June 27, 2024 • 19 mins
President Biden and former President Trump will meet in their first debate tonight. Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors... Justices Report reveals $3MIL in handouts. Drinking-water of almost a million California’s failed to meet state requirements.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. You are
listening to the Bill Handle show ProudWhat Fit? And this is KFI AM
six forty Bill Handle Here, Boy, what a day. Tonight is the
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CNN presidential debate and it's going tobe carried of course on CNN and simulcast
right here on KFI. So that'swhat we're listening to. And then you're
going to hear, Well, Moeis not in tonight, I'd be Chris,
Chris sa Merrill right in tonight.So you'll be hearing after the debate
Chris will be talking about and tomorrow, of course tomorrow morning we'll be talking
about it. Also, the SupremeCourt is about to hand down his decision
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about criminal immunity. Remember the presidenthas fouled lawsuits saying he has or former
president he has complete immunity against criminalprosecute prosecution because as what he did as
president gives him immunity. Well,we'll see what the court has to say
about that. If they rule thathe has immunity and he can do whatever
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the hell he wants. Man,I don't know where it's going to go.
You know, it's almost like Iwish the court would be this court
and a president. Once they givea president immunity from doing everything. If
the president doesn't like the decision,let's arrest the court. Let's throw the
ball in the handcuffs. Wait aminute, you can't do that. Hey,
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I've got immunity. I can dowhatever the hell I want. Obviously,
it doesn't go that far, itdoesn't quite go that far. But
we'll see how far. I thinkthey're going to give some limited immunity under
some very specific cases. That's whatI think. Don't know, we'll see
what happens. In the meantime,the debate tonight, man, some history
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is being made, to say theleast. I don't know how many people
are into dissipated to be watching,but this is the buzz of all buzzes
going around the country now. Presidentialdebates, you know, for the most
part, let's say, aren't watcheda whole lot because they're kind of boring.
Everybody sort of knows what's going tohappen, and everybody knows the policies
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involved, and just looking for gaffes. That's all everybody looks at. You
know, who's going to make thebiggest gaff and in tonight's case, I
tell you it's. First of all, Biden is dead right, as is
a former president Trump. This electionis going to decide which way this country
is going to swing for a verylong time. This is a big deal.
Usually it's pablum. Oh, thisis the most important election in the
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history of the United States, andwe are this is a decision as to
where this country is going to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
tonight it's they're both going to saythat, and they're absolutely right on.
It's the first time a president anda former president have ever debated.
Oh, there's so many first whenit comes to Donald Trump, that he
is going to be the most outlierpresident no matter how you feel about him,
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whether you agree disagree for those peoplethat are in the middle and really
don't care, not how many thosepeople are, We're never going to see
We've never have seen a president likeDonald Trump. We never will see a
president like Donald Trump. Okay,this is also the earliest in the election
cycle we've ever had a presidential debate. You've got the oldest president the US
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has ever had. You've got theonly president former president that has a criminal
record and a conviction and three othercriminal cases going on. It's wow,
it's you know, it's almost mindboggling as to which way this thing and
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how important this is going to betonight? And I think this is is
anybody mine going to change? Iwill tell you that if Trump goes,
which will be opposite of what hisadvisors are telling him. If he goes
as he has in every single rallyrehashes the twenty twenty election, I was
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robbed, it was rigged. It'snot gonna do him any good. It
really isn't. He should stick toBiden is old? Do you really want
to president this old? By justsaying that out loud, but certainly inferring
it, you've got Biden, whois eighty one years old and an old
eighty one. Biden cannot make thatsame argument against former President Trump. Even
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though President Trump is no fried chicken, as my mother would say, he
is a young seventy seven and comesoff much stronger and doesn't shuffle when he
walks, and as much more forceful. Biden is a horrible order. He's
a horrible communicator. As if that'sone of the main cris teria for being
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president. It's not. But that'show you get elected, because perception is
everything. You've also got Biden dealingwith his son Hunter, who was convicted.
Just as a quick little offshoot here, the debate is taking place about
three miles from where former President Trumphad his first mud shot taken. That's
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where the Atlanta studios are. Ninetyminute debate is going to start at six
o'clock our time on CNN. Themoderators will be Jake Tapper and Dana Bash
and there'll be no audience. Thatis really important because usually when you have
an audience. In this case,the fact that Donald Trump does not have
an awe, that there is noaudience does not help Donald Trump because Donald
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Trump reacts to audiences. And Iwill tell you if there are let's say
you're an audience of three hundred andthere are fourteen Trump supporters in the audience,
they will outscream, out clap anybodyelse. The engagement factor of former
President Trump's followers is just insane.So that's going to help Biden. The
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other thing that's going to help Bidenis the fact that for the first time,
the moderators will cut off the candidatesbecause they tend to rattle and rattle
all these presidential debates. What happenswell miss president or I don't even think
they would call them mister president ifboth are not presidents or one former president,
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they would simply use their names andare arguing you're over the time,
and then turns the audience and goes, you cannot do this. You have
to have some form of debt decorum. They don't have any control. Those
moderators have no control, and sothere's no audience helpful and they cut off
the microphones helpful. I believe that'sall helped to Joe Biden. And the
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big question is which way is formerPresident Trump going to go? Even he
asked the question, and that isdo I attack? Am I nasty?
Or do I just sit back andI'm nice and I let Joe Biden rattle
on and show the world show Americabasically what a buffoon and what an age?
What an old shuffling guy is.So that is the question. Is
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Trump going to focus on Biden's recordor his grievances? That is Trump's grievances.
I was robbed very much, PeteRose, I was robbed from entering
the Hall of Fame. And it'sprobably going to be both. Is my
guess. And the more he railsabout how he was robbed and the election
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was rigged, his base gets moreand more engaged. I mean, you
know, I was just talking toa friend of mine who's involved in Republican
politics, and she is part ofthis group that is a pack and it's
a conservative organization. The speakers comein. She said that as soon as
the can came down, and thisis across the country, the donations poured
in. I mean, just whatforty one million dollars that was raised in
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three and a half seconds after theconviction. So we'll see what he does
campaign rap rallies and speeches. Thepresident spents most of his time talking about
how he was robbed. The agequestion is going to come up. I
mean you bet Trump's going to bringup the age question. So there's one
of two things. What's Trump goingto say, you're too old, you're
old, you're daughtering, Your mindisn't all there. How does Biden respond?
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Does he say no? No?What he does is say experience,
that's what you're talking about here.I am the most experienced person in public
public service in the history of thiscountry. Congressperson forty years in the Senate,
eight years as vice president, fouryears as president. You know that's
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which way is going to go.Interesting one about abortion. Trump has over
and over again for his base,and the evangelical said I was responsible for
overturning Row, which, by theway, I think is true. He's
the one that selected nominated those threesuper conservative justices who everybody knew we're going
to go anti Roe, even thoughthey said, oh no, President is
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critically important during the hearies, whata croc. And so he takes advantage
and should of his position, ofhis leadership role in overturning Row. But
now he is coming back and sortof saying it's up to the states.
But wait a minute, among thoseanti abortion folks, why aren't you pushing
a federal law, a federal banon abortion? And he won't go there,
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And all of a sudden, youdo the evangelical still vote for him.
Of course they do, because you'vegot President Biden saying we need a
federal federal law that allows abortion,that it's a constitutional right, which then
doesn't matter what the court says.If there is a law that says abortion
is the law of the land.Boom Roe v. Wade just comes back
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into place, not as a SupremeCourt decision, which it was, but
simply as a federal statute done.Abortion is legal across the United States,
and so a lot of people goingfederal ban, a lot of liberals and
moderate saying federal right to abortion.So that one's kind of interesting. And
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then inflation under Joe Biden, inflationhas gone up dramatically. Now a president
has very little to do with inflationin reality, but of course everything that's
wrong is blamed on the president.Everything it's good he takes credit for.
And he says, I've brought downinflation. He has. I've brought down
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unemployment he has. Does it matter, I don't think so. Trump is
going to say, this is theworst economy in the history of the United
States, and it's Joe Biden's fault. Joe Biden is going to say,
inflation is down. And by theway, look at the employment facers.
How many of you are unemployed rightnow? The worst time in the history
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of the United States. How aboutduring the depression when we had twenty five
percent unemployment, Now we have threepoint eight. The problem is inflation is
baked in already. If inflation workszero, the prices are still so insane
that we have not gotten over ityet. We won't for years. Biden
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talks about democracy. Democracy is notgoing to be the way we know it
if Trump gets elected. Absolutely true. By the way, we are expecting
the Supreme Court to rule on theimmunity issue any moment, and that is
Trump's argument, especially in the marA Lago case, even in the overturning
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of the election case in Georgia,arguing that a president has complete immunity,
cannot be criminally charged for anything hedoes as president. And man, if
the Supreme Court goes that way,I don't even know where we're going to
go. Differences on border and immigration, certainly, former President Trump much stronger
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on enforcing the border, much stronger. Joe Biden loosened a lot of the
regulations that Trump had when he waspresident. And now Joe Biden is going
to argue, look at me,I've closed down the borders. Well,
he has. And he's also goingto bring up the fact that we had
a border deal. I gave theRepublicans what they wanted, We had a
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bipartisan deal, and Trump stopped it. He did, he called Speaker of
the House Mike Johnson and said killthe bill because I want to use it
in my campaign against Biden. Andyou know what they did. They did
exactly that, and that's the scarypart. So we'll see what happens tonight.
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Can't wait, cannot wait. Notonly do we have the CNN presidential
debate tonight, which you can hearon KFI arting at six am, six
am, six pm. We startat six am, but also the Supreme
Court is now issuing just a slateof rulings, and one of them,
I want to point out is somethingthey did yesterday. And this one sort
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of got lost in the shuffle herebecause there's so much other stuff going on,
but it was striking down part ofa federal anti corruption law. There's
a federal corruption law right now thatmakes it a criminal offense to take five
thousand dollars or more from a donorif you, as a public official,
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had previously awarded some kind of acontract or a benefit. It's not a
quick pro quo. If you giveme, I will give you. It's
you gave me a contract, youwere influential in giving me some kind of
benefit, and then after the fact, as a reward, I'm going to
give you and a check is written, and sometimes a big check or a
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loan is forgiven. And the justicessaid, nope, that is gone.
This was a case in which amayor was convicted of a thirteen thousand dollars
payment from a truck dealership, localtruck dealership. They said thank you to
him because they owned some garbage trucksand he was instrumental in making sure they
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had the contract selling to the city. And afterwards it was a thank you,
thirteen thousand dollars thank you. Andthe Justice has said, you can't
connect the two. It wasn't thequid pro quo. It is now unlimited.
As long as it's not a dealI am going to give you,
you give me, which is corruption. What the Justice has said that the
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law. And by the way,it's not that the justices wake up this
morning and say, hey, we'rein favor of corruption. They're just saying
that the law is very specific andit says corruption is defined as and you
know what, this isn't corruption,And it says that effectively, what it
says is we write the law that'swhat you want to do. Quite often
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unintended consequences hit and so the bottomline is it wiped out the anti corruption
law that bars officials from taking giftsfor past favors. So you scratch my
back and then after you leave office, I just bought you a backscratcher as
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a thank you. And that isreally wild because this has to be based
on a nineteen eighty six law thatextended the federal bribery law to cover officials
anything that receives federal funds, andin it it's over five thousand dollars.
Even that five grand is not asmall amount of money, although some people
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have received hundreds of thousands of dollarsof thank you money after the fact.
That's why these laws. For example, you have major army officials, governmental
officials that deal with these massive defensecontracts, I mean in the billions of
dollars. They leave and then theybecome lobbyists because they know everybody who buys
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in the military or in the defenseworld. Well, there are laws.
Now you can't have a revolving door. You can't do it for two years,
you can't do it for a year, depending on what the statute is.
All right, we're done with that, okay, real quickly. There
is a story that came out aboutdrinking water. And if you are one
of people that live in four hundreddifferent water districts, two thirds of which
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are communities of color, two thirdsof course poor minority neighborhoods always getting nailed.
You know what, You're drinking waterthat ain't safe. It just isn't
safe. It is polluted. Theassessment by the State Resources Control Board says
these water systems failed to provide waterwhich is at all times pure, wholesome
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and potable. That's the law,and violations include chemicals, bacteria, taste,
odor. Nine hundred and thirteen thousandpeople as of January one were served
by water systems that did not meetthe requirements. And these failed water systems
span the state. Now they're usuallysmall, but you know they it's still
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it still deals with a lot ofpeople, usually in the Central Valley and
along the central coasts. Groundwater,overuse, agricultural chemistry, chemicals which destroy
water systems, and you have small, struggling water systems that are just out
of money. The cost to fixall this just these the cost to fix
these and ensure safe, affordable,accessible water supplies for all of us in
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California sixteen billion dollars over the nextsixteen years. Over the next five years,
sixteen billion dollars. The state hasno money. We don't have money
for homeless programs. We don't havemoney for well, let me put it
this way, we don't have moneyfor anything other than maybe homeless programs,
of which we're throwing money at.It's not doing any good. And it
doesn't matter if you're gonna be drinkingwater that's gonna kill you, and you're
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gonna have ambas that are gonna eatyour face off, thank you, and
you're gonna have polluted water on topof that. Now, without more state
or federal funding, most of thesewater districts, thirteen point nine billion dollars
worth of this fix it cost isgoing to fall on local communities and well
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owners. Ah. This is terrible, it really is. Twelve years California
became the first state in the countryto recognize clean, safe, affordable,
accessible drinking water as a human right. That's California, you know, we
think as a human right. Forexample, where if you ask Newsome,
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you should get an apartment with greatservices, brand new appliances which are replaced
every five years, by the way, refrigeration that is replaced every three years,
and plenty of counter space, andthat is a human right. It
is a human right to be poorand get state services here in the state.
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Now, you know, if you'vebeen listening to the show, I'm
in big favor of a safety nethere, but the safety net, to
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. You are
listening to the Bill Handle show ProudWhat Fit? And this is KFI AM
six forty Bill Handle Here, Boy, what a day. Tonight is the
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CNN presidential debate and it's going tobe carried of course on CNN and simulcast
right here on KFI. So that'swhat we're listening to. And then you're
going to hear, Well, Moeis not in tonight, I'd be Chris,
Chris sa Merrill right in tonight.So you'll be hearing after the debate
Chris will be talking about and tomorrow, of course tomorrow morning we'll be talking
about it. Also, the SupremeCourt is about to hand down his decision
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about criminal immunity. Remember the presidenthas fouled lawsuits saying he has or former
president he has complete immunity against criminalprosecute prosecution because as what he did as
president gives him immunity. Well,we'll see what the court has to say
about that. If they rule thathe has immunity and he can do whatever
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the hell he wants. Man,I don't know where it's going to go.
You know, it's almost like Iwish the court would be this court
and a president. Once they givea president immunity from doing everything. If
the president doesn't like the decision,let's arrest the court. Let's throw the
ball in the handcuffs. Wait aminute, you can't do that. Hey,
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I've got immunity. I can dowhatever the hell I want. Obviously,
it doesn't go that far, itdoesn't quite go that far. But
we'll see how far. I thinkthey're going to give some limited immunity under
some very specific cases. That's whatI think. Don't know, we'll see
what happens. In the meantime,the debate tonight, man, some history
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is being made, to say theleast. I don't know how many people
are into dissipated to be watching,but this is the buzz of all buzzes
going around the country now. Presidentialdebates, you know, for the most
part, let's say, aren't watcheda whole lot because they're kind of boring.
Everybody sort of knows what's going tohappen, and everybody knows the policies
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involved, and just looking for gaffes. That's all everybody looks at. You
know, who's going to make thebiggest gaff and in tonight's case, I
tell you it's. First of all, Biden is dead right, as is
a former president Trump. This electionis going to decide which way this country
is going to swing for a verylong time. This is a big deal.
Usually it's pablum. Oh, thisis the most important election in the
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history of the United States, andwe are this is a decision as to
where this country is going to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
tonight it's they're both going to saythat, and they're absolutely right on.
It's the first time a president anda former president have ever debated.
Oh, there's so many first whenit comes to Donald Trump, that he
is going to be the most outlierpresident no matter how you feel about him,
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whether you agree disagree for those peoplethat are in the middle and really
don't care, not how many thosepeople are, We're never going to see
We've never have seen a president likeDonald Trump. We never will see a
president like Donald Trump. Okay,this is also the earliest in the election
cycle we've ever had a presidential debate. You've got the oldest president the US
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has ever had. You've got theonly president former president that has a criminal
record and a conviction and three othercriminal cases going on. It's wow,
it's you know, it's almost mindboggling as to which way this thing and
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how important this is going to betonight? And I think this is is
anybody mine going to change? Iwill tell you that if Trump goes,
which will be opposite of what hisadvisors are telling him. If he goes
as he has in every single rallyrehashes the twenty twenty election, I was
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robbed, it was rigged. It'snot gonna do him any good. It
really isn't. He should stick toBiden is old? Do you really want
to president this old? By justsaying that out loud, but certainly inferring
it, you've got Biden, whois eighty one years old and an old
eighty one. Biden cannot make thatsame argument against former President Trump. Even
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though President Trump is no fried chicken, as my mother would say, he
is a young seventy seven and comesoff much stronger and doesn't shuffle when he
walks, and as much more forceful. Biden is a horrible order. He's
a horrible communicator. As if that'sone of the main cris teria for being
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president. It's not. But that'show you get elected, because perception is
everything. You've also got Biden dealingwith his son Hunter, who was convicted.
Just as a quick little offshoot here, the debate is taking place about
three miles from where former President Trumphad his first mud shot taken. That's
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where the Atlanta studios are. Ninetyminute debate is going to start at six
o'clock our time on CNN. Themoderators will be Jake Tapper and Dana Bash
and there'll be no audience. Thatis really important because usually when you have
an audience. In this case,the fact that Donald Trump does not have
an awe, that there is noaudience does not help Donald Trump because Donald
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Trump reacts to audiences. And Iwill tell you if there are let's say
you're an audience of three hundred andthere are fourteen Trump supporters in the audience,
they will outscream, out clap anybodyelse. The engagement factor of former
President Trump's followers is just insane.So that's going to help Biden. The
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other thing that's going to help Bidenis the fact that for the first time,
the moderators will cut off the candidatesbecause they tend to rattle and rattle
all these presidential debates. What happenswell miss president or I don't even think
they would call them mister president ifboth are not presidents or one former president,
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they would simply use their names andare arguing you're over the time,
and then turns the audience and goes, you cannot do this. You have
to have some form of debt decorum. They don't have any control. Those
moderators have no control, and sothere's no audience helpful and they cut off
the microphones helpful. I believe that'sall helped to Joe Biden. And the
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big question is which way is formerPresident Trump going to go? Even he
asked the question, and that isdo I attack? Am I nasty?
Or do I just sit back andI'm nice and I let Joe Biden rattle
on and show the world show Americabasically what a buffoon and what an age?
What an old shuffling guy is.So that is the question. Is
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Trump going to focus on Biden's recordor his grievances? That is Trump's grievances.
I was robbed very much, PeteRose, I was robbed from entering
the Hall of Fame. And it'sprobably going to be both. Is my
guess. And the more he railsabout how he was robbed and the election
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was rigged, his base gets moreand more engaged. I mean, you
know, I was just talking toa friend of mine who's involved in Republican
politics, and she is part ofthis group that is a pack and it's
a conservative organization. The speakers comein. She said that as soon as
the can came down, and thisis across the country, the donations poured
in. I mean, just whatforty one million dollars that was raised in
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three and a half seconds after theconviction. So we'll see what he does
campaign rap rallies and speeches. Thepresident spents most of his time talking about
how he was robbed. The agequestion is going to come up. I
mean you bet Trump's going to bringup the age question. So there's one
of two things. What's Trump goingto say, you're too old, you're
old, you're daughtering, Your mindisn't all there. How does Biden respond?
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Does he say no? No?What he does is say experience,
that's what you're talking about here.I am the most experienced person in public
public service in the history of thiscountry. Congressperson forty years in the Senate,
eight years as vice president, fouryears as president. You know that's
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which way is going to go.Interesting one about abortion. Trump has over
and over again for his base,and the evangelical said I was responsible for
overturning Row, which, by theway, I think is true. He's
the one that selected nominated those threesuper conservative justices who everybody knew we're going
to go anti Roe, even thoughthey said, oh no, President is
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critically important during the hearies, whata croc. And so he takes advantage
and should of his position, ofhis leadership role in overturning Row. But
now he is coming back and sortof saying it's up to the states.
But wait a minute, among thoseanti abortion folks, why aren't you pushing
a federal law, a federal banon abortion? And he won't go there,
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And all of a sudden, youdo the evangelical still vote for him.
Of course they do, because you'vegot President Biden saying we need a
federal federal law that allows abortion,that it's a constitutional right, which then
doesn't matter what the court says.If there is a law that says abortion
is the law of the land.Boom Roe v. Wade just comes back
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into place, not as a SupremeCourt decision, which it was, but
simply as a federal statute done.Abortion is legal across the United States,
and so a lot of people goingfederal ban, a lot of liberals and
moderate saying federal right to abortion.So that one's kind of interesting. And
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then inflation under Joe Biden, inflationhas gone up dramatically. Now a president
has very little to do with inflationin reality, but of course everything that's
wrong is blamed on the president.Everything it's good he takes credit for.
And he says, I've brought downinflation. He has. I've brought down
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unemployment he has. Does it matter, I don't think so. Trump is
going to say, this is theworst economy in the history of the United
States, and it's Joe Biden's fault. Joe Biden is going to say,
inflation is down. And by theway, look at the employment facers.
How many of you are unemployed rightnow? The worst time in the history
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of the United States. How aboutduring the depression when we had twenty five
percent unemployment, Now we have threepoint eight. The problem is inflation is
baked in already. If inflation workszero, the prices are still so insane
that we have not gotten over ityet. We won't for years. Biden
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talks about democracy. Democracy is notgoing to be the way we know it
if Trump gets elected. Absolutely true. By the way, we are expecting
the Supreme Court to rule on theimmunity issue any moment, and that is
Trump's argument, especially in the marA Lago case, even in the overturning
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of the election case in Georgia,arguing that a president has complete immunity,
cannot be criminally charged for anything hedoes as president. And man, if
the Supreme Court goes that way,I don't even know where we're going to
go. Differences on border and immigration, certainly, former President Trump much stronger
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on enforcing the border, much stronger. Joe Biden loosened a lot of the
regulations that Trump had when he waspresident. And now Joe Biden is going
to argue, look at me,I've closed down the borders. Well,
he has. And he's also goingto bring up the fact that we had
a border deal. I gave theRepublicans what they wanted, We had a
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bipartisan deal, and Trump stopped it. He did, he called Speaker of
the House Mike Johnson and said killthe bill because I want to use it
in my campaign against Biden. Andyou know what they did. They did
exactly that, and that's the scarypart. So we'll see what happens tonight.
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Can't wait, cannot wait. Notonly do we have the CNN presidential
debate tonight, which you can hearon KFI arting at six am, six
am, six pm. We startat six am, but also the Supreme
Court is now issuing just a slateof rulings, and one of them,
I want to point out is somethingthey did yesterday. And this one sort
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of got lost in the shuffle herebecause there's so much other stuff going on,
but it was striking down part ofa federal anti corruption law. There's
a federal corruption law right now thatmakes it a criminal offense to take five
thousand dollars or more from a donorif you, as a public official,
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had previously awarded some kind of acontract or a benefit. It's not a
quick pro quo. If you giveme, I will give you. It's
you gave me a contract, youwere influential in giving me some kind of
benefit, and then after the fact, as a reward, I'm going to
give you and a check is written, and sometimes a big check or a
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loan is forgiven. And the justicessaid, nope, that is gone.
This was a case in which amayor was convicted of a thirteen thousand dollars
payment from a truck dealership, localtruck dealership. They said thank you to
him because they owned some garbage trucksand he was instrumental in making sure they
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had the contract selling to the city. And afterwards it was a thank you,
thirteen thousand dollars thank you. Andthe Justice has said, you can't
connect the two. It wasn't thequid pro quo. It is now unlimited.
As long as it's not a dealI am going to give you,
you give me, which is corruption. What the Justice has said that the
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law. And by the way,it's not that the justices wake up this
morning and say, hey, we'rein favor of corruption. They're just saying
that the law is very specific andit says corruption is defined as and you
know what, this isn't corruption,And it says that effectively, what it
says is we write the law that'swhat you want to do. Quite often
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unintended consequences hit and so the bottomline is it wiped out the anti corruption
law that bars officials from taking giftsfor past favors. So you scratch my
back and then after you leave office, I just bought you a backscratcher as
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a thank you. And that isreally wild because this has to be based
on a nineteen eighty six law thatextended the federal bribery law to cover officials
anything that receives federal funds, andin it it's over five thousand dollars.
Even that five grand is not asmall amount of money, although some people
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have received hundreds of thousands of dollarsof thank you money after the fact.
That's why these laws. For example, you have major army officials, governmental
officials that deal with these massive defensecontracts, I mean in the billions of
dollars. They leave and then theybecome lobbyists because they know everybody who buys
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in the military or in the defenseworld. Well, there are laws.
Now you can't have a revolving door. You can't do it for two years,
you can't do it for a year, depending on what the statute is.
All right, we're done with that, okay, real quickly. There
is a story that came out aboutdrinking water. And if you are one
of people that live in four hundreddifferent water districts, two thirds of which
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are communities of color, two thirdsof course poor minority neighborhoods always getting nailed.
You know what, You're drinking waterthat ain't safe. It just isn't
safe. It is polluted. Theassessment by the State Resources Control Board says
these water systems failed to provide waterwhich is at all times pure, wholesome
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and potable. That's the law,and violations include chemicals, bacteria, taste,
odor. Nine hundred and thirteen thousandpeople as of January one were served
by water systems that did not meetthe requirements. And these failed water systems
span the state. Now they're usuallysmall, but you know they it's still
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it still deals with a lot ofpeople, usually in the Central Valley and
along the central coasts. Groundwater,overuse, agricultural chemistry, chemicals which destroy
water systems, and you have small, struggling water systems that are just out
of money. The cost to fixall this just these the cost to fix
these and ensure safe, affordable,accessible water supplies for all of us in
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California sixteen billion dollars over the nextsixteen years. Over the next five years,
sixteen billion dollars. The state hasno money. We don't have money
for homeless programs. We don't havemoney for well, let me put it
this way, we don't have moneyfor anything other than maybe homeless programs,
of which we're throwing money at.It's not doing any good. And it
doesn't matter if you're gonna be drinkingwater that's gonna kill you, and you're
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gonna have ambas that are gonna eatyour face off, thank you, and
you're gonna have polluted water on topof that. Now, without more state
or federal funding, most of thesewater districts, thirteen point nine billion dollars
worth of this fix it cost isgoing to fall on local communities and well
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owners. Ah. This is terrible, it really is. Twelve years California
became the first state in the countryto recognize clean, safe, affordable,
accessible drinking water as a human right. That's California, you know, we
think as a human right. Forexample, where if you ask Newsome,
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you should get an apartment with greatservices, brand new appliances which are replaced
every five years, by the way, refrigeration that is replaced every three years,
and plenty of counter space, andthat is a human right. It
is a human right to be poorand get state services here in the state.
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Now, you know, if you'vebeen listening to the show, I'm
in big favor of a safety nethere, but the safety net, to
the expense of every other program inthe state is a tough one KFIAM six
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