November 19, 2025 • 31 mins
Congress fast-tracks a bill to force the release of Epstein files, the Senate probes MLB’s growing betting scandal, and Chris shares stories from his early days in radio and TV news. Plus, Trump says no stimulus checks before Christmas but expects them next year, even as polls show Americans struggling with rising costs—from beef prices to pasta tariffs—highlighting the growing gap between political spin and everyday reality.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Are doing this? We do this great, Chris Merrill I
AM six forty more stimulating talk on demand anytime on
the iHeartRadio app. See tomorrow on the show, you are
going to hear about how you are hosed if you're
under forty, you are just completely out of luck, just hosed,
(00:29):
and how to run a romance scam. Important stuff on
tomorrow's program. Important stuff. In the meantime, after months of resistance,
you heard Mark talking about the House of Representatives passing
a near unanimous bill four twenty seven to one, with
only the Distinguished Gentleman from Louisiana voting against it, forcing
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the US Department of Justice to release all the internal
internal files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Mike Johnson previously blocked
that action and delayed the vote. Supported the bill, he
called it flawed. Though the measure heads to the Senate
and then to the President's desk. This is the report
from ABC.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
For months, House Republicans fought to keep the Epstein files buried.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Today the bill is passed.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Nearly all of them voted for the Justice Department to
release the files.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Huh, why the change of heart, Today's Today's a pivot
is probably the starkest example that the party has a
leader and they will follow that leader to the end,
for better or for worse. It's been very effective for them.
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The Democrats have no leader, They have no charismatic leader,
they have no one like that. They haven't since Obama.
They don't have anybody, but the Republicans do. The trouble
is is that when we're talking about Epstein, we're talking
about one of the most heinous crimes that you could imagine.
We're also talking about the thing that really helped propel
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Maga via the QAnon wing into the forefront. I mean,
it started back with Pizzagate, right, and it was like,
we're gonna we gotta take down the child sex traffickers,
we gotta, we gotta, we gotta bust up the sex rings,
We've got to stop all this. And then you have
an opportunity to say, here is maybe the most famous
child lester since Jared from Subway. And you've got the
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entire Republican Party saying, nah, not important. The entire Republican
parties say for four. And when you've got Marjorie Taylor
Green and Lauren Bobert, who are way to the right.
Thomas Matthew's very conservative. They've all been very supportive of MAGA,
who are breaking with the President on this and basically
forcing the vote. Remember, just last week, the President called
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Lauren Bobert to the situation room. Now we think that
had to do with trying to talk her out of
this vote. We think, I don't know, maybe he saw
a video of her inside of a theater or something
and wanted to discuss that. But he called her and
basically she told him no. She told him no, and
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so he saw the writing on the wall and he said, Okay,
go ahead and vote for it. So then all the
Republicans go. I don't want to be left behind. I
don't want to be the person that says, no, don't
expose sex traffickers, child molesters, pedophiles. I don't want to
be that person except for the one guy in Louisiana,
But everybody else said yeah, no, now we are now
we are anti pedophile. Before it was like no, you
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can't release this, no move on moo Democrat hoas. But
now all of a sudden, it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
A complete one eighty coming after President Donald Trump encouraged
them to pass the bill.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
This is not just about survivors, It's about every American
who believes in accountability, fairness, and the promise of justice.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Survivors of Bepstein demanding the now sealed files be released,
holding up photos of what they look like when they
were abused.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
This was me at fourteen years old. I was a child,
I was in ninth grade. He stole a lot from me.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And then this afternoon, a surprisingly quick moved by the
Senate Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer requesting unanimous consent.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
The Senate has now passed the Epstein Bill as soon
as it comes over from the.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
House, and it automatically passes the Senate without any changes.
Once that happens, the President would have to sign it. Democrats, though,
pointing out that Trump can quite easily make the files
public immediately.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, why hasn't he.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I want to remind the president as well that he
has the power to release the files today.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah. Remember this is the same president who, when he
was being investigated for having classified files next to his commode,
said that the president can be classify files anytime he wants.
He can say he wants them to classify he can
just think that he wants them to classified and they
are instantly declassified. That's the mindset. And yet when it
comes to the Epstein files, it's taken this Act of
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Congress literally to do it. And even then the swearing
in of Adelated Grahoma seem to have something to do
with delaying this vote. But does that mean that we're
going to see the files? Does that mean that the
files are going to be released? Does that mean that
all of a sudden there's going to be transparency. No,
because even though Congress is mandating the release of the
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Epstein records, there are still significant portions that may remain hidden.
And why what's the thing that happened last week about
the Epstein files. The President wanted to reopen the investigation,
he said, into the Democrats and Bill Clinton. So remember
the DOJ earlier this year said there's nothing there. This
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is after, of course the Pambondi and Cash Bettel. We're
all saying, oh, yeah, it's there, and she said, the
list is on my desk and I just need to
go through it and we're gonna bring it all out.
And then all of a sudden it was like, no,
we're not No, we're not. No, we're not. Then it
appeared that the writing was on the wall and there
was some back room scrambling to try to figure out,
how do we stop things from being released even though
we make it look like things are being released. And
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that's exactly what's happening. They've ordered an investigation into those
Epstein files because they closed the previous investigation, so now
they can redact and they can hold back certain pieces
of information from the investigation. So even though it's been
voted to release those files, they're gonna go, oh, you
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know what, Nah, we're still investigating. Oh, I can't release that.
It's under investigation. Uh, you can't release that. It's classified.
Can't release that has got grand jury protection because of
the ongoing investigation. So this notion that whoo it happened,
it's gonna go on. No no. And while there may
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be some people that are reading into this and they're going, Okay, now, look,
MAGA is split. They're no longer supporting the president. Look,
they they voted against him, they pressured him, and now
those files are going to be released. No No, There
was a there was a very clever maneuver to try
to prevent that from happening, and why to protect the
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guy that the president said he doesn't even know. I
don't even know the guy. I barely remember it.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Come on, this is what I'm talking about, Chris. Let's
get to the truth there. He actually said that he
hasn't had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in many years.
Oh okay, and he kicked them out of Mara Lago. Yeah,
sick person.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Kicked him out. We found out he was a sick person.
So why don't we see the finals? I know, I know, Well,
there might be some victims in there that don't want
to come forward. That's fine. Redact those names, that's fine.
What about everyone else that wants justice? They're not getting it.
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They're not getting it. Uh, guys, do you want to
talk any more about politics? I got a little bit
more on politics. I don't want to talk about I
got some more. I'm going to take a little politics pause.
Okay with you, Richie can do a politics pause. Let's
take a break. Okay, I just want a little break
from politics. Let's just do that. Let's talk about Let's
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talk about the things that we love. We love cheering
on that amazing play, the double play. We love cheering
on the extra inning Game seven World Series. We like
to wear the hats of our favorite team. We'd like
to follow the stats. We love watching baseball because it's
so pure. But now when Washington isn't busy covering up
Epstein files, they're looking into America's pastime might not be
(09:13):
so pure as what we thought. Why Congress thinks they
need to get involved in the Lakers and the Dodgers
business is next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And I'm Chris Merril. KFI AM six forty more stimulating
talk Listen anytime on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Tomorrow on the program You're Being Hosed by Netflix, Tomorrow's show.
Actually I caught as we were putting it together, because look,
it's not done, but we have general ideas, unless, of
course there's breaking news that kind of thing. But you know,
(09:48):
we've got some ideas where we want to go tomorrow,
and I think that the tomorrow's theme is hoses. So
just tomorrow on the show, a lot of people get
in hos all over the place. The big hosing. Speaking
of hosing, sounds like our heroes are falling fast, you know.
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But the NBA investigation, right they're looking into Lakers, former
Lakers player and friend of Lebron James, and other teams
for getting involved in some gambling, whether it's on games
or it's they're involved in some sort of an illicit
poker ring. You know that. NBC News was talking about
it tonight.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
New details as the NBA expands its investigation into the
gambling schemes still rocking. Professional basketball investigators hired by the
league now asking multiple teams for access to cell phones
and phone records, according to a new report from The Athletic.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
NBC News has.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Not independently confirmed the reporting, but The Athletic, citing six
league sources, says the law firm hired by the NBA
is expected to seek documents from at least ten Lakers employees.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, not great. Also, NBC News, NBC News, we don't
know anything beyond what we're telling you, but we're gonna
report on someone else's reporting. Well done, guys. Meanwhile, Major
League Baseball is being scrutinized and the Senate is getting involved.
This is from a place called All Sports. Three point sixty.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Baseball's integrity is under intense scrutiny. Senate lawmakers demand answers
from MLB Commissioner Rob manfred amid a shocking gambling scandal
rocking the sport.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Hey, is this an AI voice or not? And it
sounds like it definitely. It's definitely got an AI feel
to it, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It just days after Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Class and
Luis Ortiz were federally indicted for allegedly rigging games to
benefit gamblers.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'm hearing breaths, So AI is adding breaths now?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Might I think it might be the quality of the clip, Okay,
ra I think it is a person the Senate Commerce Committee.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I feel like maybe they've just got a really yeah,
or maybe they're aiming to sound like AI on purpose. Bo.
I feel like it's like a young reporter, like this
is how reporters sound. I do that my first radio job. God,
thank god there's no tape of it, because I first
got hired to do some news anchoring at a really
(12:18):
small station in my hometown. It was so bad. It
was so bad, like they had to pull me aside
and go, what are you doing? Don't do that? Just read.
I was trying to sound all official, and this is
happening in the news today, is what I would say.
It was terrible, so bad. Uh, there isn't one. I'm
(12:40):
sure you have one though, that you might want to
share with you don't, No, I know, I don't. I don't.
If I did, we would have a good laugh at
If I did, I would pull it and we'd have
a good laugh. I can't even find my original air check.
If I could. If I ever find my original air check,
which is still on tape somewhere, well, when you do,
you better email that to us so we can play
it on the air. Let me tell you. If I
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run across it, I promise I will, I will email
it to you. I just don't know if it exists anymore.
It might be in a box like at my parents'
house or something.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
All right, continue on the Senate Commerce Committee led by
Ted Cruz and Maria can't well.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh you know who might have an old air checking
me is Neil Savedra because I sent him one back
in twenty ten. That's how I first got involved with KFI.
Uh huh. I was told don't At the time, it
was clear channel uh and they said do not contact
the stations directly. You know. It was like, you know,
if you are interested in working for a clear channel station,
send it through our our web portal. And I was
(13:36):
like no, so so I sent it directly to the station,
which which the companies said explicitly do not do this.
But I was like, what are they gonna do? Not
hire me for a job I don't have, you know,
So I did, and and Neil picked it out. He's like, hey,
it's pretty good. And he took it to the program
director and he was like, oh, this guy's not bad
and you got hired. Yeah, well they actually I got
(13:58):
a phone call from KFI. I was doing a talk
show on a five hundred AM station in Kansas and
I get a phone call from the old program director,
Robin while I was in a news break, and I'm
like hello, and she goes, this is Robin Bertolucci k
if I, and I was like, I don't even know
what this is. This is amazing. Who's this? He goes, hey,
I think you got some potential. Send me a longer
air check. So I sent her. She says, send me
(14:19):
the next hour of your show, okay, and then she goes,
stay in touch. I don't have anything right now? I did.
Here we are that's so cool? Yeah? I got great? Yeah,
break the rules. We love that. I don't know. Maybe
Neil still got that CD laying around somewhere. Okay, back
to the story here, back to listen. This is the
important stuff talked about my career to rejectory. Let's talk
about Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
The Senate Commerce Committee, led by Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell,
fired off a letter pressing MLB for transparency. Their question
hits hard. If MLB caught former that felt a I
like if MLB caught former Pirates player Toukapita Marcano betting
on hundreds of games? Why did classes alleged scheme fly
under the radar for two years?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah? Good question.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
This isn't just a one off scandal. It points to
deeper vulnerabilities threatening America's pastime. Senators are demanding detailed information
on MLB's policies, investigations, and communications with betting platforms, hoping
to uncover how widespread game manipulation might be.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, and how how high up does it go? That's
the other one, too, right, how high up does it go? Now? Remember,
because Major League Baseball is a regulated monopoly, the Senate
oversees it. This is why when it came to the
steroid scandal, the Senate had to do the investigation. Right,
we had the Senate hearings on steroids and baseball. It's
all because it's a regulated monopoly. Because of the anti
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trust laws, the Senate has to oversee this, or the Congress,
I guess I should say overseas it. So that's why
you've got the Senators that are getting involved in this.
This isn't. This isn't just like when when you've got
tech companies, tech CEOs sitting up there and fending off
questions about how they do business because the Senate is
doing some sort of a lame investigation. There's just you know, performative.
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This is actually the job of Congress to keep an
eye on Major League Baseball. And uh oh. Also, I
see mediaight is reporting that UFC fighters say that they've
been asked to fix fights as well. Guys, you keep
doing this nonsense. We're gonna lose sports gambling. Oh we
did in California. So yes, dang, don't ruin it. You
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just got it back and you can't wait to ruin it.
Stop that, stop it just be good for like a
decade or two, would you unbelievable? All right, great news.
The US government is going to pay for your Christmas.
You're gonna find out why. Next. I'm Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, Phili.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'musy's name. Right after March nine o'clock news. It's a
news business reboot that could be happening, and find out
how that's playing out. As we're looking at another major
merger could be coming down the pike. However, I wanted
to give you some good news. The good news is
this Christmas is free this year.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The holiday season is when we try to take whatever
a little bit that we've been able to save up
or for many of us, we just use our credit
cards and we try to try to end it on
a positive note. Peace on earth, goodwill to all. Here's
some material stuff, right, that's what we do. And this
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year it's basically going to be free. And it's because
the President says he's paying us two grand a pop.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
The White House says President Trump is committed to sending
most Americans a two thousand dollars tariff dividend check. Trump
proposed the policy on social media, saying dividends would be
paid to everyone, accept quote high income people.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So I'm getting paid. Yeh.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Earlier this week, the Treasury Secretary cast out on the payments.
What a dividends may come in lots of forms. Now,
the White House says the President has made clear he
wants the payments to happen, and his team of economic
advisors are looking into it.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
All right, Look, I'm okay with lots of forms. I'll
take cash, I take check, dude, direct deposit. That's fine,
you got a payment whatever, Thank you exactly. Bingo boy,
you nailed it too. However, Scott Besten says, oh no,
that two thousand dollars could come in the form of
like the money that you're saving because of our big
beautiful bill. No no, no, no, no no no no no
(18:33):
no no no no. Yeah. Well, we're not taxing overtime
and tips, so that could be some of it. And
you know you're I mean, we're not gonna give you
a check, No no, no. President Trump says, we're getting checks
two brand a piece. That's two for me, that's two
for my wife. That means it's four thousand dollars. That
we can spend on Christmas, we are going shopping for
(18:57):
a new wall. Do you know why we're opping for
a new wall? Anybody? Anybody? Because we don't have any
walls that are going to hold the massive TV that
we're buying with our four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Business report.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Alexis Christophers is here.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
For more on that, so for MABC News.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
By the way, so Alexis, who would be eligible for
this payment and how would it work?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Great questions.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We don't really know. We just don't know.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
In short, they're very short here on details. We know
that President Trump has said he wants these checks to
go to high income earners.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
No, does not want them to go to high incomerners.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
What do they define as high income earners?
Speaker 9 (19:37):
We don't know one, but high income earners.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Right, everybody bought Yes, I don't know if I said that,
but yet everybody bought high income earners.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Okay, I'm glad she corrected her.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett was on ABC News and he said, look,
this can take the many different forms. He said, maybe
it would take the form of a tax cut. It's
not to really equate a dividend check with a tax cut,
but says they're exploring all legal options to get this done,
and we do not have a timeline.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Uh, okay, you can get this done. You know why
you can get this done. You know why I know
you can get this done because you already did it.
In Trump's first term. We got two stimmys and then
Biden gave us the third stimmy, So now just give
me a stimmy.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
We also don't know what these checks be going to
just adults or to children? Are they going to all Americans?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Lot? Oh my gosh, I'm stealing my kids checks. We've
got three kids as ten thousand dollars between the All
is good, good, this is going to be amazing awsome questions.
You know what? You know what this means. This means
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I can finally afford to add Netflix back to my
streaming library.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
AY policy expert at the Tax Foundation estimates that this
would cost three hundred billion dollars. The Committee for Responsible
Federal Budget says about.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Six hundred billion.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
The Treasury Department says President Trump's tariffs have yielded about
one hundred ninety five billion dollars in revenue. So how
is this math working out?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Stick to reporting.
Let let the geeks deal with the math. Okay, don't
start telling me. You can't you can't be what no,
you just First of all, the tariffs have yielded US
ten trillion dollars at least three trillion dollars they've they've
(21:29):
given us, they've give us way more than whatever it
is that you're saying or what the Treasury Department is saying.
Those are all lies. Second of all, how could it
possibly no? What are you are you telling me now
that the administration is not worried about running up the
national debt? Bolgoney. That's why we have the tariffs in
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the first place, is to pay down debt, which is
why not paying it down and giving us voter buy
off checks is entirely smart. So just terrible. This is
terrible media, terrible, all right. This is this is why
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you get called piggies, and this is why they need
to take your license away.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
It's not working out. In short, I mean, you're right
there lies. The Tax Foundation did do the math on this.
What they did is they took one hundred and fifty
million adult recipients. If we're using one hundred thousand dollars
as what defines a high income earner, So those earning
less than one hundred thousand dollars a year would be
one hundred and fifty million adults. If he times that
by the two thousand checks, you get three hundred billion dollars,
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which is more than the government has taken in in
these tariffs.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
So again, you know that's what you say because of
your calculator, which is probably made in China.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Oh oh, again, we don't know what form this will take.
If it's going to happen at all, it would need
congressional approval. It's also not the first time the president
has probably no.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Congressional approval since when. No, we don't need congressional approval
just to spend money. That's not that's not the way
we're doing Nope, not how we do things in America.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
And it's also not the first time the president has
promised these checks. You remember when Elon musk hut it
up the DOGE, a department within the government.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Do I Ever, he saved us so much money.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Cutting federal workers. He said, Oh, all of the money
we're saving from there can be given back to Americans.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Exactly, that's right. We cut all those workers, we took
their jobs, we put them on unemployment, and then we
cut unemployment and we cut off snap benefits so that
we could pay down the debt or pay off the
American people so they'll keep voting for us either way.
We did it. And you guys remember the checks we
got from that, and.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
We see that never happen. So when short, don't run
out and spend two thousand dollars on your credit card
thinking you're getting it from the government because it's we
don't know yet, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I don't like your attitude right now. I don't like
it out there telling us about how, oh they've promised
these checks before and they didn't give them to us,
and oh, the president can't do this unilaterally and he'd
have to have approval from Congress, and oh there are
still some GOP representatives and senators who are actually a
fiscal budget hawks who don't want to see the debt
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run up so much higher, and all these other lame
excuses from the lamestream media. This is why nobody likes
you literally ripping two thousand dollars out of my hands.
And basically, now I'm gonna have to get by on
my dinky sixty five inch flat screen TV. Unbelievable. When
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can we just come together as a country and agree
that we should all get whatever we want whenever we
want it. That's what I voted for, That's what I expect.
That's why I'm here. Thank you say, that's why Ali
came here. But also Ali is part of the problem,
so I we're gonna have him deported. Hey now, yeah, sorry, Belle,
(25:03):
you got an accent. That means you're out of here.
We're sending you to South Sudan. So I mean enjoy
that here. It's nice, the nicest time in here, bathing suit.
You're told that the economy is fine. That is, until,
of course, you try to buy be for pasta or
pay rent. The President says it's partisan whining. His allies
(25:24):
are blaming immigrants. Tariffs were supposed to fix it and
then give us a check. Obviously, but when approval ratings
are tanking and grocery bills are climbing, who's going to
eat that cost? That's next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Hence fight going on behind the scenes, Ali and I
are about to throw down. You'll find out why that
is coming up here after nine o'clock, we'll do a
little bit of entertainment and we'll give Ali one chance
to stay on this show. But if he gets if
he answers this wrong, then he is toast. Bring it off,
is telling it's toast, pal toast. You've seen beef prices
(26:11):
are up significantly bigly, as they say, The President says,
costs their way down, and yet pasta we're looking at
twice the price. Italian producers are facing huge EUS tariffs.
The President keeps saying, nope, anybody that's talking about economic concerns,
(26:33):
those are partisan attacks. His approval ratings on the economy
are dropping. Poles are showing that the majority of Americans
are a citing affordability including food is their top concern,
of course, housing and healthcare. Although you heard the story
from Mark talking about how home sales are up right now,
we'll we'll talk more about that tomorrow on the show
that Trump ally Scott Bessant is of course the Treasury
(26:54):
Secretary has a different reason that beef prices are high.
And I did not have this one on my prediction list.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Year, a disease that had been we've been rid of.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
So what he's talking about is a low number of
cattle or ranchers don't have as much cattle because of
the screw worm, which was also Richie's name in high school. Hey, hey,
you're not wrong. Yeah, thank you. You and I'm a friend.
(27:29):
We are simpatico. So so the screw worm, it ran
havoc through the cattle herts in the same way the
bird flew decimated a lot of our bird flocks and
drove up the price of eggs and chicken. This screw
worm did this to the cattle, and that's part of
the reason we have beef prices are so high, and
we had to send twenty billion dollars to Argentina and
(27:50):
then now we're looking at lifting terrace on Argentinean beef.
But Scott Besen says, we never should have had this
screw worm in the first place.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
In North America made its way up through South America.
As these migrants, they have brought some of their cattle
with them.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yep, we just blamed illegal immigration for the screwworm. And
the logic is that migrants from the Golden Triangle who
up until now, we thought we're just throwing backpacks with
(28:29):
what they could handle on, grabbing their families and heading
to the United States. Now, whether they had legitimate asylum
claims or not, it's not something I'm going to litigate tonight.
But this is the first I've heard of anybody driving
a herd of cattle to the United States. And let's
also keep in mind, this isn't as though it's one
migrant doing this. It would have to be lots. And
(28:52):
I guess they're doing this massive cattle drive across Mexico,
through the mountains, through the cartelkit territory, and then somehow
loading the cattle on top of what was the name
of that train, Mark? Do you remember? No, everybody, everybody
was riding on top of the train. Remember it was like,
I just feel like you should start playing the Rawhide
(29:13):
theme if you're gonna keep talking about this. Oh, that's
not bad. Why didn't I think of that before? I'll
come on, Okay, I got I got up going to
the States.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
We are going out because it is the land of
milk and honey. We are not leaving our cottle behind
starting a new life the United States.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
So evidently they were loading these cattle on the top
of the train that they all rode to get to
the United States, and then they were I guess, riding
the cattle across the Rio Grande and through the barbed
wire fencing that Greg Abbott put in the river UH
to sneak into the Uni United States. Because I don't
think that we had a lot of asylum seekers that
were driving herds of cattle and then turning themselves over
(30:05):
to CBP or it feels like we would have heard
about that. And then once they give to the United
States and they get their asylum claims, I guess they
find some sort of a babysitter to watch their screwworm
infected cattle while they go stand in front of a
home depot looking for work. YEP, nailed it. It may
surprise you to find that Besson's claim has no evidence,
(30:26):
but don't worry. We'll come up with some sort of
an AI video on that shortly. I'm sure. Hey, when
people say, now, can we stop talking about politics tonight? Please?
Thank you? Okay, Richie, I'm going to follow your lead
on this one. You're producing the show, and I'm trusting you.
I'm gonna tell you why Ali might get fired here
very shortly, and it will be all because of something
(30:47):
he said that is coming up in just a few moments.
And when people say that they are protecting your news
and deciding what's best for you at the local news
station down the street, well things are about to change.
The media business is rewriting itself very quickly. That is next.
I'm Chris Merril KFI AM six forty live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio
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App, KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Are doing this? We do this great, Chris Merrill I
AM six forty more stimulating talk on demand anytime on
the iHeartRadio app. See tomorrow on the show, you are
going to hear about how you are hosed if you're
under forty, you are just completely out of luck, just hosed,
(00:29):
and how to run a romance scam. Important stuff on
tomorrow's program. Important stuff. In the meantime, after months of resistance,
you heard Mark talking about the House of Representatives passing
a near unanimous bill four twenty seven to one, with
only the Distinguished Gentleman from Louisiana voting against it, forcing
(00:51):
the US Department of Justice to release all the internal
internal files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Mike Johnson previously blocked
that action and delayed the vote. Supported the bill, he
called it flawed. Though the measure heads to the Senate
and then to the President's desk. This is the report
from ABC.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
For months, House Republicans fought to keep the Epstein files buried.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Today the bill is passed.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Nearly all of them voted for the Justice Department to
release the files.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Huh, why the change of heart, Today's Today's a pivot
is probably the starkest example that the party has a
leader and they will follow that leader to the end,
for better or for worse. It's been very effective for them.
(01:46):
The Democrats have no leader, They have no charismatic leader,
they have no one like that. They haven't since Obama.
They don't have anybody, but the Republicans do. The trouble
is is that when we're talking about Epstein, we're talking
about one of the most heinous crimes that you could imagine.
We're also talking about the thing that really helped propel
(02:11):
Maga via the QAnon wing into the forefront. I mean,
it started back with Pizzagate, right, and it was like,
we're gonna we gotta take down the child sex traffickers,
we gotta, we gotta, we gotta bust up the sex rings,
We've got to stop all this. And then you have
an opportunity to say, here is maybe the most famous
child lester since Jared from Subway. And you've got the
(02:36):
entire Republican Party saying, nah, not important. The entire Republican
parties say for four. And when you've got Marjorie Taylor
Green and Lauren Bobert, who are way to the right.
Thomas Matthew's very conservative. They've all been very supportive of MAGA,
who are breaking with the President on this and basically
forcing the vote. Remember, just last week, the President called
(02:57):
Lauren Bobert to the situation room. Now we think that
had to do with trying to talk her out of
this vote. We think, I don't know, maybe he saw
a video of her inside of a theater or something
and wanted to discuss that. But he called her and
basically she told him no. She told him no, and
(03:20):
so he saw the writing on the wall and he said, Okay,
go ahead and vote for it. So then all the
Republicans go. I don't want to be left behind. I
don't want to be the person that says, no, don't
expose sex traffickers, child molesters, pedophiles. I don't want to
be that person except for the one guy in Louisiana,
But everybody else said yeah, no, now we are now
we are anti pedophile. Before it was like no, you
(03:44):
can't release this, no move on moo Democrat hoas. But
now all of a sudden, it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
A complete one eighty coming after President Donald Trump encouraged
them to pass the bill.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
This is not just about survivors, It's about every American
who believes in accountability, fairness, and the promise of justice.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Survivors of Bepstein demanding the now sealed files be released,
holding up photos of what they look like when they
were abused.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
This was me at fourteen years old. I was a child,
I was in ninth grade. He stole a lot from me.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And then this afternoon, a surprisingly quick moved by the
Senate Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer requesting unanimous consent.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
The Senate has now passed the Epstein Bill as soon
as it comes over from the.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
House, and it automatically passes the Senate without any changes.
Once that happens, the President would have to sign it. Democrats, though,
pointing out that Trump can quite easily make the files
public immediately.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, why hasn't he.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I want to remind the president as well that he
has the power to release the files today.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah. Remember this is the same president who, when he
was being investigated for having classified files next to his commode,
said that the president can be classify files anytime he wants.
He can say he wants them to classify he can
just think that he wants them to classified and they
are instantly declassified. That's the mindset. And yet when it
comes to the Epstein files, it's taken this Act of
(05:26):
Congress literally to do it. And even then the swearing
in of Adelated Grahoma seem to have something to do
with delaying this vote. But does that mean that we're
going to see the files? Does that mean that the
files are going to be released? Does that mean that
all of a sudden there's going to be transparency. No,
because even though Congress is mandating the release of the
(05:48):
Epstein records, there are still significant portions that may remain hidden.
And why what's the thing that happened last week about
the Epstein files. The President wanted to reopen the investigation,
he said, into the Democrats and Bill Clinton. So remember
the DOJ earlier this year said there's nothing there. This
(06:11):
is after, of course the Pambondi and Cash Bettel. We're
all saying, oh, yeah, it's there, and she said, the
list is on my desk and I just need to
go through it and we're gonna bring it all out.
And then all of a sudden it was like, no,
we're not No, we're not. No, we're not. Then it
appeared that the writing was on the wall and there
was some back room scrambling to try to figure out,
how do we stop things from being released even though
we make it look like things are being released. And
(06:32):
that's exactly what's happening. They've ordered an investigation into those
Epstein files because they closed the previous investigation, so now
they can redact and they can hold back certain pieces
of information from the investigation. So even though it's been
voted to release those files, they're gonna go, oh, you
(06:55):
know what, Nah, we're still investigating. Oh, I can't release that.
It's under investigation. Uh, you can't release that. It's classified.
Can't release that has got grand jury protection because of
the ongoing investigation. So this notion that whoo it happened,
it's gonna go on. No no. And while there may
(07:23):
be some people that are reading into this and they're going, Okay, now, look,
MAGA is split. They're no longer supporting the president. Look,
they they voted against him, they pressured him, and now
those files are going to be released. No No, There
was a there was a very clever maneuver to try
to prevent that from happening, and why to protect the
(07:43):
guy that the president said he doesn't even know. I
don't even know the guy. I barely remember it.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Come on, this is what I'm talking about, Chris. Let's
get to the truth there. He actually said that he
hasn't had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in many years.
Oh okay, and he kicked them out of Mara Lago. Yeah,
sick person.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Kicked him out. We found out he was a sick person.
So why don't we see the finals? I know, I know, Well,
there might be some victims in there that don't want
to come forward. That's fine. Redact those names, that's fine.
What about everyone else that wants justice? They're not getting it.
(08:25):
They're not getting it. Uh, guys, do you want to
talk any more about politics? I got a little bit
more on politics. I don't want to talk about I
got some more. I'm going to take a little politics pause.
Okay with you, Richie can do a politics pause. Let's
take a break. Okay, I just want a little break
from politics. Let's just do that. Let's talk about Let's
(08:48):
talk about the things that we love. We love cheering
on that amazing play, the double play. We love cheering
on the extra inning Game seven World Series. We like
to wear the hats of our favorite team. We'd like
to follow the stats. We love watching baseball because it's
so pure. But now when Washington isn't busy covering up
Epstein files, they're looking into America's pastime might not be
(09:13):
so pure as what we thought. Why Congress thinks they
need to get involved in the Lakers and the Dodgers
business is next, Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And I'm Chris Merril. KFI AM six forty more stimulating
talk Listen anytime on demand on the iHeart Radio app.
Tomorrow on the program You're Being Hosed by Netflix, Tomorrow's show.
Actually I caught as we were putting it together, because look,
it's not done, but we have general ideas, unless, of
course there's breaking news that kind of thing. But you know,
(09:48):
we've got some ideas where we want to go tomorrow,
and I think that the tomorrow's theme is hoses. So
just tomorrow on the show, a lot of people get
in hos all over the place. The big hosing. Speaking
of hosing, sounds like our heroes are falling fast, you know.
(10:11):
But the NBA investigation, right they're looking into Lakers, former
Lakers player and friend of Lebron James, and other teams
for getting involved in some gambling, whether it's on games
or it's they're involved in some sort of an illicit
poker ring. You know that. NBC News was talking about
it tonight.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
New details as the NBA expands its investigation into the
gambling schemes still rocking. Professional basketball investigators hired by the
league now asking multiple teams for access to cell phones
and phone records, according to a new report from The Athletic.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
NBC News has.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Not independently confirmed the reporting, but The Athletic, citing six
league sources, says the law firm hired by the NBA
is expected to seek documents from at least ten Lakers employees.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, not great. Also, NBC News, NBC News, we don't
know anything beyond what we're telling you, but we're gonna
report on someone else's reporting. Well done, guys. Meanwhile, Major
League Baseball is being scrutinized and the Senate is getting involved.
This is from a place called All Sports. Three point sixty.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Baseball's integrity is under intense scrutiny. Senate lawmakers demand answers
from MLB Commissioner Rob manfred amid a shocking gambling scandal
rocking the sport.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Hey, is this an AI voice or not? And it
sounds like it definitely. It's definitely got an AI feel
to it, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It just days after Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Class and
Luis Ortiz were federally indicted for allegedly rigging games to
benefit gamblers.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'm hearing breaths, So AI is adding breaths now?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Might I think it might be the quality of the clip, Okay,
ra I think it is a person the Senate Commerce Committee.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I feel like maybe they've just got a really yeah,
or maybe they're aiming to sound like AI on purpose. Bo.
I feel like it's like a young reporter, like this
is how reporters sound. I do that my first radio job. God,
thank god there's no tape of it, because I first
got hired to do some news anchoring at a really
(12:18):
small station in my hometown. It was so bad. It
was so bad, like they had to pull me aside
and go, what are you doing? Don't do that? Just read.
I was trying to sound all official, and this is
happening in the news today, is what I would say.
It was terrible, so bad. Uh, there isn't one. I'm
(12:40):
sure you have one though, that you might want to
share with you don't, No, I know, I don't. I don't.
If I did, we would have a good laugh at
If I did, I would pull it and we'd have
a good laugh. I can't even find my original air check.
If I could. If I ever find my original air check,
which is still on tape somewhere, well, when you do,
you better email that to us so we can play
it on the air. Let me tell you. If I
(13:01):
run across it, I promise I will, I will email
it to you. I just don't know if it exists anymore.
It might be in a box like at my parents'
house or something.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
All right, continue on the Senate Commerce Committee led by
Ted Cruz and Maria can't well.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh you know who might have an old air checking
me is Neil Savedra because I sent him one back
in twenty ten. That's how I first got involved with KFI.
Uh huh. I was told don't At the time, it
was clear channel uh and they said do not contact
the stations directly. You know. It was like, you know,
if you are interested in working for a clear channel station,
send it through our our web portal. And I was
(13:36):
like no, so so I sent it directly to the station,
which which the companies said explicitly do not do this.
But I was like, what are they gonna do? Not
hire me for a job I don't have, you know,
So I did, and and Neil picked it out. He's like, hey,
it's pretty good. And he took it to the program
director and he was like, oh, this guy's not bad
and you got hired. Yeah, well they actually I got
(13:58):
a phone call from KFI. I was doing a talk
show on a five hundred AM station in Kansas and
I get a phone call from the old program director,
Robin while I was in a news break, and I'm
like hello, and she goes, this is Robin Bertolucci k
if I, and I was like, I don't even know
what this is. This is amazing. Who's this? He goes, hey,
I think you got some potential. Send me a longer
air check. So I sent her. She says, send me
(14:19):
the next hour of your show, okay, and then she goes,
stay in touch. I don't have anything right now? I did.
Here we are that's so cool? Yeah? I got great? Yeah,
break the rules. We love that. I don't know. Maybe
Neil still got that CD laying around somewhere. Okay, back
to the story here, back to listen. This is the
important stuff talked about my career to rejectory. Let's talk
about Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
The Senate Commerce Committee, led by Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell,
fired off a letter pressing MLB for transparency. Their question
hits hard. If MLB caught former that felt a I
like if MLB caught former Pirates player Toukapita Marcano betting
on hundreds of games? Why did classes alleged scheme fly
under the radar for two years?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah? Good question.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
This isn't just a one off scandal. It points to
deeper vulnerabilities threatening America's pastime. Senators are demanding detailed information
on MLB's policies, investigations, and communications with betting platforms, hoping
to uncover how widespread game manipulation might be.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, and how how high up does it go? That's
the other one, too, right, how high up does it go? Now? Remember,
because Major League Baseball is a regulated monopoly, the Senate
oversees it. This is why when it came to the
steroid scandal, the Senate had to do the investigation. Right,
we had the Senate hearings on steroids and baseball. It's
all because it's a regulated monopoly. Because of the anti
(15:38):
trust laws, the Senate has to oversee this, or the Congress,
I guess I should say overseas it. So that's why
you've got the Senators that are getting involved in this.
This isn't. This isn't just like when when you've got
tech companies, tech CEOs sitting up there and fending off
questions about how they do business because the Senate is
doing some sort of a lame investigation. There's just you know, performative.
(16:02):
This is actually the job of Congress to keep an
eye on Major League Baseball. And uh oh. Also, I
see mediaight is reporting that UFC fighters say that they've
been asked to fix fights as well. Guys, you keep
doing this nonsense. We're gonna lose sports gambling. Oh we
did in California. So yes, dang, don't ruin it. You
(16:28):
just got it back and you can't wait to ruin it.
Stop that, stop it just be good for like a
decade or two, would you unbelievable? All right, great news.
The US government is going to pay for your Christmas.
You're gonna find out why. Next. I'm Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, Phili.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'musy's name. Right after March nine o'clock news. It's a
news business reboot that could be happening, and find out
how that's playing out. As we're looking at another major
merger could be coming down the pike. However, I wanted
to give you some good news. The good news is
this Christmas is free this year.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The holiday season is when we try to take whatever
a little bit that we've been able to save up
or for many of us, we just use our credit
cards and we try to try to end it on
a positive note. Peace on earth, goodwill to all. Here's
some material stuff, right, that's what we do. And this
(17:32):
year it's basically going to be free. And it's because
the President says he's paying us two grand a pop.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
The White House says President Trump is committed to sending
most Americans a two thousand dollars tariff dividend check. Trump
proposed the policy on social media, saying dividends would be
paid to everyone, accept quote high income people.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So I'm getting paid. Yeh.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Earlier this week, the Treasury Secretary cast out on the payments.
What a dividends may come in lots of forms. Now,
the White House says the President has made clear he
wants the payments to happen, and his team of economic
advisors are looking into it.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
All right, Look, I'm okay with lots of forms. I'll
take cash, I take check, dude, direct deposit. That's fine,
you got a payment whatever, Thank you exactly. Bingo boy,
you nailed it too. However, Scott Besten says, oh no,
that two thousand dollars could come in the form of
like the money that you're saving because of our big
beautiful bill. No no, no, no, no no no no no
(18:33):
no no no no. Yeah. Well, we're not taxing overtime
and tips, so that could be some of it. And
you know you're I mean, we're not gonna give you
a check, No no, no. President Trump says, we're getting checks
two brand a piece. That's two for me, that's two
for my wife. That means it's four thousand dollars. That
we can spend on Christmas, we are going shopping for
(18:57):
a new wall. Do you know why we're opping for
a new wall? Anybody? Anybody? Because we don't have any
walls that are going to hold the massive TV that
we're buying with our four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Business report.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Alexis Christophers is here.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
For more on that, so for MABC News.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
By the way, so Alexis, who would be eligible for
this payment and how would it work?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Great questions.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We don't really know. We just don't know.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
In short, they're very short here on details. We know
that President Trump has said he wants these checks to
go to high income earners.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
No, does not want them to go to high incomerners.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
What do they define as high income earners?
Speaker 9 (19:37):
We don't know one, but high income earners.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Right, everybody bought Yes, I don't know if I said that,
but yet everybody bought high income earners.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Okay, I'm glad she corrected her.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett was on ABC News and he said, look,
this can take the many different forms. He said, maybe
it would take the form of a tax cut. It's
not to really equate a dividend check with a tax cut,
but says they're exploring all legal options to get this done,
and we do not have a timeline.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Uh, okay, you can get this done. You know why
you can get this done. You know why I know
you can get this done because you already did it.
In Trump's first term. We got two stimmys and then
Biden gave us the third stimmy, So now just give
me a stimmy.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
We also don't know what these checks be going to
just adults or to children? Are they going to all Americans?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Lot? Oh my gosh, I'm stealing my kids checks. We've
got three kids as ten thousand dollars between the All
is good, good, this is going to be amazing awsome questions.
You know what? You know what this means. This means
(20:42):
I can finally afford to add Netflix back to my
streaming library.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
AY policy expert at the Tax Foundation estimates that this
would cost three hundred billion dollars. The Committee for Responsible
Federal Budget says about.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Six hundred billion.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
The Treasury Department says President Trump's tariffs have yielded about
one hundred ninety five billion dollars in revenue. So how
is this math working out?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Stick to reporting.
Let let the geeks deal with the math. Okay, don't
start telling me. You can't you can't be what no,
you just First of all, the tariffs have yielded US
ten trillion dollars at least three trillion dollars they've they've
(21:29):
given us, they've give us way more than whatever it
is that you're saying or what the Treasury Department is saying.
Those are all lies. Second of all, how could it
possibly no? What are you are you telling me now
that the administration is not worried about running up the
national debt? Bolgoney. That's why we have the tariffs in
(21:50):
the first place, is to pay down debt, which is
why not paying it down and giving us voter buy
off checks is entirely smart. So just terrible. This is
terrible media, terrible, all right. This is this is why
(22:13):
you get called piggies, and this is why they need
to take your license away.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
It's not working out. In short, I mean, you're right
there lies. The Tax Foundation did do the math on this.
What they did is they took one hundred and fifty
million adult recipients. If we're using one hundred thousand dollars
as what defines a high income earner, So those earning
less than one hundred thousand dollars a year would be
one hundred and fifty million adults. If he times that
by the two thousand checks, you get three hundred billion dollars,
(22:39):
which is more than the government has taken in in
these tariffs.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
So again, you know that's what you say because of
your calculator, which is probably made in China.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Oh oh, again, we don't know what form this will take.
If it's going to happen at all, it would need
congressional approval. It's also not the first time the president
has probably no.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Congressional approval since when. No, we don't need congressional approval
just to spend money. That's not that's not the way
we're doing Nope, not how we do things in America.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
And it's also not the first time the president has
promised these checks. You remember when Elon musk hut it
up the DOGE, a department within the government.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Do I Ever, he saved us so much money.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Cutting federal workers. He said, Oh, all of the money
we're saving from there can be given back to Americans.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Exactly, that's right. We cut all those workers, we took
their jobs, we put them on unemployment, and then we
cut unemployment and we cut off snap benefits so that
we could pay down the debt or pay off the
American people so they'll keep voting for us either way.
We did it. And you guys remember the checks we
got from that, and.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
We see that never happen. So when short, don't run
out and spend two thousand dollars on your credit card
thinking you're getting it from the government because it's we
don't know yet, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I don't like your attitude right now. I don't like
it out there telling us about how, oh they've promised
these checks before and they didn't give them to us,
and oh, the president can't do this unilaterally and he'd
have to have approval from Congress, and oh there are
still some GOP representatives and senators who are actually a
fiscal budget hawks who don't want to see the debt
(24:18):
run up so much higher, and all these other lame
excuses from the lamestream media. This is why nobody likes
you literally ripping two thousand dollars out of my hands.
And basically, now I'm gonna have to get by on
my dinky sixty five inch flat screen TV. Unbelievable. When
(24:40):
can we just come together as a country and agree
that we should all get whatever we want whenever we
want it. That's what I voted for, That's what I expect.
That's why I'm here. Thank you say, that's why Ali
came here. But also Ali is part of the problem,
so I we're gonna have him deported. Hey now, yeah, sorry, Belle,
(25:03):
you got an accent. That means you're out of here.
We're sending you to South Sudan. So I mean enjoy
that here. It's nice, the nicest time in here, bathing suit.
You're told that the economy is fine. That is, until,
of course, you try to buy be for pasta or
pay rent. The President says it's partisan whining. His allies
(25:24):
are blaming immigrants. Tariffs were supposed to fix it and
then give us a check. Obviously, but when approval ratings
are tanking and grocery bills are climbing, who's going to
eat that cost? That's next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Hence fight going on behind the scenes, Ali and I
are about to throw down. You'll find out why that
is coming up here after nine o'clock, we'll do a
little bit of entertainment and we'll give Ali one chance
to stay on this show. But if he gets if
he answers this wrong, then he is toast. Bring it off,
is telling it's toast, pal toast. You've seen beef prices
(26:11):
are up significantly bigly, as they say, The President says,
costs their way down, and yet pasta we're looking at
twice the price. Italian producers are facing huge EUS tariffs.
The President keeps saying, nope, anybody that's talking about economic concerns,
(26:33):
those are partisan attacks. His approval ratings on the economy
are dropping. Poles are showing that the majority of Americans
are a citing affordability including food is their top concern,
of course, housing and healthcare. Although you heard the story
from Mark talking about how home sales are up right now,
we'll we'll talk more about that tomorrow on the show
that Trump ally Scott Bessant is of course the Treasury
(26:54):
Secretary has a different reason that beef prices are high.
And I did not have this one on my prediction list.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Year, a disease that had been we've been rid of.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
So what he's talking about is a low number of
cattle or ranchers don't have as much cattle because of
the screw worm, which was also Richie's name in high school. Hey, hey,
you're not wrong. Yeah, thank you. You and I'm a friend.
(27:29):
We are simpatico. So so the screw worm, it ran
havoc through the cattle herts in the same way the
bird flew decimated a lot of our bird flocks and
drove up the price of eggs and chicken. This screw
worm did this to the cattle, and that's part of
the reason we have beef prices are so high, and
we had to send twenty billion dollars to Argentina and
(27:50):
then now we're looking at lifting terrace on Argentinean beef.
But Scott Besen says, we never should have had this
screw worm in the first place.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
In North America made its way up through South America.
As these migrants, they have brought some of their cattle
with them.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yep, we just blamed illegal immigration for the screwworm. And
the logic is that migrants from the Golden Triangle who
up until now, we thought we're just throwing backpacks with
(28:29):
what they could handle on, grabbing their families and heading
to the United States. Now, whether they had legitimate asylum
claims or not, it's not something I'm going to litigate tonight.
But this is the first I've heard of anybody driving
a herd of cattle to the United States. And let's
also keep in mind, this isn't as though it's one
migrant doing this. It would have to be lots. And
(28:52):
I guess they're doing this massive cattle drive across Mexico,
through the mountains, through the cartelkit territory, and then somehow
loading the cattle on top of what was the name
of that train, Mark? Do you remember? No, everybody, everybody
was riding on top of the train. Remember it was like,
I just feel like you should start playing the Rawhide
(29:13):
theme if you're gonna keep talking about this. Oh, that's
not bad. Why didn't I think of that before? I'll
come on, Okay, I got I got up going to
the States.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
We are going out because it is the land of
milk and honey. We are not leaving our cottle behind
starting a new life the United States.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
So evidently they were loading these cattle on the top
of the train that they all rode to get to
the United States, and then they were I guess, riding
the cattle across the Rio Grande and through the barbed
wire fencing that Greg Abbott put in the river UH
to sneak into the Uni United States. Because I don't
think that we had a lot of asylum seekers that
were driving herds of cattle and then turning themselves over
(30:05):
to CBP or it feels like we would have heard
about that. And then once they give to the United
States and they get their asylum claims, I guess they
find some sort of a babysitter to watch their screwworm
infected cattle while they go stand in front of a
home depot looking for work. YEP, nailed it. It may
surprise you to find that Besson's claim has no evidence,
(30:26):
but don't worry. We'll come up with some sort of
an AI video on that shortly. I'm sure. Hey, when
people say, now, can we stop talking about politics tonight? Please?
Thank you? Okay, Richie, I'm going to follow your lead
on this one. You're producing the show, and I'm trusting you.
I'm gonna tell you why Ali might get fired here
very shortly, and it will be all because of something
(30:47):
he said that is coming up in just a few moments.
And when people say that they are protecting your news
and deciding what's best for you at the local news
station down the street, well things are about to change.
The media business is rewriting itself very quickly. That is next.
I'm Chris Merril KFI AM six forty live everywhere in
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