Handel on the News

Neil Saavedra & Amy King join Bill for Handel on the News. 

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app Alec Baldwin opening statementsand there had to be two film sets
here. And I have one bigquestion. The prosecution argued that he aimed
the gun at Helena Hutchins, cinematographerand killed her. And you don't aim

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a gun at anybody. That isa cardinal, inviolate rule. And he
did leaving out the fact. AndI don't know if this is the case
or not. I've always assumed thishe was aiming at the camera because he
was rehearsing a shot where he's supposedto aim right at the camera. Now

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she left that out completely, AndI didn't hear the defense say anything other
than he's not responsible. He wastold it was a cold gun. How
can you expect an actor to check? And if it was aiming at the
camera, which he was supposed todo, then I think there's no issue.

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Now, if he did aim ather, just you know, basically
playing around or rehearsing and aiming ather, then the argument is he breached
a fundamental rule of firearms that's aimingat a human being. Therefore, the
gun shot and therefore someone was killedin its involuntary manslaughter. So also it

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didn't help him. And when hewent on that interview with George Stephanopoulos ABC,
and he insisted he didn't pull thetrigger, and of course said the
gun went to the FBI, whosaid, oh, yeah, someone pulled
this trigger. There's no way withouta pulling a trigger. So it's not
that clear cut. All right,let's move on. Who's a big boy

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President Biden? Biden of course facinga lot of scrutiny since the debate with
President or former President Trump a coupleof weeks ago. So he today is
going to be having a press conferenceand they're literally calling it the big boy
press conference. It came up duringthe White House meeting a couple of days

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ago, the White House Press briefing, and they said, is he going
to do a big boy press conference? And cringe. Jean Pierre said,
yes, he's going to do abig boy press conference. And then I
heard John Kirby say he was goingto do a big boy press conference yesterday
just because he's going to take questions. Yeah, it's actually his first press
conference since last November. Wow,that just seems weird that seems odd.

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I know not when it comes toJoe Biden, his handlers, his consultants
are saying, his advisors are sayingthey've kept him on a short leash,
that they're after the debacle. Andby the way, for months before that,
no one really paid attention until thedebate. He gave five minute interviews

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three minute where he would just blurtout yes or no. Now. I
kind of like the yes or no. Hey, mister president, are you
going to do this? Yeah orno? I like that sure, But
when he's asked to expand and hesays yes again and doesn't want to get
that gets a little problematic. Allright, let's take a break and we'll

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zip through these stories. You're listeningto Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty Back we go more Handleon the News with Amy Neil and Me.
Peter Welch, Democratic senator called onUS President Joe Biden to ditch his
reelection bid. And this kind oftopped a pretty brutal day yesterday that had

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tons of mounting pressure from high profileactor and donor George Clooney, who just
had a whopping thirty million dollars youknow, hosted that money raising event,
and then you had the party heavyweight, Nancy Pelosi not wanting to respond.
Well, yeah she was. Itwas unequivocal with her, but the big

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player but she has been like no, heeah or and everything. So,
and the big player here is GeorgeClooney. He's a massive player in the
Democratic Party, raises a ton ofmoney, pretty close to Biden. And
he said, you save democracy intwenty twenty save democracy again in twenty twenty
four, get out. That isa tough one to stomic. And he

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also said that he all the Senators, all the congressmen, and all the
governors that he has talked to.And you said, he's a pretty big
player as far as fundraiser, sohe probably knows all these people. Oh
you have said privately, they toothink that he should get out, but
they won't say it publicly. Yeah, and Biden's not going to get out.
So okay, let's guess, now, how big of a landslide is

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Trump going to have in the electionif it's Trump, unless something happens to
Trump, unless they find he's hadsex with five more porno queens simultaneously.
Oh no, his ratings go upon that one, all right, let's
just move line. Safety is ourtop priority. We've heard that before,

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but that is the word from thenew Metro board chair. Mayor Bass used
to be the chair. She handedit over to County Supervisor Jenis Hahn yesterday
during their State of the Metro meeting. They say that ridership has gone up
every month for the last eighteen months, which means they're getting nearly a million
people on the Metro system each day. That's coming in spite of the fights

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and the deadly stabbings and the attacksthat have happened on board the trains.
And that's why Han of saying,hey, we're going to make these things
safer, and she says one ofthe ways they're going to do that is
she's going to ride the trains andthen report back on what she sees.
So we're gonna have a dead mayor. That's for starters, not a mayor.
County supervisor. Oh, county supervisor. All right, fair enough.

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And then of course you have seenthis incredible run up, the competition that
Morgues are having wanning the contract withthe Metro. You see where that goes?
Yeah, okay, they just they'reputting instead of putting security there,
they're putting the morgue closer, Yeahto Metro. You know what, it

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is interesting that the mayor kind ofpushed it off on someone else, not
wanting her name tied to it directly. Yeah, that's yeah, that makes
sense politically, doesn't it. Yeah, it's like, hey, I trust
you, you do it. Iwonder if she hates Han. It's like,
you do it all right. Everyday, dozens of people line up

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outside this nonprofit here in Los Angelescalled Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles and they pick
up crack pipes, other drug parapherniliaand then they light it up right there
on the skid row sidewalk. Anda video has come out and you could
see drug dealers literally profiting from sellingdrugs to the very people Homeless Healthcare LA

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is supposed to be helping. Andthere's this person who's connected to the nonprofit
who has seen fist bumping a drugdealer before entering the building, and it's
just kind of what people are referringto as a taxpayer funded crackhouse. Now,
let me ask, is this videoof one person doing this or do

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they have videos of several or manypeople, Because if you have one person,
they videoed it, Okay, youfire that person and you're kind of
gun, kind of gone done,and tell you then your argument, Oh
look what's happening. Unless everybody knewit, they just came out there and
said, we just threw the cameraup there and look at this. But

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well, I don't know. Tome, like they've been going after this
place for a while, local businessleaders in the like in that area,
So I don't know that it's athey. If somebody got it on video,
they got it on video because theyhave an issue with it. Yeah,
exactly. And I'm wondering if thisreally was a problem, I would

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want more than one video of oneperson doing this. I think one video
should start an investigation. I thinkthat's legitimate, all right, But even
the rumors that are flying around,I mean, there should be investigations of
all these places anyway, because there'staxpayer dollars, dollars and how much do

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they actually sell crack four at thesecenters? Is it a discount to the
homeless? Is it a regular?Is it what the market would bear?
This guy barely made it out alive. John Kyle Moore was doing a fifty
mile run from his home in JuneLake up over the Sierra Nevada down to

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the Yosemite Valley and he's just veryvery close to the finish line when he
says he felt some sharpness on hisshoulder, followed by a powerful shove that
sent him stumbling into the dark,because by the time he was done,
it was nighttime. And then hesaid he turned around and about one hundred
feet away there were a bunch ofpeople shining headlamps in his direction, shouting

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bear, and that's when he sawit, a large black bear. Apparently
he had a little crash with himand knocked a bag of garbage out of
the bear's mouth, which didn't makethe bear very happy, so the bear
started coming at him. But thenhe started yelling, slapping his running poles
on the pavement, and then thepeople who were nearby started shouting and banging

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pots and pans, and it scaredthe bear off. And he's he's a
little bit injured, he had somecuts and stuff, but he's okay.
Amy, when you're running a fiftymile run and you run into a bear,
isn't this God telling you maybe youdon't want to do these runs.
That's exactly why I don't run,Bill it's a religious thing. It's a

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sign from God. Yes, it'scrazy though that he's okay because man,
a bear encounter like that, althoughbears don't kill people in yosemity, at
least they kill people kill people.Yes, I know, but you know
it's not like a grizzly bear,which he probably would have been dead if
it was a grizzly Yeah, okay, black bears. Okay, why you
shouldn't, Well, you can't AfricanAmerican bear? Is that fair to say?

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Really? Okay? Let's yeah,Well you got to be politically correct.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I am six forty back
we go more Handle on the newswith Amy and Neil and me. You
got your hurricane in my frontal boundarythat's passing. The combination of remnants of

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Hurricane Barrel and this passing frontal boundaryis going to cause this dual severe weather
risk for the Northeast and it's goingto bring this rare tornado threat thingy along
with the chance of significant flooding throughat least this morning. Yeah. Where

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when's the last time there has beena tornado next to Buffalo, New York?
I can't remember the last time.Yeah, and you come from that
area, Yes, I come fromsouth of that area. Okay, But
you pay attention to what's going onbecause when they do the weather reports,
don't they always talk about what's goingon upstate? Oh yeah, it's very
rare for that to be issued.I've never heard it. Baby baby,

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Baby, there's This baby is beingconsidered a miracle baby in Louisiana because it
survived two days during some stormy weatherbefore a truck driver spotted the one year
old crawling along the side of theroad. The baby was found after his

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four year old brother was found deadand his mother was arrested. Was that
happened in Mississippi? Can you imaginea mother abandoning her kid's a four year
old and a baby by the sideof the road. Yeah, and this
also is in the South. Imean, I don't think she's ever going

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to see the outside of cell ajail cell again, nor should she.
Wow. Well, and I don'tthink she only abandoned because the four year
old was his body was found ina lake. Oh yeah, that's hard
to stomach. I mean, Idon't get that. I really don't.

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Alexandria, Okay, Cassio Cortes anda group of House progressives yesterday introduced introduced
to articles of impeachment against conservative SupremeCourt justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
So probably not going to go anywhere, but it's just a waste enough.
It's a waste of time. Whatit does is completely take away any credibility

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that AOC and the other the squadhas. It's it's like Marjorie Taylor Green
introducing articles of impeachment against Joe Bidenten minutes after he was sworn in for
real, and now you have thiscrap. They can't get impeached for this?
Please? What happenstrategy? It stupid, It dies, It dies in

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santry, it's it moves over tothe Judiciary Committee and it dies instantly.
It's I mean she can demand hearings, but I mean complete waste of time.
So I you know, do Iunderstand your super liberal your left wing
introduced stuff that makes sense or youwant to push even if it's not going

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to go any place, or maybea bill that may pass. This is
just completely stupid. It's just it'sa political statement. It really is.
Doesn't it open the door? Uh, for more and more of this kind
of on the Only the crazies dostuff like this, So this just maybe
it's her saying, well, you'vegot the far right doing this, We

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want to do it too. Idon't. That's the problem is everybody wants
to jump in and take out someonewho they disagree just beyond stupid. Uh,
Rudy just can't catch a break.A judge is now considering dismissing Rudy
Giuliani's request for bankruptcy protection. Whybecause, for apparently for months, the

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former mayor of New York has beenignoring court filings and evating questions about his
fin finances. So if the judgedoes dismiss the case, then it would
allow creditors to pursue foreclosures or justgrab everything. Lawsuits grab everything he has.
He's going to have nothing when thisis finished. And you know how
crazy Juliani is, right, It'sobvious that he is nuts. I've shared

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this with you before, but I'mgoing to share it again. I know
someone who knows someone who is veryclose to Juliani. Okay, this is
not I know you know. Iknow someone who knows someone that will crack
your knees with a baseball bat likeMichelle does. But this is absolutely real.

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I mean, the connection here isis true. Okay, information is
accurate. And I asked, ishe as nuts as he comes off?
And I was told he is farmore nuts than that. I mean,
the guy is barking mad, Buthow did he fall? So I don't

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know, And I asked that question, and I said, how do you
do that? America America's mayor probablyone of the best prosecutors US attorneys in
the in the United States. Healmost single handedly brought them mafia down in
New York. I mean, that'sno small trick. He got caught up
in Trump's orbit, and when you'recaught up in Trump's orbit, you just

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spin and you tend to lose allcontrol. And that says more about the
charisma that Trump has, that he'she has that kind of power where he's
able to do that with people.I mean, it's it's really astounding.
So anyway, the judge is probablygoing to say no to the bankruptcy because

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he lied and he wouldn't give theinformation, and he obfuscated and he delayed
and he wouldn't give enough information.So they just says no, thank you.
You're not going to be discharging bankruptcy. You owe everybody everything. And
so he's going down. Also,he had a show on iHeart you know
that, syndicated by Premieer Radio.Lost that gone, Yeah, it's gone.

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The guy is he's not making muchof a living. There are little
bits and pieces where he's asked tospeak, but those are disappearing very quickly.
I'm going to tell you he hasto learn. Do you want to
supersize that order? French fries inFARSI? Yeah? Are you ready to

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take a break? Oh sure,I was all right five minutes ago.
Okay, we're coming back. You'relistening to Bill Handle on demand from kf
I AM six forty. So abouta year ago, a President Biden vowed
to provide F sixteen jet fighters toUkraine, if you remember so. A
year later, first planes are beingdelivered, boosting Kiev's capability to shoot down

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Russian missiles and attack its ground forces. Not more to be said NATO,
the United States because Russia is atthis point prevailing and no one wants that
to happen. So they're gonna givearms, no no boots on the ground
yet from anybody other than Ukrainian soldiers. And then the question is if Ukraine

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literally starts losing this thing big timeand it has to give up land and
sue for peace, what happens thereIf it's close to Ukraine losing it all,
does NATO jump in? Don't knowthe answer to that. Don't mess
with Putin because now a Russian courthas ordered the arrest of the widow of

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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalni. Ofcourse, he died in prison not too
long ago, and his wife isJulia Navagna. She he is living outside
of Russia, so she will bearrested as she returns home to Russia anytime
soon. Navoli came back right becausethey had the worn out for him.

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He could have just stayed away,and he came back. Well, he
was the chief opponent, and thisis a guy who knew he was going
to go down, I mean,and he still came back. And he
died in prison, and they keepon upping the sentence. You appeal and
the appeals court gives you more,more years, and then more years.
So anyway, everybody knows Putin killedhim. Everybody does. But so what

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you know now? What you don'tsay anything? Against Putin inside of Russia.
It's a leak totalitarian government. Nowhe's basically Kim Jong Uin wearing a
Russian mask. Oh there's some horriblehandle. Oh oh no, all right.
Costco is hiking its membership fee forthe first time since twenty seventeen.

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Now it's membership fee will go upby five bucks in the US and Canada
is of September. First. Thatincreases, you know, from sixty bucks
to sixty five bucks. But ifyou have the executive membership, which I'm
assuming you do and I do,as do I, it'll increase from one
thirty a year, no, twomore up to one thirty from one twenty.

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You know, just go ahead andcharge us more for the hot dog
and the coke already and they won'tand they won't. But yeah, but
see it doesn't seed anything because theyjust raise everything else. Yeah. These
increases incidentally, five bucks and tenbucks annually a quarter of a billion dollars
bottom line goes straight up. Ohso, and it's nothing like if you

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get the membership and you get theCostco visa card, you get money back.
Oh yeah, and here money backevery so now with that which I
do have, both and you know, I make a pretty good living.
Okay, that's uh, everyone understandingin the bathroom. Yeah, And so
eighty percent of my disposable income Ispend at Costco. So what ends up

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happening is if you spend enough andyou get money back. This is the
biggest bargain in the world, andI get back the maximum you're allowed to
get back. Of course I spendmuch more than that, but it's a
win win, I'll tell you.But still hiking the prices. Oh,
by the way, quick aside,do you see this plate? Oh boy,

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it is Costco for tatas. That'swhat they for. That's what they
look like. The red stuff istapatia sauce on top of it. So
I'm almost out, and I'm goingtoday to Costco and I am buying a
palletful of fritatas you can make them. I'm home by the dozen for about
a tenth of the price. Idon't care. I don't care. You

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lost him at home. Yeah.Another discount retailer is in trouble. Big
Lots Is. It's going to closeup to forty stores this year and may
have to declare bankruptcy. It hada net loss of two hundred and five
million dollars in the quarter ending Mayfourth of this year, Big Lots stock

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is down eighty four percent. Yes, it has to be going under because
here they are eight hundred million dollarsa year. If this continues on loss
company. Unless you're one of themassive, massive, multi billion dollar companies
that can sustain something like that,you can't. Wasn't the Big Luck guy,
the guy who said he was goingto try to bail out the ninety

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nine cent only stores. I don'tknow. I could swear it was there,
I don't know, sort of familiar, but every time you walk into
Big Lots it looks like a hurricanewent through it. Yeah, that's true.
Met Yeah, it does. Itdoes. They don't do a good
job of merchandising. Yes, sowhen they buy things, they buy second
and they buy the great prices,and then they come and they bring it

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in the store, and they bringin it with a skiploader and just pile
of stuff in the middle of thestore and go here you look for it.
Yeah, they're going to bulldoze themall and they're going to call them
big parking lots. Yeah. Ilike big Lots. Oh, and it's
pick and save. That's gonna bailoff the ninety nine cents. I thought
Pick and Save became big lots,that's right. I don't think they had

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a problem in the store because theyoriginally it was called Pickpockets and Save and
they changed it. Let's move on. That was just stupid. Their stuff
was up, yeah, which wasgood. Okay. The California home prices
what are rising nearly eight percent?This is in June from a year earlier,
marking the fourth straight month values hiddenall time high. It gets crazier

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and crazier and fewer and fewer peopleare able to buy those homes because of
the mortgage rates. I mean,you talk about a market that is skewed
food and this is going to goon for years because there aren't enough homes
being built. They can't get permits. No, there's not enough land.

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As a matter of fact, Ihave a great fun topic coming up at
when is that oh seven point thirtyand some numbers are going to be stunning
relative to housing here in southern California. You know, we hosted essentially a
PTA meeting for my son's school hereof which my wife is a president or

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something like that, and I wastalking to some of the parents who own
homes here, and we all agreedwe couldn't buy our own homes. Oh
no, I don't think I couldafford the Persian Palace today. It's no.
I mean I built it twenty fiveyears ago, and even then I
thought it was expensive to build.And that's after stealing most of the building

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materials and still from other laws.Yes, pretty much, you can do.
You know they don't guard those constructionsites very well. They do now,
Yeah, because because of me.Yeah, Okay, we're done,
guys with Handle on the news.Coming up, California's solar problem, A
huge solar problem we have here andwhat is the problem. Too much solar

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energy being produced and the changes withutilities, and I'll explain, and what's
the answer. I'll tell you it'smore money across the board for us,
of course, it is southern Californiaand houses. And we'll be back with
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