July 15, 2025 • 26 mins
(July 15,2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Supreme Court says Trump’s Education Department layoffs can resume. The homeless population in Los Angeles city and county supposedly drops for 2nd year in a row, data finds. Trump, Rutte announce ‘really big’ NATO arms package amid new 50-day deadline to Putin. Pot farm raided by immigration agents has child labor complaint, state says.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Supreme Court says Trump’s Education Department layoffs can resume. The homeless population in Los Angeles city and county supposedly drops for 2nd year in a row, data finds. Trump, Rutte announce ‘really big’ NATO arms package amid new 50-day deadline to Putin. Pot farm raided by immigration agents has child labor complaint, state says.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listen Saints KPI AM six forty. The Bill handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f Good Morning on
a Tuesday at Taco Tuesday, July fifteen, and we continue
with the show and Supreme Court. And this has to
do with one of the cases that have been filed
(00:22):
two hundred fifty cases have been filed against Trump administration
by states and cities and counties and organizations two hundred
and fifty, and most of them have to do with
presidential power because the president is stretching his ability to
govern to make decisions to insane levels that had never
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been done before. So this had to do with the
president effectively shrinking the Education Department dramatically. And matter of fact,
he had said, We're going to dismantle Department of Education,
and he hired Linda McMahon, who is the wife of
Vince McMahon, who created World Wrestling Federation WWF for WWE,
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as the Education secretary, and she said, I'm going to
disbantle pursuing to the order of the President.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was hired to do exactly that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There was a temporary lower court ruling that temporarily stopped
the president from slashing more than a third of the
department's more than forty one hundred workers, shifting some of
the functions to the states and other agencies, saying we're
still going to do the same thing. Of course they're not,
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because even the administration said we're not. And this the
majority and sixty three exactly along liberal conservative lines. The
liberals said no. The three liberals said the president doesn't
have the power. The six conservatives said the president does
have the power. Now, this is where it gets interesting.
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Soda Mayor, who did write a dissent, said, when the
executive publicly announces its intent to break the law and
then executes on that promise, it is the judiciary's duty
to check that lawlessness.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And not expedite it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What is the lawlessness she is talking about, Well, it
was Congress that established the Department of Education. As a
matter of fact, it was done under a Carter. Do
you know that Carter established department. And all the department
does is not only have its various departments. The agency
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has various departments civil rights within the schools, that sort
of thing. It manages one point four trillion dollars in
student loans.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It oversees that with its various controls.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So here is what the argument is, and what Sodamayor
said is that Congress established to the Department of Education.
Only Congress can dismantle the Department of Education. Now the
President has said, I want to dismantle it, so it
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disappears the reality that cannot be done. However, can he
redo the department? Can he change its programs? Can he
lay off can he fire people? And the answer I
believe is absolutely. Congress only established the department and gave
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it very broad definitions of what it does. It's up
to the executive to determine how many people work there
and what offices it rents. One of the things that
the Education Department is doing right now is moving out
of offices, just shutting down offices in Cleveland, Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And what that's ill legal? Who then runs these departments?
Is it Congress?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Is it Congress that says next year, you can hire
X number of people, or you can fire x number
of people, or will.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Tell you who to promote.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's the point I believe why Scotis said that this
is not against the law. I do believe the Education
Department must continue and cannot be eliminated and dismantled completely.
But in the end, can I have two employees? Does
the president have the ability to change it around and
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decide how many and where and what it does? It
has to all of these cabinet posts and these positions
are under the auspices, under the control of the executive
that is, the administration who runs these things. Congress does not,
the judiciary does. And so the argument somehow that what
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the president is doing is illegal and laying down new procedures.
Can you imagine if every single department that exists, the
Department of Defense, Congress will determine what weapons will be
allowed and what weapons will be developed. Congress will determine
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who and how many people are going to be working
for the defense department. Come on, now, can the president
declare war? No? Under the constitution, the president cannot, although
that is a joke because the last time war was
actually declared by Congress, and that's in the constitution that
only Congress can declare war was December eighth, nineteen forty one.
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Since then it has been presidential actions or the decisions
are joining NATO in order to fight insert name of here,
and the president can unitarily make decisions. Clinton with Serbia,
for example, Reagan with grenada or was that Clinton with
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grenada rescuing the Americans. How about the Korean War? Congress
didn't okay the Korean War after the fact. How about
the Vietnam War? Now it turned out that the president
did ask Congress after the fact. That was the Tonkin Resolution,
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, where Johnson made up the
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fact that an American ship was attacked by North Vietnamese boats.
It basically didn't happen. But he wanted Vietnam and he
got it. And so here is what Linda McMahon said,
of course, hailing the highle courts the ruling, and I'm
quoting today the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious. The
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President of the United States, as head of the executive Branch,
has the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels,
administrative organization, and day to day operations of federal agencies.
I don't know the logic of not having that happen.
Twenty states and teachers unions and school districts have filed
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challenges to the cuts, arguing their unconstitutional. I don't know
where they're going with that, I really don't. But the
president is cutting cutting, hutting, and a lot of people
are no longer working, and a lot of people are
no longer going to work well because his philosophy is
to cut an enormous amount of the federal budget except
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for immigration and except for defense. That's a different story. Hey,
you elected him. I didn't vote for him. I also
didn't vote for Kamala Harris because I'd be screaming about her.
But you Americans elected this guy. So for those of
you are bitching and moaning, all right, next time out,
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you know, you got the mid terms coming up, get
rid of his power or a lot of his power.
And then come the general elections coming up in twenty eight.
You know what, toss out the Republicans unless the Republicans
win again, Welcome to democracy. All right, Let's go to
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another administration story. Boy, there's a lot of them today,
and this has to do with the administration. This immigration
sweeps that are happening beginning in early June in Los
Angeles smoke and focused on targets like car washes, strip malls,
home depot parking lots. Until what last week the two
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big ones, the largest cannabis companies in California, who swept
through there. One guy died. He fell from a building.
He was running away from the ICE people. The chief
Border policy adviser the Immigrations are Tom Homan called the
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situation sad. The guy that died obviously unfortunate when there
are deaths, but he wasn't even in ice custody.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Hed ice did not have his hands on him. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Moving to policy for a moment, Christy Nome, Homeland Security Secretary,
said that authorities plan to intensify the immigration crackdowns because
there's going to be more funding under the.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
One Big Beautiful Act Bill.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One big, beautiful, tremendous, beauteous, bountiful beautiful bill, one hundred
and fifty billion dollars more into the immigration and border
enforcement plants.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
She said, We're gonna come harder, We're going to come faster.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We're going to take these criminals down with even more
strength and we've ever had before.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Or the President has a mandate.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
From the American people to clean up our streets to
help make our community safer. Now, with that in mind,
the government says, only the bad guys are being picked up.
As we watch the sweeps of people being picked up.
Two things One On Friday, US Restory judge Mommy Wusie
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Mensa Frimpong temporarily block federal agents from using racial profiling
to carry out these raids, arguing that the agents were
using race a person's job, or their location, or their
language to form what they call reasonable suspicion.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
She said, no, no chance.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, the Trump administration is fighting back, saying, no federal
judge has the authority to dictate immigration policy. That only
rests with Congress and the President. No federal judge has
the authority immig to dictate policy Brown versus Board of
Education getting rid of segregation judicial, Well, no federal judge
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has the ability to say that no to that undue slavery. Well,
that was the thirteenth Amendment. But how about the miranda warnings?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
How about Roe v.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Wade, which the Court established and then undid I mean
that's policy, isn't it. Now they're arguing that one federal
judge doesn't have the ability to do that, and the
Court has basically backed that up. And so is it
going to happen? Well, Supreme Court is going to rule
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on that, and I believe the Court is going to
not allow the administration to arbitrarily pick up people based
on what they call reasonable reasonable cause.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
If you look at reasonable cause, they're going through home
depots and picking up everybody there, everybody who is Hispanic.
They're going over a cannabis plant or the farm, just
picking up everybody there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Who are the bad guys?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, they're only bad guys we're picking up, you know,
the MS thirteen, the rapists, the murderers are the only
people we're picking up on these raids. A great line
from Representative Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat, a congressman from Los
Angeles who has been criticizing Trump for targeting immigrant farm workers,
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and he said this, how many MS thirteen gang members
are waking.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Up at three am to pick up strawberries? Oh? Yeah, zero.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Trump said he'd go after the bad ombres, but he
is targeting the immigrant farm workers who feed America.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Either he lied or he can't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And then I can't tell what the White House spent
in a post on x about that that ain't produce homes,
that's product. I don't know what that means. But the
bottom line is, who are we kidding? Only the bad
guys are being picked up. We're seeing this on TV.
We're seeing the immigration raids happening, and only the bad guys.
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They're picking up swaths of people. So and some of
them here legally, they don't even ask, they just pick
them up and later on they figure it out.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
We'll see what happens with that one.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I do not believe that the court is going to
allow the just rampant and arbitrary picking up of people.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I do not believe that. And we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, there was one other thing that the court said,
and where was it? Now we'll go into that at
another because we're gonna be talking about immigration, as you
can imagine.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Okay, let's move onto a story of climate change. That's
another one that we're going to be doing on a
regular basis. So life is wonderful Europe. And now we
don't think much of Europeans taking vacations. Europeans coming here
we think of, but vacations of Europeans taking going to
places in Europe. Northern Europe. You don't go to the
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beach very much. For example, go to England. There isn't
a beach with sand anywhere in England. Go to Sweden,
they're all rocks. The beaches.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They don't have the kind of sand that we have
or that exist in the tropics.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So what Europeans do is they go to various places
in southern Europe that do have beaches and sand, except
not anymore. Storms have watched the way I washed away
much of the sand. For for example, there's a story
here in the New York Times Montgat near Barcelona, excuse me,
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in the peak vacation season, which is massive, people go there.
Now the people that live there are going away. And
not long ago, families would go to the shore in Montgat,
just outside of Barcelona, and there were sand castles and
pedal games and this broad band of sand. Now you
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can barely put a towel down. There's that little amount
of beach. And it has to do with climate change.
So there are two issues going on in vacation land
over in Europe. One climate change, which is really ripping
apart the vacation spots, and two the number of people
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that are going and traveling today it's not even worth
going on vacation. Last year, I went to Venice and
you couldn't go over these bridges. It was so jammed.
You were like sardines. And I'm not exaggerating. It was
that crowded. We were shoulder to shoulder, and you go,
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come on. I mean, it's just the world has become
this travel destination. The world has become Disneyland on its
most crowded, crowded day. Years ago, a lot of years ago,
I saved up my money and I went to Antarctica.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It was on my bucket list. And you couldn't fly
into Antarctica.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You would have to take ship, and you would have
to take an expedition ship that had one hundred, one
hundred and fifty people. And as you went to, for example,
parts of Antarctica, and we're talking about the peninsula there,
the only way you get the only way you can
get there is aboard these zodiacs that would leave the
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ship and then you would go up on the shore.
You get off your feet, get wet, and they gave
you Wellington's and then you'd walk around and get attacked
by the seals and get eaten, and the birds attack
you and whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And it was as rough and natural as you can imagine. Today.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Not only there are cruise ships, I think you can
fly in. There are airplanes that come in. I think
Disney is negotiating to build a theme park and Antarctic
the theme park and the theme of course would be
Frozen Naturally, it would be Frozen Land. It's gotten crazy.
It is a combination of so many people, so many
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people going. Something brand new has come up, and that's
the anti tourism business. Usually tourist attractions love tourists coming in. Well,
virtually every country, every place has a tourist board to
advertise people come to us please. Every country in Europe
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has when we have one, certainly in California, well they're
disbanding those fairly quickly because too many tourists are coming in.
Matter of fact, there were stories of the tourists being
attacked by locals with water guns. I mean we're not
talking about huge attacks, but just letting them know you're
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not wanted. And one of the head of one of
these anti tourist groups says, we no longer use the
water guns on the tourists. We use them on ourselves
because it is so hot and so climate change. Well,
to give you an idea, Spain has really become a
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hard hit. Temperatures in El Grenado, which is a southwestern city,
reached one hundred and fifteen degrees in June, a record
last year. In Valencia, floods killed two hundred people this
year people this year. The experts are saying excess deaths,
especially among the elderly, which happens all the time, have
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risen sharply.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's just horrific.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Barcelona, which is a magic city that you should visit
at some point in your life, not that you'll be
able to see anything because it will be so many.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Crowds there.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Has lost thirty thousand square meters read yards, thirty thousand
yards of sand over the past five years. You know, unfortunately,
it is crazy. You know what really exploded tourism and immigration?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
One thing?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
One thing, and you're not going to guess what it is, Neil,
what's the one thing that exploded tourism and immigration? If
you had to think, and this is and it's not
a trick question, but it's in a direction you'll never know.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That exploded.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, tourism exploded, tourism and immigration.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And people flying all over the world.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The seven forty seven, the seven seven, Yeah, but it
was the seven forty seven that did it. Interesting story
if you look at the building of that airplane and
what happened, which is another story in and of itself,
all right, in a.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Pretty scary move.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And the FBI, the FBI is now using polygraph texts
tests to well sniff out employees who are not loyal
to the administration. And let's start with a premise that
the FBI can use and should use polygraph tests if
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there is suspicion of an FBI agent who's betrayed the country.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And we've had a few of those, if you remember
that the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Case, the Mormon case in which the Mormon FBI agent
was protected and he was selling secrets like crazy. Or
let's say someone can't be trusted with secrets at the FBI.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
That's legitimate.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
But since Cash Patel took the office, the bureau has
significantly increased the use of lie detector tests, and not
for those reasons, to find out who is not loyal
to the administration. If you are not loyal to Patel,
if you are not loyal to the Trump administration, you
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are not loyal. And one of the agents who was
given a polygraph test, or actually resigned before I was
asked to take a polygraph test, said, you know, we
swear our loyalty to the Constitution, not to cash Patel
and not to the administration. That's what we do when
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we are sworn into the FBI. But here is the problem.
The answer to that, the reply, the repost to that
by the administration and the FBI is we are the Constitution.
When when you're shown loyalty to the FBI, you are
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showing loyalty to the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You cannot do both.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
For example, the agents that were part of the investigation
were assigned to the investigation of Russian interference in the
twenty twenty election, and those agents have been cashiered because
they were not loyal to the United States or the constitution.
Because I guess they said, we're going to have no
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part of this, because this is part of the deep state.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
This is part of the secret plan to undo the election.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's the scary part where polygraph tests are being used
and also the number of people are being promoted because
of loyalty.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Cash Patel himself, what kind of experience does he have?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Usually directors of FBI have vast experience and administrative work,
or deputy directors of the FBI itself.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Not anymore. Oh, here's the one go ahead?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Is this just the questions because I've known more than
a couple of FBI agents special agents, and they get polygraphed,
they can give be polygraph.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, they can be polygraphed.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think they are as as normal routine. So is
this just the questions that are I think.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So, yeah, because the question is are you loyal to
the FBI, are you loyal to Patel?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Are you loyal to the president? And if you are not.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Lawyer one was cashiered because he wrote a post in
which he disagreed and in fact he.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Criticized the president. You're gone. You're not loyal to the constitution.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Also, look a look at the people who have been
promoted and have been given cabinet positions. Pete Hegseth. He
was a second lieutenant. Now granted he was and you
have to give him all the credit in the world.
I mean you want, I think he won a bronze
star and uh was wounded in Afghanistan Iraq.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, he did an extraordinary job.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
But now he's gone from that to uh the Secretary
of Defense. Uh. There is a guy by the name
of Jake him or Hemi who is Patel's deputy chief
of staff for policy.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
He became an agent three years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He's had three years of experience in the FBI as
an agent, and he is now Deputy Director for Policy
under Pati l And that's the other thing that is
so tough because when we talk about loyalty, it's all
about loyalty. It isn't about credentials, it isn't about experience,
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it isn't about depth of knowledge.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's all about loyalty. Lenna McMahon she ran a world.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Resting a World Wrestling Association or whatever WWE when her husband,
I think, resigned. So she's taken that experience and become
the Secretary of Education because of her vast knowledge. It's tough.
I mean, we're going through a tough time. You know,
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there's some stuff that are is some stuff is good,
but a lot is wrong, more so than other administrations,
and one of them is the absolute demand of loyalty.
You cannot even question what the government is doing or
what your director is now.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Can you do that? Well?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think if you do, you get hauled in and
have a nice conversation saying what did you mean by this?
And private posts and you know you can't speak too
badly of the FBI, but are you allowed any private
and I don't know if this was a public post
or not, but at the same time, really detectors out.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Of the military for speaking ill about your commanders.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I think you can. I think you can.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But the military isn't giving polygraph tests universally across the board,
either or using them, or using polygraph tests as policy.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I think that's the difference.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
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Speaker 2 (26:48):
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a Tuesday at Taco Tuesday, July fifteen, and we continue
with the show and Supreme Court. And this has to
do with one of the cases that have been filed
(00:22):
two hundred fifty cases have been filed against Trump administration
by states and cities and counties and organizations two hundred
and fifty, and most of them have to do with
presidential power because the president is stretching his ability to
govern to make decisions to insane levels that had never
(00:42):
been done before. So this had to do with the
president effectively shrinking the Education Department dramatically. And matter of fact,
he had said, We're going to dismantle Department of Education,
and he hired Linda McMahon, who is the wife of
Vince McMahon, who created World Wrestling Federation WWF for WWE,
(01:05):
as the Education secretary, and she said, I'm going to
disbantle pursuing to the order of the President.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was hired to do exactly that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There was a temporary lower court ruling that temporarily stopped
the president from slashing more than a third of the
department's more than forty one hundred workers, shifting some of
the functions to the states and other agencies, saying we're
still going to do the same thing. Of course they're not,
(01:34):
because even the administration said we're not. And this the
majority and sixty three exactly along liberal conservative lines. The
liberals said no. The three liberals said the president doesn't
have the power. The six conservatives said the president does
have the power. Now, this is where it gets interesting.
(02:00):
Soda Mayor, who did write a dissent, said, when the
executive publicly announces its intent to break the law and
then executes on that promise, it is the judiciary's duty
to check that lawlessness.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And not expedite it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What is the lawlessness she is talking about, Well, it
was Congress that established the Department of Education. As a
matter of fact, it was done under a Carter. Do
you know that Carter established department. And all the department
does is not only have its various departments. The agency
(02:38):
has various departments civil rights within the schools, that sort
of thing. It manages one point four trillion dollars in
student loans.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It oversees that with its various controls.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So here is what the argument is, and what Sodamayor
said is that Congress established to the Department of Education.
Only Congress can dismantle the Department of Education. Now the
President has said, I want to dismantle it, so it
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disappears the reality that cannot be done. However, can he
redo the department? Can he change its programs? Can he
lay off can he fire people? And the answer I
believe is absolutely. Congress only established the department and gave
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it very broad definitions of what it does. It's up
to the executive to determine how many people work there
and what offices it rents. One of the things that
the Education Department is doing right now is moving out
of offices, just shutting down offices in Cleveland, Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And what that's ill legal? Who then runs these departments?
Is it Congress?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Is it Congress that says next year, you can hire
X number of people, or you can fire x number
of people, or will.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Tell you who to promote.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's the point I believe why Scotis said that this
is not against the law. I do believe the Education
Department must continue and cannot be eliminated and dismantled completely.
But in the end, can I have two employees? Does
the president have the ability to change it around and
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decide how many and where and what it does? It
has to all of these cabinet posts and these positions
are under the auspices, under the control of the executive
that is, the administration who runs these things. Congress does not,
the judiciary does. And so the argument somehow that what
(05:04):
the president is doing is illegal and laying down new procedures.
Can you imagine if every single department that exists, the
Department of Defense, Congress will determine what weapons will be
allowed and what weapons will be developed. Congress will determine
(05:29):
who and how many people are going to be working
for the defense department. Come on, now, can the president
declare war? No? Under the constitution, the president cannot, although
that is a joke because the last time war was
actually declared by Congress, and that's in the constitution that
only Congress can declare war was December eighth, nineteen forty one.
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Since then it has been presidential actions or the decisions
are joining NATO in order to fight insert name of here,
and the president can unitarily make decisions. Clinton with Serbia,
for example, Reagan with grenada or was that Clinton with
(06:13):
grenada rescuing the Americans. How about the Korean War? Congress
didn't okay the Korean War after the fact. How about
the Vietnam War? Now it turned out that the president
did ask Congress after the fact. That was the Tonkin Resolution,
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, where Johnson made up the
(06:37):
fact that an American ship was attacked by North Vietnamese boats.
It basically didn't happen. But he wanted Vietnam and he
got it. And so here is what Linda McMahon said,
of course, hailing the highle courts the ruling, and I'm
quoting today the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious. The
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President of the United States, as head of the executive Branch,
has the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels,
administrative organization, and day to day operations of federal agencies.
I don't know the logic of not having that happen.
Twenty states and teachers unions and school districts have filed
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challenges to the cuts, arguing their unconstitutional. I don't know
where they're going with that, I really don't. But the
president is cutting cutting, hutting, and a lot of people
are no longer working, and a lot of people are
no longer going to work well because his philosophy is
to cut an enormous amount of the federal budget except
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for immigration and except for defense. That's a different story. Hey,
you elected him. I didn't vote for him. I also
didn't vote for Kamala Harris because I'd be screaming about her.
But you Americans elected this guy. So for those of
you are bitching and moaning, all right, next time out,
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you know, you got the mid terms coming up, get
rid of his power or a lot of his power.
And then come the general elections coming up in twenty eight.
You know what, toss out the Republicans unless the Republicans
win again, Welcome to democracy. All right, Let's go to
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another administration story. Boy, there's a lot of them today,
and this has to do with the administration. This immigration
sweeps that are happening beginning in early June in Los
Angeles smoke and focused on targets like car washes, strip malls,
home depot parking lots. Until what last week the two
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big ones, the largest cannabis companies in California, who swept
through there. One guy died. He fell from a building.
He was running away from the ICE people. The chief
Border policy adviser the Immigrations are Tom Homan called the
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situation sad. The guy that died obviously unfortunate when there
are deaths, but he wasn't even in ice custody.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Hed ice did not have his hands on him. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Moving to policy for a moment, Christy Nome, Homeland Security Secretary,
said that authorities plan to intensify the immigration crackdowns because
there's going to be more funding under the.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
One Big Beautiful Act Bill.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One big, beautiful, tremendous, beauteous, bountiful beautiful bill, one hundred
and fifty billion dollars more into the immigration and border
enforcement plants.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
She said, We're gonna come harder, We're going to come faster.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We're going to take these criminals down with even more
strength and we've ever had before.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Or the President has a mandate.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
From the American people to clean up our streets to
help make our community safer. Now, with that in mind,
the government says, only the bad guys are being picked up.
As we watch the sweeps of people being picked up.
Two things One On Friday, US Restory judge Mommy Wusie
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Mensa Frimpong temporarily block federal agents from using racial profiling
to carry out these raids, arguing that the agents were
using race a person's job, or their location, or their
language to form what they call reasonable suspicion.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
She said, no, no chance.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, the Trump administration is fighting back, saying, no federal
judge has the authority to dictate immigration policy. That only
rests with Congress and the President. No federal judge has
the authority immig to dictate policy Brown versus Board of
Education getting rid of segregation judicial, Well, no federal judge
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has the ability to say that no to that undue slavery. Well,
that was the thirteenth Amendment. But how about the miranda warnings?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
How about Roe v.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Wade, which the Court established and then undid I mean
that's policy, isn't it. Now they're arguing that one federal
judge doesn't have the ability to do that, and the
Court has basically backed that up. And so is it
going to happen? Well, Supreme Court is going to rule
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on that, and I believe the Court is going to
not allow the administration to arbitrarily pick up people based
on what they call reasonable reasonable cause.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
If you look at reasonable cause, they're going through home
depots and picking up everybody there, everybody who is Hispanic.
They're going over a cannabis plant or the farm, just
picking up everybody there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Who are the bad guys?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, they're only bad guys we're picking up, you know,
the MS thirteen, the rapists, the murderers are the only
people we're picking up on these raids. A great line
from Representative Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat, a congressman from Los
Angeles who has been criticizing Trump for targeting immigrant farm workers,
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and he said this, how many MS thirteen gang members
are waking.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Up at three am to pick up strawberries? Oh? Yeah, zero.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Trump said he'd go after the bad ombres, but he
is targeting the immigrant farm workers who feed America.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Either he lied or he can't tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And then I can't tell what the White House spent
in a post on x about that that ain't produce homes,
that's product. I don't know what that means. But the
bottom line is, who are we kidding? Only the bad
guys are being picked up. We're seeing this on TV.
We're seeing the immigration raids happening, and only the bad guys.
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They're picking up swaths of people. So and some of
them here legally, they don't even ask, they just pick
them up and later on they figure it out.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
We'll see what happens with that one.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I do not believe that the court is going to
allow the just rampant and arbitrary picking up of people.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I do not believe that. And we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, there was one other thing that the court said,
and where was it? Now we'll go into that at
another because we're gonna be talking about immigration, as you
can imagine.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Okay, let's move onto a story of climate change. That's
another one that we're going to be doing on a
regular basis. So life is wonderful Europe. And now we
don't think much of Europeans taking vacations. Europeans coming here
we think of, but vacations of Europeans taking going to
places in Europe. Northern Europe. You don't go to the
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beach very much. For example, go to England. There isn't
a beach with sand anywhere in England. Go to Sweden,
they're all rocks. The beaches.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They don't have the kind of sand that we have
or that exist in the tropics.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So what Europeans do is they go to various places
in southern Europe that do have beaches and sand, except
not anymore. Storms have watched the way I washed away
much of the sand. For for example, there's a story
here in the New York Times Montgat near Barcelona, excuse me,
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in the peak vacation season, which is massive, people go there.
Now the people that live there are going away. And
not long ago, families would go to the shore in Montgat,
just outside of Barcelona, and there were sand castles and
pedal games and this broad band of sand. Now you
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can barely put a towel down. There's that little amount
of beach. And it has to do with climate change.
So there are two issues going on in vacation land
over in Europe. One climate change, which is really ripping
apart the vacation spots, and two the number of people
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that are going and traveling today it's not even worth
going on vacation. Last year, I went to Venice and
you couldn't go over these bridges. It was so jammed.
You were like sardines. And I'm not exaggerating. It was
that crowded. We were shoulder to shoulder, and you go,
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come on. I mean, it's just the world has become
this travel destination. The world has become Disneyland on its
most crowded, crowded day. Years ago, a lot of years ago,
I saved up my money and I went to Antarctica.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It was on my bucket list. And you couldn't fly
into Antarctica.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You would have to take ship, and you would have
to take an expedition ship that had one hundred, one
hundred and fifty people. And as you went to, for example,
parts of Antarctica, and we're talking about the peninsula there,
the only way you get the only way you can
get there is aboard these zodiacs that would leave the
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ship and then you would go up on the shore.
You get off your feet, get wet, and they gave
you Wellington's and then you'd walk around and get attacked
by the seals and get eaten, and the birds attack
you and whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And it was as rough and natural as you can imagine. Today.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Not only there are cruise ships, I think you can
fly in. There are airplanes that come in. I think
Disney is negotiating to build a theme park and Antarctic
the theme park and the theme of course would be
Frozen Naturally, it would be Frozen Land. It's gotten crazy.
It is a combination of so many people, so many
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people going. Something brand new has come up, and that's
the anti tourism business. Usually tourist attractions love tourists coming in. Well,
virtually every country, every place has a tourist board to
advertise people come to us please. Every country in Europe
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has when we have one, certainly in California, well they're
disbanding those fairly quickly because too many tourists are coming in.
Matter of fact, there were stories of the tourists being
attacked by locals with water guns. I mean we're not
talking about huge attacks, but just letting them know you're
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not wanted. And one of the head of one of
these anti tourist groups says, we no longer use the
water guns on the tourists. We use them on ourselves
because it is so hot and so climate change. Well,
to give you an idea, Spain has really become a
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hard hit. Temperatures in El Grenado, which is a southwestern city,
reached one hundred and fifteen degrees in June, a record
last year. In Valencia, floods killed two hundred people this
year people this year. The experts are saying excess deaths,
especially among the elderly, which happens all the time, have
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risen sharply.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's just horrific.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Barcelona, which is a magic city that you should visit
at some point in your life, not that you'll be
able to see anything because it will be so many.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Crowds there.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Has lost thirty thousand square meters read yards, thirty thousand
yards of sand over the past five years. You know, unfortunately,
it is crazy. You know what really exploded tourism and immigration?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
One thing?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
One thing, and you're not going to guess what it is, Neil,
what's the one thing that exploded tourism and immigration? If
you had to think, and this is and it's not
a trick question, but it's in a direction you'll never know.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That exploded.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, tourism exploded, tourism and immigration.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And people flying all over the world.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The seven forty seven, the seven seven, Yeah, but it
was the seven forty seven that did it. Interesting story
if you look at the building of that airplane and
what happened, which is another story in and of itself,
all right, in a.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Pretty scary move.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And the FBI, the FBI is now using polygraph texts
tests to well sniff out employees who are not loyal
to the administration. And let's start with a premise that
the FBI can use and should use polygraph tests if
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there is suspicion of an FBI agent who's betrayed the country.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And we've had a few of those, if you remember
that the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Case, the Mormon case in which the Mormon FBI agent
was protected and he was selling secrets like crazy. Or
let's say someone can't be trusted with secrets at the FBI.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
That's legitimate.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
But since Cash Patel took the office, the bureau has
significantly increased the use of lie detector tests, and not
for those reasons, to find out who is not loyal
to the administration. If you are not loyal to Patel,
if you are not loyal to the Trump administration, you
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are not loyal. And one of the agents who was
given a polygraph test, or actually resigned before I was
asked to take a polygraph test, said, you know, we
swear our loyalty to the Constitution, not to cash Patel
and not to the administration. That's what we do when
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we are sworn into the FBI. But here is the problem.
The answer to that, the reply, the repost to that
by the administration and the FBI is we are the Constitution.
When when you're shown loyalty to the FBI, you are
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showing loyalty to the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You cannot do both.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
For example, the agents that were part of the investigation
were assigned to the investigation of Russian interference in the
twenty twenty election, and those agents have been cashiered because
they were not loyal to the United States or the constitution.
Because I guess they said, we're going to have no
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part of this, because this is part of the deep state.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
This is part of the secret plan to undo the election.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's the scary part where polygraph tests are being used
and also the number of people are being promoted because
of loyalty.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Cash Patel himself, what kind of experience does he have?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Usually directors of FBI have vast experience and administrative work,
or deputy directors of the FBI itself.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Not anymore. Oh, here's the one go ahead?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Is this just the questions because I've known more than
a couple of FBI agents special agents, and they get polygraphed,
they can give be polygraph.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, they can be polygraphed.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think they are as as normal routine. So is
this just the questions that are I think.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So, yeah, because the question is are you loyal to
the FBI, are you loyal to Patel?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Are you loyal to the president? And if you are not.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Lawyer one was cashiered because he wrote a post in
which he disagreed and in fact he.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Criticized the president. You're gone. You're not loyal to the constitution.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Also, look a look at the people who have been
promoted and have been given cabinet positions. Pete Hegseth. He
was a second lieutenant. Now granted he was and you
have to give him all the credit in the world.
I mean you want, I think he won a bronze
star and uh was wounded in Afghanistan Iraq.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, he did an extraordinary job.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
But now he's gone from that to uh the Secretary
of Defense. Uh. There is a guy by the name
of Jake him or Hemi who is Patel's deputy chief
of staff for policy.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
He became an agent three years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He's had three years of experience in the FBI as
an agent, and he is now Deputy Director for Policy
under Pati l And that's the other thing that is
so tough because when we talk about loyalty, it's all
about loyalty. It isn't about credentials, it isn't about experience,
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it isn't about depth of knowledge.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's all about loyalty. Lenna McMahon she ran a world.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Resting a World Wrestling Association or whatever WWE when her husband,
I think, resigned. So she's taken that experience and become
the Secretary of Education because of her vast knowledge. It's tough.
I mean, we're going through a tough time. You know,
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there's some stuff that are is some stuff is good,
but a lot is wrong, more so than other administrations,
and one of them is the absolute demand of loyalty.
You cannot even question what the government is doing or
what your director is now.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Can you do that? Well?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think if you do, you get hauled in and
have a nice conversation saying what did you mean by this?
And private posts and you know you can't speak too
badly of the FBI, but are you allowed any private
and I don't know if this was a public post
or not, but at the same time, really detectors out.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Of the military for speaking ill about your commanders.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I think you can. I think you can.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But the military isn't giving polygraph tests universally across the board,
either or using them, or using polygraph tests as policy.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I think that's the difference.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
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