September 12, 2025 • 26 mins
(Friday 09/12/25)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra Bill for Handel on the News. Suspect arrested in Charlie Kirk murder. Politician asks social media platforms to remove video of Kirk’s death. Poland rejects Trump’s suggestion that Russia’s drone raid “could have been a mistake.” U.S sues Uber alleging disability discrimination.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra Bill for Handel on the News. Suspect arrested in Charlie Kirk murder. Politician asks social media platforms to remove video of Kirk’s death. Poland rejects Trump’s suggestion that Russia’s drone raid “could have been a mistake.” U.S sues Uber alleging disability discrimination.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
God, what a day last day or two.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
And by the way, for those of you that are
gonna make something some crack about me being inappropriate or
being disgusting or being depraved, keep it to yourself, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It is a footy Friday, September twelfth. Oh man, do
we have news that is breaking? But first it is
hello to everybody. Neil there you are.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good morning, Willie Wolf excellent, and Cono. Good Morningville.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
All right, there is will with what is that tea shirt?
America needs journalists, especially today. Well, all right, good morning,
and Amy, I can't see you very well.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Amy, you got to move the screen around.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm right here.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh here you are, hi, Amy? And then and who's
putting under lipstick right now? And it doesn't matter, it's
radio anyways, who cares?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I like that color? Ant?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, very red red matching the well hullo. Now I
think we are a waning.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
An FBI update on the Kirk assassination suspect.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
We are that it was supposed to start at six,
they pushed it back to six point thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, so we'll start with the news, and.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The president had said that the suspect had been arrested.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
A suspect has been arrested.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And this morning, as I was looking at the various screens,
the various news media only confirmed that the President was
saying that that, and there is is there a change
on that?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No, that we were just talking about that.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I was talking about that with Heather that We're thinking
maybe they had to push it back because they're like, no,
we don't yet, We're getting close, we don't yet. So
do they have to walk it back? What are they
going to do? Or maybe they just want to make
sure all their ducks are in a row.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We yeah, we don't know at this point, but it
was being reported well. MSNBC is saying that NBC the
suspect is in state custody. All of the other news
outlets are simply saying that the President has said that
the suspect is in custody, we got him something along
(02:34):
those trump on.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We're having.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
There are other reports saying that the man in custody
confessed to his father apparently, and his father held him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And his father or his priest.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Well, see, the father in this story is not capitalized.
But then I read a story where it said that
that there was a minister involved in this.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yes, a ministry has ties to law enforcement that may
have turned him in. That the suspect may have gone
and talked to him. So we don't know was it
dad or was it father?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Maybe maybe his father is a priest, could be And
that's really screws things up, doesn't it Because to use.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
The term the father of the person taken into custody
cooperated with investigators is not one not capitalized, and two
you wouldn't use it like that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You would what would you say a father? You wouldn't
say his dad, his pop.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
No, But I'm saying you wouldn't say if it was
a priest, you wouldn't say the father of the Maybe
what was that?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It could be a It could be a Catholic priest
who is a father.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I get it, but you theoretically should not be a father.
But you know, you never know. Pete on a Friday, Yeah,
it's a friday.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Incidentally, we're letting Amy make the call as to whether
we are going to cover the press conference live and
Amy has decided that we will uh. And so I
just want to put it on the record is I
don't know if Amy is going to be here Monday
morning or not.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We are we will go. We will make that decision.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Part of that is he's not going to be here
on Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That is crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So if I was here, you wouldn't even know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's a very good point. How do you know that
I'm not listening on the internets?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
That would be sad because you just called it the internets.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, that's what it is. It's the internets. Now here's
the problem.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I'm such a news junkie that I only be watching
the news anyway, and I'm on UH with the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Well is it going to be on on BBC uh?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And I don't know the answer to that. All I
know is in general, I'm going to be watching the
news like crazy. I'm on a Virgin ship, which I've
never been on before, and you know that they're going
to cover everything. It's one of those massive ships which
I never go on. And I can't imagine that they
don't have high speed internet. Of course you pay for it.
(05:13):
So I will be watching the news outlets.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Last time I went on a cruise we had.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You didn't have like cell service or anything while the
ship was sailing.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, you for it, I think in certain places.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But they and things have changed. I've always gone on
small cruises. Seven eight one hundred people. Nine hundred people
is considered a very small cruise, but it's still basically
the same. The obligatory gay guys dancing, doing the show
tunes and that happens.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Stuffing dollars in their shorts. Man, oh man, that's a
good time, Oh buddy.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, and then watching on the Disney cruise.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I went on Disney Cruise once, which was really nice.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Took my kids on a Disney cruise and seeing all
the din Any characters and it was Bell of the musical.
I'm trying to forget those mood that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I tried to forget that as often as I can.
But they did a lot of musical takes on that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You saw the Beast. I did not play the Beast.
They had a beast that already played the Beast. Can
you lower your camera, I can only see your forehead.
You're talking about me? Yeah, okay, let mean let me.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I think you're Gary Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I don't get that he has a large forehead hair. Yeah,
that's why I don't understand. How is that does that work?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Okay, fair enough, all right, guys go back to talking
about Bell now. Yeah, no, we're done. We're done.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Let's go ahead and do the news as hard as
it is and as rough as it is for some people.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And that's exactly the point we're going to be covering
later on.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's time for news with Amy Neil and me lead story.
Last we have heard, and this is breaking right now,
is that the suspect has been arrested.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
As a matter of fact, MSNBC is already naming him.
His name is Tyler Robinson.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
We don't have much news on him, so ann is
up to you to figure out who he is and
his connection to the shooting. But uh no, and I'm
gonna have you do it because Amy's doing the news.
See therefore that that one I didn't confuse it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's your job. Yeah. So yeah, they already have all
the news. I already did my job for the morning.
That's probably true.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But we have to figure out who is saying what
because MSNBC is saying that they it's confirmation, uh that
they caught the suspect I.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Named Tyler Robinson. The other news outlets that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I'm looking at, and that's CNN and looking at BBC.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Also, I'm looking at Fox.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's still the President saying that without the suspect's name.
So at six point thirty, we're going I guess we're
gonna find out the president. Well, there's gonna be a
press conference, but it's not the president, is it.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
No, the President was on Fox. That's where he made
the announcement this morning. The press conference is in Utah.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Right, been focused on someone else guy something, some other guy.
They've been focusing online, I've noticed. But interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They're getting me while this is happening.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The President said he will attend Charlie Kirk's funeral, and
Charlie Kirk's family is with JD. Van's the vice president,
And from what I understand, they were very close, way
beyond politics, that Kirk and JD. Vance had become very
good frends even before Jagie Vance ran for office.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, we have a couple more stories before we
take a break.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, we don't need to see this graphic video, at
least I don't think we do.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Of the shooting death.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Of Charlie Kirk was flooding the social media platforms just
minutes after it.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Millions of people have seen it.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Not all media platforms follow the same protocols when it
comes to how and when to show this kind of footage.
So represented Representative Anna Paula what's her name, Paulina Luna,
who's from Florida, a Republican, has been asking social media
giants to remove the videos of the shooting death of
Kirk and of course the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, and I'm assuming because so many people, of course
are videoing, they have the exact moment and the graphic,
exact moment of Kirk being shot in the neck and
the immediate response, and so you're watching this kind of
a crime live in real time in many cases, but
certainly the video of it.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
All Right, We've been talking about the drones that were
shot down by Poland.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
The drones were Russian drones. I guess.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
President Donald Trump came out and made a comment that
it could have been a mistake by Vladimir Putin's military
to have those drones and the response and this is
an unfortunate name.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Very close said we would also wish that the drone
attack on Poland was a mistake, but it wasn't and
we know it.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
First of all, Security Council is meeting and nothing's that
I am I happened out of the Security Council because
Russia is a permanent member, the five member on a
hierarchy and has the veto power. So whatever Security Council
says does even and when or a statement a negative
statement as to what Russia did, it'll be vetoed.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
The other issue is Article four of NATO. NATO.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Article four means that they meet, NATO members meet immediately
to discuss what to do with this incident because a
NATO member was attacked. And do they invoke Article five,
which means that NATO comes in and then attacks Russia.
(11:31):
And I'm going to analogize this to nineteen thirty eight
with Hitler. And I'm not arguing that Putin is Hitler,
although a lot of people have argued that he is.
And that is what he did was played chicken with
the West. He played chicken with the Allied powers. I'm
talking about Hitler. And they caved, They caved and gave
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up Czechoslovakia. And I think Putin is doing the same thing.
He is testing the metal of NATO. Does Article five
does it come into effect? Or is NATO going to
dance around it? And NATO is going to dance around it.
I guarantee that you will not see the premise moving forward.
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An attack on one of us is an attack on
all of us, and we move forward on that ain't
going to happen. Russia keeps on saying, of course it
was a mistake, and no one believes it. But that's
their position, and NATO may very well say it's a
mistake and we're not going to invoke Article five. He's
playing chicken, and I think he's going to win because
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the West is not prepared to emotionally, certain militarily it is.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I kick the crap out of Putin.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
All Putin has to do is threaten nuclear war and
everybody caves.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And he's not going to do it. How can he
do it?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Because Russia is obliterated at that point as is the
rest would be everybody else or certain any target of Russia.
All right, we'll see what happens over the next day
or two.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
The government is going after Uber. The US government has
sued Uber Technologies accusing the ride sharing company of discriminating
against passengers with disabilities. The Department of Justice says Uber
drivers routinely refuse to serve people with disabilities, including writers
who travel with service animals or stowable wheelchairs. They also
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say that Uber and its drivers have been imposing impermissible surcharges,
charging cleaning fees for service animals, and also cancelation fees
tos who aren't able to get in the Uber.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I mean, how vicious is that I'm not going
to allow you to get into my Uber car, and
I'm going to charge you a fee on top of.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
That, especial Uber.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Why doesn't Uber just take care that, saying when you
have a passenger with a they're gonna have a service animal,
then we will take care of the cost of cleaning
it up.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't think the service animal is uear. I think
they're just refusing service animals or just cleaning these for
service animals.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The way I read this story, I think.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Most service animals know not to go to the bathroom
in the Oh.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, I would imagine that it's you.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Know, they're pretty highly trained.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, they're very highly trained. Chances are the owner of
the service animal is before the service animal does.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Nice sad story, but it seems incredibly rare. A school
age child in Los Angeles County died of the measles.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
But it's it's a complication and it's super rare. He contracted.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
The child contracted rather the disease and infancy and not
old enough to be backinated at the time, so it
wasn't just something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So it's not a vaccine story at all. It's just
a very rare disease that happens to be measles. And
the only reason we're the only reason we're talking about
it is because the vaccination issue is at the forefront
right now.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah, and quite honestly, if they're not old enough to
get it, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But that's the problem, right kids who aren't getting it
or bringing it home to the different younger INFOA is
how this had happened.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But this is a different kind of measles from what
I understand.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
La Mayor Bass is saying her bill's not ready for
prime time, so she is looking to have the city's
voter approved mansion tax rewritten, but those efforts fell apart. Yesterday,
Bass and her allies pulled the state bill. Before it
was supposed to have its first critical vote, she'd been
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working with lawmakers and Sacramento to draft a last minute
overhaul of Measure ULA, that's the tax hike on property
tax sales above five point three million dollars. They wanted
to reduce taxes charged on the sale of recently built
apartment buildings, shopping centers, and warehouses.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
But right before it was supposed.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
To go in front of some lawmakers, they said, no,
we're going to pull it and maybe we'll refile it
in January.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Supporters, of course are pushing increasing the tax, the millionaire's tax,
and so the politics just go crazy. And it's not
a question of all we have to redraft it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's she caved. It's as simple, she just caved.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
All right.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Mortgage rates finally going down. So thirty year fixed mortgage
rate averaged six point three five percent, and that's you know,
this week ending, But that's down from six point five
zero percent. And this was just released yesterday by Freddie Max.
So that's good news going in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, But I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Look at it this way, from six point five zero
to six point three five what kind of change is
that in a mortgage.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Oh, you know, any points, anything that goes down is
always always when you're dealing with that much money important.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, let's say you and do the math on this one,
if you would, And we've got let's say an eight
hundred thousand dollars mortgage after putting a two hundred thousand
dollars down on a million dollar house, the ones that
are three blocks from us, that are two bedroom, one
bath and cost a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So you come up with two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And now you have an eight hundred thousand dollars mortgage
admortized over thirty years.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And the difference between six point.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Five and six point three five, No, between six point
five and a.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Six point you wanted to go up a quarter point?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Down a quarter point?
Speaker 7 (18:05):
No, But I'm saying, would you want it to go
up a quarter point?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No? No, I'm just saying, Oh, I'm just saying it's
not going to make much difference.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Uh, And it's not. And it's not a quarter point
it's going up. It's way less than a quarter point.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
The whole point is six is still not bad.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, that's true. But people are still remembering.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, people are still remembering three percent money that's still
in our heads.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Of course that's not coming back. That was Yeah, that
was it, Moving on uncovered.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
California lawmakers have passed a pair of bills to prohibit
on duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from
wearing masks and also requiring them to identify themselves. It's
Senate Bill six twenty seven. It does include exceptions for
SWAT teams and others. The measure was introduced after the
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Trump administration ordered the ice raids around LA and people
were complaining that there's no way to verify that those
were actual agents. Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security
have defended the face coverings, arguing that identifying the officers
subjects them to retaliation and violence.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think it does.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I think the addresses of the agents. There are enough
people out there that search the internet's it's for you, kono,
And once they're identified, I think they are subject to.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
The different world information.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Also, it's funny though it's the same group of people
you know five years ago were mandating that they wore masks.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Also a point, that's what I'd say.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I think I have COVID, oh put that mask.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
On Yeah, well it's not quite the same dead mask
up sir. Yeah, it's a different issue. But in the
his masked and then they're saying federal immigration agents have
to be masked.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Really, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That a California state bill has any impact on a
federal law enforcement issue.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Now, could they just blow it off and say, of
course this is not to.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Do with Yeah, they can't control what the Feds do.
And certainly in terms of the way to fred the
Fed's dress. You know, when do they say you can't
be in black?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
When do they say be a neon orange?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
All right.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Environmental service worker in Sacramento, what a sad story died
passed out while doing service on a tank at Costco.
So this is, you know, this empty underground fuel tank
they use at Costco. I'm assuming it's their you know,
gas or what have you. And you have to get
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inside the tank, got to go through this three foot
round hole, climb ten to fifteen feet down, and I
guess the individual passed out.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And we don't know whether he passed out from the
fumes or he just passed out. In any case, unfortunately,
he had died and he did not.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Work for Costco.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Per se he worked for a company that cleaned the
tanks for Costco.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah, I would imagine it's somebody that they service out to.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
China's ships are now headed east instead of West. China's
wracked up a sixty billion dollar trade surplus with Africa
so far this year that nearly surpasses last year's total.
Chinese companies are redirecting their trade to Africa because of
the tariffs in the US. So through August China exported
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one hundred and forty one billion dollars worth of goods
and services to Africa. They imported eighty one billion. And
that widening trade imbalance with Africa is stemming from surging
exports of Chinese made battery solar panel, electric vehicles, and
industrial equipment.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And this is a tariff issue. The President has invoked
the tariffs and long term, long term, he may be right,
forcing companies to start manufacturing the United States, forcing companies
to hire labor, which is more expensive than almost any
place in the world, so the prices will go up,
come hell or high water. But the issue of this
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balance of trade. Every country wants to sell more than
it imports, because selling more means manufacturing in that country.
More people are working, the more resources are bought and
sold within the country, and so the terriffs will really
good to nail China will show you guess what China's going.
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All right, we'll just move our sales. We'll move to Africa.
We'll sell to Africa. Now what do we do? See
that there's a big gamble. So we'll see what the
tariffs do. I mean, there's no way issue that medium term,
even short term, because it's affecting us now is the
price of goods are starting to rise, and you certainly
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have unemployment being affected. And medium term will sort of
do the same thing. Long term, man, that's a big difference.
Tariffs kick in immediately, right the President decides this afternoon,
they'll be tariff's building a factory, build a chip factory,
and see how quickly you can do that.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Senate Republicans are using I guess the nuclear option speed
up Trump nominees. So this is going to change the
rules potentially in the Senate on a party line basis.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
This happened yesterday.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
And this is all to help them speed up confirmation
of Donald Trump's nominees for key executive branch positions. So
the vote was fifty three to forty five. Establish a
new rule that allows Senate to the Senate to confirm
and unlimited number of nominees rather than each one individually,
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and things like that.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, the party not in power will not be able
to stop nominations anymore, will not be able to stop confirmations.
That's the nuclear option, because the party was not in
power always had the ability to at least stop it
or delay.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Now it's just automatic.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And the Republicans are saying, whoever the President nominates, we
will confirm.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
The problem is it goes the other way.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Also, when there is a democratic president and a democratic
not the House doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But there's a democratic president nominating.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
A cabinet position or any high level position in front
of a democratic Senate, it's automatic. There's no more room
for hearings. It none of that matters anymore. The Senate
now confirms automatically the power goes to the president. And
that's what this house, this is what this Senate is doing,
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is handing the power over to the president like no
Senate and no Congress has ever done. The presidency is
going to be an imperial presidency in this case, they're
moving it because of Donald Trump and not paying attention
to what might happen in the future. But I guarantee
you when it goes the other way, they will be
(25:34):
bitching and moaning, like you cannot believe.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Any president you've set is for any future president.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
So it's like you can't cheer it when it's working
for you and then jeer it when it's not. The
fact is you're setting precedent, and you're right, no one's
thinking about the future.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well, and remember when when Demics had control and they
were looking to like end a filibuster or something, and
the Republicans said, don't do it, because it's going to
turn around to bite you in the butt. I mean,
it's the same thing for if the Republicans do that now,
it's going to turn around and bite them in the future, right.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
And the Democrats did not do it, were unable to
do it, and there was talk of exactly what you said,
it's going to bite them in the butt. I think
they said, ass how dare you I know? Okay, we
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
God, what a day last day or two.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
And by the way, for those of you that are
gonna make something some crack about me being inappropriate or
being disgusting or being depraved, keep it to yourself, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It is a footy Friday, September twelfth. Oh man, do
we have news that is breaking? But first it is
hello to everybody. Neil there you are.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good morning, Willie Wolf excellent, and Cono. Good Morningville.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
All right, there is will with what is that tea shirt?
America needs journalists, especially today. Well, all right, good morning,
and Amy, I can't see you very well.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Amy, you got to move the screen around.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm right here.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh here you are, hi, Amy? And then and who's
putting under lipstick right now? And it doesn't matter, it's
radio anyways, who cares?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I like that color? Ant?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, very red red matching the well hullo. Now I
think we are a waning.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
An FBI update on the Kirk assassination suspect.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
We are that it was supposed to start at six,
they pushed it back to six point thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, so we'll start with the news, and.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The president had said that the suspect had been arrested.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
A suspect has been arrested.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And this morning, as I was looking at the various screens,
the various news media only confirmed that the President was
saying that that, and there is is there a change
on that?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No, that we were just talking about that.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I was talking about that with Heather that We're thinking
maybe they had to push it back because they're like, no,
we don't yet, We're getting close, we don't yet. So
do they have to walk it back? What are they
going to do? Or maybe they just want to make
sure all their ducks are in a row.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We yeah, we don't know at this point, but it
was being reported well. MSNBC is saying that NBC the
suspect is in state custody. All of the other news
outlets are simply saying that the President has said that
the suspect is in custody, we got him something along
(02:34):
those trump on.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We're having.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
There are other reports saying that the man in custody
confessed to his father apparently, and his father held him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And his father or his priest.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Well, see, the father in this story is not capitalized.
But then I read a story where it said that
that there was a minister involved in this.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yes, a ministry has ties to law enforcement that may
have turned him in. That the suspect may have gone
and talked to him. So we don't know was it
dad or was it father?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Maybe maybe his father is a priest, could be And
that's really screws things up, doesn't it Because to use.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
The term the father of the person taken into custody
cooperated with investigators is not one not capitalized, and two
you wouldn't use it like that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You would what would you say a father? You wouldn't
say his dad, his pop.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
No, But I'm saying you wouldn't say if it was
a priest, you wouldn't say the father of the Maybe
what was that?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It could be a It could be a Catholic priest
who is a father.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I get it, but you theoretically should not be a father.
But you know, you never know. Pete on a Friday, Yeah,
it's a friday.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Incidentally, we're letting Amy make the call as to whether
we are going to cover the press conference live and
Amy has decided that we will uh. And so I
just want to put it on the record is I
don't know if Amy is going to be here Monday
morning or not.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We are we will go. We will make that decision.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Part of that is he's not going to be here
on Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That is crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So if I was here, you wouldn't even know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's a very good point. How do you know that
I'm not listening on the internets?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
That would be sad because you just called it the internets.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, that's what it is. It's the internets. Now here's
the problem.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I'm such a news junkie that I only be watching
the news anyway, and I'm on UH with the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Well is it going to be on on BBC uh?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And I don't know the answer to that. All I
know is in general, I'm going to be watching the
news like crazy. I'm on a Virgin ship, which I've
never been on before, and you know that they're going
to cover everything. It's one of those massive ships which
I never go on. And I can't imagine that they
don't have high speed internet. Of course you pay for it.
(05:13):
So I will be watching the news outlets.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Last time I went on a cruise we had.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You didn't have like cell service or anything while the
ship was sailing.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, you for it, I think in certain places.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
But they and things have changed. I've always gone on
small cruises. Seven eight one hundred people. Nine hundred people
is considered a very small cruise, but it's still basically
the same. The obligatory gay guys dancing, doing the show
tunes and that happens.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Stuffing dollars in their shorts. Man, oh man, that's a
good time, Oh buddy.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, and then watching on the Disney cruise.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I went on Disney Cruise once, which was really nice.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Took my kids on a Disney cruise and seeing all
the din Any characters and it was Bell of the musical.
I'm trying to forget those mood that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I tried to forget that as often as I can.
But they did a lot of musical takes on that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You saw the Beast. I did not play the Beast.
They had a beast that already played the Beast. Can
you lower your camera, I can only see your forehead.
You're talking about me? Yeah, okay, let mean let me.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I think you're Gary Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I don't get that he has a large forehead hair. Yeah,
that's why I don't understand. How is that does that work?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Okay, fair enough, all right, guys go back to talking
about Bell now. Yeah, no, we're done. We're done.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Let's go ahead and do the news as hard as
it is and as rough as it is for some people.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And that's exactly the point we're going to be covering
later on.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's time for news with Amy Neil and me lead story.
Last we have heard, and this is breaking right now,
is that the suspect has been arrested.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
As a matter of fact, MSNBC is already naming him.
His name is Tyler Robinson.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
We don't have much news on him, so ann is
up to you to figure out who he is and
his connection to the shooting. But uh no, and I'm
gonna have you do it because Amy's doing the news.
See therefore that that one I didn't confuse it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's your job. Yeah. So yeah, they already have all
the news. I already did my job for the morning.
That's probably true.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But we have to figure out who is saying what
because MSNBC is saying that they it's confirmation, uh that
they caught the suspect I.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Named Tyler Robinson. The other news outlets that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I'm looking at, and that's CNN and looking at BBC.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Also, I'm looking at Fox.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's still the President saying that without the suspect's name.
So at six point thirty, we're going I guess we're
gonna find out the president. Well, there's gonna be a
press conference, but it's not the president, is it.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
No, the President was on Fox. That's where he made
the announcement this morning. The press conference is in Utah.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Right, been focused on someone else guy something, some other guy.
They've been focusing online, I've noticed. But interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
They're getting me while this is happening.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The President said he will attend Charlie Kirk's funeral, and
Charlie Kirk's family is with JD. Van's the vice president,
And from what I understand, they were very close, way
beyond politics, that Kirk and JD. Vance had become very
good frends even before Jagie Vance ran for office.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, we have a couple more stories before we
take a break.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, we don't need to see this graphic video, at
least I don't think we do.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Of the shooting death.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Of Charlie Kirk was flooding the social media platforms just
minutes after it.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Millions of people have seen it.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Not all media platforms follow the same protocols when it
comes to how and when to show this kind of footage.
So represented Representative Anna Paula what's her name, Paulina Luna,
who's from Florida, a Republican, has been asking social media
giants to remove the videos of the shooting death of
Kirk and of course the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, and I'm assuming because so many people, of course
are videoing, they have the exact moment and the graphic,
exact moment of Kirk being shot in the neck and
the immediate response, and so you're watching this kind of
a crime live in real time in many cases, but
certainly the video of it.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
All Right, We've been talking about the drones that were
shot down by Poland.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
The drones were Russian drones. I guess.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
President Donald Trump came out and made a comment that
it could have been a mistake by Vladimir Putin's military
to have those drones and the response and this is
an unfortunate name.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Very close said we would also wish that the drone
attack on Poland was a mistake, but it wasn't and
we know it.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
First of all, Security Council is meeting and nothing's that
I am I happened out of the Security Council because
Russia is a permanent member, the five member on a
hierarchy and has the veto power. So whatever Security Council
says does even and when or a statement a negative
statement as to what Russia did, it'll be vetoed.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
The other issue is Article four of NATO. NATO.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Article four means that they meet, NATO members meet immediately
to discuss what to do with this incident because a
NATO member was attacked. And do they invoke Article five,
which means that NATO comes in and then attacks Russia.
(11:31):
And I'm going to analogize this to nineteen thirty eight
with Hitler. And I'm not arguing that Putin is Hitler,
although a lot of people have argued that he is.
And that is what he did was played chicken with
the West. He played chicken with the Allied powers. I'm
talking about Hitler. And they caved, They caved and gave
(11:53):
up Czechoslovakia. And I think Putin is doing the same thing.
He is testing the metal of NATO. Does Article five
does it come into effect? Or is NATO going to
dance around it? And NATO is going to dance around it.
I guarantee that you will not see the premise moving forward.
(12:16):
An attack on one of us is an attack on
all of us, and we move forward on that ain't
going to happen. Russia keeps on saying, of course it
was a mistake, and no one believes it. But that's
their position, and NATO may very well say it's a
mistake and we're not going to invoke Article five. He's
playing chicken, and I think he's going to win because
(12:38):
the West is not prepared to emotionally, certain militarily it is.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I kick the crap out of Putin.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
All Putin has to do is threaten nuclear war and
everybody caves.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And he's not going to do it. How can he
do it?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Because Russia is obliterated at that point as is the
rest would be everybody else or certain any target of Russia.
All right, we'll see what happens over the next day
or two.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
The government is going after Uber. The US government has
sued Uber Technologies accusing the ride sharing company of discriminating
against passengers with disabilities. The Department of Justice says Uber
drivers routinely refuse to serve people with disabilities, including writers
who travel with service animals or stowable wheelchairs. They also
(13:31):
say that Uber and its drivers have been imposing impermissible surcharges,
charging cleaning fees for service animals, and also cancelation fees
tos who aren't able to get in the Uber.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I mean, how vicious is that I'm not going
to allow you to get into my Uber car, and
I'm going to charge you a fee on top of.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
That, especial Uber.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Why doesn't Uber just take care that, saying when you
have a passenger with a they're gonna have a service animal,
then we will take care of the cost of cleaning
it up.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't think the service animal is uear. I think
they're just refusing service animals or just cleaning these for
service animals.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The way I read this story, I think.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Most service animals know not to go to the bathroom
in the Oh.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, I would imagine that it's you.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Know, they're pretty highly trained.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, they're very highly trained. Chances are the owner of
the service animal is before the service animal does.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Nice sad story, but it seems incredibly rare. A school
age child in Los Angeles County died of the measles.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
But it's it's a complication and it's super rare. He contracted.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
The child contracted rather the disease and infancy and not
old enough to be backinated at the time, so it
wasn't just something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So it's not a vaccine story at all. It's just
a very rare disease that happens to be measles. And
the only reason we're the only reason we're talking about
it is because the vaccination issue is at the forefront
right now.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah, and quite honestly, if they're not old enough to
get it, yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
But that's the problem, right kids who aren't getting it
or bringing it home to the different younger INFOA is
how this had happened.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But this is a different kind of measles from what
I understand.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
La Mayor Bass is saying her bill's not ready for
prime time, so she is looking to have the city's
voter approved mansion tax rewritten, but those efforts fell apart. Yesterday,
Bass and her allies pulled the state bill. Before it
was supposed to have its first critical vote, she'd been
(15:53):
working with lawmakers and Sacramento to draft a last minute
overhaul of Measure ULA, that's the tax hike on property
tax sales above five point three million dollars. They wanted
to reduce taxes charged on the sale of recently built
apartment buildings, shopping centers, and warehouses.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
But right before it was supposed.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
To go in front of some lawmakers, they said, no,
we're going to pull it and maybe we'll refile it
in January.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Supporters, of course are pushing increasing the tax, the millionaire's tax,
and so the politics just go crazy. And it's not
a question of all we have to redraft it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's she caved. It's as simple, she just caved.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
All right.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Mortgage rates finally going down. So thirty year fixed mortgage
rate averaged six point three five percent, and that's you know,
this week ending, But that's down from six point five
zero percent. And this was just released yesterday by Freddie Max.
So that's good news going in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, But I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Look at it this way, from six point five zero
to six point three five what kind of change is
that in a mortgage.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Oh, you know, any points, anything that goes down is
always always when you're dealing with that much money important.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, let's say you and do the math on this one,
if you would, And we've got let's say an eight
hundred thousand dollars mortgage after putting a two hundred thousand
dollars down on a million dollar house, the ones that
are three blocks from us, that are two bedroom, one
bath and cost a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So you come up with two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
And now you have an eight hundred thousand dollars mortgage
admortized over thirty years.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And the difference between six point.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Five and six point three five, No, between six point
five and a.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Six point you wanted to go up a quarter point?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Down a quarter point?
Speaker 7 (18:05):
No, But I'm saying, would you want it to go
up a quarter point?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No? No, I'm just saying, Oh, I'm just saying it's
not going to make much difference.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Uh, And it's not. And it's not a quarter point
it's going up. It's way less than a quarter point.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
The whole point is six is still not bad.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, that's true. But people are still remembering.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, people are still remembering three percent money that's still
in our heads.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Of course that's not coming back. That was Yeah, that
was it, Moving on uncovered.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
California lawmakers have passed a pair of bills to prohibit
on duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from
wearing masks and also requiring them to identify themselves. It's
Senate Bill six twenty seven. It does include exceptions for
SWAT teams and others. The measure was introduced after the
(19:02):
Trump administration ordered the ice raids around LA and people
were complaining that there's no way to verify that those
were actual agents. Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security
have defended the face coverings, arguing that identifying the officers
subjects them to retaliation and violence.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think it does.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I think the addresses of the agents. There are enough
people out there that search the internet's it's for you, kono,
And once they're identified, I think they are subject to.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
The different world information.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Also, it's funny though it's the same group of people
you know five years ago were mandating that they wore masks.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Also a point, that's what I'd say.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I think I have COVID, oh put that mask.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
On Yeah, well it's not quite the same dead mask
up sir. Yeah, it's a different issue. But in the
his masked and then they're saying federal immigration agents have
to be masked.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Really, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That a California state bill has any impact on a
federal law enforcement issue.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Now, could they just blow it off and say, of
course this is not to.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Do with Yeah, they can't control what the Feds do.
And certainly in terms of the way to fred the
Fed's dress. You know, when do they say you can't
be in black?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
When do they say be a neon orange?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
All right.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Environmental service worker in Sacramento, what a sad story died
passed out while doing service on a tank at Costco.
So this is, you know, this empty underground fuel tank
they use at Costco. I'm assuming it's their you know,
gas or what have you. And you have to get
(20:54):
inside the tank, got to go through this three foot
round hole, climb ten to fifteen feet down, and I
guess the individual passed out.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And we don't know whether he passed out from the
fumes or he just passed out. In any case, unfortunately,
he had died and he did not.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Work for Costco.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Per se he worked for a company that cleaned the
tanks for Costco.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Yeah, I would imagine it's somebody that they service out to.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
China's ships are now headed east instead of West. China's
wracked up a sixty billion dollar trade surplus with Africa
so far this year that nearly surpasses last year's total.
Chinese companies are redirecting their trade to Africa because of
the tariffs in the US. So through August China exported
(21:47):
one hundred and forty one billion dollars worth of goods
and services to Africa. They imported eighty one billion. And
that widening trade imbalance with Africa is stemming from surging
exports of Chinese made battery solar panel, electric vehicles, and
industrial equipment.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And this is a tariff issue. The President has invoked
the tariffs and long term, long term, he may be right,
forcing companies to start manufacturing the United States, forcing companies
to hire labor, which is more expensive than almost any
place in the world, so the prices will go up,
come hell or high water. But the issue of this
(22:26):
balance of trade. Every country wants to sell more than
it imports, because selling more means manufacturing in that country.
More people are working, the more resources are bought and
sold within the country, and so the terriffs will really
good to nail China will show you guess what China's going.
(22:48):
All right, we'll just move our sales. We'll move to Africa.
We'll sell to Africa. Now what do we do? See
that there's a big gamble. So we'll see what the
tariffs do. I mean, there's no way issue that medium term,
even short term, because it's affecting us now is the
price of goods are starting to rise, and you certainly
(23:10):
have unemployment being affected. And medium term will sort of
do the same thing. Long term, man, that's a big difference.
Tariffs kick in immediately, right the President decides this afternoon,
they'll be tariff's building a factory, build a chip factory,
and see how quickly you can do that.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Senate Republicans are using I guess the nuclear option speed
up Trump nominees. So this is going to change the
rules potentially in the Senate on a party line basis.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
This happened yesterday.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
And this is all to help them speed up confirmation
of Donald Trump's nominees for key executive branch positions. So
the vote was fifty three to forty five. Establish a
new rule that allows Senate to the Senate to confirm
and unlimited number of nominees rather than each one individually,
(24:13):
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, the party not in power will not be able
to stop nominations anymore, will not be able to stop confirmations.
That's the nuclear option, because the party was not in
power always had the ability to at least stop it
or delay.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Now it's just automatic.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And the Republicans are saying, whoever the President nominates, we
will confirm.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
The problem is it goes the other way.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Also, when there is a democratic president and a democratic
not the House doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But there's a democratic president nominating.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
A cabinet position or any high level position in front
of a democratic Senate, it's automatic. There's no more room
for hearings. It none of that matters anymore. The Senate
now confirms automatically the power goes to the president. And
that's what this house, this is what this Senate is doing,
(25:13):
is handing the power over to the president like no
Senate and no Congress has ever done. The presidency is
going to be an imperial presidency in this case, they're
moving it because of Donald Trump and not paying attention
to what might happen in the future. But I guarantee
you when it goes the other way, they will be
(25:34):
bitching and moaning, like you cannot believe.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Any president you've set is for any future president.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
So it's like you can't cheer it when it's working
for you and then jeer it when it's not. The
fact is you're setting precedent, and you're right, no one's
thinking about the future.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well, and remember when when Demics had control and they
were looking to like end a filibuster or something, and
the Republicans said, don't do it, because it's going to
turn around to bite you in the butt. I mean,
it's the same thing for if the Republicans do that now,
it's going to turn around and bite them in the future, right.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
And the Democrats did not do it, were unable to
do it, and there was talk of exactly what you said,
it's going to bite them in the butt. I think
they said, ass how dare you I know? Okay, we
are done. This is KFI am sixty. You've been listening
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