January 6, 2026 • 31 mins
(January 06,2025)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Maduro pleads not guilty to US narco-terrorism charges. Pentagon cuts Sen. Mark Kelly’s military retirement for insinuating ‘illegal orders’ in video. CDC slashed vaccines recommended for kids. Fight over cutting in line at Disneyland leaves man injured.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Here's one that I really like In San Francisco. Elephants
have to be on a leash on Market Street. That's
a problem. And you can't wipe your car with used underwear.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Damn it. What do you think I use my underwear for?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Day two of are back to our normal broadcast gear year.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It is a January sixth Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And it's I'm not quite back in the saddle again,
but that's I think it's because Neil is.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Out this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So when everybody comes back together, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Let's say hello, everybody. Cono. You've got your MAGA hat on,
don't you. Yeah. It's actually a one Love I E
had there, Bill I. One Love I E. It's a
great company. One Love I E is a company, or
it's also in everything we love. You know.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's just about spreading love and good good, good nature.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And it's pretty fun. That's actually vomitous. No, it's great.
I'm just telling you I'm about to puke right now.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Self made entrepreneur justin Yeah, yeah, just yeah, it's oh yeah, okay, great, yeah,
it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right, I feel much better the way did we start.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Doday really well with me? All right, So good morning Knou.
And there is Amy Amy sweatshirt that I can't see
what it says, h zip it up?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
There you go is Canbury, England. Canterbury. Have you ever been?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, that's where I got it.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's phenomenal, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You go to the Canterbury Cathedral where the archbishop hangs out,
and I have been there.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I have met the archbishop.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Actually we did not go into the cathedral voat. We
took a little boat ride in the canals of Canterbury.
It was beautiful, one of my favorite places.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, it's absolutely lovely.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And I have a very dear friend of mine who
is on the board of Canterbury Cathedral. And one year
Christmas service that was held by the archbishop. By the way,
they do a Christmas service every year, and we went
and you go actually into the crypt and you follow
the footsteps of Thomas Beckett when he was he was
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killed by the soldiers of Anyway, it's a long story
of the king because he wouldn't allow the king, or
he wouldn't agree with what the king was and he
was the archbishop and he was murdered.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Anyway, it's a beautiful, uplifting story, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, it's even it gets even better.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So anyway, you follow his footsteps and at one point,
when the king's men slam on the door saying let
us in in the name of the King, you actually
go up to that point and someone from the other side,
this is during the service pounds on the door said
let us in in the name of the King.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I mean, it's very moving, it really is very good.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now you have to understand, or maybe you do already,
is that the Anglican religion, the Church of England is
Protestant and they consider it Catholic Light, so it's.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Sort of kind of Catholic, but not really Catholic.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So at the end of the service, the archbishu you
go in the crypt and everybody's holding a candle and
it's very moving and it's just absolutely lovely. And at
the end of the service the archbishop says, and in
the name of the Father.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And the Son, the Father of the Holy.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Ghost, and in the name of he says it again
in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen, and I'm with
my kids, and Barbara says amen, and then she turns
to me and literally says, Dad.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm a trader. I'm a trader.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It was actually very funny. Okay, just wanted to share
that story with you. I don't think I've ever shared
that before. Okay, So anyway, welcome to Welcome back from
Canterbury and of course the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. All right,
enough of that, all these ridiculous factoids that no one
cares about.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Good morning, and wow, all that off of a sweatshirt. Yeah,
that was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Information from a sweatshirt, wasn't it. Yeah, yeah, I just
thought I would share that. And Neil is not here today,
but will Is will I lost to your video.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay, good morning. There you were smiling, happy. You know,
will Is one of those happy, happy people. You never
noticed that their special needs people are always very happy.
You couldn't look that up, by the way, There's just
something about happy people, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
They're Yeah, they're just happy people.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, it's okay, and you are and you are okay,
fair enough, you guys, ready to do it? Oh, what
a day for news it is today, it is time
for Handle on the News on a Tuesday morning, January sixth,
with Amy O'Neil, who's back next week, and me lead story. Well,
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yesterday as we went on the air, we were waiting
for Maduro and his wife to be transported to the facility,
the confinement facility, and then go into court. And he
was helicoptered and then driven into court where he pled
not guilty. And interesting he is maintaining I tell you,
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he is maintaining his not only his innocence, but that
he still is the president of Venezuela, which put in
a whole different legal category about how the and I
in the States grabbed him, captured him. He says, it's
a kidnapping and extra judicial kidnapping, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right now the plea is not guilty.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I to see the video as he's being marched in,
he's in handcuffs and as he's walking, of course surrounded
by more security than you can imagine. And he said
happy New Year, Happy new Year to everybody as he
passes in handcuffs.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's going to be very interesting today.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
At eight point thirty, we're going to have Michael Zwieback,
who is a friend of mine and also a federal
criminal justice defense attorney. The guy knows this stuff cold
because it's going to be his equivalent that is going
to be bringing Maduro to trial. And so what Michael
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does is he does this. And so I'm going to
have him on for a couple of segments to explain
what the next steps are that Maduro's and his wife's
going to see, and then a couple of minutes about
juror stiction, because that's something that's a little bit different
because here we say or here we have, according to
Maduro and a lot of Americans saying this was an
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illegal invasion of a foreign country, a sovereign country, to
grab the leader, the elect while the elected. The argument
there is was he elected? Was he not elected? But man,
that just put the whole world in turmoil. So that's
coming up. At eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
This morning, Senator Mark Kelly in the crosshairs. Secretary of
State our Defense Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is taking
action to punish Senator Mark Kelly, who is a retired
Navy captain, by moving to cut his retirement pay. Why
because he was one of the senators who put out
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that video. He and the other Democratic lawmakers told US
service members to refuse illegal orders. Kelly responded later yesterday morning,
saying he will not be intimidated and intends to fight it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, a couple of things. First of all, does the
Defense Secretary have a right to do this? Yes, the
Defense Secretary has a right. Does he have a right
to do this for political gain, for strictly political a
political issue. He does not, and which means that I
think Hexseeth is going to lose.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And one of the defenses.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That Kelly is going to have is what I did
is I put on a video language right out of
the Uniform Code of the Uniform Code of a Criminal Justice,
I think is what it's called. And that's the code section,
the federal code section that controls the military, which is
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different than the civilian code. And it is and he
is saying right there, because according to the Uniform Code,
you can't do an illegal act. You as matter of fact,
are supposed to not listen to an act that is illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Order that is illegal.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And by the way, saying that to everybody in the military,
you cannot follow an illegal order is not illegal. Hexeth
that is sedition. You're being a trader when you say that. Well, uh, okay,
you know, fair enough, I'm a trader when I say
the speed limit is sixty five miles an hour. No,
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you're being a trader because what you're saying is, uh, well, that's.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
A stupid analogy that went no place.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, let's just you know, sometimes I even impress myself
with the stupidity.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, shots or not.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
The CDC has reduced the number of vaccines routinely recommended
for all children from seventeen to eleven. On the new schedule,
vaccines that had previously been recommended for all children, like RSV,
hepatitis A and B, meningitis, and even seasonal flu, are
now recommended only for those at high risk or after
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consultation with their doctor. It's a category called shared decision making.
Of course, this is part of Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior's plans to change the way vaccines are handed out.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh yeah, mister anti vaccine Jim Keeney. I talked to
Jim last night. He's going to be with us tomorrow
and talk about some of the issues that are going
on with the CDC and some budget cuts and what's happening.
We're not going to be me having a great time
about joking about him killing people. Well he probably will,
but we're definitely going to talk about that. And now,
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as I said, okay, and right now, let's calendar this,
because this is handle prognosticating on a Tuesday morning, January sixth,
before the Trump administration is out of office, any parent
or any doctor giving a kid any vaccine will get
twenty years to life.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm just telling you they're.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So you both look at me like I'm crazy. That
is a political statement, Okay. That is me referring to
the fact that we've got a Department of Health and
Human Services under RFK Junior that is completely anti vaccine,
that it's all autism, and we're telling me we're not
moving in that direction.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, maybe not twenty years to life.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Okay, maybe that's somewhat hyperbolic, but you get my point.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Hilton Ice is out agents. US Department of Homeland Securities
accused Hilton Hotels of carrying out a coordinated campaign to
refuse rooms to ICE agents in Minneapolis. They posted on
x showing screenshots of emails from what appears to be
the Hampton Inn in Layfield, Minnesota. In the email, it says,
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after further investigation, we have found information about immigration work
connected with your name, and we will be canceling your
upcoming reservation.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You know, I think they got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think it was a memo that said the ice
machine down the hall is no longer available.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, that didn't work either.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know, this is I'm off to a very bad
start this morning, okay, And there's yeah, move on. And
what happened is you've got Hilton's saying, first of all,
it's not us, and second of all, you've got I
believe the owner of the hotel or motel because these
are all franchises for the most part, saying oh no, no,
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we're going to straighten that out.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And so no ice for you.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
A Disney disaster, Oh god, Bill, you're going to love
this one.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I am going to love it.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
So some people were in line at Indiana Jones, the
ride at Disneyland Park, and apparently there were some people
who they're calling them line cutters. So it's an ongoing
problem actually that people like hold spots and then other
people come and catch up with their group that I
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don't personally have a problem with it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But okay, So what happens when when you see that happening,
someone cuts line in front of you.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, they're not really cutting, They're going to catch up
with their group, right, And I've done it before, like
I had I had to go to the bathroom and
I knew that I was going to be in line
for an hour.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I was like, can you all catch up with you?
And most people are very cool about it. Some people aren't.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Some people get out of, you know, get bent out
of or they see like a group of ten cutting
to catch up with their group as opposed to like
one person. I think that's anyway, that's what kind of happened.
And apparently a fight broke out Sergeant Sutter with Anaheim
Police as there was a confrontation about cutting in line
and a physical altercation ensued. One guy had a gash
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in his head. So, I mean, like a fight broke
out over it. So and then Disney has added to
its website a reminder to visitors to treat others with respect.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The happiest place on Earth.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It is the happiest place on no I understand.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Especially happy when you're waiting two and a half hours
to go on a ride at last thirty seconds. I
certainly understand that, because that makes people very, very happy.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
The lines were really long.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
We were there on Saturday, and it was like the
very end of Christmas, so it was very crowded, but
it was still we had a great time.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, I guess some people just enjoy standing in line
for two hours.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's just a thing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Maybe they like spending time with their friends and loved ones,
and that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't even know how to respond to that, because
that's so that's so foreign to me.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Bright Let's move on, all right.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Automakers in for a rough ride. GM and several others
have reported year end sales slumps, a sign that US
auto sales will flow this year as consumers push back
on high prices. Of course, the average price of a
car now fifty thousand dollars. GM is the largest automaker
in the US. It says it sales fell seven percent
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in the last quarter of twenty twenty five. Honda, Hyundai,
Mazda Nissan also said their sales fell toward the end
of the year. Toyota it's an eight percent increase in
sales for the fourth quarter, but they said that they're
prepared for a bruising year ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh yeah, And it was all in evs because the
tax break went away of seventy five hundred dollars towards
the car. That's all gone, so and people don't have
money or they don't have enough to afford a car,
which is now fifty thousand dollars average in the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Things are tough, and I think it's going to be
a tough year. That's just my take on it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
There are a lot of economists who agree with me
or I agree with them, and then there are others
that say we're gonna do just fine.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Stock market is on top of the world.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm rating over forty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's just it doesn't stop. It's nothing is getting in
the way.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
This is one of those bubbles that just keeps on
getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and apparently we'll never burst.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah. Vice president targeted. A man's been taken into custody
outside the home in Ohio. A Vice President JD. Vance
Secret Service picked him up. Apparently the guy, uh just
after midnight on Monday morning, broke some windows at the
Vice president's home. No one was there at the time.
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Vance and his family were not in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Hmm, yeah, I wonder if that is a federal crime.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm just curious is breaking into an elected officials home
or damaging an elected officials home. I mean, certainly it's
a local crime or a state county crime.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I get that, but I'm just curious about that. I
should looked that up.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
But well, it's super scary though, because remember the lawmakers
in was it Minnesota or Michigan that they broke in
and killed them.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, well that's a little scarier.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But yeah, and the guy is lucky as he's walking
in because there's Secret Service detail there. From what I understand,
he's lucky he wasn't killed and shot by the Secret Service.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
All Right, it's a super flu A massive spike in
flu activity nationwide has been reported by the CDC. In
just one week between December twentieth and twenty seventh, the
country saw a thirty three percent increase in people testing
positive for flu. In mid December, before the peak colony season,
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only six states were considered to have high flu activity.
We likely haven't reached the peak yet, according to the CDC, California,
by the way, is not one of the states who
have high flu activity, but that could change.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, we have moderate activity relative to the other This
is going to be one hell of a flu season
and I'm sure we're going to talk to Jim about
that too. And this is not a vaccine issue, although
because even if you took the flu vaccine, which I did,
did I take vaccines all the time? It really isn't
that effective against this variant.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Minneapolis is next about two thousand federal agents apparently being
deployed to Minnesota. It's part of the Trump administration's efforts
to crack down on immigration. That's according to a couple
law enforcement officials who talked to CNN, And all of
this is happening where they're beefing up the immigration enforcement
as the city and its officials continue to reel from
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a welfare fraud scandal that's reaching fever pitch. The mobilization
of more agents to Minneapolis comes as Minnesota Governor Tim Walls,
who has been very opposed to Trump's deployment of troops
into cities in the US.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Dropped out of his for re election yesterday.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, it's it's that tough over there and the president
is And I don't know why this this scandal, which
has to be investigated and should be investigated because it's
in the billions of dollars, how that translates into troops
now being brought into Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Federal troops.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I think it's because the scandal centers around Somali immigrants.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well, that was the other issue, yes, and it was
by the way, there's no evidence that we just had
to do with Somali day daycare centers. But again, I
have no problem with the investigation federal and state. But
I don't see how that translates because there is no
evidence of this massive Somali plot. And how is that
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a Somali invasion of daycare operators. I don't know what
that means or that was even the well it wasn't
even quoted as saying, we're in here to make sure
that these the invasion of the Somali day daycare center
operators have to be to a stop. And by the way,
the courts have not been happy with the administration on
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the troops being brought to various cities, not in Chicago anymore.
Court said no to that one. And we're looking at
what's happening in Los Angeles and Portland, so we'll see
which way it goes.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Coming in is going to cost you.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Speaking of immigration, Trump administration has added seven countries, including
five in Africa, to a list of nations whose passport
holders will be required to post bonds of up to
fifteen thousand dollars to apply for a visa to come
into the US. It's one of the latest efforts by
the Trump administration to titan requirements for entry into the US,
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including requiring citizens from all countries that require visas to
sit for in person interviews, to show their social media
histories for years, and also talk about their and their
family's previous travel and living in arrangements.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It's going to make it a little tough, isn't it
for travelers.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You're going to see all of a sudden, many fewer
travelers coming in from these specific countries and their country
has never even heard of Mauritania, Saint Domet Principal Tanzania.
We know about Gambia, yeah, Mala, Malawi, yeah, Zambia. I
mean just these countries.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, there's also on Swana, turk Mekistan.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yaybemerkistan yeah yeah, Namibia yeah, which.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Uh, I just like to say, Namibia.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I know, it's just just fascinating stuff. So anyway, it's
going to make it more difficult for these people. Posting
a bond doesn't mean you write a check fifteen thousand dollars.
It means you put up assets to cover it. With
a bond company or some bond organization, you won't.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Be seeing many of these.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Uh. You know, those Papua New Guineans are just you
just don't want them anywhere near this country. Man, It's
just uh, I have a problem with Papo and New Guineans.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Why is that? Well, because they eat people, that's why.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Is that a Joe Biden reference?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yes, actually no, I think that's where the headhunters come from,
is Papo and New Guinea.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
If I'm not mistaken, I know, But.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Didn't Biden say one time something about headhunters or something?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I have to look it up.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, I don't remember. Okay, all right, moving on? Uh
are we taking a break?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Apparently we are.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now let's do one more story.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Oh well, yeah, some baseball players are possibly stuck.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
The Venezuelan Winter Baseball League has suspended play because of
the United States coming in and taking out Nicholas Maduro
and Caracas. That leaves a bunch of players kind of
in limbo. That group includes Dodgers reliever Edgardo Enriquez. He's
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from Venezuela the Dodgers. He had been pitching in Caracas,
but it's not clear if he is still there or
if he's back with the team.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
But they're saying he's not the only one. There are
a lot of Venezuelan.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Players who are stuck because of the travel restrictions and
visaos and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Nobody knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
We know that the US government went in and captured
the manager of the team and immediately brought him for
trial in the United States.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
That we know, But what we don't know is what's
going to happen to the players.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't think the manager was taken into custody.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh did I read that wrong?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Don't expect to not pay. The Trump administration will soon
beginning begin garnishing wages of student loan borrowers who are
in default. The Education Department says it has sent about
a thousand borrowers notices, and more notices are going to
be coming each month. Millions of people are considered in
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default of their student loans, meaning that they are two
hundred and seventy days past due on payments. The department
says it'll start collection activities only after student and parent
borrowers have been provided sufficient notice and opportunity to repay
the loans.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay, let's look at both sides of this.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
If they are not, if the government does not go
against these folks who are in default, does that mean
that they can forever not pay their loans back. Under
the Biden administration, as far as he was concerned to
paying these loans back, we're not a big deal. Obviously,
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give the students a break as much as much as
you can. And now you know the Trump administration saying, well,
hang on a minute. You guys borrowed the money and
there's been a moratorium get it because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Pandemic is gone, and now you owe the money.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You know, there's a lot to be said. I mean,
I borrowed money to go to school. I paid it
all back. It took me ten years, and I went
ahead and paid it back. So there are those of
us who borrowed the money say hey, why do we
have to pay it? Why did we have to pay
the money back and you don't now. The other argument
on the other side is, yeah, when you went to school, Bill,
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I love it, and talk about me and the third person,
we are not amused.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
When you went to school, handle tuition wasn't fifty thousand
dollars a.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Year for a four year private college, so education wasn't
as expensive, and the employment landscape was much much different.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So I don't know. I have mixed feelies about it.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
But the bottom line is, you borrow money, you got
to pay it back, you know, I mean, welcome to
a capitalistic system where you borrow.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Money you have to pay it back.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Well, And it's also, in my humble opinion, inequitable for
everybody who wants equality and equity and all that, because
the people who are getting out of the loans are
the people who went to college. So if you you
know what I mean, and then we're expected to help
pay the college tuition.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I can't effectively that that is the case.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, when you talk about an inequality, I go out
and buy a house and I'm going to pay six
and a half percent. But wait a second, you want
a house three years ago and you paid three percent
for the money. That's unfair. Therefore I should have the
same break. The world doesn't work that way. And one
of the basic tenets of capitalism, which is what we
are predicated on this country, is capitalistic, is you borrow money,
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you pay it back, you cut a deal, you shake hands,
you sign a document, you've got to pay it back,
and so you know, and the world has changed.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But that's the way it goes. You know, the world changes.
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You've got my daughter who is finishing up her education
in computer engineering, who is now looking around and she's
stuck between a rock a hard place.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But there ain't in no jobs. I go, Yeah, the
world is different. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Five years, still more to say, of course, it's the
five year anniversary of the January sixth attack on the
US Capitol. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have now
released two new reports that take a look at the
aftermath of the attack during the first year of President
Trump's second term. The reports document Trump's decision to pardon
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nearly everybody who was convicted of the January sixth attacks,
and also mass firings of Justice Department officials who prosecuted
people who participated in January sixth. Representative Jamie Raskin, who
is the committee's ranking Menmber says the pardons are a
for people of a private militia of proven street fighters
(27:51):
that represent a nightmare for American public safety.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, I think the President described January sixth perfectly when
he said, and I quote, it was a day of love. Okay,
your definition of love may be a little bit different
than my definition of love, but so be it.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Cyberbulliefs senced. A Paris court has found ten people guilty
of cyber harassing the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron.
They spread false claims that she is a transgender woman
and was born male. The couple is also twenty four
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years apart. He's twenty four years younger than her. So
that's drawn a lot of criticism that was ignored for years,
but now they're kind of challenging that in court as well.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Good for them. Good for them.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
By the way, this was a criminal court case in
Paris that does not include a civil case, and I
don't know if they have the same rules as we
do for defamation over there. But you know, these people
are nuts. I mean what they're arguing. One of one
of the allegations, what is her name was actually Jean
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Michel Trugneau or trug oh trug now and well that
said has your brother's name, and they're saying, oh, that's
her name. So it's kind of stupid. They should they
should nail these people because that is defamation. Let's beyond
just a political shot of this, oh New York story
which to show you how crazy New Yorkers are.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, see, it can't get you on the train anymore,
but it can get you some cash. The MTA Metropolitan
Transportation Authority has discontinued the use of Metro cards. Of course,
it's the little credit card looking thing that gets you
on the train that you buy and loaded up with cash. Well,
they stopped using it and now have contactless tap and
go payments. So metro cards are no longer available to
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be purchased through the MTA, but you can buy either
and new or even used metro cards online. They're going
from between six dollars and five thousand dollars on eBay
and resale site.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah go figure. I mean, you just never know, all right.
One last story before we bail New money.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
One of the coins created to commemorate the United States
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary will start. It's actually in
circulation now. They started putting them out yesterday, the US
Mint announced on social media. The Mayflower Compact Quarter is
the first of five new quarter dollar designs for twenty
twenty six. The collectible features two pilgrims, a man and
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a woman, under a banner that reads e pluribus union,
which translates to out of many one.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, they were supposed to be the Mayflower itself and
on the bridge to be someone waving that looked very
similar to Donald Trump in the original design of the coin.
And then you have one the Revolutionary War quarter, where
one of the great generals of the Revolutionary War was
a guy by the name of Trump, the Declaration of Independence,
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and the US Constitution quarter, where of course we know
he signed the Constitution, and interestingly enough, one commemorating the
Gettysburg Address where President Trump was the guest of honor. Okay,
we're done, a little bit of joy being there. KFI
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Damn it. What do you think I use my underwear for?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Day two of are back to our normal broadcast gear year.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It is a January sixth Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And it's I'm not quite back in the saddle again,
but that's I think it's because Neil is.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Out this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So when everybody comes back together, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Let's say hello, everybody. Cono. You've got your MAGA hat on,
don't you. Yeah. It's actually a one Love I E
had there, Bill I. One Love I E. It's a
great company. One Love I E is a company, or
it's also in everything we love. You know.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It's just about spreading love and good good, good nature.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And it's pretty fun. That's actually vomitous. No, it's great.
I'm just telling you I'm about to puke right now.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Self made entrepreneur justin Yeah, yeah, just yeah, it's oh yeah, okay, great, yeah,
it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right, I feel much better the way did we start.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Doday really well with me? All right, So good morning Knou.
And there is Amy Amy sweatshirt that I can't see
what it says, h zip it up?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
There you go is Canbury, England. Canterbury. Have you ever been?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, that's where I got it.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's phenomenal, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You go to the Canterbury Cathedral where the archbishop hangs out,
and I have been there.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I have met the archbishop.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Actually we did not go into the cathedral voat. We
took a little boat ride in the canals of Canterbury.
It was beautiful, one of my favorite places.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, it's absolutely lovely.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And I have a very dear friend of mine who
is on the board of Canterbury Cathedral. And one year
Christmas service that was held by the archbishop. By the way,
they do a Christmas service every year, and we went
and you go actually into the crypt and you follow
the footsteps of Thomas Beckett when he was he was
(02:38):
killed by the soldiers of Anyway, it's a long story
of the king because he wouldn't allow the king, or
he wouldn't agree with what the king was and he
was the archbishop and he was murdered.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Anyway, it's a beautiful, uplifting story, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
No, it's even it gets even better.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So anyway, you follow his footsteps and at one point,
when the king's men slam on the door saying let
us in in the name of the King, you actually
go up to that point and someone from the other side,
this is during the service pounds on the door said
let us in in the name of the King.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I mean, it's very moving, it really is very good.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now you have to understand, or maybe you do already,
is that the Anglican religion, the Church of England is
Protestant and they consider it Catholic Light, so it's.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Sort of kind of Catholic, but not really Catholic.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So at the end of the service, the archbishu you
go in the crypt and everybody's holding a candle and
it's very moving and it's just absolutely lovely. And at
the end of the service the archbishop says, and in
the name of the Father.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And the Son, the Father of the Holy.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Ghost, and in the name of he says it again
in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen, and I'm with
my kids, and Barbara says amen, and then she turns
to me and literally says, Dad.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm a trader. I'm a trader.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It was actually very funny. Okay, just wanted to share
that story with you. I don't think I've ever shared
that before. Okay, So anyway, welcome to Welcome back from
Canterbury and of course the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. All right,
enough of that, all these ridiculous factoids that no one
cares about.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Good morning, and wow, all that off of a sweatshirt. Yeah,
that was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Information from a sweatshirt, wasn't it. Yeah, yeah, I just
thought I would share that. And Neil is not here today,
but will Is will I lost to your video.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay, good morning. There you were smiling, happy. You know,
will Is one of those happy, happy people. You never
noticed that their special needs people are always very happy.
You couldn't look that up, by the way, There's just
something about happy people, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
They're Yeah, they're just happy people.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, it's okay, and you are and you are okay,
fair enough, you guys, ready to do it? Oh, what
a day for news it is today, it is time
for Handle on the News on a Tuesday morning, January sixth,
with Amy O'Neil, who's back next week, and me lead story. Well,
(05:24):
yesterday as we went on the air, we were waiting
for Maduro and his wife to be transported to the facility,
the confinement facility, and then go into court. And he
was helicoptered and then driven into court where he pled
not guilty. And interesting he is maintaining I tell you,
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he is maintaining his not only his innocence, but that
he still is the president of Venezuela, which put in
a whole different legal category about how the and I
in the States grabbed him, captured him. He says, it's
a kidnapping and extra judicial kidnapping, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right now the plea is not guilty.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I to see the video as he's being marched in,
he's in handcuffs and as he's walking, of course surrounded
by more security than you can imagine. And he said
happy New Year, Happy new Year to everybody as he
passes in handcuffs.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's going to be very interesting today.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
At eight point thirty, we're going to have Michael Zwieback,
who is a friend of mine and also a federal
criminal justice defense attorney. The guy knows this stuff cold
because it's going to be his equivalent that is going
to be bringing Maduro to trial. And so what Michael
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does is he does this. And so I'm going to
have him on for a couple of segments to explain
what the next steps are that Maduro's and his wife's
going to see, and then a couple of minutes about
juror stiction, because that's something that's a little bit different
because here we say or here we have, according to
Maduro and a lot of Americans saying this was an
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illegal invasion of a foreign country, a sovereign country, to
grab the leader, the elect while the elected. The argument
there is was he elected? Was he not elected? But man,
that just put the whole world in turmoil. So that's
coming up. At eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
This morning, Senator Mark Kelly in the crosshairs. Secretary of
State our Defense Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is taking
action to punish Senator Mark Kelly, who is a retired
Navy captain, by moving to cut his retirement pay. Why
because he was one of the senators who put out
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that video. He and the other Democratic lawmakers told US
service members to refuse illegal orders. Kelly responded later yesterday morning,
saying he will not be intimidated and intends to fight it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, a couple of things. First of all, does the
Defense Secretary have a right to do this? Yes, the
Defense Secretary has a right. Does he have a right
to do this for political gain, for strictly political a
political issue. He does not, and which means that I
think Hexseeth is going to lose.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And one of the defenses.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
That Kelly is going to have is what I did
is I put on a video language right out of
the Uniform Code of the Uniform Code of a Criminal Justice,
I think is what it's called. And that's the code section,
the federal code section that controls the military, which is
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different than the civilian code. And it is and he
is saying right there, because according to the Uniform Code,
you can't do an illegal act. You as matter of fact,
are supposed to not listen to an act that is illegal.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Order that is illegal.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And by the way, saying that to everybody in the military,
you cannot follow an illegal order is not illegal. Hexeth
that is sedition. You're being a trader when you say that. Well, uh, okay,
you know, fair enough, I'm a trader when I say
the speed limit is sixty five miles an hour. No,
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you're being a trader because what you're saying is, uh, well, that's.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
A stupid analogy that went no place.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, let's just you know, sometimes I even impress myself
with the stupidity.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, shots or not.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
The CDC has reduced the number of vaccines routinely recommended
for all children from seventeen to eleven. On the new schedule,
vaccines that had previously been recommended for all children, like RSV,
hepatitis A and B, meningitis, and even seasonal flu, are
now recommended only for those at high risk or after
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consultation with their doctor. It's a category called shared decision making.
Of course, this is part of Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior's plans to change the way vaccines are handed out.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh yeah, mister anti vaccine Jim Keeney. I talked to
Jim last night. He's going to be with us tomorrow
and talk about some of the issues that are going
on with the CDC and some budget cuts and what's happening.
We're not going to be me having a great time
about joking about him killing people. Well he probably will,
but we're definitely going to talk about that. And now,
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as I said, okay, and right now, let's calendar this,
because this is handle prognosticating on a Tuesday morning, January sixth,
before the Trump administration is out of office, any parent
or any doctor giving a kid any vaccine will get
twenty years to life.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm just telling you they're.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So you both look at me like I'm crazy. That
is a political statement, Okay. That is me referring to
the fact that we've got a Department of Health and
Human Services under RFK Junior that is completely anti vaccine,
that it's all autism, and we're telling me we're not
moving in that direction.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, maybe not twenty years to life.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Okay, maybe that's somewhat hyperbolic, but you get my point.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Hilton Ice is out agents. US Department of Homeland Securities
accused Hilton Hotels of carrying out a coordinated campaign to
refuse rooms to ICE agents in Minneapolis. They posted on
x showing screenshots of emails from what appears to be
the Hampton Inn in Layfield, Minnesota. In the email, it says,
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after further investigation, we have found information about immigration work
connected with your name, and we will be canceling your
upcoming reservation.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You know, I think they got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think it was a memo that said the ice
machine down the hall is no longer available.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, that didn't work either.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know, this is I'm off to a very bad
start this morning, okay, And there's yeah, move on. And
what happened is you've got Hilton's saying, first of all,
it's not us, and second of all, you've got I
believe the owner of the hotel or motel because these
are all franchises for the most part, saying oh no, no,
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we're going to straighten that out.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
And so no ice for you.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
A Disney disaster, Oh god, Bill, you're going to love
this one.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I am going to love it.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
So some people were in line at Indiana Jones, the
ride at Disneyland Park, and apparently there were some people
who they're calling them line cutters. So it's an ongoing
problem actually that people like hold spots and then other
people come and catch up with their group that I
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don't personally have a problem with it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But okay, So what happens when when you see that happening,
someone cuts line in front of you.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, they're not really cutting, They're going to catch up
with their group, right, And I've done it before, like
I had I had to go to the bathroom and
I knew that I was going to be in line
for an hour.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I was like, can you all catch up with you?
And most people are very cool about it. Some people aren't.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Some people get out of, you know, get bent out
of or they see like a group of ten cutting
to catch up with their group as opposed to like
one person. I think that's anyway, that's what kind of happened.
And apparently a fight broke out Sergeant Sutter with Anaheim
Police as there was a confrontation about cutting in line
and a physical altercation ensued. One guy had a gash
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in his head. So, I mean, like a fight broke
out over it. So and then Disney has added to
its website a reminder to visitors to treat others with respect.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The happiest place on Earth.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It is the happiest place on no I understand.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Especially happy when you're waiting two and a half hours
to go on a ride at last thirty seconds. I
certainly understand that, because that makes people very, very happy.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
The lines were really long.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
We were there on Saturday, and it was like the
very end of Christmas, so it was very crowded, but
it was still we had a great time.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, I guess some people just enjoy standing in line
for two hours.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's just a thing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Maybe they like spending time with their friends and loved ones,
and that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I don't even know how to respond to that, because
that's so that's so foreign to me.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Bright Let's move on, all right.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Automakers in for a rough ride. GM and several others
have reported year end sales slumps, a sign that US
auto sales will flow this year as consumers push back
on high prices. Of course, the average price of a
car now fifty thousand dollars. GM is the largest automaker
in the US. It says it sales fell seven percent
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in the last quarter of twenty twenty five. Honda, Hyundai,
Mazda Nissan also said their sales fell toward the end
of the year. Toyota it's an eight percent increase in
sales for the fourth quarter, but they said that they're
prepared for a bruising year ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh yeah, And it was all in evs because the
tax break went away of seventy five hundred dollars towards
the car. That's all gone, so and people don't have
money or they don't have enough to afford a car,
which is now fifty thousand dollars average in the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Things are tough, and I think it's going to be
a tough year. That's just my take on it.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
There are a lot of economists who agree with me
or I agree with them, and then there are others
that say we're gonna do just fine.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Stock market is on top of the world.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm rating over forty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I know.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's just it doesn't stop. It's nothing is getting in
the way.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
This is one of those bubbles that just keeps on
getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and apparently we'll never burst.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah. Vice president targeted. A man's been taken into custody
outside the home in Ohio. A Vice President JD. Vance
Secret Service picked him up. Apparently the guy, uh just
after midnight on Monday morning, broke some windows at the
Vice president's home. No one was there at the time.
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Vance and his family were not in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Hmm, yeah, I wonder if that is a federal crime.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm just curious is breaking into an elected officials home
or damaging an elected officials home. I mean, certainly it's
a local crime or a state county crime.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I get that, but I'm just curious about that. I
should looked that up.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
But well, it's super scary though, because remember the lawmakers
in was it Minnesota or Michigan that they broke in
and killed them.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, well that's a little scarier.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But yeah, and the guy is lucky as he's walking
in because there's Secret Service detail there. From what I understand,
he's lucky he wasn't killed and shot by the Secret Service.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
All Right, it's a super flu A massive spike in
flu activity nationwide has been reported by the CDC. In
just one week between December twentieth and twenty seventh, the
country saw a thirty three percent increase in people testing
positive for flu. In mid December, before the peak colony season,
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only six states were considered to have high flu activity.
We likely haven't reached the peak yet, according to the CDC, California,
by the way, is not one of the states who
have high flu activity, but that could change.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, we have moderate activity relative to the other This
is going to be one hell of a flu season
and I'm sure we're going to talk to Jim about
that too. And this is not a vaccine issue, although
because even if you took the flu vaccine, which I did,
did I take vaccines all the time? It really isn't
that effective against this variant.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Minneapolis is next about two thousand federal agents apparently being
deployed to Minnesota. It's part of the Trump administration's efforts
to crack down on immigration. That's according to a couple
law enforcement officials who talked to CNN, And all of
this is happening where they're beefing up the immigration enforcement
as the city and its officials continue to reel from
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a welfare fraud scandal that's reaching fever pitch. The mobilization
of more agents to Minneapolis comes as Minnesota Governor Tim Walls,
who has been very opposed to Trump's deployment of troops
into cities in the US.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Dropped out of his for re election yesterday.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, it's it's that tough over there and the president
is And I don't know why this this scandal, which
has to be investigated and should be investigated because it's
in the billions of dollars, how that translates into troops
now being brought into Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Federal troops.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I think it's because the scandal centers around Somali immigrants.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well, that was the other issue, yes, and it was
by the way, there's no evidence that we just had
to do with Somali day daycare centers. But again, I
have no problem with the investigation federal and state. But
I don't see how that translates because there is no
evidence of this massive Somali plot. And how is that
(19:45):
a Somali invasion of daycare operators. I don't know what
that means or that was even the well it wasn't
even quoted as saying, we're in here to make sure
that these the invasion of the Somali day daycare center
operators have to be to a stop. And by the way,
the courts have not been happy with the administration on
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the troops being brought to various cities, not in Chicago anymore.
Court said no to that one. And we're looking at
what's happening in Los Angeles and Portland, so we'll see
which way it goes.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Coming in is going to cost you.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Speaking of immigration, Trump administration has added seven countries, including
five in Africa, to a list of nations whose passport
holders will be required to post bonds of up to
fifteen thousand dollars to apply for a visa to come
into the US. It's one of the latest efforts by
the Trump administration to titan requirements for entry into the US,
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including requiring citizens from all countries that require visas to
sit for in person interviews, to show their social media
histories for years, and also talk about their and their
family's previous travel and living in arrangements.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It's going to make it a little tough, isn't it
for travelers.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You're going to see all of a sudden, many fewer
travelers coming in from these specific countries and their country
has never even heard of Mauritania, Saint Domet Principal Tanzania.
We know about Gambia, yeah, Mala, Malawi, yeah, Zambia. I
mean just these countries.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, there's also on Swana, turk Mekistan.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yaybemerkistan yeah yeah, Namibia yeah, which.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Uh, I just like to say, Namibia.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I know, it's just just fascinating stuff. So anyway, it's
going to make it more difficult for these people. Posting
a bond doesn't mean you write a check fifteen thousand dollars.
It means you put up assets to cover it. With
a bond company or some bond organization, you won't.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Be seeing many of these.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Uh. You know, those Papua New Guineans are just you
just don't want them anywhere near this country. Man, It's
just uh, I have a problem with Papo and New Guineans.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Why is that? Well, because they eat people, that's why.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Is that a Joe Biden reference?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yes, actually no, I think that's where the headhunters come from,
is Papo and New Guinea.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
If I'm not mistaken, I know, But.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Didn't Biden say one time something about headhunters or something?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I have to look it up.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, I don't remember. Okay, all right, moving on? Uh
are we taking a break?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Apparently we are.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now let's do one more story.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Oh well, yeah, some baseball players are possibly stuck.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
The Venezuelan Winter Baseball League has suspended play because of
the United States coming in and taking out Nicholas Maduro
and Caracas. That leaves a bunch of players kind of
in limbo. That group includes Dodgers reliever Edgardo Enriquez. He's
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from Venezuela the Dodgers. He had been pitching in Caracas,
but it's not clear if he is still there or
if he's back with the team.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
But they're saying he's not the only one. There are
a lot of Venezuelan.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Players who are stuck because of the travel restrictions and
visaos and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Nobody knows what's going on.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
We know that the US government went in and captured
the manager of the team and immediately brought him for
trial in the United States.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
That we know, But what we don't know is what's
going to happen to the players.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't think the manager was taken into custody.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Oh did I read that wrong?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Don't expect to not pay. The Trump administration will soon
beginning begin garnishing wages of student loan borrowers who are
in default. The Education Department says it has sent about
a thousand borrowers notices, and more notices are going to
be coming each month. Millions of people are considered in
(24:03):
default of their student loans, meaning that they are two
hundred and seventy days past due on payments. The department
says it'll start collection activities only after student and parent
borrowers have been provided sufficient notice and opportunity to repay
the loans.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay, let's look at both sides of this.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
If they are not, if the government does not go
against these folks who are in default, does that mean
that they can forever not pay their loans back. Under
the Biden administration, as far as he was concerned to
paying these loans back, we're not a big deal. Obviously,
(24:41):
give the students a break as much as much as
you can. And now you know the Trump administration saying, well,
hang on a minute. You guys borrowed the money and
there's been a moratorium get it because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Pandemic is gone, and now you owe the money.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You know, there's a lot to be said. I mean,
I borrowed money to go to school. I paid it
all back. It took me ten years, and I went
ahead and paid it back. So there are those of
us who borrowed the money say hey, why do we
have to pay it? Why did we have to pay
the money back and you don't now. The other argument
on the other side is, yeah, when you went to school, Bill,
(25:18):
I love it, and talk about me and the third person,
we are not amused.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
When you went to school, handle tuition wasn't fifty thousand
dollars a.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Year for a four year private college, so education wasn't
as expensive, and the employment landscape was much much different.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So I don't know. I have mixed feelies about it.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
But the bottom line is, you borrow money, you got
to pay it back, you know, I mean, welcome to
a capitalistic system where you borrow.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Money you have to pay it back.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Well, And it's also, in my humble opinion, inequitable for
everybody who wants equality and equity and all that, because
the people who are getting out of the loans are
the people who went to college. So if you you
know what I mean, and then we're expected to help
pay the college tuition.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I can't effectively that that is the case.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, when you talk about an inequality, I go out
and buy a house and I'm going to pay six
and a half percent. But wait a second, you want
a house three years ago and you paid three percent
for the money. That's unfair. Therefore I should have the
same break. The world doesn't work that way. And one
of the basic tenets of capitalism, which is what we
are predicated on this country, is capitalistic, is you borrow money,
(26:37):
you pay it back, you cut a deal, you shake hands,
you sign a document, you've got to pay it back,
and so you know, and the world has changed.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But that's the way it goes. You know, the world changes.
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You've got my daughter who is finishing up her education
in computer engineering, who is now looking around and she's
stuck between a rock a hard place.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But there ain't in no jobs. I go, Yeah, the
world is different. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Five years, still more to say, of course, it's the
five year anniversary of the January sixth attack on the
US Capitol. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have now
released two new reports that take a look at the
aftermath of the attack during the first year of President
Trump's second term. The reports document Trump's decision to pardon
(27:30):
nearly everybody who was convicted of the January sixth attacks,
and also mass firings of Justice Department officials who prosecuted
people who participated in January sixth. Representative Jamie Raskin, who
is the committee's ranking Menmber says the pardons are a
for people of a private militia of proven street fighters
(27:51):
that represent a nightmare for American public safety.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, I think the President described January sixth perfectly when
he said, and I quote, it was a day of love. Okay,
your definition of love may be a little bit different
than my definition of love, but so be it.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Cyberbulliefs senced. A Paris court has found ten people guilty
of cyber harassing the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron.
They spread false claims that she is a transgender woman
and was born male. The couple is also twenty four
(28:34):
years apart. He's twenty four years younger than her. So
that's drawn a lot of criticism that was ignored for years,
but now they're kind of challenging that in court as well.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Good for them. Good for them.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
By the way, this was a criminal court case in
Paris that does not include a civil case, and I
don't know if they have the same rules as we
do for defamation over there. But you know, these people
are nuts. I mean what they're arguing. One of one
of the allegations, what is her name was actually Jean
(29:11):
Michel Trugneau or trug oh trug now and well that
said has your brother's name, and they're saying, oh, that's
her name. So it's kind of stupid. They should they
should nail these people because that is defamation. Let's beyond
just a political shot of this, oh New York story
which to show you how crazy New Yorkers are.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, see, it can't get you on the train anymore,
but it can get you some cash. The MTA Metropolitan
Transportation Authority has discontinued the use of Metro cards. Of course,
it's the little credit card looking thing that gets you
on the train that you buy and loaded up with cash. Well,
they stopped using it and now have contactless tap and
go payments. So metro cards are no longer available to
(29:55):
be purchased through the MTA, but you can buy either
and new or even used metro cards online. They're going
from between six dollars and five thousand dollars on eBay
and resale site.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah go figure. I mean, you just never know, all right.
One last story before we bail New money.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
One of the coins created to commemorate the United States
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary will start. It's actually in
circulation now. They started putting them out yesterday, the US
Mint announced on social media. The Mayflower Compact Quarter is
the first of five new quarter dollar designs for twenty
twenty six. The collectible features two pilgrims, a man and
(30:38):
a woman, under a banner that reads e pluribus union,
which translates to out of many one.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, they were supposed to be the Mayflower itself and
on the bridge to be someone waving that looked very
similar to Donald Trump in the original design of the coin.
And then you have one the Revolutionary War quarter, where
one of the great generals of the Revolutionary War was
a guy by the name of Trump, the Declaration of Independence,
(31:08):
and the US Constitution quarter, where of course we know
he signed the Constitution, and interestingly enough, one commemorating the
Gettysburg Address where President Trump was the guest of honor. Okay,
we're done, a little bit of joy being there. KFI
am six.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
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