BHS - 7A – Makes Another Run for CA Governor | Olympic ‘Social Cleaning’

Former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa makes another run for California Governor. The US Department of Transportation has launched an investigation into Delta Airlines struggle to rebound from Crowdstrike outage. ‘Automatic’ registration would boost California’s voter polls… what’s the downside.? Olympic ‘social cleaning’ charged as Paris clears homeless and migrants.  

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You're listening to bill handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty and this is
a KFI bill handle here. Itis a Wednesday Hot Wednesday, July twenty
four. Tonight, Joe Biden isgoing to speak to the nation from the
Oval Office talk about why he isbailing out. Can't wait to hear that

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as to what his reasoning is.And it ain't going to be because I'm
too old, and I'm decrepit andto have very few cognitive skills. And
I think this is the Oval Office, isn't it. There's just going to
be a really interesting conversation tonight withthe President. And Delta Airlines is a
little bit of trouble. The Departmentof Transportation is now investigating Delta because it

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seems to be the only airline thathas not yet recovered from that crowd strike
attack or the implosion of CrowdStrike.Now we do a little bit of politics,
and this has to do with formerLa Mayor Antonio Viiragosa making another run
for California Governor. Gavin Newsom isturned out, he is done, and

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he is now trying to figure outwhere he's going to go. My guess
is that he's going to go fora cabinet position. If Kamala Harris wins
the presidency, I don't know whereelse he's going to go on this one.
Interestingly enough, he became governor outof his position as lieutenant governor of

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the state of California. Now nobodyknows who the lieutenant governor is. Nobody
does anybody know who the lieutenant governoris right now? And cono amy without
reading it, only because I've beenreading it the last couple of days.
Yeah, And I think, right, I didn't know that, you know

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where whenever I think of some waywith a Greek name, I'm thinking that
they run a a Greek deli.That's the first thing I thought was that,
I thought when I'm at Petros.Okay, So here's what you have.
Let me tell you the other Democratswho are in the running. And
the reason I'm comparing him to GavinNewsom is Gavin Newsom, who is our

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current governor. For some reason,he was able to get a very high
profile in the state as a lieutenantgovernor and former mayor of San Francisco.
He was able to pull it offto become a state wide figure. So
he had a huge advantage also massiveamounts of money from the Democratic Party and

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fundraisers. So other Democrats in therace this time around, Lieutenant Governor Ellenie
Kunalakis. She was the first todeclare her candidacy, State Senator Tony Atkins.
Does anybody know who that is?Who she is? No? State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurman. I have a question only am I

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asking do you know who Tony Thurmanis? But did you know that there
is a state Superintendent of Public Instruction? Probably not former Controller Betty Yee?
Okay, now who is Betty E? And I thought the controller was just
any Jewish wife and doesn't seem tobe the case. Attorney General Rob Bonta,

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Yeah, you know what, hehas some he's got some name recognition
and he was appointed. And thenyou have a couple of Republicans that no
one has any idea who they are. So he's got a shot this time.

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Last time he came in a distantthird after Gavin Newsom picked it up.
So he is a traditional a traditionalDemocrat. And I don't even talk
about Republicans because there was about zerochance that a Republican today is going to
win the governorship in California. Althoughwe've had some, We've had some Republicans,

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican mainly name onlypretty moderate. Then you had oh
god, what his name? Mymind, just another Greek for some reason.
We have a lot of Greeks.What was his name, I don't
remember. But we had Pete Wilsonwho also was a Republican, but again

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all moderate. Nobody was a farright or today Republicans. Well, look
at the Republican Party today. Andso he ran for the governor in twenty
eighteen as business friendly, not somuch anymore. One of the things he
got a little bit in trouble withis he derided single payer health care.
This is one where I am almostfanatic about it. He called it snake

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oil. And so I don't knowwhat he has in mind as an alternative
to what we're going on right now. And so he comes about it as
well. A couple of things thathe is pitching for himself. He was
a former teachers union organizer. Sothere's the liberal world president of the Southern
California chapter of the ACLU. Boy, those are liberal credentials. Stints in

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the state Assembly, including two yearsas Assembly speaker and even though he's very
well known in southern California, isthat enough for statewide office. We don't
know. He was also on theLa City Council. In the Assembly,
he was in favor of gun control, including helping pass the assault weapons ban

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here in California and expanding LGBTQ rights. And he is one of his main
claims that he is going to beinvolved with during the campaign and as governor
is anti trump Ism. He isrunning against Trump. How many politicians are

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running on a platform of anti Trumpfar more than their own policy. You're
going to see Kamala Harris. Ibelieve she's going to be attacking Trump far
more than she's going to be talkingabout her own policies. I think people
pretty well know. If you knowwho Kamala Harris is, you know she's
fairly liberal. Reproductive rights are verybig for her assault weapons, I mean,

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the traditional liberal Democrat. And sothere's going to be a lot of
anti trump Ism and we're going totalk a lot more than that as she
moves forward with her campaign for thepresidency. It's going to be very very
interesting. And the attacks have alreadycome. Have we heard Donald Trump mentioned
Crooked Kamala yet have we heard that? Is that already started? Because everybody

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is crooked on the other side.No, she's lying. Oh, she's
just lying. She's not crooked yet. Yeah, okay, okay, fair
enough. I can't wait for that. The attacks are going to be fantastic.
They are. And then there wasone Republican who was crazy enough to
say she's a DEI higher. Okay, let's get right into race. Of

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the four senators who are black,they went, I don't think so.
So we'll see where this goes.But Via Ragosa is pushing hard. He
came out immediately when she when Bidenactually resigned, And when you come out
early and strong in favor of apresidential the chances of becoming part of the

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cabinet. Look at Pete Boodage,one of the early early supporters of Joe
Biden. Department of Transportation. Allright, now, Delta Airlines is in
a lot of trouble. The FEDShave launched transportation officials have launched an investigation
into Delta. Why is that?Well, because of the meltdown all over,

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particularly the transportation industry, the airlineindustry, because of that crowd strike,
crowd strike outage, that struck businessesaround the globe. As I said,
particularly the airlines got nailed. SoDelta had canceled four hundred and seventy
five flights and that was yesterday,thirteen percent of its main schedule five thousand

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flights since the outage began, wasit five days ago? And here is
the difference between Delta and other airlines. The other airlines have basically rebounded,
they're sort of back on track.Delta is still in the middle of this.
If you've seen the news footage ofpeople just camping out at the airport,

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at the Delta gates and the counters, I mean they're there by the
hundreds and literally camping out. Sowhat is it about Delta Airlines that uses
effectively the same systems as the otherairlines and Delta hasn't been able to come
back. Well, that's what they'regoing to find out. Transportation Secretary Pete

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Boodage said, the Department of Transportationis going to leverage the full extent of
our investigative and enforcement power. Andhere's what's going on with the airlines.
I mean, this one is justinconvenient, I mean to a massive degree.
I mean, can you imagine you'regoing on vacation, you're going on
a cruise, gone gone, You'renot going to make it. I mean,

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it can disrupt a lot of stuff, which is why I'm going to
suggest always always buy insurance whenever youtravel. It's not just for people who
are going to get sick by insurance, by flight interruption, insurance for stuff
just like this. And it's gettingworse and worse now. As I said,

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this is just massively inconvenient. Peoplearen't going to die. How many
stories have we heard the last fewweeks of planes yesterday a Southwest plane coming
in one hundred feet above the water, the close calls over and over again,

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United Flight losing its wheel, anotherplane a couple of days ago where
the tire blew out. Not theend of the world, but still big,
big problems. And of course you'vegot that door blowing off on Alaska
Airlines, on the Boeing aircraft,and big problems around this is it is

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getting so close. We're just ontop of a major disaster. We are
just on top of something very serioushappening, as in, hundreds of people
are going to die. And forthe first time in and I've been traveling,
you know, that's where my disposableincome goes. As you know,

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I've been traveling since my twenties thatI don't well, I shop at Costco.
I buy my food at Costco.I wouldn't walk into a Yellson's or
any high end store. I don'tshop at Nordstroms. With is a Nordstroms,
by the way, I don't evenknow what that is. I heard
that name being bandied about. Ishop at Costco clothes and food, and

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to be going out to dinner avery high end restaurant is the Cheesecake Factory.
So I spend all my money ontravel, my disposable income, and
for the first time getting on anairplane, I'm genuine I'm genuinely frightened,
and I think, well, letme tell you what a pompous ass I
am. And that is, ifI go down, how big a story

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is it going to be? Publicly? Probably the La Times? Amy,
If I die, you know,in a car, in a crash or
some ungodly way of dying, isthe reporting above the folder below the folding
the La Times. Did they evenprint the La Times anymore? You see?
There's the point, thank you?Yes they do, Yes, they

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do. And I get it onSundays. Well, I would say you'd
be a minor scroll page thirty fourand they're only thirty two pages. It's
yeah. I mean the point isis, I'm genuinely frightened of flying today
and I've never ever done that's itis horrific. And then they're trying to

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figure out what this what happened withDelta, and they're going to are they're
gonna be in trouble and try whyis it that all the other airlines have
been able to rebound and Delta hasnot. And that's what the investigation is
about. The winter storm. Rememberthose horrific storms last year, I mean
horrific ice storm. Southwest had theworst record, It got nailed the worst.

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Now they argued because they were moresusceptible to the storms. Well,
Southwest said, pay one hundred andforty seven million dollars in fines because it
just didn't have the wherewithal. Sothis CrowdStrike business, We're going to hear
more and more about this because thispoint we don't know. There is no

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answer as to the why of Deltanot being able to recover and the other
airlines have And this has to doand Amy reported this. This has to
do with the programs that match pilotsand aircrew with airplanes, and that has
to be computerized because there's sow thousandsof flights out there and pilots have to

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fly there and they have to pickup planes because you have a limitation as
to how many hours. I mean, it's really complicated stuff, really complicated
stuff. And when that goes out, the airplane stopped flying. However,
they shouldn't take five day, sevenday air and Delta saying there's still more
days and they haven't gotten to thebottom of this. A new bill is

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in the works SB two nine nine, which I think is going to pass,
and this has to do with voterregistration. Right now, we have
a voter registration law that says whenyou get your driver's license, when you
go to DMV either get a driver'slicense or you get an identity card,
you are asked do you want tobe registered? And all you have to

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do is say yep, and thensome questions are you in a citizen that
sort of thing, and you eitherif you say yes, you're registered or
you're well, you're basically registered.And there's a whole world there now this
new bill says you are registered unlessyou opt out. And why are they

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pushing that, Well, because thepeople that have a harder time registering are
minorities. Poor people have a hardertime going and registering. So therefore when
they do get their driver's license,because poor people still have to have a
driver's license or a identity card fromthe state, that's the law. That

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is when they get registered or theywill, and therefore then they get to
vote. And my question is,at what point, at what point does
our democracy say you've got to dosomething to be eligible to vote. Let's
say that you have to do somethingaffirmative to engage in your franchise to vote.

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And what you have these advocates aresaying, and this basically read Democrats
because you've got poor folks, you'vegot minorities who are primarily Democrats, and
it's just a straight out political move. We want more of our party there,
and we don't have enough poor people, black people, Latinos like it,

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don't right, but we want morewho actually goes out and registers to
vote. Well, you've got peoplethat have money on their homes, educated
in terms of have college degrees,they're more likely to vote read they are
more conservative, and so now wehappen to want a system where the whole

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world is automatically registered. Come on, everybody in California, really, I
mean, are we then going tohave a system where you simply are automatically
registered to vote and maybe a partyand then they vote for you. There
has to be some active part onpeople to vote. You can't just say

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in this and here's where the Republicans, and I think they're legitimate in this,
there is a line you've got.They've made it easy or easier for
anybody to vote, Longer register periods, except you don't have to worry about
that anymore, Longer times to vote, different ways of voting, people picking

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up your ballots because you can't getto the ballot box. And the Republicans
are saying, and that's for politicalpurposes. That shouldn't happen because the people
that are affected by those laws,those bills happened to be Democrats because they're
poor, because they're minorities, andthe Republicans Republicans saying, that's where you're

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going to the Democrats, that's whereyou're going. At course, the Democrat
introduced this bill. That's what it'sabout, of course, that's what it's
about. And the question is howfar do you go? For example,
last time I voted and all Ido is give my name and give my
address. That's it. Walk intothe polling place and then there they are

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my name, I address. Okay, here's a ballot, and I said,
let me go to my car,and I happen to have I left
my wallet in the car. Letme go there and show you my drivese.
We don't want to see it.I want to prove that I'm William
Handel. No, we don't wantthat. Not interested in you proving your
identity. Wow, that's literally whatwe come to. And when you talk

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about well, here's one for you, why is it that the ballot is
in fifty eight different languages, inlanguages you've never heard of, In languages
that there are two hundred people inthe country that actually speak. And keep
in mind you want an electorate thatis somehow educated, But how many people

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that speak Zulu in California. When'sthe last time you saw an Ada saw
a video, television ad, radioad in which it was fifty eight different
languages. I mean, the realityis is that not everybody should vote.
Oh, by the way, youknow it's against this bill. Here's a
shocker. The ACLU who is againstthe automatic registration to vote. The ACLU,

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how is that possible? I'll tellyou how. Because the ACLU argues
you have the right to not register, and the government saying we're going to
register for you. Wait a minute, you don't have the right to do
that is my choice. Don't getme automatic. And I tell you we're

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completely screwed up. We really are. I'll tell you what I really when
I really like to vote. WhenKrispy Kreme gave you half a dozen donuts
when you voted, did you knowthat actually happened? Yeah, at one
point. I don't know how manyyears ago you can. And this is
where you know the Republicans saying there'sa fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,

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and people vote twice, people votethree times. I am so offended
by that, because I so believein democracy. I would never vote twice
unless Krispy Kreme gives you six donutsto vote, then I'll go in six
times. You've got my vote sixtimes. Hey, free donuts. How

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do you say no to that?Huh? What's going on in Paris?
The Olympics. Well, it isa socially responsible Olympics, and part of
being socially responsible is clearing out themigrants. Now, we have problems,
lots of problems with migrants and thehomeless. Our issue is people coming in

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from south of the border. Forthe most part, theirs is from North
Africa and they have the same problem. I mean, you've got illegal aliens
in their world that are camping outthat you have these pockets, and they
are well, I guess they're fairlyliberal. In Paris, they're cleaning out

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those areas anywhere near the Olympic villages, the venues, the transportation corridors,
and you've got the advocates for thehomeless, for the immigrants screaming like they
do here and it is it's happeningbig, big time. And where are

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they going, Well, they're beingput in temporary areas and they're just going
to come back. And that's theworld. I mean, we immigration around
the world. You have third worldcountries that anytime you have a first world
country allowing people in from third worldcountries, it's not only unlimited, but

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the fervor of them coming in.Living in a third world country today is
really crappy, more so than it'sever been. And the specter, the
the idea of moving into a countrywhere you work and you can eat where
you work, and you are notshot by the police or by gangs.

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I tell you that's a lot ofpeople want to go there, which is
why virtually every country in the worldout there that is allows anybody in.
It's just the number of people isoverwhelming. I mean, it truly is.
I mean, I don't want tosay invasion much like Trump has said,
but certainly the numbers are unlimited,unlimited without border control. It's just

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crazy. For those advocates that aresaying we should open our borders, we
should open our arms. You're talkingtens of millions of people coming in every
year. What do you do withthose? What do you do with that
many people? Do you have asociety that just collapses on itself. Yes,
that's exactly what happens. Okay,kfi A M six forty live everywhere

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