January 27, 2025 • 24 mins
In the new order, Trump cited the Los Angeles fires, even though the actions he is ordering, delivering more water from the federal Central Valley Project would primarily serve farms. Some presidents turn to think tanks to staff their administrations. Others turn to alumni of previous White Houses. Donald Trump has turned to Fox News to fill the ranks of his Cabinet.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. A couple
of big stories were following. First of all, the Philadelphia
Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs going to the Super Bowl,
Kansas City Chiefs third time and they may do it
third time in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And also, we've got the borders are.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Tom Homan has come out and said, here's what we're doing,
and it's true, picking up migrants from all over the
country and deporting.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Them, I mean by the thousands. So we know that's happening. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Now, a word about Donald Trump that I want to
share with you, and that is sometimes there is a
logic to what he does. Now you may disagree with it.
For example, in the case of deportations, he has said
that illegal migrants are violating the law. They are and
(01:03):
they are a danger to our society, and some are
and therefore we're going to toss them out. Okay, there's
a logic to that, Okay, anti illegal immigration logic. Then
there is stuff that's not only illogical but downright crazy,
and that has to do with our la fires. Trump
(01:27):
directed federal agencies to immediately take actions to override water
operations and environmental rules, arguing that it's environmental rules that
in fact caused the fires and not enough water came down,
So immediate action to deliver more Central Valley water and
(01:50):
eliminate rules that stand in the way, including endangered and
species protections. Now I happen to be in favor of
eliminating species protection because one of my favorite foods is
breast of bald eagle, and unfortunately it was taken off
the menu years ago, and we're going to go back
(02:12):
to that.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
A little lemon, a little lemon, butter on the breast
to cook it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So the new order Trump's side la fires and the
actions as he's ordering, which is delivering more water from
the Federal Central Valley Project, which by the way, would
primarily serve farms. None of that water goes to cities
like Palisades.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Zero, none, nada.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And he is saying that releasing all of the water
from the Central Valley would save us from future fires,
and had he done it sooner, the fires would have been.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Able to be put out.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, here's the reality here, and that is the water
from the Federal Central Valley Project serves farms. Primarily, About
seventy five percent of Central Valley Project.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Water is used for agriculture. That's three quarters.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The rest goes to cities and towns in the San
Joaquin Valley, which is Sacramento and Fresno. And Trump's order reads,
in particular, the Secretary of the Intenure Interior and the
Secretary of Commerce shall immediately take actions to override existing
(03:36):
activities that unduly burden efforts to maximize water deliveries to
wear to the farms. And we're talking about rules that
guide two massive delta water systems, the federal Central Valley
Project and a state operated system, the State Water Project.
(03:56):
And these are networks of reservoirs, pumps, canals that deliver
that water to million acres of farm land and thirty
million people.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And they get the water from rivers.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That go into the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta and San
Francisco Bay. Nothing to do with southern California, by the way,
it imperils chinook, salmon, smelt, and sturgeon. And frankly, who cares, Neil,
(04:31):
you're our foody guy.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Can you even cook smelt? Uh? You know what, I've
never cooked smelt?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Of course you haven't. Why because you cook it and
it smells.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It smells whoever smelt it the delt it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And by the way, the smelt sturgeon and chinook salmon
are protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act, and Trump
ordered the federal agencies to quote expedite action related to
any exemption under the Endangered Species Act, which is basically gone.
There's no such thing as endangered species in a more
(05:11):
or protected. Now we go back to breast of bald eagle,
which is absolutely delicious.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know what else is good? Gray owl happens to
be delicious too. Oh yes, spotted owl. So the smell, yeah,
I think it's a spotted owl. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
They're t and the like hey hello, yes, So you
eat them like sardines.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Their bones are soft and you eat the whole fish. Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And this is all for the long term operation of
the water delivery systems.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean, this is crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He directed the Federal Bureau of Reclamation to take all
available measures to ensure that state agencies, including the California
Department of Water Resources, do not interfere with his new
executive action.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I'm going to come back and finish it up and.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Tell you about the reaction to this, because this one
is just downright crazy. I mean, it's just not only weird,
but come on, guy, this can't be true.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah it is. And I'll come back and finish that up.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm going to continue on with the story that the President,
in an executive action, directed federal agencies to immediately take
actions to override water operations and environmental rules.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And that's up.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The Central Delta from the San Francisco Sacramento area.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And the reason he did that.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Is had that water come to southern California, those fires
that we had would have been put out. The problem
is that water does, will not and cannot go to
the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But he sort of made this up.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And so the two massive delta water systems, that's reservoirs, pumps,
canals deliver water to farmland and thirty million people.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And all it does.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Is increase water to farmland and Sacramento and Fresdo. And
of course it gets rid of a not of course,
but with the Trump philosophy, it gets rid of endangered
species rules. I mean just all gone, and environmental groups
are gonna sue because his action overrides the Endangered Species Act.
(07:47):
The project manager of the State Water Project said, don't
be fooled by Trump's lives. None of the policies in
this executive order will move even a single drop of
extra water to the communities devastated by these wildfires. The
administration is presenting us with false choices. That's according to
a California Democrat, and you've got some community watchdog environmental
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groups warned that these actions will quote have a devastating
consequences for California's water future, public health, environmental protections.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Because they do nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
For southern California and giving us more water it would
benefit farmers.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Basically.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
San Francisco Baykeeper Science director John Rosenfield called the administration
a lawless regime that uses extortion to enrich political supporters.
You know, Trump's order says, quote it is in the
nation's interest to ensure California has what it needs to
fight these fires and others in the future. So here's
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the problem, he says, if we had that water. But
if we had that water, we don't have that water
because where it comes to us now there are some issues.
Remember the reservoir and Pacific Palisades that ran dry.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That is an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
The pumps, the hydrants running dry. I don't know if
that's an issue. Because so many hydrants were used, water
pressure dropped, and you couldn't keep up with a fire,
couldn't put aircraft in the war in the air one
hundred miles an hour win. How do you fight those?
And you have fire experts saying you don't. You can't
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fight those. So there was a sudden surgeon demand, limited
capacity of city pipelines, not a lack of water supply.
And the experts are saying that the hydrants, the number
of hydrants, the extent that they were needed for.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Hours and hours, there aren't enough.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Further, experts are telling us there isn't a city water
supply in the country that could have dealt with a
fire successfully.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It was moving so rapidly, so crazily.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, so this is kind of interesting, all right, this
is what's being said. The order follows a series of
remarks in recent weeks by the President that reflect a
profound misunderstanding of California's water supply, weaving between inaccurate, inaccurate,
(10:22):
and fantastical. So he was visiting, visiting, He was visiting
Palisades in the aftermath of the wildfires. He came down,
which he should have. I give him credit for that.
He said, we have to have water. You're talking about
unlimited water coming down from the Pacific North Northwest, even
(10:42):
coming down from parts of Canada. It pours naturally. You
never run out, you'll never have shortages, you won't have
things like this. And when you do have a lot
of water, to put it out. Water Well, first of all,
let me give you a couple of facts. Water does
not come from Canada, not a drop. The Pacific Northwest
(11:03):
does not feed in the Central Valley rivers. The water
we get comes primarily from the Sierra Nevada snow melt
and from parts of the water supply.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
System, but not the San Joaquin Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So the order that he signed includes provisions to expedite
aid victims. Good for her, good for him, excuse me,
victims of wildfire and Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. And
he flew when he came here, he flew first to
North Carolina. Then he came down and visited the areas
(11:44):
that were devastated, not the eating fire, right, not Altadena,
which and again he's gonna get a lot degreef from
that one. Why because Altadena had the most deaths seventeen
and it's a much poorer area than the Palisades, much poorer.
Multimillion dollar homes in the Palisades, not so much in Altadena.
(12:09):
He spent about two hours on the ground, and you
would think and there was talk about him snubbing Gavin Newsom,
who was at the tarmac waiting for him to go
down the steps, and no one of the Air Force one,
no one knew what was going to happen. He was
extraordinarily gracious. He told Gavin Neussom, I'm going to do
(12:30):
everything I can. Gavin Newsom was there. We don't know
exactly what he said because it was private. It was
whispering back and forth and you couldn't hear it over
the noise. But Trump was extraordinarily gracious and offered a
lot of help to Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's like they were almost buddies.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And not once did Trump call Gavin Neussom gavinus Comb
while he was here.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And then of course he went.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Back and he did again, Okay, telling you about you
know what We're going to talk so much about Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
How can you not?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
How can you not blind partisanship? Does it help Trump?
I mean going off cliffs like Lemmings? Does it help?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And I'll cover that one when we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It is a January twenty seven a couple of stories
we are covering. Trump's expected to sign three executive orders
today reshaping the military, banning transgender service members, and getting
rid of the military's diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which
(13:43):
he's already gotten rid of for an executive order undoing the.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Diversity programs.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Now, oh, by the way, we're still doing Handle Ask Handle.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Anything and so what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, ask handle anything is ask handle anything. And this
is a relatively a new segment where you ask me
any questions. And people are always asking me personal questions.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Whenever I go out and you know, I'm out and about.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So we started this where you can go to our
recording and ask me anything and I'll answer it. I'm
pretty upfront about it and it's kind of fun. So
here's your chance to ask you go to the iHeart
app during the show go to the KFI page. At
the top right corner of the KFI page, there's a
small microphone.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Hit that microphone record your question. You have fifteen seconds to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Ask a question, and that's it. I don't want your views,
I don't care about your opinions. Just ask a question,
and Neil and Ann pick the questions. And I do
it on Friday, and I get embarrassed too, because I'm
pretty honest about it. Okay, Now I'm going to spend
two segments on the because I don't have a whole
lot of time this segment and that is where Trump.
(15:06):
Oh what another another story on Trump. So usually presidents
get their cabinet picks from former either executives in the
financial world or previous governmental appointees, you know, for example
chairman of the Fedgeenet Yellen, among others, Bernaki, and or
(15:33):
they'll go to former high level government officials because of
the expertise. Now do you know where Trump is getting
most of his cabinet picks?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Do you know where he's going? Fox News?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's going to Fox and he's filling the ranks of
his cabinet with Fox. For example, you have Pete heags.
It was just confirmed to be Secretary of Defense. This
was Friday night, and what was one of his jobs
before former Fox and Friends host Pete Hegsith, who is
(16:12):
our new Secretary of Defense now. He was in the
Army Armed Services. Not only did he serve honorably, but
he also was in combat. He has never had an
executive position. He has never run an organization. He has
(16:34):
had all kinds of personal issues like being let's say,
loving alcohol, which he had, which he admitted, by the way,
having a serial adulterous affair he admitted by the way,
saying they're all consensual. And the argument that he committed
(16:55):
sexual assault he denies.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Even though the accusation is there, does it matter.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It does not because, as one senator, Republican senator says,
we have to shake up the Defense Department, and Pete.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Hegsith is the guy to do it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm gonna come back and tell you about other major appointees,
whose main claim to fame, whose experience, whose credentials are
they were part of part of Fox News. I mean,
it's really interesting, interesting stuff. I mean, we've how many
(17:38):
times have I told you we're into an administration we've
never seen before that no other President would touch tell
you one thing, No one's coming out of MSNBC guaranteed,
We're coming back, and I'll finish that up.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI A sixty.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Some of the stories we are covering the immigration crackdown
is here. Trump promises, Trump delivers, and the Democrats totally
misread the American people and what they wanted completely, And
Trump was right on with his immigration policy and thinking,
(18:23):
and it's exactly he promised, he is delivering. And today thousands,
tens of thousands of Palestinians are returning to Northern Gaza,
leaving the camps, the temporary camps, going to Northern Gaza
and they'll be living in temporary camps for the next
(18:44):
who the hell knows. And the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City
Chiefs going to the Super Bowl. Now, I'm going to
go back to the cabinet positions that have been nominated
by Trump, and virtually all of them will of course
win nomination will be confirmed.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And where is he getting them?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Where is this president getting his cabinet picks from.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Fox News?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
He loves Fox News, Fox News loves him. Pete Hegseeth,
who was just confirmed Secretary of Defense Friday Night. Former
Fox and Friends hoax host Pam Bondi, former guest hosts
on track to be confirmed as Attorney General. Sean Duffy,
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a former Fox Business host, will probably win confirmation as
Secretary of Transportation. Now Fox contributor a lot of times
she's on Fox. Tulca Gabbard, that's sort of up in
the air. Trump nominated her to be Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
There's some real.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Issues because she, first of all, has no intelligence background
at all, and generally head of National Intelligence, which is
oversees all of the intelligence agencies. You want some experience
in intelligence, not quite as in none. Now she is
(20:15):
a war veteran and is you know, basically I would
say a patriot. That's fair, but national Intelligence director. By
the way, she has the thing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
For Bashar Asad too.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
She sort of really liked him and met with him
twice secretly.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
That may be a problem.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You've got borders are Tom Holman, also Fox FDA Commissioner Designant,
Marty Macari, Fox Surgeon General designate Janet Neshawatt all spend
hours on Fox.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So what is the ideology of everybody?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well, they are super Trump is now there are a
lot of people that Trump wants to be super trumpst
but that may not necessarily help him because what the
cabinet is about is obviously going forward with Trump's policies,
but also telling him where he's wrong, saying, hey, wait
(21:17):
a minute, I've got real problems with this, and that's
what happened during the first Trump administration that will not
happen here. It looks like Trump has two criteria. Allegiance
to Trump and actually whether they look TV ready, I mean,
these are people from TV. They know what they're doing.
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They simply know how to answer questions. So, for example,
Bondi avoided questions about the twenty twenty election. She was
asked during the confirmation hearings, do you believe the election
was stolen?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
She was a fervent election deny and she.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Is there as Attorney General designate.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And you know how she answered that, do you believe
the election was stolen?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
She answered it with Joe Biden was the president of
the United States. He was the president for four years. Okay,
let me ask that question again, do you believe that
the election was stolen? And she once again said, I
(22:35):
believe that Joe Biden was the president.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Of the United States.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And by the way, most of them, and probably all
of them Trump's Fox appointees are going to be confirmed.
And why well, because Fox has been an ardent supporter
of Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
The what ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Percent of television appearances were on Fox. Fox loved him,
He loved Fox. And we're looking at a group of Republicans,
ardent Trump supporters, acolytes, sickophants. I mean, there's no question
(23:20):
about that. Do you think any one of them are
going to be independent? Now, you don't expect them to
be independent and not forward his.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Agenda.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I get that they're his picks, they work for him,
but unadulterated lemmings, a Lemming philosophy.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I mean, do we want that?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I mean, I'll tell you, Secretary of Defense, for me,
is not a guy who was what a lieutenant in the.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Army, and that's his entire background. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well, actually I do get it, because we know at
probably the most important aspect of any Trump follower, any
Trump appointee, is fealty to Donald Trump. That's a reality,
you know, and those people I know you're hearing me
talk about various aspects of Donald Trump, most of them negative.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's I think most of them are negative.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I mean I try to be some even somewhat even handed,
although I'm being accused of never being even handed.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
But tell me that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Fealty is not the most important, the most important aspect
of someone who is appointed by Trump. All right, coming out,
Pete Hegseth takes charge of the Pentagon. What we're expecting
and what the Pentagon.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Is looking forward to. You've been listening to The Bill
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Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. A couple
of big stories were following. First of all, the Philadelphia
Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs going to the Super Bowl,
Kansas City Chiefs third time and they may do it
third time in a row.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And also, we've got the borders are.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Tom Homan has come out and said, here's what we're doing,
and it's true, picking up migrants from all over the
country and deporting.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Them, I mean by the thousands. So we know that's happening. Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Now, a word about Donald Trump that I want to
share with you, and that is sometimes there is a
logic to what he does. Now you may disagree with it.
For example, in the case of deportations, he has said
that illegal migrants are violating the law. They are and
(01:03):
they are a danger to our society, and some are
and therefore we're going to toss them out. Okay, there's
a logic to that, Okay, anti illegal immigration logic. Then
there is stuff that's not only illogical but downright crazy,
and that has to do with our la fires. Trump
(01:27):
directed federal agencies to immediately take actions to override water
operations and environmental rules, arguing that it's environmental rules that
in fact caused the fires and not enough water came down,
So immediate action to deliver more Central Valley water and
(01:50):
eliminate rules that stand in the way, including endangered and
species protections. Now I happen to be in favor of
eliminating species protection because one of my favorite foods is
breast of bald eagle, and unfortunately it was taken off
the menu years ago, and we're going to go back
(02:12):
to that.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
A little lemon, a little lemon, butter on the breast
to cook it. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So the new order Trump's side la fires and the
actions as he's ordering, which is delivering more water from
the Federal Central Valley Project, which by the way, would
primarily serve farms. None of that water goes to cities
like Palisades.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Zero, none, nada.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And he is saying that releasing all of the water
from the Central Valley would save us from future fires,
and had he done it sooner, the fires would have been.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Able to be put out.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, here's the reality here, and that is the water
from the Federal Central Valley Project serves farms. Primarily, About
seventy five percent of Central Valley Project.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Water is used for agriculture. That's three quarters.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The rest goes to cities and towns in the San
Joaquin Valley, which is Sacramento and Fresno. And Trump's order reads,
in particular, the Secretary of the Intenure Interior and the
Secretary of Commerce shall immediately take actions to override existing
(03:36):
activities that unduly burden efforts to maximize water deliveries to
wear to the farms. And we're talking about rules that
guide two massive delta water systems, the federal Central Valley
Project and a state operated system, the State Water Project.
(03:56):
And these are networks of reservoirs, pumps, canals that deliver
that water to million acres of farm land and thirty
million people.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And they get the water from rivers.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That go into the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta and San
Francisco Bay. Nothing to do with southern California, by the way,
it imperils chinook, salmon, smelt, and sturgeon. And frankly, who cares, Neil,
(04:31):
you're our foody guy.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Can you even cook smelt? Uh? You know what, I've
never cooked smelt?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Of course you haven't. Why because you cook it and
it smells.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It smells whoever smelt it the delt it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And by the way, the smelt sturgeon and chinook salmon
are protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act, and Trump
ordered the federal agencies to quote expedite action related to
any exemption under the Endangered Species Act, which is basically gone.
There's no such thing as endangered species in a more
(05:11):
or protected. Now we go back to breast of bald eagle,
which is absolutely delicious.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know what else is good? Gray owl happens to
be delicious too. Oh yes, spotted owl. So the smell, yeah,
I think it's a spotted owl. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
They're t and the like hey hello, yes, So you
eat them like sardines.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Their bones are soft and you eat the whole fish. Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And this is all for the long term operation of
the water delivery systems.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean, this is crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He directed the Federal Bureau of Reclamation to take all
available measures to ensure that state agencies, including the California
Department of Water Resources, do not interfere with his new
executive action.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I'm going to come back and finish it up and.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Tell you about the reaction to this, because this one
is just downright crazy. I mean, it's just not only weird,
but come on, guy, this can't be true.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah it is. And I'll come back and finish that up.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm going to continue on with the story that the President,
in an executive action, directed federal agencies to immediately take
actions to override water operations and environmental rules.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And that's up.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The Central Delta from the San Francisco Sacramento area.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And the reason he did that.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Is had that water come to southern California, those fires
that we had would have been put out. The problem
is that water does, will not and cannot go to
the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But he sort of made this up.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And so the two massive delta water systems, that's reservoirs, pumps,
canals deliver water to farmland and thirty million people.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And all it does.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Is increase water to farmland and Sacramento and Fresdo. And
of course it gets rid of a not of course,
but with the Trump philosophy, it gets rid of endangered
species rules. I mean just all gone, and environmental groups
are gonna sue because his action overrides the Endangered Species Act.
(07:47):
The project manager of the State Water Project said, don't
be fooled by Trump's lives. None of the policies in
this executive order will move even a single drop of
extra water to the communities devastated by these wildfires. The
administration is presenting us with false choices. That's according to
a California Democrat, and you've got some community watchdog environmental
(08:12):
groups warned that these actions will quote have a devastating
consequences for California's water future, public health, environmental protections.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Because they do nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
For southern California and giving us more water it would
benefit farmers.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Basically.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
San Francisco Baykeeper Science director John Rosenfield called the administration
a lawless regime that uses extortion to enrich political supporters.
You know, Trump's order says, quote it is in the
nation's interest to ensure California has what it needs to
fight these fires and others in the future. So here's
(08:53):
the problem, he says, if we had that water. But
if we had that water, we don't have that water
because where it comes to us now there are some issues.
Remember the reservoir and Pacific Palisades that ran dry.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That is an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
The pumps, the hydrants running dry. I don't know if
that's an issue. Because so many hydrants were used, water
pressure dropped, and you couldn't keep up with a fire,
couldn't put aircraft in the war in the air one
hundred miles an hour win. How do you fight those?
And you have fire experts saying you don't. You can't
(09:28):
fight those. So there was a sudden surgeon demand, limited
capacity of city pipelines, not a lack of water supply.
And the experts are saying that the hydrants, the number
of hydrants, the extent that they were needed for.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Hours and hours, there aren't enough.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Further, experts are telling us there isn't a city water
supply in the country that could have dealt with a
fire successfully.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It was moving so rapidly, so crazily.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, so this is kind of interesting, all right, this
is what's being said. The order follows a series of
remarks in recent weeks by the President that reflect a
profound misunderstanding of California's water supply, weaving between inaccurate, inaccurate,
(10:22):
and fantastical. So he was visiting, visiting, He was visiting
Palisades in the aftermath of the wildfires. He came down,
which he should have. I give him credit for that.
He said, we have to have water. You're talking about
unlimited water coming down from the Pacific North Northwest, even
(10:42):
coming down from parts of Canada. It pours naturally. You
never run out, you'll never have shortages, you won't have
things like this. And when you do have a lot
of water, to put it out. Water Well, first of all,
let me give you a couple of facts. Water does
not come from Canada, not a drop. The Pacific Northwest
(11:03):
does not feed in the Central Valley rivers. The water
we get comes primarily from the Sierra Nevada snow melt
and from parts of the water supply.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
System, but not the San Joaquin Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So the order that he signed includes provisions to expedite
aid victims. Good for her, good for him, excuse me,
victims of wildfire and Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. And
he flew when he came here, he flew first to
North Carolina. Then he came down and visited the areas
(11:44):
that were devastated, not the eating fire, right, not Altadena,
which and again he's gonna get a lot degreef from
that one. Why because Altadena had the most deaths seventeen
and it's a much poorer area than the Palisades, much poorer.
Multimillion dollar homes in the Palisades, not so much in Altadena.
(12:09):
He spent about two hours on the ground, and you
would think and there was talk about him snubbing Gavin Newsom,
who was at the tarmac waiting for him to go
down the steps, and no one of the Air Force one,
no one knew what was going to happen. He was
extraordinarily gracious. He told Gavin Neussom, I'm going to do
(12:30):
everything I can. Gavin Newsom was there. We don't know
exactly what he said because it was private. It was
whispering back and forth and you couldn't hear it over
the noise. But Trump was extraordinarily gracious and offered a
lot of help to Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's like they were almost buddies.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And not once did Trump call Gavin Neussom gavinus Comb
while he was here.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And then of course he went.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Back and he did again, Okay, telling you about you
know what We're going to talk so much about Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
How can you not?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
How can you not blind partisanship? Does it help Trump?
I mean going off cliffs like Lemmings? Does it help?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And I'll cover that one when we come back.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It is a January twenty seven a couple of stories
we are covering. Trump's expected to sign three executive orders
today reshaping the military, banning transgender service members, and getting
rid of the military's diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which
(13:43):
he's already gotten rid of for an executive order undoing the.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Diversity programs.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Now, oh, by the way, we're still doing Handle Ask Handle.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Anything and so what does that mean?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, ask handle anything is ask handle anything. And this
is a relatively a new segment where you ask me
any questions. And people are always asking me personal questions.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Whenever I go out and you know, I'm out and about.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So we started this where you can go to our
recording and ask me anything and I'll answer it. I'm
pretty upfront about it and it's kind of fun. So
here's your chance to ask you go to the iHeart
app during the show go to the KFI page. At
the top right corner of the KFI page, there's a
small microphone.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Hit that microphone record your question. You have fifteen seconds to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Ask a question, and that's it. I don't want your views,
I don't care about your opinions. Just ask a question,
and Neil and Ann pick the questions. And I do
it on Friday, and I get embarrassed too, because I'm
pretty honest about it. Okay, Now I'm going to spend
two segments on the because I don't have a whole
lot of time this segment and that is where Trump.
(15:06):
Oh what another another story on Trump. So usually presidents
get their cabinet picks from former either executives in the
financial world or previous governmental appointees, you know, for example
chairman of the Fedgeenet Yellen, among others, Bernaki, and or
(15:33):
they'll go to former high level government officials because of
the expertise. Now do you know where Trump is getting
most of his cabinet picks?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Do you know where he's going? Fox News?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's going to Fox and he's filling the ranks of
his cabinet with Fox. For example, you have Pete heags.
It was just confirmed to be Secretary of Defense. This
was Friday night, and what was one of his jobs
before former Fox and Friends host Pete Hegsith, who is
(16:12):
our new Secretary of Defense now. He was in the
Army Armed Services. Not only did he serve honorably, but
he also was in combat. He has never had an
executive position. He has never run an organization. He has
(16:34):
had all kinds of personal issues like being let's say,
loving alcohol, which he had, which he admitted, by the way,
having a serial adulterous affair he admitted by the way,
saying they're all consensual. And the argument that he committed
(16:55):
sexual assault he denies.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Even though the accusation is there, does it matter.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It does not because, as one senator, Republican senator says,
we have to shake up the Defense Department, and Pete.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Hegsith is the guy to do it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm gonna come back and tell you about other major appointees,
whose main claim to fame, whose experience, whose credentials are
they were part of part of Fox News. I mean,
it's really interesting, interesting stuff. I mean, we've how many
(17:38):
times have I told you we're into an administration we've
never seen before that no other President would touch tell
you one thing, No one's coming out of MSNBC guaranteed,
We're coming back, and I'll finish that up.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI A sixty.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Some of the stories we are covering the immigration crackdown
is here. Trump promises, Trump delivers, and the Democrats totally
misread the American people and what they wanted completely, And
Trump was right on with his immigration policy and thinking,
(18:23):
and it's exactly he promised, he is delivering. And today thousands,
tens of thousands of Palestinians are returning to Northern Gaza,
leaving the camps, the temporary camps, going to Northern Gaza
and they'll be living in temporary camps for the next
(18:44):
who the hell knows. And the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City
Chiefs going to the Super Bowl. Now, I'm going to
go back to the cabinet positions that have been nominated
by Trump, and virtually all of them will of course
win nomination will be confirmed.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And where is he getting them?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Where is this president getting his cabinet picks from.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Fox News?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
He loves Fox News, Fox News loves him. Pete Hegseeth,
who was just confirmed Secretary of Defense Friday Night. Former
Fox and Friends hoax host Pam Bondi, former guest hosts
on track to be confirmed as Attorney General. Sean Duffy,
(19:35):
a former Fox Business host, will probably win confirmation as
Secretary of Transportation. Now Fox contributor a lot of times
she's on Fox. Tulca Gabbard, that's sort of up in
the air. Trump nominated her to be Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
There's some real.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Issues because she, first of all, has no intelligence background
at all, and generally head of National Intelligence, which is
oversees all of the intelligence agencies. You want some experience
in intelligence, not quite as in none. Now she is
(20:15):
a war veteran and is you know, basically I would
say a patriot. That's fair, but national Intelligence director. By
the way, she has the thing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
For Bashar Asad too.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
She sort of really liked him and met with him
twice secretly.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
That may be a problem.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You've got borders are Tom Holman, also Fox FDA Commissioner Designant,
Marty Macari, Fox Surgeon General designate Janet Neshawatt all spend
hours on Fox.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So what is the ideology of everybody?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well, they are super Trump is now there are a
lot of people that Trump wants to be super trumpst
but that may not necessarily help him because what the
cabinet is about is obviously going forward with Trump's policies,
but also telling him where he's wrong, saying, hey, wait
(21:17):
a minute, I've got real problems with this, and that's
what happened during the first Trump administration that will not
happen here. It looks like Trump has two criteria. Allegiance
to Trump and actually whether they look TV ready, I mean,
these are people from TV. They know what they're doing.
(21:41):
They simply know how to answer questions. So, for example,
Bondi avoided questions about the twenty twenty election. She was
asked during the confirmation hearings, do you believe the election
was stolen?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
She was a fervent election deny and she.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Is there as Attorney General designate.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And you know how she answered that, do you believe
the election was stolen?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
She answered it with Joe Biden was the president of
the United States. He was the president for four years. Okay,
let me ask that question again, do you believe that
the election was stolen? And she once again said, I
(22:35):
believe that Joe Biden was the president.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Of the United States.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And by the way, most of them, and probably all
of them Trump's Fox appointees are going to be confirmed.
And why well, because Fox has been an ardent supporter
of Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
The what ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Percent of television appearances were on Fox. Fox loved him,
He loved Fox. And we're looking at a group of Republicans,
ardent Trump supporters, acolytes, sickophants. I mean, there's no question
(23:20):
about that. Do you think any one of them are
going to be independent? Now, you don't expect them to
be independent and not forward his.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Agenda.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I get that they're his picks, they work for him,
but unadulterated lemmings, a Lemming philosophy.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I mean, do we want that?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I mean, I'll tell you, Secretary of Defense, for me,
is not a guy who was what a lieutenant in the.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Army, and that's his entire background. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well, actually I do get it, because we know at
probably the most important aspect of any Trump follower, any
Trump appointee, is fealty to Donald Trump. That's a reality,
you know, and those people I know you're hearing me
talk about various aspects of Donald Trump, most of them negative.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's I think most of them are negative.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I mean I try to be some even somewhat even handed,
although I'm being accused of never being even handed.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
But tell me that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Fealty is not the most important, the most important aspect
of someone who is appointed by Trump. All right, coming out,
Pete Hegseth takes charge of the Pentagon. What we're expecting
and what the Pentagon.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Is looking forward to. You've been listening to The Bill
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