April 24, 2025 • 28 mins
(April 24, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump signals shift in tone on China tariffs. California economy now the world’s fourth largest, overtaking Japan. Russia launches deadliest strikes on Kyiv since last Summer. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu demands to be part of conclave to choose new pope.Trump proposes $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ checks.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump signals shift in tone on China tariffs. California economy now the world’s fourth largest, overtaking Japan. Russia launches deadliest strikes on Kyiv since last Summer. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu demands to be part of conclave to choose new pope.Trump proposes $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ checks.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
There's four answers that you have to answer for the
state bar. There are two that are kind of right
that it's not going to be completely right, but mostly right.
Then there is one that is more right than the
other two, and then the top one, which is the
most right. And sometimes they are so close that if
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fifty to fifty percent of the people answer one way
or the other, they throw.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Out the question and now Handle on the news. Ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
By the way, that promo was me yesterday describing the
multiple choice part of the bar exam that is being changed.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The bar exam is just.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I have to admit I'm a pretty good test taker.
I never had problems with tests. That one was a bitch,
you know.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I know it sounds like you're rambling on that promo,
but it did make sense. There's so nuanced that exactly ye,
we'll get it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, you know it's exactly correct.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Then they just go throwing it out.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The only thing that saved my ass during the taking
of the bar was I was high on cocaine the
entire time.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And I was.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I became president of alumni association for law school, and
I would go to colleges and people would ask Bill,
is the bar exams as hard as they say? I go, yeah,
so how did you prepare for the bar exam? Cocaine?
Lots and lots of cocaine. So they asked me to
leave that position. They'd rather not have someone representing the
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school telling college students to store the cocaine to take
the bar.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
But to your point, yes, what happened to that school
that you graduated from?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It went out of business?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Okay, just that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, it is now defunct, and not because it was
a terrible law school, which it was, but it was
because school has become so insanely expensive law school and
the job opportunities out there are much feward than they
were because you know, lawyers have just priced themselves out.
Now you go to Harvard, you go to any of
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the big schools. It's the UCLA even or Stanford. I mean,
you know, high sc and you come out near the
top of the class, you're going to.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Get a job, a good job.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But for the rest of it, and the only reason
I went out on my own and I started practicing
the day I finished I passed the bar. As a
matter of fact, I actually started practicing before I was
licensed to be a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I was involved, and we had to post date.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Some of the documents because a few of them went
out before I was sworn in. So anyway, I had
to go out on my own because no one would hire.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Me, of course.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Not you're a walking problem.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No kidding, no kidding. All right, good morning for one
and all amy. Good morning, Hi Bill. Oh you're nice
and crispy, bright pink this morning. It's not you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, sort of reddish, pinkish, Yeah, okay, fair enough. And
there's a cono in his hat and sort of a
dirty gray T shirt. It looks somewhat like a homeless person.
Good morning, Cono.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
It's not dirty.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh it's gray. You can't tell.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
It's very clean.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's it's gray. You can't tell, ConA. It looks dirty
because it's it's a dingy gray.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
It's not. It's great, just more of a Heather Gray.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
My wife's name, Heather Gray, Heather Conor.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh, okay, and there's Anne and I'm doing a close definitely,
we're doing a fashion show.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
This morning.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
That is.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
La Chargers L Chargers sweatshirt, and Neil, you're wearing the
T shirt Frankenstein T shirt. Oh no, it's mad. It's
the mad guy. What's his name, Elmer t Mad? God
know what was the name of What was the name
of that mad character?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
ALFREDY Newman?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's it, alfredy Newman?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Good enough toxic tunes. I love this artist.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And he did a version of ALFREDY Newman as the
Frank Frankenstein's monster.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, aren't we happy?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
We do radio and no one can see that? And
Will is will around? He is not, oh okay, because
I don't see him on the monitor. Okay, So who
does traffic in the morning now? When Will's not there?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Rich Cossona is filling in today. He's not on our
little group thing.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Though, Oh okay. Is he in studio? He's in his studio,
in Will's studio or outside.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
The some if he was here, he would be on.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
A little confusing, All right, guys, what a way to
start the show, complete confusion forgetting ALFREDY Newman's name and
talking about my now defunct law school.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay, we're done, guys. Certainly with the introductions in the morning.
Are you guys ready to do it for or handle
on the news? Yeah, okay, let's do it. Amy, Neil
and me lead stories.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Well, here we go.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Trump turned around and once again sort of kind of
changed his mind. So yesterday he said the one hundred
and forty five percent tariff, well, okay, let's not make
it one hundred and forty five percent tariff.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We're going to lower the tariff.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We don't know when we're going to lower the terraff
or I'm going to lower the teniff tariff, but it's
going to be less than one hundred and forty five
because it is a little high, but it's.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Going to be more than zero.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Just everybody is really, I mean, no one has any
idea the changes are being made. I mean, hour by hour,
the world markets are going crazy. The IMF said, we're
the global economy is being affected by all of this.
Consumer confidence is the worst that it's been in decades.
I mean, no, that's not true. Worse that it's been
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since the pandemic, and it is. I mean, it's it's
just crazy. And the exemptions, right, he calls one hundred
and forty five percent exemptions except for the top tech TVs,
you know, phones, computer chips, of course, having nothing to
do whatsoever with Bezos or Bezos and Zuckerberg and everybody
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cowtowing up to him. Those are the industries that have
been exempted and completely under the one hundred and forty
five percent tariff. And now it's just up in the air.
And he has said, well, China is coming to the table.
She is telling him to go pound sand.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
G is saying yes, but he's telling him at the table.
He's coming to the table and tell him go pound sand.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And he's and she's not even coming to the table.
He's just the room.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
He's never gonna budge, Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, she's ever and and Trump is gonna blink and blink.
And of course he's describing all that as a win.
It's all a win. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I had to come back on the tariffs. It's a win.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I had to exempt certain industries. That's a win for us.
The fact that g somehow is telling us to go
pound sand, that's a win for us.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
It's I don't even where to go.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But in the meantime, I was talking to Savill, my partner,
yesterday about our business.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We stopped it cold.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We have products in China that we're not letting ship,
and they're stopping shipping too. And there was a meeting
at the White House with the executives of Home Depot
and Walmart saying to Trump, this is going to kill us.
This is going to wipe out our business. We're gonna
have empty store shelves if this this tearoff continues.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Just gone.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Salvlle and I were talking about our business. He's been
doing it for forty years. This continues on. We close
the doors, as hundreds of thousands of other businesses would
do so.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So you know, but it's gonna be good for the
United States. It's gonna be good, like the pandemic was good.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
All right, all right.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Russia launched it's deadly as unfortunately, wave of attacks against
Ukraine's capital nine months. In nine months, I mean early
today in the wee, hours after US President Donald Trump
accused of Vladimir Zelensky of harming peace talks in a
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fresh ti rate against the Ukrainian counterpart. There, Moscow sent
seventy missiles one hundred and forty five drones towards Ukraine,
mainly targeting Kiev. And right now you're looking at least
eight people killed in the boat.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
What's going on here, unfortunately, is the Trump administration is
pushing very very hard for a peace deal, just laying
into Zelensky saying Vance saying, if you don't sign this
peace deal, the United States is going to walk away.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And the peace deal.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That the United States is in fact advocating is exactly
what Russia wants. Russia has taken from Ukraine, Ukraine doesn't
get into NATO at all, precisely what Russia wants. So
Putin is saying, oh, yeah, we'll sign this. So Lensky said,
we can't give up the land. It's against the constitution.
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I can't do it. I don't have the ability to
sit down with Russia and say you can have Ukrainian land.
And so it's gonna be tough if Europe doesn't pick
up the.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Arms to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Ukraine is well, Ukraine will be two thirds size, Russia
will have one third of it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I think Europe will come to the table.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I think so, although they're not letting in Ukraine and NATO,
that is not happening.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
It doesn't it doesn't look like it's gonna happen. In
the near future, and they're cow taling to Putin on
that one.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Putin's saying that if Ukraine gets in a NATO, it's
an act of wars. So what's Putin gonna do go
to war with NATO? Is that go to war war
twenty seven countries? Yeah, anyway, it's unfortunate. I think Ukraine
is effectively gone with the.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Help of the United States. That's the heartbreaker here, Okay,
fun part of the new popery.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Someone wants to be in the room where it happens.
A cardinal convicted of financial crimes by the Vatican says
he can be part of the conclave even though he's
listed as a non electorate. It's Cardinal Giovanni and Jello.
Bet you, I don't know if I said that, right.
He was one of the most powerful figures at the Vatican.
But then in twenty twenty, Pope Francis ordered him to
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resign the rights and privileges of a cardinal after he
got embroiled in a Vatican financial scandal.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, he was convicted of embezzlement and fraud, convicted by
a Vatican court. Why would Francis not just Defrockham right there?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Goodbye?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Done Nope, and he's claiming because he wasn't and he's
still a cardinal and his conviction is on appeal.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
He's gonna sit in and vote for the new pope.
Don't know, We'll see what happens.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I'm guessing no, yeah, why would they.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm guessing that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You know, the farah Kevin Ferrell, the consiglieri who is
running the place in absence of the Godfather, who is
in charge of the voting.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He's actually a carme lango, but it's close. Dual lingo, yeah,
du a lingo.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
He speaks same. By the way, he does speak several languages.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Pharaoh speaks English, he speaks Italian, he speaks Spanish. He
even speaks Gaelic Irish Gaelic. Because he came from Ilin
became a US citizen, so he is considered an American cardinal,
and he's handling the whole thing. He's the one that
he's the one that taps the pope, the dead Pope's
forehead with a silver hammer and asks are you alive,
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are you alive? Or you're alive three times and then
declares the Pope is dead. Pope is dead, and then
crushes the ring, you know, with a hammer. And here's
an interesting one is that, uh, the the death certificate
of anybody has to be issued by the Italian government.
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There is also a death certificate issued by the Vatican
in the in case of the pope dying or when
the pope dies.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So there's two death certificate, one Vatican, the other one
is the is the official one. Kind of fun, it really.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Is one on it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's a good point. No, it's yeah, it's just fascinating.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So I'm going to get in this really some fun
stuff coming up at seven twenty. And that is how
Francis is going to be named a saint.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Guaranteed he's going to be sainted.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And I'll tell you all the rules of canon's a canonization, canonization.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, okay, wow.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The five thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Dollars of five thousand dollars rather could be given to
every American mother after giving birth, with President Donald Trump
saying that he liked the sound of that concept. He
said it's a good idea to him when he was
asked about it this week. Trump has not made a
final decision on the proposal. It obviously needs to be
approved by Congress to materialize, but that's that's being floated
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right now, five thousand bucks baby bonus check if.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, there's a reason for it, because the birth rate
in the United States is falling p pitouslee and it's
going to be a net loss. The only reason that
we're not hemorrhaging population is because of immigration coming in.
So five thousand dollars if that's put into law, and
if you look at the twenty twenty three numbers of
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the berths in the US, the government would be spending
eighteen billion dollars to pay moms five grand.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Dick Durbin's done. The longtime second ranking Democrat in the Senate,
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has announced his plans to retire
at the end of next year. He said, the decision
of whether to run for reelection is not easy. I
love the job of being a United States Senator, but
in my heart, I know it's time to pass the torch.
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He's eighty, He's been expected to step aside for a while.
He's served in the chamber since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I think four of the five senators who have announced
their retirements are Democrat, which is going to make it
even harder for the Democrats to take the Senate. Doesn't
look like that's gonna happen anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Well do you blame him?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Though?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
They've got the new young group is saying hey, we're
coming after you. I mean like they're rallying the troops
and organizing, saying we're going after the older guys.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Right, But at the same time you still have the
power brokers in line. Mitch McConnell, for example, who gave
up the majority in this case, Well it was a minority,
but majority the majority position and gave it to Thune,
a much younger guy.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But yeah, you know, when you're eighty, how far and
how long do you keep on going?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Okay, ask ourselves that every day, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
No kidding, Thank you for that, all right.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Tennis legend Andre Agassy is set to make his pro
debut in another record sport next week when he takes
part in the US Open Pickleball Championship. He's going to
do this alongside the sports number one player. Her name
is Anna Lee Waters and she's eighteen years old. So
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I guess this takes place on Aprol thirtieth, and he's
going to partake in it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, and you can bet on it. Now, the game
is fixed. You know that it's a racket. It's just not.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
What I have to have balls to make that joke.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Okay, enough of that.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Finding a safe space. So the wife of the guy
from El Salvador who was living in Maryland and then
got swept up in that ice raid and was deported
down to El Salvador. And that's the one that everybody's
The people are going down and visiting, The senators and
lawmakers are going down and visiting, and it's kilmar Abrego Garcia. Well,
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his wife now says that she is moving or has
moved to a safe house because the Trump administration posted
a court document that included her address on social media.
The document was a protective order. I believe that she
filed in twenty two.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, she did.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Against him for domestic violence, and they're using that to
establish that he is a bad guy and deserves to
be deported.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, So it's got her address on it, and she
says she doesn't feel safe, and so she's moved the
Department of Homeland Security said, these are public documents that
anyone could get access to.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Do we know if there was a governmental agency that
was involved in moving her local police department or the
state or the county, or is it just on her own?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Where else do you get a safe house?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, it could be that she just moved and they're
calling it a quote safe house.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And that's I don't know, that's dishonest if they use
the term safe house instead, she's.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The story does not tell us whether she did it
on her own or whether they're is some kind of
governmental entity in doing that.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well, she felt safe enough to be with a guy
who hit her, clearly, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
For four months, Los Angeles City officials we've talked about
this here, had an outside contractor. They worked to ensure
the Santae Naz Reservoir, that one hundred and seventeen million
gallon water complex. It's right there in the heart of
Pacific Palisades. They were talking about it returning into service
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by early May. It had, as you remember, not been
in use for a year or so. It was emptied
because it had some holes in the cover. Actually, well
they apparently repaired it, then filled it back up, and
then found more tears and pinhole size leaks on this
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floating cover.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
So now they have to dream it again.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I'm wondering I think it'll repair. Are the terrors?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
What do pinhole size leaks have to do with shutting
it down? Okay, I mean you would think pinhole size leaks.
I mean that's like nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, okay, So our pool here is not a big pool.
It's like twelve by twenty four. We have a cover
on it, right, an automatic cover. It gets pinhole leaks,
the water ends up coming up from it and then
evaporating on the top, and you end up losing you
know how much. Yeah, you lose a tie up to
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where we have to keep getting it replaced. All right,
So I mean because it so, I'm all, I can
only imagine that that's the issue, because otherwise I don't
know is it contaminated that way or No?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't think so. I don't think. I don't think
this is drinking water.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Uh, this is clearly fire suppressant, a fire suppressant system.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
All right, now, let's go ahead and take a break.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And I didn't know that. I thought pinhole leaks to
don't mean anything. But okay, I'll buy that that resonates.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
No, we're sleeping on the streets. The La City Council
voted eleven to two in favor of expanding a policy
to prevent the homeless from sleeping in certain public spaces.
The ordinance also prohibits people from sitting, lying down, or
keeping belongings in designated areas. There's already some areas in place.
It's now extending to Superior Street and Daring Avenues in Chatsworth.
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The people, though, before they get in trouble, are supposed
to get an advanced notice before their camp area is cleared,
and also be offered help in finding shelter.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, it has to be an insurmountable problem. I just
don't get where the answer is. Certainly, I don't think
anybody can disagree with you have to keep people off
the streets if possible, and put them in the shelters
if possible. A couple of things though, there are people
that won't go in the shelters. There's a good chunk
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of these people who are mentally ill.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Uh And we don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
The exact proportion, but there's a really good chunk. I've
heard as much as a third. Then you have people
that have dogs that have pets. You can't go into
shelter with a pet, and so what do they do
do they give up their pet? They don't, and so
they're not going to get off the street. At the
same time, I don't want anybody living on the street.
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When I lived at the Persian Palace, I'd get off
the freeway and then I would have to turn left
onto my street on the on ramp and then turn
left and I would have to go under the underpass.
And under that underpass was an encampment that went literally
from one corner to the other to the other corner
of the overpass. Filled it up and they brought in
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a bathroom, well bathsroom. They bought a port a potty.
The city did, and it was It was horrible. It
was horrible, trash beyond anything you can image.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Joking. That's everywhere here. That's everywhere here where I live.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Of course, because that's where you live.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Know, there are some of us that actually live an
areas that aren't your area, where you have not only
do you have homeless people that you're friends with. Everybody
you make friends of, the rats, they're pets of yours.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know, it's even worse.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I'm surrounded by hipsters and you can't tell what's a
hipster and what's a homeless.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
It's rough out here.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Homeless by that except by the five thousand dollars mac laptop.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Helps, But they didn't say who they two were that voted.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It against it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
No, I don't think they did.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
No, I didn't see it because they live on the street.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Probably.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Okay, all right, it's time for you to leave American
and go where. One night this month, Los Angeles immigration attorney,
what are the odds? Harriet Steele opened her email to
a notice from the Department of Homeland and Securio says
it's time for you to leave the United States. And
she was confused, obviously a little concerned. She's a US citizen,
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she was born in Los Angeles, but she thought maybe
the email was meant for a client, But sure enough,
it was meant for her.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, some people are receiving these thinking that if somebody
put a fake email down, or someone else's email, or
and they're just going out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's I know people, and I speak to people American
citizens born in this country who are genuinely afraid of
being deported. And I asked your question to where where
do you deport someone who is an American citizen? Maybe
l Salvador, Because the government of l Salvador is taking
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prisoners for pay.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The US is paying l Salvador.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
As an American citizen, that they're going to get deported.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
They are genuinely frightened.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, here is a dhs on notification saying it's time
for you to leave the United States, an official document
from the government of the United States to a US citizen,
it's time for you to leave. Now, I'm assuming that
you know they they've stopped those Those are mistakes. But
the same thing happened to Abrego. That was a mistake
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deporting him.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yes, but he's not he wasn't born in the United States.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
No, I understand. I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
All I'm saying I'm going to the mistakes being made
by the government and you're.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Legally what I'd be concerned, yes, but as an American citizen, no,
of course not.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Of course. I mean I tell these people that's impossible.
But that's not the point.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
The point is the fear factor, and this administration doubles down.
It does not come back even when it makes a mistake.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
That's the problem. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
One man's fine and is another company's tariff. The European
Union has fined Apple and Meta combined seven hundred and
ninety seven million dollars or seven hundred million euros because
they say that the two companies messed with a digital
competition law. Joel Kaplan, who is Meta's chief Global affairs officer,
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criticized the decision, says, this isn't a fine. The Commission
is forcing us to change our business model, effectively imposing
a multi billion dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us
to offer an inferior service to customers.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Now, let's spend a second talking about what Meta is
saying and how ridiculous it is. They're saying, what Europe
is doing is making it more difficult for Meta to
do business in Europe because Europe demands other criteria. So
let's say an American car manufacturer wants to sell in Europe,
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and in Europe you have to have different sized tires
because that's the law. How dare you get in the
way of us selling to you and you impose your
rules on us. That's what Meta is saying. But what
that's effective to attacks, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
It's if you're.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Selling here, you have to follow our rules, and if
we have different rules, which Europe does as far as
online and advertising online and keeping data, they have different rules. Okay,
so they have different rules. So what you sell the
candidate's different, you sell the South America is different.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yeah, kind of a silly argument.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
It is a stupid argument.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You know. Let us you get stop your stop your
rules that get in the way of us selling to
your country, because that's unfair in its attacks. Okay, well, yeah,
we're done.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yes, Neil, No, I was going into the new next story.
Sorry to inform the people.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
No, we're done, unfortunately. Kf I am six forty. You've
been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
There's four answers that you have to answer for the
state bar. There are two that are kind of right
that it's not going to be completely right, but mostly right.
Then there is one that is more right than the
other two, and then the top one, which is the
most right. And sometimes they are so close that if
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fifty to fifty percent of the people answer one way
or the other, they throw.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Out the question and now Handle on the news. Ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
By the way, that promo was me yesterday describing the
multiple choice part of the bar exam that is being changed.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The bar exam is just.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I have to admit I'm a pretty good test taker.
I never had problems with tests. That one was a bitch,
you know.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I know it sounds like you're rambling on that promo,
but it did make sense. There's so nuanced that exactly ye,
we'll get it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, you know it's exactly correct.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Then they just go throwing it out.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The only thing that saved my ass during the taking
of the bar was I was high on cocaine the
entire time.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And I was.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I became president of alumni association for law school, and
I would go to colleges and people would ask Bill,
is the bar exams as hard as they say? I go, yeah,
so how did you prepare for the bar exam? Cocaine?
Lots and lots of cocaine. So they asked me to
leave that position. They'd rather not have someone representing the
(01:57):
school telling college students to store the cocaine to take
the bar.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
But to your point, yes, what happened to that school
that you graduated from?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It went out of business?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Okay, just that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, it is now defunct, and not because it was
a terrible law school, which it was, but it was
because school has become so insanely expensive law school and
the job opportunities out there are much feward than they
were because you know, lawyers have just priced themselves out.
Now you go to Harvard, you go to any of
(02:33):
the big schools. It's the UCLA even or Stanford. I mean,
you know, high sc and you come out near the
top of the class, you're going to.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Get a job, a good job.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But for the rest of it, and the only reason
I went out on my own and I started practicing
the day I finished I passed the bar. As a
matter of fact, I actually started practicing before I was
licensed to be a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I was involved, and we had to post date.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Some of the documents because a few of them went
out before I was sworn in. So anyway, I had
to go out on my own because no one would hire.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Me, of course.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Not you're a walking problem.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No kidding, no kidding. All right, good morning for one
and all amy. Good morning, Hi Bill. Oh you're nice
and crispy, bright pink this morning. It's not you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, sort of reddish, pinkish, Yeah, okay, fair enough. And
there's a cono in his hat and sort of a
dirty gray T shirt. It looks somewhat like a homeless person.
Good morning, Cono.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
It's not dirty.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh it's gray. You can't tell.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
It's very clean.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's it's gray. You can't tell, ConA. It looks dirty
because it's it's a dingy gray.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
It's not. It's great, just more of a Heather Gray.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
My wife's name, Heather Gray, Heather Conor.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh, okay, and there's Anne and I'm doing a close definitely,
we're doing a fashion show.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
This morning.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
That is.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
La Chargers L Chargers sweatshirt, and Neil, you're wearing the
T shirt Frankenstein T shirt. Oh no, it's mad. It's
the mad guy. What's his name, Elmer t Mad? God
know what was the name of What was the name
of that mad character?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
ALFREDY Newman?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's it, alfredy Newman?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Good enough toxic tunes. I love this artist.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And he did a version of ALFREDY Newman as the
Frank Frankenstein's monster.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, aren't we happy?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
We do radio and no one can see that? And
Will is will around? He is not, oh okay, because
I don't see him on the monitor. Okay, So who
does traffic in the morning now? When Will's not there?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Rich Cossona is filling in today. He's not on our
little group thing.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Though, Oh okay. Is he in studio? He's in his studio,
in Will's studio or outside.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
The some if he was here, he would be on.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
A little confusing, All right, guys, what a way to
start the show, complete confusion forgetting ALFREDY Newman's name and
talking about my now defunct law school.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay, we're done, guys. Certainly with the introductions in the morning.
Are you guys ready to do it for or handle
on the news? Yeah, okay, let's do it. Amy, Neil
and me lead stories.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Well, here we go.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Trump turned around and once again sort of kind of
changed his mind. So yesterday he said the one hundred
and forty five percent tariff, well, okay, let's not make
it one hundred and forty five percent tariff.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We're going to lower the tariff.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We don't know when we're going to lower the terraff
or I'm going to lower the teniff tariff, but it's
going to be less than one hundred and forty five
because it is a little high, but it's.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Going to be more than zero.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Just everybody is really, I mean, no one has any
idea the changes are being made. I mean, hour by hour,
the world markets are going crazy. The IMF said, we're
the global economy is being affected by all of this.
Consumer confidence is the worst that it's been in decades.
I mean, no, that's not true. Worse that it's been
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since the pandemic, and it is. I mean, it's it's
just crazy. And the exemptions, right, he calls one hundred
and forty five percent exemptions except for the top tech TVs,
you know, phones, computer chips, of course, having nothing to
do whatsoever with Bezos or Bezos and Zuckerberg and everybody
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cowtowing up to him. Those are the industries that have
been exempted and completely under the one hundred and forty
five percent tariff. And now it's just up in the air.
And he has said, well, China is coming to the table.
She is telling him to go pound sand.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
G is saying yes, but he's telling him at the table.
He's coming to the table and tell him go pound sand.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And he's and she's not even coming to the table.
He's just the room.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
He's never gonna budge, Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, she's ever and and Trump is gonna blink and blink.
And of course he's describing all that as a win.
It's all a win. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I had to come back on the tariffs. It's a win.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I had to exempt certain industries. That's a win for us.
The fact that g somehow is telling us to go
pound sand, that's a win for us.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
It's I don't even where to go.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But in the meantime, I was talking to Savill, my partner,
yesterday about our business.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
We stopped it cold.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We have products in China that we're not letting ship,
and they're stopping shipping too. And there was a meeting
at the White House with the executives of Home Depot
and Walmart saying to Trump, this is going to kill us.
This is going to wipe out our business. We're gonna
have empty store shelves if this this tearoff continues.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Just gone.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Salvlle and I were talking about our business. He's been
doing it for forty years. This continues on. We close
the doors, as hundreds of thousands of other businesses would
do so.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So you know, but it's gonna be good for the
United States. It's gonna be good, like the pandemic was good.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
All right, all right.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Russia launched it's deadly as unfortunately, wave of attacks against
Ukraine's capital nine months. In nine months, I mean early
today in the wee, hours after US President Donald Trump
accused of Vladimir Zelensky of harming peace talks in a
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fresh ti rate against the Ukrainian counterpart. There, Moscow sent
seventy missiles one hundred and forty five drones towards Ukraine,
mainly targeting Kiev. And right now you're looking at least
eight people killed in the boat.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
What's going on here, unfortunately, is the Trump administration is
pushing very very hard for a peace deal, just laying
into Zelensky saying Vance saying, if you don't sign this
peace deal, the United States is going to walk away.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And the peace deal.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
That the United States is in fact advocating is exactly
what Russia wants. Russia has taken from Ukraine, Ukraine doesn't
get into NATO at all, precisely what Russia wants. So
Putin is saying, oh, yeah, we'll sign this. So Lensky said,
we can't give up the land. It's against the constitution.
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I can't do it. I don't have the ability to
sit down with Russia and say you can have Ukrainian land.
And so it's gonna be tough if Europe doesn't pick
up the.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Arms to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Ukraine is well, Ukraine will be two thirds size, Russia
will have one third of it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I think Europe will come to the table.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I think so, although they're not letting in Ukraine and NATO,
that is not happening.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
It doesn't it doesn't look like it's gonna happen. In
the near future, and they're cow taling to Putin on
that one.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Putin's saying that if Ukraine gets in a NATO, it's
an act of wars. So what's Putin gonna do go
to war with NATO? Is that go to war war
twenty seven countries? Yeah, anyway, it's unfortunate. I think Ukraine
is effectively gone with the.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Help of the United States. That's the heartbreaker here, Okay,
fun part of the new popery.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Someone wants to be in the room where it happens.
A cardinal convicted of financial crimes by the Vatican says
he can be part of the conclave even though he's
listed as a non electorate. It's Cardinal Giovanni and Jello.
Bet you, I don't know if I said that, right.
He was one of the most powerful figures at the Vatican.
But then in twenty twenty, Pope Francis ordered him to
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resign the rights and privileges of a cardinal after he
got embroiled in a Vatican financial scandal.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, he was convicted of embezzlement and fraud, convicted by
a Vatican court. Why would Francis not just Defrockham right there?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Goodbye?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Done Nope, and he's claiming because he wasn't and he's
still a cardinal and his conviction is on appeal.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
He's gonna sit in and vote for the new pope.
Don't know, We'll see what happens.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
I'm guessing no, yeah, why would they.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm guessing that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You know, the farah Kevin Ferrell, the consiglieri who is
running the place in absence of the Godfather, who is
in charge of the voting.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He's actually a carme lango, but it's close. Dual lingo, yeah,
du a lingo.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
He speaks same. By the way, he does speak several languages.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Pharaoh speaks English, he speaks Italian, he speaks Spanish. He
even speaks Gaelic Irish Gaelic. Because he came from Ilin
became a US citizen, so he is considered an American cardinal,
and he's handling the whole thing. He's the one that
he's the one that taps the pope, the dead Pope's
forehead with a silver hammer and asks are you alive,
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are you alive? Or you're alive three times and then
declares the Pope is dead. Pope is dead, and then
crushes the ring, you know, with a hammer. And here's
an interesting one is that, uh, the the death certificate
of anybody has to be issued by the Italian government.
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There is also a death certificate issued by the Vatican
in the in case of the pope dying or when
the pope dies.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So there's two death certificate, one Vatican, the other one
is the is the official one. Kind of fun, it really.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Is one on it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's a good point. No, it's yeah, it's just fascinating.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So I'm going to get in this really some fun
stuff coming up at seven twenty. And that is how
Francis is going to be named a saint.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Guaranteed he's going to be sainted.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And I'll tell you all the rules of canon's a canonization, canonization.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, okay, wow.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The five thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Dollars of five thousand dollars rather could be given to
every American mother after giving birth, with President Donald Trump
saying that he liked the sound of that concept. He
said it's a good idea to him when he was
asked about it this week. Trump has not made a
final decision on the proposal. It obviously needs to be
approved by Congress to materialize, but that's that's being floated
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right now, five thousand bucks baby bonus check if.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, there's a reason for it, because the birth rate
in the United States is falling p pitouslee and it's
going to be a net loss. The only reason that
we're not hemorrhaging population is because of immigration coming in.
So five thousand dollars if that's put into law, and
if you look at the twenty twenty three numbers of
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the berths in the US, the government would be spending
eighteen billion dollars to pay moms five grand.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Dick Durbin's done. The longtime second ranking Democrat in the Senate,
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has announced his plans to retire
at the end of next year. He said, the decision
of whether to run for reelection is not easy. I
love the job of being a United States Senator, but
in my heart, I know it's time to pass the torch.
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He's eighty, He's been expected to step aside for a while.
He's served in the chamber since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I think four of the five senators who have announced
their retirements are Democrat, which is going to make it
even harder for the Democrats to take the Senate. Doesn't
look like that's gonna happen anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Well do you blame him?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Though?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
They've got the new young group is saying hey, we're
coming after you. I mean like they're rallying the troops
and organizing, saying we're going after the older guys.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Right, But at the same time you still have the
power brokers in line. Mitch McConnell, for example, who gave
up the majority in this case, Well it was a minority,
but majority the majority position and gave it to Thune,
a much younger guy.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But yeah, you know, when you're eighty, how far and
how long do you keep on going?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Okay, ask ourselves that every day, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
No kidding, Thank you for that, all right.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Tennis legend Andre Agassy is set to make his pro
debut in another record sport next week when he takes
part in the US Open Pickleball Championship. He's going to
do this alongside the sports number one player. Her name
is Anna Lee Waters and she's eighteen years old. So
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I guess this takes place on Aprol thirtieth, and he's
going to partake in it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, and you can bet on it. Now, the game
is fixed. You know that it's a racket. It's just not.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
What I have to have balls to make that joke.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Okay, enough of that.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Finding a safe space. So the wife of the guy
from El Salvador who was living in Maryland and then
got swept up in that ice raid and was deported
down to El Salvador. And that's the one that everybody's
The people are going down and visiting, The senators and
lawmakers are going down and visiting, and it's kilmar Abrego Garcia. Well,
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his wife now says that she is moving or has
moved to a safe house because the Trump administration posted
a court document that included her address on social media.
The document was a protective order. I believe that she
filed in twenty two.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, she did.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Against him for domestic violence, and they're using that to
establish that he is a bad guy and deserves to
be deported.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, So it's got her address on it, and she
says she doesn't feel safe, and so she's moved the
Department of Homeland Security said, these are public documents that
anyone could get access to.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Do we know if there was a governmental agency that
was involved in moving her local police department or the
state or the county, or is it just on her own?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Where else do you get a safe house?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, it could be that she just moved and they're
calling it a quote safe house.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And that's I don't know, that's dishonest if they use
the term safe house instead, she's.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The story does not tell us whether she did it
on her own or whether they're is some kind of
governmental entity in doing that.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well, she felt safe enough to be with a guy
who hit her, clearly, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
For four months, Los Angeles City officials we've talked about
this here, had an outside contractor. They worked to ensure
the Santae Naz Reservoir, that one hundred and seventeen million
gallon water complex. It's right there in the heart of
Pacific Palisades. They were talking about it returning into service
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by early May. It had, as you remember, not been
in use for a year or so. It was emptied
because it had some holes in the cover. Actually, well
they apparently repaired it, then filled it back up, and
then found more tears and pinhole size leaks on this
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floating cover.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
So now they have to dream it again.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, I'm wondering I think it'll repair. Are the terrors?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
What do pinhole size leaks have to do with shutting
it down? Okay, I mean you would think pinhole size leaks.
I mean that's like nothing.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, okay, So our pool here is not a big pool.
It's like twelve by twenty four. We have a cover
on it, right, an automatic cover. It gets pinhole leaks,
the water ends up coming up from it and then
evaporating on the top, and you end up losing you
know how much. Yeah, you lose a tie up to
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where we have to keep getting it replaced. All right,
So I mean because it so, I'm all, I can
only imagine that that's the issue, because otherwise I don't
know is it contaminated that way or No?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't think so. I don't think. I don't think
this is drinking water.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Uh, this is clearly fire suppressant, a fire suppressant system.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
All right, now, let's go ahead and take a break.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And I didn't know that. I thought pinhole leaks to
don't mean anything. But okay, I'll buy that that resonates.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
No, we're sleeping on the streets. The La City Council
voted eleven to two in favor of expanding a policy
to prevent the homeless from sleeping in certain public spaces.
The ordinance also prohibits people from sitting, lying down, or
keeping belongings in designated areas. There's already some areas in place.
It's now extending to Superior Street and Daring Avenues in Chatsworth.
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The people, though, before they get in trouble, are supposed
to get an advanced notice before their camp area is cleared,
and also be offered help in finding shelter.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, it has to be an insurmountable problem. I just
don't get where the answer is. Certainly, I don't think
anybody can disagree with you have to keep people off
the streets if possible, and put them in the shelters
if possible. A couple of things though, there are people
that won't go in the shelters. There's a good chunk
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of these people who are mentally ill.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Uh And we don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
The exact proportion, but there's a really good chunk. I've
heard as much as a third. Then you have people
that have dogs that have pets. You can't go into
shelter with a pet, and so what do they do
do they give up their pet? They don't, and so
they're not going to get off the street. At the
same time, I don't want anybody living on the street.
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When I lived at the Persian Palace, I'd get off
the freeway and then I would have to turn left
onto my street on the on ramp and then turn
left and I would have to go under the underpass.
And under that underpass was an encampment that went literally
from one corner to the other to the other corner
of the overpass. Filled it up and they brought in
(22:49):
a bathroom, well bathsroom. They bought a port a potty.
The city did, and it was It was horrible. It
was horrible, trash beyond anything you can image.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Joking. That's everywhere here. That's everywhere here where I live.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Of course, because that's where you live.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Know, there are some of us that actually live an
areas that aren't your area, where you have not only
do you have homeless people that you're friends with. Everybody
you make friends of, the rats, they're pets of yours.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know, it's even worse.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I'm surrounded by hipsters and you can't tell what's a
hipster and what's a homeless.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
It's rough out here.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Homeless by that except by the five thousand dollars mac laptop.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Helps, But they didn't say who they two were that voted.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It against it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
No, I don't think they did.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
No, I didn't see it because they live on the street.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Probably.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Okay, all right, it's time for you to leave American
and go where. One night this month, Los Angeles immigration attorney,
what are the odds? Harriet Steele opened her email to
a notice from the Department of Homeland and Securio says
it's time for you to leave the United States. And
she was confused, obviously a little concerned. She's a US citizen,
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she was born in Los Angeles, but she thought maybe
the email was meant for a client, But sure enough,
it was meant for her.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Well, some people are receiving these thinking that if somebody
put a fake email down, or someone else's email, or
and they're just going out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's I know people, and I speak to people American
citizens born in this country who are genuinely afraid of
being deported. And I asked your question to where where
do you deport someone who is an American citizen? Maybe
l Salvador, Because the government of l Salvador is taking
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prisoners for pay.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The US is paying l Salvador.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
As an American citizen, that they're going to get deported.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
They are genuinely frightened.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, here is a dhs on notification saying it's time
for you to leave the United States, an official document
from the government of the United States to a US citizen,
it's time for you to leave. Now, I'm assuming that
you know they they've stopped those Those are mistakes. But
the same thing happened to Abrego. That was a mistake
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deporting him.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yes, but he's not he wasn't born in the United States.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
No, I understand. I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
All I'm saying I'm going to the mistakes being made
by the government and you're.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Legally what I'd be concerned, yes, but as an American citizen, no,
of course not.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Of course. I mean I tell these people that's impossible.
But that's not the point.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
The point is the fear factor, and this administration doubles down.
It does not come back even when it makes a mistake.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
That's the problem. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
One man's fine and is another company's tariff. The European
Union has fined Apple and Meta combined seven hundred and
ninety seven million dollars or seven hundred million euros because
they say that the two companies messed with a digital
competition law. Joel Kaplan, who is Meta's chief Global affairs officer,
(26:18):
criticized the decision, says, this isn't a fine. The Commission
is forcing us to change our business model, effectively imposing
a multi billion dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us
to offer an inferior service to customers.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Now, let's spend a second talking about what Meta is
saying and how ridiculous it is. They're saying, what Europe
is doing is making it more difficult for Meta to
do business in Europe because Europe demands other criteria. So
let's say an American car manufacturer wants to sell in Europe,
(26:53):
and in Europe you have to have different sized tires
because that's the law. How dare you get in the
way of us selling to you and you impose your
rules on us. That's what Meta is saying. But what
that's effective to attacks, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
It's if you're.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Selling here, you have to follow our rules, and if
we have different rules, which Europe does as far as
online and advertising online and keeping data, they have different rules. Okay,
so they have different rules. So what you sell the
candidate's different, you sell the South America is different.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yeah, kind of a silly argument.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
It is a stupid argument.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You know. Let us you get stop your stop your
rules that get in the way of us selling to
your country, because that's unfair in its attacks. Okay, well, yeah,
we're done.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yes, Neil, No, I was going into the new next story.
Sorry to inform the people.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
No, we're done, unfortunately. Kf I am six forty. You've
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