WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.200 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:08.000 Chris Merril AM six forty more stimulating talk and on 3 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.320 demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app. We are pulling back. 4 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:17.160 People are saying, no mold, forget about it. In fact, 5 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:19.960 if you were like me and you grew up poor, 6 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.280 you didn't have lucky charms. You had something that was 7 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:30.519 the equivalent like fortune totems, or you didn't have cheerios. 8 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:34.359 You would have oat circles, and you didn't have fruit loops. 9 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:38.119 You'd have fruit rings something like that. Right, you didn't 10 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:45.799 have the actual stuff. We had knockoff cereals, and knockoff 11 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:47.079 cereals were fine. 12 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:49.359 It was good. In fact, in some cases you got 13 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:50.039 so you like them better. 14 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:52.240 I always hated the knockoff cheerios, but I thought that 15 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:53.600 the knockoff wheaties. 16 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:54.920 Were fine, Right, I mean, you just got so that 17 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:55.560 you got used to it. 18 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:57.759 There are other things that you can buy that are 19 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:03.159 store bought, that are reasonable duplicates, and stores are getting 20 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:05.439 better at this than they were when we were younger, 21 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:06.799 which was so so. 22 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.280 Many millennia ago. 23 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:11.799 But Treehouse Foods is one of the country's largest manufacturers 24 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:14.439 of private brands, they're the ones. So if you see 25 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:18.760 something that is the equate brand from Walmart that may 26 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.239 have come from Treehouse Foods. If you see the Safeway 27 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:24.280 brand that may have come from Treehouse Foods. If you 28 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.000 see which is like or excuse me, you see like 29 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.079 the Safeway Albertson's. If you see the Kroger brand from 30 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:32.400 like Ralph's, may have come from Treehouse Foods. 31 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.799 They make a bunch of that stuff. However, we are 32 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:36.680 seeing the whole. 33 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:39.319 Egg thing going on, with the price of eggs going up, 34 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:41.879 which certainly is not in any way, shape or form 35 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:46.280 a money grabbed by the egg manufacturers capitalizing on the 36 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:50.280 spike and prices due to the bird flu. Coffee prices 37 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.680 are going up, and of course we may start seeing 38 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.959 more prices jumping because of the threats of terraces tariffs. 39 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.840 So here's what you're looking at. Prices on things like cookies, crackers, coffee, 40 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:05.239 and other things are not only going up everywhere, but 41 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.039 they are also going up for the store brought store 42 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:11.719 bought brands, the store brand names, right, which we always 43 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:16.479 think of as being generic. People have decided I'm gonna 44 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.719 go and I don't know who does this I don't 45 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:20.960 know who it is that is insane enough to do it, 46 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:27.319 but some people say I will just go without coffee. Friends. 47 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.360 We are in a bad spot. When inflation gets to 48 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.960 the point where people are not having their morning drugs, 49 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.280 that's gonna make things that work a whole lot more difficult. 50 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:40.520 I don't know if you know any coffee drinkers. Maybe 51 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.719 you're you are a coffee drinker, but if the point 52 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:48.199 comes where you have to start rationing coffee, things are 53 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:54.400 gonna get ugly fast. They say that people are stressed. Treehouse, 54 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.759 that's again they make the groceries. Their financial chief says, 55 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:03.080 we don't have any strong indicators that consumers are going 56 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.520 to be less stressed in the near term, and grocery 57 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:07.759 retailers are relying on third parties like Treehouse to make 58 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:08.439 their store brands. 59 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:09.599 Is from the Wall Street Journal. 60 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:13.879 Giants like Kroger Albertson's Costco boosting investments in their branded products. 61 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.159 Private labels are growing faster than name brand goods heading 62 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.800 into the pandemic, and then consumers stuck at home with 63 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.240 money to spend, went back to the national brands and 64 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:25.360 low cost brands. 65 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.439 We've seen now a resurgence for a couple of reasons. 66 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:31.080 Because you have higher grocery prices, retailers are expending their 67 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.919 store brand offerings. Walmart is introducing a premium line of 68 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:37.840 food called Better Goods along their Great Value brand. So 69 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:39.960 you've got the Great Value and then you've got Better Goods, 70 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.199 which is supposed to be the step up. But now 71 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.479 people are even saying, we're just going to cut back 72 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:50.479 on even the low cost stuff. To me, this is 73 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:55.319 a bad omen. You've got consumer confidence. You may have 74 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.599 seen the report consumer confidence is down. With consumer confidence, 75 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.680 whether they have reason to or not. Maybe it's based 76 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:04.879 on the news, Maybe it's based on the worries over 77 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.960 the tariffs. Maybe people have lost jobs. But at this 78 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.479 point it doesn't look like we're in a recession. The 79 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.879 fear of recession is so great that people are beginning 80 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.439 to behave as though we are in a recession. We're 81 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:22.360 priming for it, we're getting ready, we're pregaming. The next 82 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.680 recession is what's happening, and so people are cutting back 83 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.240 on things, even the store brand products, but they're also 84 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:30.360 cutting back on this from the Wall Street Journal, US 85 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.959 convenience store sales falling over four percent by volume. 86 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:35.959 What are they cutting back on? 87 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:41.560 Derrito's When you stop in at the circle K or 88 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.839 the shell station, there's no there's no big bag of chips. 89 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.399 If you've bought a bag of chips at the gas 90 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.839 stations lately, have you seen the price on that, it's 91 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.959 seven bucks. Seven bucks for a bag of potato chips 92 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.959 is not even the family size bag. I know, I 93 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.680 sound like a grumpy old man. I understand, but I'm 94 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.800 gonna be grumpy. I don't like it. So people are 95 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.360 cutting back and what they're buying. That includes Doritos, that 96 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:10.160 includes Twinkies. And I think we just saved Twinkies from 97 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:13.279 the brink of extinction a decade ago. They were all 98 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.600 ready to wrap up. But here's the really scary thing. 99 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:19.800 While we have some people cutting back on things like 100 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:24.319 coffee and other places, which is terrifying, sounds like some 101 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:29.319 people are cutting back on cigarettes. Oh my, So now 102 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.079 you've got people that are not gonna have their cigarettes 103 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:36.199 or their coffee in the morning. That is uh, it's 104 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.759 gonna get ugly fast, friends, this is gonna be very 105 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.000 apocalyptic in a hurry. 106 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.720 I don't have high hopes. So what can you do? 107 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.680 Could you turn to one of those dollar stores. Nope, 108 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.319 because have you been to a dollar store lately? Nothing 109 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:54.839 costs a dollar anymore. And now Dollar General says they're 110 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.040 not even making any money and they're shutting up shop. 111 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.879 Dollar General is closing nearly one hundred store The company 112 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.759 says it plans to close ninety six locations by January 113 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:05.079 of twenty twenty six. 114 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.199 That's not too many, though, I think Dollar General opens 115 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.160 more than one hundred a day. I'm exaggerating, but not 116 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.920 by much. This is from Whas by the way, I 117 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:16.120 believe this is in Louisville. 118 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:19.040 Dollar General CEO says that the number of closings represents 119 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:21.040 less than one percent of the company's. 120 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:21.680 Overall store base. 121 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.480 It also plans to close forty five of Dollar General's 122 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:26.560 Home to corese stores popshelf. 123 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.480 I think no Dollar General had home to course stores. 124 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:38.160 Did you know then Bed's through dollars? All right? The 125 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.399 DECI that was quick, Amy, you get credit on that one. 126 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:41.079 That was very quick. 127 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.720 The decision came after a view of the store performance 128 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:46.959 and conditions to determine which stores should be closed or 129 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:49.720 maybe be rebranded. Now, as of now, it's not known 130 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:51.959 which locations are set to close. There are more than 131 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:54.680 thirty of those stores in the Louisville metrics. 132 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:56.680 All right, so again I told you that it was 133 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.399 from Louisville. Did he just say rebranded if they're going 134 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:04.199 to close or rebrand? So you rebrand from a Dollar 135 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:09.079 General to what a dollar Lieutenant? I don't understand what 136 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:13.319 the rebrand would be. You go more high end Dollar General. 137 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.439 There's no lower end Dollar I mean, Dollar General is 138 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.639 what it is. It's just cheap, cheap. All the dollar 139 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.759 stores just cheap. Tell you, man, I would think Dollar 140 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.800 General would do really well as people are worried about 141 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:27.399 inflation and recession. It has in the past. Walmart and 142 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:32.360 Dollar General stores do well during recessions. They do, they do, 143 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:34.920 And yet here they are saying they're going to close 144 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:35.439 some shops. 145 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:37.720 We'll find out how it plays out. Okay. 146 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:39.920 If I am six forty, we're live everywhere on the 147 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:41.279 iHeartRadio app. 148 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:45.040 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 149 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.519 Okay, if I am six forty, more stimulating talk, Chris Merrill. 150 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.920 Big questions are coming up about the people being deported, 151 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.279 especially when we find out that we're trying to deport 152 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.800 people who have a legal status in the United States, 153 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:12.879 including green cards or well respected positions within major universities. 154 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.000 It kind of started with this Machmud Khalil, who was 155 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:27.040 a guy protesting at Columbia. Many many schools were protesting 156 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:32.960 during the demonstrations over the warre in Goza, right, most 157 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.200 of the protesters were pro Israeli protesters. And as we know, 158 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.519 when it comes to protesting, you cannot be pro one 159 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:46.000 side without being anti the other. That's how it works out. 160 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:52.279 You can't say I love the Dodgers without people knowing 161 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.120 that that means you hate the Yankees. Now, maybe you 162 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.039 do hate the Yankees. But is it possible that you're 163 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.000 just rooting for your team. 164 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.159 Possible. But when it comes to the world of politics. 165 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:06.200 And especially when it comes to something so significant as 166 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:09.519 war and war where religion is involved, you have to 167 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.000 be my side or the other side. 168 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:14.240 You're either with me or you're against me. 169 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:20.039 So Khalil and Khalil was in large part part of 170 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.480 the demonstrations at Columbia. We saw those at UCLA. You 171 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:30.080 see your Vine, Berkeley, Stanford, Santa Cruz. There's been a 172 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.320 number of California schools. Of course, we're taking part in 173 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:36.399 these protests. Some of them did feel distinctly anti Semitic. 174 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.879 That doesn't mean everybody there was, but it wasn't like 175 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.600 they were stopping it from being anti Semitic either, So 176 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:46.720 we know how this played out. However, as much as 177 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:50.320 we despise that anti semitism is not illegal in the 178 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:53.559 United States, you're allowed to be anti Semitic, You're allowed 179 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:55.759 to be racist. You're not allowed to hire base on 180 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:59.320 racism or anti semitism, but you are allowed to be 181 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:04.000 an a in America. That hasn't changed in the last 182 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.480 two hundred and fifty years. You can still be a 183 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:11.919 total a hole in America. The line is when you're 184 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:15.120 being an a hole and it starts to threaten other 185 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:21.919 people if there is demonstrable harm being done, although did 186 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.240 this guy, makmuk Khalil, actually demonstrate any harm. He was 187 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.600 a negotiator that was representing the student protesters at Columbia. 188 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.480 He is a permanent US resident. He was arrested March 189 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:37.720 ninth at his apartment by Customs and Enforcement by ICE. 190 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.320 A cord of the ap agent said they were executing 191 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.399 a State Department order to revoke his student visa. 192 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:46.720 His lawyer says, you didn't have a student visa. He's 193 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:47.799 a green card holder. 194 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:52.159 He's a permanent legal US resident. They said, oh, we're 195 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:52.799 taking that too. 196 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.559 What this is. 197 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:57.639 This is like when you were a kid and the 198 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.240 bully came by and punched you and said give me 199 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.480 your lunch money, and you said, I've got my lunch money, 200 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:07.320 but please don't take my allowance. 201 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:08.080 I just got it. 202 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.399 And the bully goes, oh, can give me that allowance too. 203 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.360 That's basically what's going on. So the State Department says, 204 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:16.200 we want a student, we're taking away with the student visa. 205 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:20.399 The lawyer says he didn't have he's a part US resident. Oh, 206 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.399 we're taking that away too. And why is that? Because 207 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.679 Trump has signed an order, signed an executive order to 208 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.879 cancel and deport the students and all the student visas 209 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:35.799 of any hamas sympathizers on college campuses. 210 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:39.919 That's a tough one. 211 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.840 And the reason it's tough is again, you're allowed to disagree. 212 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:47.919 Even if your disagreement makes you a total a hole 213 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.279 in the eyes of the majority of people, you are 214 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:52.440 still allowed to disagree. 215 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:53.440 In America. 216 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:56.080 You may remember after nine to eleven there were a 217 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.240 number of politicians who came out and they said. 218 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:01.120 Look, one eleven was abhorrent. 219 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:05.639 It was a terrible chapter in American history, and that said, 220 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:10.679 you kind of understand why some people hate us, and 221 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:11.840 they were lambassad They were. 222 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:14.759 Told, how dare you? You can't say such terrible things 223 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:15.360 about America. 224 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.879 Don't you know we're in a war against terrorism, and 225 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:21.480 yet you're still allowed to say that. Even Congress persons 226 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.759 were saying that they don't approve of nine to eleven, 227 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.559 but they kind of understand why other countries, why other 228 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:29.240 groups hate us. 229 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.440 Now dare you do that? 230 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:35.879 The real kicker on this case with the Khalil is 231 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:41.480 that Marco Rubio, formerly known as Little Marco, did a 232 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.279 press conference right after the arrest and he said, this 233 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.240 is not about free speech. This is about people that 234 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.039 don't have a right to be in the United States 235 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:49.200 to begin with. 236 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.519 But it sounds like by all accounts he did. 237 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.639 He had a student visa, then he had a permanent 238 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.080 green card, and now we're just claiming you don't have 239 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.639 a right to be here because we're policing your ideas now. 240 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.639 But it's not just him. There was also a doctor 241 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:11.440 who was detained. Now a highly regarded kidney doctor. 242 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.080 Just after six pm. 243 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.120 Six from ABC. 244 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:17.519 Seven Saturday, planes carrying more than two hundred Venezuelan prisoners 245 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:21.720 left the US after the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act, 246 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.360 a law from the late seventeen hundreds that allows the 247 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.159 government to deport non citizens without due process during wartime. 248 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:32.440 Are we at war with Venezuela? Anybody? Anybody? The answer 249 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:32.600 is no. 250 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.759 Less than an hour later, a federal judge temporarily blocked 251 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:38.720 the president from invoking the law and ordered the planes 252 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:42.000 to turn around, saying any plane containing these folks that 253 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:44.000 is going to take off or is in the air 254 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:46.919 needs to be returned to the United States. But the 255 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.080 planes never turned around, and video shows the alleged gang 256 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:53.879 members being marched into prison in El Salvador yesterday. Critics 257 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:57.240 argue the administration defied the judge's orders, but the White 258 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:00.399 House argues the judge has no jurisdiction over the presidence 259 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:04.200 conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, 260 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:07.600 and his core Article two powers to remove foreign alien 261 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:08.879 terrorist staff. 262 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.759 All right, So that is key, And I guess I 263 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:14.519 thought there was more of this. Deported doctor. I want 264 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.080 to talk about this deported doctor or the detained doctor. 265 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.039 I'll do that here in a second. But also, you 266 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:23.080 just heard the report from ABC saying we didn't like 267 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:27.399 what the judge had to say. The administration just says, hey, 268 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:34.600 what jurisdiction do judges have? What can federal judges? They 269 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.480 don't really get to talk about us. They have no 270 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.720 jurisdiction over us. We're the White House for Pete's sake, 271 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.759 which means that we no longer have checks and balances. 272 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:49.679 We just have separate silos where judges issue rulings in 273 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:53.399 vacuums that don't apply, and Congress writes laws that don't apply, 274 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.879 and the White House executes laws that they don't even have. 275 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.320 Kay if I am six forty Chris Merrill Live everywhere and. 276 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:04.360 The iHeartRadio you're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand. 277 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:06.399 I am six. 278 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:10.000 Forty on demand anytime the iHeartRadio app pleasure bring with you. 279 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:11.519 Thank you so much for hanging out, making us a 280 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.159 part of your day. We appreciate it. YadA, YadA, YadA, 281 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:16.200 lots of thank yous blah blah blah. 282 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:18.000 So but here's what you came from. Do you want 283 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.600 to know stuff? I get it. 284 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.600 I mentioned before I'd boned up the audio that we 285 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:28.559 had a doctor who was detained because she went to 286 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.200 a funeral. Well, it happened to be the funeral of 287 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.679 a Hezbollah leader. Is she a member of Hesbela I No, 288 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.480 by all accounts she is not. However, just being at 289 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.360 the funeral, which attracted tens of thousands of people, was 290 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:47.639 enough for the current administration to side eye her and 291 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:51.320 say we don't really like you doing that, so why 292 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.159 don't you not come back again? 293 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:54.440 ABC had the story. 294 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.519 Another deportation in recent days is in the spotlight. Protesters 295 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.759 are demanding the return of doctor Russia Alawi, an assistant 296 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.200 professor at Brown University who's a kidney transplant specialist. 297 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:09.360 Ah kidney transplant at Brown Universe. What is that? Who's that? 298 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.120 It's not even a real college. There's so much ado 299 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:18.519 about nothing. My god, we're just deporting Ivy League doctors now. 300 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.840 She reportedly had a valid visa, but was detained last 301 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.639 week at Boston's Logan Airport after returning from Lebanon. Federal 302 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:30.279 officials not commenting on why, only saying our CBP officers 303 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:35.000 adhere to strict protocols to identify and stop threats. Nicoldy Antonio, 304 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:36.919 ABC News Washington, all right, thank. 305 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:37.799 You very much, appreciate it. 306 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:40.840 All right, So we don't really know why we're not 307 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.159 being told a whole lot. It's a little bit like Doge, 308 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.320 where we just say, trust us, everything's going to be 309 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:46.279 better after you let us do. 310 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:47.600 Whatever we want. 311 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:53.159 So you've had judges that say, you can't just declare 312 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.080 that we are in a wartime when there is no war. 313 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.279 There's no war on Venezuela. 314 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.080 And so when you start finding Venezuelan gang members and 315 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:08.160 then sending them to El Salvador using the seventeen ninety 316 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:13.720 eight law, that doesn't fly, and of course the White 317 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:17.440 House then in response said speaking of flying, sorry, planes 318 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:21.319 already in the air, Ali Ali oxen free. And a 319 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:23.559 judge is not very happy about that. So the judge said, 320 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.400 look back in my courtroom. I want to know what's 321 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:29.319 going on. And so the the administration showed up back 322 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.640 in court and the judge said what happened? They went, 323 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:33.920 you don't have any jurisdiction over us. You can't really 324 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:35.759 tell us what to do. And the judge said, yeah, 325 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:43.480 here's the thing I can, And he said, what's happening here? 326 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.519 And they said, we're not really gonna We don't really 327 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.000 have to tell you because judges aren't allowed to control 328 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:54.319 the executive branch's legitimate power. That's our vice president said 329 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.160 that he's a vice president, you're just a judge. 330 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:03.559 So basically they know the White House claims to have 331 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.279 an UNO reverse card. So what can happen if suddenly 332 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:07.839 you've got a. 333 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:14.319 Number of judges that are ruling against a president and 334 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.200 the president says, yeah, I'm not gonna follow that. Yeah 335 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.200 I don't like your order. Yeah you told me not 336 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:20.640 to do this thing that I want to do, so 337 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:23.880 I'm gonna do it anyway. And at some point you'd 338 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:26.480 think the rank and files would stop doing these things. 339 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:27.960 But I think a lot of the rank and files 340 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.279 that are enforcing some of these laws kind of like it, 341 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.319 and I think that the people who don't like it 342 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:38.160 are being weeded out. So you're ending up with a 343 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:44.400 very loyal enforcement group at CBP, at ICE, at the FBI, 344 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.759 at the CIA, at all the executive branches. You're ending 345 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:51.319 up was loyalists, because if you're not loyal, you're being 346 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:57.960 identified and you're being given a scarlet tea, and or 347 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:00.440 you may just be saying this is not from any longer. 348 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.279 I can't do this. I'm gonna head into the private sector. 349 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:03.720 I'm gonna try to find a job with my local 350 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.559 police department or my sheriff's department, or or you're if 351 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.279 you're in a specialized division within one of those enforcement 352 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.680 alphabet soup agencies. You may be saying, I can go 353 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.079 make money doing this elsewhere. I have a friend of 354 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.799 mine that was she was an accountant. She was a 355 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.599 forensic accountant with the CIA. Excuse me, with the FBI. 356 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.519 My apologies, she's a forensic accountant with the FBI. And 357 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:30.160 I was like, that's the coolest job. She's like, yeah, 358 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:31.720 I got a badge, I carry a gun, but all 359 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:33.720 I do is I just run numbers all day. And 360 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:35.680 I said that's so cool, and she goes it is 361 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:37.680 I can make more money in the private sector, and 362 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.440 eventually is well, she did so, I'm gonna go make 363 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.480 more money working for one of these big corporations. 364 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:44.960 She did so. 365 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:48.680 At some point, people are moving on, They're weeding themselves out. 366 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.880 So what can the judges do if the president just 367 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:58.119 ignores them effectively nothing? They can hold an agency in contempt. 368 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:01.960 So you've got a district judge that holds the White 369 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:08.720 House in contempt, and then what. 370 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:10.839 What if they don't want to be held in contempt? Nothing? 371 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:16.119 Nothing, They don't take control away, they don't do anything, 372 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:19.759 and the president can always parton himself anyway, So there 373 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:25.480 is nothing. The Marshal Service enforces the federal court orders. 374 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:28.599 Do you know who the Martial Service works for, the 375 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:29.559 Department of Justice? 376 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:29.880 You know who? 377 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.240 The Department of Justice is under the executive branch. All 378 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.000 of the orders trickle down from the White House. So 379 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:39.440 if you have a rogue president, I'm not saying this 380 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:41.440 is the case, but if you have a rogue president, 381 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:44.240 there's pretty much nothing you can do to stop them 382 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:45.839 other than politically. 383 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:51.519 But is anybody politically going to stop this president? I 384 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:52.640 don't see that happening either. 385 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:57.359 If you have if you have a powerful president who's 386 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:01.440 decided to ignore his own responsibilities, so the office, there's 387 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.119 no stopping that person, and that's when you end up 388 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:08.519 with what they call a constitutional crisis. I AM six 389 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.160 forty were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 390 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.759 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 391 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:18.799 Chris Merrill I AM six forty more stimulating talk and 392 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:21.119 on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app. 393 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.160 Pleasure being with you. Do you remember it was a 394 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:25.720 few years back that. 395 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:32.960 President Trump first term was paying tribute to the code 396 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.519 talkers at a White House events. 397 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:37.599 And I just want to thank you because you have 398 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.640 very very special people. You were here long before any 399 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:46.440 of us were here. Although we have a representative in 400 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:49.240 Congress who they say was here a long time ago. 401 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:54.440