March 4, 2025 • 25 mins
(March 04,2025)
China puts tariffs on U.S farm goods, blacklists American companies. Trump’s first address of his second term to joint session of Congress. Fired LAFD Chief will appeal to LA City Council today. Karen Bass received weather warnings before she flew to Ghana. Jeff Bezos taking criticism for pushing Washington Post to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets.’
China puts tariffs on U.S farm goods, blacklists American companies. Trump’s first address of his second term to joint session of Congress. Fired LAFD Chief will appeal to LA City Council today. Karen Bass received weather warnings before she flew to Ghana. Jeff Bezos taking criticism for pushing Washington Post to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yfi Handle Here it is a Taco Tuesday, March fourth.
As we continue with the show Big Day Today, the
President is going to be speaking tonight in a under
with a joint session of Congress and the Supreme Court
and just everybody under one building in one building, and
(00:26):
it's going to be fireworks, guaranteed. He's going to talk
about his first couple of months in office and then
what's going to happen coming up in the future. Also,
a part of what's controversy is Trump has cut off
a the Ukraine done as of right now, so a
lot going on now. Tariffs are a big story because
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at midnight the tariffs started, and the tariffs to Mexico
and Canada twenty five percent. I'm going to that later
or maybe even tomorrow. What I want to do is
talk about what's happening with China, because that's a different story.
China immediately retaliated. Tariffs against China kick in at midnight.
(01:13):
Tariffs against the United States from China kicked in at midnight. Well,
actually it's going to come in March tenth. But it
was announced that the retaliation. Retaliatory tariffs are coming in immediately.
So we had what ten days, seven days, and the
move targets some of the top exports of US has
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to China, soybeans, meat, green grains. Do you know that
China is the largest importer of American dairy, American farming goods, grains.
I mean, it's just a huge market. Tariff tariff tariff.
American farmers are not going to be happy. Trump said
(01:55):
he didn't expect Beijing to retaliate too much, and that's
a quote because earlier tariffs the two countries sort of
did a tick for tat, but it was not crazy war.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It is now crazy war.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Fifteen US companies right off the bat were placed on
a list that doesn't let them import goods that can
be used for military purposes. Another ten American companies, big
ones are barred completely from trading with or investing in China.
I mean, a trade war is happening, and we knew it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
We knew it, So okay, and there's there's a method
to the madness.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Because Trump pads said one of the reasons or the
reason he wants the trade war to happen and start
throwing tariffs actually two reasons. One is because of the
balance of payments we export, we import a lot more
from those countries than we export, and that never does
a country any good. And the other one is fentanyl
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and legal immigration. That's why in Mexico and Canada. Boy,
there's a story there I want to share with you.
China said, you know what, any any war, tara war,
trade war, any kind of war.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're going balls to the wall.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And China, as you know, is the largest or I'm
telling you largest market for American products for a by
a long shot.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Last year, China imported twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Billion dollars in soybeans and corn and cotton and other
US farm products. One of the big ones is sorghum.
So anybody know what sorghum is? I have no idea.
I mean, what do you use sorghum for? Okay, it's
kind of grain. But it's kind of fun talking about
it because no one knows. And a great quote from
(03:50):
Xiu Feng, the director of the Institute of International Studies
at Nanjing University, quote, Trump is swinging his tariff stick
harder and harder in Chinese.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He talked about Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Swinging his ying Jing and you can look that up
on the internet.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
What a ying Jing is.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So the quote swinging his tariff stick isn't quite what
the Chinese said, but it's kind of fun. So the
leaders of Canada in Mexico held talks with the US
trying to reach some kind of an agreement.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
G and Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No conversations whatsoever. I mean, it is simply, here are
the tariffs. Here are the retaliatory tariffs. Here are the
companies that we are not going to allow even to
deal with US.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
During his first term, Trump did place tariffs on Chinese
products to try to reduce that trade surplus that China
has with the US, and that started a tit for
tat trade war.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But that is nothing nothing like what's going to be
happening now, not even close.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And one of the reasons that Jingping did not go
crazy is because he's looking at an economy that's not
doing well, and he is looking at the balance of trade,
which he needs desperately. Now none of that matters because
the declaration of war has been made, and instead of
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Donald Trump stopping inflation day one, you're going to see
prices because of tariffs go through the roof. Now, Trump
argues and it's a legitimate argument that if you put
high tariffs and you make it very expensive for countries
or to import, actually it's very expensive for countries export.
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Actually it's very expensive for countries to import. That's where
the tariffs goes. And he said those countries are paying
the tariff.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's a croc.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'll tell you who pays the tariff. It's American consumer
and American manufacturers.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The rest of it. When he says, oh, that's just
not true, it's just, oh, what a shocker.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Not true. And so long term, Trump is right.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
If products from countries like Canada are exorbitantly expensive, United
States manufacturer is going to go. It's cheaper, makes more
sense to build a factory here, and higher American workers
make sense. However, Trump is two months in. He announced
the tariffs this morning or yesterday. He decided they were
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going to go full blasts.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And we didn't even know that because he had said
a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I don't know, maybe it won't be twenty five percent,
maybe it won't be twenty percent against China, and then
throughout the day he said, yes, there will be Okay,
so he announces it takes twenty four hours to announce
a tariff, and high tariffs means that in the long run,
American workers are going to benefit because the factories are
going to manufacture. Here's what I want you to do
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is build an American factory in twenty four hours, or
build an American factory in I don't know, six months.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
A year. Can't be done.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And so instead of I'm going to kill inflation, I'm
going to deal with inflation day one.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Now it's yep.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Americans are going to suffer, but it's going to be
for the long term. By the way, inflation and it's
going to hit. I guarantee you is not inflation. It's
the Biden inflation. Keep that in mind. You will hear
that over and over again. And if the economy, because
of tariff and tariffs and other economic moves, if the
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economy goes south, I promise you it will be the
Biden administration that caused all this. One hundred percent. You're
going to hear some of that. I don't know, you might. Oh,
we're going to talk about this one for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Tonight is going to be the presidential speech, a kind
of state of the Union.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Presidents give this when they want to.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
In front of Congress, and I'm going to talk about
right now. Another big story is the White House announced
stopping military aid to Ukraine, cutting it off at least
for the foreseeable future, penning an agreement with Ukraine and
a peace deal.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And that's a lot, a lot of complicated.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So tonight we're going to see the President and he's
going to report on the state of the nation and
that's in quotes, and boy, what a level of fury
among the Democrats because everybody knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's just to the extent we don't know that. And
this is going to be pretty rare. I don't know
if it's ever happened quite like this. Among Republicans.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's gone everywhere from fervent support whatever the President does,
we back him up to anxious deference. I don't want
to get in the way of the president, you know
that sort of thing. And you're going to see an
encounter between the Democrats and the President tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Some Democrats say they're going to boycott the address.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Others say, oh, they're going to attend, and they're going
to show how happy they are with this speech.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Tonight tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, one former Democratic congressman said this will be nothing
more than Trump television spectacle. For him, this is just
the highest level of television visibility. It'll be geared a
spectacle and not a substance of view. Trump is a
television guy. I mean, he is a master of what
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he does. No one else comes close. I mean, okay's this.
In twenty sixteen at the Republican Convention, he said, I
alone can fix it. That is the complete demise of
America under Joe Biden. That it was America's never been
in a worse position.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
In his first.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Inaugural, he vowed to stop quote American carnage. In a
twenty twenty three speech, he said to his audience, I
am your retribution. In January's inaugural, he said he has
been tested and challenged more than any president in our
two hundred and fifty year history. And I guess parentheses
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you say, including Lincoln close parentheses. Oh, I didn't say that,
but you tell me the most of any president in
our two hundred and fifty year history.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And I didn't think it was going to go that far.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I knew the evangelical said this, but I didn't think
Trump was going to go that far, but he did.
When he talked about surviving the assassination attempt, thank goodness
he did survive it. That's just what we need, another
dead president. He said, I was saved by God to
make America great again.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It wasn't just a bad shot.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It wasn't that the shot just missed and killed the
guy behind him, that firefighter. God is the one that
moved the bullet a little bit to.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The left, so it only got his ear.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh okay, he's just done some weird things. In his
twenty twenty inaugural or his first address he to the nation,
he stopped in the middle of it and awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh right in the
middle of it.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I mean, that's never been done. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Rush was diagnosed with lung cancer. Didn't know how long
he was going to live. So yeah, but he could
have waited until after the inaugurals, after the speech.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
How about waiting ten minutes until you finish it up. Nope.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And during the inaugural he surprised the military family that
year by announcing their husband and father was home from Afghanistan,
and huge applause from the congress people, the senator in
the audience, and chants of USA USA. This is from
the congress people and the senators as this guy entered
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the auditorium.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I mean, it is going to be fascinating if nothing else.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And we'll see how far he goes, and then I'll
tell you why it's going to be a complete fiasco.
It used to be that State of the Union dress
were pretty solemn occasions. You had a Democratic president, and
of course the Democrats would stand up and applaud.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The Republicans would not get up. We have a Republican president.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The Republicans stand up and cheer, and they do whatever
just they actually applaud and give a standing kind of ovation,
and the Democrats sit down. So it goes along party lines. Well,
two thousand and nine, Barack Obama addresses Congress and lays
out detail of a bonnet Obamacare, and he says that
undocumented immigrants would not benefit from the plan. Representative Joe
(13:10):
Wilson from South Carolina Republican screamed.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Out, you lie.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, that opened the floodgates. And of course, my favorite
congress Person, Marjorie Taylor Green, who came in the second
time out with a make America great red hat.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And just I mean, how do you beat that? Right?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And just started screaming and heckling President Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Now are the Democrats going to go that far?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't know how many Marjorie Taylor Greens there are
in Congress, I will tell you. And she's still a
congress person. Every time Trump says something, she will jump
up and down and scream and you will see be
a spectr. I think that's fair to say. And it
doesn't matter what Trump says. There is nothing that he
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has proposed that the Republican Congress and Senate basically has
not backed up. Nothing even undoing programs and bureaucracies that
Congress put into place and voted on and funded. And
I am going to make a prognostication. And this is
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an if, and it's not going to happen. If Trump
were to stand up and say during my term, I
propose dissolving Congress or taking away all the power that
Congress has, how many Republicans would be standing up and cheering?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
How many? Not all of them, but enough. I mean, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Gotten completely crazy. Well, I said, you know, we're in
for a wa and it's just I've never seen. You've
never seen anything like this. Pundits have never seen anything
like this. Experts who have looked at government for fifty
years have never seen anything like this. There's nothing in
history of the United States that has occurred like this tomorrow,
(15:19):
you bet we'll talk about it, Okay, local news. And
that has to do with Mayor Karen Bass, of.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Course firing the fire chief Crowley. And it is what's
her first.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Name, by the way, I kind of forget what her
first name is.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
In any case, this is Christian Crowley. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
This is a situation where Karen Bass shows her great
skill as a politician shows number one, she either is
a liar or completely incompetent, or probably I think more truthfully,
has a staff that is completely incompetent. And she is
not blaming her staff. So this has to do with
a Palises fire. Karen Bass, who had promised not to
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leave Los Angeles if she became mayors on an airplane
and the inauguration of Ghana's new president.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
She's there.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
She had a thing about Africa, just kept on. She's
been there like dozens of times. So now comes the
National Weather Service issuing dire warnings about what was coming,
the weather conditions, and it just got more dire and
more dire, and it got to the point where the
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National Weather Service ended up saying it's going to be catastrophic.
It is going to be life threatening. It's one of
those weather conditions that if there is a fire, which
of course inevitably there always is, it's going to be devastating.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
They were absolutely right. Ten thousand homes, sixteen thousand structures.
Thank you. Karen Bass is in Ghana now.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
She says she never got the warning and the reason
she's firing Crowley, Kristen Crowley, is because Kristen Carowley didn't
call her.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Crowley did not make the phone call to her.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Okay, how about the dozens of emails that went to
the mayor's staff. Dozens and not just one person. We're
talking maybe half a dozen, maybe ten. We don't know
the actual number that got that information. And Karen Bass
said they didn't give it to me. It's Crowley's fault
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because Crowley didn't call me directly. And by the way,
is that what happens does a fire chief is protocol,
The fire chief calls the mayor, not a chance. It's
done through emails its warnings by the National Weather Service.
And on top of that, the city has its own organization,
the Emergency Management Department, that also sent emails to Bass's office.
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And Bass said, never, never, my staff never gave me
the warning. Okay, let's give her the benefit of the doubt.
My staff never gave me the warning. Wouldn't you think
she would instantly fire every single person on her staff
that received the warning and didn't do anything about it,
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not giving it to the mayor for example.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And you're not going to see that. And she is saying, not.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
My fault, dog ate the homework. She's the one at fault.
She's the one that ate the homework, Kristin Crowley, and
that's why I fired her. By the way Kristin Crowley
is appealing, the mayor has the absolute authority to fire
any department head.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Because the department has worked for the mayor.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
They were not elected, they're selected by the mayor and
city council approves, but it's protocol that may hires his
or her own people. Now within the city charter, anybody
who is fired. Apartment head is fired has the right
to appeal to the city Council, who can override that firing,
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and that's precisely what's happening in the vote is coming
down today. Is probably going to be reinstated. Absolutely not.
There's no chance. The mayor has too many supporters in
the city council. This is all politics. You don't go
against the mayor. And virtually all of the council people
are a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
She's a Democrat. You don't screw with a democratic mayor.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You know. Now, I may have voted to not reinstate,
and the sole reason is there has to be a
relationship between department heads and the mayor has to be
and if she gets reinstated, you can imagine the antagonism
between the two going forward.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Okay, wait a second.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Now, you say that Trump only wants people who are
lockstep with him, right, but not about relationships and people
he trusts. But with Mayor Bass, you say it's about
relationships and people they trust.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it is, but she inherited Crowley and what normally
happens with a mayor coming in these positions are not political.
What Trump has done is he hires for department heads.
That is, when you're talking about cabinet positions, those are political.
That's a political. Hiring a fire chief is not political.
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By the way, do you have any idea whether whether
Crowley is a Democrat or a Republican.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
She's a political scapegoat now, well said that's her party.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
She's a political scapegoat, not even political, because I don't
think politics have anything to do with it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's just Karen.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Bass covering her ass, which should have third degree burns
on it personally, okay or done. We'll see what happens today. Okay,
here's what's going on. And I don't know why people
are so upset. Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post twelve
(21:13):
years ago, and he said when he bought it he
is not going to turn the paper into his personal mouthpiece.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The values of the Post did not need changing. He said,
we will.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Remain our duty, will remain to the readers and not
to the private interests of its owners.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Well, okay, he posts on x now.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That there's an overhaul of the opinion section, and it's
going to be limited to these two concepts, or it's
least going to be biased towards the two concepts personal
liberties and free markets, and all kinds of fireworks came
as a result of that, the Post opinion editor resigns.
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And here is the interpretation is that this is about
Don Trump. This is about Donald Trump, right, and Bezos
is bending the neee.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But I have a question.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Papers are biased anyway, aren't they. They endorse candidates, The
editorial board endorsees. As a matter of fact, I don't
even know if it's the editorial board. It's the official
position of a paper that endorses candidates. Now, usually it's
because of experience or it doesn't matter. The point is
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is that they do it anyway. And Bezos is saying,
you know what, we're going to change the quote independence
of the editorial board. But it's his paper, and he
is going out of his way to say this is
going to be the opinion section. Now that's very important
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that he has told us it's the opinion section. And
why can't his paper give his opinion if we all
know that it's his opinion.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Where's the fault here?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
There's something about this that I don't understand because usually
the opinion and official position of the paper is the
editorial board, and there should be a firewall between what
the editorial board does.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Maybe they throw around all.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Kinds of ideas and then in the end they agree
or a majority of the board agrees, they're going to
go in a certain political political view. Well, you know
the La Times did that with our new publisher. You know,
he decided he was going to spin it and not
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go the way of quote all independence. But you know,
in the end, in the end, I think the papers,
all the papers have an absolute duty to be as
objective as possible with the news, much like Amy has
the duty to be as objective as she popped Ussibly,
can news departments have to I can be as biased
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as I.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Want because I'm not the news.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The editorial portion of the paper can be as biased
as it wants because it's not the news.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
The only thing I ask is.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That the paper differentiate between the two. That's the difference,
and not take. Oh here's a question, by the way,
and it just occurred to me, is you've got the
president what he says is always news, and he talks
about all the accusations against him as fake news. Does
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the paper publish the accusation that it's news is fake news?
I guess it has to, doesn't it? The president said?
The president claims. The president's position is I don't have
a problem with that, and a lot of people do.
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Yfi Handle Here it is a Taco Tuesday, March fourth.
As we continue with the show Big Day Today, the
President is going to be speaking tonight in a under
with a joint session of Congress and the Supreme Court
and just everybody under one building in one building, and
(00:26):
it's going to be fireworks, guaranteed. He's going to talk
about his first couple of months in office and then
what's going to happen coming up in the future. Also,
a part of what's controversy is Trump has cut off
a the Ukraine done as of right now, so a
lot going on now. Tariffs are a big story because
(00:49):
at midnight the tariffs started, and the tariffs to Mexico
and Canada twenty five percent. I'm going to that later
or maybe even tomorrow. What I want to do is
talk about what's happening with China, because that's a different story.
China immediately retaliated. Tariffs against China kick in at midnight.
(01:13):
Tariffs against the United States from China kicked in at midnight. Well,
actually it's going to come in March tenth. But it
was announced that the retaliation. Retaliatory tariffs are coming in immediately.
So we had what ten days, seven days, and the
move targets some of the top exports of US has
(01:33):
to China, soybeans, meat, green grains. Do you know that
China is the largest importer of American dairy, American farming goods, grains.
I mean, it's just a huge market. Tariff tariff tariff.
American farmers are not going to be happy. Trump said
(01:55):
he didn't expect Beijing to retaliate too much, and that's
a quote because earlier tariffs the two countries sort of
did a tick for tat, but it was not crazy war.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
It is now crazy war.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Fifteen US companies right off the bat were placed on
a list that doesn't let them import goods that can
be used for military purposes. Another ten American companies, big
ones are barred completely from trading with or investing in China.
I mean, a trade war is happening, and we knew it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
We knew it, So okay, and there's there's a method
to the madness.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Because Trump pads said one of the reasons or the
reason he wants the trade war to happen and start
throwing tariffs actually two reasons. One is because of the
balance of payments we export, we import a lot more
from those countries than we export, and that never does
a country any good. And the other one is fentanyl
(02:58):
and legal immigration. That's why in Mexico and Canada. Boy,
there's a story there I want to share with you.
China said, you know what, any any war, tara war,
trade war, any kind of war.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're going balls to the wall.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And China, as you know, is the largest or I'm
telling you largest market for American products for a by
a long shot.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Last year, China imported twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Billion dollars in soybeans and corn and cotton and other
US farm products. One of the big ones is sorghum.
So anybody know what sorghum is? I have no idea.
I mean, what do you use sorghum for? Okay, it's
kind of grain. But it's kind of fun talking about
it because no one knows. And a great quote from
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Xiu Feng, the director of the Institute of International Studies
at Nanjing University, quote, Trump is swinging his tariff stick
harder and harder in Chinese.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He talked about Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Swinging his ying Jing and you can look that up
on the internet.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
What a ying Jing is.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So the quote swinging his tariff stick isn't quite what
the Chinese said, but it's kind of fun. So the
leaders of Canada in Mexico held talks with the US
trying to reach some kind of an agreement.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
G and Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No conversations whatsoever. I mean, it is simply, here are
the tariffs. Here are the retaliatory tariffs. Here are the
companies that we are not going to allow even to
deal with US.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
During his first term, Trump did place tariffs on Chinese
products to try to reduce that trade surplus that China
has with the US, and that started a tit for
tat trade war.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But that is nothing nothing like what's going to be
happening now, not even close.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And one of the reasons that Jingping did not go
crazy is because he's looking at an economy that's not
doing well, and he is looking at the balance of trade,
which he needs desperately. Now none of that matters because
the declaration of war has been made, and instead of
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Donald Trump stopping inflation day one, you're going to see
prices because of tariffs go through the roof. Now, Trump
argues and it's a legitimate argument that if you put
high tariffs and you make it very expensive for countries
or to import, actually it's very expensive for countries export.
(05:49):
Actually it's very expensive for countries to import. That's where
the tariffs goes. And he said those countries are paying
the tariff.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That's a croc.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'll tell you who pays the tariff. It's American consumer
and American manufacturers.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The rest of it. When he says, oh, that's just
not true, it's just, oh, what a shocker.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Not true. And so long term, Trump is right.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
If products from countries like Canada are exorbitantly expensive, United
States manufacturer is going to go. It's cheaper, makes more
sense to build a factory here, and higher American workers
make sense. However, Trump is two months in. He announced
the tariffs this morning or yesterday. He decided they were
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going to go full blasts.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And we didn't even know that because he had said
a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I don't know, maybe it won't be twenty five percent,
maybe it won't be twenty percent against China, and then
throughout the day he said, yes, there will be Okay,
so he announces it takes twenty four hours to announce
a tariff, and high tariffs means that in the long run,
American workers are going to benefit because the factories are
going to manufacture. Here's what I want you to do
(07:05):
is build an American factory in twenty four hours, or
build an American factory in I don't know, six months.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
A year. Can't be done.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And so instead of I'm going to kill inflation, I'm
going to deal with inflation day one.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Now it's yep.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Americans are going to suffer, but it's going to be
for the long term. By the way, inflation and it's
going to hit. I guarantee you is not inflation. It's
the Biden inflation. Keep that in mind. You will hear
that over and over again. And if the economy, because
of tariff and tariffs and other economic moves, if the
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economy goes south, I promise you it will be the
Biden administration that caused all this. One hundred percent. You're
going to hear some of that. I don't know, you might. Oh,
we're going to talk about this one for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Tonight is going to be the presidential speech, a kind
of state of the Union.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Presidents give this when they want to.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
In front of Congress, and I'm going to talk about
right now. Another big story is the White House announced
stopping military aid to Ukraine, cutting it off at least
for the foreseeable future, penning an agreement with Ukraine and
a peace deal.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And that's a lot, a lot of complicated.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So tonight we're going to see the President and he's
going to report on the state of the nation and
that's in quotes, and boy, what a level of fury
among the Democrats because everybody knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's just to the extent we don't know that. And
this is going to be pretty rare. I don't know
if it's ever happened quite like this. Among Republicans.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's gone everywhere from fervent support whatever the President does,
we back him up to anxious deference. I don't want
to get in the way of the president, you know
that sort of thing. And you're going to see an
encounter between the Democrats and the President tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Some Democrats say they're going to boycott the address.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Others say, oh, they're going to attend, and they're going
to show how happy they are with this speech.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Tonight tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, one former Democratic congressman said this will be nothing
more than Trump television spectacle. For him, this is just
the highest level of television visibility. It'll be geared a
spectacle and not a substance of view. Trump is a
television guy. I mean, he is a master of what
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he does. No one else comes close. I mean, okay's this.
In twenty sixteen at the Republican Convention, he said, I
alone can fix it. That is the complete demise of
America under Joe Biden. That it was America's never been
in a worse position.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
In his first.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Inaugural, he vowed to stop quote American carnage. In a
twenty twenty three speech, he said to his audience, I
am your retribution. In January's inaugural, he said he has
been tested and challenged more than any president in our
two hundred and fifty year history. And I guess parentheses
(10:34):
you say, including Lincoln close parentheses. Oh, I didn't say that,
but you tell me the most of any president in
our two hundred and fifty year history.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And I didn't think it was going to go that far.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I knew the evangelical said this, but I didn't think
Trump was going to go that far, but he did.
When he talked about surviving the assassination attempt, thank goodness
he did survive it. That's just what we need, another
dead president. He said, I was saved by God to
make America great again.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It wasn't just a bad shot.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It wasn't that the shot just missed and killed the
guy behind him, that firefighter. God is the one that
moved the bullet a little bit to.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
The left, so it only got his ear.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh okay, he's just done some weird things. In his
twenty twenty inaugural or his first address he to the nation,
he stopped in the middle of it and awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh right in the
middle of it.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I mean, that's never been done. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Rush was diagnosed with lung cancer. Didn't know how long
he was going to live. So yeah, but he could
have waited until after the inaugurals, after the speech.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
How about waiting ten minutes until you finish it up. Nope.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And during the inaugural he surprised the military family that
year by announcing their husband and father was home from Afghanistan,
and huge applause from the congress people, the senator in
the audience, and chants of USA USA. This is from
the congress people and the senators as this guy entered
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the auditorium.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I mean, it is going to be fascinating if nothing else.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And we'll see how far he goes, and then I'll
tell you why it's going to be a complete fiasco.
It used to be that State of the Union dress
were pretty solemn occasions. You had a Democratic president, and
of course the Democrats would stand up and applaud.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The Republicans would not get up. We have a Republican president.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The Republicans stand up and cheer, and they do whatever
just they actually applaud and give a standing kind of ovation,
and the Democrats sit down. So it goes along party lines. Well,
two thousand and nine, Barack Obama addresses Congress and lays
out detail of a bonnet Obamacare, and he says that
undocumented immigrants would not benefit from the plan. Representative Joe
(13:10):
Wilson from South Carolina Republican screamed.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Out, you lie.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, that opened the floodgates. And of course, my favorite
congress Person, Marjorie Taylor Green, who came in the second
time out with a make America great red hat.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And just I mean, how do you beat that? Right?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
And just started screaming and heckling President Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Now are the Democrats going to go that far?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't know how many Marjorie Taylor Greens there are
in Congress, I will tell you. And she's still a
congress person. Every time Trump says something, she will jump
up and down and scream and you will see be
a spectr. I think that's fair to say. And it
doesn't matter what Trump says. There is nothing that he
(14:06):
has proposed that the Republican Congress and Senate basically has
not backed up. Nothing even undoing programs and bureaucracies that
Congress put into place and voted on and funded. And
I am going to make a prognostication. And this is
(14:28):
an if, and it's not going to happen. If Trump
were to stand up and say during my term, I
propose dissolving Congress or taking away all the power that
Congress has, how many Republicans would be standing up and cheering?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
How many? Not all of them, but enough. I mean, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Gotten completely crazy. Well, I said, you know, we're in
for a wa and it's just I've never seen. You've
never seen anything like this. Pundits have never seen anything
like this. Experts who have looked at government for fifty
years have never seen anything like this. There's nothing in
history of the United States that has occurred like this tomorrow,
(15:19):
you bet we'll talk about it, Okay, local news. And
that has to do with Mayor Karen Bass, of.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Course firing the fire chief Crowley. And it is what's
her first.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Name, by the way, I kind of forget what her
first name is.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
In any case, this is Christian Crowley. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
This is a situation where Karen Bass shows her great
skill as a politician shows number one, she either is
a liar or completely incompetent, or probably I think more truthfully,
has a staff that is completely incompetent. And she is
not blaming her staff. So this has to do with
a Palises fire. Karen Bass, who had promised not to
(16:07):
leave Los Angeles if she became mayors on an airplane
and the inauguration of Ghana's new president.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
She's there.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
She had a thing about Africa, just kept on. She's
been there like dozens of times. So now comes the
National Weather Service issuing dire warnings about what was coming,
the weather conditions, and it just got more dire and
more dire, and it got to the point where the
(16:36):
National Weather Service ended up saying it's going to be catastrophic.
It is going to be life threatening. It's one of
those weather conditions that if there is a fire, which
of course inevitably there always is, it's going to be devastating.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
They were absolutely right. Ten thousand homes, sixteen thousand structures.
Thank you. Karen Bass is in Ghana now.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
She says she never got the warning and the reason
she's firing Crowley, Kristen Crowley, is because Kristen Carowley didn't
call her.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Crowley did not make the phone call to her.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Okay, how about the dozens of emails that went to
the mayor's staff. Dozens and not just one person. We're
talking maybe half a dozen, maybe ten. We don't know
the actual number that got that information. And Karen Bass
said they didn't give it to me. It's Crowley's fault
(17:35):
because Crowley didn't call me directly. And by the way,
is that what happens does a fire chief is protocol,
The fire chief calls the mayor, not a chance. It's
done through emails its warnings by the National Weather Service.
And on top of that, the city has its own organization,
the Emergency Management Department, that also sent emails to Bass's office.
(18:02):
And Bass said, never, never, my staff never gave me
the warning. Okay, let's give her the benefit of the doubt.
My staff never gave me the warning. Wouldn't you think
she would instantly fire every single person on her staff
that received the warning and didn't do anything about it,
(18:24):
not giving it to the mayor for example.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And you're not going to see that. And she is saying, not.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
My fault, dog ate the homework. She's the one at fault.
She's the one that ate the homework, Kristin Crowley, and
that's why I fired her. By the way Kristin Crowley
is appealing, the mayor has the absolute authority to fire
any department head.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Because the department has worked for the mayor.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
They were not elected, they're selected by the mayor and
city council approves, but it's protocol that may hires his
or her own people. Now within the city charter, anybody
who is fired. Apartment head is fired has the right
to appeal to the city Council, who can override that firing,
(19:13):
and that's precisely what's happening in the vote is coming
down today. Is probably going to be reinstated. Absolutely not.
There's no chance. The mayor has too many supporters in
the city council. This is all politics. You don't go
against the mayor. And virtually all of the council people
are a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
She's a Democrat. You don't screw with a democratic mayor.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You know. Now, I may have voted to not reinstate,
and the sole reason is there has to be a
relationship between department heads and the mayor has to be
and if she gets reinstated, you can imagine the antagonism
between the two going forward.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Okay, wait a second.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Now, you say that Trump only wants people who are
lockstep with him, right, but not about relationships and people
he trusts. But with Mayor Bass, you say it's about
relationships and people they trust.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, it is, but she inherited Crowley and what normally
happens with a mayor coming in these positions are not political.
What Trump has done is he hires for department heads.
That is, when you're talking about cabinet positions, those are political.
That's a political. Hiring a fire chief is not political.
(20:36):
By the way, do you have any idea whether whether
Crowley is a Democrat or a Republican.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
She's a political scapegoat now, well said that's her party.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
She's a political scapegoat, not even political, because I don't
think politics have anything to do with it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's just Karen.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Bass covering her ass, which should have third degree burns
on it personally, okay or done. We'll see what happens today. Okay,
here's what's going on. And I don't know why people
are so upset. Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post twelve
(21:13):
years ago, and he said when he bought it he
is not going to turn the paper into his personal mouthpiece.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The values of the Post did not need changing. He said,
we will.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Remain our duty, will remain to the readers and not
to the private interests of its owners.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Well, okay, he posts on x now.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That there's an overhaul of the opinion section, and it's
going to be limited to these two concepts, or it's
least going to be biased towards the two concepts personal
liberties and free markets, and all kinds of fireworks came
as a result of that, the Post opinion editor resigns.
(21:55):
And here is the interpretation is that this is about
Don Trump. This is about Donald Trump, right, and Bezos
is bending the neee.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But I have a question.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Papers are biased anyway, aren't they. They endorse candidates, The
editorial board endorsees. As a matter of fact, I don't
even know if it's the editorial board. It's the official
position of a paper that endorses candidates. Now, usually it's
because of experience or it doesn't matter. The point is
(22:29):
is that they do it anyway. And Bezos is saying,
you know what, we're going to change the quote independence
of the editorial board. But it's his paper, and he
is going out of his way to say this is
going to be the opinion section. Now that's very important
(22:50):
that he has told us it's the opinion section. And
why can't his paper give his opinion if we all
know that it's his opinion.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Where's the fault here?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
There's something about this that I don't understand because usually
the opinion and official position of the paper is the
editorial board, and there should be a firewall between what
the editorial board does.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Maybe they throw around all.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Kinds of ideas and then in the end they agree
or a majority of the board agrees, they're going to
go in a certain political political view. Well, you know
the La Times did that with our new publisher. You know,
he decided he was going to spin it and not
(23:41):
go the way of quote all independence. But you know,
in the end, in the end, I think the papers,
all the papers have an absolute duty to be as
objective as possible with the news, much like Amy has
the duty to be as objective as she popped Ussibly,
can news departments have to I can be as biased
(24:05):
as I.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Want because I'm not the news.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The editorial portion of the paper can be as biased
as it wants because it's not the news.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
The only thing I ask is.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That the paper differentiate between the two. That's the difference,
and not take. Oh here's a question, by the way,
and it just occurred to me, is you've got the
president what he says is always news, and he talks
about all the accusations against him as fake news. Does
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the paper publish the accusation that it's news is fake news?
I guess it has to, doesn't it? The president said?
The president claims. The president's position is I don't have
a problem with that, and a lot of people do.
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