February 5, 2026 • 30 mins
(February 05, 2026)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Supreme Court allows new California congressional districts that favor democrats. ‘TODAY’ co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and family make tearful plea for mother’s return. Washington Post begins laying off more than 300 journalists.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, and good.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Morning, everybody serves a morning February the fifth hot day.
Yesterday it seemed like summer. Yesterday was in the eighties
and it was really pleasant. I was sitting in the
backyard watching television with the dogs an don't want to
confuse them, and just had just a rip boaring beautiful day. Well,
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of course, the rest of the country is under the
snow of the sew into storms and the sleet and
the black ice. I mean, all of that horrible. All right,
let me say hello to everybody. Not Neil. He is
still out feeling not so good, and so we'll I'm
(01:28):
hopefing that he comes tomorrow. Now, let's oh Amy, good morning, Amy,
Hi Bill. Hi blue skies, and that's your your top,
very blue. It's so yeah, it's a blue Yeah, okay,
then cono, good morning, good morning. Do you know what
today is? Yes? It is Thursday February fifth.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Also National Shower with a Friend Day.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I want to do that, I would, but that means
I'm shout howering by myself. There's a National Enjoy your
Sex Life Day where also I'm by myself, so I
am alone very much of the time. Good morning, and
(02:16):
there you are here, I am good here you are,
and uh there is Will. Good morning, Will, Good morning Bill.
Did you go to an Italian restaurant last night and
take the tablecloth? He stole the tablecloth and make a
shirt out of it? Did Yes? You could see that. Yes.
It's also National Chocolate Fawn do day? Chocolate fund.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Do you ever go to an event that has that
chocolate fountain?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, where there's the marshmallows and the fruit and you
dip the chocolate and oh I had a couple of those.
I think I did that for the girls, bought mitzvah
and it was yeah, okay, And then I didn't do
that for Barbara's wedding. No. I did Barbara's wedding at
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the Anaheim White House, and I unfortunately. Let Barbara choose
the menu. Oh, steak and steak and lobster. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It was delicious.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was very good. It was very very good. Now
her divorce is going to be different. We're not going
to have quite the same food at her divorce.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Are you going to have a party?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I don't think so. There may be, but I'm not going.
I'm done. I paid for the wedding, you know. Thank you.
Enjoy yourself. Okay, what else is going on? Let me see,
we got a lot of news going on. Try to
stay away from Trump news. There's only a little bit.
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There's only a little bit of Trump news, you know.
Lindsey said yesterday, do you understand that no one's listening
to the show anymore because they can't take it anymore?
And that's not true because our ratings are fine. I mean,
there's no question about it. Do you know that we
get more streaming listeners than any other radio station in
the iHeart system eight hundred radio stations, and we are
(04:13):
number one in streaming. Now are we seeing any money
from that? No? No, why would we see money from that?
So we're doing so good? Why would we change up
our rundown? Oh? Because you know, it's too much Trump.
It is too much. What do we have? We have
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bass today, we have LAPD space race, Mexicans, Larbard sort
of trump ish on the nuclear arms treaty, and then
a World Cup boycott. That's it. I don't think there.
I don't think there's one Trump. Uh yeah. But here's
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the problem is that if there is ever any any
story that I can connect to Trump in any way whatsoever,
I do it disparaging the president? Of course we can't
on me. Yeah, although although I do give him credit
where credit is due, I am not completely one sided
on this. And people have told me that I do
(05:18):
give credit to the president occasionally rarely, Yeah, almost never. Yes,
that's correct, Oh, Amy, who corrects me all the time
and brings me back to reality. Amy, do you see
me as being somewhat fair with the president? Okay? That
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means thank you for answering that one. All right, fair enough,
all right, guys, it is time for handle on the
News with Amy. Neil is not here today and I
am and let's do it. Time for handle on the News,
Amy and no Neil and me lea storry call. No
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surprise at all. The Supreme Court has allowed California to
institute the new voter approved congressional map favorable to the Democrats.
And this it was pursued to a special election in
which overwhelmingly the voters in California said, we're going to
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undo the congressional scheme that we passed before, making it
really even simply in a tit for tat with it's Texas,
I'm sorry, which, well, here's a Trump story in which
Trump specifically asked Texas to redistrict. It was on Trump's order,
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and Texas did exactly that. It redistrict that drew the
map of the districts in such a way that Republicans
would be favored. Okay, A bunch of people sued Texas,
and Texas was able to prove, certainly to the Supreme
Court Satisfaction that changing that map was only political, was
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not racial, was not in any way connected to race.
So now California does the same thing in response to
what Texas does, and Texas and the Republicans and the
Trump administration now sue California saying that the new congressional
map is illegal and should be gotten away with because
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it is racial, it favors Latinos, and the court said no,
it doesn't. It is strictly political and effectively, you know,
if Texas is going to do it, you can't come
back and say California can't do it. So it's a
question of equity. I think. Although the court didn't say that,
the Court did say that it is not racial but
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strictly political. And the way the court said it, it
was not even a dis It was appealed. The lower
court said no, you can't do that, or California can
do that. In the Supreme Court refused to hear it,
just says we're done. So it is now the law
and the congressional districts are in play, which means the
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Texas delegation or the Texas congressional aspect of the party
they're representatives in the House will have more Republicans and
there'll be more Democrats in the state of California. And
what does that mean? That means in Congress it'll still
be that razor thin majority for the Democrats. Did that
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make sense, by the way, yes? Okay, good, because I
was really in the middle of it. I was concerning Bill,
are you making any sense? And I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Okay, moving on, really a heart wrenching plea. If you
haven't seen this video, Savannah Guthrie and her brother and
sister put out a video last night, and I've seen
it probably ten times now, but it's just heartbreaking to
watch as they ask for their mother to be returned.
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They put the video out last night. They said that
they are ready to talk to whomever may have taken them,
and they said that they were aware of reports about
a ransom letter and said we're doing everything we can.
But she also said, we live in a world where
fake stuff can get out easily, and we need proof
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of life, right.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And this is in reference, I think to the fact
that she is we're talking about mom. She is being held.
Although the ransom notes several television stations, local stations have
gotten those notes. Do we know if it's the same
note by the way that's gone to the station, because
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I know there's some real doubt as to whether this
is real or not.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I haven't heard that. I know that a local station,
not the NBC station because she's on the Today Show
on NBC. I believe it was to the CBS affiliate
in Arizona, and then of course TMZ got one, and
I believe there was another one, but there hasn't been
any word on whether it was the same note.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Right, and so in terms of the ransom, we don't
know if we're asking for money. All we heard is
it's a ransom note. And the Guthrie family is taking
it seriously, and the sheriff has said, we take everything seriously. Okay,
Moving on.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Post pink slips and lots of them, Washington Post has
told its employees that it's doing a widespread round of layoffs,
expected to decimate the sports, local news and international newsroom.
Three hundred of the roughly eight hundred journalists in the
news are expected to be affected. It's about thirty percent
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of its employees. And the way that they're going to
tell them apparently they're going to send out an email.
It'll be one of two subject lines, Yes you're affected
by this, or no, you're not affected by this.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Jeff Bezos, who bought it originally, was doing a good
job as far as the employees are concerned, keeping the
paper at its level of reporting, at its reputation, and
it was just losing too much money, mainly in its
Internet sales of ads, etc. So as of I think
next week, it's announced that the paper is for sale
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on Amazon and it's Amazon Prime, so delivery.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Will not cost you a kinder gentler ice. President Trump
said immigration agents could use a softer touch. As his
administration started with drawing some of the immigration enforcement agents
from Minnesota, Trump told NBC News, you still have to
be tough. He also insisted during the interview that his
(12:05):
operations were highly targeted at criminals. He said he was
not happy with the fatal shootings of Alex Pretty and
Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Now no walking back that they were terrorists, domestic terrorists
that the government has not said. Nope, they weren't. The
other thing targeted. As we're watching the video and people
are being arrested wholesale and people pulled out of cars,
these were not targeted. I mean they are protesters. And
we'll see how that pans out. Especially the investigation of
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the Good and the Pretty killings. The Justice Department of
the FBI has opened up in investigation civil rights investigation,
which it didn't do at the start of all this.
And why is he doing this well, because his immigration policy,
which was wildly popular for the most part when it started,
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has tanked. His numbers have tanked completely as the government
has gone way, way overboard, and I can't imagine I'd
love to be a fly on the wall, as his
adviser saying, mister President, this is hurting you far more
than it's helping you. I'm convinced of that. So we'll
see what a softer touch means. And yanking back seven
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hundred of the what three thousand ice and troops that
were sent to Minneapolis, Now it's about twenty two hundred,
So we'll see what happens on this one. This is
as close to President Trump walking back a statement or
a position as I have seen.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The deal is done, meaning it's ending, which I don't
know how this can be a good thing. Russia has
declared that it is no longer bound by limits on
the number of nuclear warheads that can deploy. The last
remaining arms controlled treaty with the United States is expiring.
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The UN calls it a grave moment for international peace
and security. The treaty, which was signed in twenty ten,
is expected to expire today.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, I had limits, the number of weapons, limits the
delivery systems of those weapons. We're talking about nuclear weapons,
but it hasn't been in effect for years anyway, nobody,
the United States and not Russia, has adhere to the plan,
and now it's officially over Putin, according to this story.
(14:37):
According to Al Jazeera, Putin has offered to extend it
for one year, and according to news sources, the president
where the government has yet to Our government has yet
to respond, not saying no. But this whole thing ends.
When does it end?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Today?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Today? Ooh? And so that means nuclear war is going
to know? It doesn't tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So I hope you're buying some sunglasses because you don't
look in the southern sky. It's going to be much
much brighter than you can imagine.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Are you done now?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And you're going to glow? So no, no, no night
lights for you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Here's a whole lot of sucky stuff. The Department of
Homeland Security attorney Julie Lee was called to testify in
US District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota about why the
government has been non responsive to judicial orders regarding people
in ice detention. The judge said the administration has routinely
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not been following court mandates, ignoring multiple multiple orders for
detainees to be released, and the lawyer Julie Lee responded,
what do you want me to do? This system sucks,
this job sucks, and I'm trying with every breath I
have so i can get you what you need.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yep, guess what happened to her? She was reassigned. I'm
surprised she wasn't fired outright. And this is a situation
where the Trump administration here we go talking about Trump
has ignored court orders. They just don't you know, the
court orders someone to be released in the court and
the administration just says no, yeah, no, no thanks. And
(16:22):
the court has no enforcing powers. You're aware of that.
The court has no policing powers at all. The only
power the court has is the rest of us listening
to the court and following court orders. Because do you
know who enforces the laws would be the Department of Justice,
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who would enforce the court order? And you think the
Department of Justice is going to afford enforce the court
order that the Department of Justice or whatever agency is
ignoring on a judicial order. So yeah, it's a real problem.
I mean, that's why people are really scared because go ahead, Oh,
(17:03):
I just.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Had a question about that, and I don't know the
answer because I'm reading through this material and not seeing it.
Are they just flat out ignoring the orders or are
they appealing them?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Both both they are ignoring and appealing, depending on which case.
Because you have a whole lot of people being detained
and a whole lot of lawsuits. You know, back again
to the story that I've been reporting where one of
Lindsay's best friends, her son in law, who's l Salvadorian,
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was picked up and deported and deported to L Salvador.
And he is appealing the deportation order. But he is
in l Salvador. He doesn't know if he'll ever be
able to come back, and he's got family here and
now he has to figure out living in El Salvador,
(17:54):
and it is life is just not the same. Matter
of fact, A seven fifty. I'm going to do a story,
and this is particularly about Mexicans who were deported. Man,
you should see what they're going back to in Mexico
and having to live and try to figure out a
life there because they're not coming back in the United States,
all right.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
High rise graffiti may soon be gone. The skyscraper in
downtown La known as Graffiti Towers. It's officially the Ocean
Wide Plaza has reached a bankruptcy exit agreement that will
pave the way for a potential sale Ocean Sides Lawyers
or Ocean Wide Lawyers set a prompt sale and eventual
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completion of the project is a major priority for the
city and the public at large, particularly with the upcoming
twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. The settlement apparently a critical
step towards selling the property, which would then allow for
the permanent removal of all that nasty graffiti that's been
on the building for what yeah two years now.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, it's been a financial mess. You have creditors, you
have owners, and you have mortgages on it. The city
is involved, but it looks like it's going to come
down finally because it really is an iceore and we
don't want iceres with the Olympics coming.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We have enough problems.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, we do. We do. What was it the last
time Olympics here? We took the homeless off the streets
and hid them behind buildings pretempcin villages. All right, okay, oh,
La mayor story, Yeah, I'm going to do this one.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Too, denied Mayor Bass has denied a published story in
The La Times. It claims she ordered the after action
report on the failings of La City Fire during the
Palisades Fire to be watered down. The La Times says
that Bass told then interim fire chief Ronnie Vanueva the
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original version of the report put the city at risk
of legal liabilities, and that she wanted sections of the
report either removed or softened.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
She's denied that, completely denied that. And this is a
pretty controversial story, which I'm going to do at seven o'clock. Also, politically,
she has not handled this well. There were all kinds
of warnings that we are going to be in a
actually life threatening win situation just prior to the Palisse fire,
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and she was in Ghana. She was in Ghana, contrary
to her promise when she ran that she will never
leave the city of Los Angeles. And I don't even know.
I think she tried to deny she was in Ghana,
but when she came back with a bone through her
nose and a dead chicken in her suitcase, it was
hard to deny.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It would be Assassin is permanently out of commission. The
man convicted of attempting to kill then candidate Trump while
he played golf on his golf course in Florida has
been sentenced to life in prison. Ryan Routh was found
guilty of attempting to assassnate Trump in the fall of
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twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, he was really bonehead of him to do that.
He went well, actually he could have killed the president
even though the president. Luckily for President Trump, he was
not on that hole. I think he was several teas behind.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He was on his way to that hole, and I
think a Secret Service agent spotted saw. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, I thought he was several holes behind. But I
mean not that it matters. And it was an attempt
to assassinate a presidential candidate, which in and of itself
is a crime that could bring you life in prison.
And then you have weapons violations. So he is going
to spend the rest of his life. Let me tell
you how serious this is. His attorney suggests that only
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a twenty seven year sentence. Don't give him life, just
give him twenty seven years. Okay, Yeah, it's not much
of a defense he had.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This is very sad of Metrolink versus Mom. A pregnant
woman has been killed in a collision involving a Metrolink
train and a car in Glendale. It happened on Brazil Street,
just west of the intersection of San Fernando and Broadway.
Apparently the driver was trying to make a right turn
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onto Broadway, which turns into Brazil Street at that point,
and as the vehicle entered the crossing, it was hit
by a Metrolink train obviously traveling on the tracks.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah. I have a question because the story doesn't say
was the barrier down. I can't imagine there was a
street in which crosses the railway where you can just
cross without the barrier coming down, and it was there
none on the street that crosses the tracks. And I
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don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I would be guessing that they would be investigating that, Yeah,
because if there would if she was making a right turn,
and I mean, the train would be right there, and
it would be interesting if she didn't see it one
why and also the crossing guard.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean that's the one I'm looking at her
or questioning, because if she has the radio on loud
and the windows up, then I can see that there
would not hear the whistle, would not hear the train.
But you know, you have to have an arm coming
down who doesn't know that there is an arm coming
down and the big red lights flashing.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
All right, Well, Google is apparently holding its own. Google's
latest quarterly report provided more evidence that its Internet empire
is withstanding an artificial intelligence shakeup. Google's third consecutive quarter
of digital ad growth was up more than ten percent
from the year previous, while also posting more than thirty
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percent sales growth in its division that powers data set
for AI services.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
By this company, the market value is four trillion dollars.
I mean, that's beyond comprehension as the value of this company.
And so we think Sergey Brinn and his partner have
enough money. Anyway, it's doing well, it's guessing, and it's
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pretty far ahead in the world of AI.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
An anti DEI investigation, a federal agency that fight's workplace bias,
is investigating Nike, based in Beaverton, Oregon, over its treatment
of white employees. Of course, the Trump administration is pledged
to crack down on diversity, equity and inclusion policies and
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make shielding white men from discrimination of priority. The agency
said Nike may have engaged in a pattern or practice
of disparate treatment against white employees. Applicat and training program
participants in hiring, promotion, demotion or separation decisions.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
The starting in the seventies, and when I was in
law school, we really studied this case and I shared
this with you before. And it was a case was
Baki versus the regions of the state of California of
the UC system, and there was a quota system, it
was DEI where in this case African Americans were given
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preference because they had been treated so unfairly prior to that,
and David Baki, who was white, was not allowed in
medical school, and there was an African American candidate who
had less qualifications pursuant to the UC requirements and was
given what would have been David Baki c He sued
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for versus discrimination. He sued, I am a white guy
and you are discriminated against me. And so here's the
question I have, and that is, if it is true
that minority have been treated horribly both in business also
in education, and no one's arguing that, how do you
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get to the other side. Do you make it up
by having these DEI programs? Do you simply say that
all DEI has to disappear and everybody must be treated
equally and ignore the way minorities were treated. I mean
that is the question is a moral question. And up
to this point, the universities have used heavy duty DEI
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tactics to level the playing field big picture, and the
Trump administration is going the other way, saying we don't
want to hear it. So it's fascinating stuff and we'll
see what happens. And by the way, the Trump administration
may win on this because the courts are going to
say it has to be even Stephen, which means only
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people that are going to be allowed to school or
named Stephen. It has to be equal all the way
across the board. So I can't wait for the court
to determine this one after the investigation, which will find
reverse discrimination, I guarantee you, because this is the Trump
administration looking for that. And so we'll see what happens
with the Court's fascinating stuff. Okay, moving on, it's being.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Called the next generation and we're not talking Star trek.
Seven months after being named interim president of USC, bongsu
Kim has been named the permanent president of USC, following
what is being described as a nationwide search. During the
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time as interim, he had to deal with a two
hundred million dollar budget deficit deficit overseeing cuts more than
a thousand layoffs. And of course there was the pressure
on higher education coming from several fronts, including the Trump
administration and the growth of AI. And during all of
that time, USC trustees said, you know, Kim really became
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their top pip for the job, showed.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
How to handle it. How often do you hear of
an interim president of a university becoming the permanent I've
never heard of it. That's very unusual. But I guess
he proved himself now serving kim chi at school cafeteria. Okay,
I'm sorry, okay, okay, thank you, all right?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Worth their weight in gold. Athletes at the Winter Olympics
in Italy this month, of course, opening ceremonies tomorrow night
will be awarded the most expensive medals in the history
of the game games. And why is that? Because precious
metal prices are soaring, you know, like gold right now
is the It's down this morning, but still trading at
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almost forty nine hundred dollars an ounce.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, that's astronomical the price, I mean, that's they and
they use real gold.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, and silver and bronze up to seven hundred medals
are being presented during the games, everything from skiing and
ice hockey, to hockey, to figure skating and curling.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Okay, one last story, that Amy, this one, this one
is for you. You have to share this with us.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Okay. You've heard of people who get married in front
of the castle at Disneyland, oh Sleeping Beauties Castle. Well,
if you want to be a little more ghoulish, you
can now get married at the Haunted Mansion. There's no
turning back now. Yeah, So if you're a big Haunted
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Mansion fan, which actually Haunted Mansion has really become like
not cultish, but it's really become more popular. There's more
Haunted Mansion themed clothing and that kind of stuff around
the park now. So now twenty five to forty thousand dollars,
and you can use the mansion's courtyard to get hitched.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Not even in the mansion, the courtyard. Now. I've heard
they're also pushing kinsianieras in front of the Truro stand
and I don't know if that's true or not. Okay,
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Amy said, well, maybe the sheriff can't because of hippo
laws which keep medical information private. And I said, I
don't think hippa applies to authorities releasing information. And looked
it up and Amy, you are wrong, wrong, wrong, r
O N g U E wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, and good.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Morning, everybody serves a morning February the fifth hot day.
Yesterday it seemed like summer. Yesterday was in the eighties
and it was really pleasant. I was sitting in the
backyard watching television with the dogs an don't want to
confuse them, and just had just a rip boaring beautiful day. Well,
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of course, the rest of the country is under the
snow of the sew into storms and the sleet and
the black ice. I mean, all of that horrible. All right,
let me say hello to everybody. Not Neil. He is
still out feeling not so good, and so we'll I'm
(01:28):
hopefing that he comes tomorrow. Now, let's oh Amy, good morning, Amy,
Hi Bill. Hi blue skies, and that's your your top,
very blue. It's so yeah, it's a blue Yeah, okay,
then cono, good morning, good morning. Do you know what
today is? Yes? It is Thursday February fifth.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Also National Shower with a Friend Day.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I want to do that, I would, but that means
I'm shout howering by myself. There's a National Enjoy your
Sex Life Day where also I'm by myself, so I
am alone very much of the time. Good morning, and
(02:16):
there you are here, I am good here you are,
and uh there is Will. Good morning, Will, Good morning Bill.
Did you go to an Italian restaurant last night and
take the tablecloth? He stole the tablecloth and make a
shirt out of it? Did Yes? You could see that. Yes.
It's also National Chocolate Fawn do day? Chocolate fund.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Do you ever go to an event that has that
chocolate fountain?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, where there's the marshmallows and the fruit and you
dip the chocolate and oh I had a couple of those.
I think I did that for the girls, bought mitzvah
and it was yeah, okay, And then I didn't do
that for Barbara's wedding. No. I did Barbara's wedding at
(03:04):
the Anaheim White House, and I unfortunately. Let Barbara choose
the menu. Oh, steak and steak and lobster. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It was delicious.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was very good. It was very very good. Now
her divorce is going to be different. We're not going
to have quite the same food at her divorce.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Are you going to have a party?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I don't think so. There may be, but I'm not going.
I'm done. I paid for the wedding, you know. Thank you.
Enjoy yourself. Okay, what else is going on? Let me see,
we got a lot of news going on. Try to
stay away from Trump news. There's only a little bit.
(03:48):
There's only a little bit of Trump news, you know.
Lindsey said yesterday, do you understand that no one's listening
to the show anymore because they can't take it anymore?
And that's not true because our ratings are fine. I mean,
there's no question about it. Do you know that we
get more streaming listeners than any other radio station in
the iHeart system eight hundred radio stations, and we are
(04:13):
number one in streaming. Now are we seeing any money
from that? No? No, why would we see money from that?
So we're doing so good? Why would we change up
our rundown? Oh? Because you know, it's too much Trump.
It is too much. What do we have? We have
(04:33):
bass today, we have LAPD space race, Mexicans, Larbard sort
of trump ish on the nuclear arms treaty, and then
a World Cup boycott. That's it. I don't think there.
I don't think there's one Trump. Uh yeah. But here's
(04:54):
the problem is that if there is ever any any
story that I can connect to Trump in any way whatsoever,
I do it disparaging the president? Of course we can't
on me. Yeah, although although I do give him credit
where credit is due, I am not completely one sided
on this. And people have told me that I do
(05:18):
give credit to the president occasionally rarely, Yeah, almost never. Yes,
that's correct, Oh, Amy, who corrects me all the time
and brings me back to reality. Amy, do you see
me as being somewhat fair with the president? Okay? That
(05:41):
means thank you for answering that one. All right, fair enough,
all right, guys, it is time for handle on the
News with Amy. Neil is not here today and I
am and let's do it. Time for handle on the News,
Amy and no Neil and me lea storry call. No
(06:04):
surprise at all. The Supreme Court has allowed California to
institute the new voter approved congressional map favorable to the Democrats.
And this it was pursued to a special election in
which overwhelmingly the voters in California said, we're going to
(06:28):
undo the congressional scheme that we passed before, making it
really even simply in a tit for tat with it's Texas,
I'm sorry, which, well, here's a Trump story in which
Trump specifically asked Texas to redistrict. It was on Trump's order,
(06:50):
and Texas did exactly that. It redistrict that drew the
map of the districts in such a way that Republicans
would be favored. Okay, A bunch of people sued Texas,
and Texas was able to prove, certainly to the Supreme
Court Satisfaction that changing that map was only political, was
(07:13):
not racial, was not in any way connected to race.
So now California does the same thing in response to
what Texas does, and Texas and the Republicans and the
Trump administration now sue California saying that the new congressional
map is illegal and should be gotten away with because
(07:35):
it is racial, it favors Latinos, and the court said no,
it doesn't. It is strictly political and effectively, you know,
if Texas is going to do it, you can't come
back and say California can't do it. So it's a
question of equity. I think. Although the court didn't say that,
the Court did say that it is not racial but
(07:55):
strictly political. And the way the court said it, it
was not even a dis It was appealed. The lower
court said no, you can't do that, or California can
do that. In the Supreme Court refused to hear it,
just says we're done. So it is now the law
and the congressional districts are in play, which means the
(08:19):
Texas delegation or the Texas congressional aspect of the party
they're representatives in the House will have more Republicans and
there'll be more Democrats in the state of California. And
what does that mean? That means in Congress it'll still
be that razor thin majority for the Democrats. Did that
(08:43):
make sense, by the way, yes? Okay, good, because I
was really in the middle of it. I was concerning Bill,
are you making any sense? And I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Okay, moving on, really a heart wrenching plea. If you
haven't seen this video, Savannah Guthrie and her brother and
sister put out a video last night, and I've seen
it probably ten times now, but it's just heartbreaking to
watch as they ask for their mother to be returned.
(09:15):
They put the video out last night. They said that
they are ready to talk to whomever may have taken them,
and they said that they were aware of reports about
a ransom letter and said we're doing everything we can.
But she also said, we live in a world where
fake stuff can get out easily, and we need proof
(09:36):
of life, right.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And this is in reference, I think to the fact
that she is we're talking about mom. She is being held.
Although the ransom notes several television stations, local stations have
gotten those notes. Do we know if it's the same
note by the way that's gone to the station, because
(09:59):
I know there's some real doubt as to whether this
is real or not.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I haven't heard that. I know that a local station,
not the NBC station because she's on the Today Show
on NBC. I believe it was to the CBS affiliate
in Arizona, and then of course TMZ got one, and
I believe there was another one, but there hasn't been
any word on whether it was the same note.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Right, and so in terms of the ransom, we don't
know if we're asking for money. All we heard is
it's a ransom note. And the Guthrie family is taking
it seriously, and the sheriff has said, we take everything seriously. Okay,
Moving on.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Post pink slips and lots of them, Washington Post has
told its employees that it's doing a widespread round of layoffs,
expected to decimate the sports, local news and international newsroom.
Three hundred of the roughly eight hundred journalists in the
news are expected to be affected. It's about thirty percent
(11:02):
of its employees. And the way that they're going to
tell them apparently they're going to send out an email.
It'll be one of two subject lines, Yes you're affected
by this, or no, you're not affected by this.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Jeff Bezos, who bought it originally, was doing a good
job as far as the employees are concerned, keeping the
paper at its level of reporting, at its reputation, and
it was just losing too much money, mainly in its
Internet sales of ads, etc. So as of I think
next week, it's announced that the paper is for sale
(11:36):
on Amazon and it's Amazon Prime, so delivery.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Will not cost you a kinder gentler ice. President Trump
said immigration agents could use a softer touch. As his
administration started with drawing some of the immigration enforcement agents
from Minnesota, Trump told NBC News, you still have to
be tough. He also insisted during the interview that his
(12:05):
operations were highly targeted at criminals. He said he was
not happy with the fatal shootings of Alex Pretty and
Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Now no walking back that they were terrorists, domestic terrorists
that the government has not said. Nope, they weren't. The
other thing targeted. As we're watching the video and people
are being arrested wholesale and people pulled out of cars,
these were not targeted. I mean they are protesters. And
we'll see how that pans out. Especially the investigation of
(12:40):
the Good and the Pretty killings. The Justice Department of
the FBI has opened up in investigation civil rights investigation,
which it didn't do at the start of all this.
And why is he doing this well, because his immigration policy,
which was wildly popular for the most part when it started,
(13:04):
has tanked. His numbers have tanked completely as the government
has gone way, way overboard, and I can't imagine I'd
love to be a fly on the wall, as his
adviser saying, mister President, this is hurting you far more
than it's helping you. I'm convinced of that. So we'll
see what a softer touch means. And yanking back seven
(13:26):
hundred of the what three thousand ice and troops that
were sent to Minneapolis, Now it's about twenty two hundred,
So we'll see what happens on this one. This is
as close to President Trump walking back a statement or
a position as I have seen.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The deal is done, meaning it's ending, which I don't
know how this can be a good thing. Russia has
declared that it is no longer bound by limits on
the number of nuclear warheads that can deploy. The last
remaining arms controlled treaty with the United States is expiring.
(14:06):
The UN calls it a grave moment for international peace
and security. The treaty, which was signed in twenty ten,
is expected to expire today.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, I had limits, the number of weapons, limits the
delivery systems of those weapons. We're talking about nuclear weapons,
but it hasn't been in effect for years anyway, nobody,
the United States and not Russia, has adhere to the plan,
and now it's officially over Putin, according to this story.
(14:37):
According to Al Jazeera, Putin has offered to extend it
for one year, and according to news sources, the president
where the government has yet to Our government has yet
to respond, not saying no. But this whole thing ends.
When does it end?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Today?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Today? Ooh? And so that means nuclear war is going
to know? It doesn't tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So I hope you're buying some sunglasses because you don't
look in the southern sky. It's going to be much
much brighter than you can imagine.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Are you done now?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And you're going to glow? So no, no, no night
lights for you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Here's a whole lot of sucky stuff. The Department of
Homeland Security attorney Julie Lee was called to testify in
US District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota about why the
government has been non responsive to judicial orders regarding people
in ice detention. The judge said the administration has routinely
(15:41):
not been following court mandates, ignoring multiple multiple orders for
detainees to be released, and the lawyer Julie Lee responded,
what do you want me to do? This system sucks,
this job sucks, and I'm trying with every breath I
have so i can get you what you need.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yep, guess what happened to her? She was reassigned. I'm
surprised she wasn't fired outright. And this is a situation
where the Trump administration here we go talking about Trump
has ignored court orders. They just don't you know, the
court orders someone to be released in the court and
the administration just says no, yeah, no, no thanks. And
(16:22):
the court has no enforcing powers. You're aware of that.
The court has no policing powers at all. The only
power the court has is the rest of us listening
to the court and following court orders. Because do you
know who enforces the laws would be the Department of Justice,
(16:43):
who would enforce the court order? And you think the
Department of Justice is going to afford enforce the court
order that the Department of Justice or whatever agency is
ignoring on a judicial order. So yeah, it's a real problem.
I mean, that's why people are really scared because go ahead, Oh,
(17:03):
I just.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Had a question about that, and I don't know the
answer because I'm reading through this material and not seeing it.
Are they just flat out ignoring the orders or are
they appealing them?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Both both they are ignoring and appealing, depending on which case.
Because you have a whole lot of people being detained
and a whole lot of lawsuits. You know, back again
to the story that I've been reporting where one of
Lindsay's best friends, her son in law, who's l Salvadorian,
(17:34):
was picked up and deported and deported to L Salvador.
And he is appealing the deportation order. But he is
in l Salvador. He doesn't know if he'll ever be
able to come back, and he's got family here and
now he has to figure out living in El Salvador,
(17:54):
and it is life is just not the same. Matter
of fact, A seven fifty. I'm going to do a story,
and this is particularly about Mexicans who were deported. Man,
you should see what they're going back to in Mexico
and having to live and try to figure out a
life there because they're not coming back in the United States,
all right.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
High rise graffiti may soon be gone. The skyscraper in
downtown La known as Graffiti Towers. It's officially the Ocean
Wide Plaza has reached a bankruptcy exit agreement that will
pave the way for a potential sale Ocean Sides Lawyers
or Ocean Wide Lawyers set a prompt sale and eventual
(18:34):
completion of the project is a major priority for the
city and the public at large, particularly with the upcoming
twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. The settlement apparently a critical
step towards selling the property, which would then allow for
the permanent removal of all that nasty graffiti that's been
on the building for what yeah two years now.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, it's been a financial mess. You have creditors, you
have owners, and you have mortgages on it. The city
is involved, but it looks like it's going to come
down finally because it really is an iceore and we
don't want iceres with the Olympics coming.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We have enough problems.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, we do. We do. What was it the last
time Olympics here? We took the homeless off the streets
and hid them behind buildings pretempcin villages. All right, okay, oh,
La mayor story, Yeah, I'm going to do this one.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Too, denied Mayor Bass has denied a published story in
The La Times. It claims she ordered the after action
report on the failings of La City Fire during the
Palisades Fire to be watered down. The La Times says
that Bass told then interim fire chief Ronnie Vanueva the
(19:47):
original version of the report put the city at risk
of legal liabilities, and that she wanted sections of the
report either removed or softened.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
She's denied that, completely denied that. And this is a
pretty controversial story, which I'm going to do at seven o'clock. Also, politically,
she has not handled this well. There were all kinds
of warnings that we are going to be in a
actually life threatening win situation just prior to the Palisse fire,
(20:19):
and she was in Ghana. She was in Ghana, contrary
to her promise when she ran that she will never
leave the city of Los Angeles. And I don't even know.
I think she tried to deny she was in Ghana,
but when she came back with a bone through her
nose and a dead chicken in her suitcase, it was
hard to deny.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It would be Assassin is permanently out of commission. The
man convicted of attempting to kill then candidate Trump while
he played golf on his golf course in Florida has
been sentenced to life in prison. Ryan Routh was found
guilty of attempting to assassnate Trump in the fall of
(21:02):
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, he was really bonehead of him to do that.
He went well, actually he could have killed the president
even though the president. Luckily for President Trump, he was
not on that hole. I think he was several teas behind.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He was on his way to that hole, and I
think a Secret Service agent spotted saw. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, I thought he was several holes behind. But I
mean not that it matters. And it was an attempt
to assassinate a presidential candidate, which in and of itself
is a crime that could bring you life in prison.
And then you have weapons violations. So he is going
to spend the rest of his life. Let me tell
you how serious this is. His attorney suggests that only
(21:46):
a twenty seven year sentence. Don't give him life, just
give him twenty seven years. Okay, Yeah, it's not much
of a defense he had.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This is very sad of Metrolink versus Mom. A pregnant
woman has been killed in a collision involving a Metrolink
train and a car in Glendale. It happened on Brazil Street,
just west of the intersection of San Fernando and Broadway.
Apparently the driver was trying to make a right turn
(22:19):
onto Broadway, which turns into Brazil Street at that point,
and as the vehicle entered the crossing, it was hit
by a Metrolink train obviously traveling on the tracks.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah. I have a question because the story doesn't say
was the barrier down. I can't imagine there was a
street in which crosses the railway where you can just
cross without the barrier coming down, and it was there
none on the street that crosses the tracks. And I
(22:53):
don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I would be guessing that they would be investigating that, Yeah,
because if there would if she was making a right turn,
and I mean, the train would be right there, and
it would be interesting if she didn't see it one
why and also the crossing guard.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean that's the one I'm looking at her
or questioning, because if she has the radio on loud
and the windows up, then I can see that there
would not hear the whistle, would not hear the train.
But you know, you have to have an arm coming
down who doesn't know that there is an arm coming
down and the big red lights flashing.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
All right, Well, Google is apparently holding its own. Google's
latest quarterly report provided more evidence that its Internet empire
is withstanding an artificial intelligence shakeup. Google's third consecutive quarter
of digital ad growth was up more than ten percent
from the year previous, while also posting more than thirty
(23:56):
percent sales growth in its division that powers data set
for AI services.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
By this company, the market value is four trillion dollars.
I mean, that's beyond comprehension as the value of this company.
And so we think Sergey Brinn and his partner have
enough money. Anyway, it's doing well, it's guessing, and it's
(24:22):
pretty far ahead in the world of AI.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
An anti DEI investigation, a federal agency that fight's workplace bias,
is investigating Nike, based in Beaverton, Oregon, over its treatment
of white employees. Of course, the Trump administration is pledged
to crack down on diversity, equity and inclusion policies and
(24:48):
make shielding white men from discrimination of priority. The agency
said Nike may have engaged in a pattern or practice
of disparate treatment against white employees. Applicat and training program
participants in hiring, promotion, demotion or separation decisions.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
The starting in the seventies, and when I was in
law school, we really studied this case and I shared
this with you before. And it was a case was
Baki versus the regions of the state of California of
the UC system, and there was a quota system, it
was DEI where in this case African Americans were given
(25:26):
preference because they had been treated so unfairly prior to that,
and David Baki, who was white, was not allowed in
medical school, and there was an African American candidate who
had less qualifications pursuant to the UC requirements and was
given what would have been David Baki c He sued
(25:48):
for versus discrimination. He sued, I am a white guy
and you are discriminated against me. And so here's the
question I have, and that is, if it is true
that minority have been treated horribly both in business also
in education, and no one's arguing that, how do you
(26:08):
get to the other side. Do you make it up
by having these DEI programs? Do you simply say that
all DEI has to disappear and everybody must be treated
equally and ignore the way minorities were treated. I mean
that is the question is a moral question. And up
to this point, the universities have used heavy duty DEI
(26:32):
tactics to level the playing field big picture, and the
Trump administration is going the other way, saying we don't
want to hear it. So it's fascinating stuff and we'll
see what happens. And by the way, the Trump administration
may win on this because the courts are going to
say it has to be even Stephen, which means only
(26:55):
people that are going to be allowed to school or
named Stephen. It has to be equal all the way
across the board. So I can't wait for the court
to determine this one after the investigation, which will find
reverse discrimination, I guarantee you, because this is the Trump
administration looking for that. And so we'll see what happens
with the Court's fascinating stuff. Okay, moving on, it's being.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Called the next generation and we're not talking Star trek.
Seven months after being named interim president of USC, bongsu
Kim has been named the permanent president of USC, following
what is being described as a nationwide search. During the
(27:40):
time as interim, he had to deal with a two
hundred million dollar budget deficit deficit overseeing cuts more than
a thousand layoffs. And of course there was the pressure
on higher education coming from several fronts, including the Trump
administration and the growth of AI. And during all of
that time, USC trustees said, you know, Kim really became
(28:01):
their top pip for the job, showed.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
How to handle it. How often do you hear of
an interim president of a university becoming the permanent I've
never heard of it. That's very unusual. But I guess
he proved himself now serving kim chi at school cafeteria. Okay,
I'm sorry, okay, okay, thank you, all right?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Worth their weight in gold. Athletes at the Winter Olympics
in Italy this month, of course, opening ceremonies tomorrow night
will be awarded the most expensive medals in the history
of the game games. And why is that? Because precious
metal prices are soaring, you know, like gold right now
is the It's down this morning, but still trading at
(28:49):
almost forty nine hundred dollars an ounce.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, that's astronomical the price, I mean, that's they and
they use real gold.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, and silver and bronze up to seven hundred medals
are being presented during the games, everything from skiing and
ice hockey, to hockey, to figure skating and curling.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Okay, one last story, that Amy, this one, this one
is for you. You have to share this with us.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Okay. You've heard of people who get married in front
of the castle at Disneyland, oh Sleeping Beauties Castle. Well,
if you want to be a little more ghoulish, you
can now get married at the Haunted Mansion. There's no
turning back now. Yeah, So if you're a big Haunted
(29:36):
Mansion fan, which actually Haunted Mansion has really become like
not cultish, but it's really become more popular. There's more
Haunted Mansion themed clothing and that kind of stuff around
the park now. So now twenty five to forty thousand dollars,
and you can use the mansion's courtyard to get hitched.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Not even in the mansion, the courtyard. Now. I've heard
they're also pushing kinsianieras in front of the Truro stand
and I don't know if that's true or not. Okay,
all right, we're done. KFI AM six forty. You've been
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