President Trump said late Saturday that U.S. and Chinese officials had negotiated a "total reset" in their trade relationship during talks in Switzerland. There aren’t shortages of goods in U.S. stores yet, but if the deterioration in global shipping is any indication, they are on the way. That could complicate the White House’s pleas for Americans to be patient as trade officials rush to strike dozens of deals. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week. He was released hours later and told supporters: "I didn't do anything wrong." When word came of Pope Leo XIV's Chicago roots, witty local comments flooded social media timelines, even from our elected leaders. "Everything dope, including the Pope, comes from Chicago," Mayor Brandon Johnson posted. (Cringe)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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good evening, I'm Chris Merrill. Can't f I AM six
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm into surprise you with that.
But yeah, we're gonna need a little more pet by
the time six clock rul's around. So we may have
breaking news. May this is weird. Normally you'd say you
either have breaking news or you don't. We breaking ish news.
(00:38):
The White House says today that they reached a trade
deal with Jina, according to US Trade representative Jamison Greer
telling reporters in Geneva, where they met, we're confident that
the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help
us work toward resolving that national emergency. What national emergency? Oh,
the one that we created by instituting massive tariffs. But
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the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessett, said substantial progress had been made,
he stopped short of touting a full deal. Jina has
yet to comment on the attacks. ABC News had the
report on the deal or no deal.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We're still expecting a full readout of this. According to
US officials, there should be a full briefing tomorrow, but
as of now, still so many details unknown here. To
your point, the White House is calling this a trade deal,
but they've offered no specifics. We also don't know if
either country has agreed to lower their steep tariffs. And
in announcing this, the White House shared statements from the
(01:36):
US Trade Representative as well as from the Treasury Secretary.
The US Trade rep says that they reached an agreement
very quickly. Take a listen to what else?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He said?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Ooh, what else?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Just remember why we're here in the first place, in
the United States as a massive one point two trillion
dollar trade deficit. So the President declared a national emergency
and imposed tariffs. And we're confident that the deal we
struck with our Chinese partners will help us to resolve
work towards resolving that national emergency.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay, well, what are the details in but Phil.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
In the Treasury Secretary statement, he stopped short of touting
a full deal, but saying that substantial progress has been made.
This comes as we still wait for an official response
from Beijing. We are expecting a press conference from the
Chinese in Switzerland any moment now. But as of now,
those one hundred and forty five percent tariffs on Chinese
goods still remain, but sources tell us that the administration
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believes this is a step towards lowering those tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
All right, So that's good, right, the tariffs come down.
I mean, we really haven't even felt them yet, unless,
of course, you work at the port, in which case
you don't work at the port.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Two hundred and thirty five workers, mostly part timers, out
of work on the docks of La and Long Beach
ports alone today. Congressional representatives then that Barragan and Robert Garcia,
whose districts include both ports, warned that President Trump's one
and forty five percent tariff on China goods, which make
up a good amount of containers coming into the ports,
are not already resulting in job losses, but soon bear shelves.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We were at the beginning of a serious supply chain
crisis that Donald Trump right now has the ability to end.
We'd like to see China opened up so we can
compete in China.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
President Trump, talking to reporters ahead of talks with China
this weekend, said that is his long game with China.
But here's his response when he was asked about workers'
fears now at the ports.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh, when you say it's slow down, that's a good thing,
not a bad thing. At this point, it looks like
it Wait a minute, why is that a good thing?
What is the logic behind that? Is? This? Is this
what happened with his casino, mister Trump? Not very many
people are coming into your casino, and nobody's really betting anything.
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He's like, that's a good thing. It's really great, mister Trump.
Nobody's buying your wine. That's super. That's that's very excellent,
mister Trump. Nobody's really wanting to attend your university. That's
really good news. Oh when you say it's slowed down,
that's a good thing, not a bad thing. Well, I
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just I don't mean to argue with your Wharton education here,
but I feel like maybe you got that test question wrong.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
At this point, it looks like it's going to get
worse before it gets better.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
The Constanza says, disappointment is beginning to spread with union.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Workers, and now it's nothing.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
For workers serving those port workers like Sonia Madrano's food
truck business has already dried up, her chairs empty.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Like thirty percent or forty percent.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Now, the Port of La says about one hundred and
thirty six thousand local jobs are directly tied to the
porch one point four million jobs in LA.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And Long Beach alone.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
For Long Beach, the port represents one out of five
jobs in the city, and the marri says they're already
beginning to feel this.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Is going to impact folks like grocery stores and small
businesses here in our community of Law Beach.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now again, if we actually have a trade deal, then
in another couple of weeks we should start seeing all
those shipments pick up again. In fact, I am going
to fall asleep tonight with my teamu app open so
that if we find out that we've lifted all the tariffs,
I can start helping the US economy right away by
buying cheap goods made by underage laborers in Shanghai. I'm
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willing to do that for America. I don't know if
everybody is, but I'm willing to do that for America.
We just don't know what the deal is going to
be if you have paid attention to some of the
things that the president said here in the last forty
eight hours. He said he was not going to bend
on the one hundred and forty five percent teriffs. Then he said, well,
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maybe eighty percent is right, which leads me to believe
that he's got a deal working with China where he's
still going to hit him with eighty percent. He's not
very good at keeping secrets, so I don't know if
that eighty percent was pulled out of thin air, or
if that that maybe we'll lower him to eighty percent
was based on a calculation, or if that was based
on negotiations that they were gonna use going in and
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maybe his whole thing was eighty percent, so that they
would come in and say we'll be happy with forty percent.
That would be part of the deal type stuff. Hard
to say until we get more details on this. In
the meantime, if you were trying to have a nice
little Mother's Day, you may have found it got expensive.
And just how expensive is it depends on what kind
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of crap you're buying mom that and why your Christmas
is definitely going to cost more. Maybe next Chris merril
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the talk back. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
click at that talkback. We did ask the question, do
you feel safer flying now that a real idea is
in effect? So now that you have to have that
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gold star on your driver's license to get onto a
plane or user passport like Killy does. All right, do
you feel safer? I was curious about your feedback on that.
It was one of the bigger stories this last week.
All Right, we were talking about the trade deal with Jaina.
We don't know what the trade deal is. We have
the Trade rep Jamison Greer says, we got a deal.
We've got the Treasury Secretary of Scott Bessett, who's been
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kind of the architect of the tariffs. He says, it's
just we made substantial progress and China's not saying what
they got. Nobody else saying anything. Your thoughts on that
from the talkback.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
If you like that plastic Chinese taxi cheap crap I do.
Why don't you Marxists a move to China?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You think they'd have us?
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Stop mocking Trump. Oh he got all the hostages released
except for one.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
All right, so that's all of them except for one.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
While you're sitting there running your mouth about crap that
doesn't even matter.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wait a minute, you mean crap that doesn't even matter.
Talk about the economy, stupid. We don't want as James carb.
Remember it's the economy stupid.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
We don't want Chinese garbage in America anymore. Don't you
understand that?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Who's yeah? I guess I don't. And here's why, because
the tariffs on China hurt. If we didn't want Chinese crap,
then you could have a tariff of one thousand percent.
It wouldn't matter. But the fact is we do want
that crap. We want our iPhones, and we want our clothing,
and we want our cheap plastic crap. And if it's
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gonna double the price, then that hurts the economy. If
we didn't want it, it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Stop mocking Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Sorry you Trump. Oh she's still going, oh my gosh,
all right, hang on, had let her have her say.
She told me stop mocking Trump. He's a great man
and I'm a Marxist.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You let Trump be the president and run the country.
Seventy seven million people voted for him.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Is that more or fewer votes than Biden got in
twenty six twenty twenty?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Is that? Mores? I think it was fewer fewer votes
than Biden. You think this lady was all like, hey,
Biden's my president. I will not criticize him. I'm gonna
let him run the country. He's a president. And of
course she was. She did.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Okay, just move on.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
You're an entertainer, entertain us.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm entertained. I think you're doing great.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Ris.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's like an organ grinder, right, like dance, monkey dance. No, yeah,
that's all. It is, like.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
The one trick pony that you are. You're so ignorant,
and you're just showing your ignorance by mocking the president
of the United States. If you don't like the president
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Okay, all right, what do you think? Oh, Biden got
eighty one million votes in twenty twenty, Thank you. What
do you think she says, if you don't.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
If you don't like the president of the United States,
what do you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Think she says. Do you think she says, move out?
Do you think she says deal with it? Do you
think she says, take action and work hard to try
to get your favorite candidate elected the next time around?
Anybody have any guests?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
I think she's gonna say, I love you and appreciate
your difference thoughts.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Is that what it is? I think so I'm probably
going with that.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Uh nah, I think she's just going to take another
swig of the jug.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
If you don't like the president of the United States,
get the hell out, all right, Get.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The hell out, all right? All right. Well, there's a
woman who did not get her barbies growing up, fair
to say, and she will not be the last one
who doesn't get their barbies growing up, because Mattel says,
Trump was right, you will not be able to afford
all those barbies for Christmas. Mattel, I don't know. I'm
not so sure.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
They also said they They're the only country I've heard
they said, Well.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
We're going to go counter, We're going to try going
What do you say, do you just think Mattel was
a country, so sure. They also said they they're the
only country I've heard. They said, well, we're going to
go counter. We're going to try going someplace else. That's okay, yep,
he didtel. Yeah. A lot of people don't know this,
but Mattel is actually a very small country located between
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Malaysia and Thailand. There's a little peninsula in there, and
a lot of people don't realize that that it's Mattel
and it's full of Barbie playhouses. No, I listen, I
have to be fair. He just misspoke. He meant to say.
He meant to say it's the only company, and he
said country. That's it.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Let him go, and we'll put one hundred percent tariff
on his toys and he won't sell one toy in
the United States and that's their biggest market.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I heard that. I mean, I watched this guy talking
about how I'm going to go counter. I said, well,
I wouldn't want to have him as an executive too long,
all right, So basically he said you're fired, But Barbie
says no, no, listen, your kids will not even be
able to have two Barbies under the tree this year.
Speaker 12 (12:38):
The countdown is on for a likely price hike on
one of the country's most iconic dolls, Barbie.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I prefer to call it the Margo Robbie Dolly.
Speaker 12 (12:48):
The dolls are not just toys. They're a cultural phenomenon.
But if you want one. The CEO of Mattel, which
manufactures Barbie, an American girl, warned on CNBC that President
Trump's tariffs will drive up prices on a whole range
of toys, including Barbie.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
As it relates to tariffs, we're taking mitigating actions designed
to fully offset potential incremental cost and continue to manage
our business.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's yeah. I mean, what a Trump think was gonna happen. See,
he seems to think that the countries are somehow gonna
pay all these tariffs. He's always said that the countries
will pay the tariffs. But China is not paying tariffs
using Chinese tax dollars anymore than we're gonna start paying
Chinese tariffs using American tax dollars. It's pretty basic. No,
(13:37):
if we come to terms and we get a good
deal and all that stuff, I wouldn't be surprised we
saw the market jump tomorrow. The idea that maybe some
of this uncertainty has been smoothed out. Wouldn't be surprised
at all if they jump. But does that mean prices
are gonna come back down? Ooh, good question. Will prices
come back down? No, because once they go up, there's
(13:59):
no re and to bring them back down. See eggs. Yeah,
wholesale prices are dropping on eggs. Retail prices not really
dropping all that much. I mean maybe a little bit,
but not not all that much. So once you give
a company an excuse to raise the price, they really
don't like to lower them. They'll run a sale and
(14:21):
they'll say, oh, we've got a great sale going on
this weekend, but they're not likely to bring that base
price back down again. Speaking of politics, because I know
how much you guys like it, there was a great
deal of theater going on at the in one of
the detention facilities which end up seeing one mayor arrested.
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We'll tell you all about that and how this political
theater is likely to see a third act next. Chris
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Chris Merril kfi AM six forty more stimulating talk on
the talkback. Always love to hear your talkbacks. A question
we asked, how do you feel safe for flying now
that real ID is in effect? I'm curious that's what
your thoughts are on that. Let me see if I
can find the right one. Yeah, where was the right one?
(15:18):
Was it this one here? Yeah? Chris, Yes.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
In regard to your question about whether an individual would
be more comfortable with the real ID or a regular
ID or a passport on a plane flying, yeah, I
think the bigger question, really, if we look a little deeper,
is the fact that there's not enough people in the
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form of air traffic controllers and things of such to
keep the planes in the.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, I get you, man, the air traffic controller thing
is a problem. And I don't know if you caught this,
but they had a problem in Newark where they were
just losing communication with planes for like a minute and
a half, which you might think, oh, it's a minute
a half, how big a deal is at It's sort
of like if you're driving and I don't know if
you've ever had a bad situation when you've been driving
and all of a sudden, you know, I've driven through
(16:11):
snowstorms before where all of a sudden you can't see
ten feet in front of you, and it might only
be for a minute and a half, but it's a
pretty important minute and a half when you're driving and
suddenly you can't see the road or they ever had
that where you're driving home and a few weeks out
of the year. I used to do this when I
was leaving work. I had to drive west, and a
few weeks out of the year, the sun would align
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just perfectly as I got out of work with the
roadway and it was just blinding. Or maybe you want
to work in the morning and you get that eastern sun.
Whatever it is like, it's just blinding and it might
not last very long. It's pretty miserable amount of time.
So yeah, get I get your point about air traffic controllers,
getting them everything else to work right all that. Meanwhile,
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we had one to kill as friends. Call on the
talk back again. If you're on the iHeartRadio app, just
click on that talk back button. That's that's where all
these come from.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
You let Trump be the president and run the country.
Seventy seven million people voted for him. Just move on.
You're an entertainer. Entertain us like the one trick, pony
that you are. You're so ignorant, and you're just showing
your ignorance by mocking the president of the United States.
(17:25):
If you don't like the President of the United States,
get the hell out there, you go.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So there you are. That's the word. Hey, Kyley, you're
you're a religious type, isn't there Isn't there one of
those commandment thingies about false idols? Yeah, she's laughing, Yeah
there is. Okay, very good, Yeah, yeah, pony, all right,
(18:00):
And then I gotta tell you about this political theater
at the border, and we bring Newark back into the conversation. Chris,
I look forward. Wait is this the same lady? This
is Oh, this is a different one.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Okay, Chris, I look forward every Sunday listening to you.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You can do no wrong.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Well, don't listen to those people.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
All right, listen, I love you too, But you sound
as crazy as she does. So let's face it, I
do wrong. So that's my wife. So we had all
kinds of shenanigans going on at the Ice Detention Center
because politicians were politicking. They love a good photo op,
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and so they go, let's go to a detention center.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So the mayor of Newark decided, I'm going to go
to a detention center too, all right? Is that is
that necessary? Probably not? But what do they say, Never
let a good crisis go to waste. You got love politicians,
all right? So the mayor of Newark grabs a bunch
of politicians and they go, let's get some cameras.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
A congressional oversight visit at Newark's Delaney Hall Ice detention facility,
turning into chaos and confusion. Three House representatives pushed and
shoved Newark's mayor, Ross Baraka arrested.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
They just snatched him and took him in, and we
tried to get them to answer, why are you locking
him up?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And they started kind of uffing us up, and.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
They showed up with over twenty armed life officers with
the entire brass from the Newark office that they walked
past us and towards the game where Mayor Baraka was.
It was clearly intended to intimidate not just the mayor,
but the three of us and everyone watching.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
All right. So their perspective is all we were doing
is just showing up and saying hi, just checking out
that everything was cool, and the Gaspacho police came after us,
and they treated us very unfit, very unfairly. No one's
ever been treated so unfairly ever.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
Acting US Attorney Alina Habba accusing Mayor Baraka of trespassing
and ignoring multiple warnings to leave. New York's mayor addressing
those accusations on CNN after his release, I was.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
There as the mayor of the city, exercising my right
and duty as an elected official, you know, supporting our
Congress people.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All I was doing was just supporting the Congress people.
I was just hanging out there. I was a very
innocent person, probably the most innocent person anyone's ever known.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Preparing for a press conference that was supposed to happen there.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What a press conference where you've got politicians showing up
and then pushing the pushing the buttons of the ice
detention on. That's crazy. I can't believe he would have
a press conference there. This wild Who would have ever guessed?
What a coincidence.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I did not enter that place unlawfully. I did not
break any laws, and so all of that is incorrect.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
The incident comes as the Trumpetmanmistration is now actively looking
at suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to
legally challenge their detentions.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I've never really liked the Constitution, you know, it seems
like a real hassle.
Speaker 13 (21:12):
The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the
supreme law.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Of the land. As a Stephen Miller from the Trump
administration who's giving us a lesson on constitutional law, that
the privilege of the written of habeas corpus can be
suspended in a time of invasion. So it'd say that's
an option we're actively looking at. And we declared an invasion.
There's no real threshold for what an invasion is. We
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just decided people coming across the border asking for asylum
feels invadi So we just suspended the constitution totally. Okay,
Abe Lincoln did it.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
A suspension would allow the Trump administration to dramatically escalate
mass deportations. There is good news tonight for at least
one detainee, Tufts University student Roumesa o Sturk, who was
released from six weeks in ice custody after or federal
judge ordered she be freed on bail as the case
against her proceeds. O's Turk, a Turkish doctoral student had
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her visa revoked by the Trump administration in March over
an op ede she co wrote interstudent newspaper that was
critical of Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's right. We will not stand for people speaking their
minds freely in this country. It will not happen.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
And as for the possibility the White House could suspend
habeas corpus, the Constitution only allows that under extraordinary circumstances
in cases of rebellion or invasion, when public safety may
require it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, that's kind of open to interpretation, isn't it.
Speaker 11 (22:36):
Now. That's happened four times in history, including during the
Civil War and during World War Two.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, but in both of those cases we actually had
sides and gun play things like that. Although world War
Two we did it because we were like, what about
the Japanese? What weird? Just round all of them up. So, again,
not a great example of why you should use habeas corpus,
suspend habeas corpus. That just doesn't seem like it plays
out very well.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
The administration, though, continuing to argue the US is facing
a national security threat by undocumented migrants invading the country.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Mark, all right, so they are you know, political theater
at the border. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Send money now. Meanwhile, do we get to the bottom
of the issues. No, But by god, it's great for
an election campaign, isn't it super dandy? The I don't
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know if it's going to be the longest lasting story
this last week or not. We really had a few
big stories. I think the real ID deal is a
is a big story since it took twenty years when
we finally did it. Trade the trade deals. Breaking news
today about maybe we've got a deal with China. White
House says we got a deal, but then the White
House also said no, we don't so confused on that.
But massive story out of Chicago Rome as America gets
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their first pontiff. That is next. Chris Merrill ca if
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dot com. So big story this week, we got ourselves.
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Oh it's this okay, just sent me to hey on,
all right, let me get to this before I get
to the other big story. All right, another talkback? All right,
what you got here?
Speaker 10 (24:37):
This is a the litle steal again, calling about the
real id?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Is that your uh? Is that your theo? Yeah? I
think it is? Is that I have relatives all over
the world. All right, very good? All right, call about
the real idea. What you got here?
Speaker 10 (24:52):
I get it. Mexico without papers is like driving while black. Also,
the utility company up north, since it's already screwing people,
can we change name to st thank you?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All right? Well it's down south, it's San Diego. But
that's fine. God bless you. We're gonna give you. We're
gonna give you a be on that one. It is
a be. I'm gonna give you a be on that.
It was worth the effort. What is a beat? All right?
So big news this week we got a new pope
sixty nine years old and he's from Chicago, dub Pope.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
With Leo's ascent to the papacy, the city of Chicago
is celebrating one.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Of its own.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
Chicago famously is sports crazed towns. The new pope is
getting the full Windy City treatment online from ktla.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
A.
Speaker 14 (25:40):
One of the most popular video circulating is the Pope
coming out to the Chicago Bulls Entrance music. Meantime, a
host of Chicago themed t shirts about Pope Leo have
flooded Etsy shops in the last twenty four hours. But
about the big question asked by every Chicago native, Cubs
or White Sox, that's.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The most important thing when it comes to a new pope,
forget salvation.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
The Pope's brother, John Prevost To confirmed to local media
Leo the fourteenth cheers for the south Siders. He is
a white van all right, So not.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
A good selection, that is what we're hearing. Yeah, okay,
So this pope is not without controversy if you didn't
hear it with the complete walla wall coverage of what
amounts to the Catholic royal family, royal just not even
a family. So there was a little bit of controversy
(26:35):
because in two thousand Prevost allowed a Chicago archdiocesan priest
who sexually abused miners to live in a rectory around
the corner from a Catholic school, in a residence that
another cardinal later said was not appropriate for priests accused
of abuse. Oh, it's not that's you. They abuse someone
(26:59):
who's under age, and you you can't put him next
to a school. That's that's a bad idea. Huh. It
was to me. Who would have ever thought that. Also,
other accusations of abuse in the diocese in Peru where
he was overseeing things, people saying that he didn't do
(27:21):
enough to investigate. The church said, oh, he did a
big investigation, and they said no, there was no investigation.
So a little controversy there. So he's not without any
kind of controversy. A number of people saying, why would
you even pick a pope who who has any controversy
attached to them at all? I don't know. Maybe the
thing is that things that got so messed up for
so long within the church as they're trying to dig
(27:42):
out from under that, maybe it's just hard to find
somebody that doesn't have a little bit of stink on him.
Is that possible? Oh, what's that? Oh yeah, it's our
American pontiff. Oh, I like that. All right, that works
(28:04):
instead of that bulls walk up music. We ought to
play this.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, all right, I'm down American pontiff, stay away from me.
I'm mining pedos just down the street. I don't want
to see your face no more. I got to spend
(28:30):
my time hiding kids from you on American potdif. Yeah,
I should have been a singer. I mean, that's pretty good.
You gotta admit that's pretty good. I hope you were
recording that from my demo. Guys, you never want to
hear that again. Just pull that. Uh, I'm gonna need
that from my demo. Meanwhile, he did have his first Guys,
are not supportive. Uh. He did have his first mass.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
This morning, Leo the fourteenth taking part in his first
mass as Pope, the new US born Pope, beginning as
homily with a few words in English.
Speaker 14 (29:06):
You have called me to carry that cross and to
be blessed with that mission.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
All right, that did sound like English.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
On the second day of the conclave, White Smoke announcing
the cardinals had elected Cardinal Robert Prevost the first American Pope.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Hey, did you guys, did you guys say that they
had to install that chimney. Did you know that they
took that down every time they had a conclave? I
don't know. Wouldn't you just think that would be like
they have a they's just a chimney, Like why do
you have to put it up and take it down
all the time? But they were very CalOSHA like safe.
I noticed, Oh they were like cal Osha Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
(29:49):
so lots of uh, lots of harnesses and extra tide
owns and all that other stuff. Yeah. That surprised me
because I thought, I mean, it's the Vatican. They've been
what is either two hundred and eighty third or something,
Pope sixty three, I don't know, but they've had a
few So wouldn't you think that they would just have
like the ballot burning stove that would have a chimney
(30:14):
that they would have built with the Vatican or at
some point during some remodeling just thrown one in. But
they never did. They have to take that up and
put it down every single time. That surprised me. They
were worried about doves getting in there or something. I
don't know. Just seems strange to be here for this
moment is so unbelievably profound.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
It's something I'm going to be talking about for the
rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
That's great. Hey, when they burn those ballots, somebody has
to add coloring to that, to that ash there to
make the smoke black. If there's no new pope elected
or white to make it. It's not like God says, no,
the ballots are no good black smoke. You know, they
add some sort of a chemical to it to make
that happen. That's got to be This is one of
(30:57):
those deals that would terrify me that I'm in charge
of burning the ballots and making sure I add the
right chemical to it. Whence you think you don't want
to double check that, because undoubtedly somebody at some point
throughout history is inadvertently thrown the wrong the wrong chemical
powder in there with it. Don't you think at some
(31:19):
point they had to have done that. You didn't see
the meme though, of a Snoop Dogg with the little
baggy O weei and he no robe No. That is great.
I love it. Oh, that's funny. All right? Back to
the report I Knewpole Labach.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Born in Chicago. Pope Leo has been called the least
American of the American cardinals, spending most of his career
as a missionary outside the US in Peru.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, and he's like a dual citizen too.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It was recently the head of the Vatican's Office of Bishops.
The first clue revealing his priorities is Pope is the
name he chose Pope Leo the fourteenth in the late
eighteen hundred's Pope Leo the thirteenth was a reformer who
championed workers' rights and social justice.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
He loved his people, his people. He considered man, not
a machine. A man's work was a reflection of his dignity.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Pablo also signaled a change yesterday with the attire he chose,
wearing more traditional red and gold garments as opposed to
the more simple style Francis embraced.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah. That also could have had something to do with
the bulls as well. Right, that's fair. Let's just not
go assuming things right now. All right, we do it
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But yeah, we're gonna need a little more pet by
the time six clock rul's around. So we may have
breaking news. May this is weird. Normally you'd say you
either have breaking news or you don't. We breaking ish news.
(00:38):
The White House says today that they reached a trade
deal with Jina, according to US Trade representative Jamison Greer
telling reporters in Geneva, where they met, we're confident that
the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help
us work toward resolving that national emergency. What national emergency? Oh,
the one that we created by instituting massive tariffs. But
(01:02):
the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessett, said substantial progress had been made,
he stopped short of touting a full deal. Jina has
yet to comment on the attacks. ABC News had the
report on the deal or no deal.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We're still expecting a full readout of this. According to
US officials, there should be a full briefing tomorrow, but
as of now, still so many details unknown here. To
your point, the White House is calling this a trade deal,
but they've offered no specifics. We also don't know if
either country has agreed to lower their steep tariffs. And
in announcing this, the White House shared statements from the
(01:36):
US Trade Representative as well as from the Treasury Secretary.
The US Trade rep says that they reached an agreement
very quickly. Take a listen to what else?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
He said?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Ooh, what else?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Just remember why we're here in the first place, in
the United States as a massive one point two trillion
dollar trade deficit. So the President declared a national emergency
and imposed tariffs. And we're confident that the deal we
struck with our Chinese partners will help us to resolve
work towards resolving that national emergency.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay, well, what are the details in but Phil.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
In the Treasury Secretary statement, he stopped short of touting
a full deal, but saying that substantial progress has been made.
This comes as we still wait for an official response
from Beijing. We are expecting a press conference from the
Chinese in Switzerland any moment now. But as of now,
those one hundred and forty five percent tariffs on Chinese
goods still remain, but sources tell us that the administration
(02:32):
believes this is a step towards lowering those tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
All right, So that's good, right, the tariffs come down.
I mean, we really haven't even felt them yet, unless,
of course, you work at the port, in which case
you don't work at the port.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Two hundred and thirty five workers, mostly part timers, out
of work on the docks of La and Long Beach
ports alone today. Congressional representatives then that Barragan and Robert Garcia,
whose districts include both ports, warned that President Trump's one
and forty five percent tariff on China goods, which make
up a good amount of containers coming into the ports,
are not already resulting in job losses, but soon bear shelves.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We were at the beginning of a serious supply chain
crisis that Donald Trump right now has the ability to end.
We'd like to see China opened up so we can
compete in China.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
President Trump, talking to reporters ahead of talks with China
this weekend, said that is his long game with China.
But here's his response when he was asked about workers'
fears now at the ports.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh, when you say it's slow down, that's a good thing,
not a bad thing. At this point, it looks like
it Wait a minute, why is that a good thing?
What is the logic behind that? Is? This? Is this
what happened with his casino, mister Trump? Not very many
people are coming into your casino, and nobody's really betting anything.
(03:55):
He's like, that's a good thing. It's really great, mister Trump.
Nobody's buying your wine. That's super. That's that's very excellent,
mister Trump. Nobody's really wanting to attend your university. That's
really good news. Oh when you say it's slowed down,
that's a good thing, not a bad thing. Well, I
(04:15):
just I don't mean to argue with your Wharton education here,
but I feel like maybe you got that test question wrong.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
At this point, it looks like it's going to get
worse before it gets better.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
The Constanza says, disappointment is beginning to spread with union.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Workers, and now it's nothing.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
For workers serving those port workers like Sonia Madrano's food
truck business has already dried up, her chairs empty.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Like thirty percent or forty percent.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Now, the Port of La says about one hundred and
thirty six thousand local jobs are directly tied to the
porch one point four million jobs in LA.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And Long Beach alone.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
For Long Beach, the port represents one out of five
jobs in the city, and the marri says they're already
beginning to feel this.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Is going to impact folks like grocery stores and small
businesses here in our community of Law Beach.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now again, if we actually have a trade deal, then
in another couple of weeks we should start seeing all
those shipments pick up again. In fact, I am going
to fall asleep tonight with my teamu app open so
that if we find out that we've lifted all the tariffs,
I can start helping the US economy right away by
buying cheap goods made by underage laborers in Shanghai. I'm
(05:28):
willing to do that for America. I don't know if
everybody is, but I'm willing to do that for America.
We just don't know what the deal is going to
be if you have paid attention to some of the
things that the president said here in the last forty
eight hours. He said he was not going to bend
on the one hundred and forty five percent teriffs. Then he said, well,
(05:53):
maybe eighty percent is right, which leads me to believe
that he's got a deal working with China where he's
still going to hit him with eighty percent. He's not
very good at keeping secrets, so I don't know if
that eighty percent was pulled out of thin air, or
if that that maybe we'll lower him to eighty percent
was based on a calculation, or if that was based
on negotiations that they were gonna use going in and
(06:17):
maybe his whole thing was eighty percent, so that they
would come in and say we'll be happy with forty percent.
That would be part of the deal type stuff. Hard
to say until we get more details on this. In
the meantime, if you were trying to have a nice
little Mother's Day, you may have found it got expensive.
And just how expensive is it depends on what kind
(06:40):
of crap you're buying mom that and why your Christmas
is definitely going to cost more. Maybe next Chris merril
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the talk back. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
click at that talkback. We did ask the question, do
you feel safer flying now that a real idea is
in effect? So now that you have to have that
(07:20):
gold star on your driver's license to get onto a
plane or user passport like Killy does. All right, do
you feel safer? I was curious about your feedback on that.
It was one of the bigger stories this last week.
All Right, we were talking about the trade deal with Jaina.
We don't know what the trade deal is. We have
the Trade rep Jamison Greer says, we got a deal.
We've got the Treasury Secretary of Scott Bessett, who's been
(07:43):
kind of the architect of the tariffs. He says, it's
just we made substantial progress and China's not saying what
they got. Nobody else saying anything. Your thoughts on that
from the talkback.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
If you like that plastic Chinese taxi cheap crap I do.
Why don't you Marxists a move to China?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You think they'd have us?
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Stop mocking Trump. Oh he got all the hostages released
except for one.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
All right, so that's all of them except for one.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
While you're sitting there running your mouth about crap that
doesn't even matter.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wait a minute, you mean crap that doesn't even matter.
Talk about the economy, stupid. We don't want as James carb.
Remember it's the economy stupid.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
We don't want Chinese garbage in America anymore. Don't you
understand that?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Who's yeah? I guess I don't. And here's why, because
the tariffs on China hurt. If we didn't want Chinese crap,
then you could have a tariff of one thousand percent.
It wouldn't matter. But the fact is we do want
that crap. We want our iPhones, and we want our clothing,
and we want our cheap plastic crap. And if it's
(09:03):
gonna double the price, then that hurts the economy. If
we didn't want it, it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Stop mocking Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Sorry you Trump. Oh she's still going, oh my gosh,
all right, hang on, had let her have her say.
She told me stop mocking Trump. He's a great man
and I'm a Marxist.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You let Trump be the president and run the country.
Seventy seven million people voted for him.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Is that more or fewer votes than Biden got in
twenty six twenty twenty?
Speaker 10 (09:38):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Is that? Mores? I think it was fewer fewer votes
than Biden. You think this lady was all like, hey,
Biden's my president. I will not criticize him. I'm gonna
let him run the country. He's a president. And of
course she was. She did.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Okay, just move on.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
You're an entertainer, entertain us.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'm entertained. I think you're doing great.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Ris.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's like an organ grinder, right, like dance, monkey dance. No, yeah,
that's all. It is, like.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
The one trick pony that you are. You're so ignorant,
and you're just showing your ignorance by mocking the president
of the United States. If you don't like the president
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Okay, all right, what do you think? Oh, Biden got
eighty one million votes in twenty twenty, Thank you. What
do you think she says, if you don't.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
If you don't like the president of the United States,
what do you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Think she says. Do you think she says, move out?
Do you think she says deal with it? Do you
think she says, take action and work hard to try
to get your favorite candidate elected the next time around?
Anybody have any guests?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
I think she's gonna say, I love you and appreciate
your difference thoughts.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Is that what it is? I think so I'm probably
going with that.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Uh nah, I think she's just going to take another
swig of the jug.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
If you don't like the president of the United States,
get the hell out, all right, Get.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The hell out, all right? All right. Well, there's a
woman who did not get her barbies growing up, fair
to say, and she will not be the last one
who doesn't get their barbies growing up, because Mattel says,
Trump was right, you will not be able to afford
all those barbies for Christmas. Mattel, I don't know. I'm
not so sure.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
They also said they They're the only country I've heard
they said, Well.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
We're going to go counter, We're going to try going
What do you say, do you just think Mattel was
a country, so sure. They also said they they're the
only country I've heard. They said, well, we're going to
go counter. We're going to try going someplace else. That's okay, yep,
he didtel. Yeah. A lot of people don't know this,
but Mattel is actually a very small country located between
(11:55):
Malaysia and Thailand. There's a little peninsula in there, and
a lot of people don't realize that that it's Mattel
and it's full of Barbie playhouses. No, I listen, I
have to be fair. He just misspoke. He meant to say.
He meant to say it's the only company, and he
said country. That's it.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Let him go, and we'll put one hundred percent tariff
on his toys and he won't sell one toy in
the United States and that's their biggest market.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I heard that. I mean, I watched this guy talking
about how I'm going to go counter. I said, well,
I wouldn't want to have him as an executive too long,
all right, So basically he said you're fired, But Barbie
says no, no, listen, your kids will not even be
able to have two Barbies under the tree this year.
Speaker 12 (12:38):
The countdown is on for a likely price hike on
one of the country's most iconic dolls, Barbie.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I prefer to call it the Margo Robbie Dolly.
Speaker 12 (12:48):
The dolls are not just toys. They're a cultural phenomenon.
But if you want one. The CEO of Mattel, which
manufactures Barbie, an American girl, warned on CNBC that President
Trump's tariffs will drive up prices on a whole range
of toys, including Barbie.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
As it relates to tariffs, we're taking mitigating actions designed
to fully offset potential incremental cost and continue to manage
our business.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's yeah. I mean, what a Trump think was gonna happen. See,
he seems to think that the countries are somehow gonna
pay all these tariffs. He's always said that the countries
will pay the tariffs. But China is not paying tariffs
using Chinese tax dollars anymore than we're gonna start paying
Chinese tariffs using American tax dollars. It's pretty basic. No,
(13:37):
if we come to terms and we get a good
deal and all that stuff, I wouldn't be surprised we
saw the market jump tomorrow. The idea that maybe some
of this uncertainty has been smoothed out. Wouldn't be surprised
at all if they jump. But does that mean prices
are gonna come back down? Ooh, good question. Will prices
come back down? No, because once they go up, there's
(13:59):
no re and to bring them back down. See eggs. Yeah,
wholesale prices are dropping on eggs. Retail prices not really
dropping all that much. I mean maybe a little bit,
but not not all that much. So once you give
a company an excuse to raise the price, they really
don't like to lower them. They'll run a sale and
(14:21):
they'll say, oh, we've got a great sale going on
this weekend, but they're not likely to bring that base
price back down again. Speaking of politics, because I know
how much you guys like it, there was a great
deal of theater going on at the in one of
the detention facilities which end up seeing one mayor arrested.
(14:42):
We'll tell you all about that and how this political
theater is likely to see a third act next. Chris
Merril KFI AM six forty WeLive everywhere on the iheartradiob.
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Chris Merril kfi AM six forty more stimulating talk on
the talkback. Always love to hear your talkbacks. A question
we asked, how do you feel safe for flying now
that real ID is in effect? I'm curious that's what
your thoughts are on that. Let me see if I
can find the right one. Yeah, where was the right one?
(15:18):
Was it this one here? Yeah? Chris, Yes.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
In regard to your question about whether an individual would
be more comfortable with the real ID or a regular
ID or a passport on a plane flying, yeah, I
think the bigger question, really, if we look a little deeper,
is the fact that there's not enough people in the
(15:43):
form of air traffic controllers and things of such to
keep the planes in the.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, I get you, man, the air traffic controller thing
is a problem. And I don't know if you caught this,
but they had a problem in Newark where they were
just losing communication with planes for like a minute and
a half, which you might think, oh, it's a minute
a half, how big a deal is at It's sort
of like if you're driving and I don't know if
you've ever had a bad situation when you've been driving
and all of a sudden, you know, I've driven through
(16:11):
snowstorms before where all of a sudden you can't see
ten feet in front of you, and it might only
be for a minute and a half, but it's a
pretty important minute and a half when you're driving and
suddenly you can't see the road or they ever had
that where you're driving home and a few weeks out
of the year. I used to do this when I
was leaving work. I had to drive west, and a
few weeks out of the year, the sun would align
(16:32):
just perfectly as I got out of work with the
roadway and it was just blinding. Or maybe you want
to work in the morning and you get that eastern sun.
Whatever it is like, it's just blinding and it might
not last very long. It's pretty miserable amount of time.
So yeah, get I get your point about air traffic controllers,
getting them everything else to work right all that. Meanwhile,
(16:55):
we had one to kill as friends. Call on the
talk back again. If you're on the iHeartRadio app, just
click on that talk back button. That's that's where all
these come from.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
You let Trump be the president and run the country.
Seventy seven million people voted for him. Just move on.
You're an entertainer. Entertain us like the one trick, pony
that you are. You're so ignorant, and you're just showing
your ignorance by mocking the president of the United States.
(17:25):
If you don't like the President of the United States,
get the hell out there, you go.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So there you are. That's the word. Hey, Kyley, you're
you're a religious type, isn't there Isn't there one of
those commandment thingies about false idols? Yeah, she's laughing, Yeah
there is. Okay, very good, Yeah, yeah, pony, all right,
(18:00):
And then I gotta tell you about this political theater
at the border, and we bring Newark back into the conversation. Chris,
I look forward. Wait is this the same lady? This
is Oh, this is a different one.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Okay, Chris, I look forward every Sunday listening to you.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You can do no wrong.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Well, don't listen to those people.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
All right, listen, I love you too, But you sound
as crazy as she does. So let's face it, I
do wrong. So that's my wife. So we had all
kinds of shenanigans going on at the Ice Detention Center
because politicians were politicking. They love a good photo op,
(18:39):
and so they go, let's go to a detention center.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So the mayor of Newark decided, I'm going to go
to a detention center too, all right? Is that is
that necessary? Probably not? But what do they say, Never
let a good crisis go to waste. You got love politicians,
all right? So the mayor of Newark grabs a bunch
of politicians and they go, let's get some cameras.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
A congressional oversight visit at Newark's Delaney Hall Ice detention facility,
turning into chaos and confusion. Three House representatives pushed and
shoved Newark's mayor, Ross Baraka arrested.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
They just snatched him and took him in, and we
tried to get them to answer, why are you locking
him up?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And they started kind of uffing us up, and.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
They showed up with over twenty armed life officers with
the entire brass from the Newark office that they walked
past us and towards the game where Mayor Baraka was.
It was clearly intended to intimidate not just the mayor,
but the three of us and everyone watching.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
All right. So their perspective is all we were doing
is just showing up and saying hi, just checking out
that everything was cool, and the Gaspacho police came after us,
and they treated us very unfit, very unfairly. No one's
ever been treated so unfairly ever.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
Acting US Attorney Alina Habba accusing Mayor Baraka of trespassing
and ignoring multiple warnings to leave. New York's mayor addressing
those accusations on CNN after his release, I was.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
There as the mayor of the city, exercising my right
and duty as an elected official, you know, supporting our
Congress people.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All I was doing was just supporting the Congress people.
I was just hanging out there. I was a very
innocent person, probably the most innocent person anyone's ever known.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Preparing for a press conference that was supposed to happen there.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What a press conference where you've got politicians showing up
and then pushing the pushing the buttons of the ice
detention on. That's crazy. I can't believe he would have
a press conference there. This wild Who would have ever guessed?
What a coincidence.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I did not enter that place unlawfully. I did not
break any laws, and so all of that is incorrect.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
The incident comes as the Trumpetmanmistration is now actively looking
at suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to
legally challenge their detentions.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I've never really liked the Constitution, you know, it seems
like a real hassle.
Speaker 13 (21:12):
The Constitution is clear, and that, of course, is the
supreme law.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Of the land. As a Stephen Miller from the Trump
administration who's giving us a lesson on constitutional law, that
the privilege of the written of habeas corpus can be
suspended in a time of invasion. So it'd say that's
an option we're actively looking at. And we declared an invasion.
There's no real threshold for what an invasion is. We
(21:35):
just decided people coming across the border asking for asylum
feels invadi So we just suspended the constitution totally. Okay,
Abe Lincoln did it.
Speaker 11 (21:44):
A suspension would allow the Trump administration to dramatically escalate
mass deportations. There is good news tonight for at least
one detainee, Tufts University student Roumesa o Sturk, who was
released from six weeks in ice custody after or federal
judge ordered she be freed on bail as the case
against her proceeds. O's Turk, a Turkish doctoral student had
(22:06):
her visa revoked by the Trump administration in March over
an op ede she co wrote interstudent newspaper that was
critical of Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's right. We will not stand for people speaking their
minds freely in this country. It will not happen.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
And as for the possibility the White House could suspend
habeas corpus, the Constitution only allows that under extraordinary circumstances
in cases of rebellion or invasion, when public safety may
require it.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, that's kind of open to interpretation, isn't it.
Speaker 11 (22:36):
Now. That's happened four times in history, including during the
Civil War and during World War Two.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, but in both of those cases we actually had
sides and gun play things like that. Although world War
Two we did it because we were like, what about
the Japanese? What weird? Just round all of them up. So, again,
not a great example of why you should use habeas corpus,
suspend habeas corpus. That just doesn't seem like it plays
out very well.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
The administration, though, continuing to argue the US is facing
a national security threat by undocumented migrants invading the country.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Mark, all right, so they are you know, political theater
at the border. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Send money now. Meanwhile, do we get to the bottom
of the issues. No, But by god, it's great for
an election campaign, isn't it super dandy? The I don't
(23:29):
know if it's going to be the longest lasting story
this last week or not. We really had a few
big stories. I think the real ID deal is a
is a big story since it took twenty years when
we finally did it. Trade the trade deals. Breaking news
today about maybe we've got a deal with China. White
House says we got a deal, but then the White
House also said no, we don't so confused on that.
But massive story out of Chicago Rome as America gets
(23:56):
their first pontiff. That is next. Chris Merrill ca if
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dot com. So big story this week, we got ourselves.
(24:29):
Oh it's this okay, just sent me to hey on,
all right, let me get to this before I get
to the other big story. All right, another talkback? All right,
what you got here?
Speaker 10 (24:37):
This is a the litle steal again, calling about the
real id?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Is that your uh? Is that your theo? Yeah? I
think it is? Is that I have relatives all over
the world. All right, very good? All right, call about
the real idea. What you got here?
Speaker 10 (24:52):
I get it. Mexico without papers is like driving while black. Also,
the utility company up north, since it's already screwing people,
can we change name to st thank you?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All right? Well it's down south, it's San Diego. But
that's fine. God bless you. We're gonna give you. We're
gonna give you a be on that one. It is
a be. I'm gonna give you a be on that.
It was worth the effort. What is a beat? All right?
So big news this week we got a new pope
sixty nine years old and he's from Chicago, dub Pope.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
With Leo's ascent to the papacy, the city of Chicago
is celebrating one.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Of its own.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
Chicago famously is sports crazed towns. The new pope is
getting the full Windy City treatment online from ktla.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
A.
Speaker 14 (25:40):
One of the most popular video circulating is the Pope
coming out to the Chicago Bulls Entrance music. Meantime, a
host of Chicago themed t shirts about Pope Leo have
flooded Etsy shops in the last twenty four hours. But
about the big question asked by every Chicago native, Cubs
or White Sox, that's.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The most important thing when it comes to a new pope,
forget salvation.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
The Pope's brother, John Prevost To confirmed to local media
Leo the fourteenth cheers for the south Siders. He is
a white van all right, So not.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
A good selection, that is what we're hearing. Yeah, okay,
So this pope is not without controversy if you didn't
hear it with the complete walla wall coverage of what
amounts to the Catholic royal family, royal just not even
a family. So there was a little bit of controversy
(26:35):
because in two thousand Prevost allowed a Chicago archdiocesan priest
who sexually abused miners to live in a rectory around
the corner from a Catholic school, in a residence that
another cardinal later said was not appropriate for priests accused
of abuse. Oh, it's not that's you. They abuse someone
(26:59):
who's under age, and you you can't put him next
to a school. That's that's a bad idea. Huh. It
was to me. Who would have ever thought that. Also,
other accusations of abuse in the diocese in Peru where
he was overseeing things, people saying that he didn't do
(27:21):
enough to investigate. The church said, oh, he did a
big investigation, and they said no, there was no investigation.
So a little controversy there. So he's not without any
kind of controversy. A number of people saying, why would
you even pick a pope who who has any controversy
attached to them at all? I don't know. Maybe the
thing is that things that got so messed up for
so long within the church as they're trying to dig
(27:42):
out from under that, maybe it's just hard to find
somebody that doesn't have a little bit of stink on him.
Is that possible? Oh, what's that? Oh yeah, it's our
American pontiff. Oh, I like that. All right, that works
(28:04):
instead of that bulls walk up music. We ought to
play this.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah, all right, I'm down American pontiff, stay away from me.
I'm mining pedos just down the street. I don't want
to see your face no more. I got to spend
(28:30):
my time hiding kids from you on American potdif. Yeah,
I should have been a singer. I mean, that's pretty good.
You gotta admit that's pretty good. I hope you were
recording that from my demo. Guys, you never want to
hear that again. Just pull that. Uh, I'm gonna need
that from my demo. Meanwhile, he did have his first Guys,
are not supportive. Uh. He did have his first mass.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
This morning, Leo the fourteenth taking part in his first
mass as Pope, the new US born Pope, beginning as
homily with a few words in English.
Speaker 14 (29:06):
You have called me to carry that cross and to
be blessed with that mission.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
All right, that did sound like English.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
On the second day of the conclave, White Smoke announcing
the cardinals had elected Cardinal Robert Prevost the first American Pope.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Hey, did you guys, did you guys say that they
had to install that chimney. Did you know that they
took that down every time they had a conclave? I
don't know. Wouldn't you just think that would be like
they have a they's just a chimney, Like why do
you have to put it up and take it down
all the time? But they were very CalOSHA like safe.
I noticed, Oh they were like cal Osha Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
(29:49):
so lots of uh, lots of harnesses and extra tide
owns and all that other stuff. Yeah. That surprised me
because I thought, I mean, it's the Vatican. They've been
what is either two hundred and eighty third or something,
Pope sixty three, I don't know, but they've had a
few So wouldn't you think that they would just have
like the ballot burning stove that would have a chimney
(30:14):
that they would have built with the Vatican or at
some point during some remodeling just thrown one in. But
they never did. They have to take that up and
put it down every single time. That surprised me. They
were worried about doves getting in there or something. I
don't know. Just seems strange to be here for this
moment is so unbelievably profound.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
It's something I'm going to be talking about for the
rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
That's great. Hey, when they burn those ballots, somebody has
to add coloring to that, to that ash there to
make the smoke black. If there's no new pope elected
or white to make it. It's not like God says, no,
the ballots are no good black smoke. You know, they
add some sort of a chemical to it to make
that happen. That's got to be This is one of
(30:57):
those deals that would terrify me that I'm in charge
of burning the ballots and making sure I add the
right chemical to it. Whence you think you don't want
to double check that, because undoubtedly somebody at some point
throughout history is inadvertently thrown the wrong the wrong chemical
powder in there with it. Don't you think at some
(31:19):
point they had to have done that. You didn't see
the meme though, of a Snoop Dogg with the little
baggy O weei and he no robe No. That is great.
I love it. Oh, that's funny. All right? Back to
the report I Knewpole Labach.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Born in Chicago. Pope Leo has been called the least
American of the American cardinals, spending most of his career
as a missionary outside the US in Peru.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, and he's like a dual citizen too.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It was recently the head of the Vatican's Office of Bishops.
The first clue revealing his priorities is Pope is the
name he chose Pope Leo the fourteenth in the late
eighteen hundred's Pope Leo the thirteenth was a reformer who
championed workers' rights and social justice.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
He loved his people, his people. He considered man, not
a machine. A man's work was a reflection of his dignity.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Pablo also signaled a change yesterday with the attire he chose,
wearing more traditional red and gold garments as opposed to
the more simple style Francis embraced.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah. That also could have had something to do with
the bulls as well. Right, that's fair. Let's just not
go assuming things right now. All right, we do it
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