February 4, 2025 • 29 mins
(February 04,2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump says he agreed to pause tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month. China hits back as Trump’s tariffs go into effect. Netanyahu blows past ceasefire talks deadline to confer with Trump. FDA elevates risk… what to know. Protests held across SoCal as part of a nationwide ‘Day Without Immigrants’ movement.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump says he agreed to pause tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month. China hits back as Trump’s tariffs go into effect. Netanyahu blows past ceasefire talks deadline to confer with Trump. FDA elevates risk… what to know. Protests held across SoCal as part of a nationwide ‘Day Without Immigrants’ movement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KPI AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
FU.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Why do these people think that somehow blocking the freeway
is in any way going to get me more on
their side or somehow help their cause.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What it's not like we don't already know what the
issue is.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is when there should be an exemption under the
law about running over.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
People with eighteen wheelers. There has to be an exemption.
That's that doesn't solve anything, but.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh its souls, Clitty, because the freeways open at that point.
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle, and good morning Handle here on a Tuesday morning,
February the fourth. We're well in the February and well
the fourth, I don't know if it's well in the February,
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but we got the crowd here the eighteen actually the
A minus sort of B plus.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Team is here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. Yes, Anne, who
is on her phone.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Just she's a very busy person. So you're you're texting
while working. I'm looking at Ricruso.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Oh okay, now who's in the news, Yeah, uh Kono,
good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And Amy good morning, Hi Bill.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I actually gave Amy some kudos. She was wearing this
flowing or is wearing this sort of flowing roby thing.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It looks very nice rob thing. Yeah, it's like a robe,
you know. It's like, yeah, whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And that works for you because a human sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah no, no, no, no, that works for Amy because
she's very swelt and she's even longer with those if no,
she's the same size outfitted. Yeah no, it does makes
her look live. Live, Yes, life, life, life, l I
t a g life.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's a new one. I look it up. No, for me,
it's a new one. A lot of new A lot
of words are new for you. Wait, what does words mean? Precisely?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
All right, we've God says I'm supple and graceful.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
What what the word like? Yeah, yeah, it is, you are.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't know about the supple part, but yeah, as
a matter of fact, I don't even know about the
graceful part.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well there's that, Oh, there's that. But anyway, that's a
good turn. It's very attractive.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And by the way, for those people that think I'm
sucking up here, there are plenty of times when I
look at Amy, I go God, you look like crap today. Yeah,
I don't because she does those days, doesn't. Sure she does,
says the guy in the Costco shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Why is this even a conversation?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yes, this is not a Costco shirt. This cost Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You should tell the shirt that that battered. Well, this
is one hundred and twenty five dollars this shirt. I
didn't pay for it. I mean, I would never spend
one hundred and twenty five dollars for five shirts.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But it was a gift, gift by someone who liked you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's from Lindsay, who decided someone who has to like you,
yea whose job it is? And she uh getting sick
of me wearing Costco shirts.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She's going through because we're moving.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Actually this week we're moving, and we're going through all
of my shirts.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There are shirts that are older than she is in
my closet. No one's surprised here. Yeah you hear any gasps.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I'm I'm not anywhere near there. She will not
let me be near the move. Of course that she
threw me out and said, you're in Burbank this entire week.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Does that mean you got out of packing too?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let me tell you she wouldn't let me pack. She will,
She would not let me put one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In a box.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You are so lucky.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean she literally did.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Let me tell you how exhausting it is sitting on
a couch watching TV while someone is packing in front
of you for ten out.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Oh I can't even imagine. If I were her, I
wouldn't let you near my box either.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Who's laughing back there? Hard?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Someone is laughing. Okay, we're off to a good start.
Neil and I had led yesterday. He cooked for me
on the big green egg in this water. It was
a lot of fun. We haven't done that a while,
and it was just the two of them. I mean,
my wife came out for a little bit. But Neil
and Neil is you know, phenomenal, phenomenal cook, very nice.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That was true.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
True, you're a great cook. I did kebabs and then
I did did some steak kebobs. But I did some
corn ribs corn.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
So you take rib you take a corn on the cob,
you cut it in half length wise, and then you
cut it into fourths quarters yeah, quarters, And they turned
out really nice.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh, they were great.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So a little uh so so I said to him,
I said, I said to him, so, I said, so,
I said, I need the recipe for that. He goes,
I don't have a recipe. I just threw it together.
He does this stuff out of his you know, out
of his head.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Complicated, but it was no. But it's just the way
you do.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You put these things together that my daughter does that,
Pamela does that, and I just don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So anyway, the food was absolutely spectacular. We had fun.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
There was goofy guys over a big green egg and
we were talking about it and eating.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, we were talking smack about everybody we work with.
It was we Okay, I was talking smack about everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We work with.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You've known me for thirty years, my big smack Tucker.
You're a pretty good smack listener. Yes, Now I could
talk smack in front of people like I'm good at.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That bad like you want to talk behind their gossip,
but not my jam.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's more much more fun, all right, guys, ready to
do it On this Tuesday morning, It's time for Handle
on the news with Amy very life today, Neil.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
In my life, buddy, I feel supple and graceful, almost spilled.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Do I do the story.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We went, uh, Neil's my best man and yeah, yeah,
we went yesterday and then we went yesterday to buy
his suit.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That was a sitcom.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It costs as much money for the alterations as does
the suit.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
They have to rebuild the suit.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
It is basically Yeah, they had to bring in other people.
It's going to be a bionic suit.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, it's very very very funny. I look at him,
you know, my rose was up. All right, guys, let's
do it. Handle on and by the way, I'm letting
you keep the suit as a souvenir.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh great, Yeah, what do I need a black suit
with big red roses on it?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Read story? As we're talked about in the last day
or two. Uh, the President has prevailed when it comes
to certainly Mexico and Canada is some degree terraces. He's
taking the weight of the United States economically and saying
I'm going to use it, and is doing it and
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is at this point succeeding. Certainly with Mexico. They brought
ten thousand troops to the border to help with the.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Controls and whatever they're gonna do for fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Although the importers of fentanyl or mainly American But that's
besides the point.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And it's working. Same thing with Canada. It's working.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He said something that it's sort of a quasi press
conference yesterday, which I didn't know. American banks are not
allowed to do business in Canada.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, American products for the most part are not being
bought in Canada. Well, it's I thought it was. I
thought it was very interesting. I know who's laughing back there,
But that was Ann right in front of you. No,
it wasn't was it was Anne Kaplan right in front
of you. And I didn't know that at any point
of something else about balance of trades. And this is
all about balance of trade is he said, go to
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Europe and see how many Chevies or bew Weeks or
Fords you see in Europe. How many European cars do
we drive around? He goes, this is all gonna stop now.
He's also put tariffs on China. That's a different animal
because China, now we're talking the first second economy in
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the world. No one gets elected in China. China can
suck it up as long as it wants. In terms
of the economic fallout, Americans are not going to appreciate
prices going up.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
When do those tariffs go tonight or something?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
They started at midnight? Yeah, last night, they're in effect.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh man, I gotta get on tu today, but Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But then they hold off on Mexico and Canada for
thirty days.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's just the Chinese though, that's in and the Chinese
have instantly retaliated, and you're gonna see a trade war.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But it's fascinating stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Tell you when one thing, when you know Trump got
elected and he said, I'm going to just tear apart
the federal government.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm going to redo it from start, from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And he's right, it's exactly what he is doing. One
thing I do like about Trump, and there's plenty I don't, Man,
there's no secret agenda here. There's no I'm saying this
and I'm doing that. That doesn't happen. All right, let's
go ahead and take a break and I'll go through
these as quickly as possible. Because we were talking smack
for a good part of the first segment.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
All right, net Yahoo kind of blowing past the ceasefire talk,
so deadline to begin talks on extending Gaza's ceasefire arrived
just yesterday with the Israeli Prime Minister in Washington.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, it's a Nettia who does not want a ceasefire.
His far right war cabinet does not want a ceasefire.
The only reason we're even in one or there even
in one is the political pressure of the hostages, the families, and.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
They just want to destroy flatt he does.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
He just takes take it out, just basically do what
the Palestinians have done. Certainly Hamas is not recognized the
state of Israel. They don't say Israel, they say the
Zionist entity, so that's changed from they kind of have
no choice, you.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Know, that's what we refer to you as. Yes, I
understand they have no choice.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And then you got people in the cabinet they say,
we want to take out all.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All, forget about two state solution.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's all Israel, that's it, and we'll deport all these
Palestinians and see what Arab country wants to take them.
I mean, it is really a very bad situation where
that has reversed itself. In the meantime, there's nothing left
of Gaza, and the ceasefire may disappear pretty quickly and
we'll see.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Got a good excuse not to eat broccoli. John Colebelt
will be very happy broccoli. So that Walmart in twenty
states is now being recalled. It's Braga fresh market side
broccoli florettes. Bragafresh is headquartered in Solidad, California, and there's
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possible lysteria contamination. So they first issued a warning in December,
and then on January twenty seventh they upped it and
now it's the highest recall risk level because hysteria can
kill you. So it's in twenty states, including California, and
again it's Braga Fresh market side broccoli florett Walmart.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Don't eat it and right on the bag you'll see
if it's fresh, you will die.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
They're very honest about that, honest in marketing.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yes, protests took place, as you know, across southern California
yesterday for a Day without Immigrants, nationwide movement aimed showing
the importance of immigrants in the US. Unfortunately here in
La a lot of it. On Sunday and Monday were
the protests. I didn't know what was happening. Who paid attention? Well,
(11:58):
I knew because of the food. You know, a lot
of restaurants and stuff were closed yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But who paid attention? What did they do?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
They go on the freeway, they blocked the freeway, and
has this story about her daughter having been blocked coming
in from Disneyland, where it was just this freeway was
totally jammed. By the way, I'm doing this at seven o'clock,
and I have a story, a personal story about when
I joined the million Hispanic march. Remember that one with
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the Mexican flags. There wasn't one American flag in that crowd. Ooh,
it was good pr whoever put that one together. We
demand equality, We demand to stay here. Why the Mexican
flag and no American flag?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Technos. The belief is that we stole the country.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, from Mexico, who stole the country from the Spaniards,
who stole the country from the indigenous people that were
living there. Okay, you stole the country.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Get in line. I'm not sure that that's historically accurate. Well, no,
Spain had it, Yeah, but the Mexicans had it before Spain.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
No, no, the indigenous Mexicans.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, but there's still but there are still indigenous people there,
there's still Spanish is not the language of Mexico it
is now, but originally, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There were different dialects.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But the point is, if you want to call it
belonging to indigenous people, Indigenous people don't think in terms
of the land belongs to us.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
The land is the land and we live on it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But no, it was the Spaniards came over and set
up the colony, and then then you had independence declared
and Mexico became independent and so it's uh, and then
we got it because we're we bought it at a
fire sale. Well actually not quite, but let's just say.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The fire sale was we're going to light on fire.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So we got Arizona, we got California, we got you know, okay, Mexico, Yeah,
New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And which is was that New Mexico?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What are the three? It was as Arizona, Nevada in California. Wash.
You know, if it's memory serves, we didn't look that up.
All right, let's move on.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Dems don't like Doge or the guy running it. Democratic
lawmakers and other government watchdog groups promised to fight back
against Elon Musk's takeover of the government's payments system. They
say it could be the biggest privacy security breach in
American history. Ron Wyden from Oregon says Musk sent young
(14:34):
Doge computer programmers into the Treasury Department's headquarters, where they
allegedly strong armed civil service workers to get access to
the system that cuts checks for all congressionally authorized government payments.
Lawmakers are saying, if this happened in Venezuela or Malawi,
it would be called a coup.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Hey, let me ask you for And Trump is basically
undoing entire agencies like USAD disappearing, Department of Education is disappearing,
and he can do that. And his Republican backers are saying, yes, yes, yes,
What do you think congress people and senators and the
republic Republican Party are going to do when he dissolves Congress?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Do you think they're going to vote for it?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And I'm willing to bet there are some that would
actually vote in favor.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You can't do that, That's that's part of the constitution.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh, birthright.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Try.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
He's not going to succeed, of course, no, of course not.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He's not. But the point is the attemptable we made.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
How about was it one or two congress people four
days after the inauguration, already put a bill in saying
that we should undo the amendment, that is, the two terms,
that it should be unlimited terms four days, and that's
already the that's already being introduced, which, of course you
know by the time no, of course not. But by
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the time he approaches the end of his presidency, how
many Republicans you think are going to say, is it
the twenty second Amendment whatever amendment that is that says
that you're limited to two terms?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
No, it used to be. It used to be unlimited
until FDR.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I don't hear you talk this way when people talk
about getting rid of guns.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's in the constitution is you know, here's the difference.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's a question of what the Supreme Court has decided
what the constitution means. The Court has already decided that
birthright citizenship is absolute. It's done the Court, for example,
in the language of the Second Amendment, and it talks
about in order to maintain I'm just paring alia a
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well armed militia that has disappeared, that does not exist anymore.
It's only the right to bear arms shall not be abridged.
That first part of it just literally has been written
out because the court has ruled that way, all right,
So anyway, we can have a great conversation about all
of that, and.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Let me ask something. Am I being unfair to Trump? Seriously?
Oh my god, I'm drinking? No, seriously, Hold on a minute,
Hold on a minute, having water?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No? Am I being unfair? I think credit is due,
credit is given.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I think you've gotten worse about this, and I've known
you for a long time. I am not a I
did not vote for Trump, and I'm not a maga
guy by any stretch. But I am a logic and
reason guy. And there are times where you get emotional
hyperbolic about Trump and I that always makes me nervous
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on either side.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
When people get that way, that's absolutely not true. Get out,
I mean right now.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So I hate to be the one that has to
be an apologist for Trump, because I I don't want
to have to.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But reason is reason to me, and I think I'm
I am not.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I have no allegiance allegiance to a party. My allegiance
is to reason, and and that's it, all right. State
Farm General, that's california largest insurance provider. They're requested an
emergency interim RDIKE averaging twenty two percent, or this is
morning on wake up call. So this's for homeowners from
state officials, you know, citing a dire financial situation after
(18:18):
the destructive Los Angeles No kidding.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm going to do this story at seven thirty, and
there are a lot of spins to this, and I'm
going to see the.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Only only type of business that if you use it,
they're in dire stracts like if you actually use our business,
if you pay us and don't have problems, we're golden.
But if you need what we're here for, then we're
in dire. So that's bank loans. If you need us,
we're not interested. If you don't need us, we of
course we'll loan you money. That's that's insurance. By the way, Yeah,
(18:50):
if you put a claim in, we hate you. And
by the way, you put a claim in and we're
going to cancel you. We don't like putting claims in.
What we like is getting premiums. I'll do more about
that at seven thirty.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Bring us your criminals, your immigrants, your huddled masses. That's
the message from El Salvador. They've agreed to house violent
US criminals and receive deportees, not only from l Salvador,
but also any nationality. The announcement made by US Secretary
of State Marco Rubio called it an act of extraordinary
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friendship to our country. So El Salvador says they'll take
Salvador and deportise. They will accept for deportation any illegal
immigrant in the US who has a criminal background. And
in addition, they've offered to house American criminals in El Salvador.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, this is real easy. This is simply a business
deal that was cut between the Trump administration and El Salvador.
You put up our prisoners, we will pay you. It's
like prisons, which happened in California. We have a bunch
of private prisons. And this is a straight business deal, period.
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So we're gonna pay you less money than we pay here. Wow,
that's what it is. And that so they're all they
get money out of it. Yeah, and and look you
have favor with our current Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Uh. It's we are willing to take only convicted criminals,
including convicted US citizens, into our mega prison in exchange
for a fee mega prison.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, you pay us, We'll do it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Because what is it, I mean, what does it cost
to house a prisoner in California or federal prison, like
thirty forty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
The cost to how is a prisoner? Can you there
is thirty dollars a year. They don't feed them?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well, could you imagine if that's what we do now
for our our prisons. We outsource them to another country.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's what we're doing. But because it's so much cheaper,
that's what this is. And I'm okay with it because
it costs the taxpayers eight bucket of money to house prisoners.
And if I can, if we can get it for
half the price in El Salvador, hell yes, we go
for it.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
This is the art of the deal, all right.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Target has been sued for allegedly concealing the risk of
its diversity and social initiatives a big backlash, causing customers
to flee, stock prices to plummet.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So you have.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Shareholders going after saying that Target defrauded them into paying
inflated prices for its stock and unknowingly supporting management's misuse
of investor funds to serve political and social goals.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, now, look at this lawsuit. I've never seen this.
I am a shareholder in Target. I am not a
fan of DEI, Okay, fair enough, A lot of people
are not, and Target's moving away from.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It like many other companies.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But you hire a minority has hurt the company. The
DEI program has hurt the company. Therefore it is hurt
me as a shareholder. Fascinating lawsuits. Okay, but look at
it this way.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Do you remember there was backlash because all of the yes, yeah, no, there's.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No question about it.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So now the question is how much let's god of
the say goes forward?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Right, how much does it hurt the company that LBGTQ spokesperson,
for example, which destroyed Budweiser as the number one beer
in the country.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I mean it just literally wiped out.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Okay, but how much does it hurt the sales and
the profitability of Target, which was caused by a DEI program?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I would love to hear that argument. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's a legitimate legal argument, I think, because anything that
directors of company do to hurt shareholders value allows a
shareholder suit.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
This one is fascinating. I've never heard of this one,
but I can't wait. This is fight. I remember I
told you that the.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Next four years I'm going to be just incredible. Man,
is a good time to be alive.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Look at yours all right?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
As a talk show host, vegue, just, I mean, it's yes,
it's such fascinating stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I mean, I just love this.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Okay, fifty billion dollars, okay, fifty million dollars to fight Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
California's legislature has.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Approved bills worth fifty million dollars to pay for court
battles against the Trump administration and to support legal services
for immigrants.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Wasn't that twenty five million dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Least twenty five million and twenty five million it was
two bills?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Ah, okay, Well that's going to go up. Lawsuit after
lawsuit after lawsuit. California is going to go to war
with the administration. But we knew that as Trump was
running Newsome said we're going to file lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Well, didn't BoNT to file one hundred and twenty three
lawsuits lasted last term.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, Yeah, it's war. It's a legal war. It's a
lot more than just a legal war.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But there's a lot of lunches at the French laundry.
It certainly is all right. The superb Owl ticket prices
are plummeting. Kansas City Chiefs might make history this weekend.
We shall see. But ticket prices are cheapest ticket for
Super Bowl in New Orleans has fallen below four thousand dollars. Yeah,
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that secondary mark. Yeah, that's in the those bleed sections.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
By the way, you can't buy them on the primary
market because there are virtually no seats available to the public.
The ballplayers all get a certain number of seats, the
advertisers get a certain number of seats, so for the
most part, they're gone. You know, a lot of the
ballplayers and I didn't know this for a while, is
the seats are so valuable and the seats are pretty
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good that the lower paid ballplayers sell them. Well, yeah,
they sell them and it's this much money. So yeah,
go ahead and go to the Super Bowl if you're
an idiot. And a lot of it is because I
was just reading that is a lot of it is
just it's Kansas City Chiefs fatigue. That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You know, another one.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay, we like winners, but we don't like winners who
win too much.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Rick Caruso is a builder, after all.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
The former candidate for mayor of La billionaire developer Rick
Caruso has launched a foundation called LA or Steadfast LA,
and the idea is to speed up rebuilding from the
wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. So he's put together
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this group of experts and they'll be working together to
find innovative solutions and collaborate with all levels of government.
He calls it a scale of reconstruction that's too big
for the government alone.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Now, this is not money that's being poured into the
various foundations and rebuilding plans. This is money that creates
this super think tank to make it happen. And I
think it's a great idea, and he's funding it out
of his pocket. One.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, this is the guy we didn't want for mayor
that that puts money into it.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah. And I was such a I almost precinct it
for Rick Caruso. Yeah, No, I voted for the man. Yeah.
All right.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Trump administration requests the raw material of a sixty minute
segment raising red flags across the media industry. This is
that segment that we you know, we all talked about
at the time. It's the October interview with then Vice
President Kamala Harris. President Trump sued CBS in a federal
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court alleging that the interview was deceptively doctor to help
Harris beat Trump.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Now let's get interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm gonna give you a reality check here, and this
is some experience. I happened to be a big part
of a sixty minute segment on surrogacy very early days,
and they ran my interview. I probably was two and
a half minutes on the air. I was interviewed for
over three hours. I was in front of that camera,
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and then they edited down. That's what they do. By
the way, go ahead and sue CBS. What are your damages?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You won? You won? How did they harm you? And
let's go on the other side.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
During one of the Trump interviews that Sean Hannity did,
it was a live interview, and I remember watching it,
Trump said something absolutely ridiculous and Hannity said, wait a minute,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Really mean to say this? Hey, it's it's biased. Welcome
to the media.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Wasn't the sticking point over this one though? That they
aired part of the interview with one answer, and then
they aired it again, same question, different answer.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, but they can do that. They can do anything
they want. Of course, it's biased. That's how they spin.
You go to conservative media Outlet's say, and you're gonna
have one view, same interview, same statement, and you go
to another one and the question.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Is how were you damaged? Okay, let's file the lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
He would have won, he would have had a more
bigly win.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay, yeah, Okay, that's worth a lawsuit, ury trial, huge. Yeah. Yeah.
So anyway, this is it. It's really interesting. But if
you don't think virtually everything is biased, watch CNN cover
a Trump story, watch Fox cover a Trump story, and
you tell me, uh, there's no bias on one side
and there is on the other.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
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Speaker 1 (29:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
FU.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Why do these people think that somehow blocking the freeway
is in any way going to get me more on
their side or somehow help their cause.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What it's not like we don't already know what the
issue is.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is when there should be an exemption under the
law about running over.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
People with eighteen wheelers. There has to be an exemption.
That's that doesn't solve anything, but.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh its souls, Clitty, because the freeways open at that point.
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle, and good morning Handle here on a Tuesday morning,
February the fourth. We're well in the February and well
the fourth, I don't know if it's well in the February,
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but we got the crowd here the eighteen actually the
A minus sort of B plus.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Team is here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. Yes, Anne, who
is on her phone.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Just she's a very busy person. So you're you're texting
while working. I'm looking at Ricruso.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Oh okay, now who's in the news, Yeah, uh Kono,
good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And Amy good morning, Hi Bill.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I actually gave Amy some kudos. She was wearing this
flowing or is wearing this sort of flowing roby thing.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It looks very nice rob thing. Yeah, it's like a robe,
you know. It's like, yeah, whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And that works for you because a human sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah no, no, no, no, that works for Amy because
she's very swelt and she's even longer with those if no,
she's the same size outfitted. Yeah no, it does makes
her look live. Live, Yes, life, life, life, l I
t a g life.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's a new one. I look it up. No, for me,
it's a new one. A lot of new A lot
of words are new for you. Wait, what does words mean? Precisely?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
All right, we've God says I'm supple and graceful.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
What what the word like? Yeah, yeah, it is, you are.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't know about the supple part, but yeah, as
a matter of fact, I don't even know about the
graceful part.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well there's that, Oh, there's that. But anyway, that's a
good turn. It's very attractive.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And by the way, for those people that think I'm
sucking up here, there are plenty of times when I
look at Amy, I go God, you look like crap today. Yeah,
I don't because she does those days, doesn't. Sure she does,
says the guy in the Costco shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Why is this even a conversation?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yes, this is not a Costco shirt. This cost Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
You should tell the shirt that that battered. Well, this
is one hundred and twenty five dollars this shirt. I
didn't pay for it. I mean, I would never spend
one hundred and twenty five dollars for five shirts.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But it was a gift, gift by someone who liked you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's from Lindsay, who decided someone who has to like you,
yea whose job it is? And she uh getting sick
of me wearing Costco shirts.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She's going through because we're moving.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Actually this week we're moving, and we're going through all
of my shirts.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There are shirts that are older than she is in
my closet. No one's surprised here. Yeah you hear any gasps.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I'm I'm not anywhere near there. She will not
let me be near the move. Of course that she
threw me out and said, you're in Burbank this entire week.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Does that mean you got out of packing too?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let me tell you she wouldn't let me pack. She will,
She would not let me put one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
In a box.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You are so lucky.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean she literally did.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Let me tell you how exhausting it is sitting on
a couch watching TV while someone is packing in front
of you for ten out.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Oh I can't even imagine. If I were her, I
wouldn't let you near my box either.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Who's laughing back there? Hard?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Someone is laughing. Okay, we're off to a good start.
Neil and I had led yesterday. He cooked for me
on the big green egg in this water. It was
a lot of fun. We haven't done that a while,
and it was just the two of them. I mean,
my wife came out for a little bit. But Neil
and Neil is you know, phenomenal, phenomenal cook, very nice.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That was true.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
True, you're a great cook. I did kebabs and then
I did did some steak kebobs. But I did some
corn ribs corn.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
So you take rib you take a corn on the cob,
you cut it in half length wise, and then you
cut it into fourths quarters yeah, quarters, And they turned
out really nice.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh, they were great.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So a little uh so so I said to him,
I said, I said to him, so, I said, so,
I said, I need the recipe for that. He goes,
I don't have a recipe. I just threw it together.
He does this stuff out of his you know, out
of his head.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Complicated, but it was no. But it's just the way
you do.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You put these things together that my daughter does that,
Pamela does that, and I just don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So anyway, the food was absolutely spectacular. We had fun.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
There was goofy guys over a big green egg and
we were talking about it and eating.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, we were talking smack about everybody we work with.
It was we Okay, I was talking smack about everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We work with.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You've known me for thirty years, my big smack Tucker.
You're a pretty good smack listener. Yes, Now I could
talk smack in front of people like I'm good at.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That bad like you want to talk behind their gossip,
but not my jam.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's more much more fun, all right, guys, ready to
do it On this Tuesday morning, It's time for Handle
on the news with Amy very life today, Neil.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
In my life, buddy, I feel supple and graceful, almost spilled.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Do I do the story.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We went, uh, Neil's my best man and yeah, yeah,
we went yesterday and then we went yesterday to buy
his suit.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That was a sitcom.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It costs as much money for the alterations as does
the suit.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
They have to rebuild the suit.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
It is basically Yeah, they had to bring in other people.
It's going to be a bionic suit.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, it's very very very funny. I look at him,
you know, my rose was up. All right, guys, let's
do it. Handle on and by the way, I'm letting
you keep the suit as a souvenir.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh great, Yeah, what do I need a black suit
with big red roses on it?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Read story? As we're talked about in the last day
or two. Uh, the President has prevailed when it comes
to certainly Mexico and Canada is some degree terraces. He's
taking the weight of the United States economically and saying
I'm going to use it, and is doing it and
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is at this point succeeding. Certainly with Mexico. They brought
ten thousand troops to the border to help with the.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Controls and whatever they're gonna do for fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Although the importers of fentanyl or mainly American But that's
besides the point.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And it's working. Same thing with Canada. It's working.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He said something that it's sort of a quasi press
conference yesterday, which I didn't know. American banks are not
allowed to do business in Canada.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, American products for the most part are not being
bought in Canada. Well, it's I thought it was. I
thought it was very interesting. I know who's laughing back there,
But that was Ann right in front of you. No,
it wasn't was it was Anne Kaplan right in front
of you. And I didn't know that at any point
of something else about balance of trades. And this is
all about balance of trade is he said, go to
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Europe and see how many Chevies or bew Weeks or
Fords you see in Europe. How many European cars do
we drive around? He goes, this is all gonna stop now.
He's also put tariffs on China. That's a different animal
because China, now we're talking the first second economy in
(08:20):
the world. No one gets elected in China. China can
suck it up as long as it wants. In terms
of the economic fallout, Americans are not going to appreciate
prices going up.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
When do those tariffs go tonight or something?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
They started at midnight? Yeah, last night, they're in effect.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh man, I gotta get on tu today, but Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But then they hold off on Mexico and Canada for
thirty days.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's just the Chinese though, that's in and the Chinese
have instantly retaliated, and you're gonna see a trade war.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But it's fascinating stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Tell you when one thing, when you know Trump got
elected and he said, I'm going to just tear apart
the federal government.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm going to redo it from start, from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And he's right, it's exactly what he is doing. One
thing I do like about Trump, and there's plenty I don't, Man,
there's no secret agenda here. There's no I'm saying this
and I'm doing that. That doesn't happen. All right, let's
go ahead and take a break and I'll go through
these as quickly as possible. Because we were talking smack
for a good part of the first segment.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
All right, net Yahoo kind of blowing past the ceasefire talk,
so deadline to begin talks on extending Gaza's ceasefire arrived
just yesterday with the Israeli Prime Minister in Washington.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, it's a Nettia who does not want a ceasefire.
His far right war cabinet does not want a ceasefire.
The only reason we're even in one or there even
in one is the political pressure of the hostages, the families, and.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
They just want to destroy flatt he does.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
He just takes take it out, just basically do what
the Palestinians have done. Certainly Hamas is not recognized the
state of Israel. They don't say Israel, they say the
Zionist entity, so that's changed from they kind of have
no choice, you.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Know, that's what we refer to you as. Yes, I
understand they have no choice.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And then you got people in the cabinet they say,
we want to take out all.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All, forget about two state solution.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's all Israel, that's it, and we'll deport all these
Palestinians and see what Arab country wants to take them.
I mean, it is really a very bad situation where
that has reversed itself. In the meantime, there's nothing left
of Gaza, and the ceasefire may disappear pretty quickly and
we'll see.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Got a good excuse not to eat broccoli. John Colebelt
will be very happy broccoli. So that Walmart in twenty
states is now being recalled. It's Braga fresh market side
broccoli florettes. Bragafresh is headquartered in Solidad, California, and there's
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possible lysteria contamination. So they first issued a warning in December,
and then on January twenty seventh they upped it and
now it's the highest recall risk level because hysteria can
kill you. So it's in twenty states, including California, and
again it's Braga Fresh market side broccoli florett Walmart.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Don't eat it and right on the bag you'll see
if it's fresh, you will die.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
They're very honest about that, honest in marketing.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yes, protests took place, as you know, across southern California
yesterday for a Day without Immigrants, nationwide movement aimed showing
the importance of immigrants in the US. Unfortunately here in
La a lot of it. On Sunday and Monday were
the protests. I didn't know what was happening. Who paid attention? Well,
(11:58):
I knew because of the food. You know, a lot
of restaurants and stuff were closed yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But who paid attention? What did they do?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
They go on the freeway, they blocked the freeway, and
has this story about her daughter having been blocked coming
in from Disneyland, where it was just this freeway was
totally jammed. By the way, I'm doing this at seven o'clock,
and I have a story, a personal story about when
I joined the million Hispanic march. Remember that one with
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the Mexican flags. There wasn't one American flag in that crowd. Ooh,
it was good pr whoever put that one together. We
demand equality, We demand to stay here. Why the Mexican
flag and no American flag?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Technos. The belief is that we stole the country.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, from Mexico, who stole the country from the Spaniards,
who stole the country from the indigenous people that were
living there. Okay, you stole the country.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Get in line. I'm not sure that that's historically accurate. Well, no,
Spain had it, Yeah, but the Mexicans had it before Spain.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
No, no, the indigenous Mexicans.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, but there's still but there are still indigenous people there,
there's still Spanish is not the language of Mexico it
is now, but originally, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
There were different dialects.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But the point is, if you want to call it
belonging to indigenous people, Indigenous people don't think in terms
of the land belongs to us.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
The land is the land and we live on it.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But no, it was the Spaniards came over and set
up the colony, and then then you had independence declared
and Mexico became independent and so it's uh, and then
we got it because we're we bought it at a
fire sale. Well actually not quite, but let's just say.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The fire sale was we're going to light on fire.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So we got Arizona, we got California, we got you know, okay, Mexico, Yeah,
New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And which is was that New Mexico?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What are the three? It was as Arizona, Nevada in California. Wash.
You know, if it's memory serves, we didn't look that up.
All right, let's move on.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Dems don't like Doge or the guy running it. Democratic
lawmakers and other government watchdog groups promised to fight back
against Elon Musk's takeover of the government's payments system. They
say it could be the biggest privacy security breach in
American history. Ron Wyden from Oregon says Musk sent young
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Doge computer programmers into the Treasury Department's headquarters, where they
allegedly strong armed civil service workers to get access to
the system that cuts checks for all congressionally authorized government payments.
Lawmakers are saying, if this happened in Venezuela or Malawi,
it would be called a coup.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Hey, let me ask you for And Trump is basically
undoing entire agencies like USAD disappearing, Department of Education is disappearing,
and he can do that. And his Republican backers are saying, yes, yes, yes,
What do you think congress people and senators and the
republic Republican Party are going to do when he dissolves Congress?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Do you think they're going to vote for it?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And I'm willing to bet there are some that would
actually vote in favor.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You can't do that, That's that's part of the constitution.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh, birthright.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Try.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
He's not going to succeed, of course, no, of course not.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He's not. But the point is the attemptable we made.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
How about was it one or two congress people four
days after the inauguration, already put a bill in saying
that we should undo the amendment, that is, the two terms,
that it should be unlimited terms four days, and that's
already the that's already being introduced, which, of course you
know by the time no, of course not. But by
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the time he approaches the end of his presidency, how
many Republicans you think are going to say, is it
the twenty second Amendment whatever amendment that is that says
that you're limited to two terms?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
No, it used to be. It used to be unlimited
until FDR.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I don't hear you talk this way when people talk
about getting rid of guns.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's in the constitution is you know, here's the difference.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's a question of what the Supreme Court has decided
what the constitution means. The Court has already decided that
birthright citizenship is absolute. It's done the Court, for example,
in the language of the Second Amendment, and it talks
about in order to maintain I'm just paring alia a
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well armed militia that has disappeared, that does not exist anymore.
It's only the right to bear arms shall not be abridged.
That first part of it just literally has been written
out because the court has ruled that way, all right,
So anyway, we can have a great conversation about all
of that, and.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Let me ask something. Am I being unfair to Trump? Seriously?
Oh my god, I'm drinking? No, seriously, Hold on a minute,
Hold on a minute, having water?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No? Am I being unfair? I think credit is due,
credit is given.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I think you've gotten worse about this, and I've known
you for a long time. I am not a I
did not vote for Trump, and I'm not a maga
guy by any stretch. But I am a logic and
reason guy. And there are times where you get emotional
hyperbolic about Trump and I that always makes me nervous
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on either side.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
When people get that way, that's absolutely not true. Get out,
I mean right now.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So I hate to be the one that has to
be an apologist for Trump, because I I don't want
to have to.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But reason is reason to me, and I think I'm
I am not.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I have no allegiance allegiance to a party. My allegiance
is to reason, and and that's it, all right. State
Farm General, that's california largest insurance provider. They're requested an
emergency interim RDIKE averaging twenty two percent, or this is
morning on wake up call. So this's for homeowners from
state officials, you know, citing a dire financial situation after
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the destructive Los Angeles No kidding.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'm going to do this story at seven thirty, and
there are a lot of spins to this, and I'm
going to see the.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Only only type of business that if you use it,
they're in dire stracts like if you actually use our business,
if you pay us and don't have problems, we're golden.
But if you need what we're here for, then we're
in dire. So that's bank loans. If you need us,
we're not interested. If you don't need us, we of
course we'll loan you money. That's that's insurance. By the way, Yeah,
(18:50):
if you put a claim in, we hate you. And
by the way, you put a claim in and we're
going to cancel you. We don't like putting claims in.
What we like is getting premiums. I'll do more about
that at seven thirty.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Bring us your criminals, your immigrants, your huddled masses. That's
the message from El Salvador. They've agreed to house violent
US criminals and receive deportees, not only from l Salvador,
but also any nationality. The announcement made by US Secretary
of State Marco Rubio called it an act of extraordinary
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friendship to our country. So El Salvador says they'll take
Salvador and deportise. They will accept for deportation any illegal
immigrant in the US who has a criminal background. And
in addition, they've offered to house American criminals in El Salvador.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, this is real easy. This is simply a business
deal that was cut between the Trump administration and El Salvador.
You put up our prisoners, we will pay you. It's
like prisons, which happened in California. We have a bunch
of private prisons. And this is a straight business deal, period.
(20:08):
So we're gonna pay you less money than we pay here. Wow,
that's what it is. And that so they're all they
get money out of it. Yeah, and and look you
have favor with our current Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Uh. It's we are willing to take only convicted criminals,
including convicted US citizens, into our mega prison in exchange
for a fee mega prison.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, you pay us, We'll do it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Because what is it, I mean, what does it cost
to house a prisoner in California or federal prison, like
thirty forty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
The cost to how is a prisoner? Can you there
is thirty dollars a year. They don't feed them?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well, could you imagine if that's what we do now
for our our prisons. We outsource them to another country.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's what we're doing. But because it's so much cheaper,
that's what this is. And I'm okay with it because
it costs the taxpayers eight bucket of money to house prisoners.
And if I can, if we can get it for
half the price in El Salvador, hell yes, we go
for it.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
This is the art of the deal, all right.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Target has been sued for allegedly concealing the risk of
its diversity and social initiatives a big backlash, causing customers
to flee, stock prices to plummet.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So you have.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Shareholders going after saying that Target defrauded them into paying
inflated prices for its stock and unknowingly supporting management's misuse
of investor funds to serve political and social goals.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, now, look at this lawsuit. I've never seen this.
I am a shareholder in Target. I am not a
fan of DEI, Okay, fair enough, A lot of people
are not, and Target's moving away from.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It like many other companies.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But you hire a minority has hurt the company. The
DEI program has hurt the company. Therefore it is hurt
me as a shareholder. Fascinating lawsuits. Okay, but look at
it this way.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Do you remember there was backlash because all of the yes, yeah, no, there's.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No question about it.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So now the question is how much let's god of
the say goes forward?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Right, how much does it hurt the company that LBGTQ spokesperson,
for example, which destroyed Budweiser as the number one beer
in the country.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I mean it just literally wiped out.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Okay, but how much does it hurt the sales and
the profitability of Target, which was caused by a DEI program?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I would love to hear that argument. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's a legitimate legal argument, I think, because anything that
directors of company do to hurt shareholders value allows a
shareholder suit.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
This one is fascinating. I've never heard of this one,
but I can't wait. This is fight. I remember I
told you that the.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Next four years I'm going to be just incredible. Man,
is a good time to be alive.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Look at yours all right?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
As a talk show host, vegue, just, I mean, it's yes,
it's such fascinating stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I mean, I just love this.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Okay, fifty billion dollars, okay, fifty million dollars to fight Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
California's legislature has.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Approved bills worth fifty million dollars to pay for court
battles against the Trump administration and to support legal services
for immigrants.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Wasn't that twenty five million dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Least twenty five million and twenty five million it was
two bills?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Ah, okay, Well that's going to go up. Lawsuit after
lawsuit after lawsuit. California is going to go to war
with the administration. But we knew that as Trump was
running Newsome said we're going to file lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Well, didn't BoNT to file one hundred and twenty three
lawsuits lasted last term.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, Yeah, it's war. It's a legal war. It's a
lot more than just a legal war.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But there's a lot of lunches at the French laundry.
It certainly is all right. The superb Owl ticket prices
are plummeting. Kansas City Chiefs might make history this weekend.
We shall see. But ticket prices are cheapest ticket for
Super Bowl in New Orleans has fallen below four thousand dollars. Yeah,
(24:41):
that secondary mark. Yeah, that's in the those bleed sections.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
By the way, you can't buy them on the primary
market because there are virtually no seats available to the public.
The ballplayers all get a certain number of seats, the
advertisers get a certain number of seats, so for the
most part, they're gone. You know, a lot of the
ballplayers and I didn't know this for a while, is
the seats are so valuable and the seats are pretty
(25:05):
good that the lower paid ballplayers sell them. Well, yeah,
they sell them and it's this much money. So yeah,
go ahead and go to the Super Bowl if you're
an idiot. And a lot of it is because I
was just reading that is a lot of it is
just it's Kansas City Chiefs fatigue. That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You know, another one.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay, we like winners, but we don't like winners who
win too much.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Rick Caruso is a builder, after all.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
The former candidate for mayor of La billionaire developer Rick
Caruso has launched a foundation called LA or Steadfast LA,
and the idea is to speed up rebuilding from the
wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. So he's put together
(26:00):
this group of experts and they'll be working together to
find innovative solutions and collaborate with all levels of government.
He calls it a scale of reconstruction that's too big
for the government alone.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Now, this is not money that's being poured into the
various foundations and rebuilding plans. This is money that creates
this super think tank to make it happen. And I
think it's a great idea, and he's funding it out
of his pocket. One.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, this is the guy we didn't want for mayor
that that puts money into it.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah. And I was such a I almost precinct it
for Rick Caruso. Yeah, No, I voted for the man. Yeah.
All right.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Trump administration requests the raw material of a sixty minute
segment raising red flags across the media industry. This is
that segment that we you know, we all talked about
at the time. It's the October interview with then Vice
President Kamala Harris. President Trump sued CBS in a federal
(27:03):
court alleging that the interview was deceptively doctor to help
Harris beat Trump.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Now let's get interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm gonna give you a reality check here, and this
is some experience. I happened to be a big part
of a sixty minute segment on surrogacy very early days,
and they ran my interview. I probably was two and
a half minutes on the air. I was interviewed for
over three hours. I was in front of that camera,
(27:31):
and then they edited down. That's what they do. By
the way, go ahead and sue CBS. What are your damages?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You won? You won? How did they harm you? And
let's go on the other side.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
During one of the Trump interviews that Sean Hannity did,
it was a live interview, and I remember watching it,
Trump said something absolutely ridiculous and Hannity said, wait a minute,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Really mean to say this? Hey, it's it's biased. Welcome
to the media.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Wasn't the sticking point over this one though? That they
aired part of the interview with one answer, and then
they aired it again, same question, different answer.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, but they can do that. They can do anything
they want. Of course, it's biased. That's how they spin.
You go to conservative media Outlet's say, and you're gonna
have one view, same interview, same statement, and you go
to another one and the question.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Is how were you damaged? Okay, let's file the lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
He would have won, he would have had a more
bigly win.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay, yeah, Okay, that's worth a lawsuit, ury trial, huge. Yeah. Yeah.
So anyway, this is it. It's really interesting. But if
you don't think virtually everything is biased, watch CNN cover
a Trump story, watch Fox cover a Trump story, and
you tell me, uh, there's no bias on one side
and there is on the other.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
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Speaker 1 (29:00):
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