July 15, 2024 • 35 mins
Amy King and SPECIAL GUEST Fred Roggin join Bill for Handel on the News. The 2024 Republican National Convention set to begin on heels of assassination attempt... here’s what to know. After Trump assassination attempt, Biden campaign pauses ads, events, attacks. Nikki Haley will speak at the Republican convention in Milwaukee. California sends law enforcement officers to Republican National Convention. Corey Comperatore: Man killed at Trump rally in Pennsylvania a firefighter who ‘died a hero.’ IDF says senior Hamas commander Rafa Salama killed in Israeli air strike.
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You're listening to camp i AM sixforty the Bill Handles show on demand on
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this station is must be out ofBuffalos, Wyoming with an entire population of
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two hundred people. And now Handleon the news, Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle and good morning.It is, say, Monday morning,
July fifteenth. You think a weekendthat was in the news. You know,
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I say this over and over again. The weekends usually are dead,
which is why when whatever organization,political entity, subelebrity has to release some
kind of a statement, it's doneFriday evening, so it disappears by Monday
when the new cycle starts. Andhow long have we been talking about new
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cycling is gone? The new cyclenow is twenty four hours. So here
was a weekend. Let me seethe weather, It was hot? What
was going on? Oh yeah,and the presidential candidate, one Donald Jay
Trump there was an assassination attempt andhe was hit, and of course that
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has been on everyone's mind. We'regonna spend a lot of time talking about
today. First of all, theminute by minute, just exactly what happened.
Some of the big questions the SecretService. Oh, there are questions
about the Secret Service. So I'vegot a few and I'm going to sound
I may sound a little misogynistic whenI start talking about that. And then
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what's going on as a result ofwhat happened. The politics, of course
is who is it? Jd Vance, the Senator. I think it's from
Ohio, Joe Biden and Hillary Clintondirectly responsible. Now we're getting conspiracy conversations
that various people in government or outsideof government ordered the assassination attempt, pick
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up the phone and said, hereis what you must do. The anti
Trumpets are saying that, and thensome are saying this whole thing was a
red flag. It was done bythe Trump organization to garner support. I
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mean, just crazy stuff. Sowe'll be talking more about that later on.
And then just one segment that Iwant to do on Paris, maybe
too, because the Olympics are startingin a couple of weeks and we'll see
how crappy that city is going tobe. And of course we've got today
the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,so it's going to be a phil full
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two days. Okay, let mesay a quick hello Amy, Good morning,
Hi Bill. Yeah, what aweekend? Huh? Oh my god?
Yeah. What were you doing whenyou found out? I think I
was at home. I was rewatchingDexter, I was watching Despicable me h.
My friends started like texting and calling. I'm like, would you let
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me alone? And watching a movie? I know it was so of course.
Then I turned immediately on to theninsert name of news outlet here,
and they went wall to wall,all of them. Did I know I
was doing the same thing? Channel? Yeah, and there was. And
the problem with wall to wall coverageis you repeat, they repeat, they
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repeat, they repeat until a littlebit of news comes out, and it's
a it's kind of boring. Althoughduring the Kennedy assassination, and I was
just a kid at that time,I was pretty young, I watched it
wall to wall for sure, andnine to eleven, of course we watched
it well to wall. Anyway,Good morning, Amy, there you go.
We'll talk a little bit about thattoday and good morning, good morning,
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there you go. Leaning over themic cono. Good morning morning,
Bill, welcome back, Cono goneall week? Actually today's oh yeah,
well, and I'll go back toend, don't okay it. Yeah,
I already talked about her coming back, and of course I already thought I
talked about it, so I completelyforgot. So Cono, I'm going to
go back for a minute and happyto have you back. Oh it's a
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pleasure. Yeah, And was gonefor a week and went to New York
with her daughter, a mother anddaughter. A week of taking a shower
in the morning. Because you takea shower in the morning, you step
outside of the hotel room onto thesidewalk and you've just taken another shower.
It's pretty hot. Cono, youwere gone for just a couple of days,
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right, yep, just the twoall right, just enjoying yourself.
No, no, no, no, just moving. It's not fun.
It's not all. Oh. Yeah, and since you have no money,
you had to move yourself, right, that is why I took off.
Yes, I do it myself.You know, this is why God invented
moving companies. You know that,don't you. Well those are called my
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brothers, and they have to helpbecause we're related. And I assume you
served up pizza and beer beer.Yes, they had to buy their own
pizza. Again, I don't makeany money, so okay for beer and
Wayne is off today. So uh, Neil, Neil is off today.
Wayne is also off today. He'sbeen off since January. That's true,
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but so what and then there isNeil is off today. I had we
had dinner last night. As amatter of fact, Fred Rogan is in,
Fred, good morning. You haddinner with the guy and you didn't
realize he was off today? Yeah, no, we talked about it,
but I completely forgot and Fred,we have to get the monitors working because
I can't see Yeah no, Ijust sent him a link. Okay,
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yeah, because you know, asagain, we look at each other on
monitors now. Because it's called zoom, Bill, and ye, there's also
there's also teams. There's also dowe use zoom as a matter of fact,
Anne, this is one hundred percent. You're on zoom right now.
Okay, there's also studio cameras,but we use the zoom for this.
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So there's a bunch of different ways. You're not going to see me,
Bill, it doesn't work. Itdoesn't work again, Anne, you're not
going to see me. I loveyou, but you can't see me.
So I can only allow people tosee me at certain times. Apparently obviously
not now Okay, and as weoften see, I keep on saying this
over and over again, that wehave we're broadcasting in a whole different world
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now where a lot of us havehome studios. Fred, I'm assuming you're
at home, right, Yeah,well you can say that I am.
Yeah, No, I understand that. No, I'm saying that's the change
in the world. I mean,five years ago, pre COVID, if
you say, oh, I wantto broadcast from the house, you know,
management would look at you like you'recrazy. Well, those days have
changed, and it's kind of nice. Well no, they still kind of
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look at you like you're crazy.Bill, Yeah, they still kind of
do that. I mean, you'rethe only one that doesn't think they do
that. They do. Huh.They got you like your crazy. Uh
yeah, that's true. But youknow, I like my commute. It's
ten feet and it's it is notbad. And I don't shower until after
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the show. Okay, that's enough. We don't need that. We don't
have to. Let me explain whatI'm wearing under my shirt. That won't
be necessary. Pants, nope,nope, underwear, no, Bill,
please, Bill, Bill, Bill, Okay, it's okay, all right,
it's good. All right, youguys ready to do it. Yeah,
let's go. Let's do it.It's time for Handle on the News,
Amy, Fred, and for NeilOh. And yesterday, by the
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way, before we start, Neiland I went to that Basteel Day event
at the White House Anaheim White Houseand it was absolutely terrific French food,
and like many other restaurants and venues, they are now marketing themselves in various
ways. For example, bas SteelDay French Food, yesterday Bastile Day being
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the French their July fourth effectively.So I went to Silvano, who is
the nephew of Bruno and manages therestaurant, and I think he's going to
do it. I think he's goingto do it because I came up with
the best themed day that you couldever have for a restaurant. August sixth,
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What is it bill? The daythat Hiroshima was bombed? No sauteed
mushrooms? No, God, No, the guy thought it was good.
No, nobody thinks that's good.Nobody thinks that's good, but nobody.
Okay, let's do a story andthen we'll move on. Handle on the
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News, Amy and Fred and melead story which deff me well, it's
a combination actually lead stories, oneof course being the big one, the
assassination attempt former President Trump on Saturdayand the opening of the Republican National Convention
today, and the two are goingto be and are inextricably linked because of
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the politics, the fallout, thecrazy responses, the luck that Donald Trump
had, and it was horrific.I don't care what you think of Donald
Trump, yay or nay, Assassinationattempts and assassinations should not be what America
is about. And thank goodness thathe wasn't hurt more than he was.
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And then that poor firefighter who washit and died. I mean, it's
just all of it heartbreaking, allright. So we got a lot of
that coming up. Taking a littlepause, but not for long. The
assassination attempt on former President Trump hascaused the Democratic Party to pause its advertising
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and campaign for the President Biden.Yeah, I mean, look at the
difference you've got. This is whenPresident Biden in the campaign would be spending
buckets of money to take the totake the light off of the RNC convention,
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sort of move the attention over.Now that's gone because it's inappropriate for
him to do the attack ads,etc. Which they do. So America
is now concentrating on the RNC andthe Democratic Party disappears for the next few
days, the presidential campaign of Biden, except that the Biden campaign says they
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are going to be restarting. Itcould happen as soon as today. They
took the weekend off, and sothey're kind of constantly evaluating. I would
like to see because the personal attackson Trump, because the Biden campaign is
not Look how great Joe Biden is, that's not flying. It's basically anti
Trump. And in light of whathappened, you can't be anti Trump,
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not for a few days. Thisthing is way too fresh, it really
is. Normally I wouldn't pay attention. Yeah, no, I wouldn't care
about the acceptance speech because it's goingto be the same that you hear every
time from every politician of every ilkon both sides. Everybody's going to be
watching Trump. Everybody, Hey,hey, Bill, what does it?
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What does it mean for Trump?After what happened this weekend? He survives?
What does that? You know?In the end, I don't think
it's going to make a whole lotof difference. I think that it's so
baked in. And I don't thinkIndependence are going to move towards Trump simply
because he was in thank goodness,just wounded a little tiny bit, I
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mean two inches difference, and itwould have been just unbelievable. But yeah,
I think in the end it's notgoing to make a whole lot of
money. Here's why I want todo football pool. How big is the
bandage is going to be on hisear? I say, it's going to
cover up his entire right side.I don't think he'll go out on stage
like that. He'll probably just havea band aid, is what he probably
will do. But you know,doesn't it do him more if his whole
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right side is covered or a goodpart of it. Yeah, I don't
know, because then the accusation isgoing to be he's making too big a
deal about it now. And hegot shot off. Yeah, but he
nicked his ear. It's not asif this is not by Tyson biting his
ear off. The ear is stillthere. It was a graze. Oh,
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A reading story about it was bloodwas gushing from the wound, gushing.
No, and oh, I gotall kinds of questions. I thought
the way Donald Trump handled it wasbrilliant as he's being shuffled off, well
shuffled off, thrown off the stage, and his defiance throwing his fist up
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in the air. I mean,obviously it wasn't planned, but it couldn't
be more dramatic, and it justcouldn't have been just more effective. I'm
looking at him, and I'm thinking, good for you. Instead of cowering,
which I would have done. Hecame back and he says nothing stopping
me. I can't wait to seethe cover of Time and Newsweek this week.
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It's oh, I haven't seen it. Which of those Which of those
photos are? I know, thefist up in the air? Wait?
Wait, Amy, Amy, Wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait,
let's guess I haven't seen it yet. Okay, it's the one with
the female Secret Service in front ofhim, the guy behind him, the
flag there and his fist up.That's what I'm going with, Okay.
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I would have gone for just himthat one crop shot of him just putting
his fist up in the air andthe blood coming down the side of his
face and a little bit on infront over his lip and coming down his
chin. I thought that would havebeen the most traumatic. But anyway,
what a weekend. I'm gonna wehave a lot to talk about, questions
about the Secret Service. They're introuble big time. And I'm a little
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history of some assassination, assassination attemptswhich we've lived through. Fred, you
and I are old enough, Amy, You and I are old enough to
remember some of these. Yep.Jerald forod twice in a month wiki from
Ronald Reagan. And I'm going togo back through history too as to what
happened and unfortunately, how many realassassinations that is assassination, not just attempts,
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but ones that panned out with thedeath of a president. Okay,
more on Fred, all right.Nicki Haley's going to speak at the Republican
Convention. The former candidate will bespeaking. She has taken baby steps Bill
towards supporting Trump, and her speechwill represent a full surrender to Trump's dominance
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in the party. So for NickiHaley, this is just basically survival exactly.
And she she's the last holdout.Well, she wasn't gonna speak until,
like they just announced it after theassassination and until he got shot.
Yeah, well, this is oneof the things that happens in the Trump
world. And that is if yousomehow, if you castigate him, if
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you talk anyway in the negative aboutTrump, you are an enemy. If
you come back and basically kiss thering he is, he appreciates loyalty and
believes that none of it happened before, or it doesn't matter. You're now
on my team as long as yousupport me, and she had to and
you're right for one is basically asurvival. You can't survive in the Republican
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Party today without being pro Trump can'tdo it. So she's gonna speak and
I cannot wait for the accolades tostart. One hundred speakers, one hundred
speakers are going to come. It'sgoing to be just piling on the greatest
guy in the world, our savior. By the way, that doesn't mean
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that on the Democratic side you don'thear the same thing, just not to
the extent because of the engagement ofTrump followers across the board. Because frankly,
a lot of Democrats are looking atJoe Biden as a negative you're hurting
me. There's not one Republican outthere that is looking at his or her
association with Trump in a negative light. Not one. Kellie's London, a
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few dozen helping hands to the RNC. Dozens of law enforcement officers from California
are headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Actually they're already there, so Governor Newsom
says sixty one law enforcement officers.There's forty CHP members, and then also
police officers from Bakersfield, Fresno,and Long Beach police departments. Now,
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the governor also says this is notin response to the attempted assassination assassination on
Saturday, but that these plans havebeen in place since May. Yeah.
I mean, I don't know ifthat's true or not, because Davin Newsom
has a way of saying things thatdon't pan out or are not true.
But it makes sense. It makessense because you want security. There aren't
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enough Secret Service people. There certainlyaren't enough local law enforcement. When you're
talking about how many people were atthe convention, how many thousands of people,
and the securities has to be completelyinsane, especially in light of what
happened. So Corey Opetory, theman at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania,
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the firefighter who dove in front ofhis family to protect them and ultimately was
shot and killed by the assassin heis being hailed as a hero built Well,
he jumped. From what I understand, he jumped on top of his
family or his wife to protect her. I mean that is a legitimate hero.
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On CNN, I was watching awoman or maybe NBC was being interviewed.
She was in the front row andthe reporter was asking her, so,
what happened at that moment, andshe said, if you look at
it, not one person in thefront row went down. We were all
standing up and we were all aboutto grab hands to be in front of
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the president to protect him. I'mthinking, what in the meantime, she
was the first one that hit thedeck. Let's take a hey, welcome
to Welcome to the world of politics. So Israel says it took out top
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commander, but Hamas is saying notso fast. So the Israeli military says
a senior Hamas commander, Rafa Salama, who is said to be one of
the masterminds of the October seventh attack, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza
on Saturday. Hamas hasn't confirmed it. They say instead that Israel's air strike
hit a camp for displaced people ina designated humanitarian zone and killed ninety Palestinians.
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Yeah, I mean, of coursethat happened. And what's happening is
Israel is calling these various zones humanitarianzones and safe zones, and then they
go in and blow them up acrossthe board. So all right, now
wide, I mean, no onebelieves Israel anymore when they go you have
to evacuate over there because it's safeover there, and then they bomb and
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attack over there. Well, howabout going over there and the same thing
happens. I was reading an articlein the New York Times. Hamas is
no longer a uniformed military f Theyare now all civilians. All the Hamas
militants are civilians now, or they'redressed as civilians, and no one knows,
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and they're attacking Israeli soldiers and Israelisoldiers are basically shooting back. Because
the argument is going to be thatif Israel does not have what they say
are is collateral damage, are theyaiming at civilians? I don't think so.
I don't think that, Oh there'sa kid, let's shoot that kid
up. Are they bombing that place? Yeah, because that's where the militants
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are. So if you take intoaccount civilian casualties. And you don't go
in an area where civilians you've justlost the war. Hamas has just won
it. You might as well sayit's over. You can't attack Hamas can
attack you. You can't attack back. This is a mess. This is
a mess, and we're going totalk a lot more about that. But
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Hamas is not giving up, notgiving up his military strength and is fully
committed and is said, so,Palestinians are fodder. We will sacrifice the
buildings and we will sacrifice our populationbecause of this holy war we have against
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Israel. How do you fight that? Huh? No, you can't,
No, you can't. Shannon Dhertynine O two one oh star battled cancer
four years I think about ten years. Died over the weekend at the age
of fifty three. She first wentpublic with the breast cancer diagnosis in twenty
fifteen. A lot of folks watchedthat show. I think it became part
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of American pop culture. And herbattle has come to an end at the
age of fifty three. You know, and you just you hear that fifty
three, You think, my god, how young. Oh that is unless
you're a teenager. Then you die. Then you die of old age at
fifteen, right, and as youget older. Now, Bill, somebody
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looks at you and they go,you know, we just lost my friend.
How old? Eighty seven? Ohmy god? How young? Yeah?
When you get that? Who wasit that said one of it?
Could have been Mick Jagger in hismid twenties who said, don't trust or
anybody over thirty is considered too oldor something along those lines. You can't
trust anybody over thirty. He's seventysix years old and still dancing on stages.
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Yeah. I think Paul McCartney hasalready hit his eighties, hasn't he?
And he's still performed believe. Wow. Yeah. We also lost Richard
Simmons over the weekend and doctor Ruth. Yes, Bill, you used to
take a lot of sex advice fromdoctor Ruth, didn't you. Yeah?
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And I not only did I takea lot of sex advice from doctor youth
Ruth, doctor Ruth, but Iwould actually follow that advice with Richard Simmons.
Oh my god, did I justcome out? Oh? Oh,
okay, I retract. That wasn'tbad, though, I got to give
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you that. That was good.That actually was very good. You did
a sticker. Yeah, that wasgood, get the power back on or
else, says Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He's threatening to an issue an executive
order forcing an electrical provider called CenterPoint Energy to improve the reliability of its
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equipment and its level of storm preparednessif it doesn't address concerns in the wake
of Hurricane Barrel about I think twomillion, maybe even three million customers were
in the dark at the height ofit, and a week later, almost
three hundred thousands still don't have theirpower back on. It's Texas is very
weird with its power grid. Youremember the big freeze where Texas, I
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mean the whole state was just ata standstill. Couldn't you couldn't turn light
in the state. And that's peakbecause Texas decided they weren't going to be
part of the national grade because nofederal government is going to tell us what
to do, and so they couldhave had power, but they didn't.
Well, now you've got well,how unusual you have a utility that is
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being nailed. I think utilities herehave a little bit of problem across the
country PG and E for example herein California. So we'll see what the
governor does with that. One.And I think governor has a lot of
power here. What happens if not? What happens if they don't do the
job? What do they do?What does he do to center point?
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Shut him down? Then there's nopower for anyone? Yeah, and then
what do you do? Yeah,here'll show you. Here's an interesting factoid.
I actually have a picture with TexasGovernor Abbott. I just want that
on the record. I actually havea picture. Will wow, are you
patting his head? That is sowrong that you did that. That is
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so wrong that you said. Thatis just so wrong. And you know
it. Let's just know it.Okay, all right? Is me?
Now? Ye? Do we keepgoing? Yeah? Yeah? Did you?
Sorry? Argentina Columbia. The gamewas in Miami. It went into
overtime. Argentina won the Coopa,but they had to delay the start of
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the game for almost an hour becausefans were so unruly trying to get into
the stadium that they were storming thestadium and trying to climb over gates,
and the players were afraid. Fanswere afraid. They had to call in
more police officers and delay the startbill because people were trying to storm the
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stadium to get in. Yeah,and that's not unusual in the world of
soccer. You've reported this. Howabout that one game it was Columbia where
the referee made a bad call andthe field was overrun and the crowd killed
him. Let's it just killed them, stomped them to death. Yeah,
that was a bad call. Ohyeah, I understand it was a bad
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call. Now why Yeah, thatcosts you your life. Yeah, soccer
fans are completely crazy, I mean, completely out of their minds. Fred,
Why are soccer fans completely out oftheir minds? They all are because
it's it's a gross generalization, butyou know what I mean. No,
but I'll tell you it's a differentmentality because it is part of their national
pride. In this country, wehave a lot to do. And you
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know, our sports basically are professionalsports. In other countries, everybody plays
football and their national pride means anawful lot to them. Yeah, that's
true. That's a good point.That's a good analogy, good analysis.
I like that. Also, everytime LA wins whatever kind of a championship,
everybody's going around is that our teamwon. Our team one. I
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go, wait a minute, it'snot your team. It's Jerry Buss's team,
and we explain if it was yours, you wouldn't have to pay two
hundred dollars to go see a game. Really not our team, but the
pride is such that overwhelms everything.And you're right. In these third world
countries, that's what they have.This is what they have. Yeah,
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this is it. Yeah, sothey are completely nuts. Excellent, Fred,
here's a candidate a lot of people, including me, could get behind.
Matthew McConaughey has teased a possible politicalrun during the National Governor's Association summer
meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Happened on Friday. Apparently he had
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been out drinking the night before withNew Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and that they
were talking about stuff and he said, you know, I've thought about running
for office. He says he's outon a learning tour and probably has been
for the last six years. He'strying to understand what this category, as
he calls it, means. Idon't know if that means he's going to
run for president. But Matthew McConaugheyand politics with wait a minute, the
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world, you said, here's anI can get behind. Why are you
going to get behind him. Whatis it about him aside from he'd probably
went because people know him and heenough charming and charismatic. And his argument
is that, like right now,what we're dealing with, the extremes are
going further left and further right,decencies off the table, and he wants
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to change that. But everybody issaying that also he, as you point
out, charming. He's very goodlooking, and if you look at a
close up picture, he's got quitethe fruit package. Put all of that
together, is quite He's not quitewhat he has quite the fruit package.
Oh okay, well I didn't lookthat closely, Bill. Well there you
go. Now we're going to doa Richard Simmons story in a minute,
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so it all works out anyway.We did mention Richard Simmons seventy six years
old. You could say he wascolorful, and he certainly was that.
He also, I think redefined theway people worked out. He made it
fun. He was one of thefirst people to do that, encouraging people
of all ages and basically sizes.Yeah, he was big too. He
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was big. He had a personalinterest in this. He but then he
lost all the weight. Yeah,that's the whole point. I mean,
he walked the walk. You know, he saw it from both sides.
I don't want to go there,but he he did. You know,
Fred, you're making me say thisstuff. It's you. You know that
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you are the incident. I'm notdoing anything. I'm just sitting here.
I'm just sitting here. You getthis way when I'm on with you.
But I'm not doing it. Youare doing it, okay, and it's
kind of funny, but you youknow you're doing it. I understood,
all right, God, Alec Baldwinhas thanked his supporters. In a big
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surprise. Late on Friday, AlecBaldwin's case was dismissed. They said that
he that the prosecution withheld evidence thathad to do with some bullets. Of
course, the big question was howdid life I'll get on the on the
scene of the Rust movie shooting orthe movie set that turned into a movie
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shooting, and so the judge threwit out and Alec Baldwin burst into tears
when they announced that the case wasdismissed without prejudice, which means they we
prejudice, are with with prejudice.Yeah, it means they can't file again.
It's over, it's done, andthis is the prosecution just screwing the
pooch from the minute they got it. One of the things, you know,
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originally it was a second degree murdercharge, which the defense asked to
be dismissed, and the judge instantlydismissed it because number one, it's overreaching.
Number Two, that provision in thatlaw didn't exist at the time that
Baldwin shot Helena Hutchins. It wasn'teven on the books. Well, we
don't care, We're going to chargehim with a law that didn't exist,
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I mean, just insanity. Andthen this issue, the reason that they
tossed it is because there was anarmorer who knew Helena hutchins stepdad or stepmother
was very close, walked into theprosecution and said, I have some bullets
here that might have some influence onthe case. These are live bullets and
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they may actually be connected. Prosecutorsnot only would not take it as evidence,
or they did, they put adifferent number, put it on another
case and said we don't think it'srelevant. Hey, it's not up to
prosecution to argue relevancy or not.It's up to the judge. And so
the judge got so pissed off,just said, you guys are done,
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You're finished. And it was justjust horrific. They were so anxious because
there was a national story. OhI'm going to show you how good I
am. Just horrific. I alosthought that the case was crazy. Yeah,
but still in all for them tomake that kind of mistake, I
mean, that is really very poorlyexecuted. So horrible, horrible, and
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now he can never be charged withthis name with prejudice. He's done,
he's done. Now it's all Now, it's all civil liability, which should
be the case, should be thecase, but and it is. I
mean, there are settlements all overthe place, but criminality, no.
Lady Baka, the former La Countysheriff who was suffering from Alzheimer's was lost
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and wandering around and nobody could findhim. He's eighty two years old in
the San Marino area. They foundhim. He's okay. There was great
concern. You have an eighty twoyear old man suffering from Alzheimer's who was
lost, and the former sheriff wasin fact found and he had been missing
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since Sunday, so that is goodnews. Of course, Baca was the
sheriff from ninety eight to twenty fourteen. Big problems to federal prison. Yeah,
a lot of corruption, a lotof corruption there. And it's tough
to see these public figures suffering fromAlzheimer's and you know they're they're just out
of their minds. Unfortunately, youlose your mind and you are you are
not who you were. I wastheir joke here Fred, for your sake,
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but don't do it. Okay.I thought it was pretty good.
I thought it was a good one. You got one, yeah, okay.
When they found him, he saidI was the sheriff of La County.
They go, come on, youhave an eightyterial man. He goes,
No, you weren't. He goes, I was Napoleon. How about
that? Does that work? Itold you it was bad, Actually it
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wasn't. I can't come on withyou anymore. This is all. I
can't let this happen. It's noteven my job to monitor this stuff.
And I can't let this stump itanymore. I can't allow it. All
right, let's do one more andthen we'll go on. Steady as she
goes, US stock futures barely budgedafter the assassination attempt on former President Trump
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Saturday, signaling calm in the marketsas Trump of course survived it. Yep,
and that is this is where wetalked about the fall out, Amy,
and you had asked does this changethe politics? And people are looking
I think Fred had brought this upto this assassination attempt, and I'm going
to go, I think it's notgoing to do much short term. Maybe
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the market's nothing, nothing, Andthank goodness, it was a nothing other
than that poor firefighter who was killedand the two people that are still critical.
Had there been a successful assassination,I think you would have seen worldwide
response financially. Also, all right, we're done, guys. Coming up,
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Fred is always thank you for doingthe news with us because I love
it. Coming up a minute byminute timeline of what happened during the assassination,
some of the things that we foundout as the story was breaking.
And how about the Secret Service?Huh? How about them? Yeah?
Yeah, they show they're metaled andthey know you've seen. And then I'm
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going to say something is probably misogynisticby the way, and I may get
sure. No, no, I'mstill here, Bill, Yeah, no,
I know you kissed me off,but I'm still sitting here kf I
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here's Bill Handle and good morning.It is, say, Monday morning,
July fifteenth. You think a weekendthat was in the news. You know,
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I say this over and over again. The weekends usually are dead,
which is why when whatever organization,political entity, subelebrity has to release some
kind of a statement, it's doneFriday evening, so it disappears by Monday
when the new cycle starts. Andhow long have we been talking about new
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cycling is gone? The new cyclenow is twenty four hours. So here
was a weekend. Let me seethe weather, It was hot? What
was going on? Oh yeah,and the presidential candidate, one Donald Jay
Trump there was an assassination attempt andhe was hit, and of course that
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has been on everyone's mind. We'regonna spend a lot of time talking about
today. First of all, theminute by minute, just exactly what happened.
Some of the big questions the SecretService. Oh, there are questions
about the Secret Service. So I'vegot a few and I'm going to sound
I may sound a little misogynistic whenI start talking about that. And then
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what's going on as a result ofwhat happened. The politics, of course
is who is it? Jd Vance, the Senator. I think it's from
Ohio, Joe Biden and Hillary Clintondirectly responsible. Now we're getting conspiracy conversations
that various people in government or outsideof government ordered the assassination attempt, pick
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up the phone and said, hereis what you must do. The anti
Trumpets are saying that, and thensome are saying this whole thing was a
red flag. It was done bythe Trump organization to garner support. I
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mean, just crazy stuff. Sowe'll be talking more about that later on.
And then just one segment that Iwant to do on Paris, maybe
too, because the Olympics are startingin a couple of weeks and we'll see
how crappy that city is going tobe. And of course we've got today
the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,so it's going to be a phil full
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two days. Okay, let mesay a quick hello Amy, Good morning,
Hi Bill. Yeah, what aweekend? Huh? Oh my god?
Yeah. What were you doing whenyou found out? I think I
was at home. I was rewatchingDexter, I was watching Despicable me h.
My friends started like texting and calling. I'm like, would you let
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me alone? And watching a movie? I know it was so of course.
Then I turned immediately on to theninsert name of news outlet here,
and they went wall to wall,all of them. Did I know I
was doing the same thing? Channel? Yeah, and there was. And
the problem with wall to wall coverageis you repeat, they repeat, they
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repeat, they repeat until a littlebit of news comes out, and it's
a it's kind of boring. Althoughduring the Kennedy assassination, and I was
just a kid at that time,I was pretty young, I watched it
wall to wall for sure, andnine to eleven, of course we watched
it well to wall. Anyway,Good morning, Amy, there you go.
We'll talk a little bit about thattoday and good morning, good morning,
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there you go. Leaning over themic cono. Good morning morning,
Bill, welcome back, Cono goneall week? Actually today's oh yeah,
well, and I'll go back toend, don't okay it. Yeah,
I already talked about her coming back, and of course I already thought I
talked about it, so I completelyforgot. So Cono, I'm going to
go back for a minute and happyto have you back. Oh it's a
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pleasure. Yeah, And was gonefor a week and went to New York
with her daughter, a mother anddaughter. A week of taking a shower
in the morning. Because you takea shower in the morning, you step
outside of the hotel room onto thesidewalk and you've just taken another shower.
It's pretty hot. Cono, youwere gone for just a couple of days,
(04:57):
right, yep, just the twoall right, just enjoying yourself.
No, no, no, no, just moving. It's not fun.
It's not all. Oh. Yeah, and since you have no money,
you had to move yourself, right, that is why I took off.
Yes, I do it myself.You know, this is why God invented
moving companies. You know that,don't you. Well those are called my
(05:19):
brothers, and they have to helpbecause we're related. And I assume you
served up pizza and beer beer.Yes, they had to buy their own
pizza. Again, I don't makeany money, so okay for beer and
Wayne is off today. So uh, Neil, Neil is off today.
Wayne is also off today. He'sbeen off since January. That's true,
(05:43):
but so what and then there isNeil is off today. I had we
had dinner last night. As amatter of fact, Fred Rogan is in,
Fred, good morning. You haddinner with the guy and you didn't
realize he was off today? Yeah, no, we talked about it,
but I completely forgot and Fred,we have to get the monitors working because
I can't see Yeah no, Ijust sent him a link. Okay,
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yeah, because you know, asagain, we look at each other on
monitors now. Because it's called zoom, Bill, and ye, there's also
there's also teams. There's also dowe use zoom as a matter of fact,
Anne, this is one hundred percent. You're on zoom right now.
Okay, there's also studio cameras,but we use the zoom for this.
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So there's a bunch of different ways. You're not going to see me,
Bill, it doesn't work. Itdoesn't work again, Anne, you're not
going to see me. I loveyou, but you can't see me.
So I can only allow people tosee me at certain times. Apparently obviously
not now Okay, and as weoften see, I keep on saying this
over and over again, that wehave we're broadcasting in a whole different world
(06:54):
now where a lot of us havehome studios. Fred, I'm assuming you're
at home, right, Yeah,well you can say that I am.
Yeah, No, I understand that. No, I'm saying that's the change
in the world. I mean,five years ago, pre COVID, if
you say, oh, I wantto broadcast from the house, you know,
management would look at you like you'recrazy. Well, those days have
changed, and it's kind of nice. Well no, they still kind of
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look at you like you're crazy.Bill, Yeah, they still kind of
do that. I mean, you'rethe only one that doesn't think they do
that. They do. Huh.They got you like your crazy. Uh
yeah, that's true. But youknow, I like my commute. It's
ten feet and it's it is notbad. And I don't shower until after
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the show. Okay, that's enough. We don't need that. We don't
have to. Let me explain whatI'm wearing under my shirt. That won't
be necessary. Pants, nope,nope, underwear, no, Bill,
please, Bill, Bill, Bill, Okay, it's okay, all right,
it's good. All right, youguys ready to do it. Yeah,
let's go. Let's do it.It's time for Handle on the News,
Amy, Fred, and for NeilOh. And yesterday, by the
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way, before we start, Neiland I went to that Basteel Day event
at the White House Anaheim White Houseand it was absolutely terrific French food,
and like many other restaurants and venues, they are now marketing themselves in various
ways. For example, bas SteelDay French Food, yesterday Bastile Day being
(08:26):
the French their July fourth effectively.So I went to Silvano, who is
the nephew of Bruno and manages therestaurant, and I think he's going to
do it. I think he's goingto do it because I came up with
the best themed day that you couldever have for a restaurant. August sixth,
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What is it bill? The daythat Hiroshima was bombed? No sauteed
mushrooms? No, God, No, the guy thought it was good.
No, nobody thinks that's good.Nobody thinks that's good, but nobody.
Okay, let's do a story andthen we'll move on. Handle on the
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News, Amy and Fred and melead story which deff me well, it's
a combination actually lead stories, oneof course being the big one, the
assassination attempt former President Trump on Saturdayand the opening of the Republican National Convention
today, and the two are goingto be and are inextricably linked because of
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the politics, the fallout, thecrazy responses, the luck that Donald Trump
had, and it was horrific.I don't care what you think of Donald
Trump, yay or nay, Assassinationattempts and assassinations should not be what America
is about. And thank goodness thathe wasn't hurt more than he was.
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And then that poor firefighter who washit and died. I mean, it's
just all of it heartbreaking, allright. So we got a lot of
that coming up. Taking a littlepause, but not for long. The
assassination attempt on former President Trump hascaused the Democratic Party to pause its advertising
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and campaign for the President Biden.Yeah, I mean, look at the
difference you've got. This is whenPresident Biden in the campaign would be spending
buckets of money to take the totake the light off of the RNC convention,
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sort of move the attention over.Now that's gone because it's inappropriate for
him to do the attack ads,etc. Which they do. So America
is now concentrating on the RNC andthe Democratic Party disappears for the next few
days, the presidential campaign of Biden, except that the Biden campaign says they
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are going to be restarting. Itcould happen as soon as today. They
took the weekend off, and sothey're kind of constantly evaluating. I would
like to see because the personal attackson Trump, because the Biden campaign is
not Look how great Joe Biden is, that's not flying. It's basically anti
Trump. And in light of whathappened, you can't be anti Trump,
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not for a few days. Thisthing is way too fresh, it really
is. Normally I wouldn't pay attention. Yeah, no, I wouldn't care
about the acceptance speech because it's goingto be the same that you hear every
time from every politician of every ilkon both sides. Everybody's going to be
watching Trump. Everybody, Hey,hey, Bill, what does it?
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What does it mean for Trump?After what happened this weekend? He survives?
What does that? You know?In the end, I don't think
it's going to make a whole lotof difference. I think that it's so
baked in. And I don't thinkIndependence are going to move towards Trump simply
because he was in thank goodness,just wounded a little tiny bit, I
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mean two inches difference, and itwould have been just unbelievable. But yeah,
I think in the end it's notgoing to make a whole lot of
money. Here's why I want todo football pool. How big is the
bandage is going to be on hisear? I say, it's going to
cover up his entire right side.I don't think he'll go out on stage
like that. He'll probably just havea band aid, is what he probably
will do. But you know,doesn't it do him more if his whole
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right side is covered or a goodpart of it. Yeah, I don't
know, because then the accusation isgoing to be he's making too big a
deal about it now. And hegot shot off. Yeah, but he
nicked his ear. It's not asif this is not by Tyson biting his
ear off. The ear is stillthere. It was a graze. Oh,
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A reading story about it was bloodwas gushing from the wound, gushing.
No, and oh, I gotall kinds of questions. I thought
the way Donald Trump handled it wasbrilliant as he's being shuffled off, well
shuffled off, thrown off the stage, and his defiance throwing his fist up
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in the air. I mean,obviously it wasn't planned, but it couldn't
be more dramatic, and it justcouldn't have been just more effective. I'm
looking at him, and I'm thinking, good for you. Instead of cowering,
which I would have done. Hecame back and he says nothing stopping
me. I can't wait to seethe cover of Time and Newsweek this week.
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It's oh, I haven't seen it. Which of those Which of those
photos are? I know, thefist up in the air? Wait?
Wait, Amy, Amy, Wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait,
let's guess I haven't seen it yet. Okay, it's the one with
the female Secret Service in front ofhim, the guy behind him, the
flag there and his fist up.That's what I'm going with, Okay.
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I would have gone for just himthat one crop shot of him just putting
his fist up in the air andthe blood coming down the side of his
face and a little bit on infront over his lip and coming down his
chin. I thought that would havebeen the most traumatic. But anyway,
what a weekend. I'm gonna wehave a lot to talk about, questions
about the Secret Service. They're introuble big time. And I'm a little
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history of some assassination, assassination attemptswhich we've lived through. Fred, you
and I are old enough, Amy, You and I are old enough to
remember some of these. Yep.Jerald forod twice in a month wiki from
Ronald Reagan. And I'm going togo back through history too as to what
happened and unfortunately, how many realassassinations that is assassination, not just attempts,
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but ones that panned out with thedeath of a president. Okay,
more on Fred, all right.Nicki Haley's going to speak at the Republican
Convention. The former candidate will bespeaking. She has taken baby steps Bill
towards supporting Trump, and her speechwill represent a full surrender to Trump's dominance
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in the party. So for NickiHaley, this is just basically survival exactly.
And she she's the last holdout.Well, she wasn't gonna speak until,
like they just announced it after theassassination and until he got shot.
Yeah, well, this is oneof the things that happens in the Trump
world. And that is if yousomehow, if you castigate him, if
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you talk anyway in the negative aboutTrump, you are an enemy. If
you come back and basically kiss thering he is, he appreciates loyalty and
believes that none of it happened before, or it doesn't matter. You're now
on my team as long as yousupport me, and she had to and
you're right for one is basically asurvival. You can't survive in the Republican
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Party today without being pro Trump can'tdo it. So she's gonna speak and
I cannot wait for the accolades tostart. One hundred speakers, one hundred
speakers are going to come. It'sgoing to be just piling on the greatest
guy in the world, our savior. By the way, that doesn't mean
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that on the Democratic side you don'thear the same thing, just not to
the extent because of the engagement ofTrump followers across the board. Because frankly,
a lot of Democrats are looking atJoe Biden as a negative you're hurting
me. There's not one Republican outthere that is looking at his or her
association with Trump in a negative light. Not one. Kellie's London, a
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few dozen helping hands to the RNC. Dozens of law enforcement officers from California
are headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Actually they're already there, so Governor Newsom
says sixty one law enforcement officers.There's forty CHP members, and then also
police officers from Bakersfield, Fresno,and Long Beach police departments. Now,
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the governor also says this is notin response to the attempted assassination assassination on
Saturday, but that these plans havebeen in place since May. Yeah.
I mean, I don't know ifthat's true or not, because Davin Newsom
has a way of saying things thatdon't pan out or are not true.
But it makes sense. It makessense because you want security. There aren't
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enough Secret Service people. There certainlyaren't enough local law enforcement. When you're
talking about how many people were atthe convention, how many thousands of people,
and the securities has to be completelyinsane, especially in light of what
happened. So Corey Opetory, theman at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania,
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the firefighter who dove in front ofhis family to protect them and ultimately was
shot and killed by the assassin heis being hailed as a hero built Well,
he jumped. From what I understand, he jumped on top of his
family or his wife to protect her. I mean that is a legitimate hero.
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On CNN, I was watching awoman or maybe NBC was being interviewed.
She was in the front row andthe reporter was asking her, so,
what happened at that moment, andshe said, if you look at
it, not one person in thefront row went down. We were all
standing up and we were all aboutto grab hands to be in front of
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the president to protect him. I'mthinking, what in the meantime, she
was the first one that hit thedeck. Let's take a hey, welcome
to Welcome to the world of politics. So Israel says it took out top
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commander, but Hamas is saying notso fast. So the Israeli military says
a senior Hamas commander, Rafa Salama, who is said to be one of
the masterminds of the October seventh attack, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza
on Saturday. Hamas hasn't confirmed it. They say instead that Israel's air strike
hit a camp for displaced people ina designated humanitarian zone and killed ninety Palestinians.
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Yeah, I mean, of coursethat happened. And what's happening is
Israel is calling these various zones humanitarianzones and safe zones, and then they
go in and blow them up acrossthe board. So all right, now
wide, I mean, no onebelieves Israel anymore when they go you have
to evacuate over there because it's safeover there, and then they bomb and
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attack over there. Well, howabout going over there and the same thing
happens. I was reading an articlein the New York Times. Hamas is
no longer a uniformed military f Theyare now all civilians. All the Hamas
militants are civilians now, or they'redressed as civilians, and no one knows,
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and they're attacking Israeli soldiers and Israelisoldiers are basically shooting back. Because
the argument is going to be thatif Israel does not have what they say
are is collateral damage, are theyaiming at civilians? I don't think so.
I don't think that, Oh there'sa kid, let's shoot that kid
up. Are they bombing that place? Yeah, because that's where the militants
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are. So if you take intoaccount civilian casualties. And you don't go
in an area where civilians you've justlost the war. Hamas has just won
it. You might as well sayit's over. You can't attack Hamas can
attack you. You can't attack back. This is a mess. This is
a mess, and we're going totalk a lot more about that. But
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Hamas is not giving up, notgiving up his military strength and is fully
committed and is said, so,Palestinians are fodder. We will sacrifice the
buildings and we will sacrifice our populationbecause of this holy war we have against
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Israel. How do you fight that? Huh? No, you can't,
No, you can't. Shannon Dhertynine O two one oh star battled cancer
four years I think about ten years. Died over the weekend at the age
of fifty three. She first wentpublic with the breast cancer diagnosis in twenty
fifteen. A lot of folks watchedthat show. I think it became part
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of American pop culture. And herbattle has come to an end at the
age of fifty three. You know, and you just you hear that fifty
three, You think, my god, how young. Oh that is unless
you're a teenager. Then you die. Then you die of old age at
fifteen, right, and as youget older. Now, Bill, somebody
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looks at you and they go,you know, we just lost my friend.
How old? Eighty seven? Ohmy god? How young? Yeah?
When you get that? Who wasit that said one of it?
Could have been Mick Jagger in hismid twenties who said, don't trust or
anybody over thirty is considered too oldor something along those lines. You can't
trust anybody over thirty. He's seventysix years old and still dancing on stages.
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Yeah. I think Paul McCartney hasalready hit his eighties, hasn't he?
And he's still performed believe. Wow. Yeah. We also lost Richard
Simmons over the weekend and doctor Ruth. Yes, Bill, you used to
take a lot of sex advice fromdoctor Ruth, didn't you. Yeah?
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And I not only did I takea lot of sex advice from doctor youth
Ruth, doctor Ruth, but Iwould actually follow that advice with Richard Simmons.
Oh my god, did I justcome out? Oh? Oh,
okay, I retract. That wasn'tbad, though, I got to give
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you that. That was good.That actually was very good. You did
a sticker. Yeah, that wasgood, get the power back on or
else, says Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He's threatening to an issue an executive
order forcing an electrical provider called CenterPoint Energy to improve the reliability of its
(23:30):
equipment and its level of storm preparednessif it doesn't address concerns in the wake
of Hurricane Barrel about I think twomillion, maybe even three million customers were
in the dark at the height ofit, and a week later, almost
three hundred thousands still don't have theirpower back on. It's Texas is very
weird with its power grid. Youremember the big freeze where Texas, I
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mean the whole state was just ata standstill. Couldn't you couldn't turn light
in the state. And that's peakbecause Texas decided they weren't going to be
part of the national grade because nofederal government is going to tell us what
to do, and so they couldhave had power, but they didn't.
Well, now you've got well,how unusual you have a utility that is
(24:14):
being nailed. I think utilities herehave a little bit of problem across the
country PG and E for example herein California. So we'll see what the
governor does with that. One.And I think governor has a lot of
power here. What happens if not? What happens if they don't do the
job? What do they do?What does he do to center point?
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Shut him down? Then there's nopower for anyone? Yeah, and then
what do you do? Yeah,here'll show you. Here's an interesting factoid.
I actually have a picture with TexasGovernor Abbott. I just want that
on the record. I actually havea picture. Will wow, are you
patting his head? That is sowrong that you did that. That is
(24:56):
so wrong that you said. Thatis just so wrong. And you know
it. Let's just know it.Okay, all right? Is me?
Now? Ye? Do we keepgoing? Yeah? Yeah? Did you?
Sorry? Argentina Columbia. The gamewas in Miami. It went into
overtime. Argentina won the Coopa,but they had to delay the start of
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the game for almost an hour becausefans were so unruly trying to get into
the stadium that they were storming thestadium and trying to climb over gates,
and the players were afraid. Fanswere afraid. They had to call in
more police officers and delay the startbill because people were trying to storm the
(25:41):
stadium to get in. Yeah,and that's not unusual in the world of
soccer. You've reported this. Howabout that one game it was Columbia where
the referee made a bad call andthe field was overrun and the crowd killed
him. Let's it just killed them, stomped them to death. Yeah,
that was a bad call. Ohyeah, I understand it was a bad
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call. Now why Yeah, thatcosts you your life. Yeah, soccer
fans are completely crazy, I mean, completely out of their minds. Fred,
Why are soccer fans completely out oftheir minds? They all are because
it's it's a gross generalization, butyou know what I mean. No,
but I'll tell you it's a differentmentality because it is part of their national
pride. In this country, wehave a lot to do. And you
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know, our sports basically are professionalsports. In other countries, everybody plays
football and their national pride means anawful lot to them. Yeah, that's
true. That's a good point.That's a good analogy, good analysis.
I like that. Also, everytime LA wins whatever kind of a championship,
everybody's going around is that our teamwon. Our team one. I
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go, wait a minute, it'snot your team. It's Jerry Buss's team,
and we explain if it was yours, you wouldn't have to pay two
hundred dollars to go see a game. Really not our team, but the
pride is such that overwhelms everything.And you're right. In these third world
countries, that's what they have.This is what they have. Yeah,
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this is it. Yeah, sothey are completely nuts. Excellent, Fred,
here's a candidate a lot of people, including me, could get behind.
Matthew McConaughey has teased a possible politicalrun during the National Governor's Association summer
meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Happened on Friday. Apparently he had
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been out drinking the night before withNew Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and that they
were talking about stuff and he said, you know, I've thought about running
for office. He says he's outon a learning tour and probably has been
for the last six years. He'strying to understand what this category, as
he calls it, means. Idon't know if that means he's going to
run for president. But Matthew McConaugheyand politics with wait a minute, the
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world, you said, here's anI can get behind. Why are you
going to get behind him. Whatis it about him aside from he'd probably
went because people know him and heenough charming and charismatic. And his argument
is that, like right now,what we're dealing with, the extremes are
going further left and further right,decencies off the table, and he wants
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to change that. But everybody issaying that also he, as you point
out, charming. He's very goodlooking, and if you look at a
close up picture, he's got quitethe fruit package. Put all of that
together, is quite He's not quitewhat he has quite the fruit package.
Oh okay, well I didn't lookthat closely, Bill. Well there you
go. Now we're going to doa Richard Simmons story in a minute,
(28:40):
so it all works out anyway.We did mention Richard Simmons seventy six years
old. You could say he wascolorful, and he certainly was that.
He also, I think redefined theway people worked out. He made it
fun. He was one of thefirst people to do that, encouraging people
of all ages and basically sizes.Yeah, he was big too. He
(29:03):
was big. He had a personalinterest in this. He but then he
lost all the weight. Yeah,that's the whole point. I mean,
he walked the walk. You know, he saw it from both sides.
I don't want to go there,but he he did. You know,
Fred, you're making me say thisstuff. It's you. You know that
(29:23):
you are the incident. I'm notdoing anything. I'm just sitting here.
I'm just sitting here. You getthis way when I'm on with you.
But I'm not doing it. Youare doing it, okay, and it's
kind of funny, but you youknow you're doing it. I understood,
all right, God, Alec Baldwinhas thanked his supporters. In a big
(29:45):
surprise. Late on Friday, AlecBaldwin's case was dismissed. They said that
he that the prosecution withheld evidence thathad to do with some bullets. Of
course, the big question was howdid life I'll get on the on the
scene of the Rust movie shooting orthe movie set that turned into a movie
(30:06):
shooting, and so the judge threwit out and Alec Baldwin burst into tears
when they announced that the case wasdismissed without prejudice, which means they we
prejudice, are with with prejudice.Yeah, it means they can't file again.
It's over, it's done, andthis is the prosecution just screwing the
pooch from the minute they got it. One of the things, you know,
(30:27):
originally it was a second degree murdercharge, which the defense asked to
be dismissed, and the judge instantlydismissed it because number one, it's overreaching.
Number Two, that provision in thatlaw didn't exist at the time that
Baldwin shot Helena Hutchins. It wasn'teven on the books. Well, we
don't care, We're going to chargehim with a law that didn't exist,
(30:48):
I mean, just insanity. Andthen this issue, the reason that they
tossed it is because there was anarmorer who knew Helena hutchins stepdad or stepmother
was very close, walked into theprosecution and said, I have some bullets
here that might have some influence onthe case. These are live bullets and
(31:12):
they may actually be connected. Prosecutorsnot only would not take it as evidence,
or they did, they put adifferent number, put it on another
case and said we don't think it'srelevant. Hey, it's not up to
prosecution to argue relevancy or not.It's up to the judge. And so
the judge got so pissed off,just said, you guys are done,
(31:32):
You're finished. And it was justjust horrific. They were so anxious because
there was a national story. OhI'm going to show you how good I
am. Just horrific. I alosthought that the case was crazy. Yeah,
but still in all for them tomake that kind of mistake, I
mean, that is really very poorlyexecuted. So horrible, horrible, and
(31:53):
now he can never be charged withthis name with prejudice. He's done,
he's done. Now it's all Now, it's all civil liability, which should
be the case, should be thecase, but and it is. I
mean, there are settlements all overthe place, but criminality, no.
Lady Baka, the former La Countysheriff who was suffering from Alzheimer's was lost
(32:16):
and wandering around and nobody could findhim. He's eighty two years old in
the San Marino area. They foundhim. He's okay. There was great
concern. You have an eighty twoyear old man suffering from Alzheimer's who was
lost, and the former sheriff wasin fact found and he had been missing
(32:37):
since Sunday, so that is goodnews. Of course, Baca was the
sheriff from ninety eight to twenty fourteen. Big problems to federal prison. Yeah,
a lot of corruption, a lotof corruption there. And it's tough
to see these public figures suffering fromAlzheimer's and you know they're they're just out
of their minds. Unfortunately, youlose your mind and you are you are
not who you were. I wastheir joke here Fred, for your sake,
(33:01):
but don't do it. Okay.I thought it was pretty good.
I thought it was a good one. You got one, yeah, okay.
When they found him, he saidI was the sheriff of La County.
They go, come on, youhave an eightyterial man. He goes,
No, you weren't. He goes, I was Napoleon. How about
that? Does that work? Itold you it was bad, Actually it
(33:23):
wasn't. I can't come on withyou anymore. This is all. I
can't let this happen. It's noteven my job to monitor this stuff.
And I can't let this stump itanymore. I can't allow it. All
right, let's do one more andthen we'll go on. Steady as she
goes, US stock futures barely budgedafter the assassination attempt on former President Trump
(33:47):
Saturday, signaling calm in the marketsas Trump of course survived it. Yep,
and that is this is where wetalked about the fall out, Amy,
and you had asked does this changethe politics? And people are looking
I think Fred had brought this upto this assassination attempt, and I'm going
to go, I think it's notgoing to do much short term. Maybe
(34:09):
the market's nothing, nothing, Andthank goodness, it was a nothing other
than that poor firefighter who was killedand the two people that are still critical.
Had there been a successful assassination,I think you would have seen worldwide
response financially. Also, all right, we're done, guys. Coming up,
(34:30):
Fred is always thank you for doingthe news with us because I love
it. Coming up a minute byminute timeline of what happened during the assassination,
some of the things that we foundout as the story was breaking.
And how about the Secret Service?Huh? How about them? Yeah?
Yeah, they show they're metaled andthey know you've seen. And then I'm
(34:52):
going to say something is probably misogynisticby the way, and I may get
sure. No, no, I'mstill here, Bill, Yeah, no,
I know you kissed me off,but I'm still sitting here kf I
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