December 19, 2025 • 28 mins
(December 19, 2025)
Brown University and MIT professor shootings linked, suspect found dead. President Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into the US. House Democrats release another batch of Epstein photos. Kennedy Center board votes to rename to ‘Trump Kennedy Center.’ President Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Amy dresses up per cat though I just dress it's.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The cutest little Christmas streak.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Amy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
All I can say is, you know, I generally don't
question you because your lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I appreciate it, your normal. Uh yeah, get a life, okay,
and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Bill Handle here will froggy this morning as I wake
up and it's a Friday, which we all look, don't wait,
it's the end of the week, and for me it's
sort of kind of the end of the week because
tomorrow is the end of the week for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Having worked six days at the end of tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Do you know that I have never had a five
day week in my entire working life. I have no
idea what a five day week is. Like, I'm not
it's not me blowing my own horn. Well of course
it is, but uh, it's just end of the week.
Fair enough, Okay, let me say hello to everybody. First
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of all, Amy, do we have some kind of a
Disney garb?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
A Christmas sweater given to me by producer an.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That has Disney plastered all over it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Of course, of course it does. Okay, fair enough, Hello Cono, Hello, William, Hello,
and uh.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Good morning, wooly Wolf, Willy wool, good morning Bill wow.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And by the way, the only two people actually there
was only one person that ever called me Willie Wolf,
and that was my dear friend and partner, Savile. And
then Neil co opted it. And and you're not going
to do this, okay, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I was just trying to make you feel good because Neil.
That doesn't work. Doesn't doesn't even work when Neil does,
It doesn't work at.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All, does't Wolf. Yeah, you will I No, I'm not
a will I'm not a billy. I'm not a No,
I'm not I'm not a will. I'm not a yeah,
just not billy bob.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's alway something that I can tell you only when
Will and Will it is William right, yes, okay, all right,
fair enough and uh that's uh William Coles Riber over there,
good morning, good morning, all right?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Forehead? Yeah, I see his forehead. I don't you know
the camera is there? You go?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And oh here you go? And then his T shirt.
American News Journalism plaster all over it. I wish we
had TV at least for the clothing report that I
do every morning. And I don't know where that came from,
but it did. And you are wearing a vest that
looks like a park kind of vest.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Are you cold? It's freezing in here? Huh always? Oh yeah, ye.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
My house, different rooms are different temperatures and it drives
me completely crazy. I have my man cave, I finally
got one, and it is so cold in there. It
can be one hundred and fifty degrees outside. You walk
into that room and it is thirty degrees. It's a
meat locker when the rest of the house is at seventy.
So I know the feeling, all right, guys. Oh, and'
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neil is gone today obviously because he's not here. And
then Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday of next week is now we're
into the Chris miss and the.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
New Year's period.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh, last night, fourth day of Honikah or was it
the fifth day of honka last week?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And I still like them an Aura, by the way,
doing it every night, and I'm getting my share of Yamaica's,
which I've enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Do you get a Yamaica every day.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No, I don't get a new yamaca every day. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I Have I ever shown you my coonskin Yamaica.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, we just saw your little blue elf Yamica.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, no, I have a coonskin Yamaica. Now I had
to have a custom made because they don't sell many
coonskin yamakas. But it is imagine a Yamica with the
big tail coming out the back, all fluffy taiale. And
I don't know of anybody who's ever worn a coonskin Yamaica,
but I have one, and I have shown up at
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funerals with that. Believe me, it's I've become a hit
of the party if you consider a funeral at party,
which I do, wait, because I enjoy funerals. You know.
I really enjoy about funerals are the viewings, which I
don't understand because in the Jewish religion, you don't show bodies.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You just people are in caskets.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Actually they're in boxes, and you don't open the boss
at the top and start looking at dead bodies. And
the first time I went to a funeral where you
actually did see the dead body, and I must have
been I don't know nine ten years old, and I'd
been to a couple of funerals before, but Jewish funerals.
So this was actually I think this was a Jew,
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a dead Jew who was being buried, I might add.
And it was open casket. It was open casket, and
people were filing past, and what you hear is, oh,
he looks so peaceful.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh he looks like he is sleeping. You know. I
go past that, I look down. I go no, no,
he looks dead.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You know when people look when people are dead, they
don't look like they're sleeping. They look like they're dead.
And I've ever since then, you know, I tend to
poke people. You know, is that really you? And having
a rip roaring good time. I'm not invited to too
many funerals, I might add.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And then jokes.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You got a joke at a funeral, which is actually
pretty funny because people do that now and they talk
about how.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The deceased was funny or stories.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I kind of like that, particularly like Indian Oh in
the funerals in India are great because they well, person
becomes firewood and they just light that person on fire
and floats down the Ganges and just makes the Ganges
completely filthy and it's just fantastic, all of it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I once said, remember we did a thing, was it
a few months ago? In different funerals, crazy ass funerals,
and we should do it again during the holiday season
because it's so uplifting.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Different way people die and are buried and.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Are buried, yeah, the customs, Yeah, yeah, super super All
right guys. Oh and today it's ask candle anything. We
don't have foody Friday because of course Neil is not here.
All right, let's do it, guys the Friday before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's time for Handle on the.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
News with Amy and me lead story.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, it looks.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Like the shooting suspect is no longer a suspect.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's the Brown University.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Also the killing of the MIT professor a few days later,
and the authorities connected the two and it was all
done by a tip.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We knew that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And the authority said, we're only going to catch this
guy with a tip anyway, Claudio Manuel neviz Valente, and
he bounced all over town Boston and then he went.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He went from.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Brown to storage facility in New Hampshire where they found him.
He had blown his brains out, which I want to
thank him for that. Incidentally, for doing that, I mean,
I wish he had done that before he killed the
students and the professor. But how much money you think
he saved us in terms of trial, in terms of
legal representation, which would be paid for by the taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Anyway, he's completely dead.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And that story continues, and now the story's going to
take on political overtones.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Of course it is.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And as a matter of fact, Amy, let's talk about
that story.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, the Brown shooter is stopping green cards. President Trump
has suspended the green card lottery program.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That allowed the guy who was the suspect.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
In the Brown University and MIT shootings to get into
the US. So Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noms said that
under President Trump's direction, she's ordered the US Citizenship and
Immigration Services to pause the program. Of course, Claudio Neives
Valente is suspected in those shootings. He had studied at
Brown and was on a student visa, but it was
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back in the year two.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thousand, which is so bizarre that this was like sparked
twenty years ago or something.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But in twenty seventeen he was issued a diversity immigrant
visa and then obtained legal permanent residence status.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And because of this, because I think he had come
in on the lottery program or maybe not even No,
that's how he got in is through that day and
a Christinome is arguing he should never have been led
into the country, which is true, and therefore we have
to suspend the entire program. And as a naturalized American citizen,
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the next time a naturalized American citizen commits some kind
of a horrific act, does Christinome say, oh, this person
should never have been naturalized and therefore let's stop that program.
You know, I'm looking around saying, wait a minute, does
that mean that my citizenship is going to be taken away?
Which of course it won't and it can't I don't believe.
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But it's sort of a lot of broad strokes here.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, they suspended it, they didn't cancel it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Right, Well it's going to be canceled. I mean, there's
I don't think there's there's any issue at this point.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they just suspended it. Do they
give you a time a sense of time? I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
They didn't. But listen to this. The diversity program makes
up fifty thousand green cards a year.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Right, nearly twenty million people applied for a visa in
twenty for this particular visa in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
That what does that tell you about people wanting to
come in the United States?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What does that tell you? Number one, how good it
is the United.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
States, even with the craziness going in, and how bad
it is the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's why our show is so popular.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's not that it's good, It's just that everybody else
is bad. That's why I only hang around with poor
people because I'm considered rich among poor people. I don't
hang around people with a lot of money. I want
to feel rich. So therefore it's the other side, and
you have to look at it in sort of a
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negative way. Oh, what a shocker. Look at it in
a negative way. I've never I've never done that, have I?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh? Okay, smile?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
More photos are out.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have publicly released another
batch of pictures about Jeffrey Epstein. There are seventy photos,
including a heavily redacted photos of women's passports, pictures of
famous men who associated with Epstein, and what is being
called concerning text messages about recruiting women for Jeffrey Epstein.
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I've seen some of the messages. It's like, Hey, I
need somebody. I'll send you another girl. Well, she charges
one thousand dollars, great, go get her. I think Jay
will like her. Kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, I mean we everybody knows the Epstein issue. It's
how much or what was the extent of the famous
people with Epstein, and of course particularly particularly President Trump,
who is all over those files.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Not that he did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But you know, as I said earlier, the reason I
think the Justice Apartment and the administration so reluctant to
release those files, although today is the last day we'll
see if they are released based on that congressional vote,
is that we're going to find out that Trump was
just a lot closer to Epstein than we are reported.
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I don't think he did anything wrong. I don't think
you have I don't think you have a Prince Andrew
where his arm is around a fourteen year old and
they're smiling.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So that's my take on it. We'll see.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Don't you think if there were those pictures they would
have been released by now? Not necessarily, there's ninety five
thousand of them out there.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I know, but the government has picked a lot of
them up, and I don't know how many were actually
out there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
For example, that video.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Of the second hit on the drug boat, which now
I love that one. Pete the President says, yeah, we're
going to release it. Pete Hegsith says no, we have
to look at it very carefully. And then now yesterday
their top secret. We can't release them at all. And
this is blowing up a boat with people either clinging
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to or not clinging to the debris.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's just do you think that the rest of the
file is going to be released today?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Midnight's the deadline.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't think so. I'm guessing that something else is
going on.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I think the announcement is going to be that some
of those people are now under investigation and they can't
release those files.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's my guest. I may be wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Okay, I knew you were going to love this. We
talked about it, but wake up call.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Kennedy has to share the spotlight with Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
The board of the John F.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has voted unanimously to
rename the Kennedy Center as the Trump Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts. The Center's vice president of public relations said,
the unanimous vote recognizes that the current chairman, President Trump
saved the institution from financial ruin and physical destruction.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Now this is after the President fired everybody on the board,
put in his hand selected board members, and they voted
unanimously to then rename the Center.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And are you going to report on the government now
asking for bigs in terms of redoing Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Bis will now be coming in.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Oh, it's still my turn because Neil's not here.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Basic economy sucks. You all know that if you fly right, well,
it's worse now. Customers who buy base economy tickets on
American Airlines starting yesterday and moving forward will no longer
earn a advantage miles or loyalty points toward a advantage status.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So you're not only flying the cheapest seats.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
You don't get awarded miles even if you join their
loyalty programs. But a spokesperson says Basic economy customers will
continue to receive one free personal item and one free
carry on bag, free snacks, soft drinks, and in flight entertainment.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I thought that when you full American Airlines, you didn't
get a free carry on bag.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I thought they charged you for bags across the board on.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
American I do. I think it's usually the smaller airlines, like.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, that's what story says.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I thought everybody has.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
No most of them for carry ons. They don't charge,
except like Spirit and a Velo.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh you're right, right, little it's a carry on.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Bag, right, Yeah, they charged for the CHECKLNK right.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Policy changes or not, The US Coast Guard has deleted
language from its new workplace harassment policy that had downgraded
the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols
to what it calls potentially devices. But now Adam Kevin
Lunde or Admiral Kevin Lunday, said those revisions have been
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completely removed from the policy manual. He said that a
separate directive he issued last month prohibiting swastikas and nooses
remains in full effect.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah. I have a question who, somehow would decide in
the upper reaches of the Coastguard that a swastika or
a noose would no longer be a hate symbol.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
It would just now be divisive.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Divisive is a big sign that says Republicans suck.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's divisive. A swastika.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, well, thank god at least the admiral the acting
command and said no, no.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Now we have to go back to where it was. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Swastikas and newses are not good news. They're way more
than just divisive.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's high time this happened.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Ooh very strong.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
President Trump has signed an executive order to fast track
the reclassification of cannabis. He says it's to increase medical
marijuana and CBD research so patients and doctors can be
better informed about their uses. He says it's critical to
close the gap between current medical marijuana and CBD use
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and medical knowledge of risks and benefits. That's in the order.
The order does not make cannabis legal nationwide.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
No, but it's the first step because medical marijuana started,
that was the first step towards well, it was decriminalization,
medical marijuana was allowed, and then recreational marijuana.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So it's moving in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And the way that the government looked at marijuana is
completely insane, as most of us know. So good for
the president at least making a first step, because other
presidents did not would not do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Suing over the Second Amendment, the US government has sued
a US territory, the US Virgin Islands, also its police
department and its Police Commissioner, accusing them of obstructing and
systematically denying American citizens the right to possess and carry guns,
challenging the Second Amendment. The US Virgin Islands requires gun
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applicants to demonstrate what it calls good reason to fear
death or great injury to his person or property, and
also to have two credible persons to vouch for their
need for a weapon.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That is actually fairly easy to ascertain because basically showing
a need of a firearm or showing your need for
asylum based on great injury to your person, any asylum,
any judge will do that. Any immigration judge has to
make that determination, So that's not hard to do. The
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one which I don't get is someone has to have
good moral character.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Tell me what that is. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I mean. His lawsuit is absolutely right on. You can
be disbarred, for example, for moral turpitude, but that is
after you've been convicted or a hearing has been held.
This one is prior to no gun. If you're not
a good moral person. Okay, yeah, it's I don't know.
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I think it's going to win, and I think it's
a good lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Personally, well, the racing world is in mourning.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
That business jet that crashed yesterday at an airport in
North Carolina had seven people on board, including retired NASCAR
driver Greg Biffle and his family. Biffle, I don't know
how close closely you followed NASCAR, but he's from the
Northwest and when I was up in Portland, he was
racing on that circuit before he went over to NASCAR.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think he used to race trucks or something.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But yeah, he was killed along with his family when
the plane crashed trying to land at Statesville Regional Airport
and burst into flames.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, it doesn't say whether he was a pilot or not.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He was not there.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
There were two pilots apparently on board, and then five passengers.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
The video of that plane crashing is it just amazing?
Isn't it awful?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
And there was fog, but they haven't determined why there
was why it crashed. It had just recently taken off
and then like after about ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Around and came back and then it had crashed just
a few hundred yards prior to hitting the runway where
it would not have crash, you would have landed successfully.
So well, we'll hear from the NTSB. You don't have
a question about the NTSB, and that is every time
there's a crash, every time there's a train derailment or crash,
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the investigators for the NTSB are out there.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
How many investigators do they have? I mean, how many.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Crashes a airplane even small airplane incidences, small ones are
investigated by the NTSB.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Maybe there are people that are on their ten ninety
nine contractors that you know, we're former investigators that are
now on they work part time. I ever wondered about that, amy,
of course.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Not not ever, even once I know, well.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, it goes to show.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You why you make sense that I don't.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Okay, I think this woman just wants to write off
A New York attorney and her golden retriever are suing
the irs.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Here's why.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Amanda Reynolds and her dog, eight year old Finnegan, have
found the lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York.
They argue that the dog relies entirely on her for food, shelter,
medical care, training, and transportation, has no independent income, resides
exclusively with her annual expenses top five thousand dollars, and
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she and the dog say that fits the requirements for.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
The dog to be a legal dependent.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, but here's the problem with that. It's the irs
that makes the rules as to who is a dependent
or not. It's not her, And so you don't have
a fundamental right to not pay taxes or to notice
or note who a dependent is.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This is just absolutely fun. Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Sure why not? And I get this all the time
on handle on the news. Oh I have my dog
was killed, and therefore I want to sue because the
value of my dog and it is a member of
the family.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Its property is what it is. It's like your cookwaar
at home. That's legally what a dog or a pet is.
I mean that's the reality. So I mean, what's gonna
happen with this? It's just fun.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
My cookware does not cost me two thousand dollars when
I take it to the vet.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, that's true, you're right, the vet is. Well, I
just went to the vet with my little one. Just
have her nails cut, you know, and check her out.
It said it was six hundred dollars. I'm gonna go
what is this?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Wow? Yeah, did you get all the tests done? They
love to run tests.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Now, oh yeah they I think we did a blood test,
but it was just really they just took blood out
just to take blood out and then threw it away
just so you can a good charge.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
More drug votes destroyed.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
The military's conducted strikes against two more alleged drug trafficking
boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That was esterday. Five more people were killed. The strikes
are part of.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
An ongoing campaign dubbed Operations Southern Spear. So far, at
least one hundred four people have been killed by those
strikes on the drug boats.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, and this may be a violation of not only
US law, but international law. Now, there's no doubt that
these drug boats have drugs on them. The problem is
you have to before you blow them up. There has
to be a legal basis for that, and there doesn't
seem to be a legal basis other than we think
there are drugs aboard these boats.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We think there are. Well that's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well haven't they recovered anything from them?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No, because they're all blown up. You think that they
would have one bail of one blail one package of
cocaine usually is cocaine coming out of Venezuela and not fentanyl,
which comes out of Mexico. And you think they would
find some drugs there. But I don't even think they
come up. The Coastguard comes up and does anything. You
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see every one of those. You know, the government releases
every attack except the one where it was that second
hit that we're never going to see because that one's
top secret. But yeah, you're going to see more and
more of these. And you know the problem is these
poor schmucks who in fact are driving these boats, spanning
these boats.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
They aren't criminals, I guess in a sense they're criminals.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
But these are the poor farmers who are starving to death.
The cartel hires for five hundred bucks ago is what
I heard, and they're the ones that are dying.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Moving on.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Judge could be headed to jail.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
A jury in Wisconsin has found a judge guilty of obstructing.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
She obstruction. She's accused of helping.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
An a legal immigrant from Mexico dodge federal authorities.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So here's what happened.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
The judge found out that some ICE agents were in
the corridor outside her courtroom waiting for the guy from Mexico.
So she left the courtroom, went to confront the ICE agents,
told them that their administrative warrant for the man wasn't
sufficient grounds to arrest him, and said go talk to
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the chief judge. And then while the agents were gone,
she told his attorney the Mexican guys that she could
attend his next hearing via zoom so we wouldn't have
to go to court, and then she led him and
the attorney out of private door.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, that's pretty much obstructing a federal criminal official.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yep, that's obstructing. And she should have been nailed on that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I and she can be in favor of certainly immigrant
rights and she can rule, but she can rule for example,
I think it was legitimate for her to say I
want to do this by zoom, but helping him escape
to avert being arrested by ICE, she's crossed the line
on that one.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
She truly has. I would have voted also guilty.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Okay, so your utility bills are going to stay high
because so cal Edison gets to keep profits.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
So there were complaints from.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Customers about rising electric bills of course, but the CPUC,
the California Public Utilities Commission, voted yesterday four to one
to keep profits at so Cal Edison and the state's
other big investor owned utilities at a level that consumer
groups say has been inflated. They're going to allow them
to continue. That part isn't going to apparently keep buildings.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
There's a lot of pieces moving on this one, and
coming up at eight o'clock, I'm going to dive into
it a little bit deeper.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, because the utilities are building.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, they profit when they do building, you see.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And uh yeah, notwithstanding that Sun Gas and Electric is
probably liable and just to blame for the fires, the
eating fire, and we'll certain yeah the Altadena fire.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay, I think we have time for one more. Nope,
we don't.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Okay, yeah, because the story has been boring anyway, Okay,
I'll make it.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I'll be Now.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's Ann who puts these together, and usually she does
a brilliant job, but occasionally she does something that puts
everybody to sleep, including me, or puts me to sleep,
not including you.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Okay, guys, this is KFI A M six point forty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show, Catch My
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Amy dresses up per cat though I just dress it's.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The cutest little Christmas streak.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Amy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
All I can say is, you know, I generally don't
question you because your lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I appreciate it, your normal. Uh yeah, get a life, okay,
and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Bill Handle here will froggy this morning as I wake
up and it's a Friday, which we all look, don't wait,
it's the end of the week, and for me it's
sort of kind of the end of the week because
tomorrow is the end of the week for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Having worked six days at the end of tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Do you know that I have never had a five
day week in my entire working life. I have no
idea what a five day week is. Like, I'm not
it's not me blowing my own horn. Well of course
it is, but uh, it's just end of the week.
Fair enough, Okay, let me say hello to everybody. First
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of all, Amy, do we have some kind of a
Disney garb?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
A Christmas sweater given to me by producer an.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That has Disney plastered all over it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Of course, of course it does. Okay, fair enough, Hello Cono, Hello, William, Hello,
and uh.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Good morning, wooly Wolf, Willy wool, good morning Bill wow.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And by the way, the only two people actually there
was only one person that ever called me Willie Wolf,
and that was my dear friend and partner, Savile. And
then Neil co opted it. And and you're not going
to do this, okay, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I was just trying to make you feel good because Neil.
That doesn't work. Doesn't doesn't even work when Neil does,
It doesn't work at.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All, does't Wolf. Yeah, you will I No, I'm not
a will I'm not a billy. I'm not a No,
I'm not I'm not a will. I'm not a yeah,
just not billy bob.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's alway something that I can tell you only when
Will and Will it is William right, yes, okay, all right,
fair enough and uh that's uh William Coles Riber over there,
good morning, good morning, all right?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Forehead? Yeah, I see his forehead. I don't you know
the camera is there? You go?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And oh here you go? And then his T shirt.
American News Journalism plaster all over it. I wish we
had TV at least for the clothing report that I
do every morning. And I don't know where that came from,
but it did. And you are wearing a vest that
looks like a park kind of vest.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Are you cold? It's freezing in here? Huh always? Oh yeah, ye.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
My house, different rooms are different temperatures and it drives
me completely crazy. I have my man cave, I finally
got one, and it is so cold in there. It
can be one hundred and fifty degrees outside. You walk
into that room and it is thirty degrees. It's a
meat locker when the rest of the house is at seventy.
So I know the feeling, all right, guys. Oh, and'
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neil is gone today obviously because he's not here. And
then Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday of next week is now we're
into the Chris miss and the.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
New Year's period.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh, last night, fourth day of Honikah or was it
the fifth day of honka last week?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And I still like them an Aura, by the way,
doing it every night, and I'm getting my share of Yamaica's,
which I've enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Do you get a Yamaica every day.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No, I don't get a new yamaca every day. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I Have I ever shown you my coonskin Yamaica.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, we just saw your little blue elf Yamica.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, no, I have a coonskin Yamaica. Now I had
to have a custom made because they don't sell many
coonskin yamakas. But it is imagine a Yamica with the
big tail coming out the back, all fluffy taiale. And
I don't know of anybody who's ever worn a coonskin Yamaica,
but I have one, and I have shown up at
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funerals with that. Believe me, it's I've become a hit
of the party if you consider a funeral at party,
which I do, wait, because I enjoy funerals. You know.
I really enjoy about funerals are the viewings, which I
don't understand because in the Jewish religion, you don't show bodies.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You just people are in caskets.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Actually they're in boxes, and you don't open the boss
at the top and start looking at dead bodies. And
the first time I went to a funeral where you
actually did see the dead body, and I must have
been I don't know nine ten years old, and I'd
been to a couple of funerals before, but Jewish funerals.
So this was actually I think this was a Jew,
(05:37):
a dead Jew who was being buried, I might add.
And it was open casket. It was open casket, and
people were filing past, and what you hear is, oh,
he looks so peaceful.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh he looks like he is sleeping. You know. I
go past that, I look down. I go no, no,
he looks dead.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You know when people look when people are dead, they
don't look like they're sleeping. They look like they're dead.
And I've ever since then, you know, I tend to
poke people. You know, is that really you? And having
a rip roaring good time. I'm not invited to too
many funerals, I might add.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And then jokes.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You got a joke at a funeral, which is actually
pretty funny because people do that now and they talk
about how.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The deceased was funny or stories.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I kind of like that, particularly like Indian Oh in
the funerals in India are great because they well, person
becomes firewood and they just light that person on fire
and floats down the Ganges and just makes the Ganges
completely filthy and it's just fantastic, all of it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I once said, remember we did a thing, was it
a few months ago? In different funerals, crazy ass funerals,
and we should do it again during the holiday season
because it's so uplifting.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Different way people die and are buried and.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Are buried, yeah, the customs, Yeah, yeah, super super All
right guys. Oh and today it's ask candle anything. We
don't have foody Friday because of course Neil is not here.
All right, let's do it, guys the Friday before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's time for Handle on the.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
News with Amy and me lead story.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, it looks.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Like the shooting suspect is no longer a suspect.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's the Brown University.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Also the killing of the MIT professor a few days later,
and the authorities connected the two and it was all
done by a tip.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We knew that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And the authority said, we're only going to catch this
guy with a tip anyway, Claudio Manuel neviz Valente, and
he bounced all over town Boston and then he went.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He went from.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Brown to storage facility in New Hampshire where they found him.
He had blown his brains out, which I want to
thank him for that. Incidentally, for doing that, I mean,
I wish he had done that before he killed the
students and the professor. But how much money you think
he saved us in terms of trial, in terms of
legal representation, which would be paid for by the taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Anyway, he's completely dead.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And that story continues, and now the story's going to
take on political overtones.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Of course it is.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And as a matter of fact, Amy, let's talk about
that story.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, the Brown shooter is stopping green cards. President Trump
has suspended the green card lottery program.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That allowed the guy who was the suspect.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
In the Brown University and MIT shootings to get into
the US. So Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noms said that
under President Trump's direction, she's ordered the US Citizenship and
Immigration Services to pause the program. Of course, Claudio Neives
Valente is suspected in those shootings. He had studied at
Brown and was on a student visa, but it was
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back in the year two.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Thousand, which is so bizarre that this was like sparked
twenty years ago or something.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But in twenty seventeen he was issued a diversity immigrant
visa and then obtained legal permanent residence status.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And because of this, because I think he had come
in on the lottery program or maybe not even No,
that's how he got in is through that day and
a Christinome is arguing he should never have been led
into the country, which is true, and therefore we have
to suspend the entire program. And as a naturalized American citizen,
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the next time a naturalized American citizen commits some kind
of a horrific act, does Christinome say, oh, this person
should never have been naturalized and therefore let's stop that program.
You know, I'm looking around saying, wait a minute, does
that mean that my citizenship is going to be taken away?
Which of course it won't and it can't I don't believe.
(10:09):
But it's sort of a lot of broad strokes here.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, they suspended it, they didn't cancel it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Right, Well it's going to be canceled. I mean, there's
I don't think there's there's any issue at this point.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they just suspended it. Do they
give you a time a sense of time? I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
They didn't. But listen to this. The diversity program makes
up fifty thousand green cards a year.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Right, nearly twenty million people applied for a visa in
twenty for this particular visa in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
That what does that tell you about people wanting to
come in the United States?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What does that tell you? Number one, how good it
is the United.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
States, even with the craziness going in, and how bad
it is the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's why our show is so popular.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's not that it's good, It's just that everybody else
is bad. That's why I only hang around with poor
people because I'm considered rich among poor people. I don't
hang around people with a lot of money. I want
to feel rich. So therefore it's the other side, and
you have to look at it in sort of a
(11:21):
negative way. Oh, what a shocker. Look at it in
a negative way. I've never I've never done that, have I?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh? Okay, smile?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
More photos are out.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have publicly released another
batch of pictures about Jeffrey Epstein. There are seventy photos,
including a heavily redacted photos of women's passports, pictures of
famous men who associated with Epstein, and what is being
called concerning text messages about recruiting women for Jeffrey Epstein.
(11:53):
I've seen some of the messages. It's like, Hey, I
need somebody. I'll send you another girl. Well, she charges
one thousand dollars, great, go get her. I think Jay
will like her. Kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, I mean we everybody knows the Epstein issue. It's
how much or what was the extent of the famous
people with Epstein, and of course particularly particularly President Trump,
who is all over those files.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Not that he did anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But you know, as I said earlier, the reason I
think the Justice Apartment and the administration so reluctant to
release those files, although today is the last day we'll
see if they are released based on that congressional vote,
is that we're going to find out that Trump was
just a lot closer to Epstein than we are reported.
(12:41):
I don't think he did anything wrong. I don't think
you have I don't think you have a Prince Andrew
where his arm is around a fourteen year old and
they're smiling.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So that's my take on it. We'll see.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Don't you think if there were those pictures they would
have been released by now? Not necessarily, there's ninety five
thousand of them out there.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I know, but the government has picked a lot of
them up, and I don't know how many were actually
out there.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
For example, that video.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Of the second hit on the drug boat, which now
I love that one. Pete the President says, yeah, we're
going to release it. Pete Hegsith says no, we have
to look at it very carefully. And then now yesterday
their top secret. We can't release them at all. And
this is blowing up a boat with people either clinging
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to or not clinging to the debris.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's just do you think that the rest of the
file is going to be released today?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Midnight's the deadline.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't think so. I'm guessing that something else is
going on.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I think the announcement is going to be that some
of those people are now under investigation and they can't
release those files.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's my guest. I may be wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Okay, I knew you were going to love this. We
talked about it, but wake up call.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Kennedy has to share the spotlight with Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
The board of the John F.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has voted unanimously to
rename the Kennedy Center as the Trump Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts. The Center's vice president of public relations said,
the unanimous vote recognizes that the current chairman, President Trump
saved the institution from financial ruin and physical destruction.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Now this is after the President fired everybody on the board,
put in his hand selected board members, and they voted
unanimously to then rename the Center.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And are you going to report on the government now
asking for bigs in terms of redoing Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Bis will now be coming in.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Oh, it's still my turn because Neil's not here.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Basic economy sucks. You all know that if you fly right, well,
it's worse now. Customers who buy base economy tickets on
American Airlines starting yesterday and moving forward will no longer
earn a advantage miles or loyalty points toward a advantage status.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So you're not only flying the cheapest seats.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
You don't get awarded miles even if you join their
loyalty programs. But a spokesperson says Basic economy customers will
continue to receive one free personal item and one free
carry on bag, free snacks, soft drinks, and in flight entertainment.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I thought that when you full American Airlines, you didn't
get a free carry on bag.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I thought they charged you for bags across the board on.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
American I do. I think it's usually the smaller airlines, like.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, that's what story says.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I thought everybody has.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
No most of them for carry ons. They don't charge,
except like Spirit and a Velo.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh you're right, right, little it's a carry on.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Bag, right, Yeah, they charged for the CHECKLNK right.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Policy changes or not, The US Coast Guard has deleted
language from its new workplace harassment policy that had downgraded
the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols
to what it calls potentially devices. But now Adam Kevin
Lunde or Admiral Kevin Lunday, said those revisions have been
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completely removed from the policy manual. He said that a
separate directive he issued last month prohibiting swastikas and nooses
remains in full effect.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah. I have a question who, somehow would decide in
the upper reaches of the Coastguard that a swastika or
a noose would no longer be a hate symbol.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
It would just now be divisive.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Divisive is a big sign that says Republicans suck.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That's divisive. A swastika.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, well, thank god at least the admiral the acting
command and said no, no.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Now we have to go back to where it was. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Swastikas and newses are not good news. They're way more
than just divisive.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's high time this happened.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Ooh very strong.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
President Trump has signed an executive order to fast track
the reclassification of cannabis. He says it's to increase medical
marijuana and CBD research so patients and doctors can be
better informed about their uses. He says it's critical to
close the gap between current medical marijuana and CBD use
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and medical knowledge of risks and benefits. That's in the order.
The order does not make cannabis legal nationwide.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
No, but it's the first step because medical marijuana started,
that was the first step towards well, it was decriminalization,
medical marijuana was allowed, and then recreational marijuana.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So it's moving in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And the way that the government looked at marijuana is
completely insane, as most of us know. So good for
the president at least making a first step, because other
presidents did not would not do the same thing.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Suing over the Second Amendment, the US government has sued
a US territory, the US Virgin Islands, also its police
department and its Police Commissioner, accusing them of obstructing and
systematically denying American citizens the right to possess and carry guns,
challenging the Second Amendment. The US Virgin Islands requires gun
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applicants to demonstrate what it calls good reason to fear
death or great injury to his person or property, and
also to have two credible persons to vouch for their
need for a weapon.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That is actually fairly easy to ascertain because basically showing
a need of a firearm or showing your need for
asylum based on great injury to your person, any asylum,
any judge will do that. Any immigration judge has to
make that determination, So that's not hard to do. The
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one which I don't get is someone has to have
good moral character.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Tell me what that is. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I mean. His lawsuit is absolutely right on. You can
be disbarred, for example, for moral turpitude, but that is
after you've been convicted or a hearing has been held.
This one is prior to no gun. If you're not
a good moral person. Okay, yeah, it's I don't know.
(19:38):
I think it's going to win, and I think it's
a good lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Personally, well, the racing world is in mourning.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
That business jet that crashed yesterday at an airport in
North Carolina had seven people on board, including retired NASCAR
driver Greg Biffle and his family. Biffle, I don't know
how close closely you followed NASCAR, but he's from the
Northwest and when I was up in Portland, he was
racing on that circuit before he went over to NASCAR.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think he used to race trucks or something.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But yeah, he was killed along with his family when
the plane crashed trying to land at Statesville Regional Airport
and burst into flames.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah, it doesn't say whether he was a pilot or not.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He was not there.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
There were two pilots apparently on board, and then five passengers.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
The video of that plane crashing is it just amazing?
Isn't it awful?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
And there was fog, but they haven't determined why there
was why it crashed. It had just recently taken off
and then like after about ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Around and came back and then it had crashed just
a few hundred yards prior to hitting the runway where
it would not have crash, you would have landed successfully.
So well, we'll hear from the NTSB. You don't have
a question about the NTSB, and that is every time
there's a crash, every time there's a train derailment or crash,
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the investigators for the NTSB are out there.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
How many investigators do they have? I mean, how many.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Crashes a airplane even small airplane incidences, small ones are
investigated by the NTSB.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Maybe there are people that are on their ten ninety
nine contractors that you know, we're former investigators that are
now on they work part time. I ever wondered about that, amy,
of course.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Not not ever, even once I know, well.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, it goes to show.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You why you make sense that I don't.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Okay, I think this woman just wants to write off
A New York attorney and her golden retriever are suing
the irs.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Here's why.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Amanda Reynolds and her dog, eight year old Finnegan, have
found the lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York.
They argue that the dog relies entirely on her for food, shelter,
medical care, training, and transportation, has no independent income, resides
exclusively with her annual expenses top five thousand dollars, and
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she and the dog say that fits the requirements for.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
The dog to be a legal dependent.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, but here's the problem with that. It's the irs
that makes the rules as to who is a dependent
or not. It's not her, And so you don't have
a fundamental right to not pay taxes or to notice
or note who a dependent is.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This is just absolutely fun. Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Sure why not? And I get this all the time
on handle on the news. Oh I have my dog
was killed, and therefore I want to sue because the
value of my dog and it is a member of
the family.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Its property is what it is. It's like your cookwaar
at home. That's legally what a dog or a pet is.
I mean that's the reality. So I mean, what's gonna
happen with this? It's just fun.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
My cookware does not cost me two thousand dollars when
I take it to the vet.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, that's true, you're right, the vet is. Well, I
just went to the vet with my little one. Just
have her nails cut, you know, and check her out.
It said it was six hundred dollars. I'm gonna go
what is this?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Wow? Yeah, did you get all the tests done? They
love to run tests.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Now, oh yeah they I think we did a blood test,
but it was just really they just took blood out
just to take blood out and then threw it away
just so you can a good charge.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
More drug votes destroyed.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
The military's conducted strikes against two more alleged drug trafficking
boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That was esterday. Five more people were killed. The strikes
are part of.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
An ongoing campaign dubbed Operations Southern Spear. So far, at
least one hundred four people have been killed by those
strikes on the drug boats.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, and this may be a violation of not only
US law, but international law. Now, there's no doubt that
these drug boats have drugs on them. The problem is
you have to before you blow them up. There has
to be a legal basis for that, and there doesn't
seem to be a legal basis other than we think
there are drugs aboard these boats.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We think there are. Well that's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well haven't they recovered anything from them?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No, because they're all blown up. You think that they
would have one bail of one blail one package of
cocaine usually is cocaine coming out of Venezuela and not fentanyl,
which comes out of Mexico. And you think they would
find some drugs there. But I don't even think they
come up. The Coastguard comes up and does anything. You
(25:00):
see every one of those. You know, the government releases
every attack except the one where it was that second
hit that we're never going to see because that one's
top secret. But yeah, you're going to see more and
more of these. And you know the problem is these
poor schmucks who in fact are driving these boats, spanning
these boats.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
They aren't criminals, I guess in a sense they're criminals.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
But these are the poor farmers who are starving to death.
The cartel hires for five hundred bucks ago is what
I heard, and they're the ones that are dying.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Moving on.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Judge could be headed to jail.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
A jury in Wisconsin has found a judge guilty of obstructing.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
She obstruction. She's accused of helping.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
An a legal immigrant from Mexico dodge federal authorities.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So here's what happened.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
The judge found out that some ICE agents were in
the corridor outside her courtroom waiting for the guy from Mexico.
So she left the courtroom, went to confront the ICE agents,
told them that their administrative warrant for the man wasn't
sufficient grounds to arrest him, and said go talk to
(26:11):
the chief judge. And then while the agents were gone,
she told his attorney the Mexican guys that she could
attend his next hearing via zoom so we wouldn't have
to go to court, and then she led him and
the attorney out of private door.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, that's pretty much obstructing a federal criminal official.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yep, that's obstructing. And she should have been nailed on that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I and she can be in favor of certainly immigrant
rights and she can rule, but she can rule for example,
I think it was legitimate for her to say I
want to do this by zoom, but helping him escape
to avert being arrested by ICE, she's crossed the line
on that one.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
She truly has. I would have voted also guilty.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Okay, so your utility bills are going to stay high
because so cal Edison gets to keep profits.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
So there were complaints from.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Customers about rising electric bills of course, but the CPUC,
the California Public Utilities Commission, voted yesterday four to one
to keep profits at so Cal Edison and the state's
other big investor owned utilities at a level that consumer
groups say has been inflated. They're going to allow them
to continue. That part isn't going to apparently keep buildings.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
There's a lot of pieces moving on this one, and
coming up at eight o'clock, I'm going to dive into
it a little bit deeper.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, because the utilities are building.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, they profit when they do building, you see.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And uh yeah, notwithstanding that Sun Gas and Electric is
probably liable and just to blame for the fires, the
eating fire, and we'll certain yeah the Altadena fire.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay, I think we have time for one more. Nope,
we don't.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Okay, yeah, because the story has been boring anyway, Okay,
I'll make it.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I'll be Now.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's Ann who puts these together, and usually she does
a brilliant job, but occasionally she does something that puts
everybody to sleep, including me, or puts me to sleep,
not including you.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Okay, guys, this is KFI A M six point forty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show, Catch My
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