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January 16, 2025 29 mins
(Thursday 01/16/25)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Negotiators agree to long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal for Gaza. Biden delivers farewell address, warns of ‘oligarchy’ taking shape in America. State Farm to offer renewals to policyholders affected by LA fires. LA County health officer issues order prohibiting removal of debris from Palisades., Eaton fire areas.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Casey Wasserman said, Los Angeles is defined by its resilience
and determination. Actually it's more defined by the traffic, the
lack of clean air, and the number of people who
don't have green cards. That's really the definition of Los Angeles. Also,
resilience is thrown in there.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
We're going to certainly see and now handle on the news.
Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle. Good morning, everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Bill Handle here and the morning crew, well, most of
the morning crew. It's a Thursday morning, January sixteenth, or
four days out until the inauguration of our new old president.
And that's only happened I think once or twice in
the history of this country. Where president finishes a term
comes back the following term after.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
The next term. Did that make any sense? Probably not?
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Neil is out today, is not feeling very very good.
So it is today. There's no fill in for Neil.
Usually we have it so amy, it's just you and me.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Okay, we'll do it just us.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
And however, the other crew is here an always here. Yes,
I am, and I don't even know how many times
you have not been here you are?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Have you missed any days?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
I've never called in Sika.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, I don't think you ever have I have. I
have been late.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Twice since I started a KFI in nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Wow, yeah, that's good. Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, it's count
on me. Yeah, no, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I do. And Cono, well, con I was young and stupid,
so he's always here.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I'm young. Yeah, it's not that's not okay.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm now going to give you some some creds here. Okay,
young and stupid is a phrase as opposed to a
description of what you are.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
That makes sense, Yes, but we can change it. Yeah,
when you're young, vibrant, smart, Yeah nice.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, let's not forget a huge direction because you're
young and stupid.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
That believe me. How old are you? I'm thirty six.
It'll fall apart.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
You're very very close, Amy, Yeah, good morning, Hi, how
are you?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's just fine? Al right? Oh do we have a
lot going on today?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
The big story, Well, Joe Biden last night with his
farewell on a great speech, and the country is going
to be destroyed with Donald Trump as president. So that's
one thing we're going to talk about and The other
thing is the Hamas is Ray cease fire is kicking
in ostensibly on Sunday, and they finally come came to

(03:06):
a deal. And I'm going to go seven am and
seven twenty a. I'm going to spend two segments giving
you a little bit of history, some musings, the way
I feel about it, if you're all interested, and if
you're not, I'm still going to tell you how I
feel about it, and then probably what's going to happen,
and how crazy Hamas is, how crazy Israel is, how

(03:30):
nuts that entire region is, and what the future may
or may not hold for that region. So a whole
lot on the plate today, and then some LA fire stuff.
I want to talk about insurance stuff, which is pretty important.
Also what else we've got Joe Larsgard coming aboard. We

(03:51):
have that press conference today at eight o'clock, and Amy
explain why today it's important because the winds are down,
They've got fires under control.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Why are we in the middle of a press conference Because.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
The winds are down, but there are still some red
flag warnings and mountain areas and the fires are not
under control. They're gaining control of them, but they're still
there's still hot spots. They're still fighting them and people
are not in their homes. Twelve thousand buildings, formes, businesses,
they can't go back in.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yet, that's fair. That's three minutes of a press conference.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Thank you. You just gave the press conference.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
You got it.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I'm here to help and we're going to hear what
usually it's half an hour?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Now?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Is that what we do? Or we bail out after
half an hour.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
We'll see what the critical information is and likely bail
out when the politicians start talking.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Oh yeah, the Kumbai Ya, we love you. Let's all
hold hands.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Oh chrisys mayor. Beth said anything of consequence?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yet no, no, And Chris told me yesterday and he's
going to bring in the information. When Bass was this
was I don't know, six eight years ago. She said,
if she is elected may she's been wanting to be
mayor for a long time.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
She would never leave the country. Isn't that interesting?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Now you give her a pass for going to the Olympics,
Olympics and accepting the flag. I'll give her a pass
on that one. And she said she would go to
Washington and Sacramento. Okay, that's fair, But Ghana she's been
to South Africa a bunch of times. She's been to
Europe a bunch of times. Let me tell you, it's
good to be a politician. When you're in a major city.

(05:30):
You get a lot of junkets. And I don't think
they fly coach, I really don't. And when they fly
over there and they're doing these junkets, I don't think
they pay for dinner. Just guessing maybe they do. I
have no idea. You know, that's just me speculating. All right,
let's do it. It's time for handle on the news

(05:51):
with Amy and me lead story.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
All right, we got it. Ceasefire.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Finally, a year and a half, eighteen months, nineteen months
after the attack on Israel by Hamas, twelve hundred people
killed in Israel. Now, one of the facts, twelve hundred
people seem to be not a whole lot when you
think of the numbers relative to the number of Palestinians
who have died over forty five thousand, which about a
third are militant, so you don't count those. But thirty

(06:21):
thousand were not militants, and it is men, women and
children who were killed. So what's big twelve hundred versus
what thirty thousand, Yeah, come on, give me a break.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Twelve hundred.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
That was the worst attack on Israel and more Jews
died in one attack since the Holocaust.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's why Israel got did what it did.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
In addition to some other things coming up at seven o'clock,
I'm going to start doing some history explaining why and
what's going to happen and how does Biden get credit?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes? Does President Trump get credit? Yes? Does NATA Yahoo
get credit?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
No? All right, let's go ahead and move on. That's
coming up at seven o'clock after the news.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Bye bye, bye, bye, bye bye bye. President Biden gave
his farewell address to the nation last night from the
Oval Office. Instead of an upbeat, happy message, it took
a rather ominous dark turn as he delivered stark warnings
about an oligarchy of the ultra wealthy taking root in

(07:33):
the country and a tech industrial complex infringing on Americans'
rights and the future of democracy. This will probably be
his last opportunity to address the country before he leaves
the White House on Monday.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Now it's pretty stark. Is it going to be as
bad as he describes it?

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't think so, Because Trump there's a lot of
bomb bass in what Trump does. I mean a lot
of bombas. We are not going to by Greenland. We
are not going to have Canada as our fifty first state.
We are not going to take over the Panama Canal.

(08:10):
There will not be the tariffs that Trump is proclaiming.
But is it going to change? You got the ultra wealthy,
you bet they're going to do better. You bet they
are businesses, you bet they're going to do better.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
And it's just, you know, it's a different philosophy.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
We elect Democrats who are super liberal, and now we
elected a Republican who's not you know, welcome to America.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Now that was a legitimate election.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
And now it's a different view of the United States.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's what happens.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
State Farms stay input for now.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
So as you know, State Farm has been canceling or
not renewing policies in California, and they had planned to
drop policies in the Pacific Palisades area. But now say
Or says that it will offer renewals to residential policy
holders affected by the fires in Los Angeles County. The

(09:04):
figures of who they're going to offer renewals to about
eleven hundred of the sixteen hundred residential policies still in
place in Pacific Palis Sades and thousand more in other
neighborhoods in the county. So the deal is, if you
had coverage as of January seventh, they're going to offer
you to be covered for the next cycle.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, you think that has anything to do with the
governor saying you can't stop the policies, you must renew?

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Think they Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I think by the way, I had State Farm insurance
and it canceled. It's Persian Palace last November and no
November before that year ago November, and they just canceled me.
They dropped out, and I had to scramble to find
new insurance. I was bere for two and a half weeks.

(09:57):
Let me tell you what it's like waking up in
the morning and knowing you have no home insurance. That
was a pleasant two and a half weeks. And finally
found a policy twice as much, one hundred percent increase.
So you've got I'm going to tell you a little
later on about at seven point thirty about the insurance.

(10:17):
And you have insurance in the California Fair Plan, and
let me tell you we as consumers are going to
get screwed, and I'll explain exactly how it's sort of
not in the.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
News, not so fast in order prohibiting cleanup or removal
of debris in the fire areas, including of course Specific
Palisades and Altadena.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Pasadena can't do it.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
You're cut off and not allowed to remove anything until
a hazardous materials inspection has been completed. That's according to
the Ella County Health Officer, doctor Moontoo Davis. He says
fired debris and ash and dirt from the fires could
have asbestos or heavy metals and other hazardous substances in it.
They need to check those areas make sure they're safe

(11:03):
before they let people start clearing the space.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Makes sense, and people desperately want to go back to
the house see what they have, especially in areas where
the house sort of survived. Was it, Amy, did you
report this morning about how a house has survived just
split right in half.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
That was in Pacific Palisades. Yes, it survived the wildfire,
but then there was a mud slide and it came
down split the.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
House in half. Perfect for a divorce that's already done.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
The divorce.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
No, the splitting of assets.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, half and half. You get half the house, I
get half the house.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Works.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Getting money from go fund me, as several people have
set up goal fundme accounts could affect what you get
from FEMA. So over one hundred million dollars has been
raised for California wildfire victims on go fund me. But
victims have to be careful when using crowdsourcing to raise
money because it could affect the money they get from FEMA.
FEMA basically says, if you've already been paid for something,

(12:07):
you can't get paid again.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah. Two things wrong with go fund me. First of all,
the scammers out there using GoFundMe like crazy. You got
to be super careful. We've been hearing that a lot. Also,
I love this story where, I mean, it's being reported
by ABC.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Do you know where it did come from? Any idea
amy the original story? I mean, it's a I do
not know.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, it's legitimate news source, but it's a new source
that's telling us.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Here's how to screw FEMA.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Make sure your go fundme, Paige or were The GoFundMe
is very vague, so FEMA can't nail you and say
you got that money to replace this part of your house.
This is I've never seen this before, coming from a
new source.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's great. So there's the rule.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
If you get paid by any other source FEMA doesn't pay,
you have to deduct what FEMA would normally give you.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
The clock is ticking down on TikTok.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
One hundred and seventy million people in the US have
TikTok on their phones, but a federal ban on the
social media platform, which of course is owned by a
Chinese company, goes into effect Sunday unless there's a last
minute reprieve. President elect Trump has been considering issuing an

(13:30):
executive order that would suspend enforcement of the law for
sixty to ninety days.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Which you can't do. By the way, he does not
have the power. This is a law that was passed
by Congress and signed by the president. You can't just
as president arbitrarily say oh you know what, I don't
like that law.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Now, does he have the power not to enforce Yeah,
he sort of does.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
But even to.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
His Republican allies in the Senate and the House this thing.
Does he say, I don't care what you did, I
don't care what you pass I'm going to decide what happens.
I don't think that's going to go over very well.
So this now is sitting with the Supreme Court, which
I don't think has yet ruled whether or not the

(14:19):
Court is going to say that that law is unconstitutional.
It's First Amendment issue versus national security. And we'll see
how far the Court goes on this one.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Well, the people on Wall Street must have heard something.
They liked stocks surge yesterday. The Dow was up by
about seven hundred points in early trading. I think it
was up five or six hundred points by the end
of the day. The consumer price index slowed for the
first time in months, and there were some better than

(14:48):
expected wholesale inflation numbers, and that that apparently did it.
The Dow again up by almost seven hundred points in
morning trading. The SMP was up by more than one
and a half percent. The Nasdaq was up by more
than two percent.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, it's good news.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Inflation is coming more and more in control, not yet
at the two percent that the Fed wants, but pretty
good stuff.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
Newsom is following Trump's lead on this one. Lots of controversy.
You know, the fly flags are flying half staff around
the country because of former President Carter's passing.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
There, they're going to fly that way for thirty days.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
But the Trump team said, actually it was Mike Johnson
said that we're going to raise the flags to full
staff on Monday for inauguration Day and then bring them
back down to half staff. And Democratic Governor Newsom says, Yep,
we're going to do that in California too.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
When's the last time Newsom was an ally of Mike
Johnson and Donald Trump? But on this one he is
joining the We're going to raise the flag on our
inauguration day, which, by the way, I think is super
appropriate to have the flag flown on inauguration Day. Here's
the problem. The law says there's thirty days of morning

(16:16):
when a president a next president dies, and the law
says that a flag or the flag has to be
flown at half staff.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
So what Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
And Mike Johnson are doing are saying, screw the law,
We're not going to follow what US law is.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
And who's going to come after in the Department of Justice.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
A good point, Yes, Department Justice is going to by
the way, bringing a flat Remember the cavalry when someone
was holding the flag and they were marching down or
they going down on horses.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
That's exactly what's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah, do you think you think it's okay?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
No, I have mixed feelings about that.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
First of all, I think inauguration Day is a very
important day in US and US history because how many
inaugurations day?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Inaugurations? Do you have?

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Forty seven or forty six so far?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yes, thank you for that number. But do you follow
the law? No, it's that simple. Here's what the law says.
Do you say screw the law? Well, that's what Gavin
Newsom is saying. This is exactly what Mike Johnson is saying.
And you know, I have mixed feelings, but if i
had to go one way or the other, I'm going
to go for the law.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
Pam Bondi gets grilled on Capitol Hill. Pam Bondi is
President elect Trump's choice to be the next Attorney general,
and she was in the hot seat yesterday and Dick
Durbin kept asking her whether Trump won the election or

(17:52):
actually whether Biden won the election. And she wouldn't specifically
say Biden won the election, but she says President Biden
is the president of the United States.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
He was duly sworn in. He is the president of
the United States.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, Will, that's say the word elected, just statement of fact.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
He is the president. Yes, that's a fact. He was
sworn in.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
That's a fact. He is in the White House. That's
a fact. Was he elected. He's in the White House.
That's a fact. That's just code for nope, he was
never elected. That's what That was her position. She was
part of his team that argue the election was fraudulent,

(18:35):
and you know's she believes that. I mean, there are
people to this day that say this whole thing was
a fraud. I'm not talking about just people walking down
the street. I'm talking about people, for example, like the
next attorney general. And she will get confirmed. Now on
her side, she actually has credentials. She was the Attorney
general of Florida. She actually has some credits. Then you

(18:59):
have heads give or I always mispronounce his name. HEGSA
Yeah him too, both those guys and man, there is
zero experience or credentials. Zero, So where do you go
with that? So she'll she'll get confirmed. Okay, Marco Rubio
and there's stuff there. You know, he's got it. You know,

(19:21):
he's he has the crazy He was on the Foreign
Relations Committee forever.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Well, there's a move to make smokes less potent. The
Biden administration has put up a proposal to cut the
level of nicotine in cigarettes. The proposal would require cigarette
makers to significantly reduce levels of nicotine to try to
make smoking less addictive and less satisfying. Apparently, research has
suggested the move would result in fewer people starting to

(19:50):
smoke in the first place, and then also would help
the nation's roughly thirty million smokers quit or switch to
less harmful alternatives like e cigarettes.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, that's not gonna happen, because you you have a
new president who is a big fan of big business,
and cigarettes are big business, and they donated to his campaign.
I think they're already donating also to his inauguration. Did
you know on inaugurations are not paid for it by
the government, private donor private donors.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Oh that's right, because remember like Bezos and Zuckerberg, they've
donated a million dollars, which is probably why they're going
to be at the inauguration.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, inauguration simply is whoever I can think it can
be any judge by the way, who swears in a
president any judge? Remember when Lyndon Johnson was sworn in
on Air Force one.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Not specifically, pardon, not specifically?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Okay, when Linden yeah, okay, nineteen sixty three. November twenty two,
nineteen sixty three, Linden Johnson was sworn in as president
while JFK's coffin was sitting in the back of the airplane,
air Force one, and they're in this sweltering, sweltering cabin
of Air Force one. It was a federal judge, Sarah Hughes,
who swore in Lyndon Johnson.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
It was not the Chief Justice.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Now do you find that weird that I actually know
the name of the judge and I don't know what
I had for breakfast?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Say I you this morning? No? Okay, yeah, yeah, and
said we're used to it.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
But anyway, that's it. According to law, it's just a
swearing in. It's basically two people and you're done.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Protections for porn are before the Supreme Court.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
The justices.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
We're listening to arguments yesterday about the legality of a
law in Texas that requires pornographic websites to verify the
age of users. But The justices were also apparently concerned
over the burdens imposed on adults to view constitutionally protected material.
They seem to agree the states can try to keep
the adult material from minors, but said the free speech

(21:58):
implications could be kind.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Of to.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I mean, it's just you got a First Amendment versus
the ability of people to view porn, and porn is
perfectly legal to view, and the issue is keeping kids
away from it.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
But I think it was who said.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
No.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I think it's the next story.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
No.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
One of the justices said, I think she has kids.
I don't remember which justice had. You know, I personal experience.
You know, I have kids, and no matter what you do,
they're going to see porn.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Would that be Amy Cony Barrett, I think it would
be younger kids.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, I think it would be her. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
Is part of a state for sale. A Republican senators
says he wants to make Minnesota Iowa again and is
introduced a bill that would allow Iowa to buy nine
counties in Minnesota. Minnesota borders Iowa to the north, and
Senator Mike boselat.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
I think it's Bosslot.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, whatever wants to I don't know what it wants.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
The state to enter into negotiations with its neighbor that
would allow it to purchase nine southern Minnesota counties.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Now, who sells nine counties? Is the state? Is it
the state that sells nine.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Counties or did the counties sell themselves?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
And who buys nine counties? I guess the State of
Iowa buys the counties.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
And will there be a vote? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
This is some of the crazy stuff that it's going
to be happening with this next administration. Can you imagine
any administration that was coming in where a senator says,
we want to buy some counties from that state over there,
or Greenland or the Panama Canal or Canada. I mean,

(23:49):
we're in for a ride. We really are in for ride.
None of that is going to happen, of course, but
still it's just great fun seeing what's attempting to happen.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Glenn's Gone supersonic Blue Origin officially.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Is kind of in the space race.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
The New Glen, which is the company's first rocket that's
powerful enough to launch satellites into space, launched this morning
from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The rocket was safely taken
into orbit, but Blue Origin didn't get its next goal.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
They wanted to do two things.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
They wanted to get the rocket up into orbit, and
then they also wanted to bring the rocket first stage
booster back down to land on a platform, kind of
like SpaceX does all the time.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
That didn't work.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, so boy, they're jumping right in it.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
SpaceX has been doing this basically by twenty fifteen, or
started in twenty fifteen, and so Blue Origin is only
ten years in behind SpaceX. If you go back in
history in the space race with Russia and the United States,
by the time John Glenn, who this rocket is named after,

(25:03):
who was the first American to orbit the Earth, Russia
had already orbited the Earth a dozen times, had sent
I think at that point they sent a man rocket
to Jupiter and back.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
You know, they were pretty well advanced.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
But now you have Blue Origin now competing with SpaceX
that has the entire market. SpaceX now has eighty percent
of the world market for rocket tree. You know, one
thing about Elon Musk, You cannot argue that he is
not a visionary crazy, but a visionary.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Going international to crack down on some deadly drugs. Two
Chinese citizens are standing trial in New York. The trial
actually started yesterday. It's tied to fentanyl and it's considered
a landmark case because we haven't tried Chinese nationals before.
These two were picked up in a sting operation in Fiji.

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They were kicked out of the South Pacific, and then
they were arrested in the US. They were among the
first prosecutions against Chinese nationals and Chinese based companies for
trafficking fentanyl precursor chemicals as they are called, into the US.
The guys are charged with shipping more than two hundred
kilograms of illicit fentanyl related chemical precursors into the US.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
We're not talking the cartel doing this. These are companies,
real companies in China, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing companies that ship
this stuff out. Also, I have a question about how
bright these guys are. They are arrested in Fiji, expelled
from Fiji, and end up in the United States.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
They're Chinese nationals.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Why in God's name would you come back to the
United States for.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
That first flight out? Hey, let's go to the US.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Usually you're expelled to your country of origin. So they
can't be really bright.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Oh Canada.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Canada's outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nothing is off
the table when it comes to responding to proposed tariffs
by President elect Trump. But he also said that not
just one of the provinces should pay or should basically
bear the brunt of the tariffs, and it needs to
be spread out among all of Canada's provinces. The Premier,

(27:33):
doug Ford said they need to band together in their
response to the threats of tariffs, and the retaliatory tariffs
need to be hard, and he said Canada is not
for sale.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Now.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
This is Canada caving to Trump's request or demand more
like it that the tariffs are going to be huge.
And what Canada is saying, Okay, the tariffs are going
to be huge. What we're going to do is spread
them out. For example, tariffs on car parts, which and

(28:08):
I don't know which province does most of the car
the car parts. Let's say it's Ontario, and so it's
going to be hit harder with tariffs than any other
part of Canada. And Trudeau is saying, well, we're going
to spread all of that out and spread the risk.
It's sort of an insurance policy. This is Canada straight
out caving. And that's how much power of the United

(28:30):
States has.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
It's caving because they're basically saying yeah, it's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, yeah, or anticipation of it happening. As I said,
what Trump is doing, there's a lot of bomb bass
in what he says. But he's getting what he wants
and then.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
He goes back.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
So you have the threat of twenty five percent tariffs,
so you have the threat of forty percent tariffs.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Is he actually going to do that?

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I don't think so, and most economists don't think so
because one of the things that happens with tariffs, I mean.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
It goes through the roof, Inflation goes crazy.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know, you can't you know, you know why we
don't buy electric cars here in the United States from China.
You cannot buy an electric car from China. It's not
because they're banned, it's because tariffs are one hundred percent
for evs coming in from China. Well, so you buy Uh,
my EV was made in Germany. Germany happens to be
an ally and I have no idea what the tariff is.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
All Right, we're done, KF. I am sixty you've been
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