November 19, 2025 • 21 mins
(November 19, 2025)
President Trump claims slain journalist Khashoggi was ‘extremely controversial’ and defends Saudi Crown Prince. ‘Everyone is Hunkering Down’: Affordability crisis rattles mom-and-pop shops. New LAFD chief slams media ‘smear’ of firefighters who battled Palisades Fire. Judge blocks Texas from using new U.S. House map in 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're list Saints k I AM six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio FRUM. You'll get
on this morning kai Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Bill Handle here on a Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hum day, Wednesday, and we are yesterday was the sun
was out. I'm assuming the rains come back today if
I'm not mistaken, and don't know where, or tomorrow or
the day after that or not until next year. I
usually defer to Amy in dealing with weather. So will
(00:37):
do you have weather, because I don't pay attention. Tomorrow
Tomorrow excellent, all right, tomorrow, fair enough. Yesterday, it was
a very interesting day in the White House.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
President Trump.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Dismissed the question about the twenty eighteen murder of Jamal Kashogi.
He had the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed
been salmon in the White House, and man, there was
he pulled out all the stops when the Crown Prince arrived.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, it was really really all out.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And so what the President does, and by the way,
I think it's to his credit, is he is the
most successible president to the press that's ever been. I mean,
every time he flies on air, force one. He is
doing his press conferences in the press section, and inevitably
whenever anybody head of state comes to the White House,
(01:32):
but this every president does. They sit in those two
chairs in front of the fireplace and the press is
invited in for a few minutes. And this had to
do of course with the Crown Prince. Now, it was
a question about the murder of Jamal Kashogi, who was
a New York Post reporter Saudi who was lured into
(01:56):
the Saudi consulate in Turkey and killed and dismembered, and
pieces of Koshogi were, you know, taking out the back
of the consulate, which, let me tell you it's where
it was, the embassy. It was. It was pretty unforgivable,
(02:17):
and Saudi Arabia got nailed because the CIA said that
the royal family read Ben Salmon, was involved, that he
was there, either ordered it or certainly knew about it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And so he was asked.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The President was asked about that by an ABC News
correspondent and Trump responded, about Koshogi, you're mentioning somebody that
was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that,
gentleman that you're talking about. And whether you liked him
or you didn't like him. Things happen. I'm surprised he
(03:00):
only used the word things things happen. Well, I mean,
you know, dimemberment, being murdered, pieces taken out of a
consulate upon the order of a head of state.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay, things happen.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now, what Trump could have done is glossed it over
because it is embarrassing. I mean, there's no question about it.
And he had to have known that the question was
going to be thrown at him. There's no question that
he had to know the question was going to be
thrown at him. I can't imagine his advisors did not
tell him you're going to be asked about this, and
(03:39):
instead of following what the advisors, no doubt said, what
Trump said about Ben Solomon he knew nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
By the way, that was before Ben.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Solomon was about to answer, and Trump interrupts and says,
he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it
at that.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, yes, no, because it's not going to be left
at that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And the reporter ABC White House correspondent Mary Bruce, who
had asked that question about him, the Trump said, you
don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question
like that and just laid into her. And sitting in
the Oval office, Trump heaped absolute praise on the Crown
(04:29):
Prince and Saudi Arabia, calling on his incredible record on
human rights. Now that one gets kind of interesting. I mean,
you can ignore the human rights issue in Saudi Arabia,
which I would do if I were the president. I
would gloss over it or think of something else to
say or divert. But his incredible record on human rights, Okay,
(04:56):
why not? And the Prince did come in and talked
about the murder of Kashogi. He didn't do it, Saudi
Arabia didn't do it, but he did say it's a
painful and a huge mistake. And then he went about
that journalist. It's really painful to hear anyone that has
been losing his life for no real purpose or not
in a legal way, and it's been painful for us
(05:18):
in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia did all the right
steps of investigation wanting to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
This has been going on a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Saudi Arabia is really important to the United States financially
as well as GEO politically, I would argue that Israel,
of course, being the most important alley we have, Saudi
Arabia is right up there in terms of where it sits.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It gives a lot of lip.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Service to the Palestinians and a Palestinian state, but in
reality it's lip service. The United States and Saudi Arabia
are in fact allies, and they're allied against Iran, and
they want stability. Both countries want stability in the mid East.
Trump is also selling F thirty fives to Saudi Arabia, which,
(06:16):
of course Israel is jumping up and down and thrilled
with that because Israel has the F thirty fives and
these are the most advanced fighter planes on the planet.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Don't you think that we're in such a weird state
of affairs here in the States that you have Kashogi,
which was horrific, and people being judgmental about that. Yet
there was people celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, and
there are protesters that are coming out and saying that
(06:46):
they are for Hamas, not just Palestinians or Gauzians, Gauzanians.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What a weird state of affairs? How you it is?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I can see the others.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I can see the far left celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I can see those people, uh celebrating that.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's uh and and that is not where we want
to go because celebrating the death of someone. Come on, guys,
you can argue politically, but please And then you have
the the part with the koshogi. Though there really wasn't
two sides of that coin. It was an American reporter,
or it was a stringer who was murdered by a
(07:30):
foreign government, and it was glossed over.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Now it wasn't different. I'm talking from just the pure
point just in general.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, we're crazy as long as it's someone we dis.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, we're we're in crazy times.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Trump backed up Saudi Arabia and Ben Salmon during his
first term. Biden went the other way. Trump comes back
and goes back to where he was. I mean, Trump
has been consistent, uh in his admiration. Oh. Also, Trump
was asked about all the financial interests, the number of
(08:05):
buildings that are being built in Saudi Arabia by the
Trump organization, by his son in law and his son,
I mean to the tune of billions and billions of dollars,
and when he was asked about that, he said, I
have nothing to do with the Trump organization. That is
that is owned by my kids. So it's well, I'm
(08:26):
president and I have nothing to do with it. Keep
in mind that he never put his assets into a
blind trust like every other president has done. Every other
president puts it into a blind trust and doesn't even
know where the money is going or where it's being invested.
All right, we're done with that, Okay, I want to
(08:49):
talk about business. Why because well, I've been a business
person virtually my entire adult life. I have been involved
in several businesses, most of which have been spectacular fail
I'm very proud to say. And in my life it's
a small business. And when we talk about the success
of business in this country, and business is insanely successful,
(09:11):
we normally talk about major corporations that are making tons
of money, and the stock market is making tons of money,
and investments are making tons of money. How about the
small business person? How about the small businesses here in
the United States getting nailed? Not only do they get
nailed because they compete against the big boys. Read any
(09:34):
for example, a locally owned hardware store when Walmart comes in,
it's over and so what's the same thing happens with
small businesses that compete with any major business. So what
is going on with small business? They're in so much trouble.
Import costs through the roof mounting payroll, healthcare expenses.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Through the roof affordable loans.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You can't use the word affordable and use loans in
the same sentence.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Stressed out workforce. Well, the word affordability is a real issue. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Small businesses are really the backbone of the US economy.
The vast majority of the total businesses in this country
and nearly half of all employees and the bulk of
job growth.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Is small business.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
But the way the economy is going, it is almost impossible.
So for example, the tariffs come in, Well, the big
boys do have the ability to hunker down. They have assets,
they have the ability to stretch out inventory.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Small businesses don't do that. Small businesses can't.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now I'm involved in my small business with Lake Industry
that we import cookwar.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
We just got hit and for cookware.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
That's made out of stainless deal from China, and we
were hit a few weeks ago with one hundred and
eighty seven percent terraffs unsustainable. If that ain't kept on going,
we might we just wrap it up. We're done, might
as well just file for bankruptcy. And this is a
business that has been around for thirty five years. Now
(11:21):
it's now just hideously expensive. It's no longer prohibitive bankrupt
causing it is now just prohibitively expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And so it is small businesses that are going over
and over and over out of business.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And I just did a story yesterday about one in
four US households are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning that
over ninety five percent of their income are spent in
housing and groceries. Excuse me, that's from Bank of America.
And so what's going on with the mood among mom
and popshit on main street? It is really, really in trouble.
(12:06):
I mean it used to be well when I had
my surrogacy center. When I first started, it was insurance
for every employee and insurance for their families and dental insurance.
And that literally winnowed down to we gave insurance to
(12:29):
just the employee. And it was horrible insurance, and you
couldn't go to a real doctor. You had to go
to a shaman.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Or a witch doctor. I mean, it got pretty sketchy.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
So I just wanted to throw that at you that
while we're looking at the economy among the big corporation
is doing very well, and look at the number of
layoffs that are happening, and the number of layoffs that
are happening is not that money isn't coming in and
they're shrinking the corporations.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They are doing great.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's just they're doing much better with a lot with
fewer people. Because you have technology comes in. It's really tough.
So I wanted to share with you. I just make
your day today. Now let's get local for a moment.
HEIMI Moore is our new fire chief in the city
(13:26):
of Los Angeles, and there's a lot of controversy going
on because two days before he was sworn in, he
was talking about all of the problems that happened before
and during in the aftermath of the Palace Ades fire,
which made international news.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It was one of the worst.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It may have been the worst fire in the Southland,
certainly in terms of damage to property.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I mean billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And there are people here that work in the building
that I know, three or four people that have lost
their homes and are now rebuilding. So on a second
day as chief, he then criticizes the media efforts to
smear firefighters who responded. Now, the Palisades Fire wasn't just
(14:19):
the Palisades fire. There was a smaller fire called the
Lachman fire, and it was put out by firefighters. And
the controversy is that it was still there was still
stumps that were smoldering, there were still smoke that was
coming out from under rocks, and according to the La Times,
(14:42):
now now they have said they've seen texts.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Those texts have.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Not become public, but they have reported that there are
texts where firefighters texted battalion chiefs texted each other, texted
each other and said, this is what we told are
battalion chiefs, we should put out these fires. They're still smoldering,
and we should not get the hell out of here
until they're all put out. Well, they weren't all put out,
(15:10):
and about a week later the fire was reignited, and
from that fire, the Palace Ades fire was ignited.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And therein is the controversy and.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
The chief, the now chief said, oh yeah, we've got
to look at this. We've got some real problems. The
morale of the fire department is really being questioned. I
have to look at these allegations and we have to
be careful about this. That's all changed now. It's a
smear campaign. Now the firefighters are being smeared and are
(15:47):
being attacked for no reason whatsoever. He's a thirty year
veteran of the LA Fire Department, and the department has come
under very heavy criticism, and all of a sudden he's
on the side of the fire department and not taking
much criticism anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And he did. There is an.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Independent commission that is going to be investigating this, and
if the La Times is right and this actually happens,
I'm thinking, obviously, I'm not a firefighter, clearly, although I've
been telling although I do play one on radio, you know,
and I'm often confused as being a firefighter, you.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Know, even those of us who are not in the business.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
When one of the firefighters says, hey, it's still smoldering
over there, wouldn't you go out of your way to
put that out before bailing? And one of the battalion
chiefs is being accused and this is per a text message. Again,
we haven't seen it. This is an accusation by the
La Times. One of the battalion chiefs was after told
that being told that specifically said wrap it up, don't
(16:59):
want you to stay there. Okay, all right, an interesting
case that we've been talking about. This case has taken
a big turn.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Texas, based on what President asked to do, redistricted redistricting
has done every ten years after the census and the
legislators draw new districts congressional districts, and since populations go
up and down and they move, the districts change.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, what Texas did is midterm change.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The district so more Republican seats would be created and
fewer Democratic seats. And of course lawsuits were filed on
top of that. California passes Prop fifty saying.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay, you're doing it, we're doing it too.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The problem is we had to pass Prop fifty because
instead of the legislature doing it, we had an independent
commission do it because there were so much politics involved.
And of course as soon as Prop fifty passed, the
lawsuits hit there too. Pambondi for example, filing the lawsuit
argue that the California redistricting is a just a mad
(18:14):
grab for power. Well how about Texas. Well, that's not
a mad grab for power. That's okay, I mean, it's
just it's insane. So here's what's happening. Legally, a court
of appeals, Federal Court of Appeals blocked Texas from instituting
those changes. In other words, there is no redistricting. They're
(18:35):
not getting five more seats. That's the Court of Appeals.
And by the way, the judge who wrote that is
the Trump appointee. And now it's going straight to the
Supreme Court. And the same thing's going to happen in
California And is a Prop fifty And are redistricting going
to pass? We don't know, because it's going to be
(18:55):
the Supreme Court that's going to make all the decisions.
And here is what the issue is. Is redistricting for
political reasons is allowed? Supreme Court rule that that it's.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
A political decision. You know, we can't get involved.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
However, if redistricting is comprised of racial aspects, if it's
a question of Hispanics and blacks being put into one
district moved out of another district, and that is even
a reason, then that redistricting is illegal. And that's exactly
(19:32):
what happened in Texas, and the Appellate Court said, we
think and the reason the Appellate Court stopped it. By
the way, now at this point, the redistricting has stopped.
And this is all of course an anticipation in the midterms,
because the Appellate Court said to Texas, you're probably gonna lose.
And that's why I'm not letting the redistricting happen right now.
(19:54):
We'll see what the Supreme Court says. What's going to
happen in California. Don't know yet because we just passed
Prop fifty. Same lawsuits are going to hit from the
Republican side, same arguments are going to be made. And
who's going to make that final decision the court, Supreme Court,
and which way do I think the court the Supreme
Court is going to go.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I think they're going to give it to Texas.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I think the argument is going to be that this
is a political decision, and this Supreme Court is so
conservative that it's probably not going to hear, listen to,
or be influenced by the argument that this has racial
overtones to it, which is by the way, illegal if
it does. But I think the Court's going to say
(20:38):
this is not racial, this is political. That's certainly what
Texas said. We'll see, We'll see what happens. This is
KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
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Speaker 1 (20:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Bill Handle here on a Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hum day, Wednesday, and we are yesterday was the sun
was out. I'm assuming the rains come back today if
I'm not mistaken, and don't know where, or tomorrow or
the day after that or not until next year. I
usually defer to Amy in dealing with weather. So will
(00:37):
do you have weather, because I don't pay attention. Tomorrow
Tomorrow excellent, all right, tomorrow, fair enough. Yesterday, it was
a very interesting day in the White House.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
President Trump.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Dismissed the question about the twenty eighteen murder of Jamal Kashogi.
He had the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed
been salmon in the White House, and man, there was
he pulled out all the stops when the Crown Prince arrived.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, it was really really all out.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And so what the President does, and by the way,
I think it's to his credit, is he is the
most successible president to the press that's ever been. I mean,
every time he flies on air, force one. He is
doing his press conferences in the press section, and inevitably
whenever anybody head of state comes to the White House,
(01:32):
but this every president does. They sit in those two
chairs in front of the fireplace and the press is
invited in for a few minutes. And this had to
do of course with the Crown Prince. Now, it was
a question about the murder of Jamal Kashogi, who was
a New York Post reporter Saudi who was lured into
(01:56):
the Saudi consulate in Turkey and killed and dismembered, and
pieces of Koshogi were, you know, taking out the back
of the consulate, which, let me tell you it's where
it was, the embassy. It was. It was pretty unforgivable,
(02:17):
and Saudi Arabia got nailed because the CIA said that
the royal family read Ben Salmon, was involved, that he
was there, either ordered it or certainly knew about it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And so he was asked.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The President was asked about that by an ABC News
correspondent and Trump responded, about Koshogi, you're mentioning somebody that
was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that,
gentleman that you're talking about. And whether you liked him
or you didn't like him. Things happen. I'm surprised he
(03:00):
only used the word things things happen. Well, I mean,
you know, dimemberment, being murdered, pieces taken out of a
consulate upon the order of a head of state.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Okay, things happen.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now, what Trump could have done is glossed it over
because it is embarrassing. I mean, there's no question about it.
And he had to have known that the question was
going to be thrown at him. There's no question that
he had to know the question was going to be
thrown at him. I can't imagine his advisors did not
tell him you're going to be asked about this, and
(03:39):
instead of following what the advisors, no doubt said, what
Trump said about Ben Solomon he knew nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
By the way, that was before Ben.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Solomon was about to answer, and Trump interrupts and says,
he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it
at that.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, yes, no, because it's not going to be left
at that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And the reporter ABC White House correspondent Mary Bruce, who
had asked that question about him, the Trump said, you
don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question
like that and just laid into her. And sitting in
the Oval office, Trump heaped absolute praise on the Crown
(04:29):
Prince and Saudi Arabia, calling on his incredible record on
human rights. Now that one gets kind of interesting. I mean,
you can ignore the human rights issue in Saudi Arabia,
which I would do if I were the president. I
would gloss over it or think of something else to
say or divert. But his incredible record on human rights, Okay,
(04:56):
why not? And the Prince did come in and talked
about the murder of Kashogi. He didn't do it, Saudi
Arabia didn't do it, but he did say it's a
painful and a huge mistake. And then he went about
that journalist. It's really painful to hear anyone that has
been losing his life for no real purpose or not
in a legal way, and it's been painful for us
(05:18):
in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia did all the right
steps of investigation wanting to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
This has been going on a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Saudi Arabia is really important to the United States financially
as well as GEO politically, I would argue that Israel,
of course, being the most important alley we have, Saudi
Arabia is right up there in terms of where it sits.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It gives a lot of lip.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Service to the Palestinians and a Palestinian state, but in
reality it's lip service. The United States and Saudi Arabia
are in fact allies, and they're allied against Iran, and
they want stability. Both countries want stability in the mid East.
Trump is also selling F thirty fives to Saudi Arabia, which,
(06:16):
of course Israel is jumping up and down and thrilled
with that because Israel has the F thirty fives and
these are the most advanced fighter planes on the planet.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Don't you think that we're in such a weird state
of affairs here in the States that you have Kashogi,
which was horrific, and people being judgmental about that. Yet
there was people celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, and
there are protesters that are coming out and saying that
(06:46):
they are for Hamas, not just Palestinians or Gauzians, Gauzanians.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What a weird state of affairs? How you it is?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I can see the others.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I can see the far left celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I can see those people, uh celebrating that.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's uh and and that is not where we want
to go because celebrating the death of someone. Come on, guys,
you can argue politically, but please And then you have
the the part with the koshogi. Though there really wasn't
two sides of that coin. It was an American reporter,
or it was a stringer who was murdered by a
(07:30):
foreign government, and it was glossed over.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Now it wasn't different. I'm talking from just the pure
point just in general.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, we're crazy as long as it's someone we dis.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, we're we're in crazy times.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Trump backed up Saudi Arabia and Ben Salmon during his
first term. Biden went the other way. Trump comes back
and goes back to where he was. I mean, Trump
has been consistent, uh in his admiration. Oh. Also, Trump
was asked about all the financial interests, the number of
(08:05):
buildings that are being built in Saudi Arabia by the
Trump organization, by his son in law and his son,
I mean to the tune of billions and billions of dollars,
and when he was asked about that, he said, I
have nothing to do with the Trump organization. That is
that is owned by my kids. So it's well, I'm
(08:26):
president and I have nothing to do with it. Keep
in mind that he never put his assets into a
blind trust like every other president has done. Every other
president puts it into a blind trust and doesn't even
know where the money is going or where it's being invested.
All right, we're done with that, Okay, I want to
(08:49):
talk about business. Why because well, I've been a business
person virtually my entire adult life. I have been involved
in several businesses, most of which have been spectacular fail
I'm very proud to say. And in my life it's
a small business. And when we talk about the success
of business in this country, and business is insanely successful,
(09:11):
we normally talk about major corporations that are making tons
of money, and the stock market is making tons of money,
and investments are making tons of money. How about the
small business person? How about the small businesses here in
the United States getting nailed? Not only do they get
nailed because they compete against the big boys. Read any
(09:34):
for example, a locally owned hardware store when Walmart comes in,
it's over and so what's the same thing happens with
small businesses that compete with any major business. So what
is going on with small business? They're in so much trouble.
Import costs through the roof mounting payroll, healthcare expenses.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Through the roof affordable loans.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You can't use the word affordable and use loans in
the same sentence.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Stressed out workforce. Well, the word affordability is a real issue. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Small businesses are really the backbone of the US economy.
The vast majority of the total businesses in this country
and nearly half of all employees and the bulk of
job growth.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Is small business.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
But the way the economy is going, it is almost impossible.
So for example, the tariffs come in, Well, the big
boys do have the ability to hunker down. They have assets,
they have the ability to stretch out inventory.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Small businesses don't do that. Small businesses can't.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now I'm involved in my small business with Lake Industry
that we import cookwar.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
We just got hit and for cookware.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
That's made out of stainless deal from China, and we
were hit a few weeks ago with one hundred and
eighty seven percent terraffs unsustainable. If that ain't kept on going,
we might we just wrap it up. We're done, might
as well just file for bankruptcy. And this is a
business that has been around for thirty five years. Now
(11:21):
it's now just hideously expensive. It's no longer prohibitive bankrupt
causing it is now just prohibitively expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And so it is small businesses that are going over
and over and over out of business.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And I just did a story yesterday about one in
four US households are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning that
over ninety five percent of their income are spent in
housing and groceries. Excuse me, that's from Bank of America.
And so what's going on with the mood among mom
and popshit on main street? It is really, really in trouble.
(12:06):
I mean it used to be well when I had
my surrogacy center. When I first started, it was insurance
for every employee and insurance for their families and dental insurance.
And that literally winnowed down to we gave insurance to
(12:29):
just the employee. And it was horrible insurance, and you
couldn't go to a real doctor. You had to go
to a shaman.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Or a witch doctor. I mean, it got pretty sketchy.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
So I just wanted to throw that at you that
while we're looking at the economy among the big corporation
is doing very well, and look at the number of
layoffs that are happening, and the number of layoffs that
are happening is not that money isn't coming in and
they're shrinking the corporations.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
They are doing great.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's just they're doing much better with a lot with
fewer people. Because you have technology comes in. It's really tough.
So I wanted to share with you. I just make
your day today. Now let's get local for a moment.
HEIMI Moore is our new fire chief in the city
(13:26):
of Los Angeles, and there's a lot of controversy going
on because two days before he was sworn in, he
was talking about all of the problems that happened before
and during in the aftermath of the Palace Ades fire,
which made international news.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It was one of the worst.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It may have been the worst fire in the Southland,
certainly in terms of damage to property.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I mean billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And there are people here that work in the building
that I know, three or four people that have lost
their homes and are now rebuilding. So on a second
day as chief, he then criticizes the media efforts to
smear firefighters who responded. Now, the Palisades Fire wasn't just
(14:19):
the Palisades fire. There was a smaller fire called the
Lachman fire, and it was put out by firefighters. And
the controversy is that it was still there was still
stumps that were smoldering, there were still smoke that was
coming out from under rocks, and according to the La Times,
(14:42):
now now they have said they've seen texts.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Those texts have.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Not become public, but they have reported that there are
texts where firefighters texted battalion chiefs texted each other, texted
each other and said, this is what we told are
battalion chiefs, we should put out these fires. They're still smoldering,
and we should not get the hell out of here
until they're all put out. Well, they weren't all put out,
(15:10):
and about a week later the fire was reignited, and
from that fire, the Palace Ades fire was ignited.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And therein is the controversy and.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
The chief, the now chief said, oh yeah, we've got
to look at this. We've got some real problems. The
morale of the fire department is really being questioned. I
have to look at these allegations and we have to
be careful about this. That's all changed now. It's a
smear campaign. Now the firefighters are being smeared and are
(15:47):
being attacked for no reason whatsoever. He's a thirty year
veteran of the LA Fire Department, and the department has come
under very heavy criticism, and all of a sudden he's
on the side of the fire department and not taking
much criticism anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And he did. There is an.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Independent commission that is going to be investigating this, and
if the La Times is right and this actually happens,
I'm thinking, obviously, I'm not a firefighter, clearly, although I've
been telling although I do play one on radio, you know,
and I'm often confused as being a firefighter, you.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Know, even those of us who are not in the business.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
When one of the firefighters says, hey, it's still smoldering
over there, wouldn't you go out of your way to
put that out before bailing? And one of the battalion
chiefs is being accused and this is per a text message. Again,
we haven't seen it. This is an accusation by the
La Times. One of the battalion chiefs was after told
that being told that specifically said wrap it up, don't
(16:59):
want you to stay there. Okay, all right, an interesting
case that we've been talking about. This case has taken
a big turn.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Texas, based on what President asked to do, redistricted redistricting
has done every ten years after the census and the
legislators draw new districts congressional districts, and since populations go
up and down and they move, the districts change.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, what Texas did is midterm change.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The district so more Republican seats would be created and
fewer Democratic seats. And of course lawsuits were filed on
top of that. California passes Prop fifty saying.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay, you're doing it, we're doing it too.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The problem is we had to pass Prop fifty because
instead of the legislature doing it, we had an independent
commission do it because there were so much politics involved.
And of course as soon as Prop fifty passed, the
lawsuits hit there too. Pambondi for example, filing the lawsuit
argue that the California redistricting is a just a mad
(18:14):
grab for power. Well how about Texas. Well, that's not
a mad grab for power. That's okay, I mean, it's
just it's insane. So here's what's happening. Legally, a court
of appeals, Federal Court of Appeals blocked Texas from instituting
those changes. In other words, there is no redistricting. They're
(18:35):
not getting five more seats. That's the Court of Appeals.
And by the way, the judge who wrote that is
the Trump appointee. And now it's going straight to the
Supreme Court. And the same thing's going to happen in
California And is a Prop fifty And are redistricting going
to pass? We don't know, because it's going to be
(18:55):
the Supreme Court that's going to make all the decisions.
And here is what the issue is. Is redistricting for
political reasons is allowed? Supreme Court rule that that it's.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
A political decision. You know, we can't get involved.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
However, if redistricting is comprised of racial aspects, if it's
a question of Hispanics and blacks being put into one
district moved out of another district, and that is even
a reason, then that redistricting is illegal. And that's exactly
(19:32):
what happened in Texas, and the Appellate Court said, we
think and the reason the Appellate Court stopped it. By
the way, now at this point, the redistricting has stopped.
And this is all of course an anticipation in the midterms,
because the Appellate Court said to Texas, you're probably gonna lose.
And that's why I'm not letting the redistricting happen right now.
(19:54):
We'll see what the Supreme Court says. What's going to
happen in California. Don't know yet because we just passed
Prop fifty. Same lawsuits are going to hit from the
Republican side, same arguments are going to be made. And
who's going to make that final decision the court, Supreme Court,
and which way do I think the court the Supreme
Court is going to go.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I think they're going to give it to Texas.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I think the argument is going to be that this
is a political decision, and this Supreme Court is so
conservative that it's probably not going to hear, listen to,
or be influenced by the argument that this has racial
overtones to it, which is by the way, illegal if
it does. But I think the Court's going to say
(20:38):
this is not racial, this is political. That's certainly what
Texas said. We'll see, We'll see what happens. This is
KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
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