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Speaker 2: FU.
Speaker 1: Why do these people think that somehow blocking the freeway
Speaker 1: is in any way going to get me more on
Speaker 1: their side or somehow help their cause.
Speaker 2: What it's not like we don't already know what the
Speaker 2: issue is.
Speaker 1: This is when there should be an exemption under the
Speaker 1: law about running over.
Speaker 2: People with eighteen wheelers. There has to be an exemption.
Speaker 2: That's that doesn't solve anything, but.
Speaker 1: Oh its souls, Clitty, because the freeways open at that point.
Speaker 1: And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 1: Bill Handle, and good morning Handle here on a Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: February the fourth. We're well in the February and well
Speaker 1: the fourth, I don't know if it's well in the February,
Speaker 1: but we got the crowd here the eighteen actually the
Speaker 1: A minus sort of B plus.
Speaker 2: Team is here.
Speaker 1: Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. Yes, Anne, who
Speaker 1: is on her phone.
Speaker 2: Just she's a very busy person. So you're you're texting
Speaker 2: while working. I'm looking at Ricruso.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, now who's in the news, Yeah, uh Kono,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 3: And Amy good morning, Hi Bill.
Speaker 1: I actually gave Amy some kudos. She was wearing this
Speaker 1: flowing or is wearing this sort of flowing roby thing.
Speaker 2: It looks very nice rob thing. Yeah, it's like a robe,
Speaker 2: you know. It's like, yeah, whatever it is.
Speaker 4: And that works for you because a human sacrifice.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, no, no, that works for Amy because
Speaker 1: she's very swelt and she's even longer with those if no,
Speaker 1: she's the same size outfitted. Yeah no, it does makes
Speaker 1: her look live. Live, Yes, life, life, life, l I
Speaker 1: t a g life.
Speaker 2: That's a new one. I look it up. No, for me,
Speaker 2: it's a new one. A lot of new A lot
Speaker 2: of words are new for you. Wait, what does words mean? Precisely?
Speaker 5: All right, we've God says I'm supple and graceful.
Speaker 2: What what the word like? Yeah, yeah, it is, you are.
Speaker 1: I don't know about the supple part, but yeah, as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I don't even know about the
Speaker 1: graceful part.
Speaker 2: Well there's that, Oh, there's that. But anyway, that's a
Speaker 2: good turn. It's very attractive.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 1: And by the way, for those people that think I'm
Speaker 1: sucking up here, there are plenty of times when I
Speaker 1: look at Amy, I go God, you look like crap today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't because she does those days, doesn't. Sure she does,
Speaker 1: says the guy in the Costco shirt.
Speaker 3: Why is this even a conversation?
Speaker 2: Yes, this is not a Costco shirt. This cost Wow.
Speaker 1: You should tell the shirt that that battered. Well, this
Speaker 1: is one hundred and twenty five dollars this shirt. I
Speaker 1: didn't pay for it. I mean, I would never spend
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five dollars for five shirts.
Speaker 4: But it was a gift, gift by someone who liked you.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: It's from Lindsay, who decided someone who has to like you,
Speaker 1: yea whose job it is? And she uh getting sick
Speaker 1: of me wearing Costco shirts.
Speaker 2: She's going through because we're moving.
Speaker 1: Actually this week we're moving, and we're going through all
Speaker 1: of my shirts.
Speaker 2: There are shirts that are older than she is in
Speaker 2: my closet. No one's surprised here. Yeah you hear any gasps.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm not anywhere near there. She will not
Speaker 1: let me be near the move. Of course that she
Speaker 1: threw me out and said, you're in Burbank this entire week.
Speaker 3: Does that mean you got out of packing too?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you she wouldn't let me pack. She will,
Speaker 1: She would not let me put one thing.
Speaker 2: In a box.
Speaker 3: You are so lucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean she literally did.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how exhausting it is sitting on
Speaker 1: a couch watching TV while someone is packing in front
Speaker 1: of you for ten out.
Speaker 4: Oh I can't even imagine. If I were her, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't let you near my box either.
Speaker 2: Who's laughing back there? Hard?
Speaker 1: Someone is laughing. Okay, we're off to a good start.
Speaker 1: Neil and I had led yesterday. He cooked for me
Speaker 1: on the big green egg in this water. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We haven't done that a while,
Speaker 1: and it was just the two of them. I mean,
Speaker 1: my wife came out for a little bit. But Neil
Speaker 1: and Neil is you know, phenomenal, phenomenal cook, very nice.
Speaker 2: That was true.
Speaker 4: True, you're a great cook. I did kebabs and then
Speaker 4: I did did some steak kebobs. But I did some
Speaker 4: corn ribs corn.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you take rib you take a corn on the cob,
Speaker 4: you cut it in half length wise, and then you
Speaker 4: cut it into fourths quarters yeah, quarters, And they turned
Speaker 4: out really nice.
Speaker 2: Oh, they were great.
Speaker 1: So a little uh so so I said to him,
Speaker 1: I said, I said to him, so, I said, so,
Speaker 1: I said, I need the recipe for that. He goes,
Speaker 1: I don't have a recipe. I just threw it together.
Speaker 1: He does this stuff out of his you know, out
Speaker 1: of his head.
Speaker 2: Complicated, but it was no. But it's just the way
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 1: You put these things together that my daughter does that,
Speaker 1: Pamela does that, and I just don't understand that.
Speaker 2: So anyway, the food was absolutely spectacular. We had fun.
Speaker 4: There was goofy guys over a big green egg and
Speaker 4: we were talking about it and eating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking smack about everybody we work with.
Speaker 1: It was we Okay, I was talking smack about everybody.
Speaker 2: We work with.
Speaker 4: You've known me for thirty years, my big smack Tucker.
Speaker 4: You're a pretty good smack listener. Yes, Now I could
Speaker 4: talk smack in front of people like I'm good at.
Speaker 2: That bad like you want to talk behind their gossip,
Speaker 2: but not my jam.
Speaker 1: It's more much more fun, all right, guys, ready to
Speaker 1: do it On this Tuesday morning, It's time for Handle
Speaker 1: on the news with Amy very life today, Neil.
Speaker 4: In my life, buddy, I feel supple and graceful, almost spilled.
Speaker 2: Do I do the story.
Speaker 1: We went, uh, Neil's my best man and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we went yesterday and then we went yesterday to buy
Speaker 1: his suit.
Speaker 2: That was a sitcom.
Speaker 1: It costs as much money for the alterations as does
Speaker 1: the suit.
Speaker 2: They have to rebuild the suit.
Speaker 4: It is basically Yeah, they had to bring in other people.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a bionic suit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very very very funny. I look at him,
Speaker 1: you know, my rose was up. All right, guys, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Handle on and by the way, I'm letting
Speaker 1: you keep the suit as a souvenir.
Speaker 4: Oh great, Yeah, what do I need a black suit
Speaker 4: with big red roses on it?
Speaker 1: Read story? As we're talked about in the last day
Speaker 1: or two. Uh, the President has prevailed when it comes
Speaker 1: to certainly Mexico and Canada is some degree terraces. He's
Speaker 1: taking the weight of the United States economically and saying
Speaker 1: I'm going to use it, and is doing it and
Speaker 1: is at this point succeeding. Certainly with Mexico. They brought
Speaker 1: ten thousand troops to the border to help with the.
Speaker 2: Controls and whatever they're gonna do for fentanyl.
Speaker 1: Although the importers of fentanyl or mainly American But that's
Speaker 1: besides the point.
Speaker 2: And it's working. Same thing with Canada. It's working.
Speaker 1: He said something that it's sort of a quasi press
Speaker 1: conference yesterday, which I didn't know. American banks are not
Speaker 1: allowed to do business in Canada.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, American products for the most part are not being
Speaker 1: bought in Canada. Well, it's I thought it was. I
Speaker 1: thought it was very interesting. I know who's laughing back there,
Speaker 1: But that was Ann right in front of you. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't was it was Anne Kaplan right in front
Speaker 1: of you. And I didn't know that at any point
Speaker 1: of something else about balance of trades. And this is
Speaker 1: all about balance of trade is he said, go to
Speaker 1: Europe and see how many Chevies or bew Weeks or
Speaker 1: Fords you see in Europe. How many European cars do
Speaker 1: we drive around? He goes, this is all gonna stop now.
Speaker 1: He's also put tariffs on China. That's a different animal
Speaker 1: because China, now we're talking the first second economy in
Speaker 1: the world. No one gets elected in China. China can
Speaker 1: suck it up as long as it wants. In terms
Speaker 1: of the economic fallout, Americans are not going to appreciate
Speaker 1: prices going up.
Speaker 2: When do those tariffs go tonight or something?
Speaker 3: They started at midnight? Yeah, last night, they're in effect.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I gotta get on tu today, but Mexico.
Speaker 2: But then they hold off on Mexico and Canada for
Speaker 2: thirty days.
Speaker 1: It's just the Chinese though, that's in and the Chinese
Speaker 1: have instantly retaliated, and you're gonna see a trade war.
Speaker 2: But it's fascinating stuff.
Speaker 1: Tell you when one thing, when you know Trump got
Speaker 1: elected and he said, I'm going to just tear apart
Speaker 1: the federal government.
Speaker 2: I'm going to redo it from start, from top to bottom.
Speaker 1: And he's right, it's exactly what he is doing. One
Speaker 1: thing I do like about Trump, and there's plenty I don't, Man,
Speaker 1: there's no secret agenda here. There's no I'm saying this
Speaker 1: and I'm doing that. That doesn't happen. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take a break and I'll go through
Speaker 1: these as quickly as possible. Because we were talking smack
Speaker 1: for a good part of the first segment.
Speaker 4: All right, net Yahoo kind of blowing past the ceasefire talk,
Speaker 4: so deadline to begin talks on extending Gaza's ceasefire arrived
Speaker 4: just yesterday with the Israeli Prime Minister in Washington.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Nettia who does not want a ceasefire.
Speaker 1: His far right war cabinet does not want a ceasefire.
Speaker 1: The only reason we're even in one or there even
Speaker 1: in one is the political pressure of the hostages, the families, and.
Speaker 2: They just want to destroy flatt he does.
Speaker 1: He just takes take it out, just basically do what
Speaker 1: the Palestinians have done. Certainly Hamas is not recognized the
Speaker 1: state of Israel. They don't say Israel, they say the
Speaker 1: Zionist entity, so that's changed from they kind of have
Speaker 1: no choice, you.
Speaker 2: Know, that's what we refer to you as. Yes, I
Speaker 2: understand they have no choice.
Speaker 1: And then you got people in the cabinet they say,
Speaker 1: we want to take out all.
Speaker 2: All, forget about two state solution.
Speaker 1: That's all Israel, that's it, and we'll deport all these
Speaker 1: Palestinians and see what Arab country wants to take them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is really a very bad situation where
Speaker 1: that has reversed itself. In the meantime, there's nothing left
Speaker 1: of Gaza, and the ceasefire may disappear pretty quickly and
Speaker 1: we'll see.
Speaker 5: Got a good excuse not to eat broccoli. John Colebelt
Speaker 5: will be very happy broccoli. So that Walmart in twenty
Speaker 5: states is now being recalled. It's Braga fresh market side
Speaker 5: broccoli florettes. Bragafresh is headquartered in Solidad, California, and there's
Speaker 5: possible lysteria contamination. So they first issued a warning in December,
Speaker 5: and then on January twenty seventh they upped it and
Speaker 5: now it's the highest recall risk level because hysteria can
Speaker 5: kill you. So it's in twenty states, including California, and
Speaker 5: again it's Braga Fresh market side broccoli florett Walmart.
Speaker 1: Don't eat it and right on the bag you'll see
Speaker 1: if it's fresh, you will die.
Speaker 2: They're very honest about that, honest in marketing.
Speaker 4: Yes, protests took place, as you know, across southern California
Speaker 4: yesterday for a Day without Immigrants, nationwide movement aimed showing
Speaker 4: the importance of immigrants in the US. Unfortunately here in
Speaker 4: La a lot of it. On Sunday and Monday were
Speaker 4: the protests. I didn't know what was happening. Who paid attention? Well,
Speaker 4: I knew because of the food. You know, a lot
Speaker 4: of restaurants and stuff were closed yesterday.
Speaker 2: But who paid attention? What did they do?
Speaker 1: They go on the freeway, they blocked the freeway, and
Speaker 1: has this story about her daughter having been blocked coming
Speaker 1: in from Disneyland, where it was just this freeway was
Speaker 1: totally jammed. By the way, I'm doing this at seven o'clock,
Speaker 1: and I have a story, a personal story about when
Speaker 1: I joined the million Hispanic march. Remember that one with
Speaker 1: the Mexican flags. There wasn't one American flag in that crowd. Ooh,
Speaker 1: it was good pr whoever put that one together. We
Speaker 1: demand equality, We demand to stay here. Why the Mexican
Speaker 1: flag and no American flag?
Speaker 2: Technos. The belief is that we stole the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from Mexico, who stole the country from the Spaniards,
Speaker 1: who stole the country from the indigenous people that were
Speaker 1: living there. Okay, you stole the country.
Speaker 2: Get in line. I'm not sure that that's historically accurate. Well, no,
Speaker 2: Spain had it, Yeah, but the Mexicans had it before Spain.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: No, no, the indigenous Mexicans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's still but there are still indigenous people there,
Speaker 4: there's still Spanish is not the language of Mexico it
Speaker 4: is now, but originally, yeah.
Speaker 2: There were different dialects.
Speaker 1: But the point is, if you want to call it
Speaker 1: belonging to indigenous people, Indigenous people don't think in terms
Speaker 1: of the land belongs to us.
Speaker 2: The land is the land and we live on it.
Speaker 1: But no, it was the Spaniards came over and set
Speaker 1: up the colony, and then then you had independence declared
Speaker 1: and Mexico became independent and so it's uh, and then
Speaker 1: we got it because we're we bought it at a
Speaker 1: fire sale. Well actually not quite, but let's just say.
Speaker 2: The fire sale was we're going to light on fire.
Speaker 1: So we got Arizona, we got California, we got you know, okay, Mexico, Yeah,
Speaker 1: New Mexico.
Speaker 2: And which is was that New Mexico?
Speaker 1: What are the three? It was as Arizona, Nevada in California. Wash.
Speaker 1: You know, if it's memory serves, we didn't look that up.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on.
Speaker 5: Dems don't like Doge or the guy running it. Democratic
Speaker 5: lawmakers and other government watchdog groups promised to fight back
Speaker 5: against Elon Musk's takeover of the government's payments system. They
Speaker 5: say it could be the biggest privacy security breach in
Speaker 5: American history. Ron Wyden from Oregon says Musk sent young
Speaker 5: Doge computer programmers into the Treasury Department's headquarters, where they
Speaker 5: allegedly strong armed civil service workers to get access to
Speaker 5: the system that cuts checks for all congressionally authorized government payments.
Speaker 5: Lawmakers are saying, if this happened in Venezuela or Malawi,
Speaker 5: it would be called a coup.
Speaker 1: Hey, let me ask you for And Trump is basically
Speaker 1: undoing entire agencies like USAD disappearing, Department of Education is disappearing,
Speaker 1: and he can do that. And his Republican backers are saying, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: What do you think congress people and senators and the
Speaker 1: republic Republican Party are going to do when he dissolves Congress?
Speaker 2: Do you think they're going to vote for it?
Speaker 1: And I'm willing to bet there are some that would
Speaker 1: actually vote in favor.
Speaker 3: You can't do that, That's that's part of the constitution.
Speaker 2: Oh, birthright.
Speaker 1: Try.
Speaker 3: He's not going to succeed, of course, no, of course not.
Speaker 2: He's not. But the point is the attemptable we made.
Speaker 1: How about was it one or two congress people four
Speaker 1: days after the inauguration, already put a bill in saying
Speaker 1: that we should undo the amendment, that is, the two terms,
Speaker 1: that it should be unlimited terms four days, and that's
Speaker 1: already the that's already being introduced, which, of course you
Speaker 1: know by the time no, of course not. But by
Speaker 1: the time he approaches the end of his presidency, how
Speaker 1: many Republicans you think are going to say, is it
Speaker 1: the twenty second Amendment whatever amendment that is that says
Speaker 1: that you're limited to two terms?
Speaker 2: No, it used to be. It used to be unlimited
Speaker 2: until FDR.
Speaker 4: I don't hear you talk this way when people talk
Speaker 4: about getting rid of guns.
Speaker 2: That's in the constitution is you know, here's the difference.
Speaker 1: It's a question of what the Supreme Court has decided
Speaker 1: what the constitution means. The Court has already decided that
Speaker 1: birthright citizenship is absolute. It's done the Court, for example,
Speaker 1: in the language of the Second Amendment, and it talks
Speaker 1: about in order to maintain I'm just paring alia a
Speaker 1: well armed militia that has disappeared, that does not exist anymore.
Speaker 1: It's only the right to bear arms shall not be abridged.
Speaker 1: That first part of it just literally has been written
Speaker 1: out because the court has ruled that way, all right,
Speaker 1: So anyway, we can have a great conversation about all
Speaker 1: of that, and.
Speaker 2: Let me ask something. Am I being unfair to Trump? Seriously?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm drinking? No, seriously, Hold on a minute,
Speaker 2: Hold on a minute, having water?
Speaker 1: No? Am I being unfair? I think credit is due,
Speaker 1: credit is given.
Speaker 4: I think you've gotten worse about this, and I've known
Speaker 4: you for a long time. I am not a I
Speaker 4: did not vote for Trump, and I'm not a maga
Speaker 4: guy by any stretch. But I am a logic and
Speaker 4: reason guy. And there are times where you get emotional
Speaker 4: hyperbolic about Trump and I that always makes me nervous
Speaker 4: on either side.
Speaker 2: When people get that way, that's absolutely not true. Get out,
Speaker 2: I mean right now.
Speaker 4: So I hate to be the one that has to
Speaker 4: be an apologist for Trump, because I I don't want
Speaker 4: to have to.
Speaker 2: But reason is reason to me, and I think I'm
Speaker 2: I am not.
Speaker 4: I have no allegiance allegiance to a party. My allegiance
Speaker 4: is to reason, and and that's it, all right. State
Speaker 4: Farm General, that's california largest insurance provider. They're requested an
Speaker 4: emergency interim RDIKE averaging twenty two percent, or this is
Speaker 4: morning on wake up call. So this's for homeowners from
Speaker 4: state officials, you know, citing a dire financial situation after
Speaker 4: the destructive Los Angeles No kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do this story at seven thirty, and
Speaker 1: there are a lot of spins to this, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to see the.
Speaker 4: Only only type of business that if you use it,
Speaker 4: they're in dire stracts like if you actually use our business,
Speaker 4: if you pay us and don't have problems, we're golden.
Speaker 4: But if you need what we're here for, then we're
Speaker 4: in dire. So that's bank loans. If you need us,
Speaker 4: we're not interested. If you don't need us, we of
Speaker 4: course we'll loan you money. That's that's insurance. By the way, Yeah,
Speaker 4: if you put a claim in, we hate you. And
Speaker 4: by the way, you put a claim in and we're
Speaker 4: going to cancel you. We don't like putting claims in.
Speaker 4: What we like is getting premiums. I'll do more about
Speaker 4: that at seven thirty.
Speaker 5: Bring us your criminals, your immigrants, your huddled masses. That's
Speaker 5: the message from El Salvador. They've agreed to house violent
Speaker 5: US criminals and receive deportees, not only from l Salvador,
Speaker 5: but also any nationality. The announcement made by US Secretary
Speaker 5: of State Marco Rubio called it an act of extraordinary
Speaker 5: friendship to our country. So El Salvador says they'll take
Speaker 5: Salvador and deportise. They will accept for deportation any illegal
Speaker 5: immigrant in the US who has a criminal background. And
Speaker 5: in addition, they've offered to house American criminals in El Salvador.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is real easy. This is simply a business
Speaker 1: deal that was cut between the Trump administration and El Salvador.
Speaker 1: You put up our prisoners, we will pay you. It's
Speaker 1: like prisons, which happened in California. We have a bunch
Speaker 1: of private prisons. And this is a straight business deal, period.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna pay you less money than we pay here. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. And that so they're all they
Speaker 1: get money out of it. Yeah, and and look you
Speaker 1: have favor with our current Yeah.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Uh. It's we are willing to take only convicted criminals,
Speaker 1: including convicted US citizens, into our mega prison in exchange
Speaker 1: for a fee mega prison.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you pay us, We'll do it.
Speaker 1: Because what is it, I mean, what does it cost
Speaker 1: to house a prisoner in California or federal prison, like
Speaker 1: thirty forty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: The cost to how is a prisoner? Can you there
Speaker 2: is thirty dollars a year. They don't feed them?
Speaker 4: Well, could you imagine if that's what we do now
Speaker 4: for our our prisons. We outsource them to another country.
Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. But because it's so much cheaper,
Speaker 1: that's what this is. And I'm okay with it because
Speaker 1: it costs the taxpayers eight bucket of money to house prisoners.
Speaker 1: And if I can, if we can get it for
Speaker 1: half the price in El Salvador, hell yes, we go
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: This is the art of the deal, all right.
Speaker 4: Target has been sued for allegedly concealing the risk of
Speaker 4: its diversity and social initiatives a big backlash, causing customers
Speaker 4: to flee, stock prices to plummet.
Speaker 2: So you have.
Speaker 4: Shareholders going after saying that Target defrauded them into paying
Speaker 4: inflated prices for its stock and unknowingly supporting management's misuse
Speaker 4: of investor funds to serve political and social goals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, look at this lawsuit. I've never seen this.
Speaker 1: I am a shareholder in Target. I am not a
Speaker 1: fan of DEI, Okay, fair enough, A lot of people
Speaker 1: are not, and Target's moving away from.
Speaker 2: It like many other companies.
Speaker 1: But you hire a minority has hurt the company. The
Speaker 1: DEI program has hurt the company. Therefore it is hurt
Speaker 1: me as a shareholder. Fascinating lawsuits. Okay, but look at
Speaker 1: it this way.
Speaker 4: Do you remember there was backlash because all of the yes, yeah, no, there's.
Speaker 2: No question about it.
Speaker 1: So now the question is how much let's god of
Speaker 1: the say goes forward?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Right, how much does it hurt the company that LBGTQ spokesperson,
Speaker 1: for example, which destroyed Budweiser as the number one beer
Speaker 1: in the country.
Speaker 2: I mean it just literally wiped out.
Speaker 1: Okay, but how much does it hurt the sales and
Speaker 1: the profitability of Target, which was caused by a DEI program?
Speaker 2: I would love to hear that argument. Now.
Speaker 1: It's a legitimate legal argument, I think, because anything that
Speaker 1: directors of company do to hurt shareholders value allows a
Speaker 1: shareholder suit.
Speaker 2: This one is fascinating. I've never heard of this one,
Speaker 2: but I can't wait. This is fight. I remember I
Speaker 2: told you that the.
Speaker 1: Next four years I'm going to be just incredible. Man,
Speaker 1: is a good time to be alive.
Speaker 2: Look at yours all right?
Speaker 1: As a talk show host, vegue, just, I mean, it's yes,
Speaker 1: it's such fascinating stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just love this.
Speaker 5: Okay, fifty billion dollars, okay, fifty million dollars to fight Trump.
Speaker 3: California's legislature has.
Speaker 5: Approved bills worth fifty million dollars to pay for court
Speaker 5: battles against the Trump administration and to support legal services
Speaker 5: for immigrants.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that twenty five million dollars?
Speaker 3: Least twenty five million and twenty five million it was
Speaker 3: two bills?
Speaker 1: Ah, okay, Well that's going to go up. Lawsuit after
Speaker 1: lawsuit after lawsuit. California is going to go to war
Speaker 1: with the administration. But we knew that as Trump was
Speaker 1: running Newsome said we're going to file lawsuits.
Speaker 5: Well, didn't BoNT to file one hundred and twenty three
Speaker 5: lawsuits lasted last term.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's war. It's a legal war. It's a
Speaker 1: lot more than just a legal war.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of lunches at the French laundry.
Speaker 4: It certainly is all right. The superb Owl ticket prices
Speaker 4: are plummeting. Kansas City Chiefs might make history this weekend.
Speaker 4: We shall see. But ticket prices are cheapest ticket for
Speaker 4: Super Bowl in New Orleans has fallen below four thousand dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that secondary mark. Yeah, that's in the those bleed sections.
Speaker 1: By the way, you can't buy them on the primary
Speaker 1: market because there are virtually no seats available to the public.
Speaker 1: The ballplayers all get a certain number of seats, the
Speaker 1: advertisers get a certain number of seats, so for the
Speaker 1: most part, they're gone. You know, a lot of the
Speaker 1: ballplayers and I didn't know this for a while, is
Speaker 1: the seats are so valuable and the seats are pretty
Speaker 1: good that the lower paid ballplayers sell them. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they sell them and it's this much money. So yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead and go to the Super Bowl if you're
Speaker 1: an idiot. And a lot of it is because I
Speaker 1: was just reading that is a lot of it is
Speaker 1: just it's Kansas City Chiefs fatigue. That's it.
Speaker 2: You know, another one.
Speaker 5: Okay, we like winners, but we don't like winners who
Speaker 5: win too much.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 3: Rick Caruso is a builder, after all.
Speaker 5: The former candidate for mayor of La billionaire developer Rick
Speaker 5: Caruso has launched a foundation called LA or Steadfast LA,
Speaker 5: and the idea is to speed up rebuilding from the
Speaker 5: wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. So he's put together
Speaker 5: this group of experts and they'll be working together to
Speaker 5: find innovative solutions and collaborate with all levels of government.
Speaker 5: He calls it a scale of reconstruction that's too big
Speaker 5: for the government alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, this is not money that's being poured into the
Speaker 1: various foundations and rebuilding plans. This is money that creates
Speaker 1: this super think tank to make it happen. And I
Speaker 1: think it's a great idea, and he's funding it out
Speaker 1: of his pocket. One.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the guy we didn't want for mayor
Speaker 4: that that puts money into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I was such a I almost precinct it
Speaker 2: for Rick Caruso. Yeah, No, I voted for the man. Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Trump administration requests the raw material of a sixty minute
Speaker 4: segment raising red flags across the media industry. This is
Speaker 4: that segment that we you know, we all talked about
Speaker 4: at the time. It's the October interview with then Vice
Speaker 4: President Kamala Harris. President Trump sued CBS in a federal
Speaker 4: court alleging that the interview was deceptively doctor to help
Speaker 4: Harris beat Trump.
Speaker 2: Now let's get interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a reality check here, and this
Speaker 1: is some experience. I happened to be a big part
Speaker 1: of a sixty minute segment on surrogacy very early days,
Speaker 1: and they ran my interview. I probably was two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes on the air. I was interviewed for
Speaker 1: over three hours. I was in front of that camera,
Speaker 1: and then they edited down. That's what they do. By
Speaker 1: the way, go ahead and sue CBS. What are your damages?
Speaker 2: You won? You won? How did they harm you? And
Speaker 2: let's go on the other side.
Speaker 1: During one of the Trump interviews that Sean Hannity did,
Speaker 1: it was a live interview, and I remember watching it,
Speaker 1: Trump said something absolutely ridiculous and Hannity said, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: didn't you.
Speaker 2: Really mean to say this? Hey, it's it's biased. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the media.
Speaker 5: Wasn't the sticking point over this one though? That they
Speaker 5: aired part of the interview with one answer, and then
Speaker 5: they aired it again, same question, different answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they can do that. They can do anything
Speaker 1: they want. Of course, it's biased. That's how they spin.
Speaker 1: You go to conservative media Outlet's say, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have one view, same interview, same statement, and you go
Speaker 1: to another one and the question.
Speaker 2: Is how were you damaged? Okay, let's file the lawsuit.
Speaker 3: He would have won, he would have had a more
Speaker 3: bigly win.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Okay, that's worth a lawsuit, ury trial, huge. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, this is it. It's really interesting. But if
Speaker 1: you don't think virtually everything is biased, watch CNN cover
Speaker 1: a Trump story, watch Fox cover a Trump story, and
Speaker 1: you tell me, uh, there's no bias on one side
Speaker 1: and there is on the other.
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