January 30, 2026 • 30 mins
(January 30, 2026)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Democrats and President Trump strike government funding deal as shutdown looms. Tulsi Gabbard under scrutiny for showing up at FBI raid of Georgia election hub. Man accused of posing as FBI agent in apparent attempt to spring Luigi Mangione from jail.
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Speaker 1 (00:41):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
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(01:10):
hello to one and all, Will good morning to you,
Good morning, Bill, good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We start with you. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They they're no longer around, are they, Neil TGIF's yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I think they have a couple of Fridays still in existence.
I think there's still one in West Covina.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Maybe that's so weird where they have one or two
restaurants left out of hundreds that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Were out bizarre and they were great. They're just huge,
these places.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I love tgif. I mean, they're just it's fun. You
talk about bar food effectively, it's the best.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
They had these massive salads, like with fried chicken on them,
and it's like it's so unsalady.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It's great too.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And whatever happened to Claim Jumper. God, I love that restaurant.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh yeah, we used to have one across the street
from the station.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I haven't seen one in years.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Would order, you would order, it would be a a
plate and it feeds eight people if you order one plate.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And the chocolate cake stood what two feet tall?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You used to be able to get that in the
frozen food section too.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It was just it was wonderful. So anyway, and we
have a story about cracker barrel coming up a little
bit later on and how many of those are falling apart,
and it's kind of an interesting it's kind of a
fun story and that is coming up. Oh wait, it's
fun because of what wells as a result of that.
But this is the fun part of it. Okay, Cono,
(02:45):
good morning. Did you get a haircut? Not that you
can talk?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, there you go. Okay, so good. This is why
Cono is not behind the mic.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, and so there Amy, which we've already said hello to.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Hi, and and last and certainly not or maybe least
or moderately, can you just be nice? No, I hate you.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
We all love you.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Ann I know we all love you, don't we? Yes,
we do love it pretty much. Is yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay. We've got a lot going on. The deal has
not yet been cut, has it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We're waiting any moment for that Senate House bill actually
in the Senate to fund the government, because that ends
the government runs out of money, doesn't run out of money.
You can't spend any money, can't borrow money and spend money.
When the fiscal year runs out and that happens tomorrow,
or when the budget year runs out, and that happens
(03:50):
tomorrow or tonight at midnight, there ain't no money. It's
really weird how it works with the federal government. Federal
government prints money. Government's all over the place print money,
except Ecuador, you know, Ecuador. The official Well here's a
little factoid. Do you know what the official currency of
Ecuador is the official legal currency, the dollar, and they
(04:12):
don't print the dollar, they don't print any money. It
is the dollar, the US dollar. Yeah, of course that
because you are not in the obscure factoid world.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah I'm a good driver.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, there you are in any case.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So here you have the US government printing money, and
it has to be really careful about how much money
to print because inflation, you know, you go beyond it,
walking that very fine line, and so it runs out
of money. Okay, end dear, Okay, we voted ourselves a budget,
which means that the money has to be borrowed because
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there is no surplus at all. We're in deficit hundreds
of billions and sometimes are trillion dollars, and so it
has to borrow. When it doesn't when it stops itself
from borrowing money and spending money, it has to do both,
then the government shuts down. That's the government shut down,
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and there's a move to not even have borrowing. Just
it goes unlimited for the rest of your rest of
in perpetuity. Government runs out of money, it prints more money,
it borrows more money. Borrowing money is selling t bills,
selling various securities that people all over the world buy,
because as crappy as our economy is, it's still the
(05:32):
best in the world. The other countries are far crappier.
There are few, but they're very small that are in
really good shape. Norway, for example, has the North Sea
Oil which the government owns the oil that's put into
a fund every year, which is why the standard of
living in norwaya so insanely high. Okay, enough of that,
(05:54):
what do you think, God, we started with the show already.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think we should note bill that even if the
Senate passes it, the House would have to pass it
before midnight. And they can't really unless they really beat
feet and get back there because they're not in session
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, and I don't know if if Mike Johnson is
willing to have everybody come back, he can call, he
can say, you get what we want you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But getting on airplanes flying into Washington.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
D C.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
In the midst of another winter show.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, and when the airport is shut down, how do
I get how do they get there? He writes, But
a shutdown of a couple of days isn't going to
change much. Shut down of a few days is going
to change much. The majority of shutdowns, and we've had
dozens of them over the last decade or two or
several decades, but a couple of days is in the
end of the world. It's those thirty eight day ones
that are real shockers. Okay, guys, let's do it. It's
(06:48):
time for Handle on the News with Amy Neil and
me and we have two lead stories.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
One of them first one, This just happened.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Don Lemon, former CNN anchor, has been arrested taken into
custody as a result of him being involved to whatever
extent the government says, and he says in that church demonstration,
remember when they broke into the church because the pastor
was also an ICE an ICE supervisor. Anyway, he has
(07:25):
been arrested these many weeks afterward. It was a grand
jury indictment they got. So he's arguing that he was
just covering it and arguing he.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Was just a journalist.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I think he said he found out about it when
he got there or something, but there are accusations that
he was like he's been in on the planning or something.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, it's Don Lemon. Didn't he get tossed for sexual impropriety.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Why was he fired?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think he was. I think he was fired for
sexual impropriety. Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He was saying, you can't even say things today gets
you in trouble. You you know, look at an attractive
woman passing and you go, boy, look at those winnebagos.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You say that, and you are in deep trouble today.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well, what if she sells recreational vehicles?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh well, if she's carrying recreational vehicles on her body.
And here's the other lead story we are as Amy
had Digest told us the Democrats and Trump looks like
they have a deal.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
This is in the Senate, looks like they have a deal.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And this had to do with the pushback from what's
happening in Minneapolis. The government is absolutely backing down. They're
soft pedaling this thing, leading wide open this budget deal
in which the Homeland Security Department, Homeland Security is going
to get its funding for two weeks based on the
(09:05):
fact that the administration has agreed to terms like no
more masks on ice agents. They can't just arbitrary walk
in break into homes, businesses. They need a warrant. So
there's some things that are going on that things are
(09:26):
a change in for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Okay, why was Toulci there? The Director of National Intelligence, Tulci.
Gabbard hasn't been seen much lately, but when FBI agents
went to the election center in Fulton County, Georgia to
do a raid looking for ballots from the twenty twenty
presidential election, there was Tulsi Gabbard. National security experts are
(09:54):
saying it raises questions about whether she is seeking new
relevancy in the eyes of a president who has se
on her.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, the national security officials don't show up at domestic
events like this. They're not allowed to buy law. It's
international stuff. Domestically by law, they can't get involved. So
what the hell was she doing there? And it was, Yeah,
she is. I think she's on her way out. And
(10:22):
this is the way Trump operates and like many presidents do,
instead of just outright saying you're fired, you're fired. When
it comes to a Trump ally, then it's the move
is kind of slow.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Also, I think Christy no may be in trouble too.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He had there was that cabinet meeting yesterday where they
when the cabinet meets, and what they do is Trump
has them sitting around the table as we know, and
then goes to each cabinet member and asks what's going on?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Please report?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And ninety five percent of it is you're the greatest
president that ever was. We are so lucky to have
you as our president. You should win the Nobel Prize.
You should retire the Nobel Prize because after it's given you,
it's gonna it's going to be meaningless. I mean on
and by the way, I'm not exaggerating very much here.
They suck up to him on that level. Uh. And
(11:17):
Christinoman was not asked to speak at all where she
normally would.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Boy, what does that mean? He bypassed her, went right
past her.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
It's probably a good thing to keep her quiet.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, I would hope so well he didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
He didn't talk to a lot of people yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, but but it was uh yeah, which department head
did he not talk to?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He said, there were several you kind of skipped over people.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know the ones that imported. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
The big one is you would just think though during
this time that would be important important?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yes, good point? Good point are.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
In this time?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
It's like you know, weathers, are you probably want to
talk to them about, you know, the right eastern northern
eastern part of the US too. All right, so the press,
mister Donald Trump. He's got two older sons that we know,
and they got a family business. Well, they are suing
the Internal Revenue Service and the US Treasury. This all
(12:17):
goes back to alleged leaks of their confidential tax information.
This is a civil suit and they're seeking ten billion
dollars damages according to this from the governmental court.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, from the government.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And this is and don't find this interesting because this
is leaking of IRS information. Now, every president not only
leaks information, makes public tax returns. And President Trump said
he would while he was running, and then after he
was elected and he was called on it, he went,
(12:56):
huh did.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I say that?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh? I remember that. But isn't this different. Isn't this
his eldest son's company. Yes, but they're saying this Chaz
or I think Carl's Chaz little John.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, And I don't know if I don't know if
Trump was involved in that. Right now, the the the
sons run the business, and I don't know if he
has kept his uh oh, I don't know if he
kept his interest in the business or turned it all
over to his kids.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
This is one of the ones that he kind of
handed over wink wink to his children.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Win quick, Yeah, I think that, Yes, I think so.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Usually usually it's put Usually all the assets are put
into a blind trust where the person who's ever in
government or running for government turns it over to a
trustee who does not tell him or her with them
where the money is and where it's going.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It's a uh, what if somebody who worked in the
I R S did this politically leaked it politically?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Could they be could the I think I.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Think so, I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
He is the one guy is serving a five year sentence.
He pleaded guilty to disclosing text return information. Chazz Jazz
Little Is that Chaz? Little John?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, Chaz? This is a Robin Hood episode. Is that
what we're talking about here?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Little John?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yea, yeah, Okay, failed attempt. This is so bizarre to
spring Luigi Mengioni. Of course, Mangioni is the guy who's
accused of shooting and killing the head of United Healthcare
on a street in Manhattan, right outside a hotel, and
(14:39):
somebody showed up at the prison in New York City
and said, hey, I got a court order to release
Luigi MANGIONI give him to me. And then they said,
do you have any prov documentation anything. He shows him
a Minnesota driver's license, claimed he had weapons, and then
threw paperwork at them.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And so they looked in his backpack. Uh, and there
were the weapons, deadly weapons. Won a barbecue fork, you
know with those long barbecue fork that's a big fork.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And the other one is a pizza cutter, which and
those round pizza cutters, not even the one with handles,
which can be weapons when they slice you up.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And these are just order just the wheel. Yes, how big?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Did they didn't hear the big brass balls on that
guy walking in there?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I'm a BFI and.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Didn't need them.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, I love it all right. La Metro who did
not see this one coming? Talk about a money grab.
So we've you know, can't I has put billboards up
and we've done buses and bus shelters. Well you've got
this new so called documentary Milania Lania, and they got
(15:55):
it on buses and bust bus stops and people are
painting Hitler style mustaches on her putting expletives referring to
her husband, of course, Donald Trump. Uh, and references to
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah. Now that was the bus storms on her.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That was we're talking just the bus stops, and now
they're moving the buses in a secure location.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The thing that makes me laugh here is La Metro
comes out and they said the vandalism spree was extensive
and severe, so you know, property damage, and of course,
you know they've got to protect people on the bus.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But they said.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
They decided to move the vehicles to other locations where
there are fewer such concerns. And I'm like, like, white neighborhoods,
what is that? It's like, what, uh?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Where? Where? What?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
What do you?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Orange County?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, well, oh yeah, Orange County doesn't need billboards legal
So maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Milania, your documentary Milania, which Amazon paid or is it Netflix?
I Amazon paid forty million dollars for the rights to
this film and it was a thirty five million dollar
promotion budget that is ending next week and it's it's
(17:21):
going to debut at the Donald J.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
It did, they did the premiere last night.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh, how To and How To Go?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It was the best movie debut ever.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah. Did Milania get a sitting ovation?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
She got a standing ovation. I'm sure it was a
very Trump friendly crowd.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
As a matter of fact, she got a standing ovation
on stepstools. Man, they really wanted them to stand up.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Okay, let's see, can we get the copy to be
extra red?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Oh? Love?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I don't know, she'll tell you that. That's questionable.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ages very do you know she's a very good she's
a very very private.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Thanks for the memories. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who
was recently demoted from his role in Minneapolis during the
aggressive deportation operations UH, has sent a message to the
agency oversaw in Minnesota. He praised them, send them, send
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them love in a video that was filmed in front
of Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh that's sweet. That's not a political statement.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Ham handed? Give me a break.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
This was this he was at He was the poster
child of the way ICE has been treating detainees and
arresting people. He was the guy, and so uh, he
may get fired for I know you certainly demoted.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Something's got to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, exactly, I mean, there's a lot of very rough
stuff going on.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Okay, not breaking news, but an addendum to our earlier conversation.
The TGIF in West Covina off of the ten is
closed and now a Brazilian steakhouse there. Porter Ranch still
has the tgifs for those playing the home game. And
(19:29):
there are two claim jumpers left right now South Coast
Plaza and right across from Knotsbery Farm.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh that's right, that's where it was. I knew I
had just seen one.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Okay, So thanks to everybody helping out there. All right,
back to the news.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Shall we go? What a weird story?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Somebody wants to look at handles privates in the bathroom,
apparently because they found a hidden camera inside the restroom
at a Kaiser Permanent Day Hospital in West Los Angeles.
But it looks like it was in the employee restroom.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Women.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Well I guess women would have these in the sit
downs too. But you know that little place, the little
eye that sees you, that knows when you get up
or whatever or walk away from the toilet that makes
it flush, That's where it sounds like this thing was located.
It's at a video from a member showed a camera
was found. This is the interesting word embedded in the
wall above the toilet's flush oh meter. So don't you
(20:27):
ever look at those and the little red eye blinking
and go, I wonder if somebody's watching, well at this
West Los Angeles Kaiser Permanente, somebody would And of course
now you've got around thirty nine victims, including emergency room
nurses that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
She Yeah, they're doing Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But you know, where's Kaiser wrong on this tour? Is
Kaiser supposed to go through every restroom? Are hidden cameras?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
How can you?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, if I'm on the jury, I'm not going to
nail Kaiser on this.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I mean you have to show some kind of negligence.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
What you could sue the guy? I guess the guy
so Wiet, I mean, what do you say? Come on,
you're gonna sue what if he had a sexual history
or heads and that's different, that's different. Then you have Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Then you could probably sue Kaiser if there is a
pattern of crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But you know, but even a criminal background, yeah, is
no okay?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And the winner is Kevin Walsh. President Trump says he's
going to nominate the former federal Reserve official to be
the next chair of the FED. Of course, Jerome Powell,
who has been criticized incessantly by President Trump, is out
in May, and Trump said today he's going to put
Wosh in place. Trump actually chose Powell in twenty seventeen
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over Warsh. Worsh was interviewed at that time.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, and Warsh has credentials. I mean, this guy is
certainly qualified. Unlike Gabbard, unlike our FK Junior, unlike PAMBONDI
I mean, this guy, he's the real guy. What makes
him so interesting is that he has been a hawk
to raise interest rates historically, which.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Is interesting because Trump wants to lower lower exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's the point.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And part of this entire move is to have is
to get rid of the independence of the FED and
effectively have President Trump tell the Fed where the interest
rates should go.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's what makes this so interesting, as you point out,
And I don't know the answer to that, and I
don't think anybody else does. Right now, interest rates are
what right now? What over three percent? Three and a
half percent. Trump wants it under one percent to really
speed up the economy, which of course means inflation too
(22:55):
when you have a real hot economy.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I'd like to try.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, that's not going to be for a while. Like,
all right, this is interesting.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
You want to go to break?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, take another break? Will you get so excited about
this stuff? Neil, Hey, Cooma coma. We'll getting to a day. Yeah,
we'll get to listen.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's a nice set of oshbosh, gosh, gosh, gosh. Once again,
I believe that we as humans get super stupid when
we get emotional. California is projected to lose as many
as four congressional seats after the twenty thirty.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Census.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
This is an estimation due to the population decline, So
that would mean that there's four seats less in California
and a perceived or believed jump. If these trends hold
because of migration to places like Texas and Florida, they
could gain four seats each. Oh, the other states could
(23:56):
gain seats ye, because California is Yeah, it's base. It
is all based on population.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
There are exactly four hundred and thirty five congress people
in the United States Congress, and that is split up
among the states based on population.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You want to.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Here's a fun factoid, and that is that I think
it's Rhode Island. Rhode Island has two Senators because of
course it is a state, and it has one congress person.
It is easier to win a Senate seat than it
is a Congress seat. And California, of course, being the
(24:35):
most populous state, has how many does it have? Fifty three?
Fifty two and dropping to forty eight, which gives it
less power. Now, it doesn't matter that it drops four
as far as the politics. But they're all Democrat and
they are that's four seats less than the Democrats. But
(24:55):
the reapportionment, right, the redistrict thing is going to change things.
It's a little complicated and it's politics. Oh how unusual
politics today?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yeah, but that's not even politics. Well it is because
California is no.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
It is run like crape leaving and then you've got
a minority population of illegal immigration leaving.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, they can't vote.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
They can't vote, no matter what the administration says, illegal
immigrants do not.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
No, it's not about voting. It's about headcounting. This is
the set.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It is head counting. That's true. It is about headcounting.
So if you count the heads. It doesn't matter whether
they're voting or not. You're still going to get those
extra four yes or lose them. That is correct. That
is correct, okay, Amy.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Governor Newsom is not at all happy with doctor oz Uh.
Doctor Oz is the administrator for the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services in the Trump administration, and the governor
has filed a civil rights complaint against Oz after he
posted a video accusing Armenian crime groups of widespread healthcare fraud.
(26:03):
He said, as he was being driven around part of
Van Eyes that in a video that about three and
a half billion dollars worth of Medicare fraud had been
perpetrated by hospice and home care businesses, and it is
run quite a bit of it, in his words, by
the Russian Armenian mafia.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You know they that story broke when the news discovered
that too many women were buying razor blades at stores
in are the neighborhoods there.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
In Glendale, That is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, also in various other parts of the valley also
Van Eyes.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay, yeah, that's that's a group. Emails go to Neil
for complaints.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yes, no, no, yes, way more concern going on with Waymo.
They just had one that went through Echo Park like
win Nuts and then and that one supposedly being driven
by somebody remotely. But Waimo, which I am a fan
(27:05):
of those self driving taxis, recently struck a child near
the Santa Monica Elementary School during drop off hours.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, and they're making a big deal about this because
from what the story says, the kid jumped out in
front of the WAYMOK vehicle between two cars, and it
didn't have time to react. Although the sensors react far,
far faster than a human being.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I was wondering if the kid might have been killed
if it had been a person.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, that's exactly the point.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, because and how many kids are hurt and how
many people are hurt by drivers who drive too quickly
and don't realize.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Will ultimately be way safer once there's more and more
of Oh absolutely, I.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Think the future the future is going to be and
it's not going to happen anytime real soon, and that
is all cars on the road will be automatic, will
be self driving, and then then.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Gridlock is done.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Gridlock is finished at that point because cars can go
along the freeway is sixty five miles per hour. They
can be ten feet from each other, five feet from
each other, do lane changes safely, and there won't be
any there won't be any sudden stops. I mean, it's
going to be terrific.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
But there was a television show that took place in
the future and someone was pulled over for driving and
they're like, why were you driving by hand?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And they said, what cool is that? I love it.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
It was a class of ninety six or something like that,
or it was about the CIA or the FBI or something,
but yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
They're like, why were you driving? Manually all, let's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Do one more story before we bail outa here, Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The president's number one fan, has a gold card. Nicki Minaj,
who has been very outspoken about her support for President Trump,
recently revealed that back in twenty eighteen that she was
brought to the US as an illegal immigrant from Trinidad
and Tobago when she was five. Well, yesterday, she actually
on Wednesday, she flashed a Trump gold card after launching
(29:16):
the president's IRA style savings account, the Trump Accounts.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
But which you pay a million dollars and you are
fast tracked for American citizenship.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
She says her citizenship paperwork is being finalized.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, did you Yesterday the story broke about the visa card,
that Visa and Trump are now coordinating with each other,
and in order to apply for the visa card, it
is a fifteen thousand dollars non refundable deposit made to
the US government and then you get this visa card.
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I mean it's with of course Trump's picture on it, naturally,
and it's just completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Do you know anybody one of these really pretentious, made
out of metal credit cards.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
One of my friends has one, thank you.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
One of my best friends has one.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Actually, two of my friends have one. You obviously have
more money.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
One of mine.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, from what I From what I understand, they are
made out of titanium and they're pretty solid, to say
the least. Let's take a break. Okay, why don't we
get the hell out of here. This is kf I
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iHeartRadio app and the podcast because that is so much fun. Okay,
(01:10):
hello to one and all, Will good morning to you,
Good morning, Bill, good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We start with you. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They they're no longer around, are they, Neil TGIF's yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I think they have a couple of Fridays still in existence.
I think there's still one in West Covina.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Maybe that's so weird where they have one or two
restaurants left out of hundreds that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Were out bizarre and they were great. They're just huge,
these places.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I love tgif. I mean, they're just it's fun. You
talk about bar food effectively, it's the best.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
They had these massive salads, like with fried chicken on them,
and it's like it's so unsalady.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It's great too.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And whatever happened to Claim Jumper. God, I love that restaurant.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh yeah, we used to have one across the street
from the station.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I haven't seen one in years.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Would order, you would order, it would be a a
plate and it feeds eight people if you order one plate.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And the chocolate cake stood what two feet tall?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You used to be able to get that in the
frozen food section too.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It was just it was wonderful. So anyway, and we
have a story about cracker barrel coming up a little
bit later on and how many of those are falling apart,
and it's kind of an interesting it's kind of a
fun story and that is coming up. Oh wait, it's
fun because of what wells as a result of that.
But this is the fun part of it. Okay, Cono,
(02:45):
good morning. Did you get a haircut? Not that you
can talk?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, there you go. Okay, so good. This is why
Cono is not behind the mic.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, and so there Amy, which we've already said hello to.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Hi, and and last and certainly not or maybe least
or moderately, can you just be nice? No, I hate you.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
We all love you.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Ann I know we all love you, don't we? Yes,
we do love it pretty much. Is yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay. We've got a lot going on. The deal has
not yet been cut, has it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We're waiting any moment for that Senate House bill actually
in the Senate to fund the government, because that ends
the government runs out of money, doesn't run out of money.
You can't spend any money, can't borrow money and spend money.
When the fiscal year runs out and that happens tomorrow,
or when the budget year runs out, and that happens
(03:50):
tomorrow or tonight at midnight, there ain't no money. It's
really weird how it works with the federal government. Federal
government prints money. Government's all over the place print money,
except Ecuador, you know, Ecuador. The official Well here's a
little factoid. Do you know what the official currency of
Ecuador is the official legal currency, the dollar, and they
(04:12):
don't print the dollar, they don't print any money. It
is the dollar, the US dollar. Yeah, of course that
because you are not in the obscure factoid world.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah I'm a good driver.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, there you are in any case.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So here you have the US government printing money, and
it has to be really careful about how much money
to print because inflation, you know, you go beyond it,
walking that very fine line, and so it runs out
of money. Okay, end dear, Okay, we voted ourselves a budget,
which means that the money has to be borrowed because
(04:51):
there is no surplus at all. We're in deficit hundreds
of billions and sometimes are trillion dollars, and so it
has to borrow. When it doesn't when it stops itself
from borrowing money and spending money, it has to do both,
then the government shuts down. That's the government shut down,
(05:11):
and there's a move to not even have borrowing. Just
it goes unlimited for the rest of your rest of
in perpetuity. Government runs out of money, it prints more money,
it borrows more money. Borrowing money is selling t bills,
selling various securities that people all over the world buy,
because as crappy as our economy is, it's still the
(05:32):
best in the world. The other countries are far crappier.
There are few, but they're very small that are in
really good shape. Norway, for example, has the North Sea
Oil which the government owns the oil that's put into
a fund every year, which is why the standard of
living in norwaya so insanely high. Okay, enough of that,
(05:54):
what do you think, God, we started with the show already.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think we should note bill that even if the
Senate passes it, the House would have to pass it
before midnight. And they can't really unless they really beat
feet and get back there because they're not in session
right now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, and I don't know if if Mike Johnson is
willing to have everybody come back, he can call, he
can say, you get what we want you.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But getting on airplanes flying into Washington.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
D C.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
In the midst of another winter show.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, and when the airport is shut down, how do
I get how do they get there? He writes, But
a shutdown of a couple of days isn't going to
change much. Shut down of a few days is going
to change much. The majority of shutdowns, and we've had
dozens of them over the last decade or two or
several decades, but a couple of days is in the
end of the world. It's those thirty eight day ones
that are real shockers. Okay, guys, let's do it. It's
(06:48):
time for Handle on the News with Amy Neil and
me and we have two lead stories.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
One of them first one, This just happened.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Don Lemon, former CNN anchor, has been arrested taken into
custody as a result of him being involved to whatever
extent the government says, and he says in that church demonstration,
remember when they broke into the church because the pastor
was also an ICE an ICE supervisor. Anyway, he has
(07:25):
been arrested these many weeks afterward. It was a grand
jury indictment they got. So he's arguing that he was
just covering it and arguing he.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Was just a journalist.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I think he said he found out about it when
he got there or something, but there are accusations that
he was like he's been in on the planning or something.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, it's Don Lemon. Didn't he get tossed for sexual impropriety.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Why was he fired?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think he was. I think he was fired for
sexual impropriety. Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
He was saying, you can't even say things today gets
you in trouble. You you know, look at an attractive
woman passing and you go, boy, look at those winnebagos.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You say that, and you are in deep trouble today.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well, what if she sells recreational vehicles?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh well, if she's carrying recreational vehicles on her body.
And here's the other lead story we are as Amy
had Digest told us the Democrats and Trump looks like
they have a deal.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
This is in the Senate, looks like they have a deal.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And this had to do with the pushback from what's
happening in Minneapolis. The government is absolutely backing down. They're
soft pedaling this thing, leading wide open this budget deal
in which the Homeland Security Department, Homeland Security is going
to get its funding for two weeks based on the
(09:05):
fact that the administration has agreed to terms like no
more masks on ice agents. They can't just arbitrary walk
in break into homes, businesses. They need a warrant. So
there's some things that are going on that things are
(09:26):
a change in for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Okay, why was Toulci there? The Director of National Intelligence, Tulci.
Gabbard hasn't been seen much lately, but when FBI agents
went to the election center in Fulton County, Georgia to
do a raid looking for ballots from the twenty twenty
presidential election, there was Tulsi Gabbard. National security experts are
(09:54):
saying it raises questions about whether she is seeking new
relevancy in the eyes of a president who has se
on her.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, the national security officials don't show up at domestic
events like this. They're not allowed to buy law. It's
international stuff. Domestically by law, they can't get involved. So
what the hell was she doing there? And it was, Yeah,
she is. I think she's on her way out. And
(10:22):
this is the way Trump operates and like many presidents do,
instead of just outright saying you're fired, you're fired. When
it comes to a Trump ally, then it's the move
is kind of slow.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Also, I think Christy no may be in trouble too.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He had there was that cabinet meeting yesterday where they
when the cabinet meets, and what they do is Trump
has them sitting around the table as we know, and
then goes to each cabinet member and asks what's going on?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Please report?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And ninety five percent of it is you're the greatest
president that ever was. We are so lucky to have
you as our president. You should win the Nobel Prize.
You should retire the Nobel Prize because after it's given you,
it's gonna it's going to be meaningless. I mean on
and by the way, I'm not exaggerating very much here.
They suck up to him on that level. Uh. And
(11:17):
Christinoman was not asked to speak at all where she
normally would.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Boy, what does that mean? He bypassed her, went right
past her.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
It's probably a good thing to keep her quiet.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, I would hope so well he didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
He didn't talk to a lot of people yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, but but it was uh yeah, which department head
did he not talk to?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He said, there were several you kind of skipped over people.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know the ones that imported. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
The big one is you would just think though during
this time that would be important important?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yes, good point? Good point are.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
In this time?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
It's like you know, weathers, are you probably want to
talk to them about, you know, the right eastern northern
eastern part of the US too. All right, so the press,
mister Donald Trump. He's got two older sons that we know,
and they got a family business. Well, they are suing
the Internal Revenue Service and the US Treasury. This all
(12:17):
goes back to alleged leaks of their confidential tax information.
This is a civil suit and they're seeking ten billion
dollars damages according to this from the governmental court.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, from the government.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And this is and don't find this interesting because this
is leaking of IRS information. Now, every president not only
leaks information, makes public tax returns. And President Trump said
he would while he was running, and then after he
was elected and he was called on it, he went,
(12:56):
huh did.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I say that?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh? I remember that. But isn't this different. Isn't this
his eldest son's company. Yes, but they're saying this Chaz
or I think Carl's Chaz little John.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, And I don't know if I don't know if
Trump was involved in that. Right now, the the the
sons run the business, and I don't know if he
has kept his uh oh, I don't know if he
kept his interest in the business or turned it all
over to his kids.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
This is one of the ones that he kind of
handed over wink wink to his children.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Win quick, Yeah, I think that, Yes, I think so.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Usually usually it's put Usually all the assets are put
into a blind trust where the person who's ever in
government or running for government turns it over to a
trustee who does not tell him or her with them
where the money is and where it's going.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It's a uh, what if somebody who worked in the
I R S did this politically leaked it politically?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Could they be could the I think I.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Think so, I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
He is the one guy is serving a five year sentence.
He pleaded guilty to disclosing text return information. Chazz Jazz
Little Is that Chaz? Little John?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, Chaz? This is a Robin Hood episode. Is that
what we're talking about here?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Little John?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yea, yeah, Okay, failed attempt. This is so bizarre to
spring Luigi Mengioni. Of course, Mangioni is the guy who's
accused of shooting and killing the head of United Healthcare
on a street in Manhattan, right outside a hotel, and
(14:39):
somebody showed up at the prison in New York City
and said, hey, I got a court order to release
Luigi MANGIONI give him to me. And then they said,
do you have any prov documentation anything. He shows him
a Minnesota driver's license, claimed he had weapons, and then
threw paperwork at them.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And so they looked in his backpack. Uh, and there
were the weapons, deadly weapons. Won a barbecue fork, you
know with those long barbecue fork that's a big fork.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And the other one is a pizza cutter, which and
those round pizza cutters, not even the one with handles,
which can be weapons when they slice you up.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And these are just order just the wheel. Yes, how big?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Did they didn't hear the big brass balls on that
guy walking in there?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I'm a BFI and.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Didn't need them.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, I love it all right. La Metro who did
not see this one coming? Talk about a money grab.
So we've you know, can't I has put billboards up
and we've done buses and bus shelters. Well you've got
this new so called documentary Milania Lania, and they got
(15:55):
it on buses and bust bus stops and people are
painting Hitler style mustaches on her putting expletives referring to
her husband, of course, Donald Trump. Uh, and references to
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah. Now that was the bus storms on her.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That was we're talking just the bus stops, and now
they're moving the buses in a secure location.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The thing that makes me laugh here is La Metro
comes out and they said the vandalism spree was extensive
and severe, so you know, property damage, and of course,
you know they've got to protect people on the bus.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But they said.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
They decided to move the vehicles to other locations where
there are fewer such concerns. And I'm like, like, white neighborhoods,
what is that? It's like, what, uh?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Where? Where? What?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
What do you?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Orange County?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, well, oh yeah, Orange County doesn't need billboards legal
So maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Milania, your documentary Milania, which Amazon paid or is it Netflix?
I Amazon paid forty million dollars for the rights to
this film and it was a thirty five million dollar
promotion budget that is ending next week and it's it's
(17:21):
going to debut at the Donald J.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
It did, they did the premiere last night.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh, how To and How To Go?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It was the best movie debut ever.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah. Did Milania get a sitting ovation?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
She got a standing ovation. I'm sure it was a
very Trump friendly crowd.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
As a matter of fact, she got a standing ovation
on stepstools. Man, they really wanted them to stand up.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Okay, let's see, can we get the copy to be
extra red?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Oh? Love?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I don't know, she'll tell you that. That's questionable.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ages very do you know she's a very good she's
a very very private.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Thanks for the memories. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who
was recently demoted from his role in Minneapolis during the
aggressive deportation operations UH, has sent a message to the
agency oversaw in Minnesota. He praised them, send them, send
(18:34):
them love in a video that was filmed in front
of Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh that's sweet. That's not a political statement.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Ham handed? Give me a break.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
This was this he was at He was the poster
child of the way ICE has been treating detainees and
arresting people. He was the guy, and so uh, he
may get fired for I know you certainly demoted.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Something's got to happen.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, exactly, I mean, there's a lot of very rough
stuff going on.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Okay, not breaking news, but an addendum to our earlier conversation.
The TGIF in West Covina off of the ten is
closed and now a Brazilian steakhouse there. Porter Ranch still
has the tgifs for those playing the home game. And
(19:29):
there are two claim jumpers left right now South Coast
Plaza and right across from Knotsbery Farm.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh that's right, that's where it was. I knew I
had just seen one.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Okay, So thanks to everybody helping out there. All right,
back to the news.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Shall we go? What a weird story?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Somebody wants to look at handles privates in the bathroom,
apparently because they found a hidden camera inside the restroom
at a Kaiser Permanent Day Hospital in West Los Angeles.
But it looks like it was in the employee restroom.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Women.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Well I guess women would have these in the sit
downs too. But you know that little place, the little
eye that sees you, that knows when you get up
or whatever or walk away from the toilet that makes
it flush, That's where it sounds like this thing was located.
It's at a video from a member showed a camera
was found. This is the interesting word embedded in the
wall above the toilet's flush oh meter. So don't you
(20:27):
ever look at those and the little red eye blinking
and go, I wonder if somebody's watching, well at this
West Los Angeles Kaiser Permanente, somebody would And of course
now you've got around thirty nine victims, including emergency room
nurses that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
She Yeah, they're doing Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But you know, where's Kaiser wrong on this tour? Is
Kaiser supposed to go through every restroom? Are hidden cameras?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
How can you?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, if I'm on the jury, I'm not going to
nail Kaiser on this.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I mean you have to show some kind of negligence.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
What you could sue the guy? I guess the guy
so Wiet, I mean, what do you say? Come on,
you're gonna sue what if he had a sexual history
or heads and that's different, that's different. Then you have Kaiser.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Then you could probably sue Kaiser if there is a
pattern of crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But you know, but even a criminal background, yeah, is
no okay?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And the winner is Kevin Walsh. President Trump says he's
going to nominate the former federal Reserve official to be
the next chair of the FED. Of course, Jerome Powell,
who has been criticized incessantly by President Trump, is out
in May, and Trump said today he's going to put
Wosh in place. Trump actually chose Powell in twenty seventeen
(21:51):
over Warsh. Worsh was interviewed at that time.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, and Warsh has credentials. I mean, this guy is
certainly qualified. Unlike Gabbard, unlike our FK Junior, unlike PAMBONDI
I mean, this guy, he's the real guy. What makes
him so interesting is that he has been a hawk
to raise interest rates historically, which.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Is interesting because Trump wants to lower lower exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's the point.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And part of this entire move is to have is
to get rid of the independence of the FED and
effectively have President Trump tell the Fed where the interest
rates should go.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's what makes this so interesting, as you point out,
And I don't know the answer to that, and I
don't think anybody else does. Right now, interest rates are
what right now? What over three percent? Three and a
half percent. Trump wants it under one percent to really
speed up the economy, which of course means inflation too
(22:55):
when you have a real hot economy.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I'd like to try.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, that's not going to be for a while. Like,
all right, this is interesting.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
You want to go to break?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, take another break? Will you get so excited about
this stuff? Neil, Hey, Cooma coma. We'll getting to a day. Yeah,
we'll get to listen.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's a nice set of oshbosh, gosh, gosh, gosh. Once again,
I believe that we as humans get super stupid when
we get emotional. California is projected to lose as many
as four congressional seats after the twenty thirty.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Census.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
This is an estimation due to the population decline, So
that would mean that there's four seats less in California
and a perceived or believed jump. If these trends hold
because of migration to places like Texas and Florida, they
could gain four seats each. Oh, the other states could
(23:56):
gain seats ye, because California is Yeah, it's base. It
is all based on population.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
There are exactly four hundred and thirty five congress people
in the United States Congress, and that is split up
among the states based on population.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You want to.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Here's a fun factoid, and that is that I think
it's Rhode Island. Rhode Island has two Senators because of
course it is a state, and it has one congress person.
It is easier to win a Senate seat than it
is a Congress seat. And California, of course, being the
(24:35):
most populous state, has how many does it have? Fifty three?
Fifty two and dropping to forty eight, which gives it
less power. Now, it doesn't matter that it drops four
as far as the politics. But they're all Democrat and
they are that's four seats less than the Democrats. But
(24:55):
the reapportionment, right, the redistrict thing is going to change things.
It's a little complicated and it's politics. Oh how unusual
politics today?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yeah, but that's not even politics. Well it is because
California is no.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
It is run like crape leaving and then you've got
a minority population of illegal immigration leaving.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, they can't vote.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
They can't vote, no matter what the administration says, illegal
immigrants do not.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
No, it's not about voting. It's about headcounting. This is
the set.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
It is head counting. That's true. It is about headcounting.
So if you count the heads. It doesn't matter whether
they're voting or not. You're still going to get those
extra four yes or lose them. That is correct. That
is correct, okay, Amy.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Governor Newsom is not at all happy with doctor oz Uh.
Doctor Oz is the administrator for the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services in the Trump administration, and the governor
has filed a civil rights complaint against Oz after he
posted a video accusing Armenian crime groups of widespread healthcare fraud.
(26:03):
He said, as he was being driven around part of
Van Eyes that in a video that about three and
a half billion dollars worth of Medicare fraud had been
perpetrated by hospice and home care businesses, and it is
run quite a bit of it, in his words, by
the Russian Armenian mafia.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You know they that story broke when the news discovered
that too many women were buying razor blades at stores
in are the neighborhoods there.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
In Glendale, That is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, also in various other parts of the valley also
Van Eyes.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay, yeah, that's that's a group. Emails go to Neil
for complaints.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yes, no, no, yes, way more concern going on with Waymo.
They just had one that went through Echo Park like
win Nuts and then and that one supposedly being driven
by somebody remotely. But Waimo, which I am a fan
(27:05):
of those self driving taxis, recently struck a child near
the Santa Monica Elementary School during drop off hours.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, and they're making a big deal about this because
from what the story says, the kid jumped out in
front of the WAYMOK vehicle between two cars, and it
didn't have time to react. Although the sensors react far,
far faster than a human being.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I was wondering if the kid might have been killed
if it had been a person.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, that's exactly the point.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, because and how many kids are hurt and how
many people are hurt by drivers who drive too quickly
and don't realize.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Will ultimately be way safer once there's more and more
of Oh absolutely, I.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Think the future the future is going to be and
it's not going to happen anytime real soon, and that
is all cars on the road will be automatic, will
be self driving, and then then.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Gridlock is done.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Gridlock is finished at that point because cars can go
along the freeway is sixty five miles per hour. They
can be ten feet from each other, five feet from
each other, do lane changes safely, and there won't be
any there won't be any sudden stops. I mean, it's
going to be terrific.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
But there was a television show that took place in
the future and someone was pulled over for driving and
they're like, why were you driving by hand?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And they said, what cool is that? I love it.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
It was a class of ninety six or something like that,
or it was about the CIA or the FBI or something,
but yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
They're like, why were you driving? Manually all, let's.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Do one more story before we bail outa here, Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The president's number one fan, has a gold card. Nicki Minaj,
who has been very outspoken about her support for President Trump,
recently revealed that back in twenty eighteen that she was
brought to the US as an illegal immigrant from Trinidad
and Tobago when she was five. Well, yesterday, she actually
on Wednesday, she flashed a Trump gold card after launching
(29:16):
the president's IRA style savings account, the Trump Accounts.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
But which you pay a million dollars and you are
fast tracked for American citizenship.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
She says her citizenship paperwork is being finalized.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, did you Yesterday the story broke about the visa card,
that Visa and Trump are now coordinating with each other,
and in order to apply for the visa card, it
is a fifteen thousand dollars non refundable deposit made to
the US government and then you get this visa card.
(29:52):
I mean it's with of course Trump's picture on it, naturally,
and it's just completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Do you know anybody one of these really pretentious, made
out of metal credit cards.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
One of my friends has one, thank you.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
One of my best friends has one.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Actually, two of my friends have one. You obviously have
more money.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
One of mine.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, from what I From what I understand, they are
made out of titanium and they're pretty solid, to say
the least. Let's take a break. Okay, why don't we
get the hell out of here. This is kf I
AM six forty more stimulating talk radio.
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