March 6, 2025 • 27 mins
(March 06, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all hostages in Gaza, as US holds direct talks with Hamas. L.A County sues Southern California Edison over Eaton Fire. Europe’s leaders are meeting for another crucial Ukraine summit. Can they seize momentum back from Trump? Federal judge blocks funding cuts to medical research. CDC rescinds termination notice, calls about 180 fired employees back. Trump grants one-month exemption for US automakers from Mexico, Canada tariffs.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all hostages in Gaza, as US holds direct talks with Hamas. L.A County sues Southern California Edison over Eaton Fire. Europe’s leaders are meeting for another crucial Ukraine summit. Can they seize momentum back from Trump? Federal judge blocks funding cuts to medical research. CDC rescinds termination notice, calls about 180 fired employees back. Trump grants one-month exemption for US automakers from Mexico, Canada tariffs.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Denmark, where Greenland is Territory of Denmark. Has said, no,
it's not for sale. What do you do with that?
I insist you by It's almost like the Godfather. I'm
gonna make you an offer that you cannot refuse. No,
it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It is KFI. It's a Thursday, March sixth Now. I'm
still fighting this cold.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It just drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You sound pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, you know what I sounded. I just took some
medication of some kind of some birth control or something
we have in the first aid kit over there. I
just grabb a little envelope and pop it, throw it
at my mouth. So I have no idea what, but
I think I'm gonna be okay. In any case, Let's
start with good mornings.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't usually do that. I usually go into some
kind of story of mind. But I really don't have
left all.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Right, even about Sheldon.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's quite a joke.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I just said we would not this is my that
would be my last day broadcasting.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh that joke.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You keep threatening.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You know, my last day is really going to be spectacular.
I mean I told you about Doobie, my friend who
was in his Rael lead the gun's forces. He was
a pilot, he flew F sixteens, and then when he retired,
he went to l all and I knew when he
was going to retire, and I called him and I said, Doobie,
(01:44):
it's your last day flying. You have to go on
the intercom and say, ladies.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And gentlemen, welcome to all. Today.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We'll be flying at thirty five thousand feet, but for
you thirty two thousand feet.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
He wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Such a deal, bastard.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He wouldn't do it. All right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I didn't just scream into the mic.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We're gonna die, or in a very heavy Arabic accent accent,
go good day, nice.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
This is Mohammed.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What are you implying?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm being completely what okay?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Is today your last day?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Sounds like it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They will start with Hi'm bill handled. There once was
a man from Nantucket.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
All right, let us say, emails will keep on coming.
I was once accused. I was sued once, No just once.
I actually I have been sued five times. One every
single time.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Just to let you know, Amy, that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm thirty years when I should have been sued. I
was never sued. I had some issues with a couple
of surrogates who unfortunately decided in the midst of their contract,
we have take them all off birth control, of course,
because we get wanted to get pregnant. And one of
the things they can't have sex with their husbands and
boyfriends because.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They might make their own.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, and that's exactly what happened. A couple of times
they shook the boyfriend or the husband, and even though
they have a contract, is you know, what are you
gonna do? And the couple couple could have sued me
easily because I'm the one that chose a surrogate or
my agency did. And I sit down with him, I go, hey,
bottom line is this is my fault. I screwed up.
If you litigate, you're gonna win, no question about it.
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But you you want a child, and that's what we're
here for. So I'll tell you what number one on
my waiting list of couples just became number two.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You get a free kid.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh wow, that's I thought you were going to do
it like half off.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
No, no, no, half off is what I should have
done it. But I say, you get a free kid.
And they never sued me. Now, the people that did
sue me are were crazy and I just said no.
And so anyways, I was sued and there was These
were by employees. And one of the women that I had,
this was years and years a year ago, was married
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to an African American. I had no idea and part
and I was accused of racism. That's why I fired
her because she was married to an African American, which
is a complete cross because I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Who she was married to. I had, i'm African Americans
working for you.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, that was the other thing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I was going to have Marjorie who worked for me,
not my Marjorie, but Marjorie. And I was going to
put her on the stand and say, did Bill ever
mention that you were African American? He goes, I didn't
even know Bill knew I was African American and she.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Worked for me every day. Never came up.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So anyway, their lawyer wrote to me, or this woman's
lawyer wrote to me and said, we're suing you for discrimination,
racial discrimination, and he knew I was a talk show host, Abby,
and he said that I'm sure that will affect your
career in a very negative way.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So I suggest that you settle the case.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
By the way, that's pure extortion, that's against the canons
of law. I threatened to have him disbarred for that
one if he didn't if it didn't drop the case,
and they didn't. They didn't, and I didn't disbar him
because I figured, you know, I don't want to take
the guys living away. So anyway, he said, so he
writes the letter, our accusation that you are a racist
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will affect your career negatively. My lawyer wrote back one line,
get in line, that was it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Did you tell them that your career was built upon
your racism?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, no, I didn't say that, but that was it now,
of course, And they tried to bring it up, and
that was bounced immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We made a motion to.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Bounce that because they lost the case.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah a couple. We killed them twelve to one, energy
twelve or zero on the jury. But here's a little
tidbit of law. The only way you can sue for
racism is you have to be a protected class. You
have to racism or discrimination is a legal concept much
like Lemon law, and you have to be protected and
it's race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age not so much, but
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that's one of the protected classes. Being married to a
protected class does not make you protected. So we bounced
that allegation. Unfortunately, Okay. I wish it had stayed in
and you couldn't lost stories and Bill had.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I lost stories at the same time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A little bit of law news for you, all right, Amy,
Good morning, Hi Bill. Hi.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
By the way, don't correct me ever again. When did
I correct you the passport business? When I said during
the promo.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You said you didn't listen to wake Up Call gold.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I told you I do whenever, whenever I when he
hears his name, whenever I can, I do.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
So it was just a clarification.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
You are talking about golden passports and Willy Wonka gave
out golden tickets.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, it's not a clarification.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It was a straight out correction, and let's not do that, Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
He was making a simile.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yes, I was actually maybe a metaphor.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Or an illustration.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Maybe maybe all right, Cono, good morning, yeah, and good morning,
and Neil.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Okay, let's do it guy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Hi Bill, Hi, good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Handle on the news with Amy Neil and me lead story.
All right, Donald Trump issued what he said was the
last warning to Comas to release all of the hostages
in Gaza emediately and if he's and he said, release
them all, the release all the hostages now, not later,
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and immediately return all the dead bodies of the people
you murdered, or it is over now here is the
problem for CAMAS.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I would take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, yeah, I think he'd bombs ifness.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yes, sir, Donald Trump does not screw around. I mean
he'd I mean he's mercurial. You know, thee tariffs were
gonna come in and then three minutes later, I'm gonna
hold him back for a month. Actually the tariffs were
gonna come in, and they held off for a month,
and he changed his mind and go, no, it's kicking
in tonight. Then he said, wait a minute, I'll wait
a month. This is on auto goods. The rest of
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it still kicks in, so you know, autos and auto parts.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But on this one, I gotta tell.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You, if I'm Hamas, I'm gonna do something. I'm not
gonna keep on going with this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So what happens, it's not like we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Have no no. What he said was.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That he would send Israel everything it needs to finish
the job, and not a single Hamas member will be
safe if you don't do as I say.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And what he's gonna do is give a green light
to Israel.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The only reason Israel has pulled back at all and
has before now it's mainly because of the hostages and
the pressure from a lot of the Israeli populous population
is the United States has held back Israel.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Come on, you have to you know, during.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel in
addition to Kuwait, the United States forced Israel to stay
out of it. You do not get involved in attacking Iraq,
even though missiles were hitting Israel. And because we have
an we have a coalition that consists primarily of Arab
countries going against Hussein, and we are not going to
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get you involved in this one. And Israel immediately goes okay, okay, okay, okay, Well,
now it's go to town, decimate Gaza, and we're gonna
do everything we can to help you. And he's saying
that to Nettine, Oh bad for Hamas very bad.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
All right, So cal Edison sued again.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Los Angeles County is suing Southern California Edison, and so
is so are the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre.
It's the latest lawsuit claiming that Edison's equipment caused the
fire and Eaton Canyon, which ended up destroying about nine
thousand homes, killing seventeen people. More than forty lawsuits have
(10:23):
been filed against the utility so far. The attorney for
the county says, all evidence is pointing to them.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, now I have a question, and as I said
before all of this is done, we have to look
at it the evidence. So, so the evidence now is pointing
towards Edison, and the allegation is they either should have
maintained their equipment so it didn't do this, or done
(10:50):
a preemptive shutdown of the electrical system, so deactivate the
electrical system. So let me ask you, when fires are
hitting across the where winds of one hundred miles per
hour are going across the entire Edison area, the only
way that it really would have stopped fires from starting
(11:13):
or at least moving forward.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
As if it was started by an electrical.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Power a power line going down or a transmission tower
would have been to deactivate the entire system. No one
would have electricity. How many lawsuits would come as a
result of that? When for two days done?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, but maybe it's not that cut and dry. Maybe
there was precedent.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Maybe somebody had called on and seen sparks before, like
we had heard.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, but by then it's but by then it becomes
too late because it was across the board. It was
one hundred miles the hour. By the way, I'm not
defending Edison. I'm just saying it's a lose lose. There's
nothing they could have done, because if they go one way,
they lose.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
If go the other way, they lose.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
They need to bury those lines.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, yeah, and what's that going to call? Oh? Just
a dollar or two? All right? Moving on?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
All right, you have European leaders. They're getting together once
again to grasp control of the negotiations of the war
in Ukraine. This is all happening today. It's kind of
this frantic tug of war against the US and Russia. God,
I can't believe I'm saying that maybe nearing some sort
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of end, heads of twenty seven European Union nations, and
Ukraine's President Zelensky are meeting at a special summit in
Brussels to discuss some sort of path forward in the conflict.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If this keeps on going the way it's going, the
United States will not be allied with Europe.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It'll be a just beyond a rift.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And can you imagine what bizarre times that we're partnered
with Russia.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That's what it looks like. That's what Trump wants.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
So you have Republicans upset at anybody who seems to
be a socialist, but it's okay to be with a
dictator communist.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, he's not a communist. They don't even pretend they're
communists anymore in Russia. But it's a dictatorship, which Trump
will never admit that Putin is a dictator during the war,
Trump has only said that it is Zelenski who is
a dictator because they bypassed the election. The election for
president has already passed because they're at war, and that's
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the way the law works there.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Trump and he says, I trust Putin.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I believe he's going to keep his word on the deal,
even though he hasn't kept once his word with anything
that has come to fruition or any kind of an
agreement that has come to fruition.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He's broken every one of them.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's a strange day.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's a strange day.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And the Republicans who heretofore would have screamed at this
are all lining up. They're all lining up. Putin is
our friend, the President is right. Our enemy is Ukraine,
our enemy is well, he hasn't gone that far. But
the rift between the US and Europe, I gotta tell
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you it's there's a whole history there where, and there's
an argument that we should not any be the policeman
of the world.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
We have gone.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
But we're snuggling up to someone. Yeah, yeah, we are
so true. They're building Trump's going to build a hotel
there called Putin on the Ritz.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That's very good.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
No, it's not. I'm ashamed of make it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, it's very strong. But anyway, it's we're not going
to be allied with Russia. I mean, we're not going
to formally be allied with Russia.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But we're gonna pull back.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
We're going to pull back from protecting Europe being part
of NATO because the biggest force in Europe is still
American forces, the biggest NATO forces and matter and ahead
of NATO or head of the military assmen, not the
other part of the administrative part of NATO, but the
head of the military aspect of MEATO is always an American.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Always blocked again.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from making
drastic cuts to medical research funding the new National Institutes
of Health Policy with strip research groups of hundreds of
millions of dollars to cover indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer's cancer,
heart disease, and other illnesses, all the way from clinical
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trials of new treatments to basic lab research. US District
judge had temporarily blocked the cuts last month. Yesterday she
filed a preliminary injunction that puts the cuts on hold
for longer.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But they're still working through lawsuits. But the cuts are
on hold.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
But this is exactly what the Trump administration has done.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
He cuts that spending Alzheimer's research, cancer research, arguing that
it's up to private enterprise to do that. Well, historically
it's been the United States. The polio vaccine was funded
by the United States. The government the United States funded
polio vaccines, it would not have happened today. It's a heartbreaker,
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it really is. And then we're going to see an
executive order this morning coming down for the dismantling of
the Department of Education completely. He wants had gone. And
then there's arguments on both sides on that one. How
much waste, how many people do you need? And how
many good programs are there. It's a question of not
(16:36):
only throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but also
throwing out the bathtub and the bathroom and the house.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, things have gotten so much better since the seventies
when we instilled this right.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Right, that's the point. That's exactly the point.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, never mind.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
The nation's top public health agency says about one hundred
and eighty employees who were laid off two weeks ago can.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Come back to work.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yay.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
They received a message that said read this email immediately.
It said, after further review and consideration, a February fifteenth
termination notice has been rescinded, and the employees were clear
to return to work. They said, you should return to
duty under your previous work schedule. We apologize for any disruption.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Starts with oops. Right, they've done that with medical, that's
the CDC.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, and you've got food safety, bird flu response, folks oversight,
medical device oversight, nuke's, nuclear weapons, national parks. There's a
lot of oops in those categories, a lot more no oops.
And we'll be talking about that for sure. Matter of fact,
the recision has to do with Elon Musk and Amy.
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What else is going on?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Well, apparently Elon Musk is moving beyond doge. He is
joining or at least supporting, backing podcaster Ben Shapiro's Plea
for President Trump two parts, and former Minnesota police officer
Derek Chauvin. Of course, Chauvin was convicted for killing George
Floyd in twenty twenty. He's serving a federal sentence of
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twenty one years twenty two and a half years on
state charges. Shapiro, the podcast are very conservative, said on
Tuesday that if you're going to issue pardons, there is
one that should be included in that, and he said
Derek Chauvin was basically railroaded.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Come yeah, innocent. By the way, thank you for using
the word. He's very conservative. You think I would go
way beyond conservative, He said. Chauvin is innocent and it
was a political conviction. By the way, if Trump does this,
which of course he won't, there's no upside for Trump
at all.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
No, and there's another round of riots like we had
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah. Yeah, so I doubt this is going to happen.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, but Musk did tweet on X or whatever you
do on X now said something to think about.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Something to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Wow, Okay, I'm sort of speechless.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Trump preparing executive orders as he is wont to do,
telling Education Secretary to dissolve the Department of Education. So
apparently a draft of the executive order calls on Education
Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate a department closure by taking
all necessary steps and this is important in quotes permitted
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by law.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, well, it's he's not going to be able to
dissolve the Education Department because that was set up by
Congress and would need a congressional approval and would be
subject to the filibuster, so sixty Senate rules, sixty Senate
votes would be necessary. So he's not going to be
able to disband it dismantle it. However, he decides how
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many people work there and what they do so he
could effectively dismantle it. And that's a few hundred thousand
people saying goodbye.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Censure. So what I don't understand this whole censure thing.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But Republican Dan Newhouse from Washington has introduced a resolution
to censure Al Green. Of course, Al Green is the
person who stood up during the President's speech on Tuesday
night and was screaming and kind of waving his cane
and then was escorted out.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, so here's a question. First of all, let me
tell you what censure is. It's a vote by Congress,
and effectively what it says. It's a resolution that says
you've been a bad boy, right, bad boy.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
That's it. That's it. So that's who cares.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's and I would argue if I were Al Green,
I would actually invite this as a badge of honor.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Oh and he said he did say afterward they were
talking to him and he's like, oh, yeah, well, you know,
I did this big deal, but I got to go
work on articles and impeachment.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Now. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's you know who was also censured and was not
not voted to be removed from Congress, which they can do,
is Joe McCarthy with what he did.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
They wouldn't go beyond the censure.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And Marjorie Taylor Green, who wouldn't shut up during Biden's
last and last State of the Union, which start screaming.
No one threw her out, No one even asked for
a censure. She was just allowed to heckle and heckle
and heckle and hell she brought props. Yeah, she brought
like cats and stuff.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Yeah, I mean, it's just come on, guy, didn't al
Green have some sexual claims leveled against him years ago?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You know?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I know that he sings. You know that. No, not that.
Oh do I have the wrong al Green? I just
really what.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I remember a scandal of some kind.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
I'm trying to google it, and when I put in
al Green and then get to sexual, the next word
comes up his healing.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Okay, he was in two thousand and eight, a former
staffer accused him of sex.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
All right, Yeah, everybody's accused espec.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
She withdrew the lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, okay, interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
US Supreme Court just yesterday cited against the Trump administration
and upheld a lower court's decision to force the release
of nearly two billion in foreign funds if you remember Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Put that on pause.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The nation's High Court ruled five to four rejecting the
Trump administration's request to cancel the foreign aid money, and
Justice Samuel Alito, in his dissenting opinion, wrote that he
was stunned by the Court's decision.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, this is going to be a fight across the board.
How much power does the president have? How much power
in the court? You got the conservative members of Congress,
is going to give them unlimited power? This had do
USA two billion dollars had already been allocated by Congress.
Money was there and the President stopped it. Does he
have the right to do that? Does he have the
right to override Congress? And you've got the conservative members
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Supreme coursing absolutely. President's power is virtually unlimited and unbridled.
So and there's a bunch of lawsuits coming up in
front of the Supreme Court as to that.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Exactly that issue a.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Little breathing space. President Trump is granting a one month
exemption on the new tariffs on imports from Mexico and
Canada for cars. Trump talked to the leaders of the
Big Three yesterday. For General Mooters in Stillantas and White
House Pros Secretary Caroline Levitt said Trump was very blunt
(23:40):
with them. He said that they should get on it,
start investing, start moving shift production here to the US,
or they are going to pay tariffs.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, tariffs on Canadian goods, Canadian parts. You know, a
bunch of cars are manufactured in Canada and especially a
lot of parts. The problem is is that once these
tariffs kick in and Canadian the Ontario Prime Minister with
the State of Ontario the province said within ten days
production in the United States is gonna stop because we're
(24:11):
not We're not giving up.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We'll shut it down. And now whoops.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So I think what Trump is going to say, if
you commit to moving building plants here, moving investment here,
that's enough.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I think he's gonna say I won that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
One problem is is that you know he can arbitrarily
say terrorifts he did yesterday terror or Monday tariffs, we're
going to go in.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, they're not gonna go in. I'm gonna wait a month. No,
I'm not gonna wait a month. I'm gonna make them
happen tonight. I mean that can you can do them
one day, build a factory in one day, Try that
one build or move a car factory in one day.
So what's going to happen is as he said, there's
gonna be it's a little blip. There's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
A slight adjustment. But Americans are ready for that.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Okay, when a new car goes up three thousand dollars
and I'm gonna talk about cars later on, At what
time am I doing that?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Oh that's eight point fifty. Okay, let's move on. This
is a tough one. I mean, restructure, yes, but firing people.
Trump administration is planning to cut tens of thousands of
employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is just
a tough I think we should be doing more for
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our veterans.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, and less.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Now, under the Biden administration, it did expand. The Department
did expand with more services, quicker services, more people.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Didn't that happen in the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
First time out, and now it's going to go. Yeah,
Trump kept that policy going. There are a few things
that Trump kept that Biden instituted. Either way, it's not everything.
Now he's gone the other way. Now we're going to
get rid of senty thousand.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But how can you do that to our I mean, well,
quite honestly, I think that should be a main focus
of the homelessness issue, all of those things veterans.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
He's gonna argue doge is going to do that because
it's a waste and it's fraud.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
See a lot of stuff he's calling fraud is not fraud.
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
He may disagree, is inefficiency?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
No, or how about just political differences DEI. You may
hate DEI programs granted, and not one of fund DEI programs,
But where's the fraud.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well, if it's being misused or the money's not going
to where it's supposed.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
To, I'm not arguing that. Well, you see, here's the
Trump philosophy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Is any money going to DEI is misused, Which is fine, Yeah,
that's the right, that's political, But you can't argue it's fraud.
You cannot argue it's fraud there. And that's what's going on.
It's all being lumped together and it has to be differentiated. Okay,
we're gonna go ahead and take a break and come back.
I am six point.
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Denmark, where Greenland is Territory of Denmark. Has said, no,
it's not for sale. What do you do with that?
I insist you by It's almost like the Godfather. I'm
gonna make you an offer that you cannot refuse. No,
it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It is KFI. It's a Thursday, March sixth Now. I'm
still fighting this cold.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It just drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You sound pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, you know what I sounded. I just took some
medication of some kind of some birth control or something
we have in the first aid kit over there. I
just grabb a little envelope and pop it, throw it
at my mouth. So I have no idea what, but
I think I'm gonna be okay. In any case, Let's
start with good mornings.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't usually do that. I usually go into some
kind of story of mind. But I really don't have
left all.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Right, even about Sheldon.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's quite a joke.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I just said we would not this is my that
would be my last day broadcasting.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh that joke.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You keep threatening.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You know, my last day is really going to be spectacular.
I mean I told you about Doobie, my friend who
was in his Rael lead the gun's forces. He was
a pilot, he flew F sixteens, and then when he retired,
he went to l all and I knew when he
was going to retire, and I called him and I said, Doobie,
(01:44):
it's your last day flying. You have to go on
the intercom and say, ladies.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And gentlemen, welcome to all. Today.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We'll be flying at thirty five thousand feet, but for
you thirty two thousand feet.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
He wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Such a deal, bastard.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
He wouldn't do it. All right.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I didn't just scream into the mic.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
We're gonna die, or in a very heavy Arabic accent accent,
go good day, nice.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
This is Mohammed.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What are you implying?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm being completely what okay?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Is today your last day?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Sounds like it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They will start with Hi'm bill handled. There once was
a man from Nantucket.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
All right, let us say, emails will keep on coming.
I was once accused. I was sued once, No just once.
I actually I have been sued five times. One every
single time.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Just to let you know, Amy, that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm thirty years when I should have been sued. I
was never sued. I had some issues with a couple
of surrogates who unfortunately decided in the midst of their contract,
we have take them all off birth control, of course,
because we get wanted to get pregnant. And one of
the things they can't have sex with their husbands and
boyfriends because.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They might make their own.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, and that's exactly what happened. A couple of times
they shook the boyfriend or the husband, and even though
they have a contract, is you know, what are you
gonna do? And the couple couple could have sued me
easily because I'm the one that chose a surrogate or
my agency did. And I sit down with him, I go, hey,
bottom line is this is my fault. I screwed up.
If you litigate, you're gonna win, no question about it.
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But you you want a child, and that's what we're
here for. So I'll tell you what number one on
my waiting list of couples just became number two.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You get a free kid.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh wow, that's I thought you were going to do
it like half off.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
No, no, no, half off is what I should have
done it. But I say, you get a free kid.
And they never sued me. Now, the people that did
sue me are were crazy and I just said no.
And so anyways, I was sued and there was These
were by employees. And one of the women that I had,
this was years and years a year ago, was married
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to an African American. I had no idea and part
and I was accused of racism. That's why I fired
her because she was married to an African American, which
is a complete cross because I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Who she was married to. I had, i'm African Americans
working for you.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, that was the other thing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I was going to have Marjorie who worked for me,
not my Marjorie, but Marjorie. And I was going to
put her on the stand and say, did Bill ever
mention that you were African American? He goes, I didn't
even know Bill knew I was African American and she.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Worked for me every day. Never came up.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So anyway, their lawyer wrote to me, or this woman's
lawyer wrote to me and said, we're suing you for discrimination,
racial discrimination, and he knew I was a talk show host, Abby,
and he said that I'm sure that will affect your
career in a very negative way.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So I suggest that you settle the case.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
By the way, that's pure extortion, that's against the canons
of law. I threatened to have him disbarred for that
one if he didn't if it didn't drop the case,
and they didn't. They didn't, and I didn't disbar him
because I figured, you know, I don't want to take
the guys living away. So anyway, he said, so he
writes the letter, our accusation that you are a racist
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will affect your career negatively. My lawyer wrote back one line,
get in line, that was it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Did you tell them that your career was built upon
your racism?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, no, I didn't say that, but that was it now,
of course, And they tried to bring it up, and
that was bounced immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We made a motion to.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Bounce that because they lost the case.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah a couple. We killed them twelve to one, energy
twelve or zero on the jury. But here's a little
tidbit of law. The only way you can sue for
racism is you have to be a protected class. You
have to racism or discrimination is a legal concept much
like Lemon law, and you have to be protected and
it's race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age not so much, but
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that's one of the protected classes. Being married to a
protected class does not make you protected. So we bounced
that allegation. Unfortunately, Okay. I wish it had stayed in
and you couldn't lost stories and Bill had.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I lost stories at the same time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A little bit of law news for you, all right, Amy,
Good morning, Hi Bill. Hi.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
By the way, don't correct me ever again. When did
I correct you the passport business? When I said during
the promo.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
You said you didn't listen to wake Up Call gold.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I told you I do whenever, whenever I when he
hears his name, whenever I can, I do.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
So it was just a clarification.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
You are talking about golden passports and Willy Wonka gave
out golden tickets.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, it's not a clarification.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It was a straight out correction, and let's not do that, Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
He was making a simile.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yes, I was actually maybe a metaphor.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Or an illustration.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Maybe maybe all right, Cono, good morning, yeah, and good morning,
and Neil.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Okay, let's do it guy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Hi Bill, Hi, good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Handle on the news with Amy Neil and me lead story.
All right, Donald Trump issued what he said was the
last warning to Comas to release all of the hostages
in Gaza emediately and if he's and he said, release
them all, the release all the hostages now, not later,
(07:51):
and immediately return all the dead bodies of the people
you murdered, or it is over now here is the
problem for CAMAS.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I would take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, yeah, I think he'd bombs ifness.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yes, sir, Donald Trump does not screw around. I mean
he'd I mean he's mercurial. You know, thee tariffs were
gonna come in and then three minutes later, I'm gonna
hold him back for a month. Actually the tariffs were
gonna come in, and they held off for a month,
and he changed his mind and go, no, it's kicking
in tonight. Then he said, wait a minute, I'll wait
a month. This is on auto goods. The rest of
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it still kicks in, so you know, autos and auto parts.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But on this one, I gotta tell.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You, if I'm Hamas, I'm gonna do something. I'm not
gonna keep on going with this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So what happens, it's not like we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Have no no. What he said was.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That he would send Israel everything it needs to finish
the job, and not a single Hamas member will be
safe if you don't do as I say.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And what he's gonna do is give a green light
to Israel.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The only reason Israel has pulled back at all and
has before now it's mainly because of the hostages and
the pressure from a lot of the Israeli populous population
is the United States has held back Israel.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Come on, you have to you know, during.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel in
addition to Kuwait, the United States forced Israel to stay
out of it. You do not get involved in attacking Iraq,
even though missiles were hitting Israel. And because we have
an we have a coalition that consists primarily of Arab
countries going against Hussein, and we are not going to
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get you involved in this one. And Israel immediately goes okay, okay, okay, okay, Well,
now it's go to town, decimate Gaza, and we're gonna
do everything we can to help you. And he's saying
that to Nettine, Oh bad for Hamas very bad.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
All right, So cal Edison sued again.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Los Angeles County is suing Southern California Edison, and so
is so are the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre.
It's the latest lawsuit claiming that Edison's equipment caused the
fire and Eaton Canyon, which ended up destroying about nine
thousand homes, killing seventeen people. More than forty lawsuits have
(10:23):
been filed against the utility so far. The attorney for
the county says, all evidence is pointing to them.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, now I have a question, and as I said
before all of this is done, we have to look
at it the evidence. So, so the evidence now is pointing
towards Edison, and the allegation is they either should have
maintained their equipment so it didn't do this, or done
(10:50):
a preemptive shutdown of the electrical system, so deactivate the
electrical system. So let me ask you, when fires are
hitting across the where winds of one hundred miles per
hour are going across the entire Edison area, the only
way that it really would have stopped fires from starting
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or at least moving forward.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
As if it was started by an electrical.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Power a power line going down or a transmission tower
would have been to deactivate the entire system. No one
would have electricity. How many lawsuits would come as a
result of that? When for two days done?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, but maybe it's not that cut and dry. Maybe
there was precedent.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Maybe somebody had called on and seen sparks before, like
we had heard.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, but by then it's but by then it becomes
too late because it was across the board. It was
one hundred miles the hour. By the way, I'm not
defending Edison. I'm just saying it's a lose lose. There's
nothing they could have done, because if they go one way,
they lose.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
If go the other way, they lose.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
They need to bury those lines.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, yeah, and what's that going to call? Oh? Just
a dollar or two? All right? Moving on?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
All right, you have European leaders. They're getting together once
again to grasp control of the negotiations of the war
in Ukraine. This is all happening today. It's kind of
this frantic tug of war against the US and Russia. God,
I can't believe I'm saying that maybe nearing some sort
(12:25):
of end, heads of twenty seven European Union nations, and
Ukraine's President Zelensky are meeting at a special summit in
Brussels to discuss some sort of path forward in the conflict.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
If this keeps on going the way it's going, the
United States will not be allied with Europe.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It'll be a just beyond a rift.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And can you imagine what bizarre times that we're partnered
with Russia.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That's what it looks like. That's what Trump wants.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
So you have Republicans upset at anybody who seems to
be a socialist, but it's okay to be with a
dictator communist.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, he's not a communist. They don't even pretend they're
communists anymore in Russia. But it's a dictatorship, which Trump
will never admit that Putin is a dictator during the war,
Trump has only said that it is Zelenski who is
a dictator because they bypassed the election. The election for
president has already passed because they're at war, and that's
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the way the law works there.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Trump and he says, I trust Putin.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I believe he's going to keep his word on the deal,
even though he hasn't kept once his word with anything
that has come to fruition or any kind of an
agreement that has come to fruition.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He's broken every one of them.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's a strange day.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's a strange day.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And the Republicans who heretofore would have screamed at this
are all lining up. They're all lining up. Putin is
our friend, the President is right. Our enemy is Ukraine,
our enemy is well, he hasn't gone that far. But
the rift between the US and Europe, I gotta tell
(14:12):
you it's there's a whole history there where, and there's
an argument that we should not any be the policeman
of the world.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
We have gone.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
But we're snuggling up to someone. Yeah, yeah, we are
so true. They're building Trump's going to build a hotel
there called Putin on the Ritz.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That's very good.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
No, it's not. I'm ashamed of make it.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, it's very strong. But anyway, it's we're not going
to be allied with Russia. I mean, we're not going
to formally be allied with Russia.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But we're gonna pull back.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
We're going to pull back from protecting Europe being part
of NATO because the biggest force in Europe is still
American forces, the biggest NATO forces and matter and ahead
of NATO or head of the military assmen, not the
other part of the administrative part of NATO, but the
head of the military aspect of MEATO is always an American.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Always blocked again.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from making
drastic cuts to medical research funding the new National Institutes
of Health Policy with strip research groups of hundreds of
millions of dollars to cover indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer's cancer,
heart disease, and other illnesses, all the way from clinical
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trials of new treatments to basic lab research. US District
judge had temporarily blocked the cuts last month. Yesterday she
filed a preliminary injunction that puts the cuts on hold
for longer.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But they're still working through lawsuits. But the cuts are
on hold.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
But this is exactly what the Trump administration has done.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
He cuts that spending Alzheimer's research, cancer research, arguing that
it's up to private enterprise to do that. Well, historically
it's been the United States. The polio vaccine was funded
by the United States. The government the United States funded
polio vaccines, it would not have happened today. It's a heartbreaker,
(16:15):
it really is. And then we're going to see an
executive order this morning coming down for the dismantling of
the Department of Education completely. He wants had gone. And
then there's arguments on both sides on that one. How
much waste, how many people do you need? And how
many good programs are there. It's a question of not
(16:36):
only throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but also
throwing out the bathtub and the bathroom and the house.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, things have gotten so much better since the seventies
when we instilled this right.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Right, that's the point. That's exactly the point.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, never mind.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
The nation's top public health agency says about one hundred
and eighty employees who were laid off two weeks ago can.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Come back to work.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yay.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
They received a message that said read this email immediately.
It said, after further review and consideration, a February fifteenth
termination notice has been rescinded, and the employees were clear
to return to work. They said, you should return to
duty under your previous work schedule. We apologize for any disruption.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Starts with oops. Right, they've done that with medical, that's
the CDC.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, and you've got food safety, bird flu response, folks oversight,
medical device oversight, nuke's, nuclear weapons, national parks. There's a
lot of oops in those categories, a lot more no oops.
And we'll be talking about that for sure. Matter of fact,
the recision has to do with Elon Musk and Amy.
(17:47):
What else is going on?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Well, apparently Elon Musk is moving beyond doge. He is
joining or at least supporting, backing podcaster Ben Shapiro's Plea
for President Trump two parts, and former Minnesota police officer
Derek Chauvin. Of course, Chauvin was convicted for killing George
Floyd in twenty twenty. He's serving a federal sentence of
(18:09):
twenty one years twenty two and a half years on
state charges. Shapiro, the podcast are very conservative, said on
Tuesday that if you're going to issue pardons, there is
one that should be included in that, and he said
Derek Chauvin was basically railroaded.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Come yeah, innocent. By the way, thank you for using
the word. He's very conservative. You think I would go
way beyond conservative, He said. Chauvin is innocent and it
was a political conviction. By the way, if Trump does this,
which of course he won't, there's no upside for Trump
at all.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
No, and there's another round of riots like we had
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah. Yeah, so I doubt this is going to happen.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, but Musk did tweet on X or whatever you
do on X now said something to think about.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Something to think about.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Wow, Okay, I'm sort of speechless.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Trump preparing executive orders as he is wont to do,
telling Education Secretary to dissolve the Department of Education. So
apparently a draft of the executive order calls on Education
Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate a department closure by taking
all necessary steps and this is important in quotes permitted
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by law.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, well, it's he's not going to be able to
dissolve the Education Department because that was set up by
Congress and would need a congressional approval and would be
subject to the filibuster, so sixty Senate rules, sixty Senate
votes would be necessary. So he's not going to be
able to disband it dismantle it. However, he decides how
(19:49):
many people work there and what they do so he
could effectively dismantle it. And that's a few hundred thousand
people saying goodbye.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Censure. So what I don't understand this whole censure thing.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But Republican Dan Newhouse from Washington has introduced a resolution
to censure Al Green. Of course, Al Green is the
person who stood up during the President's speech on Tuesday
night and was screaming and kind of waving his cane
and then was escorted out.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, so here's a question. First of all, let me
tell you what censure is. It's a vote by Congress,
and effectively what it says. It's a resolution that says
you've been a bad boy, right, bad boy.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
That's it. That's it. So that's who cares.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's and I would argue if I were Al Green,
I would actually invite this as a badge of honor.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Oh and he said he did say afterward they were
talking to him and he's like, oh, yeah, well, you know,
I did this big deal, but I got to go
work on articles and impeachment.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Now. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's you know who was also censured and was not
not voted to be removed from Congress, which they can do,
is Joe McCarthy with what he did.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
They wouldn't go beyond the censure.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And Marjorie Taylor Green, who wouldn't shut up during Biden's
last and last State of the Union, which start screaming.
No one threw her out, No one even asked for
a censure. She was just allowed to heckle and heckle
and heckle and hell she brought props. Yeah, she brought
like cats and stuff.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Yeah, I mean, it's just come on, guy, didn't al
Green have some sexual claims leveled against him years ago?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You know?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I know that he sings. You know that. No, not that.
Oh do I have the wrong al Green? I just
really what.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I remember a scandal of some kind.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
I'm trying to google it, and when I put in
al Green and then get to sexual, the next word
comes up his healing.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Okay, he was in two thousand and eight, a former
staffer accused him of sex.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
All right, Yeah, everybody's accused espec.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
She withdrew the lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, okay, interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
US Supreme Court just yesterday cited against the Trump administration
and upheld a lower court's decision to force the release
of nearly two billion in foreign funds if you remember Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Put that on pause.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The nation's High Court ruled five to four rejecting the
Trump administration's request to cancel the foreign aid money, and
Justice Samuel Alito, in his dissenting opinion, wrote that he
was stunned by the Court's decision.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, this is going to be a fight across the board.
How much power does the president have? How much power
in the court? You got the conservative members of Congress,
is going to give them unlimited power? This had do
USA two billion dollars had already been allocated by Congress.
Money was there and the President stopped it. Does he
have the right to do that? Does he have the
right to override Congress? And you've got the conservative members
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Supreme coursing absolutely. President's power is virtually unlimited and unbridled.
So and there's a bunch of lawsuits coming up in
front of the Supreme Court as to that.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Exactly that issue a.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Little breathing space. President Trump is granting a one month
exemption on the new tariffs on imports from Mexico and
Canada for cars. Trump talked to the leaders of the
Big Three yesterday. For General Mooters in Stillantas and White
House Pros Secretary Caroline Levitt said Trump was very blunt
(23:40):
with them. He said that they should get on it,
start investing, start moving shift production here to the US,
or they are going to pay tariffs.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, tariffs on Canadian goods, Canadian parts. You know, a
bunch of cars are manufactured in Canada and especially a
lot of parts. The problem is is that once these
tariffs kick in and Canadian the Ontario Prime Minister with
the State of Ontario the province said within ten days
production in the United States is gonna stop because we're
(24:11):
not We're not giving up.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We'll shut it down. And now whoops.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So I think what Trump is going to say, if
you commit to moving building plants here, moving investment here,
that's enough.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I think he's gonna say I won that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
One problem is is that you know he can arbitrarily
say terrorifts he did yesterday terror or Monday tariffs, we're
going to go in.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, they're not gonna go in. I'm gonna wait a month. No,
I'm not gonna wait a month. I'm gonna make them
happen tonight. I mean that can you can do them
one day, build a factory in one day, Try that
one build or move a car factory in one day.
So what's going to happen is as he said, there's
gonna be it's a little blip. There's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
A slight adjustment. But Americans are ready for that.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Okay, when a new car goes up three thousand dollars
and I'm gonna talk about cars later on, At what
time am I doing that?
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Oh that's eight point fifty. Okay, let's move on. This
is a tough one. I mean, restructure, yes, but firing people.
Trump administration is planning to cut tens of thousands of
employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is just
a tough I think we should be doing more for
(25:33):
our veterans.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, and less.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Now, under the Biden administration, it did expand. The Department
did expand with more services, quicker services, more people.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Didn't that happen in the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
First time out, and now it's going to go. Yeah,
Trump kept that policy going. There are a few things
that Trump kept that Biden instituted. Either way, it's not everything.
Now he's gone the other way. Now we're going to
get rid of senty thousand.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But how can you do that to our I mean, well,
quite honestly, I think that should be a main focus
of the homelessness issue, all of those things veterans.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
He's gonna argue doge is going to do that because
it's a waste and it's fraud.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
See a lot of stuff he's calling fraud is not fraud.
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
He may disagree, is inefficiency?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
No, or how about just political differences DEI. You may
hate DEI programs granted, and not one of fund DEI programs,
But where's the fraud.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well, if it's being misused or the money's not going
to where it's supposed.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
To, I'm not arguing that. Well, you see, here's the
Trump philosophy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Is any money going to DEI is misused, Which is fine, Yeah,
that's the right, that's political, But you can't argue it's fraud.
You cannot argue it's fraud there. And that's what's going on.
It's all being lumped together and it has to be differentiated. Okay,
we're gonna go ahead and take a break and come back.
I am six point.
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