WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.440 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:05.040 six forty. 3 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:16.199 Ukrainian President of Vladimir Zelenski said two Chinese nationals fighting 4 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.879 in the Russian Army have been taken prisoner. 5 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.160 Yeah, usually it was North Koreans. Now it's Chinese that 6 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:25.879 they're fighting. I mean, these two denied they were Chinese, 7 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:27.719 and then it was well, then. 8 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:29.399 What are you doing with egg rolls in your pocket? 9 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:35.119 Couldn't deny that? And now handle on the news, ladies 10 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:42.119 and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody, Bill Handle here. 11 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:47.600 Oh yes, it's now a Thursday, April tenth. 12 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.119 And do you remember when I said that as soon 13 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.759 as President Trump was elected, we were in for. 14 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.320 A roller coaster ride? Yeah? Was I understating that? 15 00:00:58.359 --> 00:00:58.520 One? 16 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:02.320 Huh? All right, quick hello to one and all. 17 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.680 Neil, good morning, Hey, Willie Wolf, good morning. 18 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:10.480 Yes, and Amy morning to you, good morning, and will 19 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.760 good morning, Good morning, sir, and a good. 20 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.159 Morning, Good morning Bill. I don't know why I even 21 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:24.799 do this, all right, Cono, good morning, good morning. I 22 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.120 can't I can't see you on the zoom. I know 23 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:28.760 our my zoom is out. 24 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.480 I've got I don't want to say anything negative about 25 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:39.799 any particular provider of internet, Cox Cable. But I've been 26 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:44.000 having some problems with my Zoom and Internet. 27 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:45.120 It's sporadic. 28 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:50.560 So I'm switching over to a famous name brand, the 29 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:53.879 Abraham Lincoln brand of Internet providers. 30 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:59.480 See that's a famous name brand. You get that. Hmm Okay, 31 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.959 I'm still to deep. 32 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.280 You're the only one I know that has these problems. 33 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.560 By the way, I know, I don't get it. I 34 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:10.719 don't get it, and I have so much going on 35 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.439 on my setup here. You have no idea I've got it. 36 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.039 I don't get it. I and I have and I 37 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:26.159 have two static ISP lines or USP or PTSD lines 38 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:27.400 or whatever. 39 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:27.879 The hell it can be. 40 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.919 Yes, STD lines. Well, I've had that for a very 41 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:31.400 long time. 42 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:35.520 But it's switching over to fiber optics because this is 43 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:37.719 driving me nuts, and it's sporadic. 44 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.400 It comes in and out. Man, just so much fun 45 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:44.159 I bitching and moaning about something. 46 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.599 Yeah, oh, let me Okay, here's a thank you to 47 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:50.879 a company that has actually come in and saved my ass. 48 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:55.960 I had some problems with my charger for my EV 49 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:00.080 at home. Well, because of all kinds of complex of 50 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:03.039 these that had to do with my community. 51 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:04.360 We had all kinds of issues. 52 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.280 Leviton, you know, the people that make those smart switches 53 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:10.000 and smart homes. 54 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.280 Leveton. They came in and sit saved my ass. 55 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.280 Wait Levitton, Yeah yeah. 56 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:20.759 And I didn't know they were involved in home chargers, 57 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.240 but through a friend of a friend, I got hold 58 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:25.919 of them and they said, yeah, yeah, we can help you, 59 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.439 and they literally saved my ass. I should call them 60 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.680 to see if they can do something with my internet 61 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:36.199 striving me completely nuts. I can't see you guys. Well 62 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.520 that's not necessarily bad, but I can Yeah. 63 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:42.759 I can't. Yeah, I can't see you guys. It's really Uh. 64 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:44.039 We looked good today. 65 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:49.719 Yeah, I got the good looking group. We don't need you. 66 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:49.919 You know. 67 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:51.159 I don't know where I'd go with that one. 68 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.520 I was thinking of several responses to that, none of it, 69 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.000 none of which would keep us on the air through 70 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:57.759 the weekend. 71 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:02.840 Okay, let's let's just do it, guys. 72 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.599 There's so much to talk about today, and it's it's 73 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:10.800 exhausting as to what's going on. You talk about ups 74 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:15.719 and downs and the markets roiling, and I mean just 75 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:17.319 craziness going on. 76 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:18.160 So let's start it. 77 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:26.680 Handle on the news with Amy Neil and me lead story. Okay, 78 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:30.839 the tariffs that we're going to go into effect and 79 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.079 did go into effect immediately, that we're not going to 80 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.519 be pulled back, were pulled back. And now the President 81 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.759 literally hours after invoking many of these tariffs turned around 82 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.120 and said, now I got a whole withhold for ninety days. 83 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:50.120 Let's relax for a bit except China. I was about 84 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:54.079 to say that China, they are ratcheting up China. So 85 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:58.680 now China's at one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs yesterday, 86 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:00.959 And what time did we we have a Savile on 87 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.759 when we talked about our business, Because that's that's worth 88 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.240 am seven am. That's worth going back on demand and 89 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.759 listening to that segment because this is a business that 90 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.560 Savill and I have and we import cookware from China 91 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:18.160 using stainless steel. 92 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:19.399 It's stainless steel cookware. 93 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:23.279 He was we were going through the numbers every day. 94 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.839 I talked to Savile and just we're spinning the tariffs. 95 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:30.600 As of yesterday, we're one hundred and eighty four percent. 96 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.800 So for every one hundred dollars that we buy of product, 97 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.959 we have to spend another one hundred and eighty four 98 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:45.759 dollars for one hundred dollars. So we're at two hundred 99 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.839 and eighty four dollars for products that cost one hundred dollars, 100 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.399 And man, what do you do with it? You know, 101 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.120 it's there are people that are just going to be 102 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.519 out of business. There's a really good friend of Lindsay, 103 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:01.800 she's known since high school, and he's involved in the 104 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:07.560 chip world where his company brings in chips and sells 105 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.279 them after market on the resale market. He says, they're 106 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:14.160 out of business. Basically, yeah, they're What do you do? 107 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:18.439 I mean, it's crazy. So anyway, we've come back. We 108 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.800 the world economy has come back. So after three days 109 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:27.000 of hemorrhaging in the markets, yesterday, the market, after the 110 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.839 announcement that well, we're gonna hold off ninety days or 111 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.079 Trump's gonna hold off ninety days, the market then explodes 112 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.639 and it gains almost three thousand points. I mean, it's 113 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.800 just this is nuts. And now everybody's sitting back. Okay, 114 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.000 when does the next go round happen? 115 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:45.079 All right? 116 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.399 Probably today because the down futures are down six hundred 117 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:49.000 and fifty per. 118 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.959 Of course, why not? Sure? Why not? 119 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:53.120 Oh? 120 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:54.759 Now they're only down five hundred and seventy. 121 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:55.680 I feel better. 122 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:01.839 Yeah, okay, Oh it's my turn, is m okay to 123 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.639 change his cash. Bettel is out as the acting director 124 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:09.399 of the ATF. You may recall that he is the 125 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:14.600 FBI director and he's a close personal ally of President Trumps. 126 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.199 He was sworn in as the ATF's acting director in 127 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:21.519 late February, but now he's been replaced. US Army Secretary 128 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:26.720 Daniel driscoll is taking over. The Justice Department is confirming that, 129 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:27.839 but they're not saying why. 130 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:31.639 And now we know that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 131 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.720 Firearms and Explosives will now once again take credit cards. 132 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.120 Oh cash, okay, I get it now, thank. 133 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:43.120 You, thank you, thank you. 134 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:45.720 A little bit of a take me a minute, A 135 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.360 little bit of a stretch, a little bit by okay. 136 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:56.120 A Delaware judge ruled that Newsmas defamed Dominion voting systems 137 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.279 by falsely accusing the company of ringing the twenty twenty 138 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:03.560 president presidential election. However, at this point it's going to 139 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.160 be up to a jury. They're going to have to 140 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:10.680 decide whether Newsmas intentionally smeared Dominion with actual malice. You 141 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:14.199 understand all this big stuff hand and must pay millions 142 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:15.439 of dollars in damages. 143 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:15.879 Yeah. 144 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.639 Malice, by the way, is not I want to get 145 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:23.000 the guy because I hate him. It's knowing that the 146 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.040 statement you're making is false. 147 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:26.680 That's one. 148 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.920 Or it's so false you should have known that the 149 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:37.480 statement was false in this case, pointing out that Dominion 150 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.919 voting machines were rigged, and they were rigged in favor 151 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.960 of Joe Biden and Trump votes were in fact registered 152 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:50.759 as Biden votes over and over again, and they at 153 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:55.759 some point in December of twenty twenty, they said, we 154 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.600 ran a clarification segment and we posted an article online 155 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.879 that we didn't have the evidence that Dominion manipulated any 156 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:07.519 votes relative to the months of day in and day 157 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.799 out and the constant statements the vote was rigged, Dominion 158 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:12.600 rig the votes. 159 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:14.399 So now it's up to a jury. 160 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:21.759 Fox, that character, that SNL character that would after saying 161 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.639 everything on the news go oh never mind. 162 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:29.080 Oh yes that's right, Yeah, yeah, what's their face? 163 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:33.559 Gilda Road, Yeah, Gilda. 164 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.759 Yeah, I remember talking about In any. 165 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.879 Case, Uh, Fox as a matter of fact, had to 166 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:47.840 settle for almost eight hundred almost a billion dollars when uh, 167 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.000 when it. 168 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:50.879 Said that dominion rigged the votes. 169 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.200 Also, now I don't know whether or not Newsmax is 170 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.000 probably going to settle for something, but I don't know 171 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:58.440 if they have anywhere near that kind of money. 172 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.320 Oh, this is not happy news at all, but a 173 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:06.639 rescue has now become recovery. In the Dominican Republic, of course, 174 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:11.879 the roof of an iconic nightclub collapsed and the death 175 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:15.240 toll is now up at least at two hundred and 176 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.039 thirteen people. At least three hundred people were inside the 177 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.120 jet Set nightclub early Tuesday morning when the roof came 178 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:26.360 down during a performance of merengue artist Ruby Perez. He's 179 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.320 one of the people who were killed, along with a 180 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:32.759 couple of Major League Baseball players. A former Dodger pitcher, 181 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.399 Octavio dettel Or Dotel, was one of the two killed. 182 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:42.720 They say that emergency responders have ended their rescue efforts 183 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.440 and it's now a recovery effort, so they're not expecting 184 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:48.320 to find anybody else. 185 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.080 This is absolutely brutal. There are actually more people killed 186 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:58.039 than injured. Yeah, and that you never see well and. 187 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.279 Where there storms. What happened in the roof just collapse. 188 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:04.399 Just collapsed, and it collapsed at exactly the wrong time. 189 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.840 It was it collapsed when the place was jammed, that 190 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:09.879 it could have collapsed any other time. 191 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.240 So it's horrific. Horrific luck. 192 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.960 Or mind you think there's gonna be an investigation or 193 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.120 two as to the structure of the building. 194 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:28.519 I would imagine. Yeah. The twenty twenty eight Olympics will 195 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.960 be the first to feature more women than men, the 196 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:36.320 International Olympics Committee announced just yesterday after approving the metal 197 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:41.320 events and athletes quota for them, citing high ticket demand 198 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:45.120 for women's events in Paris, broadcast numbers that are equal 199 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:49.519 to or higher than men's sports, increased media coverage, and 200 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:54.759 greater international investment in women's sports. So they said, this 201 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.000 first female majority Olympics is a complete package. 202 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:07.200 Also new events that have men who have become women. 203 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.080 Yeah, well that may be why it's there's more women 204 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:12.759 in this one. 205 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.720 Why, That's what I'm thinking, and more interest. 206 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.039 Interest if eventually they do add like a trans category, you. 207 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:22.559 Know what they might. 208 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.440 When you think about it, that is actually not that 209 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:30.240 crazy because physiology is different. Those people that argue, you know, 210 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.000 I'm in favor of obviously the trans community, I don't care. 211 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:34.759 Uh, you know, it's then of my business. 212 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:38.200 But if you're if my kid, for example, was competing 213 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:42.200 and my daughters were competing, and we're competing against someone 214 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.120 who was a man now became a woman, well, you know, 215 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.399 the physiology is different. The muscle mass, even though that 216 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:52.799 could be changed as different, the skeletal mass is different, 217 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:58.240 which is why men are always faster than women. You 218 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.279 know when you look at what happens with you know, 219 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.200 the various races and the games. I mean, women can't 220 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.240 jump as high as men, nor can white guys when 221 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:12.440 it comes to you know, white men can't jump either. 222 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.600 But that's a different issue. 223 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:16.279 Okay, why don't we move on because I think I'm 224 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:17.159 about to get in trouble? 225 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:18.240 Wasn't I good idea? 226 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:18.879 I don't know. 227 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.480 Okay, you can add trash to the list of things 228 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:27.080 that cost more pretty soon. The La City Council has 229 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:31.679 moved forward with a proposal. It's not a done deal yet, 230 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.559 but it would increase trash collection fees the first time 231 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:36.279 in seventeen years. 232 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:38.840 They've raised fees, by the way, by fifty four percent. 233 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.840 Charge. No, don't they charge per can. 234 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:44.639 I don't trash? 235 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:44.799 Been? 236 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.960 Well? It will fee or something? 237 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:49.279 Yeah, well they do. 238 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:54.240 In my in my area where there's the a charge 239 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:58.399 for regular trash and for the recycled bin and for 240 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:04.559 the bin that it collects the tremin et the Yeah. Yeah, 241 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.200 and we're about to get we're ordering more of the 242 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.399 recycle because Lindsay goes crazy and we get packages from 243 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:15.360 Amazon all day long. So we need a bigger bin 244 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:17.320 or more bins on the recycled part. 245 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:19.919 Yeah, that's really our case. 246 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:23.480 Pardon you're being good to the environment? 247 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:25.879 Yeah, that's one you know what that Actually, that's one 248 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:27.759 of the things I'm fanatic about. Usually I don't give 249 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.360 a rats, but on the recycled part of the world, 250 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:31.840 I'm pretty careful about that. 251 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.320 We need to get better at that. There's too much, way, 252 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:34.960 too much word. 253 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.600 The problem is, though, that we got better when everybody 254 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.360 said recycle and we started recycling like crazy, and then 255 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.039 they went, eh, we can't do. 256 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:48.720 That well because because at the recycle point they're not recycling. 257 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.720 For example, we have recycle bins all over the station, 258 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.200 right and you you know those blue bins or you 259 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.320 put paper in there. I think it goes in the 260 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:57.720 same place as the trash does. 261 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:04.639 But is isn't it? Singapore that has no like they 262 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:08.320 have a complete system where there is no waste. 263 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:14.120 Well, trash is illegal in Singapore. They turn you're not 264 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:15.600 allowed trying to turn. 265 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.279 The plastic into roads and building bricks and do it. 266 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.519 I mean their system is in Saye, you know, if 267 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:24.639 we're going to charge more, I would like to see 268 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.480 that the people that are actually driving the trucks and 269 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:30.000 picking up trash get more and not just go to 270 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:33.039 the bottom live of the government. 271 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.679 They do pretty well, and they're increasing these fees. They're 272 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.559 saying specifically because of the billion dollar deficit they're trying 273 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:41.480 to generate small. 274 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.279 Yah, big deficit with the trash. 275 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:49.360 House. Republican leaders just yesterday scrapped plans to vote on 276 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.919 the Senate's framework to advance key parts of President Trump's 277 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:57.399 legislative agenda. So kind of a setback. That came in 278 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:01.639 the face of opposition from hardline conservatives. So you've got 279 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:04.000 a lot going on. The delay marks a blow to 280 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:08.879 not only Speaker Johnson who pushed forward that, you know, 281 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.679 kind of do this all speedy and get this pushed through. 282 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:16.000 But obviously it's a it's a blow to President Trump. 283 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.120 Maybe not here's why step as you think. 284 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:22.320 Yeah, here's why what's going on, Because at one point 285 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:25.559 during the Biden years and during the Democratic years, you 286 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.360 had Republicans, particularly a hard right Republicans, screaming about the 287 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:32.960 deficit every year, saying you cannot spend more money than 288 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.440 comes in. They were deficit hawks. Trump comes in, that 289 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:38.799 disappears completely. There's no such thing as a deficit hawk 290 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:40.799 anymore in the Republican party. 291 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.720 We're looking at two trillion dollars. 292 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:48.720 Deficit every year now under Trump, and you have a 293 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.120 few Republicans that are saying, Okay, that's it. 294 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:54.799 We can't take it anymore. We're finished. 295 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:59.200 We cannot sustain this kind of deficit and this kind 296 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:07.440 of negative, negative economic well philosophy. I guess in this country, 297 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:13.039 you cannot keep on spending half of your budget. Every 298 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.640 year you make one hundred thousand dollars, you spend one 299 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.640 hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so you borrow it next year, 300 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:21.400 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, next year, two hundred 301 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.160 thousand dollars on your hundred thousand dollars income. That's what 302 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.880 the United States is doing. And they're finally saying we're done, 303 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:30.640 that's enough of that and Trump wants more tax cuts 304 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:35.119 and the deficit is going to grow. Remember when he 305 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.119 came into office, he was bitching and moaning about what. 306 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:39.759 Obama did. 307 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:44.440 That Obama hit a twenty trillion dollar national debt. It's 308 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:48.440 now at thirty six trillion dollars and it doesn't matter. 309 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.240 Let's just keep on borrowing until the cows come home, 310 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:57.519 very expensive cows, wagu beef cows. 311 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:01.119 Where were those cows going? How come they need to 312 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:01.599 come home? 313 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.920 Well, they were going to. I don't you know what. 314 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:09.720 I can't think of a good answer without being completely crude. 315 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:11.440 Let's just move on. 316 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:13.079 That should be a drop. 317 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:15.640 That should you know, you're right? 318 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:21.039 That should okay, sweeping a mistake under the rug. The 319 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:24.920 Justice Department says it's going to drop charges against a 320 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.680 man they had alleged to be a major leader of 321 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:31.599 MS thirteen. His lawyer says it's the first step toward 322 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:38.119 immediately deporting him to El Salvador. Attorney General Pambondi said 323 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:42.359 last month that Henry via Toros Santos was an MS 324 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:46.279 thirteen leader on the East Coast. He was horrible, violent, 325 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.519 one of the worst of the worst criminals. But now 326 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:54.480 the Justice Department without explanation, is dismissing the single federal 327 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:57.799 charge he faced for unlawfully having a weapon. The government, 328 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:02.200 she said, or prosecute said, no longer wishes to pursue 329 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:04.319 the instant prosecution at this time. 330 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:07.799 Now keep in mind this one is the government is 331 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:13.160 dropping the charges, why so they can deport him. His 332 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:17.200 attorney is saying, no, no, keep the charges alive against 333 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:20.559 my client, so he can't be deported. So he's in 334 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:23.599 the United States for trial. Because once he's deported, he 335 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.839 ends up in that Nicaraguin prison, which is far worse 336 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.799 than standing trial. It's a complete reversal of what normally happens. Yeah, 337 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:36.359 it's fascinating. It's just fascinating what's going on. By the way, 338 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.799 all of this under the Aliens Edition Act, which the 339 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.559 Supreme Court said Trump is allowed to do it. There 340 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:43.920 are four parts of the Aliens Edition Act, one of 341 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:48.680 which says that a president can declare an emergency and 342 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.160 then habeas corpus disappears. He can do whatever the hell 343 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.279 he wants, throw people out of the country. And it's 344 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:56.440 been used three times in the history of the United States, 345 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.920 during Washington and during World War One and World War II. 346 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:05.079 The Japanese when they were interred in the internment camps 347 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:09.039 here in California, Arizona, etc. Under the Aliens Edition Act. 348 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:11.759 That is how the president was able to put these 349 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:16.519 people without trial, without hearings, into internment camps. This is 350 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:20.079 the fourth go round. It's never been done in peacetime. 351 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:26.079 And Trump did it by declaring basically, we've been invaded, 352 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.480 by declaring a national emergency, effectively saying we're at war. 353 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.359 Never been done before. You think there's new stuff with 354 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:36.680 this president, You think, all right. 355 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:41.240 Avlo Airlines an ultra low cost carrier, a major hub 356 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.720 just out here at the Hollywood Burbank Bob Hope Airport. 357 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.400 I'm an old school guy. That way has reached an 358 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:54.000 agreement with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE on 359 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:57.000 a multi year deal to provide the agency with charter 360 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:03.000 flights to assist with the deportation efforts. Then is is 361 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:06.759 people have to not bathe, they have to take off 362 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:09.640 their shoes, and of course pay extra for luggage. 363 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:13.799 Yes, of course, because illegal aliens were being deported have 364 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:17.279 so much luggage, and they fight for the emergency row 365 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:21.880 uh the seats and pay extra money for that. By 366 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:25.880 the way, there have been charters before. The US government 367 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:30.119 charters airplanes when the soldiers were returning from Vietnam War, 368 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.119 for example, the major the vast majority were on chartered planes. 369 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:39.359 But this one is just for deporting illegals, and the 370 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:42.200 numbers are going to get huge under the new. 371 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:46.119 Policy to make the most airlines. 372 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:50.839 You have. You'd rather wouldn't you rather be in a 373 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:53.480 Nicaraguan prison than on Avalo airlines? 374 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:57.920 No, Avella is actually nice. Or they fly to like 375 00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:00.960 non major hubs. So from Burbank they fly to my 376 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:03.440 hometown of Medford direct, which almost nobody else does. Or 377 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:06.039 they fly to Vegas, or they're flight to Renos, so 378 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:08.480 they're low costs, but they do have a lot of fees. 379 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.720 Yeah, you know what they're going to do. It's going 380 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:13.839 to look like India Bill. They're going to get their 381 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:15.640 money's worth. They're going to have people sitting on the 382 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.319 wings on the top of the plane. 383 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:21.039 Do they get seatbelts on the wings? 384 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:21.519 No? 385 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:25.839 Be fun to watch, all right. 386 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:31.400 Amy expanding plans moving forward but not done yet. A 387 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:35.160 plan to renovate the Convention Center back who was directed 388 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:38.319 back in the nineteen seventies. Moving forward, La City Council 389 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.119 has agreed to spend almost twenty eight million dollars for 390 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:46.440 design and technical work. Now, that doesn't authorize the massive renovation, 391 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:50.079 but it apparently shows that the council is behind the idea. 392 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:52.759 A final a vote is expected in July, when the 393 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.880 project costs are more clear and a city agreement is finalized. 394 00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:58.480 So the plan, yeah, they'll do it. 395 00:22:58.680 --> 00:23:01.000 Yeah, The plan is to start construction by the end 396 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:03.720 of this year and then finish in twenty twenty nine. 397 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:05.880 Yeah. I mean though, I mean they were going to 398 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:06.119 do it. 399 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:08.000 The problem with the La conventions and her who does 400 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:12.480 it compete with Anaheim because of Disneyland and knots where 401 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:16.480