November 14, 2025 • 49 mins
In hour 1 Chris Merrill dives into the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown and its very real impact on Southern California — from LAX staffing shortages to Joshua Tree closures and delayed SNAP benefits. Then we shift to a developing corruption case tied to Governor Newsom’s former chief of staff, a decade-long romance-scam identity theft involving a Palm Springs trainer, and the county-wide emergency alert misfire that had half of L.A. wondering what went wrong. A full hour where national politics crash directly into SoCal life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand listen
anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. We are awaiting
the president. He set to make remarks after the I
don't know. Sometimes I feel like we overblows when the
historic signing to reopen the gun. Well, the only thing
(00:21):
historic is we let it shut down as long as
we did. And for what Nada ABC was covering the
vote and the reopening.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It was as if no time had passed at all.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, oh, what's she gonna say now? As if no
time passed at all? The country got right back on
track and everything is hunky dory. Both sides started sniping
at each other, or she woke up from Annapolix sleeping beauty,
and we never should have been here, mister speaker.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We tried, as Republicans over a month ago to prevent
a government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We had a vote here on the House floor.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Of Republicans voted to keep the government open.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
This bill adds rocket fuel to Republicans' larger assault on
Americans access to quality, affordable healthcare.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
YEP, it was answer B. They went right back to
sniping at each other.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Finally, back in session after more than fifty days, representatives
return to the House floor for a feisty debate overfunding
the government.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
I love the compassion and the passion on the other
side of the aisle. You know we're worried about taking
money out of families. Well, you know what, y'all can
do the right thing and vote yes, y'all. If not,
you're the ones that are taking money, No, y'all from
needy families.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Now you, y'all, I will be casting my vote. I
say no. In fact, there will be a hell no,
hell no tonight. The bilbil so performative, all of it right,
so performative. And I was thinking about people sitting there
listening to their colleagues on the other side of the aisle,
and I thought, do they take it per personally because
(02:00):
obviously it's meant to sound personal, or do they know
it's all part of the show. And I gotta believe
they know it's all part of the show, and they
just wait for their turn to get up and do
their little performance and then they sit back down and
then what all of a sudden done, then head down
to k Street and have drinks together.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Before the House funds the government until the end of January.
Funds snap benefits through September, reversus shutdown firings, and guarantees
back pay for fur loughed federal workers.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, so guarantee SNAP benefits through September. Now this is
important because it only guarantees funding the government through the
end of January, which means we get to do this
all again, only we won't have the SNAP benefits looming.
We won't have the SNAP benefits being cut off. So
this is all gonna happen again. Uh, air traffic controllers,
(02:51):
I sure hope that you are putting some money aside,
because come in the middle of February, you're not getting
to pay check Again's just gone. That's that's without a question.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But Democrats gained nothing in their fight to extend expiring
Affordable Care Act subsidies, now sending healthcare insurance premiums soaring.
Democrats seem determined to hold the line.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
House.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Democrats will continue to fight to address the healthcare crisis
that Republicans have created.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
This fight is not over now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It will likely be days until six hundred and seventy
thousand furlaed workers who haven't been paid in weeks can
get back to work and get paid.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Okay, so days it's I guess, like by next week,
right then whoever makes the work schedule is back at
work making the schedule again, I guess, and then they
can go back to work, and then they get there
their lump some uh six weeks of payment. It's been
a really rough six weeks, really rough, but now they're
(03:54):
about to get a giant six week bonus. Basically, now,
if they were if they were running unempty and you know,
jacking up those credit cards and not paying their mortgage
and hopefully landlords or banks or offering some sort of relief,
that'd be great until the paycheck's command then to come in,
and then you know, they get the slump sum. I
(04:17):
feel horrible, and I'm a terrible person for saying this,
I really really am, and I one hundred percent understand
how horrible I sound when I say this, but it's
the way I feel, and that is the snap benefits
ran out. We all stepped up. We all said, what
can we do to help out my fellow man? What
(04:39):
can I do to make sure that kids don't go hungry?
What can I do to make sure that little old
ladies don't go hungry? What do I do to make
sure that disabled veterans don't go hungry, and so we
try to step up right, and everybody's stepping up, and
we're making donations, we're trying to help out, and we're
going to people's go fundmes. We're trying to make sure
that they don't lose their homes, and we're we're highlighting
TSA workers and air traffic controllers, other people who aren't
(05:00):
getting their paychecks and UH and their and their their
landlords are not being patient with them and they're talking
about being evicted and how terrible that is. We're all
trying to help them out. We're going to go fundmeans,
We're doing what we can. Government reopens all of a
sudden backpay hits, all of a sudden snap benefits reload,
and all of a sudden I'm still out all that
money I donated. Where's the relief for the American people
(05:23):
that tried to help the others that were suffering. We
don't get squat And I know I sound terrible, How
dare you? You should be doing out of the kindness
of your heart. I am doing it out of the
kindness of my heart, but also I got bills to
pay I got Christmas coming out. I think that next
(05:44):
time they shut the government down, there ought to be
a rebate check of the rest of us that tried
to help. Oh, did you make a donation? Good, We're
gonna We're gonna make you whole again. Too great, that's
what I'm talking about. But no, the government doesn't work
that way. It's all take, take, take. I know I
sound insensitive again, I know it, but I got I
(06:05):
got Christmas coming up, man, and I'm going, hey, just
give money away. You have a lot of money away,
try to help people out. And you go, well, aren't
you satisfied that you help people eat? Yes, I am.
Isn't that reward enough? No? No, it's not. No, it's
not reward enough. It's not because if it were people
(06:28):
who would otherwise not be made whole by the government
in some way, shape or form for the taxes that
I already pay to the government to do that, then
then I would feel like that's enough. Out of the
kindness of my heart and the spirit of giving around
the holiday season, I'm absolutely thrilled to be making that
donation to help other people. Yes, that's not how it works.
(06:52):
I'm getting I'm getting doubled. I'm getting double dipped. I
don't know can you get double dipped? Normally you do
the double dipping, but I'm feeling like I'm being double
dipped because I'm paying my taxes to pay for these
things that aren't being paid. And then it seems to
be incumbent upon me that I go on a guilt
trip to make sure that I can pay some more
(07:14):
to help out because the government isn't using my tax
dollars for what they promised they were gonna use my
tax dollars to do. So I'm double irket and I'm
not even on the Affordable Care Act. Didn't even imagine
someways on the Affordable Care Act who wanted to help
out their fellow man, and maybe they were saying, I'm
gonna try to make sure that people are getting their
(07:34):
stab benefits or that they're eating because the government's not
gonna reopen and I believe in this fight. And because
I believe in this fight, I'm gonna I'm gonna stretch
my budget to help other people out so that they
don't suffer. So the politicians feel like they have the
strength to continue to fight to keep my health insurance
premiums down. Well, guess what, you're triple dipped. I don't
know if that's right. I don't know if. I don't
(07:55):
know if you can get triple dipped. But they're being
triple dipped because not only are they paying their taxes,
not only is their health insurance premium gonna go up
because the subsidies are going away, but also they tried
to help out their fellow man, and that help was
supposed to be budgeted through the taxes that they paid. Okay,
and just I'm done. I guess I'm get off my
(08:16):
little box now. God, Roner, why did you start me?
You just wound me up to start with. Don't you
bring me into this? Did you do that? You know?
I used to be a complete prob. How you beat
me too? But now I'm just feeling like a I'm
feeling like a real hack That's what I am. Well,
Chris hack Man, you shouldn't say that about yourself. You
(08:37):
should let me say that. Oh all right, I will.
I will retrack that and I will save it for you. Yeah,
I'll wait till till it's the right moment. We are
again waiting on the President. He's supposed to make remarks
talking about how glorious it is that the government is
reopening and you've got double dipped or triple dipped. But
you know that moment when we have a In the meantime,
we're gonna continue on here because there's a political scandal
(09:00):
breaking and you're thinking, okay, but how how high does
this scandal go? Okay, Well, imagine if it was a
former top aid to one of the top names and
all of the charges sound like a luxury shopping spree.
The latest dirty politics bombshell is landing right next to
a name that you absolutely know and know very well.
(09:22):
That is next. I'm Chris MERYLKF. I am six forty
live everywhere in the iHeart Radio app. Vote President Trump
set to speak give remarks after the reopening of the government.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Thank you very much his name.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Listen to any time on demand of the iHeart Radio app.
We are awaiting the president. He set to make remarks
after the I don't know. Sometimes I feel like we
overblow the historic signing to reopen the gun. Well, the
only thing historic is that we let it shut down
as long as we did. And for what Nada ABC
was covering the vote and the reopening.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
As if no time had passed at all.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh, oh, what's you going to say now? It's as
if no time passed at all. The country got right
back on track and everything is hunky dory. Both sides
started sniping at each other or she woke up from
Annapolix sleeping beauty, and.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
We never should have been here, mister speaker. We tried,
as Republicans over a month ago to prevent a government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
We had a vote here on the House floor.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Ninety nine percent of Republicans voted to keep the government open.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
This bill adds rocket fuel to Republicans' larger assault on Americans'
access to quality, affordable healthcare.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yep, it was answer B. They went right back to
sniping at each other.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Finally, back in session after more than fifty days, representatives
returned to the House floor for a feisty debate overfunding
the government.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
And I love the compassion and the passion on the
other side of the aisle. You know, were worried about
taking money out of out of families.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, you know what, y'all can do the right thing
and vote yes, y'all.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
If not, you're the ones that are taking money. No, y'all,
from needy families.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
No you y'all, I will be casting my vote, I
say no.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
In fact, there will be a hell no, hell no tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The building so performative, all of it right, so performative.
And I was thinking about people sitting there listening to
their colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and
I thought, do they take it personally because obviously it's
meant to sound personal, or do they know it's all
part of the show. And I gotta believe they know
(11:36):
it's all part of the show, and they just wait
for their turn to get up and do their little performance,
and then they sit back down and then what all
of a sudden done, Then head down to k Street
and have drinks together.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Before the House funds the government until the end of January,
funds snap benefits through September, reversus shutdown firings, and guarantees
back pay for fur loughed federal workers.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Okay, so guarantee snap benefits through septem Now this is
important because it only guarantees funding the government through the
end of January, which means we get to do this
all again, only we won't have the Snap benefits looming.
We won't have the snap benefits being cut off. So
this is all going to happen again. Uh, air traffic controllers,
(12:21):
I sure hope that you are putting some money aside,
because come in the middle of February, you're not getting
to pay check again. It's just gone. That's that's without
a question.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But Democrats gained nothing in their fight to extend expiring
Affordable Care Act subsidies, now sending healthcare insurance premiums soaring,
Democrats seem determined to hold the line.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
House.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Democrats will continue to fight to address the healthcare crisis
that Republicans have created.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
This fight is not over now.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It will likely be days until six hundred and seventy
thousand fur load workers who haven't been paid in weeks
can get back to work and get paid.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, so days, it's I it's like by next week,
right then whoever makes the work schedule is back at
work making the schedule again, I guess, And then they
can go back to work and then they get there
their lump some uh six weeks of payment. It's been
a really rough six weeks, really rough, but now they're
(13:24):
about to get a giant six week bonus. Basically, Now,
if they were, if they were running unempty and you know,
jacking up those credit cards and not paying their mortgage
and hopefully landlords or banks or offering some sort of relief,
that'd be great until the the paycheck's command. Then they
come in and then they you know, they get this slump. Sum.
(13:47):
I feel horrible, and I'm a terrible person for saying this.
I really really am. And I one hundred percent understand
how horrible I sound when I say this, but it's
the way I feel. And that is the snap benefits
ran out. We all stepped up. We all said, what
can we do to help out my fellow man? What
(14:09):
can I do to make sure that kids don't go hungry?
What can I do to make sure that little old
ladies don't go hungry? What do I do to make
sure that disabled veterans don't go hungry? And so we
try to step up right, and everybody's stepping up, and
we're making donations. We're trying to help out, and we're
going to people's go fundmes. We're trying to make sure
that they don't lose their homes, and we're we're highlighting
TSA workers and air traffic controllers and other people who
(14:30):
aren't getting their paychecks and their landlords are not being
patient with them, and they're talking about being evicted, and
how terrible that is. We're all trying to help them out.
We're going to go fundmes, We're doing what we can.
Government reopens, all of a sudden backpay hits, all of
a sudden snap benefits reload, and all of a sudden
I'm still out all that money I donated. Where's the
(14:52):
relief for the American people that tried to help the
others that we're suffering. We don't get squat And I
know I sound terrible. How dare you? You should be
doing out of the kindness of your heart. I am
doing it out of the kindness of my heart. But
also I got bills to pay. I got Christmas coming up.
(15:13):
I think that next time they shut the government down,
there ought to be a rebate check to the rest
of us that tried to help. Oh, did you make
a donation? Good, We're gonna We're gonna make you whole again.
Too great, That's what I'm talking about. But no, the
government doesn't work that way. It's all take, take, take.
I know I sound insensitive again. I know it, but
(15:35):
I got I got Christmas coming up, man, and I'm going, hey,
just give money away. You have a lot of money away,
try to help people out. And you go, well, aren't
you satisfied that you help people eat? Yes, I am.
Isn't that reward enough? No? No, it's not. No, it's
not reward enough. It's not because if it were people
(15:58):
who would otherwise not be made whole by the government
in some way, shape or form for the taxes that
I already pay to the government to do that, then
then I would feel like that's enough. Out of the
kindness of my heart and the spirit of giving around
the holiday season, I'm absolutely thrilled to be making that
donation to help other people. Yes, that's not how it works.
(16:22):
I'm getting I'm getting doubled. I'm getting double dipped. I
don't know. Can you get double dipped? Normally you do
the double dipping. But I'm feeling like I'm being double
dipped because I'm paying my taxes to pay for these
things that aren't being paid, and then it seems to
be incumbent upon me that I go on a guilt
trip to make sure that I can pay some more
(16:44):
to help out because the government isn't using my tax
dollars for what they promised they were gonna use my
tax dollars to do. So I'm double irked, and I'm
not even on the Affordable Care Act. Didn't even imagine
someways on the Affordable Care Act who wanted to help
out their fellow man, and maybe they were saying, I'm
gonna try to make sure that people are getting their
(17:05):
stab benefits or that they're eating because the government's not
gonna reopen and I believe in this fight, and because
I believe in this fight, I'm gonna I'm gonna stretch
my budget to help other people out so that they
don't suffer. So the politicians feel like they have the
strength to continue to fight to keep my health insurance
premiums down, Well, guess what, you're triple dipped. I don't
know if that's right. I don't know if you I
(17:25):
don't know if you can get triple dipped. But they're
being triple dipped because not only are they paying their taxes,
not only is their health insurance premium gonna go up
because the subsidies are going away, but also they tried
to help out their fellow man, and that help was
supposed to be budgeted through the taxes that they paid. Okay,
I'm just something done. I guess I'm get off my
(17:45):
little box now. God Roner, why did you start me?
You just wound me up to start with. Don't you
bring me into this? Did you do that? You know?
I used to be a complete probra how you beat
me too? But now I'm just feeling like I'm feeling
like a real hack That's what I am. Well, Chris
hack Man, you shouldn't say that about yourself. You should
(18:07):
let me say that. Oh all right, I will. I
will retrack that and I will save it for you. Yeah,
I'll wait till till it's the right moment. We are
again waiting on the President's supposed to make remarks talking
about how glorious it is that the government is reopening,
and you've got double dipped or triple dipped. But you
know that moment when we have. In the meantime, we're
going to continue on here because there's a political scandal
(18:30):
breaking and you're thinking, okay, but how high does this
scandal go? Okay, Well, imagine if it was a former
top aid to one of the top names, and all
of the charges sound like a luxury shopping spree. The
latest dirty politics bombshell is landing right next to a
name that you absolutely know and know very well. That
(18:52):
is next. I'm Chris MERYLK. I am six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio. I thought President Trump said to
speak give remarks after the reopening of the government.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Thank you very much. This is a.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
People want illegal aliens and people that came into our
country illegally, from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions. They
wanted to pay them one point five trillion dollars, which
would have really hurt our health care businesses and our
recipients at levels never seen before.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Today, we're sending a clear message that we will.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
Never give into extortion, because that's what it was they
tried to extort.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
The Democrats tried to extort our country.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like
we asked Democrats to send us. Although many days ago
this cossed the country.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
One point five trillion dollars, this little excursion that they
took us on.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Republicans never wanted a shut down and voted fifteen times
for a clean continuation of funding. There's never been a
time when one or the other party ever didn't sign
a continuation. It's just a continuation, not a big deal.
It's a continuation and we'll talk later. Yet the extremists
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in the other party insisted on creating the longest government
shut down in American history, and they did it purely
for political reasons. I want to thank Speaker Mike Johnson,
Senate majority of Leader John Tune as well as House
majority of Leader Stiefs Scalise, majority Whipped Tom Emmer, and
numerous other great Republican leaders and congressmen and senators who
(20:34):
are here and frankly spent a long time in Washington
getting this thing to go. And I also want to
thank the broad coalition of Americans that stood with us
in this fight to reopen government, including the Teamsters, the
American Federation of Government Employees, the Fraternal Order of Police AMBATS,
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the National Small Business Association, the American Farm Bureau of
the American Trump Association.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
These are all incredible patriots. The Airlines for America, the.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Allied Pilots Association, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and
many many others unions and non unions. Over the past
seven weeks, the Democrats shut down as inflicted massive harm.
They caused twenty thousand flights to be canceled or delayed.
They departed so many times so late, people were hurt
(21:27):
so badly. Nobody's ever seen anything like this one. This
was a no brainer, This was an easy extension, but
they didn't want to do it the easy way. They
had to do it the hardware. They looked very bad
the Democrats do. They deprived more than one million government
workers from their paychecks and cut off food stamp benefits
for millions and millions more Americans in need. They caused
(21:50):
tens of thousands of federal contractors and small businesses.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
To go unpaid.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
And the total effect of the damage there antiscus will
take weeks and probably months to really calculate accurately, including
the serious time that they did to our economy and
to people into families.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
So I just want.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
To tell the American people you should not forget this
when we come up to midterms and other things.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Don't forget what they've done to our country. You also want.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
To call for a termination to the filibuster so that
this can never happen again. If we had the filibuster terminated.
This would never happen again, and don't forget we have
another date coming up in the not too distant future.
We can never let this happen again, and we should
be able to pass great, really great legislation. So I
(22:38):
say terminate the filibuster, because by the way, the Democrats
will do it immediately if they ever assumed office, which
hopefully they won't. Today we had the highest stock market
price ever in all of the different markets.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
We set a record.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
It's the forty eighth time in the nine months that
I've been in office that we had this record set.
So think of that. Forty eight times we had a
record set. But today is the highest of them all.
We're going to break new grounds. Nobody would have thought.
I have with us not only the great political leaders,
but the great business leaders of our country. They're standing
(23:17):
right behind me and write really alongside of me.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
And if we would have told them a year.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Ago that we'd be having shock prices to hide, none
of them. In fact I just asked them that question.
None of them would have believed it.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
And that endures.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
The jobs and very importantly to four oh one case,
which have also set a record today.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
A record high for the people that have four oh
one case.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
And also I want to thank Walmont because they came
up with a fantastic study. It was the cost of
Thanksgiving coming up and the cost of Thanksgiving from a
year ago under sleepy Joe Biden, and with twenty five
percent lower this year than we were a year ago
and very inclusive reports. I want to thank Walmart. They've
(24:03):
done it for many years. But we believe in that
do we believe in that company.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
I want to also.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Thank the eighth Senate Democrats who finally did the right
thing in voting to end this craziness, this madness. But
unfortunately the vast majority of Congressional Democrats were happy for
millions of Americans to suffer. They really did suffer too,
and the Democrats admitted, they said, well, no, we finally
have a point. Even though people have to suffer, we
(24:30):
finally have a point. And that didn't work out too
well for them. But they really went out and they
could appease the fringe benefits of their far left base.
But that didn't work out because now they're far left
base is angrier than ever before. We actually elected a
mayor of New York City who happens to be a communist?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
When was that going to happen?
Speaker 10 (24:53):
Remember, I said all the time during my campaign we
will never be a socialist country, and that's right.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Turned out to have a communist in New York City.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
And if you look at his views, as are the
views of a communists, not a socialist.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
So this is no way to run a country.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
I hope we can all agree that the government should
never be shut down again again. And did the filibuster
terminate the filibus? It will never happen again. So with
my signature, the federal government will now resume normal operations,
and my administration and our partners in Congress will continue
our work to lower the cost of living, restore public safety,
(25:32):
grower economy, and make America affordable again for all Americans again.
Costs are way down, energy is way down. Gasoline is
at two dollars and fifty cents a gallon versus four
dollars and seventy.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Cents for the Democrats.
Speaker 10 (25:50):
And we think we're going to hit pretty close to
two dollars a gallon. That's like a really massive tax cut.
It's the equivalent of that. And speaking of tax cuts,
our great, big, beautiful bill is giving everybody in our economy,
middle income workers, low income everybody, the biggest tax cut
in the history.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Of our country.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
And there's no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security,
and very importantly, no tax on overtime. You work overtime,
there's no tax. That's among the things that add up
to the biggest tax cut in history. One other thing,
you know, you hear about rich people with deductions. Well,
when you buy your car and you borrow money, you're
(26:30):
allowed to now deduct the interest on that loan, so
you can take that interest deduction. And what you can
take is that interest payment and deduct it for income
tax purposes. That's a tremendous tax cut right there. But
it all includes fixing the healthcare system the Democrats broke
(26:51):
with the disaster known as Obamacare. Obamacare was a disaster
from day one. It's done nothing but go up. And
if you remember President in Barack Hussain Obama, when he
came up with this crazy idea, he said, everything's going
to be great. Rates are going to go down, payments
are going to go down, everything's going to go down.
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It wasn't the exact opposite. With the biggest increase of
any of health care in any country.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
It's a disaster.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be
paid but for the money, this massive amount of money,
to be paid directly to the people of our country
so that they can buy their own health care, which
will be far better and far less expensive.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Than the disaster known as Obamacare.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
And I've had I think great support, I've even had
Democrat support. So we want the money that would be
going to the insurance company, which is hundreds of billions
of dollars. You know, their stock prices have gone up
by one thousand percent, in many cases a thousand percent
over a short period of time because our country stupidly
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pays them so much money with his own Obamacare scandal.
So I want the money to go directly to you,
the people, and you'll go out and you'll buy your
own health insurance, and you'll negotiate different plans and you'll
get much better insurance, and you will be an entrepreneur
for yourself. So I'm always willing to work with anyone,
including the other party. We'll work on something having to
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do with healthcare. We can do a lot better, we
can do great. So much money is involved and we're
willing to pay so much money to the people.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
So we're going to pay a lot of money to
the people.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
They're going to go out and buy their own healthcare,
and we're going to forget this Obamacare madness. So with
all of that, I just want to tell you the
country has never been in better shape. We went through
this short term disaster with the Democrats because they thought
it would be good politically, and it's an honor now
to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Thank you, Okay, thank you very much. I don't know
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if you have questions. I think I think, I think
we really have a really great situation. We have a
country that we love, and we have a country that's
in great shade.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
As you know, we have over now, it's over eighteen
trillion dollars invested in our country by other people and countries.
That's a record. There's never been a country that had
so much. And that money's going into also building new
auto plants, do AI plants, do everything.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
We've never had a time like this. Thank you very much,
everybody appreciate Thank you very much. Great, it's a great.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That was President Trumps signing a bill to reopen the
government after the longest shutdown in history. Chris Merrill, are
you here, Yeah, I'm sure, yeah, yeah. Well that was
that was That was a speech from the president. President
Trump said, Uh, I don't think it comes with any surprise.
He was blaming the Democrats for the shutdown, talked about
the damage the shutdown caused, and of course put pin
(30:50):
that on the Democrats. Uh. And then uh, it went
through sort of some of the talking points that we've
heard him say in public here over the last a
few weeks, talking about accomplishments, gas being below two dollars
a gallon and I don't know anywhere in the country
that it is. But he also made mention of Walmart's
Thanksgiving report. He referred to it as being a very
(31:13):
thorough report that they've done for a very long time.
I am unaware of any Walmart Thanksgiving report. I do
know of a sale that they're having, but unaware of
a report. There were a few things that I did
think that we could take away from what the President
had to say, and I will be curious to see
if this is something that he wants to follow up
on in the coming weeks and months. He still was
(31:35):
very concerned about the filibuster. He wants to eliminate the filibuster.
He said, we need to get it done. Do it,
eliminate the filibuster. And by the way, if we don't
do it, the Democrats will, They'll do it in a heartbeat.
But he also said that was a good thing, so
I guess he's supporting the Democratic proposal on that. When
it comes to healthcare, his proposal on healthcare was to
empower you put money in your own pocket and allow
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you to negotiate with the insurance as companies. We'll buy
a little bit deeper into that. Here in just a
few moments, I want to make sure we get off
to Mark Ronerd. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere
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Speaker 1 (32:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You heard the president speak. You also heard the President
signing that bill. So now the government is officially reopened,
which means I think all the planes go right back
into the skies and there's no more trash at any
of the national parks. So that's nice. That's why, you know.
That is one thing that discussed me about people government
shuts down and somehow the trash piles up. What what
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does the matter with you? But you go to a
national park and then you think, oh, I'm just gonna
start throwing trash everywhere? Why God, what is wrong with you?
I know it's not you, it's everybody else, but it's
not me, So gotta be somebody. I just don't get that.
(32:55):
I never do. I don't get it at all. You know,
they left the gates open so you could get in
during the shutdown. The least you could do is bring
your Snickers wrapper back with you. Nope, throw it on
the trail. That's what they get what I don't understand it.
So the President was talking about ending the filibuster, and
(33:17):
he said, if we didn't have that filibuster, none of
this ever would have happened. And he's right, he's absolutely
correct on that. If we didn't have the filibuster, the
Republicans could have ram through their bill. Yes, one hundred
percent true, And without the filibuster, as soon as the
Democrats take control again, they could ram through an even
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bigger Obamacare bill. In fact, if not for the filibuster
in the first place, we wouldn't have even had the
drama around passing the original Affordable Care Act, but we
did so it was close. If you eliminate the filibuster,
the advantage ghost to whoever has the majority, and that
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is it's a majority rule, period, flat out. And historically
Democrats have favored eliminating the filibuster. Republicans do tend to
use it more when they're in the minority, and every
party in the minority likes to lean into the filibuster,
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which is why we have what they call the nuclear option,
which is, let's pass a bill on party lines that
isn't related to any bill that qualifies for a filibuster.
Let's pass a bill that allows us to overcome the
filibuster so they can use majority rule to enact majority
rule where there wasn't previously majority rule. We saw this
happen with appointments of federal judges. The Democrats use that
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in order to get to judges appointed during the Obama administration,
and then the Republicans used it to get Supreme Court
justices seated during Trump's first administration. They use the nuclear option,
they blew up the philibuster around those very specific measures,
and now it's just majority rule when it comes to
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seating judges. So the idea is, let's get rid of
the filibuster for budgets. But what do we know about
what do we know about benefits in America? Once you
have it, you can't take it away. So if the
Democrats get control and they go, well, wait a minute,
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we have to keep funding snap at levels you know
this level, and we have to give this you know
this much more. And we also want to make sure
that we're providing, for instance, subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.
They're going to pass it, and then the Republicans come
back to power, and then what the Republicans go, We're
going to take all that away. No, it's not. It's
not a political winner. The Republicans can slowly scale things back,
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but generally speaking, they don't generally speaking. In fact, even
what we're arguing over right now are the subsidy to
the Affordable Care Act that were added during COVID. It's
not as though this bill eliminates the Affordable Care Act.
It just gets rid of those enhanced subsidies that have
been around for the last five years. But because they've
been there, now we know that the cost of the
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healthcare is going to jump significantly because people have been
leaning in those subsidies likewise goes the other way. When
it comes to taxes, Republicans like to cut the taxes,
So the Republicans could use the filibuster to enact tax
cuts figure tax cuts, and then the Democrats come along
and they go, oh, well, we have to raise taxes.
That is not a political winner. People do not like
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seeing more money taken out of their paychecks. Funny how
that works. So the truth is, we just like getting stuff.
So if you eliminate the filibuster, what's going to end
up happening. Well, the Republicans are going to hate it
when they don't have control. The Democrats are going to
love it when they don't have control. In the long run,
it's going to favor the Democrats over the Republicans. But
what you'll see is that national debt climb and climb
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and climb and climb, because we don't like having stuff
taken away once we've got it, and we will vote
against the people who want to take it away. We
will vote for the people that want to give us
more stuff. Okay, So that's the that's the first thing
the president was talking about. He wants to get rid
of that philibuster. I don't think it's a very good idea,
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and the Democrats almost did get rid of it. They
almost did, but they had two moderate Democrats who said no,
Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin from West Virginia. They voted
against it, and that's why we still have the philibuster.
Otherwise the government wouldn't have been shut down, but also
there would have been other laws passed that the Republicans
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wudn't have liked. Now the other the other key point
that the President made when he was speaking. I want
to address this because I happen to know a little
bit about it, and that is he said he wants
to make sure that people get the money so that
they can negotiate their own health care direct This seems
like the concepts of a plan to eliminate the Affordable
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Care Act altogether so that you become the chief negotiator
with the insurance company, just out of curiosity. Do you
know insurance inside and out? So that when it comes
time to negotiate you are well prepared. Are you ready
to go against someone who professionally negotiates health care contracts?
(38:30):
Because I'm gonna guess that you're not. I'm going to
guess that you are like the majority of us who
don't understand a daggum thing about health insurance industry because
it is intentionally confusing. I know something about this because
I'm very fortunate to be married to someone whose job
it is to negotiate with healthcare insurance companies on behalf
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of providers. And let me tell you who does not
understand health insurance doctors. That's why they hire my wife,
because they don't understand how it all works. Private care,
third party administrators, Medicare, Medicaid advantage plans. There's a lot
that goes into this, and if you don't know it
inside and out, they got somebody that does, and they
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know how to put loopholes in those contracts. So if
you're in charge of negotiating your own healthcare, good luck.
I'm in good shape. I have a pro on my side.
I hope you do too. There's a reason that we
have other people do things for us, because we cannot
be experts in all things. I pay a mechanic to
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fix my car because if I don't, you'll die. When
I'm driving down the road and the tire falls off
and hit your windshield, fact, I pay a roofer to
take care of the roof on my house because if
I do it, I'm gonna put the nail through the
shingle in the wrong spot, and then I got leaks
(39:58):
all over the place. My roof is gonna look a sieve.
I don't know how to roof right. We hire other
people to do the jobs we don't know how to do,
nor do we have the time to do those jobs
or to learn the skills necessary to do those jobs.
You pay for You pay for Microsoft Word, you pay
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for a spreadsheet program, You pay for your Windows on
your computer because you don't have the time or the
skills necessary to write the code to create your own
operating system and spreadsheets and word processors, so you buy it.
There's a reason that people pay other people to do
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the negotiating for them. We are not health insurance professionals.
But again, I'm okay. I'm married to one. She's pretty dynamite.
Let me tell you who. She can't stand health insurance
companies because us who side? They are not on you? Baby?
You hey? Speaking of emergencies, get off the air yesterday
(41:09):
and all of a sudden, everybody starts getting emergency alerts
and what emergency phones lighting up for the wrong reason.
You're going to find out why that happened to you.
NeXT's Chris Merrill KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeart.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Radio at you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Tonight's show is going to be a found on the
featured podcast section of KFI AM six forty dot com.
You'll be able to grab that. I don't want to
talk about the government anymore. Is that okay? I want
to talk about the shutdown that I feel like we
spent like three segments on. I think we're good, right?
We all? Are? We all good? Is there anything else
going on? You can't be serious? Well, there is something
(41:51):
I'm concerned with I see, and that is that behind
the scenes, there was coordination going on between the executive producer,
the the news cruise, the studio engineers, and then I
was added into that text chain as well, and I
am dismayed to find out just how many of you
(42:11):
have androids. Tony has an Android. I didn't. I didn't
have Tony's number on my phone, but it's an Android,
so I tried to share my contact with him. And
I can't do it because he has an Android. So,
as far as I can tell, Mark, I know you've
got an Android. No, no, no, Why does everything come
up with green with you on my phone? Your equipment
(42:32):
is faulty and as a complete pro, you should have
better equipment. Wow, good one, you like that. That's one
to one so far today? Hold on, how is it
that I've got? Well, that's weird? All right? So you
got the iPhone? Huh right? All right, then I guess
both of us can just kind of make fun of Tony.
(42:53):
So I do just have an iPhone. It's the matter
with him. Can't share my contact infoul with him. It
really bothers me. Tony, what's it gonna take for you
to get an iPhone? Never? Come on, there's nothing. Come on,
what if I get it for you? What if I
get you an iPhone? That's a waste of money on you?
Then you still wouldn't use it? No? Okay, all right,
(43:14):
well can we talk? Can we have Tony explain his
antipathy to iPhones? Because this is baffling. I think they're great.
Go on, Tony, well first time your silly position. I'll
never spend that much money for a phone. Well, that's
why I'm offering to buy it. Say, I just don't
like their os, never have. Oh okay, I always thought
it was clunky, but I'm adask guy. I used to
(43:36):
know machine code, so oh okay, so you need some
dots and slashes and things like that. I hate Windows
as well, so oh you do what do you use?
Are you? Oh? No, I use Windows now when I
have to. But when you don't have to, what are
you using? Well, I've gone back and forth on Linux.
That annoys me too. Oh okay, all right, you're going
all right, all right, Linux, but.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
I have.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Well that's the graphic Linux. Yeah, you don't like the graphic.
That's like Windows Linux. It's just as bad. So you're
basically like like one of those movie hackers, like you
just like to sit down and just type that code
right out. I just know what I need to know,
like I use like Bapto, Sarah and stuff like that.
I'm impressed. Okay, all right, well then I won't waste
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my money on you. Thanks. All right, we're gonna find
something else for Christmas. Mark. I don't know what we're
gonna get him. Get him something that allows him to
use morse code. Well, that's not bad. Hey, can't you
just write you? Can't you just code yourself a program
on whatever phone you have? And uh, so you can
at least accept my contact. I'm also so that's why
(44:42):
buried the lead. Very good, all right, Well, uh and
we'll keep you around. You're all right, though, Yeah, I
do like you. Uh did you get the Tony? Did
your phone get the the emergency alert yesterday? False alert?
(45:03):
Oh you didn't get this, No, probably because you don't
have an iPhone. I think I turned them all off,
all the alerts I turned off. Oh, I did too.
I had somebody yell at me one time. They go,
you turned off the Amber alerts, and I said, yeah,
I did you monster? I know. But here's the fact
of the matter. If there's an Amber alert and I'm awake,
I'm usually connected to something, right And oftentimes I'm at
(45:25):
work where we're the ones distributing the Amber alert. And
if I'm not, I'm at home and I'm sleeping, and
I'm not looking for somebody's missing kid. I can't unless
that kid is in my bedroom, which would be a
completely different problem. It's of no use to anybody that
I get that Amber alert. So I know I'm a
terrible person. I get it all the time. No, no, dare you.
(45:47):
But other people did get this false alert yesterday.
Speaker 9 (45:50):
If you live in La County, you probably got this
alert on your.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
Cell phone from CBSLA.
Speaker 9 (45:55):
This is a test of the South Pasadena w EA system.
There is no emergency.
Speaker 11 (46:01):
I got the alert and I was a little scared, obviously.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
Yeah, my heart jumped.
Speaker 9 (46:07):
Thale started buzzing just before six Tuesday night, hitting about
ten million devices across La County from the San Fernando
Valley down to the South Bay. I saw that it
was a test, so I didn't think like I just
like deleted it. Some people were confused about why they
were even getting it if they weren't in South Pasadena.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Can I pat your dog?
Speaker 9 (46:27):
Like this man in Temple City about twenty minutes away.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Just honestly wasn't sure what the alert was even for.
I mean, I just saw the abbreviation. I was like,
what is this? Like? I just rushed it aside. We
went to rushed it aside. Yeah. I figured if it
was an earthquake, then you know, I just feel it.
Speaker 9 (46:41):
South Pasadena City Hall for answers.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
We believe that it likely was a human error, but
we are working with our vendor to understand exactly what happened.
Speaker 9 (46:49):
Public Information Officer Jennifer Colby says the city was running
a routine test of its wireless emergency alert system when
a mistake sent the alert out to millions of La
County residents. The city can alert other areas in a
major emergency, but she says Tuesday's test was supposed to
stay internal.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, but that it didn't. Somebody clicked the wrong box.
Speaker 11 (47:12):
It could be something as small as just you know,
selecting the wrong feature.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah, basically just said that.
Speaker 11 (47:17):
But again, this is something we do every month, many
agencies do every month, and we have no issues the.
Speaker 9 (47:22):
Test or not. The alert still went out to millions
of people, you know who.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
My understanding is is that the the IT crew there
that was in charge of checking the right box they
are unfamiliar with Windows because they kind of tink around
with Linux and they really don't know how the Windows
system works. I also understand that those IT people don't
use the iPhone, so they tend to make mistakes when
they're using what they say are inferior operating systems and programming.
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That's a sick burn Tony shaking his head. He's like,
that's just how Jerry as saying that about my eating it.
You can't say that about my brothers and it.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
Know.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
Now, where were you when this alert happened?
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Me?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
I was ignoring the alert. I just assumed it was
an amber alert, you know me? Okay. So I was
in Whole Foods and stopped to get a sandwich, an
expensive sandwich at Whole Foods before I came into work,
and the alert went off. Every single person in the
store stopped, pulled out their phone, stared at it with
it with their mouth half open, and it was. It
was such a dystopian moment. I didn't like it. I
felt like I was part of the matrix. I did
(48:27):
not want any part of that, regardless of you were
above it all. Well, I don't like feeling like I'm
at somebody else's disposal as part of like the borg.
I don't like that. Yeah, but look at you. It
was like you raised yourself above the borg. You basically
became a god in that moment because you were able
(48:48):
to witness all other people performing in unity. I didn't
feel all transfixed. No, you were though. You were just
for a moment. Well, they were all hypnot tied by
their phone. You, sir, you were above it. It was
that's a surreal moment. I'm glad I talked to you
about it. You basically became for just a second thanos. Oh.
(49:14):
When you put it like that, then I enjoy it.
That's what I was looking for, all right. Uh, I
think we're going to reopen the scandal, because who doesn't
love a good scandal? This one. The reopening was inevitable.
That happened today. That's next time, Chris merrill if I
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand listen
anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. We are awaiting
the president. He set to make remarks after the I
don't know. Sometimes I feel like we overblows when the
historic signing to reopen the gun. Well, the only thing
(00:21):
historic is we let it shut down as long as
we did. And for what Nada ABC was covering the
vote and the reopening.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It was as if no time had passed at all.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, oh, what's she gonna say now? As if no
time passed at all? The country got right back on
track and everything is hunky dory. Both sides started sniping
at each other, or she woke up from Annapolix sleeping beauty,
and we never should have been here, mister speaker.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We tried, as Republicans over a month ago to prevent
a government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We had a vote here on the House floor.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Of Republicans voted to keep the government open.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
This bill adds rocket fuel to Republicans' larger assault on
Americans access to quality, affordable healthcare.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
YEP, it was answer B. They went right back to
sniping at each other.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Finally, back in session after more than fifty days, representatives
return to the House floor for a feisty debate overfunding
the government.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
I love the compassion and the passion on the other
side of the aisle. You know we're worried about taking
money out of families. Well, you know what, y'all can
do the right thing and vote yes, y'all. If not,
you're the ones that are taking money, No, y'all from
needy families.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Now you, y'all, I will be casting my vote. I
say no. In fact, there will be a hell no,
hell no tonight. The bilbil so performative, all of it right,
so performative. And I was thinking about people sitting there
listening to their colleagues on the other side of the aisle,
and I thought, do they take it per personally because
(02:00):
obviously it's meant to sound personal, or do they know
it's all part of the show. And I gotta believe
they know it's all part of the show, and they
just wait for their turn to get up and do
their little performance and then they sit back down and
then what all of a sudden done, then head down
to k Street and have drinks together.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Before the House funds the government until the end of January.
Funds snap benefits through September, reversus shutdown firings, and guarantees
back pay for fur loughed federal workers.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, so guarantee SNAP benefits through September. Now this is
important because it only guarantees funding the government through the
end of January, which means we get to do this
all again, only we won't have the SNAP benefits looming.
We won't have the SNAP benefits being cut off. So
this is all gonna happen again. Uh, air traffic controllers,
(02:51):
I sure hope that you are putting some money aside,
because come in the middle of February, you're not getting
to pay check Again's just gone. That's that's without a question.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But Democrats gained nothing in their fight to extend expiring
Affordable Care Act subsidies, now sending healthcare insurance premiums soaring.
Democrats seem determined to hold the line.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
House.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Democrats will continue to fight to address the healthcare crisis
that Republicans have created.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
This fight is not over now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It will likely be days until six hundred and seventy
thousand furlaed workers who haven't been paid in weeks can
get back to work and get paid.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Okay, so days it's I guess, like by next week,
right then whoever makes the work schedule is back at
work making the schedule again, I guess, and then they
can go back to work, and then they get there
their lump some uh six weeks of payment. It's been
a really rough six weeks, really rough, but now they're
(03:54):
about to get a giant six week bonus. Basically, now,
if they were if they were running unempty and you know,
jacking up those credit cards and not paying their mortgage
and hopefully landlords or banks or offering some sort of relief,
that'd be great until the paycheck's command then to come in,
and then you know, they get the slump sum. I
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feel horrible, and I'm a terrible person for saying this,
I really really am, and I one hundred percent understand
how horrible I sound when I say this, but it's
the way I feel, and that is the snap benefits
ran out. We all stepped up. We all said, what
can we do to help out my fellow man? What
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can I do to make sure that kids don't go hungry?
What can I do to make sure that little old
ladies don't go hungry? What do I do to make
sure that disabled veterans don't go hungry, and so we
try to step up right, and everybody's stepping up, and
we're making donations, we're trying to help out, and we're
going to people's go fundmes. We're trying to make sure
that they don't lose their homes, and we're we're highlighting
TSA workers and air traffic controllers, other people who aren't
(05:00):
getting their paychecks and UH and their and their their
landlords are not being patient with them and they're talking
about being evicted and how terrible that is. We're all
trying to help them out. We're going to go fundmeans,
We're doing what we can. Government reopens all of a
sudden backpay hits, all of a sudden snap benefits reload,
and all of a sudden I'm still out all that
money I donated. Where's the relief for the American people
(05:23):
that tried to help the others that were suffering. We
don't get squat And I know I sound terrible, How
dare you? You should be doing out of the kindness
of your heart. I am doing it out of the
kindness of my heart, but also I got bills to
pay I got Christmas coming out. I think that next
(05:44):
time they shut the government down, there ought to be
a rebate check of the rest of us that tried
to help. Oh, did you make a donation? Good, We're
gonna We're gonna make you whole again. Too great, that's
what I'm talking about. But no, the government doesn't work
that way. It's all take, take, take. I know I
sound insensitive again, I know it, but I got I
(06:05):
got Christmas coming up, man, and I'm going, hey, just
give money away. You have a lot of money away,
try to help people out. And you go, well, aren't
you satisfied that you help people eat? Yes, I am.
Isn't that reward enough? No? No, it's not. No, it's
not reward enough. It's not because if it were people
(06:28):
who would otherwise not be made whole by the government
in some way, shape or form for the taxes that
I already pay to the government to do that, then
then I would feel like that's enough. Out of the
kindness of my heart and the spirit of giving around
the holiday season, I'm absolutely thrilled to be making that
donation to help other people. Yes, that's not how it works.
(06:52):
I'm getting I'm getting doubled. I'm getting double dipped. I
don't know can you get double dipped? Normally you do
the double dipping, but I'm feeling like I'm being double
dipped because I'm paying my taxes to pay for these
things that aren't being paid. And then it seems to
be incumbent upon me that I go on a guilt
trip to make sure that I can pay some more
(07:14):
to help out because the government isn't using my tax
dollars for what they promised they were gonna use my
tax dollars to do. So I'm double irket and I'm
not even on the Affordable Care Act. Didn't even imagine
someways on the Affordable Care Act who wanted to help
out their fellow man, and maybe they were saying, I'm
gonna try to make sure that people are getting their
(07:34):
stab benefits or that they're eating because the government's not
gonna reopen and I believe in this fight. And because
I believe in this fight, I'm gonna I'm gonna stretch
my budget to help other people out so that they
don't suffer. So the politicians feel like they have the
strength to continue to fight to keep my health insurance
premiums down. Well, guess what, you're triple dipped. I don't
know if that's right. I don't know if. I don't
(07:55):
know if you can get triple dipped. But they're being
triple dipped because not only are they paying their taxes,
not only is their health insurance premium gonna go up
because the subsidies are going away, but also they tried
to help out their fellow man, and that help was
supposed to be budgeted through the taxes that they paid. Okay,
and just I'm done. I guess I'm get off my
(08:16):
little box now. God, Roner, why did you start me?
You just wound me up to start with. Don't you
bring me into this? Did you do that? You know?
I used to be a complete prob. How you beat
me too? But now I'm just feeling like a I'm
feeling like a real hack That's what I am. Well,
Chris hack Man, you shouldn't say that about yourself. You
(08:37):
should let me say that. Oh all right, I will.
I will retrack that and I will save it for you. Yeah,
I'll wait till till it's the right moment. We are
again waiting on the President. He's supposed to make remarks
talking about how glorious it is that the government is
reopening and you've got double dipped or triple dipped. But
you know that moment when we have a In the meantime,
we're gonna continue on here because there's a political scandal
(09:00):
breaking and you're thinking, okay, but how how high does
this scandal go? Okay, Well, imagine if it was a
former top aid to one of the top names and
all of the charges sound like a luxury shopping spree.
The latest dirty politics bombshell is landing right next to
a name that you absolutely know and know very well.
(09:22):
That is next. I'm Chris MERYLKF. I am six forty
live everywhere in the iHeart Radio app. Vote President Trump
set to speak give remarks after the reopening of the government.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Thank you very much his name.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Listen to any time on demand of the iHeart Radio app.
We are awaiting the president. He set to make remarks
after the I don't know. Sometimes I feel like we
overblow the historic signing to reopen the gun. Well, the
only thing historic is that we let it shut down
as long as we did. And for what Nada ABC
was covering the vote and the reopening.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
As if no time had passed at all.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh, oh, what's you going to say now? It's as
if no time passed at all. The country got right
back on track and everything is hunky dory. Both sides
started sniping at each other or she woke up from
Annapolix sleeping beauty, and.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
We never should have been here, mister speaker. We tried,
as Republicans over a month ago to prevent a government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
We had a vote here on the House floor.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Ninety nine percent of Republicans voted to keep the government open.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
This bill adds rocket fuel to Republicans' larger assault on Americans'
access to quality, affordable healthcare.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yep, it was answer B. They went right back to
sniping at each other.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Finally, back in session after more than fifty days, representatives
returned to the House floor for a feisty debate overfunding
the government.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
And I love the compassion and the passion on the
other side of the aisle. You know, were worried about
taking money out of out of families.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, you know what, y'all can do the right thing
and vote yes, y'all.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
If not, you're the ones that are taking money. No, y'all,
from needy families.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
No you y'all, I will be casting my vote, I
say no.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
In fact, there will be a hell no, hell no tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The building so performative, all of it right, so performative.
And I was thinking about people sitting there listening to
their colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and
I thought, do they take it personally because obviously it's
meant to sound personal, or do they know it's all
part of the show. And I gotta believe they know
(11:36):
it's all part of the show, and they just wait
for their turn to get up and do their little performance,
and then they sit back down and then what all
of a sudden done, Then head down to k Street
and have drinks together.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Before the House funds the government until the end of January,
funds snap benefits through September, reversus shutdown firings, and guarantees
back pay for fur loughed federal workers.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Okay, so guarantee snap benefits through septem Now this is
important because it only guarantees funding the government through the
end of January, which means we get to do this
all again, only we won't have the Snap benefits looming.
We won't have the snap benefits being cut off. So
this is all going to happen again. Uh, air traffic controllers,
(12:21):
I sure hope that you are putting some money aside,
because come in the middle of February, you're not getting
to pay check again. It's just gone. That's that's without
a question.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But Democrats gained nothing in their fight to extend expiring
Affordable Care Act subsidies, now sending healthcare insurance premiums soaring,
Democrats seem determined to hold the line.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
House.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Democrats will continue to fight to address the healthcare crisis
that Republicans have created.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
This fight is not over now.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It will likely be days until six hundred and seventy
thousand fur load workers who haven't been paid in weeks
can get back to work and get paid.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, so days, it's I it's like by next week,
right then whoever makes the work schedule is back at
work making the schedule again, I guess, And then they
can go back to work and then they get there
their lump some uh six weeks of payment. It's been
a really rough six weeks, really rough, but now they're
(13:24):
about to get a giant six week bonus. Basically, Now,
if they were, if they were running unempty and you know,
jacking up those credit cards and not paying their mortgage
and hopefully landlords or banks or offering some sort of relief,
that'd be great until the the paycheck's command. Then they
come in and then they you know, they get this slump. Sum.
(13:47):
I feel horrible, and I'm a terrible person for saying this.
I really really am. And I one hundred percent understand
how horrible I sound when I say this, but it's
the way I feel. And that is the snap benefits
ran out. We all stepped up. We all said, what
can we do to help out my fellow man? What
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can I do to make sure that kids don't go hungry?
What can I do to make sure that little old
ladies don't go hungry? What do I do to make
sure that disabled veterans don't go hungry? And so we
try to step up right, and everybody's stepping up, and
we're making donations. We're trying to help out, and we're
going to people's go fundmes. We're trying to make sure
that they don't lose their homes, and we're we're highlighting
TSA workers and air traffic controllers and other people who
(14:30):
aren't getting their paychecks and their landlords are not being
patient with them, and they're talking about being evicted, and
how terrible that is. We're all trying to help them out.
We're going to go fundmes, We're doing what we can.
Government reopens, all of a sudden backpay hits, all of
a sudden snap benefits reload, and all of a sudden
I'm still out all that money I donated. Where's the
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relief for the American people that tried to help the
others that we're suffering. We don't get squat And I
know I sound terrible. How dare you? You should be
doing out of the kindness of your heart. I am
doing it out of the kindness of my heart. But
also I got bills to pay. I got Christmas coming up.
(15:13):
I think that next time they shut the government down,
there ought to be a rebate check to the rest
of us that tried to help. Oh, did you make
a donation? Good, We're gonna We're gonna make you whole again.
Too great, That's what I'm talking about. But no, the
government doesn't work that way. It's all take, take, take.
I know I sound insensitive again. I know it, but
(15:35):
I got I got Christmas coming up, man, and I'm going, hey,
just give money away. You have a lot of money away,
try to help people out. And you go, well, aren't
you satisfied that you help people eat? Yes, I am.
Isn't that reward enough? No? No, it's not. No, it's
not reward enough. It's not because if it were people
(15:58):
who would otherwise not be made whole by the government
in some way, shape or form for the taxes that
I already pay to the government to do that, then
then I would feel like that's enough. Out of the
kindness of my heart and the spirit of giving around
the holiday season, I'm absolutely thrilled to be making that
donation to help other people. Yes, that's not how it works.
(16:22):
I'm getting I'm getting doubled. I'm getting double dipped. I
don't know. Can you get double dipped? Normally you do
the double dipping. But I'm feeling like I'm being double
dipped because I'm paying my taxes to pay for these
things that aren't being paid, and then it seems to
be incumbent upon me that I go on a guilt
trip to make sure that I can pay some more
(16:44):
to help out because the government isn't using my tax
dollars for what they promised they were gonna use my
tax dollars to do. So I'm double irked, and I'm
not even on the Affordable Care Act. Didn't even imagine
someways on the Affordable Care Act who wanted to help
out their fellow man, and maybe they were saying, I'm
gonna try to make sure that people are getting their
(17:05):
stab benefits or that they're eating because the government's not
gonna reopen and I believe in this fight, and because
I believe in this fight, I'm gonna I'm gonna stretch
my budget to help other people out so that they
don't suffer. So the politicians feel like they have the
strength to continue to fight to keep my health insurance
premiums down, Well, guess what, you're triple dipped. I don't
know if that's right. I don't know if you I
(17:25):
don't know if you can get triple dipped. But they're
being triple dipped because not only are they paying their taxes,
not only is their health insurance premium gonna go up
because the subsidies are going away, but also they tried
to help out their fellow man, and that help was
supposed to be budgeted through the taxes that they paid. Okay,
I'm just something done. I guess I'm get off my
(17:45):
little box now. God Roner, why did you start me?
You just wound me up to start with. Don't you
bring me into this? Did you do that? You know?
I used to be a complete probra how you beat
me too? But now I'm just feeling like I'm feeling
like a real hack That's what I am. Well, Chris
hack Man, you shouldn't say that about yourself. You should
(18:07):
let me say that. Oh all right, I will. I
will retrack that and I will save it for you. Yeah,
I'll wait till till it's the right moment. We are
again waiting on the President's supposed to make remarks talking
about how glorious it is that the government is reopening,
and you've got double dipped or triple dipped. But you
know that moment when we have. In the meantime, we're
going to continue on here because there's a political scandal
(18:30):
breaking and you're thinking, okay, but how high does this
scandal go? Okay, Well, imagine if it was a former
top aid to one of the top names, and all
of the charges sound like a luxury shopping spree. The
latest dirty politics bombshell is landing right next to a
name that you absolutely know and know very well. That
(18:52):
is next. I'm Chris MERYLK. I am six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio. I thought President Trump said to
speak give remarks after the reopening of the government.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Thank you very much. This is a.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
People want illegal aliens and people that came into our
country illegally, from gangs, from prisons, from mental institutions. They
wanted to pay them one point five trillion dollars, which
would have really hurt our health care businesses and our
recipients at levels never seen before.
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Today, we're sending a clear message that we will.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
Never give into extortion, because that's what it was they
tried to extort.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
The Democrats tried to extort our country.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like
we asked Democrats to send us. Although many days ago
this cossed the country.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
One point five trillion dollars, this little excursion that they
took us on.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Republicans never wanted a shut down and voted fifteen times
for a clean continuation of funding. There's never been a
time when one or the other party ever didn't sign
a continuation. It's just a continuation, not a big deal.
It's a continuation and we'll talk later. Yet the extremists
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in the other party insisted on creating the longest government
shut down in American history, and they did it purely
for political reasons. I want to thank Speaker Mike Johnson,
Senate majority of Leader John Tune as well as House
majority of Leader Stiefs Scalise, majority Whipped Tom Emmer, and
numerous other great Republican leaders and congressmen and senators who
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are here and frankly spent a long time in Washington
getting this thing to go. And I also want to
thank the broad coalition of Americans that stood with us
in this fight to reopen government, including the Teamsters, the
American Federation of Government Employees, the Fraternal Order of Police AMBATS,
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the National Small Business Association, the American Farm Bureau of
the American Trump Association.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
These are all incredible patriots. The Airlines for America, the.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Allied Pilots Association, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and
many many others unions and non unions. Over the past
seven weeks, the Democrats shut down as inflicted massive harm.
They caused twenty thousand flights to be canceled or delayed.
They departed so many times so late, people were hurt
(21:27):
so badly. Nobody's ever seen anything like this one. This
was a no brainer, This was an easy extension, but
they didn't want to do it the easy way. They
had to do it the hardware. They looked very bad
the Democrats do. They deprived more than one million government
workers from their paychecks and cut off food stamp benefits
for millions and millions more Americans in need. They caused
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tens of thousands of federal contractors and small businesses.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
To go unpaid.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
And the total effect of the damage there antiscus will
take weeks and probably months to really calculate accurately, including
the serious time that they did to our economy and
to people into families.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
So I just want.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
To tell the American people you should not forget this
when we come up to midterms and other things.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Don't forget what they've done to our country. You also want.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
To call for a termination to the filibuster so that
this can never happen again. If we had the filibuster terminated.
This would never happen again, and don't forget we have
another date coming up in the not too distant future.
We can never let this happen again, and we should
be able to pass great, really great legislation. So I
(22:38):
say terminate the filibuster, because by the way, the Democrats
will do it immediately if they ever assumed office, which
hopefully they won't. Today we had the highest stock market
price ever in all of the different markets.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
We set a record.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
It's the forty eighth time in the nine months that
I've been in office that we had this record set.
So think of that. Forty eight times we had a
record set. But today is the highest of them all.
We're going to break new grounds. Nobody would have thought.
I have with us not only the great political leaders,
but the great business leaders of our country. They're standing
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right behind me and write really alongside of me.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
And if we would have told them a year.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Ago that we'd be having shock prices to hide, none
of them. In fact I just asked them that question.
None of them would have believed it.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
And that endures.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
The jobs and very importantly to four oh one case,
which have also set a record today.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
A record high for the people that have four oh
one case.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
And also I want to thank Walmont because they came
up with a fantastic study. It was the cost of
Thanksgiving coming up and the cost of Thanksgiving from a
year ago under sleepy Joe Biden, and with twenty five
percent lower this year than we were a year ago
and very inclusive reports. I want to thank Walmart. They've
(24:03):
done it for many years. But we believe in that
do we believe in that company.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
I want to also.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Thank the eighth Senate Democrats who finally did the right
thing in voting to end this craziness, this madness. But
unfortunately the vast majority of Congressional Democrats were happy for
millions of Americans to suffer. They really did suffer too,
and the Democrats admitted, they said, well, no, we finally
have a point. Even though people have to suffer, we
(24:30):
finally have a point. And that didn't work out too
well for them. But they really went out and they
could appease the fringe benefits of their far left base.
But that didn't work out because now they're far left
base is angrier than ever before. We actually elected a
mayor of New York City who happens to be a communist?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
When was that going to happen?
Speaker 10 (24:53):
Remember, I said all the time during my campaign we
will never be a socialist country, and that's right.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Turned out to have a communist in New York City.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
And if you look at his views, as are the
views of a communists, not a socialist.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
So this is no way to run a country.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
I hope we can all agree that the government should
never be shut down again again. And did the filibuster
terminate the filibus? It will never happen again. So with
my signature, the federal government will now resume normal operations,
and my administration and our partners in Congress will continue
our work to lower the cost of living, restore public safety,
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grower economy, and make America affordable again for all Americans again.
Costs are way down, energy is way down. Gasoline is
at two dollars and fifty cents a gallon versus four
dollars and seventy.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Cents for the Democrats.
Speaker 10 (25:50):
And we think we're going to hit pretty close to
two dollars a gallon. That's like a really massive tax cut.
It's the equivalent of that. And speaking of tax cuts,
our great, big, beautiful bill is giving everybody in our economy,
middle income workers, low income everybody, the biggest tax cut
in the history.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Of our country.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
And there's no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security,
and very importantly, no tax on overtime. You work overtime,
there's no tax. That's among the things that add up
to the biggest tax cut in history. One other thing,
you know, you hear about rich people with deductions. Well,
when you buy your car and you borrow money, you're
(26:30):
allowed to now deduct the interest on that loan, so
you can take that interest deduction. And what you can
take is that interest payment and deduct it for income
tax purposes. That's a tremendous tax cut right there. But
it all includes fixing the healthcare system the Democrats broke
(26:51):
with the disaster known as Obamacare. Obamacare was a disaster
from day one. It's done nothing but go up. And
if you remember President in Barack Hussain Obama, when he
came up with this crazy idea, he said, everything's going
to be great. Rates are going to go down, payments
are going to go down, everything's going to go down.
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It wasn't the exact opposite. With the biggest increase of
any of health care in any country.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
It's a disaster.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be
paid but for the money, this massive amount of money,
to be paid directly to the people of our country
so that they can buy their own health care, which
will be far better and far less expensive.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Than the disaster known as Obamacare.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
And I've had I think great support, I've even had
Democrat support. So we want the money that would be
going to the insurance company, which is hundreds of billions
of dollars. You know, their stock prices have gone up
by one thousand percent, in many cases a thousand percent
over a short period of time because our country stupidly
(27:58):
pays them so much money with his own Obamacare scandal.
So I want the money to go directly to you,
the people, and you'll go out and you'll buy your
own health insurance, and you'll negotiate different plans and you'll
get much better insurance, and you will be an entrepreneur
for yourself. So I'm always willing to work with anyone,
including the other party. We'll work on something having to
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do with healthcare. We can do a lot better, we
can do great. So much money is involved and we're
willing to pay so much money to the people.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
So we're going to pay a lot of money to
the people.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
They're going to go out and buy their own healthcare,
and we're going to forget this Obamacare madness. So with
all of that, I just want to tell you the
country has never been in better shape. We went through
this short term disaster with the Democrats because they thought
it would be good politically, and it's an honor now
to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Thank you, Okay, thank you very much. I don't know
(29:30):
if you have questions. I think I think, I think
we really have a really great situation. We have a
country that we love, and we have a country that's
in great shade.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
As you know, we have over now, it's over eighteen
trillion dollars invested in our country by other people and countries.
That's a record. There's never been a country that had
so much. And that money's going into also building new
auto plants, do AI plants, do everything.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
We've never had a time like this. Thank you very much,
everybody appreciate Thank you very much. Great, it's a great.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That was President Trumps signing a bill to reopen the
government after the longest shutdown in history. Chris Merrill, are
you here, Yeah, I'm sure, yeah, yeah. Well that was
that was That was a speech from the president. President
Trump said, Uh, I don't think it comes with any surprise.
He was blaming the Democrats for the shutdown, talked about
the damage the shutdown caused, and of course put pin
(30:50):
that on the Democrats. Uh. And then uh, it went
through sort of some of the talking points that we've
heard him say in public here over the last a
few weeks, talking about accomplishments, gas being below two dollars
a gallon and I don't know anywhere in the country
that it is. But he also made mention of Walmart's
Thanksgiving report. He referred to it as being a very
(31:13):
thorough report that they've done for a very long time.
I am unaware of any Walmart Thanksgiving report. I do
know of a sale that they're having, but unaware of
a report. There were a few things that I did
think that we could take away from what the President
had to say, and I will be curious to see
if this is something that he wants to follow up
on in the coming weeks and months. He still was
(31:35):
very concerned about the filibuster. He wants to eliminate the filibuster.
He said, we need to get it done. Do it,
eliminate the filibuster. And by the way, if we don't
do it, the Democrats will, They'll do it in a heartbeat.
But he also said that was a good thing, so
I guess he's supporting the Democratic proposal on that. When
it comes to healthcare, his proposal on healthcare was to
empower you put money in your own pocket and allow
(31:58):
you to negotiate with the insurance as companies. We'll buy
a little bit deeper into that. Here in just a
few moments, I want to make sure we get off
to Mark Ronerd. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere
in the Iheartrady.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You heard the president speak. You also heard the President
signing that bill. So now the government is officially reopened,
which means I think all the planes go right back
into the skies and there's no more trash at any
of the national parks. So that's nice. That's why, you know.
That is one thing that discussed me about people government
shuts down and somehow the trash piles up. What what
(32:33):
does the matter with you? But you go to a
national park and then you think, oh, I'm just gonna
start throwing trash everywhere? Why God, what is wrong with you?
I know it's not you, it's everybody else, but it's
not me, So gotta be somebody. I just don't get that.
(32:55):
I never do. I don't get it at all. You know,
they left the gates open so you could get in
during the shutdown. The least you could do is bring
your Snickers wrapper back with you. Nope, throw it on
the trail. That's what they get what I don't understand it.
So the President was talking about ending the filibuster, and
(33:17):
he said, if we didn't have that filibuster, none of
this ever would have happened. And he's right, he's absolutely
correct on that. If we didn't have the filibuster, the
Republicans could have ram through their bill. Yes, one hundred
percent true, And without the filibuster, as soon as the
Democrats take control again, they could ram through an even
(33:39):
bigger Obamacare bill. In fact, if not for the filibuster
in the first place, we wouldn't have even had the
drama around passing the original Affordable Care Act, but we
did so it was close. If you eliminate the filibuster,
the advantage ghost to whoever has the majority, and that
(33:59):
is it's a majority rule, period, flat out. And historically
Democrats have favored eliminating the filibuster. Republicans do tend to
use it more when they're in the minority, and every
party in the minority likes to lean into the filibuster,
(34:21):
which is why we have what they call the nuclear option,
which is, let's pass a bill on party lines that
isn't related to any bill that qualifies for a filibuster.
Let's pass a bill that allows us to overcome the
filibuster so they can use majority rule to enact majority
rule where there wasn't previously majority rule. We saw this
happen with appointments of federal judges. The Democrats use that
(34:44):
in order to get to judges appointed during the Obama administration,
and then the Republicans used it to get Supreme Court
justices seated during Trump's first administration. They use the nuclear option,
they blew up the philibuster around those very specific measures,
and now it's just majority rule when it comes to
(35:06):
seating judges. So the idea is, let's get rid of
the filibuster for budgets. But what do we know about
what do we know about benefits in America? Once you
have it, you can't take it away. So if the
Democrats get control and they go, well, wait a minute,
(35:27):
we have to keep funding snap at levels you know
this level, and we have to give this you know
this much more. And we also want to make sure
that we're providing, for instance, subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.
They're going to pass it, and then the Republicans come
back to power, and then what the Republicans go, We're
going to take all that away. No, it's not. It's
not a political winner. The Republicans can slowly scale things back,
(35:52):
but generally speaking, they don't generally speaking. In fact, even
what we're arguing over right now are the subsidy to
the Affordable Care Act that were added during COVID. It's
not as though this bill eliminates the Affordable Care Act.
It just gets rid of those enhanced subsidies that have
been around for the last five years. But because they've
been there, now we know that the cost of the
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healthcare is going to jump significantly because people have been
leaning in those subsidies likewise goes the other way. When
it comes to taxes, Republicans like to cut the taxes,
So the Republicans could use the filibuster to enact tax
cuts figure tax cuts, and then the Democrats come along
and they go, oh, well, we have to raise taxes.
That is not a political winner. People do not like
(36:36):
seeing more money taken out of their paychecks. Funny how
that works. So the truth is, we just like getting stuff.
So if you eliminate the filibuster, what's going to end
up happening. Well, the Republicans are going to hate it
when they don't have control. The Democrats are going to
love it when they don't have control. In the long run,
it's going to favor the Democrats over the Republicans. But
what you'll see is that national debt climb and climb
(36:58):
and climb and climb, because we don't like having stuff
taken away once we've got it, and we will vote
against the people who want to take it away. We
will vote for the people that want to give us
more stuff. Okay, So that's the that's the first thing
the president was talking about. He wants to get rid
of that philibuster. I don't think it's a very good idea,
(37:20):
and the Democrats almost did get rid of it. They
almost did, but they had two moderate Democrats who said no,
Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin from West Virginia. They voted
against it, and that's why we still have the philibuster.
Otherwise the government wouldn't have been shut down, but also
there would have been other laws passed that the Republicans
(37:42):
wudn't have liked. Now the other the other key point
that the President made when he was speaking. I want
to address this because I happen to know a little
bit about it, and that is he said he wants
to make sure that people get the money so that
they can negotiate their own health care direct This seems
like the concepts of a plan to eliminate the Affordable
(38:06):
Care Act altogether so that you become the chief negotiator
with the insurance company, just out of curiosity. Do you
know insurance inside and out? So that when it comes
time to negotiate you are well prepared. Are you ready
to go against someone who professionally negotiates health care contracts?
(38:30):
Because I'm gonna guess that you're not. I'm going to
guess that you are like the majority of us who
don't understand a daggum thing about health insurance industry because
it is intentionally confusing. I know something about this because
I'm very fortunate to be married to someone whose job
it is to negotiate with healthcare insurance companies on behalf
(38:52):
of providers. And let me tell you who does not
understand health insurance doctors. That's why they hire my wife,
because they don't understand how it all works. Private care,
third party administrators, Medicare, Medicaid advantage plans. There's a lot
that goes into this, and if you don't know it
inside and out, they got somebody that does, and they
(39:15):
know how to put loopholes in those contracts. So if
you're in charge of negotiating your own healthcare, good luck.
I'm in good shape. I have a pro on my side.
I hope you do too. There's a reason that we
have other people do things for us, because we cannot
be experts in all things. I pay a mechanic to
(39:37):
fix my car because if I don't, you'll die. When
I'm driving down the road and the tire falls off
and hit your windshield, fact, I pay a roofer to
take care of the roof on my house because if
I do it, I'm gonna put the nail through the
shingle in the wrong spot, and then I got leaks
(39:58):
all over the place. My roof is gonna look a sieve.
I don't know how to roof right. We hire other
people to do the jobs we don't know how to do,
nor do we have the time to do those jobs
or to learn the skills necessary to do those jobs.
You pay for You pay for Microsoft Word, you pay
(40:24):
for a spreadsheet program, You pay for your Windows on
your computer because you don't have the time or the
skills necessary to write the code to create your own
operating system and spreadsheets and word processors, so you buy it.
There's a reason that people pay other people to do
(40:46):
the negotiating for them. We are not health insurance professionals.
But again, I'm okay. I'm married to one. She's pretty dynamite.
Let me tell you who. She can't stand health insurance
companies because us who side? They are not on you? Baby?
You hey? Speaking of emergencies, get off the air yesterday
(41:09):
and all of a sudden, everybody starts getting emergency alerts
and what emergency phones lighting up for the wrong reason.
You're going to find out why that happened to you.
NeXT's Chris Merrill KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
in the iHeart.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Radio at you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Tonight's show is going to be a found on the
featured podcast section of KFI AM six forty dot com.
You'll be able to grab that. I don't want to
talk about the government anymore. Is that okay? I want
to talk about the shutdown that I feel like we
spent like three segments on. I think we're good, right?
We all? Are? We all good? Is there anything else
going on? You can't be serious? Well, there is something
(41:51):
I'm concerned with I see, and that is that behind
the scenes, there was coordination going on between the executive producer,
the the news cruise, the studio engineers, and then I
was added into that text chain as well, and I
am dismayed to find out just how many of you
(42:11):
have androids. Tony has an Android. I didn't. I didn't
have Tony's number on my phone, but it's an Android,
so I tried to share my contact with him. And
I can't do it because he has an Android. So,
as far as I can tell, Mark, I know you've
got an Android. No, no, no, Why does everything come
up with green with you on my phone? Your equipment
(42:32):
is faulty and as a complete pro, you should have
better equipment. Wow, good one, you like that. That's one
to one so far today? Hold on, how is it
that I've got? Well, that's weird? All right? So you
got the iPhone? Huh right? All right, then I guess
both of us can just kind of make fun of Tony.
(42:53):
So I do just have an iPhone. It's the matter
with him. Can't share my contact infoul with him. It
really bothers me. Tony, what's it gonna take for you
to get an iPhone? Never? Come on, there's nothing. Come on,
what if I get it for you? What if I
get you an iPhone? That's a waste of money on you?
Then you still wouldn't use it? No? Okay, all right,
(43:14):
well can we talk? Can we have Tony explain his
antipathy to iPhones? Because this is baffling. I think they're great.
Go on, Tony, well first time your silly position. I'll
never spend that much money for a phone. Well, that's
why I'm offering to buy it. Say, I just don't
like their os, never have. Oh okay, I always thought
it was clunky, but I'm adask guy. I used to
(43:36):
know machine code, so oh okay, so you need some
dots and slashes and things like that. I hate Windows
as well, so oh you do what do you use?
Are you? Oh? No, I use Windows now when I
have to. But when you don't have to, what are
you using? Well, I've gone back and forth on Linux.
That annoys me too. Oh okay, all right, you're going
all right, all right, Linux, but.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
I have.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Well that's the graphic Linux. Yeah, you don't like the graphic.
That's like Windows Linux. It's just as bad. So you're
basically like like one of those movie hackers, like you
just like to sit down and just type that code
right out. I just know what I need to know,
like I use like Bapto, Sarah and stuff like that.
I'm impressed. Okay, all right, well then I won't waste
(44:21):
my money on you. Thanks. All right, we're gonna find
something else for Christmas. Mark. I don't know what we're
gonna get him. Get him something that allows him to
use morse code. Well, that's not bad. Hey, can't you
just write you? Can't you just code yourself a program
on whatever phone you have? And uh, so you can
at least accept my contact. I'm also so that's why
(44:42):
buried the lead. Very good, all right, Well, uh and
we'll keep you around. You're all right, though, Yeah, I
do like you. Uh did you get the Tony? Did
your phone get the the emergency alert yesterday? False alert?
(45:03):
Oh you didn't get this, No, probably because you don't
have an iPhone. I think I turned them all off,
all the alerts I turned off. Oh, I did too.
I had somebody yell at me one time. They go,
you turned off the Amber alerts, and I said, yeah,
I did you monster? I know. But here's the fact
of the matter. If there's an Amber alert and I'm awake,
I'm usually connected to something, right And oftentimes I'm at
(45:25):
work where we're the ones distributing the Amber alert. And
if I'm not, I'm at home and I'm sleeping, and
I'm not looking for somebody's missing kid. I can't unless
that kid is in my bedroom, which would be a
completely different problem. It's of no use to anybody that
I get that Amber alert. So I know I'm a
terrible person. I get it all the time. No, no, dare you.
(45:47):
But other people did get this false alert yesterday.
Speaker 9 (45:50):
If you live in La County, you probably got this
alert on your.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
Cell phone from CBSLA.
Speaker 9 (45:55):
This is a test of the South Pasadena w EA system.
There is no emergency.
Speaker 11 (46:01):
I got the alert and I was a little scared, obviously.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
Yeah, my heart jumped.
Speaker 9 (46:07):
Thale started buzzing just before six Tuesday night, hitting about
ten million devices across La County from the San Fernando
Valley down to the South Bay. I saw that it
was a test, so I didn't think like I just
like deleted it. Some people were confused about why they
were even getting it if they weren't in South Pasadena.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Can I pat your dog?
Speaker 9 (46:27):
Like this man in Temple City about twenty minutes away.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Just honestly wasn't sure what the alert was even for.
I mean, I just saw the abbreviation. I was like,
what is this? Like? I just rushed it aside. We
went to rushed it aside. Yeah. I figured if it
was an earthquake, then you know, I just feel it.
Speaker 9 (46:41):
South Pasadena City Hall for answers.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
We believe that it likely was a human error, but
we are working with our vendor to understand exactly what happened.
Speaker 9 (46:49):
Public Information Officer Jennifer Colby says the city was running
a routine test of its wireless emergency alert system when
a mistake sent the alert out to millions of La
County residents. The city can alert other areas in a
major emergency, but she says Tuesday's test was supposed to
stay internal.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, but that it didn't. Somebody clicked the wrong box.
Speaker 11 (47:12):
It could be something as small as just you know,
selecting the wrong feature.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah, basically just said that.
Speaker 11 (47:17):
But again, this is something we do every month, many
agencies do every month, and we have no issues the.
Speaker 9 (47:22):
Test or not. The alert still went out to millions
of people, you know who.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
My understanding is is that the the IT crew there
that was in charge of checking the right box they
are unfamiliar with Windows because they kind of tink around
with Linux and they really don't know how the Windows
system works. I also understand that those IT people don't
use the iPhone, so they tend to make mistakes when
they're using what they say are inferior operating systems and programming.
(47:49):
That's a sick burn Tony shaking his head. He's like,
that's just how Jerry as saying that about my eating it.
You can't say that about my brothers and it.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
Know.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
Now, where were you when this alert happened?
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Me?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
I was ignoring the alert. I just assumed it was
an amber alert, you know me? Okay. So I was
in Whole Foods and stopped to get a sandwich, an
expensive sandwich at Whole Foods before I came into work,
and the alert went off. Every single person in the
store stopped, pulled out their phone, stared at it with
it with their mouth half open, and it was. It
was such a dystopian moment. I didn't like it. I
felt like I was part of the matrix. I did
(48:27):
not want any part of that, regardless of you were
above it all. Well, I don't like feeling like I'm
at somebody else's disposal as part of like the borg.
I don't like that. Yeah, but look at you. It
was like you raised yourself above the borg. You basically
became a god in that moment because you were able
(48:48):
to witness all other people performing in unity. I didn't
feel all transfixed. No, you were though. You were just
for a moment. Well, they were all hypnot tied by
their phone. You, sir, you were above it. It was
that's a surreal moment. I'm glad I talked to you
about it. You basically became for just a second thanos. Oh.
(49:14):
When you put it like that, then I enjoy it.
That's what I was looking for, all right. Uh, I
think we're going to reopen the scandal, because who doesn't
love a good scandal? This one. The reopening was inevitable.
That happened today. That's next time, Chris merrill if I
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