WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.839 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:15.480 am six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies 3 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:17.920 and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. 4 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:26.440 And good morning everybody, Bill Handle. 5 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:31.839 Here it is a Wednesday day, Wednesday, December eleventh. Some 6 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.359 good news in the world of the fire, and that 7 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:40.000 is that doesn't seem to have exploded anymore. 8 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.159 And only it's like four or five homes have gone 9 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:43.679 up in flames. 10 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:46.240 Now for those four or five people that own those homes, 11 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:51.520 obviously it was a disaster, but not bad. It could 12 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:55.479 have been a whole lot worse. Okay, let us say 13 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.039 hello to the crowd right now. My computer screen is 14 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.759 not working for some reason, and I am broadcasting out 15 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:03.359 of the studio. 16 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:05.840 So what I am looking at. 17 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:11.319 Is a home screen of Joshua trees sitting in a desert. 18 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.239 So let's start with Joshua Tree all the way to 19 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:15.680 the left. 20 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.040 Amy, good morning, Bill. 21 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.400 Oh there you are, the talking Joshua. 22 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.680 Tree, talking Joshua Tree, apparently. 23 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.439 You are, and then moving towards the center. 24 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:30.359 Neil, you confuse me, but good morning, Willy Wolf. 25 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:31.959 Yeah, I mean I confuse me. 26 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.519 This is and I'm pressing buttons like crazy and I 27 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.359 had everybody on zoom and then I lost everybody on 28 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:43.000 my phone and it was perfect. I know here it is, 29 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:47.040 join meeting, hold on a minute, A meeting ID I 30 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:47.640 have no idea? 31 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:52.439 What the hell our meeting idea is? I know? And 32 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.480 then I went Then I went to print. 33 00:01:54.599 --> 00:02:00.599 Then I went to print up our number two and yeah. 34 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:06.159 Oh my god, this is so yourself. I didn't you myself? 35 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:11.400 Don't I am I coming off mute? Yep, I am muted, 36 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:11.840 or I'm not. 37 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:13.199 You are not muted? 38 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.680 My god, that is a problem. Now I don't know 39 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:16.680 what the hell I'm going to do. 40 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:20.800 It must be what it's like to work for President 41 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:21.479 Joe Biden. 42 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:27.960 Oh it's the one that doesn't say nuclear weapon on it, sir. 43 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:29.840 Okay. So here's what I'm going to do. 44 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:34.240 In the next break, I'm gonna go ahead and wake 45 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.199 up Lindsay and have her come in and try to 46 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.120 fix this. Usually this thing works in the morning. And 47 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.199 I just the fact that I've gotten as far as 48 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.479 I have and and will tell you how far I 49 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.439 haven't gone. In the world of a computer savvy although 50 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:51.759 I don't know if I use the word savvy. 51 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.199 Well, it's sad to say that he's impressive. Yeah, this 52 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:54.919 is impressive. 53 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:57.639 I know it really is on there. Yeah, that's the 54 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:58.039 other thing. 55 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.759 I mean, I've tried everything, so uh cono, How disconcerting 56 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:03.199 is this. 57 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:04.159 With the mute right now? 58 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:10.520 From our end, not from an it's annoying because you 59 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.039 can hear her iPads. 60 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.960 Ok all right, but how about I have a question 61 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.240 to ask you. How about on the air? 62 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:18.960 Does this sound crisp? 63 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.680 Oh? Then who gives a damn? I sound crisp. 64 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:27.680 I'm fine, Well your voice sounds crisp. Your mental different. 65 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.080 You know that's a that's a completely different issue. Uh Okay, 66 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:33.000 Neil I said hello, and Neil. 67 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:36.960 And Amy yeah, hello again? 68 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.520 Hello again? So that was number two, and is this 69 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:40.039 number one? 70 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:41.800 I am number one? 71 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:43.960 Yes, okay? And I got. 72 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:46.960 And I'm the Joshua Trees. 73 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.360 Yeah. Well here's the problem. I've got one, two, three, four. 74 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.879 Five Joshua Trees up in front of me, and I'm 75 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:56.039 losing track. 76 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:57.360 Of which Joshua Tree is? 77 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:01.240 Who is whom's the wallpaper on your desktop? 78 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:03.159 That's correct? 79 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:10.400 Okay, So you minimized. I don't think minimizes. So let's 80 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:11.840 not let's not go into danta. 81 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:12.840 Let me tell you them. 82 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:15.680 The only minimization I know is just getting a little older. 83 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:19.680 You know that that I understand minimize. All right, Uh, 84 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:21.800 what do we have going on today? First of all, 85 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.120 it's a Wednesday. We're gonna be reporting on the fire. Uh, 86 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:30.439 there is some news about the economy. Jim Keeney is 87 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.240 joining us today and we're going to talk about the 88 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:37.319 Anthem Blue Cross policy that is stopping you from ever 89 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:38.839 having anesthesia again. 90 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:41.519 The new anesthesia as far. 91 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:44.319 As Anthem Blue Cross is their supplying sticks for you 92 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:48.160 to bite on during surgery. Uh, saving a lot of money. 93 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.839 And so there was a huge backlash on that one. 94 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.160 And then baby boomers, we're gonna do that at seven 95 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.399 twenty and here is and this is I'm right in 96 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.439 the middle of this that I'm going to talk to 97 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:05.199 you because today is a very big thing in my 98 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:11.240 life relating specifically to the issue of baby boomers are aging. 99 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.920 When we know that and I'm a boomer, but most 100 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.600 of us want to stay in the same home forever 101 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:22.079 and that is very difficult to do. I'll explain why, 102 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:27.000 and I'll explain what I'm doing about it. And this 103 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.399 is the new trend. I'm actually ahead of the trend. 104 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:34.360 I think, oh very strong. Okay, guys, let's do it. 105 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:36.879 It's time for Handle on the News on this Wednesday 106 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.920 morning with Amy Neil and Me Leaf. 107 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:41.160 Story stand next to you. 108 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.920 Well, the Franklin fire has destroyed seven structures. I've always 109 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.800 wondered about structures. What's the different between a structure. 110 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:50.959 And a house? 111 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:55.480 As far as the fire department is concerned, Amy, what's 112 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.519 the what the difference between a structure and a house? 113 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:02.160 I know, structure might be like shed in the back. 114 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:03.720 Who keeps? So let me ask me? 115 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:07.839 You keep this little crappy shed that you buy at Malibu? 116 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:09.879 It's probably four thousand square feet. 117 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.360 Well, but you always hear structures. I mean I think 118 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:14.959 of structures as being outhouses. 119 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.040 Probably not a lot of outhouses in Malibu. 120 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:22.680 But that is Trey. Yeah, you don't hear homes. I've 121 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:26.560 always wondered about structures. But in any case, do we 122 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:28.480 know out of the seven how many were homes? 123 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.480 No, they haven't said, see there you go structures? 124 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:34.720 Yeah, okay, and you buy them for two hundred bucks? 125 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:36.319 Were their lawnmowers in them? 126 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:37.560 And we know there were homes? 127 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:42.600 Yeah, there were homes and those were That's pretty bad. Obviously, 128 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.920 the eastern half of Malibu is still under an evacuation order. 129 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.040 More than fifteen hundred firefighters were on the ground yesterday. 130 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:53.040 Air tankers dropping water even able through the night. That's 131 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:57.920 the new technology. They're able to send up water dropping 132 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.680 aircraft at night, not when the wind is blowing the 133 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.920 way it was blowing. I mean, if you're talking fifty 134 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.399 sixty mile an hour gus, they're not going up. 135 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:10.800 But still they've done a really good job. 136 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.480 We had Chuck Lovers on yesterday and that's worth listening 137 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.079 to again on demand. 138 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.920 And what time did we listen with Chuck on? You remember? 139 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:20.160 I believe that seven thirty? 140 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:21.079 Yeah, I think it was. 141 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.680 And it's worth a Chuck friend of mine thirty years 142 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.480 La County fire he fought these This was his wheelhouse 143 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.120 and he explained a lot of inside baseball, what you're 144 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.519 looking at, what's going on behind the scenes, how they 145 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:38.399 view this, how they prepare, how they attack, and that 146 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:40.839 is it gives you some give you a very good 147 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:42.519 view in understanding what was happening. 148 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:46.360 All right, Well, there's a whole pile of evidence here. 149 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:51.240 Investigators are looking for a motive in the assassination of 150 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:56.240 United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The person who's been charged 151 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:01.199 with his murder as Luigi Mangioni. He's fighting extradition to 152 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.879 New York from Pennsylvania, that's where he was caught at 153 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:08.279 a McDonald's. Mangioni's lawyer denied that his client was involved 154 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.240 in the killing and said he plans to plead not 155 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:14.879 guilty to the five charges he's facing in Pennsylvania related 156 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:16.519 to a gun and fake IDs. 157 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:16.920 Yeah. 158 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:18.040 I don't know how he's I mean, he's going to 159 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:21.240 lose the extradition hearing, of course, but I don't know 160 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.399 where he's going. His attorney says he got the wrong guy, 161 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.399 and they're piling the evidence. 162 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.000 Seven o'clock. I'm going to do the story because this 163 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.000 is a weird story. This story about. 164 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:37.519 Mangioni is really strange as to who he was and 165 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.639 his motivation, and he's become a hero to some people. 166 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:42.799 I'll do more about that at seven am. 167 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:45.879 It's crazy, by the way, if you do a deep 168 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.559 dive on social media, the conspiracy theories already and they're 169 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.039 measuring the space between his eyebrows and saying it's not 170 00:08:54.120 --> 00:09:01.080 the same guy, it's not balls Anyways, you've got speaking 171 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.440 of which police found the words deny, defend and depose 172 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:08.559 if you remember, printed on the shell casings near the 173 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:13.320 site where Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, was gunned down. 174 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:19.679 And now everywhere online you've got merchandise popping up. It 175 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:24.759 was on Amazon, which was taken down. It's now on Etsy, 176 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.840 but you can find a bunch of different merchandise with 177 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:34.720 the delayed, deny, defend, which they actually that's the terms 178 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:37.799 that was found in a twenty ten book critiquing the 179 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:42.159 health insurance industry and similar to what he put. 180 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:43.799 Yeah, those were on the shell casings. 181 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:48.159 Also, McDonald's is getting one star reviews for being McDonald's 182 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.840 and a lot of negative for use part of that 183 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:55.519 calling the workers who turned him in say, hey, that's 184 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:58.000 the guy calling them rats and snitches. 185 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:01.559 He's become a hear of he's been coming here. 186 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.600 I'll do more about that at seven o'clock because this is, 187 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.000 as I said, a very strange one. 188 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:11.080 So Israel is making some preemptive strikes in Syria. The 189 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.039 collapse of the Asad regime has prompted Israel to launch 190 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:21.000 a punishing military response. They've launched four hundred and eighty 191 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:26.559 strikes across Syria. They're aiming at military targets. They've deployed 192 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:32.440 ground troops both into and beyond that DMZ, their buffer 193 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:34.840 zone in Syria for the first time in fifty years, 194 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.600 and they're saying that they're going after Syria's strategic weapons 195 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:41.919 stockpiles so that they can't use The new government of 196 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:43.159 Syria couldn't use those. 197 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.320 Yeah, because the new government is ISIS. Effectively it was 198 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:49.080 connected to ISIS. There's a little bit more moderation talk, 199 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.320 but there are a bunch of terrorists. So you had 200 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:54.679 a sod. Then you have the terrorists who've taken over 201 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.759 the Syrian government. Israel's not even waiting boom off it goes, 202 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:02.799 took out entire air force, decimated it, no airplanes left. 203 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.039 Syria has a bunch of military targets. This says about 204 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.639 israel Is. They're not screwing around. And I will now 205 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.240 take it to the firth of extreme, which is not 206 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:17.879 an extreme. Israel has said over and over again we 207 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:21.480 will not let Iran have nuclear weapons. 208 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:23.240 It is simply unacceptable. 209 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.600 Now do you think the second they are either close 210 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:32.200 to or announce that Iran has nuclear weapons what is 211 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.159 Israel going to do? Israel has two hundred of these 212 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:38.159 or three hundred of these nuclear weapons, which of course 213 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.960 they deny having, but everybody's known for forty years they 214 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:45.559 have it. What is going to happen. It's gonna really 215 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.840 be interesting. I have no doubt that there'll be a 216 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:53.519 virtual war. And if Roan comes close to even sending 217 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:56.600 off a tactical nuclear weapon, it's going to be completely 218 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:58.399 crazy in that part of the world. Israel's not going 219 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.159 to back down. They're done, They're done being defensive. 220 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.360 We had a lot to talk about later on. 221 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:10.039 Go on, not to be outdone by American crazy politics. 222 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:13.879 You have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett Yahoo taking the 223 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.360 stand just yesterday in his long running trial for alleged corruption. 224 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.080 It sets off what's expected to be weeks long spectacle 225 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.480 that will draw unwelcome detention. 226 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.279 This is his legal woes. 227 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:32.360 He's in the middle of fighting in Gaza, and it 228 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.879 just seems like American garbage with Trump on the stand 229 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.440 in the middle of running for president. 230 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.279 But oh Nisana is going down. 231 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:44.000 I mean that the war puts everything on hold, and 232 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.320 a lot of people are arguing the reason he's continuing 233 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.399 with the war is to make sure that he isn't tried. 234 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.120 But at this point it doesn't matter. He's now in court. 235 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:56.960 He's been delaying it for years. Fraud, breach of trust, 236 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:02.200 accepting gifts from major Paul peticians and business interests so 237 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:06.759 they could get better treatment from the authorities. Straight out fraud, 238 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.720 just like what we had with the City council, except 239 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:11.080 it's a national scale. 240 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.279 God is so complicated over there. All right, let's do 241 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:15.559 one more and we'll take our break. 242 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.840 Crobertson's is an o go. Albertsons has scrapped its planned 243 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.159 merger with Kroger. That's just announced a few minutes ago. 244 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:29.080 Albertson's has accused Kroger of failing to overcome government objection 245 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:33.960 to the proposed twenty five billion dollar merger. A federal 246 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:38.440 judge put a block on the merger between Kroger and 247 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.440 Albertsons yesterday, and that basically kills the deal. It would 248 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:45.399 have been the largest grocery store merger in US history. 249 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:51.559 Now, this was the FTC that sued Kroger and Albertson. 250 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.320 You know the way it works in antitrust to keep 251 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.440 companies from merging because they become too big with the 252 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:03.039 monopolize whatever we and two big market share. It takes 253 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.720 the federal government to come in and sue to stop 254 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.120 the merger. The government just doesn't automatically say no merger, 255 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:13.159 So the FTC has to sue. The FTC has sued, 256 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.879 a federal judge said no merger. What do you think 257 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:21.279 is gonna happen after January twentieth. I will bet you 258 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:26.360 that lawsuit disappears. I don't believe that Donald Trump is 259 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:31.360 against these massive mergers because this is one percent pro business. 260 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.480 So would they have to start all over because Albertson 261 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:34.320 says it's done. 262 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.440 Yeah, don't you know what, I think that the FTC. 263 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.480 Would have to start all over again. This hasn't been dismissed. 264 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.200 This is a temporary halt on this case. So we'll 265 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:48.360 see what happens after January twentieth. And this is one 266 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.919 of those not oh my god, he's crazy. Whatever, it's 267 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:55.039 strictly a philosophy. It's a pro business or you know, 268 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:56.519 anti business philosophy. 269 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:56.919 That's it. 270 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.879 And we'll see what the FTC does. Same thing with regulations. 271 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:07.879 Gonna see regulations fall by the by the fallout side 272 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:13.240 you know whatever, because of a different philosophy administration fall 273 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.240 by the wayside. 274 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:15.200 Thank you very much. 275 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:15.480 Handle. 276 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.120 Damn, I'm good at this stuff. Sometimes I impress myself. 277 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.039 You should have a show, you know what, I. 278 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.159 Should have a show. And it's just frightening. 279 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:24.759 Bill, Handle. 280 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:29.200 And monarch butterflies could soon be designated a threatened species 281 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:30.919 under the new US proposal. 282 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:32.799 So you have the US Fish. 283 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:36.879 And Wildlife Service announced just yesterday announcing just yesterday this 284 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:42.960 proposal that puts this migratory monarch butterfly on the Endangered 285 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:44.559 Species Act list. 286 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:49.039 Have you ever gone to see the monarch the butterfly 287 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.679 when they go to wherever placed and then they go 288 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.159 to Mexico. They actually fly into Mexico. It's a long 289 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.120 flight and there used to be millions of them. Last time, 290 00:15:58.120 --> 00:15:59.519 I think there was a film crew that went to 291 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.120 the one of those central places. 292 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.000 Hundreds of people showed up, three butterflies showed up. 293 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:08.679 That was it. Well, that'll do it. 294 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:09.399 That'll do it. 295 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.519 The western migratory population is declined more than ninety five 296 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:19.120 percent sinus. Yeah, and those are neat. Yeah, the monarch 297 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:21.600 butterflies are really neat. You ever been bitten by one? 298 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.000 You don't get that's correct. You never have that's my point. 299 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:29.919 Okay, okay, let'sten break. 300 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:32.440 Oh no, we just started. Let's go on. 301 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.440 Oh my lord, you'll have to be messing with us, please. 302 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.399 Okay, Biden's not the only one falling all over the place. 303 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:47.039 GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell took a little fall yesterday. 304 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:51.960 Apparently he tripped after lunch, sprained his wrist and cut 305 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.000 his face. He's eighty two years old. He has been 306 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:58.279 cleared to resume his schedule, said a McConnell spokesperson. 307 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.279 Yeah, he can't seemed to keep standing up. 308 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:02.799 A lot of the work he's going to do now 309 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.480 will be on the floor on his back, because the 310 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.000 guy just keeps on falling and falling and falling. 311 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:10.240 And he's retiring. 312 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.839 He's done, he has and he's left his position as 313 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:16.720 the Senate Majority leader. I think he is the longest 314 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:17.759 Senate Majority leader in. 315 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.920 History, if I'm not mistaken. 316 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:24.000 He has seen he's the one who comes to the 317 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.480 podium and then forgets what he's saying. 318 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:28.480 He forgets who he is, forgets where you know, he 319 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:29.160 just freezes. 320 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:35.480 Okay, yeah, well, and he's only frozen twice. 321 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:39.920 Okay, well that's a politician. That's not so bad. 322 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:41.039 I guess so. 323 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:45.039 Los Angeles County's largest juvenile detention center has failed a 324 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:50.400 critical inspection. This puts it in a unique situation because 325 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:55.079 now it's unprecedented. It's sitting there with two hundred and 326 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:59.480 sixty youth locked up in this facility that legally is 327 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:04.559 required close by tomorrow, and there's nowhere to put these. 328 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.279 Now, what do they do? Yeah? What do you do 329 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.079 with that? You have to let them go. 330 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:13.720 Because it's no longer the facility is safe and there's 331 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:15.680 no place to put him. 332 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:17.680 How big is your new backyard? 333 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:21.119 Yeah, precisely, we'll see. It's almost likely to be around 334 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.640 an airplane. Does anybody volunteer to get off the airplane 335 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:24.519 for a voucher to fly? 336 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.960 We got some pressure on the president. President Biden facing 337 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:35.240 mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and some of his allies. 338 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.799 They want the president to extend some more protections to 339 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:45.759 illegal immigrants because of President elect Trump's promise of mass 340 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:49.880 deportations when he takes office. So now apparently they're kind 341 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:51.640 of struggling with that. They want to see if any 342 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.880 more can be done to allow certain illegal immigrants to 343 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.279 stay in the US while trying to avoid overreaching on 344 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.079 the issue. Would some political strategists have argued cost the 345 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:04.160 Democrats the White House. 346 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:08.839 Yeah, I'm going to talk a little bit about that too, because, yeah, 347 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.759 the Democrats are trying to figure out, what did we do? 348 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.559 How did we blow this? As matter of fact, well, 349 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.400 we looked at the election. It was sort of up 350 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:20.880 in the air. It was a fifty to fifty that 351 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.400 Kamala Harris was going to win some of those states, 352 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.079 some of those battleground states, and the Democrats are looking 353 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:27.880 back and saying. 354 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.720 We lost every single one. What happened? 355 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:36.240 Well, well, I'll talk more about this because this is 356 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:39.240 as soon as President Trump comes into office and an 357 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:41.799 immigration becomes a huge, huge story. 358 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:43.680 I'm going to jump into this. 359 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.960 But right now there's a lot of pressure for Biden 360 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.519 to do whatever he can to help immigrants, anything he 361 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:50.920 can do. 362 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:55.599 All right, all right, GM is pulling the plug on 363 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.759 its robo taxi efforts. Apparently they just are no longer 364 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.519 interested too much competition right now, and they gave, you know, 365 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:10.599 looked at all the time the resources that would need 366 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:14.200 to scale the business, and so they're saying we're done. 367 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:16.319 No fleet. 368 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:19.599 Yeah, this is getting pretty expensive stuff. Now you do 369 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:21.359 have Weimo out there that's going. 370 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:22.759 Balls to the wall. 371 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.960 So there is it's on its way, and there are 372 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:29.799 plenty of I think driver less taxis out there right now. 373 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.640 You can get them in LA, can't you. Yeah, at 374 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:34.920 this point I have not been. I have not been 375 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:37.119 in one. Have any any of you been in a 376 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:38.440 driverless taxi? 377 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:39.440 I haven't. 378 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:39.559 Well. 379 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:41.799 We talked to rich Damiro this morning during wake up 380 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:43.880 call and he says he has up in San Francisco. 381 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:45.240 He said it was great. 382 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.160 Okay, I'm willing to try that. 383 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:50.519 But anyway, GM is out of it, so they're no 384 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:54.000 longer watching the jetsons. 385 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:58.759 Drones are making some deadly attacks. An armored vehicle belonging 386 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.119 to the UNS Atomic Watchdog was hit by a drone 387 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.920 strike on its way to inspect a Ukrainian nuclear power 388 00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:09.799 plant in an attack President Zelensky has blamed, of course, 389 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:13.920 on Russia, trying to figure. 390 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:16.440 Out who would get the who gets the benefit of this. 391 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:21.519 No posture benefit if Zaparichi a nuclear power plant explodes. 392 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:27.599 Right, and again, does Russia want these things to explode? 393 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.880 I mean they could hit these nuclear power plants and 394 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:33.880 decimate them in two seconds. But the last thing they 395 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.200 want is another sure nobyle and they get blamed for it. 396 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:39.240 Humhm, all right, let's move on. 397 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:43.759 Supreme Court may be about to sharply limit the reach 398 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:46.079 of so called environmental impact statements. 399 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:48.119 You know, we hear about those all the time. 400 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.279 You want to build something and it's large, you have 401 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:54.400