November 7, 2024 • 28 mins
What happens to Trump’s criminal and civil cases now that he’s re-elected? President Biden addresses the nation following Trump’s 2024 election victory. KFI investigative reporter Blake Troli joins the program to share an update on the Mountain Fire in Ventura County
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty and this is KFI Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Here.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It is a Thursday morning, November seventh. We're getting more news.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
About President President elect Trump and what he's going to do.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're going to be talking to Joel large.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Guard a little bit later on and Blake Trolley at
the fire and awaiting the press conference where the current
president Joe Biden is going to be giving remarks after
the Trump win. And what would we expect, by the way,
as soon as he starts, because he was supposed to
start at eight o'clock, and now it's what eight oh eight,
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eight six, eight oh seven.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm very bad with the time here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
They're very bad with the time.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
They seem to be very bad with the time. Also,
remember George W. Bush Ben he would be to the second.
You can set your watch to when he started. In
any case, as soon as the president goes up to
the podium, we'll go ahead and cut right to him.
So he is going to address the nation following the victory.
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And until four months ago, Biden was seeking the re
election and that turned around, and.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Here's what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He decided in July Okay, I'm out, I'm done. Under
intense pressure, he did not decide. He caved to the pressure,
especially after that disastrous.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Debate with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now, we just heard a report by Amy who quoted
Andrew Yang, who was a former presidential candidate on the
Democratic Party who later endorsed Kamala Harris, and he said,
had Kamala Harris been nominated in January where Biden, when
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Biden should have dropped out instead of with all the
Hubers in the world deciding who was going to run again,
because people don't drop out when what you president, you
want to stay president. Had Biden decided in January, the
outcome might very well have been different.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, the outcome would not have been different.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
As I talked about in the last two segments that
the Kamala Harrison, the Democrats were not running against a Republican,
They were not running against a political figure. They were
running against Donald Trump. Now, I know in politics you
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do run against an individual who's representing the party or
running for president for under policy platforms whatever. Donald Trump
has no policy. He was not elected on any issues.
Now there's the issue of inflation, which affected everybody. Well,
bottom line, I think if it was anybody else Donald Trump,
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I think the election would have gone the other way.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Same thing happened in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The worst Democratic candidate that the Democrats could have put forward,
Hillary Clinton, the worst Republican that the Republicans could have
put forward, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was both at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And here I'm not going to say that Kamala Harris
is the worst. I think Kamala Harris has the credentials.
I mean when you look at her as a Senate
at attorney general, a prosecutor, a state attorney general, prosecutor,
you know, I mean there's credentials there.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
There's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And I think she had the capability. I don't have
a problem with that. I think she has the wherewithal.
I think she had the personality. I think she had
the chops to go out and campaign. Clearly, you could
see that she had a great smile. I mean, Donald
Trump's smile is it's about as rictus as you can get,
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isn't it doesn't Donald Trump's smile look like he is
in a coffin and the mortician is making him smile.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But the point is.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
She ran against Donald Trump and Donald Trump today in
this Ay and age. Not because he's a Republican, not
because of his campaign, not because he talked about inflation
that was to an extent, not he talked about immigration
to an extent, but mainly.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Because he is Donald Trump. As I said.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Before, So he the current president, said that he spoke
yesterday with Trump, congratulating Trump, inviting Trump to a meeting
at the heighth White House.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Which is traditional.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
By the way, Trump did not do the reverse when
he lost to Joe Biden and inviting him, and this
is going to happen. The two of them, They'll have breakfast.
This is traditional. They have breakfast at the White House.
They then go down the steps, get into a limousine
and drive together to the inauguration and Joe Biden sits
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in the audience up on the stage as the next
president gets sworn in, which.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
If memory serves, did Donald Trump do that. He did not.
When Biden was elected, He got the hell out of Dodge.
We didn't know if he was going to leave the
White House. He didn't say whether he was going to
leave the White House.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And a peaceful transition of power, and Biden and Harris
both have push push pushed that we are going to
have a transition, a peaceful transition of power, because this
is America.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We are awaiting the president to speak to the nation
about the Trump win and the Harris loss. And he
should be up momentarily, and we will cut my conversation
with you immediately upon the start of his remarks, much
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like my conversation is cut immediately when Amy talks or
Ann interrupts or whatever. All Right, while we're waiting, he
is going to talk about Kamala Harris. And this morning
we talked about her speech yesterday and it was described
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as gracious, it was described as I guess, compassionate, but
the zingers that came through in a left handed way, well,
not even so much in a left handed way.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
She basically accused him of.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well trying to ride the election of Biden, trying to
undermine democracy, talking about the peaceful transfer of power in
which there was some real doubt when Joe Biden took
the presidency. Joe Biden was elected against Donald Trump the
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first time out, and basically just made herself a very
different politician, made herself a very different candidate than this president,
this president elect. And as I have said, and I
have reiterated, it this morning. This is just one weird,
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weird presidency. One of the things, for example, the president
elect has vowed to fire Jack Smith, the special prosecutor,
the second he becomes the president, the second he has
sworn in. As his hand comes down after the swearing
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in ceremony, there will be a document waiting for him
and a pen handed to him, in which he will
fire Jack Smith, a special prosecutor. And then the second
signature will be to order the Justice Department to drop
all the cases against him, all the federal cases against him.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And the third document that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Will be up there will be a pardon of all
the January sixth And I'm going to put this in
quotes patriots who in fact assembled peacefully to try to
uphold the Constitution in not certifying Joe Biden's election. And
that's going to happen virtually immediately. Now can he do
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all of that?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Of course he can.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He is the president and it's all under his powers
as the executive Well, Jack Smith is not waiting. Jack Smith,
You're not going to fire me.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm going to quit.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And that's exactly what he is doing. He has already
made plans to wrap it up. Now you think he
just walks away and you think they just drop it.
There is a process there by which a federal case
is dropped. The only thing that is sort of up
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in the air is the punishment ahead of him. That
he was convicted of the payoff money to Stormy Daniels.
That was a conviction, and so he is about to
be this month, the end of this month, he is going.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
To be sentenced.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That is going to be fascinating. That is going to
be fun to look at. Why, well, have you ever
seen a president Well, first of all, a candidate being
convicted of a crime, A candidate who was president of
the United States convicted of a crime. A judge who
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is going to sentence the president, well, president elect of
a crime.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And what's going to happen? Well, I mean, is he
going to see jail time? I don't think he.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Is going to govern the country from the inside of
a cell. I don't think that's going to happen. So
will be there some kind of probation.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Does the president as president call a probation officer and
check in, telling him where he is living, what he
is doing, working, looking for gainful employment. No one has
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any idea. And then you have lawyers for Trump that
are moving into court and are asking for some kind
of immunity.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Except I don't know where that's going to go.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Why is that Because all of this happened while he
was a candidate. It is well, as I said this,
this guy is so unique, so incredibly unique. Remember, he
was convicted on thirty four counts of falsifying business records
to cover up the hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels,
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who alleged the prior affair with the President elect. Of
course he denies the affair. Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there that doesn't believe that, in fact,
Donald Trump is a womanizer.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Redeaturing the rose garden at the White House destination?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
All right, so we can stop listening to me. I
can stop listening to me.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Perfect, thank you, perfect, thank you, thank you, thank you, please,
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
It's good to see you all, particularly good to see
my granddaughter sitting in the front row here at beIN Hawaii, Honey.
For over two hundred years, America has carried out the
greatest experiment in self government and history of the world.
And that's not hyperbole. That's a fact were the people.
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
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do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The will of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke
with President.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
That's what the American people deserve.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yesterday I also spoke with Vice President Harris. She's been
a partner and a public servant. She ran an inspiring
campaign and everyone got to see something that I learned
early on to respect so much her character. She has
a backbone like a ramrod. She has great character, true character.
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She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and
her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.
You know, the struggle for the soul of America since
our very founding has always been an ongoing debate and
still vital today. I know for some people it's a
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time for victory to state the obvious.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
For others, it's a time of loss.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Campaigns your contest of competing visions, the country chooses one
or the other. We accept the choice the country made.
I've said many times, you can't love your country only
when you win. You can't love your neighbor only when
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you agree something. I hope we can do no matter
who you voted for, they see each other not as adversaries,
but as fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Bring down the temperature.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I also hope we can later rest the question about
the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest,
it is fair, and it is transparent, and it can
be trusted, win or lose.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I also hope we.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Can restore the respect for all our election workers who
busted their necks and took risks at the outset. We
should thank them, thank them for staffing voting sites, counting
the votes, protecting the very integrity of the election. Any
of them are volunteers who do it simply out of
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love for their country and as they did as they
did their duty as citizens. I will do my duty
as president. I'll fulfill my oath and I wanted the Constitution.
On January twentieth, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power
here in America to all our incredible staff, supporters, cabinet members,
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all the people who have been hanging out with me
for the last four years. God love you, as my
mother would say, thank you so much. You put so
much into the past four years. I know it's a
difficult time.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You're hurting.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I hear you, and I see you. But don't forget.
Don't forget all the we accomplished. It's been an historic presidency,
not because I'm president, because what we've done, what you've done,
a presidency for all Americans. Much of the work we've
done is already being felt by an American people. If
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the vast majority of it will not be felt, we
felt over the next ten years, we have it. We
have legislation we passed. It's just only now just really
kicking in. We're going to see over trillion dollars worth
of infrastructure work done, changing people's lives and rural communities
and communities that are in real difficulty because it takes
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time to get it done, and so much more. It's
going to take time, but it's there. The road ahead
is clear, assuming we sustain it. There's so much, so
much we can get done and will get done based
the way the legislation will passed, and it's truly historic.
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You know, we're leaving behind the strongest economy in the world.
I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Together, we've changed America for the better.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Now we have seventy four days to finish the term,
our term. Let's make every day count. That's the responsibility
we have to the American people. Look, folks, you all
know it in their lives. Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving
up is unforgivable.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Setbacks are unavoidable. Giving up is unforgivable.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
We all get knocked down, But the measure of our characters,
my dad would say, is how quickly we get back up. Remember,
a defeat does.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Not mean we are defeated. We lost this battle.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
America of your dreams is calling for you to get
back up. That's the story of America for over two
hundred and forty years and counting. It's a story for
all of us, not just some of us. The American
experiment and doors. We're going to be okay, but we
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need to stay engaged.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We need to.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Keep going, and above all, we need to keep the faith.
So proud to have worked with all of you. I
really mean it, I sincerely mean it. God bless you all,
God bless America and May God protect our troops. Thank you,
thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
An extraordinary thing just happened. A few minutes ago. President
Biden addressed the nation.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Usually whenever there is a win, the candidates.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Are the ones that address the nation.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
The winner addresses the nation, usually at the party that headquarters.
The loser addresses usually at headquarters and concedes and says
the usual, It's been a great fight, and now we
have to unify, and he's our president.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yata. This did not happen.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
President Biden came up and ripped into President elect Trump,
now not specifically, not face on or head on. What
he talked about was the peaceful transfer of power. He
mentioned that several times, obviously in relation to the last
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time when Donald Trump won the presidency, and it was
a real issue as to the peaceful transfer of power,
because Trump had said, first of all, you would never
even concede having lost to this day.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Second of all, he was not there.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
If you don't, if Biden didn't win, why would you concede,
Why would you talk about the peaceful transfer of power?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Based on what Trump believes.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I understand not being there at the White House, getting
on a plane and bailing out.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And totally different.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So Biden talks about the peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
This is what the Constitution is about.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
One of the things that I talked about, and that
is as much as I didn't want Donald Trump to
win the presidency, there was a part of me that
did want Donald Trump to win the presidency.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And I'll tell you why, because.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
There was all the lawsuits had already been filed, and
there was going to be half a civil war if
Donald Trump lost this selection. I don't think it would
have been a civil war that was fighting. I don't
think you would have seen arms, but I think you
would have seen an outrage and a group of Americans
so outraged not recognizing the win. Again, as Donald Trump
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had said, if I don't win, it is rigged. You're
not seeing the Democrats say that, and we don't have
to worry about rigging accusations. All those lawsuits will be dismissed. Now,
there's some real downsides Trump being president. The one that
actually bothers me almost the most is those insurgentists, those
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insurgents who overran the Capitol are going to walk. That
one really bothers me. The attack on the Capitol is,
according to Trump, was a patriotic act by patriots.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Upholding the constitution. That one's a tough one for me
to accept.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The policy stuff, you know, it happens, you know, I mean,
I get it with the tariffs and all that. That's
that's his view, and that's the president's view, and I'm
fine with that.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Not fine, but I'm you know, that's who he is.
But the overrunning of the Capitol was a problem.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So what we have done is we've dodged the bullet
of once again denying that there was a fair and
free election, except this time it was going to be
even worse.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
This time.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I think the outrage of the Trump loss would have
gone beyond anything we've imagined.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And I had said I was pretty scared.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
But we don't have to worry about that because Trump
won and we don't have to worry about a fair
and free election. We don't have to worry about the
accusation of rigging, none of that. And as I said,
we've dodged the bullet. So that is the benefit. I
think a real benefit is sort of a left handed
way that Donald Trump president elect. Donald Trump has won
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and on January twentieth, we are going to have a
new President, who, as he said, literally, the first thing
he is going to do as his hand goes down
from swearing being sworn in, is signed an executive order
deporting eleven million people. That was going to be kind
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of interesting. And other executive actions are going to happen
Day one. All right, now, there is a fire going on,
Mountain Fire in Ventura County, and I was made the
national news last night, and it was big time. When
a fire in southern California makes the national news, you
know it's a big fire. This was a big is
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a big fire. It's the Mountain fire. As I was
watching the I was watching TV and they were showing
video with the fire. The flames were going sideways, the
wind was blowing so hard. Blake Trolley, KFI reporter is there. Blake,
good morning and tell us what's going on.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Well, first and foremost, give me one second, Bill, I'm
having some audio issues. First and foremost. I think the
one thing that we need to address with this fire
is just the level in which you're describing those winds.
They had gus of up to eighty miles per hour yesterday.
Those gus continue this morning. We're told up to forty
miles per hour, and they're expected through at least this afternoon. Now,
this fire started between Somus and More Park. This is
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just kind of northeast of Camrio, you will. It began
burning in some hillsides. It immediately hit brush. It also
hit agriculture. So when I showed up to the fire
yesterday about a couple hours into it burning, it was
burning in hills just above some citrus groves. There's almost
no way it did not hit those citrus groves. And
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as you mentioned, there has been a loss of homes.
I'm hearing numbers of up to fifty. But officials yesterday
told us it was just too dangerous for them to
essentially conduct account. So with that, they're anticipating account this morning.
They're supposed to give us an update in an hour.
I'm curious if we'll actually get a number of those structures.
One of the issues with this fire again and we
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just have to hone this in, is the wind. This
wind was whipping yesterday when we got here, it sent
that fire moving fast. Firefighters really had to take a
priority of getting people out of their homes and to safety.
They said at some points they had to stop what
they were doing to get people who were trapped inside
their homes back to safety. We saw this playout in
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video yesterday. We saw a video of one woman. She
was in a wheelchair. Deputies are trying to get her out.
You see that orange, smoky air through this just blowing
through the area. It was a very intense scene throughout
the night last night. Air crews were dropping water, they
were dropping retardant. That was a challenge initially with this fire.
Keep in mind, when you have winds like this, this
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becomes very challenging for aircraft. So we were told yesterday
they did a survey and decided it was just too
dangerous initially to get those fixed wing aircraft in there
to do those drops. They were able to do some
drops last night, and again this fire burning more than
fourteen thousand acres. Were supposed to get an update here
the next hour.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's going quick.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Do they have any idea as to how the fire started? No.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Reporters that asked about that yesterday and the answer was, look,
we're just trying to put this thing out right now.
We're trying to keep people safe and then we will
address that portion of them.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Okay, all right, Blake going to be there probably most
of the day reporting and it's hopefully it's becomes well,
it's not going to be contained today.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
How quickly is it moving right now?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
It's hard to say how quickly it's moving right now
because we haven't really gotten much of an up acreage
update since last night. But what I could tell you
is that last night or yesterday, really this fire went
from like fourteen hundred acres to eight thousand acres to
more than fourteen thousand acres, so it was moving fast yesterday.
Those winds continued throughout the night. I would imagine the
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acreage is going to grow quite a bit here in
an hour when we get that update.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, Blake, thanks Bake Trolly who's reporting at the
Mountain fire. Big big news on that one.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
All right, guys, we are done. Quick reminder Neil and
I coming up a day after tomorrow on Saturday, the
Fork Report. I'm going to be there and we're going
to do it at Wild Fork in Laguna Neguel and
a lot of good stuff's going on. I'm going to
co host with Neil and Heil. Why don't you tell
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everybody what's going on.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Oh, we're gonna be We've got grills out there. Big
Green Egg is going to be out. There will be
grilling and people will get samples. Will also be giving
away a Mini Max Big Green Egg. You must be
present to win, while Fork has some giveaways they'll be
doing and it'll be a blast. We'll be broadcasting all day. Gosh,
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there's so much going on. It'll be good fun.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Just come on out.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
It's right there on the corner of Lapause Road and
Aliso Creek Road in Laguna Negal and there'll be tons
of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, should be there, Come out and say hello.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Zelman's will also be there and there'll be some samples
and by the way from me, Okay, you don't know this, Neil,
but I this is a big one. I am going
to give away absolutely nothing, but come on out and
you can win.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
As someone who's known you for thirty years, you only
give nothing to your favorite people.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
That's true. So that's gonna be huge, all right, So
come on out, come.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
On out, and Neil and I will be there and
we'd love to see you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It's always fun, bro.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I love broadcasting with Neil because we harass each other
beyond anything, and eating together, watching Neil and I eat,
or actually.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Watching me, Neil and Me eat. Everyone's get confused. So
at one I actually used to know grammar, you know,
go figure all right, guys.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Tomorrow morning wake up call with Amy at five am,
Neil and I come aboard.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Of course, Kono and Ann are here.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Here.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It is a Thursday morning, November seventh. We're getting more news.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
About President President elect Trump and what he's going to do.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're going to be talking to Joel large.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Guard a little bit later on and Blake Trolley at
the fire and awaiting the press conference where the current
president Joe Biden is going to be giving remarks after
the Trump win. And what would we expect, by the way,
as soon as he starts, because he was supposed to
start at eight o'clock, and now it's what eight oh eight,
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eight six, eight oh seven.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm very bad with the time here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
They're very bad with the time.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
They seem to be very bad with the time. Also,
remember George W. Bush Ben he would be to the second.
You can set your watch to when he started. In
any case, as soon as the president goes up to
the podium, we'll go ahead and cut right to him.
So he is going to address the nation following the victory.
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And until four months ago, Biden was seeking the re
election and that turned around, and.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Here's what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He decided in July Okay, I'm out, I'm done. Under
intense pressure, he did not decide. He caved to the pressure,
especially after that disastrous.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Debate with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now, we just heard a report by Amy who quoted
Andrew Yang, who was a former presidential candidate on the
Democratic Party who later endorsed Kamala Harris, and he said,
had Kamala Harris been nominated in January where Biden, when
(01:58):
Biden should have dropped out instead of with all the
Hubers in the world deciding who was going to run again,
because people don't drop out when what you president, you
want to stay president. Had Biden decided in January, the
outcome might very well have been different.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, the outcome would not have been different.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
As I talked about in the last two segments that
the Kamala Harrison, the Democrats were not running against a Republican,
They were not running against a political figure. They were
running against Donald Trump. Now, I know in politics you
(02:37):
do run against an individual who's representing the party or
running for president for under policy platforms whatever. Donald Trump
has no policy. He was not elected on any issues.
Now there's the issue of inflation, which affected everybody. Well,
bottom line, I think if it was anybody else Donald Trump,
(03:00):
I think the election would have gone the other way.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Same thing happened in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The worst Democratic candidate that the Democrats could have put forward,
Hillary Clinton, the worst Republican that the Republicans could have
put forward, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was both at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And here I'm not going to say that Kamala Harris
is the worst. I think Kamala Harris has the credentials.
I mean when you look at her as a Senate
at attorney general, a prosecutor, a state attorney general, prosecutor,
you know, I mean there's credentials there.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
There's no question about that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And I think she had the capability. I don't have
a problem with that. I think she has the wherewithal.
I think she had the personality. I think she had
the chops to go out and campaign. Clearly, you could
see that she had a great smile. I mean, Donald
Trump's smile is it's about as rictus as you can get,
(04:06):
isn't it doesn't Donald Trump's smile look like he is
in a coffin and the mortician is making him smile.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But the point is.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
She ran against Donald Trump and Donald Trump today in
this Ay and age. Not because he's a Republican, not
because of his campaign, not because he talked about inflation
that was to an extent, not he talked about immigration
to an extent, but mainly.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Because he is Donald Trump. As I said.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Before, So he the current president, said that he spoke
yesterday with Trump, congratulating Trump, inviting Trump to a meeting
at the heighth White House.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Which is traditional.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
By the way, Trump did not do the reverse when
he lost to Joe Biden and inviting him, and this
is going to happen. The two of them, They'll have breakfast.
This is traditional. They have breakfast at the White House.
They then go down the steps, get into a limousine
and drive together to the inauguration and Joe Biden sits
(05:19):
in the audience up on the stage as the next
president gets sworn in, which.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
If memory serves, did Donald Trump do that. He did not.
When Biden was elected, He got the hell out of Dodge.
We didn't know if he was going to leave the
White House. He didn't say whether he was going to
leave the White House.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And a peaceful transition of power, and Biden and Harris
both have push push pushed that we are going to
have a transition, a peaceful transition of power, because this
is America.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
We are awaiting the president to speak to the nation
about the Trump win and the Harris loss. And he
should be up momentarily, and we will cut my conversation
with you immediately upon the start of his remarks, much
(06:17):
like my conversation is cut immediately when Amy talks or
Ann interrupts or whatever. All Right, while we're waiting, he
is going to talk about Kamala Harris. And this morning
we talked about her speech yesterday and it was described
(06:37):
as gracious, it was described as I guess, compassionate, but
the zingers that came through in a left handed way, well,
not even so much in a left handed way.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
She basically accused him of.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well trying to ride the election of Biden, trying to
undermine democracy, talking about the peaceful transfer of power in
which there was some real doubt when Joe Biden took
the presidency. Joe Biden was elected against Donald Trump the
(07:17):
first time out, and basically just made herself a very
different politician, made herself a very different candidate than this president,
this president elect. And as I have said, and I
have reiterated, it this morning. This is just one weird,
(07:39):
weird presidency. One of the things, for example, the president
elect has vowed to fire Jack Smith, the special prosecutor,
the second he becomes the president, the second he has
sworn in. As his hand comes down after the swearing
(08:01):
in ceremony, there will be a document waiting for him
and a pen handed to him, in which he will
fire Jack Smith, a special prosecutor. And then the second
signature will be to order the Justice Department to drop
all the cases against him, all the federal cases against him.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And the third document that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Will be up there will be a pardon of all
the January sixth And I'm going to put this in
quotes patriots who in fact assembled peacefully to try to
uphold the Constitution in not certifying Joe Biden's election. And
that's going to happen virtually immediately. Now can he do
(08:49):
all of that?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Of course he can.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He is the president and it's all under his powers
as the executive Well, Jack Smith is not waiting. Jack Smith,
You're not going to fire me.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm going to quit.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And that's exactly what he is doing. He has already
made plans to wrap it up. Now you think he
just walks away and you think they just drop it.
There is a process there by which a federal case
is dropped. The only thing that is sort of up
(09:24):
in the air is the punishment ahead of him. That
he was convicted of the payoff money to Stormy Daniels.
That was a conviction, and so he is about to
be this month, the end of this month, he is going.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
To be sentenced.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That is going to be fascinating. That is going to
be fun to look at. Why, well, have you ever
seen a president Well, first of all, a candidate being
convicted of a crime, A candidate who was president of
the United States convicted of a crime. A judge who
(10:08):
is going to sentence the president, well, president elect of
a crime.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And what's going to happen? Well, I mean, is he
going to see jail time? I don't think he.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Is going to govern the country from the inside of
a cell. I don't think that's going to happen. So
will be there some kind of probation.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Does the president as president call a probation officer and
check in, telling him where he is living, what he
is doing, working, looking for gainful employment. No one has
(10:54):
any idea. And then you have lawyers for Trump that
are moving into court and are asking for some kind
of immunity.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Except I don't know where that's going to go.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Why is that Because all of this happened while he
was a candidate. It is well, as I said this,
this guy is so unique, so incredibly unique. Remember, he
was convicted on thirty four counts of falsifying business records
to cover up the hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels,
(11:34):
who alleged the prior affair with the President elect. Of
course he denies the affair. Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there that doesn't believe that, in fact,
Donald Trump is a womanizer.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Redeaturing the rose garden at the White House destination?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
All right, so we can stop listening to me. I
can stop listening to me.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Perfect, thank you, perfect, thank you, thank you, thank you, please,
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
It's good to see you all, particularly good to see
my granddaughter sitting in the front row here at beIN Hawaii, Honey.
For over two hundred years, America has carried out the
greatest experiment in self government and history of the world.
And that's not hyperbole. That's a fact were the people.
The people vote and choose their own leaders, and they
(12:35):
do it peacefully, and we're in a democracy.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The will of the people always prevails. Yesterday I spoke
with President.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I
assured him I direct my entire administration to work with
his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
That's what the American people deserve.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yesterday I also spoke with Vice President Harris. She's been
a partner and a public servant. She ran an inspiring
campaign and everyone got to see something that I learned
early on to respect so much her character. She has
a backbone like a ramrod. She has great character, true character.
(13:22):
She gave her whole heart and effort, and she and
her entire team should be proud of the campaign they ran.
You know, the struggle for the soul of America since
our very founding has always been an ongoing debate and
still vital today. I know for some people it's a
(13:44):
time for victory to state the obvious.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
For others, it's a time of loss.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Campaigns your contest of competing visions, the country chooses one
or the other. We accept the choice the country made.
I've said many times, you can't love your country only
when you win. You can't love your neighbor only when
(14:12):
you agree something. I hope we can do no matter
who you voted for, they see each other not as adversaries,
but as fellow Americans.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Bring down the temperature.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I also hope we can later rest the question about
the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest,
it is fair, and it is transparent, and it can
be trusted, win or lose.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I also hope we.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Can restore the respect for all our election workers who
busted their necks and took risks at the outset. We
should thank them, thank them for staffing voting sites, counting
the votes, protecting the very integrity of the election. Any
of them are volunteers who do it simply out of
(15:03):
love for their country and as they did as they
did their duty as citizens. I will do my duty
as president. I'll fulfill my oath and I wanted the Constitution.
On January twentieth, we'll have a peaceful transfer of power
here in America to all our incredible staff, supporters, cabinet members,
(15:27):
all the people who have been hanging out with me
for the last four years. God love you, as my
mother would say, thank you so much. You put so
much into the past four years. I know it's a
difficult time.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You're hurting.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
I hear you, and I see you. But don't forget.
Don't forget all the we accomplished. It's been an historic presidency,
not because I'm president, because what we've done, what you've done,
a presidency for all Americans. Much of the work we've
done is already being felt by an American people. If
(16:00):
the vast majority of it will not be felt, we
felt over the next ten years, we have it. We
have legislation we passed. It's just only now just really
kicking in. We're going to see over trillion dollars worth
of infrastructure work done, changing people's lives and rural communities
and communities that are in real difficulty because it takes
(16:23):
time to get it done, and so much more. It's
going to take time, but it's there. The road ahead
is clear, assuming we sustain it. There's so much, so
much we can get done and will get done based
the way the legislation will passed, and it's truly historic.
(16:44):
You know, we're leaving behind the strongest economy in the world.
I know people are still hurting, but things are changing rapidly.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Together, we've changed America for the better.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Now we have seventy four days to finish the term,
our term. Let's make every day count. That's the responsibility
we have to the American people. Look, folks, you all
know it in their lives. Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving
up is unforgivable.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Setbacks are unavoidable. Giving up is unforgivable.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
We all get knocked down, But the measure of our characters,
my dad would say, is how quickly we get back up. Remember,
a defeat does.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Not mean we are defeated. We lost this battle.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
America of your dreams is calling for you to get
back up. That's the story of America for over two
hundred and forty years and counting. It's a story for
all of us, not just some of us. The American
experiment and doors. We're going to be okay, but we
(18:00):
need to stay engaged.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We need to.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Keep going, and above all, we need to keep the faith.
So proud to have worked with all of you. I
really mean it, I sincerely mean it. God bless you all,
God bless America and May God protect our troops. Thank you,
thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
An extraordinary thing just happened. A few minutes ago. President
Biden addressed the nation.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Usually whenever there is a win, the candidates.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Are the ones that address the nation.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
The winner addresses the nation, usually at the party that headquarters.
The loser addresses usually at headquarters and concedes and says
the usual, It's been a great fight, and now we
have to unify, and he's our president.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yata. This did not happen.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
President Biden came up and ripped into President elect Trump,
now not specifically, not face on or head on. What
he talked about was the peaceful transfer of power. He
mentioned that several times, obviously in relation to the last
(19:28):
time when Donald Trump won the presidency, and it was
a real issue as to the peaceful transfer of power,
because Trump had said, first of all, you would never
even concede having lost to this day.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Second of all, he was not there.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
If you don't, if Biden didn't win, why would you concede,
Why would you talk about the peaceful transfer of power?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Based on what Trump believes.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I understand not being there at the White House, getting
on a plane and bailing out.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And totally different.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So Biden talks about the peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
This is what the Constitution is about.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
One of the things that I talked about, and that
is as much as I didn't want Donald Trump to
win the presidency, there was a part of me that
did want Donald Trump to win the presidency.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And I'll tell you why, because.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
There was all the lawsuits had already been filed, and
there was going to be half a civil war if
Donald Trump lost this selection. I don't think it would
have been a civil war that was fighting. I don't
think you would have seen arms, but I think you
would have seen an outrage and a group of Americans
so outraged not recognizing the win. Again, as Donald Trump
(20:45):
had said, if I don't win, it is rigged. You're
not seeing the Democrats say that, and we don't have
to worry about rigging accusations. All those lawsuits will be dismissed. Now,
there's some real downsides Trump being president. The one that
actually bothers me almost the most is those insurgentists, those
(21:09):
insurgents who overran the Capitol are going to walk. That
one really bothers me. The attack on the Capitol is,
according to Trump, was a patriotic act by patriots.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Upholding the constitution. That one's a tough one for me
to accept.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The policy stuff, you know, it happens, you know, I mean,
I get it with the tariffs and all that. That's
that's his view, and that's the president's view, and I'm
fine with that.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Not fine, but I'm you know, that's who he is.
But the overrunning of the Capitol was a problem.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So what we have done is we've dodged the bullet
of once again denying that there was a fair and
free election, except this time it was going to be
even worse.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
This time.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I think the outrage of the Trump loss would have
gone beyond anything we've imagined.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And I had said I was pretty scared.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
But we don't have to worry about that because Trump
won and we don't have to worry about a fair
and free election. We don't have to worry about the
accusation of rigging, none of that. And as I said,
we've dodged the bullet. So that is the benefit. I
think a real benefit is sort of a left handed
way that Donald Trump president elect. Donald Trump has won
(22:33):
and on January twentieth, we are going to have a
new President, who, as he said, literally, the first thing
he is going to do as his hand goes down
from swearing being sworn in, is signed an executive order
deporting eleven million people. That was going to be kind
(22:53):
of interesting. And other executive actions are going to happen
Day one. All right, now, there is a fire going on,
Mountain Fire in Ventura County, and I was made the
national news last night, and it was big time. When
a fire in southern California makes the national news, you
know it's a big fire. This was a big is
(23:14):
a big fire. It's the Mountain fire. As I was
watching the I was watching TV and they were showing
video with the fire. The flames were going sideways, the
wind was blowing so hard. Blake Trolley, KFI reporter is there. Blake,
good morning and tell us what's going on.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Well, first and foremost, give me one second, Bill, I'm
having some audio issues. First and foremost. I think the
one thing that we need to address with this fire
is just the level in which you're describing those winds.
They had gus of up to eighty miles per hour yesterday.
Those gus continue this morning. We're told up to forty
miles per hour, and they're expected through at least this afternoon. Now,
this fire started between Somus and More Park. This is
(23:57):
just kind of northeast of Camrio, you will. It began
burning in some hillsides. It immediately hit brush. It also
hit agriculture. So when I showed up to the fire
yesterday about a couple hours into it burning, it was
burning in hills just above some citrus groves. There's almost
no way it did not hit those citrus groves. And
(24:18):
as you mentioned, there has been a loss of homes.
I'm hearing numbers of up to fifty. But officials yesterday
told us it was just too dangerous for them to
essentially conduct account. So with that, they're anticipating account this morning.
They're supposed to give us an update in an hour.
I'm curious if we'll actually get a number of those structures.
One of the issues with this fire again and we
(24:39):
just have to hone this in, is the wind. This
wind was whipping yesterday when we got here, it sent
that fire moving fast. Firefighters really had to take a
priority of getting people out of their homes and to safety.
They said at some points they had to stop what
they were doing to get people who were trapped inside
their homes back to safety. We saw this playout in
(25:02):
video yesterday. We saw a video of one woman. She
was in a wheelchair. Deputies are trying to get her out.
You see that orange, smoky air through this just blowing
through the area. It was a very intense scene throughout
the night last night. Air crews were dropping water, they
were dropping retardant. That was a challenge initially with this fire.
Keep in mind, when you have winds like this, this
(25:25):
becomes very challenging for aircraft. So we were told yesterday
they did a survey and decided it was just too
dangerous initially to get those fixed wing aircraft in there
to do those drops. They were able to do some
drops last night, and again this fire burning more than
fourteen thousand acres. Were supposed to get an update here
the next hour.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's going quick.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Do they have any idea as to how the fire started? No.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Reporters that asked about that yesterday and the answer was, look,
we're just trying to put this thing out right now.
We're trying to keep people safe and then we will
address that portion of them.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Okay, all right, Blake going to be there probably most
of the day reporting and it's hopefully it's becomes well,
it's not going to be contained today.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
How quickly is it moving right now?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
It's hard to say how quickly it's moving right now
because we haven't really gotten much of an up acreage
update since last night. But what I could tell you
is that last night or yesterday, really this fire went
from like fourteen hundred acres to eight thousand acres to
more than fourteen thousand acres, so it was moving fast yesterday.
Those winds continued throughout the night. I would imagine the
(26:32):
acreage is going to grow quite a bit here in
an hour when we get that update.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, Blake, thanks Bake Trolly who's reporting at the
Mountain fire. Big big news on that one.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
All right, guys, we are done. Quick reminder Neil and
I coming up a day after tomorrow on Saturday, the
Fork Report. I'm going to be there and we're going
to do it at Wild Fork in Laguna Neguel and
a lot of good stuff's going on. I'm going to
co host with Neil and Heil. Why don't you tell
(27:01):
everybody what's going on.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Oh, we're gonna be We've got grills out there. Big
Green Egg is going to be out. There will be
grilling and people will get samples. Will also be giving
away a Mini Max Big Green Egg. You must be
present to win, while Fork has some giveaways they'll be
doing and it'll be a blast. We'll be broadcasting all day. Gosh,
(27:25):
there's so much going on. It'll be good fun.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Just come on out.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
It's right there on the corner of Lapause Road and
Aliso Creek Road in Laguna Negal and there'll be tons
of fun.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, should be there, Come out and say hello.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Zelman's will also be there and there'll be some samples
and by the way from me, Okay, you don't know this, Neil,
but I this is a big one. I am going
to give away absolutely nothing, but come on out and
you can win.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
As someone who's known you for thirty years, you only
give nothing to your favorite people.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
That's true. So that's gonna be huge, all right, So
come on out, come.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
On out, and Neil and I will be there and
we'd love to see you.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It's always fun, bro.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I love broadcasting with Neil because we harass each other
beyond anything, and eating together, watching Neil and I eat,
or actually.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Watching me, Neil and Me eat. Everyone's get confused. So
at one I actually used to know grammar, you know,
go figure all right, guys.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Tomorrow morning wake up call with Amy at five am,
Neil and I come aboard.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Of course, Kono and Ann are here.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
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