920 Places for them to sit and conduct hearings, so you're 280 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:54.519 gonna have to have a build out of some kind 281 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:59.119 of facilities. It's a ton of money at a time 282 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:04.119 when we continue to run deficits, when the debt ceiling 283 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.799 continues to be a political football, and when an administration 284 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:12.079 is coming in that's all Republican in the White House 285 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:16.400 and the Senate and the Congress, and we don't typically 286 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:20.000 think of that kind of a government as being a 287 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:24.720 let's spend like crazy kind of a government. Is there 288 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:26.839 something else that can be done about the backlog? If 289 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:29.400 we aren't gonna spend all this money to hire ten 290 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.880 times as many judges, Well, you could. Here's one thing 291 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:39.119 they could do. You could shuffle around whose hearings happen first. 292 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:42.039 It's mostly a first come, first serve thing right now. 293 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:44.599 But what you could do is you could say, Okay, 294 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:49.119 somebody who shows up here from let's just say El Salvador, 295 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:53.839 they're gonna get priority. They're gonna get the earliest hearings, 296 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:56.559 and somebody who comes in from somewhere else they're gonna 297 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:57.440 wait even longer. 298 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:00.920 Or you could do this. I would say, this is 299 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:02.000 a good idea. Here. 300 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:06.000 People who show up and they have criminal records, they 301 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:09.359 get a hearing absolutely as soon as possible. They move 302 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:11.759 to the front of the line. Because those are people 303 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:17.960 that probably were not gonna let stay. Also, another thing 304 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:21.000 you could do is tweak the laws and procedures so 305 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:23.839 that when you get to the final hearing stage, you 306 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:27.599 can't delay it anymore. What will happen sometimes is people 307 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:30.279 wait years for a hearing and then they show up 308 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:32.240 and they go blah blah blah a hearing, and then 309 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.440 they go, all right, we need one more hearing, and 310 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:40.720 then they keep delaying it, and judges allow the person 311 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:44.519 to delay their final hearing. Usually it's because they say, well, 312 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:46.880 I need a lawyer for my final hearing. I need 313 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:49.640 more time to find it. If you made it a 314 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:52.839 little tougher to do that, that would shorten the timeline 315 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:54.559 and that would clear the backlog sooner. 316 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:56.960 Here's the thing, though. 317 00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:04.440 Unless there's a rapid infusion of money to increase the 318 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:08.400 immigration judge situation by a factor of ten, or the 319 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:14.119 laws are changed, most of the people who came here 320 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:20.720 illegally while Biden was president will not be legally able 321 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:27.640 to be deported until after Donald Trump's second term. There's 322 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:32.480 also not enough ice agents. There's another problem. There's about 323 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:36.119 six thousand of them right now. They have money to 324 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:41.200 keep in custody about forty thousand immigrants at a time. 325 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:45.680 They do not have the planes, the airplanes that they 326 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.279 would need to deport millions of people back to their 327 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:52.920 home countries. Now, you know, the Republicans can figure out 328 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:55.880 some ways to free up some money for. 329 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:56.319 All of this. 330 00:22:56.519 --> 00:23:00.519 And Trump says he'll declare a national emergency that will 331 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:04.079 unlock some money almost right away from Pentagon's budget that 332 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:09.279 could be used for certain things. But the problem is 333 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:13.599 things have changed now. One of the things that Donald 334 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:16.680 Trump likes to talk about is in the fifties, when 335 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:22.279 Eisenhower was president, there was a mass deportation program, and 336 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.119 by the standards of trying to mass deport a bunch 337 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.799 of people, it was a success. 338 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:34.839 But here's the problem. 339 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:42.160 When Eisenhower was president, pretty much every single person that 340 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:46.839 they were deporting was from Mexico, so they were sending 341 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:51.000 everybody to the same place right over the border. That's 342 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:53.480 not the case anymore. Yes, sure a lot of people 343 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:57.400 are from Mexico, but they're from China, and they're from Uzbekistan, 344 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:01.039 and they're from India, and they're from I don't know, Mauritania. 345 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:05.119 So you can't just push them back across the border, 346 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:08.200 and you can't load up planes for short flights. 347 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:09.359 Boom, now you're back. 348 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:14.319 You've got to coordinate hundreds of flights to different countries, 349 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:19.000 and you're fighting with the governments of those countries about 350 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.279 when or will they receive those flights. It's way more 351 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.480 complicated the logistics of it, and that can only be 352 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:34.240 solved with more money. Money for planes, money for logistics, people, money, money, money. 353 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:37.079 Those are the big hurdles. 354 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:41.279 There's some other issues, like trying to end birthrights citizenship, 355 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:45.279 which will have to amend the Constitution. But the fact 356 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:48.400 of the matter is the amount of money that is 357 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:53.319 necessary to do this within the current legal framework is 358 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:58.039 beyond the reach of the United States government right now. 359 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:02.039 It's not I don't think it's going to be so much. 360 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:05.000 How much money can they come up with for this effort. 361 00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:07.680 I think it's gonna be how much of the laws 362 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:08.839 can they get changed? 363 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:11.640 And we'll see what happens. 364 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:21.920 Every five years, the government revises the US dietary guidelines 365 00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:27.440 and they're in the process of doing it again. And 366 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:31.720 there's a huge controversy about what to say about drinking. 367 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:36.880 You know, for a long time, the studies would come out, 368 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.799 we'd talk about them, and they all said essentially the 369 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:42.359 same thing. 370 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:45.359 Excessive drinking is bad. 371 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.920 By the way, that's the one thing about drinking for 372 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:54.519 which there is no legitimate counter argument. Excessive drinking, heavy 373 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:59.160 drinking is bad, period, full stop. There's no way to 374 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:03.880 rehabild take that. But the studies would keep saying that, 375 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:11.440 but drinking moderately is actually better than not drinking at all. 376 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:16.480 The number of people who started drinking red wine, for example, 377 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.400 because of the studies that said it's good for your 378 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:28.119 heart health. But then more recently, agencies like the World 379 00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:34.160 Health Organization and Great Britain and some other groups are 380 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:40.200 saying no, our evidence shows that no amount of drinking 381 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:47.119 is good, that even literally one drop of alcohol hurts you, 382 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.240 and that alcohol in any amount is highly correlated with 383 00:26:52.480 --> 00:27:01.720 various cancers, and that there is no safe amount of alcohol. Well, 384 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:04.359 you have these two schools. Now, there's one school that 385 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:09.119 believes that moderate drinking is actually beneficial and another group 386 00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:11.759 that says there's no such thing as beneficial drinking of. 387 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.720 Alcohol, period. 388 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:16.640 And they're at war over what's going to go into 389 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:22.240 these guidelines. So, in an unprecedented move, the government has 390 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:27.400 commissioned two different studies to help it decide what they're 391 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:29.480 going to say about drinking and these guidelines. 392 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:32.240 That's not usually what happens. 393 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:35.799 Usually they just review the existing research and then they 394 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:38.839 decide what to do. But there's such controversy now that 395 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:41.000 they want two different groups of people to weigh in, 396 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:46.400 and one of these groups. There was about one point 397 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:48.599 three million dollars I believe. I don't have the number 398 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:50.279 written from a face, but I think it was about 399 00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:53.960 one point three million dollars that Congress gave to the 400 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:59.000 National Academies to put together a panel to look at 401 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:01.839