August 13, 2026 • 26 mins
(August 13, 2026)
Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversite
Pilot partnering LAPD and LAAS finalized to combat animal cruelty on skid row
More and more wealthy Californians are seeking 'Golden Visa' residency outside the US
Europeans, Braved for 5th heatwave of 2026
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listen Saints kf I AM six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app real quickly.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This uh Sunday, Neil and I are inviting you to
join us at the Anaheim White House the thirty ninth
Anniversary Dinner, Italian style, really high high end dinner, many courses,
six thirty to ten pm on Sunday at the Anaheim
White House. Dinner ninety five bucks per person with wine
pairings one hundred and fifty plus tax and gratuity. And
(00:32):
it's one of those super high end meals, destination meals
that you don't forget for a very long time. So
if you would like to join us and sit with us,
just call the White House at seven one four seven
seven two thirteen eighty one seven one four seven seven
two thirteen eighty one, or visit Just visit Anaheim white
House dot com. That's the easiest way, Anaheim white House
(00:52):
dot com. All right, AI, we're gonna have AI stories
for the next insert the future here, whatever day you want.
And one of the things about AI chatbots, which you've
been hearing for a long time now, people use chatbots
like crazy, But did you know that the laws that
(01:13):
govern you, and I'm talking about laws passed by Congress
use well, those amendments use chatbots. And for example, this summer,
hundreds of amendments were filed. One was to an annual
defense bill, and the representative and Apauline Luna's office sent
(01:36):
a summary of what the Defense bill amendment would be.
And here is the line that started it all increasing examples,
specific factors identical to HR one hundred parentheses one hundred
and eighteenth Congress eleven twenty five am question mark, question marks,
(01:58):
question mark.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, no one knows, of course it was. What it
was was Ai coming up with one of his hallucinations.
And the problem is one of her staffers copied that answer,
timestamp and all and put it into the public record
of the National Defense Authorization Act. And she defended it.
She goes, not a shocker, most of my staff use
it chat bots, and she went further, A lot of
(02:27):
my staff will use chat GPT Claude Grock. Now I
like Grock better, but my staff prefers Claude, and I'm
not going to knock him for that. There's nothing illegal
about him doing a summary. There is nothing illegal about
this chatbot writing the amendment, writing the law. Now, the
reality is is legislators don't write their own laws. Staffers do.
(02:51):
When I was involved in writing the first surrogacy laws
in California many years ago, through matter of fact, the
mid eighties, I had the asemblymen who I met with
him once or twice, and then it was with the
staffers for months to write the bill. Today, you can
write that bill in two seconds with AI. The problem
(03:14):
is relying on AI to do this is not such
a good idea. Now, initial drafts maybe, and people do
use that. And there's a couple of ways of using
AI that Congress people have. And I'll give you two examples,
one of which makes a lot of sense and the
other one is completely crazy. Okay, let's start with crazy.
(03:40):
A gopaid in one of the Republican offices says he
uses co pilot to write appropriation's amendments. He actually uses
this chatbot to write the amendments to create laws. Wow.
And then there's one which I'm fine with. This congress
(04:03):
person Republican aid actually exported all of his phone contacts
and text messages, years of conversations into a personal clought
account and It told him to build the database of
every reporter he has ever dealt with, what he pitched
to the reporters, which ones they accepted, which extensions, exchanges
went badly, and it auto updated self the chatbot with
(04:26):
each new conversation. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with
doing all of these administrative tasks that is not that
is not inappropriate, and that's using AI in an area
that okay, I would do that too. But the bottom
line is when they're when when you have AI actually
(04:48):
writing the bills and then producing them, considering their hallucinations,
considering that the previous uh well, let's say, uh uh
previous acts that people will do the bad actors, and
you're trying to undo that or create a law that
is going to change people's behavior, and you're not doing it,
(05:12):
and the oversight is minimal. By the way, that is
perfectly legal to do that. I don't know if you
knew that is that Congress. Congress people can just say
I want a claude, I want a law that limits
the size of dogs that a household can have. Boom,
you have an amendment that comes up, or you have
(05:33):
this long, lengthy explanation because usually there are notes that
are dyning and the courts look at that. People don't
realize that when Congress or any legislative entity writes up
a bill, there are notes that come with it, and
there's sometimes they look to that when there are ambiguities. Well,
(05:54):
there are no notes when it comes to AI, Hey,
give me a bill, give me a bee, give me
an I, give me an L, give me another L
yay bill. They probably don't say that, do they? Raw
raw ree kick them in the knee raw raw rass? Okay,
(06:16):
coming up that pilot program that is partnering the lap
D and l A A s LA. What's the stand
for animal Well, I guess the Animal Protective folks. Anyways,
it has been finalized. A partnership has been finalized to
combat animal cruelty on skid row and that seems to
(06:38):
be a huge problem. And we've seen homeless people. I
see them all the time on the side of the
road when they're begging for food, will work for food,
and the trickers to hand them cans of dog food
and they eat that. Anyway, the homeless people. Okay, we'll
be back.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
As usual, a lot of news going on. It turned
out that that Ruse, the flight in which the President
sneaked off the old Air Force one went onto a
catering truck, inside the truck and then was driven to
another airplane, was in many cases or being argued that
it was basically too much, way too much, because the
(07:24):
threat that was reported really wasn't much of a threat.
It was Raelis that brought the information to Secret Service,
and in abundant abundance of caution, the Service and had
to do so went ahead and did that created that
RUSE and the CIA were finding out, gave it not
(07:44):
much credence, low confidentiality, that it was for low confidence
that the threat was real. Okay, now you've gone past
homeless people of course, the freeways, and how many times
do you see these guys with their dogs and women
(08:05):
with their dogs hanging loose and they sit there and
that's kind of terrible, and I feel, of course, you
feel sorry for the dog much more than the person. Well,
that's been going on for a long time, obviously, Well
you only see the tip of the nose of that dog. Oh,
not bad. What's been happening is on skid row. A
(08:25):
lot of these dogs are dying, they're sick. These animals
are dying and sick because well it's homeless people on
skid row. They can't take care of themselves much less
much less they're pets. So the LAPD and LA Animal
Services now have a permanent partnership. There was a pilot
program that was successful according to Karen Bass, la Mayor,
(08:48):
and this finalizes that program that provides animal cruelty investigation
training to cops. So you have cops not only trained
to de escalate when they're dealing with human beings, but
also deal with animal cruelty or animal neglect. And monthly
clinics will be available on skid Row to provide pet
(09:11):
owners the opportunity to spay new to their pets, vaccinate them,
microchip them. And what Bass said, we're bringing regular spay
and neuter services skid Row and building strong partnerships with
nonprofits to deliver real solution. And so you're going to
see much like the talk. Much like when police go
(09:32):
out on a mental health call, the argument is you
bring a mental health practitioner an expert with the cop
to deal with that situation. Of course, if you're talking
about a violent situation, then the cop or cops go
by themselves. Maybe not, maybe they go with a mental
health practitioner or an expert. Well, the same thing is
(09:54):
happening here with the animal cruelty folks, and this is
going to well hopefully protect the animals as they should be.
There is a volunteer with un group starts with one
Today is the name of the group, and he's a
volunteer and says, I mean, it's crazy, We're coming out here,
(10:16):
risking our lives to help these dogs no support from
the government because heretofore pets were just being ignored. And
that's a lot of why homeless people won't go to shelters,
because they're not going to leave their animals. And that
is a real problem for sure. I mean, when you
look at homeless shelters temporary shelters as the end all
(10:38):
be all, the panacea, you know you've got, first of all,
you have a good number of mentally ill people that
just won't go, and then you have pet owners that
are not going to give up their pets. And I
can see that. And the group says that regular receives
calls from people reporting dogs being sold for drugs or
animals dying on the street. I mean, that is a heartbreaker.
(11:04):
And so one of the things about animals, well also kids,
is they've got no place to go. There are no alternatives.
How weird is that that they won't go into shelter
because they don't want to give up their dog, but
they'll give them up for drugs. And they'll like, well,
it's not the same it's not the same person. It's
clearly not the working person. But it is just a
(11:27):
horrible situation. The whole issue of homelessness is a horrible situation.
And I've told that story about my brother's ex fiance
many years ago, and we found her on the street,
found her on the street, she was living on the street,
and immediately put her up at a motel until she
could get housing, which was available. She didn't even have
(11:48):
the wherewithal to figure out how she got housing, so
she ended up in a program. And the point of
the story is she then invited other homeless people, buddies
of hers, to sleep on the floor of her apartment.
It was a little studio apartment. I mean, at least
it was warm, there was a carpet that they'd sleep
on and they left. Several of them just didn't stay
(12:11):
there because they felt more comfortable out on the street.
I mean, that's mental illness to a very high level.
And when and when that kind of mental illness translates
into dogs and cats, particularly dogs, then something has to
be done. And I have to give La in this case,
Karen Bass, some kudos for doing that, incorporating animal control
(12:34):
people with the police when a report of animal cruelty
or neglect is made. Okay, oh, you've heard of this one.
Wealthy Californians. More and more of them are saying I'm
out of here. Well not necessarily I'm out of here,
but they want residency and they want citizenship of other
(12:57):
countries to give them some options. And I know someone
who is doing that right now. Someone is pretty close
to me, by the way. It's me, and I'll share
that story with you. Oh God, that was good, wasn't it.
Look how I did that? See, that's drama. Okay, this
is why this is why we do so well. It's
(13:19):
me and that's you. So why don't we come back
to us and go all right? That didn't work either.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Verizon has announced twenty five thousand dollars reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for
cutting its fiber optic cables. I mean, that was a story,
a big story over the weekend. And Nick Reiner, the
son of Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, who has been
(13:54):
arrested for murdering his parents. He's on trial or we'll
be on trial now, has been charged with lying in
wait in addition to the murder charges. That's special circumstances.
That's death penalty time. And he is he's either life
in prison without possibility parole if convicted of lying in
wait and murdering someone, and or the death penalty. And
(14:16):
they're gonna They're not gonna go for the death penalty,
nor should they because there's enough crazy in him. And
also death penalty is way, way, way too costly for citizens,
for those of us in California. Now, Golden visas, and
what are those about, Well, putting a pile of money
into another country, either investing in business or just bringing
(14:40):
the money in so you can get a visa to
live there. Basically a green card allowing someone to live
in another country. And basically going for citizenship too. The
United States now allows dual citizenship, so that gets easy.
Getn't used to. When my parents came to the United
States in the fifties and we became US cityens, my
(15:01):
folks had to give up their Brazilian citizenship. The United
States did not allow foreign citizenship, and so today it's
a different animal. Today anybody can be a citizen of
anything of any country, assuming the country lets you. And
therein lies a real problem because immigration is tough all
over the world. So what a lot of these countries
(15:24):
are doing is sure, you can come in, but you
got to bring in a pile of money. These are
the golden visas. We have one ourselves that the President
established and it's called, of course, the Trump Visa. How unusual,
and someone brings in a pile of money and gets
a visa with Trump's picture on it. No, those are
the new passports that we have that have President Trump's
(15:48):
picture on it. So more and more of these people
are getting these visas. And why because of the political fallout.
Now you would think, and this is my group of
people that I know, and particularly friends of Lynz because
Lens is you know, pretty liberal who despise Trump, and
it's because of Trump they're leaving. But let me tell you,
(16:10):
almost as many people are the other side too. There
are people that are so afraid of another Biden administration
or another Biden like administration, they're establishing themselves in other countries,
not that they're moving, but that they're going to be there,
either part time or as a hedge right, as an alternative.
(16:31):
If things go south the way we anticipate, one way
or the other, doesn't matter what political side of the
spectrum you are, then you gets you go to a
place to live. And so, as I said, is it
happening to me? You bet? Now? Part of my plan
is to live in especially more lindsay, is to live
(16:52):
in Italy part of the year when I'm done and
finished with morning drive, which'll god, I've been doing this
for so along, I don't even know what it's like,
not waking up and you know, coming to my studio.
And so I am applying for Polish citizenship. Why uh,
because it does track Because I want to be the
(17:12):
butt of a Polish jokes. I'm tired of just telling
people Polish jokes. I now want to be the recipient.
How many Brazilian Americans is a take to screw in
a light bulb. Who becomes poles? Who become poles? Very interesting? Uh?
And and because I'm going to be Polish, Lindsay is
and uh, by the way, she's a hell of a dancer,
(17:33):
so she'll be doing pole dancing. That was terrible. You know,
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Uh. The point is,
why would I be doing that because I want to
move now. I'm not particularly upset. I mean, I'm not
happy with what's going on, but not enough to up
and leave the country. For me, it's because I just
like the idea of walking into any European country. And
(17:56):
I'm basically a citizen because Italy is one of the
or Poland is part of the European Union, and so
that means I don't stand in line. I can buy,
I can work, I can do whatever. And it just
gives me a nice alternative. So I will have three
citizenships and people can have many more than that never
used to happen. I am Brazilian, as you know, born
(18:18):
in Brazil, which makes me automatically a Brazilian citizen. I
am an American because my parents had the wherewithal to
come to the United States and give them. I'm ever
grateful for having become an American citizen because I'm so
proud of being an American. So to me, technically I'm
Brazilian because I was born there, and technically I'm going
(18:39):
to be Polish so I can hang out in Europe
at at my leisure and not have to worry about it.
But more and more people are doing it, and there
are companies that do this. Eric Major is head of
one company, Latitude, and he says eighty five percent of
his clients are now American. It used to be the
(19:00):
vast majority were not. And here is what he said.
His firm grew from roughly three clients a year from Americans,
the vast majority were overseas, from three clients a year
to more than one hundred clients a year Americans that
(19:20):
are buying into going to other countries, buying these golden visas.
And it's for wealthy people, because how many people have
five hundred thousand dollars in cash to go to another
country and some a million dollars in cash indeed, But
you know, for wealthy, wealthy people, there a few things
(19:41):
that wealthy people have that we will never have to
that extent. One of them is money. Wealthy people have
a tendency of having more money, more opportunities, a lot
more things and places of experts and employees and are
available to the rest of society. And one of them,
(20:04):
one of them is, you know what, why don't you
become a resident or a citizen of some other country
just in case, just in case the world has turned
and trump Ism has taken over the world, or just
in case somehow we go back to the Biden area
era in the United States becomes biden Esque either way,
(20:27):
not necessarily leaving, but just using it as an alternative
and a hedge and just having a place to hang
and not having to worry about being a tourist. All right,
coming up, talking about Europe, man, are you ready for this?
The fifth heat wave of twenty twenty six and Europeans
(20:49):
are struggling? Oh, my goodness are they? And I'll share
that with you when we come back.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Some of the big story we are looking at. What
a shocker. Democrat zeevory Bsera is holding a big lead
fifty five to thirty seven percent over Republican Steve Hilton
in the gubernatorial race. Wow, a governor, a Democratic governor
is set to win in California. Okay, hey, we talk
(21:21):
about heat here. Man, it's nothing compared to what's going
on in Europe. I mean it is crazy. They're now
bracing for the fifth heat wave of twenty twenty six.
Do you remember the movie The Graduate when Dustin Hoffman
is he's sitting around in the pool and one of
his dad's buddies and because Hoffman doesn't know what he's
going to do with his living for a living, and
(21:43):
the buddy, Dad's buddy looks at him and goes, I
got one word for you, plastic plastics go to Europe
right now. I've got one word for you. HVAC actually
has four words, HVAC air conditioning. Good time to be
in the air conditioning business, man. It is the highest
(22:06):
temperature on record in Europe and this is their fifth
go round, and so what are well? The only thing
that the governments can do is establish drought measures, like
you can't water your lawn, not that they have lawns,
but you can't wash your car, not that they wash
(22:26):
their cars. But do you remember when the drought was
here years ago, and we couldn't water our lawn, we
couldn't wash our cars, we couldn't flush our toilets after peeing. Seriously,
that was Governor Brown, the old governor. No, that was
Governor Jerry Brown. Literally the phrase was, and it's hilarious.
(22:50):
I tell people this and they're completely disgusted. Here was
the official phrase from the government. If it's yellow, let
it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down. And we did. Now,
our houses were disgusting, but we did exactly that, and
we saved ourselves a ton of water, far more than
(23:12):
was anticipated. Now, what's going to happen in Europe, we
don't know. What we do know is droughts like have
never been felt before are going across the continent. For example, Serbia,
the Danube. You go on the Danube and you can
actually see ships from Nazi fleets that were sunk at
(23:36):
the end of World War Two. You can walk across
rivers that are no longer rivers, across the river beds
and you've got hail, just the violent rainstorms like what
we have here. I mean, watching the news every night,
it's a weather story. I mean every night as I
look at the news and you see what's going on
(23:59):
in the Midwest, in the South at a certain times,
certainly in the Northeast, where it's just crazy one hundred
mile an hour winds, a hurricane level wind not hurricanes,
mind you, hurricane level winds, and the flooding that's out
of control. We've been very, very lucky. I don't think
we have had record heat. I think we're right along
(24:23):
in hot water, in hot water, in hot temperatures. Amy,
you follow this more than I do. But weather in
southern California has not been record breaking for the most part.
We've had a pretty mild up to this point weather,
haven't we We've had temperatures above normal, but it's not
record breaking per se this summer. Yeah, No, it's actually
(24:45):
been pretty good. I mean always there's temperatures above or
below normal. For us, it's been pretty good. Europe, good God.
And they're not used to it. Oh that's the other thing.
I'll tell you what they don't have. They don't have
air conditioning. It's just not something Europe does. They didn't
have automatic transmissions and cars for the longest time, certainly
not air conditioning in cars, and not even power windows
(25:08):
can you imagine buying a car where you're still crank windows. Well,
it wasn't too long ago where that's exactly what happens
in many European cars. Different world, totally different world. So
go to Europe and die of heat. Nothing has seen
like I'd been seen like it before. Coming up, Caroline
(25:31):
Lovett leaves the White House as Press Secretary. I'm going
to cover that. I tell you a little bit about background,
and she's been unusual and she has done an extraordinary
job considering what the President has asked her to do,
and she's done it a little bit differently, a lot differently,
And I'll share that with you when we come back.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
This uh Sunday, Neil and I are inviting you to
join us at the Anaheim White House the thirty ninth
Anniversary Dinner, Italian style, really high high end dinner, many courses,
six thirty to ten pm on Sunday at the Anaheim
White House. Dinner ninety five bucks per person with wine
pairings one hundred and fifty plus tax and gratuity. And
(00:32):
it's one of those super high end meals, destination meals
that you don't forget for a very long time. So
if you would like to join us and sit with us,
just call the White House at seven one four seven
seven two thirteen eighty one seven one four seven seven
two thirteen eighty one, or visit Just visit Anaheim white
House dot com. That's the easiest way, Anaheim white House
(00:52):
dot com. All right, AI, we're gonna have AI stories
for the next insert the future here, whatever day you want.
And one of the things about AI chatbots, which you've
been hearing for a long time now, people use chatbots
like crazy, But did you know that the laws that
(01:13):
govern you, and I'm talking about laws passed by Congress
use well, those amendments use chatbots. And for example, this summer,
hundreds of amendments were filed. One was to an annual
defense bill, and the representative and Apauline Luna's office sent
(01:36):
a summary of what the Defense bill amendment would be.
And here is the line that started it all increasing examples,
specific factors identical to HR one hundred parentheses one hundred
and eighteenth Congress eleven twenty five am question mark, question marks,
(01:58):
question mark.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, no one knows, of course it was. What it
was was Ai coming up with one of his hallucinations.
And the problem is one of her staffers copied that answer,
timestamp and all and put it into the public record
of the National Defense Authorization Act. And she defended it.
She goes, not a shocker, most of my staff use
it chat bots, and she went further, A lot of
(02:27):
my staff will use chat GPT Claude Grock. Now I
like Grock better, but my staff prefers Claude, and I'm
not going to knock him for that. There's nothing illegal
about him doing a summary. There is nothing illegal about
this chatbot writing the amendment, writing the law. Now, the
reality is is legislators don't write their own laws. Staffers do.
(02:51):
When I was involved in writing the first surrogacy laws
in California many years ago, through matter of fact, the
mid eighties, I had the asemblymen who I met with
him once or twice, and then it was with the
staffers for months to write the bill. Today, you can
write that bill in two seconds with AI. The problem
(03:14):
is relying on AI to do this is not such
a good idea. Now, initial drafts maybe, and people do
use that. And there's a couple of ways of using
AI that Congress people have. And I'll give you two examples,
one of which makes a lot of sense and the
other one is completely crazy. Okay, let's start with crazy.
(03:40):
A gopaid in one of the Republican offices says he
uses co pilot to write appropriation's amendments. He actually uses
this chatbot to write the amendments to create laws. Wow.
And then there's one which I'm fine with. This congress
(04:03):
person Republican aid actually exported all of his phone contacts
and text messages, years of conversations into a personal clought
account and It told him to build the database of
every reporter he has ever dealt with, what he pitched
to the reporters, which ones they accepted, which extensions, exchanges
went badly, and it auto updated self the chatbot with
(04:26):
each new conversation. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with
doing all of these administrative tasks that is not that
is not inappropriate, and that's using AI in an area
that okay, I would do that too. But the bottom
line is when they're when when you have AI actually
(04:48):
writing the bills and then producing them, considering their hallucinations,
considering that the previous uh well, let's say, uh uh
previous acts that people will do the bad actors, and
you're trying to undo that or create a law that
is going to change people's behavior, and you're not doing it,
(05:12):
and the oversight is minimal. By the way, that is
perfectly legal to do that. I don't know if you
knew that is that Congress. Congress people can just say
I want a claude, I want a law that limits
the size of dogs that a household can have. Boom,
you have an amendment that comes up, or you have
(05:33):
this long, lengthy explanation because usually there are notes that
are dyning and the courts look at that. People don't
realize that when Congress or any legislative entity writes up
a bill, there are notes that come with it, and
there's sometimes they look to that when there are ambiguities. Well,
(05:54):
there are no notes when it comes to AI, Hey,
give me a bill, give me a bee, give me
an I, give me an L, give me another L
yay bill. They probably don't say that, do they? Raw
raw ree kick them in the knee raw raw rass? Okay,
(06:16):
coming up that pilot program that is partnering the lap
D and l A A s LA. What's the stand
for animal Well, I guess the Animal Protective folks. Anyways,
it has been finalized. A partnership has been finalized to
combat animal cruelty on skid row and that seems to
(06:38):
be a huge problem. And we've seen homeless people. I
see them all the time on the side of the
road when they're begging for food, will work for food,
and the trickers to hand them cans of dog food
and they eat that. Anyway, the homeless people. Okay, we'll
be back.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
As usual, a lot of news going on. It turned
out that that Ruse, the flight in which the President
sneaked off the old Air Force one went onto a
catering truck, inside the truck and then was driven to
another airplane, was in many cases or being argued that
it was basically too much, way too much, because the
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threat that was reported really wasn't much of a threat.
It was Raelis that brought the information to Secret Service,
and in abundant abundance of caution, the Service and had
to do so went ahead and did that created that
RUSE and the CIA were finding out, gave it not
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much credence, low confidentiality, that it was for low confidence
that the threat was real. Okay, now you've gone past
homeless people of course, the freeways, and how many times
do you see these guys with their dogs and women
(08:05):
with their dogs hanging loose and they sit there and
that's kind of terrible, and I feel, of course, you
feel sorry for the dog much more than the person. Well,
that's been going on for a long time, obviously, Well
you only see the tip of the nose of that dog. Oh,
not bad. What's been happening is on skid row. A
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lot of these dogs are dying, they're sick. These animals
are dying and sick because well it's homeless people on
skid row. They can't take care of themselves much less
much less they're pets. So the LAPD and LA Animal
Services now have a permanent partnership. There was a pilot
program that was successful according to Karen Bass, la Mayor,
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and this finalizes that program that provides animal cruelty investigation
training to cops. So you have cops not only trained
to de escalate when they're dealing with human beings, but
also deal with animal cruelty or animal neglect. And monthly
clinics will be available on skid Row to provide pet
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owners the opportunity to spay new to their pets, vaccinate them,
microchip them. And what Bass said, we're bringing regular spay
and neuter services skid Row and building strong partnerships with
nonprofits to deliver real solution. And so you're going to
see much like the talk. Much like when police go
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out on a mental health call, the argument is you
bring a mental health practitioner an expert with the cop
to deal with that situation. Of course, if you're talking
about a violent situation, then the cop or cops go
by themselves. Maybe not, maybe they go with a mental
health practitioner or an expert. Well, the same thing is
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happening here with the animal cruelty folks, and this is
going to well hopefully protect the animals as they should be.
There is a volunteer with un group starts with one
Today is the name of the group, and he's a
volunteer and says, I mean, it's crazy, We're coming out here,
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risking our lives to help these dogs no support from
the government because heretofore pets were just being ignored. And
that's a lot of why homeless people won't go to shelters,
because they're not going to leave their animals. And that
is a real problem for sure. I mean, when you
look at homeless shelters temporary shelters as the end all
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be all, the panacea, you know you've got, first of all,
you have a good number of mentally ill people that
just won't go, and then you have pet owners that
are not going to give up their pets. And I
can see that. And the group says that regular receives
calls from people reporting dogs being sold for drugs or
animals dying on the street. I mean, that is a heartbreaker.
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And so one of the things about animals, well also kids,
is they've got no place to go. There are no alternatives.
How weird is that that they won't go into shelter
because they don't want to give up their dog, but
they'll give them up for drugs. And they'll like, well,
it's not the same it's not the same person. It's
clearly not the working person. But it is just a
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horrible situation. The whole issue of homelessness is a horrible situation.
And I've told that story about my brother's ex fiance
many years ago, and we found her on the street,
found her on the street, she was living on the street,
and immediately put her up at a motel until she
could get housing, which was available. She didn't even have
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the wherewithal to figure out how she got housing, so
she ended up in a program. And the point of
the story is she then invited other homeless people, buddies
of hers, to sleep on the floor of her apartment.
It was a little studio apartment. I mean, at least
it was warm, there was a carpet that they'd sleep
on and they left. Several of them just didn't stay
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there because they felt more comfortable out on the street.
I mean, that's mental illness to a very high level.
And when and when that kind of mental illness translates
into dogs and cats, particularly dogs, then something has to
be done. And I have to give La in this case,
Karen Bass, some kudos for doing that, incorporating animal control
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people with the police when a report of animal cruelty
or neglect is made. Okay, oh, you've heard of this one.
Wealthy Californians. More and more of them are saying I'm
out of here. Well not necessarily I'm out of here,
but they want residency and they want citizenship of other
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countries to give them some options. And I know someone
who is doing that right now. Someone is pretty close
to me, by the way. It's me, and I'll share
that story with you. Oh God, that was good, wasn't it.
Look how I did that? See, that's drama. Okay, this
is why this is why we do so well. It's
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me and that's you. So why don't we come back
to us and go all right? That didn't work either.
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Verizon has announced twenty five thousand dollars reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for
cutting its fiber optic cables. I mean, that was a story,
a big story over the weekend. And Nick Reiner, the
son of Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, who has been
(13:54):
arrested for murdering his parents. He's on trial or we'll
be on trial now, has been charged with lying in
wait in addition to the murder charges. That's special circumstances.
That's death penalty time. And he is he's either life
in prison without possibility parole if convicted of lying in
wait and murdering someone, and or the death penalty. And
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they're gonna They're not gonna go for the death penalty,
nor should they because there's enough crazy in him. And
also death penalty is way, way, way too costly for citizens,
for those of us in California. Now, Golden visas, and
what are those about, Well, putting a pile of money
into another country, either investing in business or just bringing
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the money in so you can get a visa to
live there. Basically a green card allowing someone to live
in another country. And basically going for citizenship too. The
United States now allows dual citizenship, so that gets easy.
Getn't used to. When my parents came to the United
States in the fifties and we became US cityens, my
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folks had to give up their Brazilian citizenship. The United
States did not allow foreign citizenship, and so today it's
a different animal. Today anybody can be a citizen of
anything of any country, assuming the country lets you. And
therein lies a real problem because immigration is tough all
over the world. So what a lot of these countries
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are doing is sure, you can come in, but you
got to bring in a pile of money. These are
the golden visas. We have one ourselves that the President
established and it's called, of course, the Trump Visa. How unusual,
and someone brings in a pile of money and gets
a visa with Trump's picture on it. No, those are
the new passports that we have that have President Trump's
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picture on it. So more and more of these people
are getting these visas. And why because of the political fallout.
Now you would think, and this is my group of
people that I know, and particularly friends of Lynz because
Lens is you know, pretty liberal who despise Trump, and
it's because of Trump they're leaving. But let me tell you,
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almost as many people are the other side too. There
are people that are so afraid of another Biden administration
or another Biden like administration, they're establishing themselves in other countries,
not that they're moving, but that they're going to be there,
either part time or as a hedge right, as an alternative.
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If things go south the way we anticipate, one way
or the other, doesn't matter what political side of the
spectrum you are, then you gets you go to a
place to live. And so, as I said, is it
happening to me? You bet? Now? Part of my plan
is to live in especially more lindsay, is to live
(16:52):
in Italy part of the year when I'm done and
finished with morning drive, which'll god, I've been doing this
for so along, I don't even know what it's like,
not waking up and you know, coming to my studio.
And so I am applying for Polish citizenship. Why uh,
because it does track Because I want to be the
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butt of a Polish jokes. I'm tired of just telling
people Polish jokes. I now want to be the recipient.
How many Brazilian Americans is a take to screw in
a light bulb. Who becomes poles? Who become poles? Very interesting? Uh?
And and because I'm going to be Polish, Lindsay is
and uh, by the way, she's a hell of a dancer,
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so she'll be doing pole dancing. That was terrible. You know,
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Uh. The point is,
why would I be doing that because I want to
move now. I'm not particularly upset. I mean, I'm not
happy with what's going on, but not enough to up
and leave the country. For me, it's because I just
like the idea of walking into any European country. And
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I'm basically a citizen because Italy is one of the
or Poland is part of the European Union, and so
that means I don't stand in line. I can buy,
I can work, I can do whatever. And it just
gives me a nice alternative. So I will have three
citizenships and people can have many more than that never
used to happen. I am Brazilian, as you know, born
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in Brazil, which makes me automatically a Brazilian citizen. I
am an American because my parents had the wherewithal to
come to the United States and give them. I'm ever
grateful for having become an American citizen because I'm so
proud of being an American. So to me, technically I'm
Brazilian because I was born there, and technically I'm going
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to be Polish so I can hang out in Europe
at at my leisure and not have to worry about it.
But more and more people are doing it, and there
are companies that do this. Eric Major is head of
one company, Latitude, and he says eighty five percent of
his clients are now American. It used to be the
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vast majority were not. And here is what he said.
His firm grew from roughly three clients a year from Americans,
the vast majority were overseas, from three clients a year
to more than one hundred clients a year Americans that
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are buying into going to other countries, buying these golden visas.
And it's for wealthy people, because how many people have
five hundred thousand dollars in cash to go to another
country and some a million dollars in cash indeed, But
you know, for wealthy, wealthy people, there a few things
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that wealthy people have that we will never have to
that extent. One of them is money. Wealthy people have
a tendency of having more money, more opportunities, a lot
more things and places of experts and employees and are
available to the rest of society. And one of them,
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one of them is, you know what, why don't you
become a resident or a citizen of some other country
just in case, just in case the world has turned
and trump Ism has taken over the world, or just
in case somehow we go back to the Biden area
era in the United States becomes biden Esque either way,
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not necessarily leaving, but just using it as an alternative
and a hedge and just having a place to hang
and not having to worry about being a tourist. All right,
coming up, talking about Europe, man, are you ready for this?
The fifth heat wave of twenty twenty six and Europeans
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are struggling? Oh, my goodness are they? And I'll share
that with you when we come back.
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Some of the big story we are looking at. What
a shocker. Democrat zeevory Bsera is holding a big lead
fifty five to thirty seven percent over Republican Steve Hilton
in the gubernatorial race. Wow, a governor, a Democratic governor
is set to win in California. Okay, hey, we talk
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about heat here. Man, it's nothing compared to what's going
on in Europe. I mean it is crazy. They're now
bracing for the fifth heat wave of twenty twenty six.
Do you remember the movie The Graduate when Dustin Hoffman
is he's sitting around in the pool and one of
his dad's buddies and because Hoffman doesn't know what he's
going to do with his living for a living, and
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the buddy, Dad's buddy looks at him and goes, I
got one word for you, plastic plastics go to Europe
right now. I've got one word for you. HVAC actually
has four words, HVAC air conditioning. Good time to be
in the air conditioning business, man. It is the highest
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temperature on record in Europe and this is their fifth
go round, and so what are well? The only thing
that the governments can do is establish drought measures, like
you can't water your lawn, not that they have lawns,
but you can't wash your car, not that they wash
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their cars. But do you remember when the drought was
here years ago, and we couldn't water our lawn, we
couldn't wash our cars, we couldn't flush our toilets after peeing. Seriously,
that was Governor Brown, the old governor. No, that was
Governor Jerry Brown. Literally the phrase was, and it's hilarious.
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I tell people this and they're completely disgusted. Here was
the official phrase from the government. If it's yellow, let
it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down. And we did. Now,
our houses were disgusting, but we did exactly that, and
we saved ourselves a ton of water, far more than
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was anticipated. Now, what's going to happen in Europe, we
don't know. What we do know is droughts like have
never been felt before are going across the continent. For example, Serbia,
the Danube. You go on the Danube and you can
actually see ships from Nazi fleets that were sunk at
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the end of World War Two. You can walk across
rivers that are no longer rivers, across the river beds
and you've got hail, just the violent rainstorms like what
we have here. I mean, watching the news every night,
it's a weather story. I mean every night as I
look at the news and you see what's going on
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in the Midwest, in the South at a certain times,
certainly in the Northeast, where it's just crazy one hundred
mile an hour winds, a hurricane level wind not hurricanes,
mind you, hurricane level winds, and the flooding that's out
of control. We've been very, very lucky. I don't think
we have had record heat. I think we're right along
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in hot water, in hot water, in hot temperatures. Amy,
you follow this more than I do. But weather in
southern California has not been record breaking for the most part.
We've had a pretty mild up to this point weather,
haven't we We've had temperatures above normal, but it's not
record breaking per se this summer. Yeah, No, it's actually
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been pretty good. I mean always there's temperatures above or
below normal. For us, it's been pretty good. Europe, good God.
And they're not used to it. Oh that's the other thing.
I'll tell you what they don't have. They don't have
air conditioning. It's just not something Europe does. They didn't
have automatic transmissions and cars for the longest time, certainly
not air conditioning in cars, and not even power windows
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can you imagine buying a car where you're still crank windows. Well,
it wasn't too long ago where that's exactly what happens
in many European cars. Different world, totally different world. So
go to Europe and die of heat. Nothing has seen
like I'd been seen like it before. Coming up, Caroline
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Lovett leaves the White House as Press Secretary. I'm going
to cover that. I tell you a little bit about background,
and she's been unusual and she has done an extraordinary
job considering what the President has asked her to do,
and she's done it a little bit differently, a lot differently,
And I'll share that with you when we come back.
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