August 14, 2026 • 31 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. White House accuses over 40 countries of helping China avoid US tariffs. New aircraft carrier heads toward Mideast after reports of issues on long-deployed USS Lincoln. LAX people mover is 99% done, but uncertainty mounts near deadline. Amid fire danger, Malibu declares emergency to clear homeless encampments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Apps five to six wake up call Neil and I
jump aboard at six right till about now, and then
you have KNO and Ann and a quick word about
the ratings just came out and we have exploded in ratings.
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And that's in spite of the rest of the morning crew.
It's all about me. It's that simple. Okay, We're done,
and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle. All right, it's a fruity Friday, follow Friday
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this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
What's going on with my throat?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's fruity Friday time and I'm fine. August fourteenth and
we start to the end of the week, foody Friday.
We're not gonna do ass candle anything Friday. We're gonna
try something new at a thirty and it's going to
be a handle on history. Just some really interesting, weird
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historical facts and background information and some things that were
some historical facts that of course you know about, but
how they connect with each other. So I'll deal with
that at a thirty. Hold on, man, I'm going to
try to cough through this. Wow, Okay, much better, fright.
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Good morning to one and all.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Neil, good morning, stay there, Friday, you bet let me
put the We're gonna put the air condition.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Now, please make yourself comfort called the work.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Now I'm going to there we go. God, now I've
got but damn, hold on.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
There.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It is all right.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I have an air sure in the studio here, so
it wasn't on and it was wrong temperature. I'm always prepared.
I was the boy scout. Be prepared.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Nothing scarier than seeing you with an electronics of any kind,
especially a remote control.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, it's absolutely true. I mean boy scouts to tell
you how you be prepared. You make sure your pants
are on really tight. You really want to be prepared. Okay, Neil,
good morning, there you are, and Amy, good.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
There you are, Will, Good morning Bill. We have to
start making fun of you somehow this morning. Ann you're
there here, I am.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We started, and then Kona was back today, Coono was yesterday.
I understand your child was starting kindergarten yesterday.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, started kindergarten. That's correct.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And is that the boy or the girl?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
The girl?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
The girl?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And was she apprehensive a little scared walking into kindergarten class.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, no, okay, she's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay, good, yeah, excellent thing with the grain of salt.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
A quick story I want to share with you that
we're not going to be talking about much in the news,
and because it's the New York story, but it leads
right into a funny, reasonably funny story of what happened
on this show. And that is Zohoran Mondami, who is
the mayor of New York, who is a Muslim and
not particularly well liked among the Jewish crowd, and he
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is not particularly in favor of Israel, and he's very
pro Palestinian. Anyway, a group of rabbis went to see him.
That's not a joke, by the way, a group of
rabbi is walking into the mayor's office. Anyway, A group
of rabbis go to see him at his invitation and
to sit and talk about the relations between the Jewish
community and what's happening with the mayor's office, etc. He
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wants to I guess, plaster over differences. Okay, So they're
telling him, you know, we know you have a right
to say what you're saying, but please downplay the tie
Jewish anti Israel sentiment, and so they talked about it
reminds me of a story that I did, and Neil
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will no doubt remember this.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I would whenever there was a fire.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
In New York among the schmat the business that is
the clothing business. It is schmat rake rags. But that's
what the clothing business is known as. And what ended
up happening is there's sort of a history of all
of a sudden, if a business is going way south,
and that business goes up and down, you make a
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lot of money on clothes, or you lose a lot
of money guessing what the next year's fashions are going
to be, because that's just a wild ass guests, all right.
So the companies that lose business or are losing their
shirts somehow they catch on fire those warehouses, and that
is known as Jewish lightning, and that is it's just
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sort of a phrase that's used.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
That's offensive.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Of course it is, And so I kept referring to
it as Jewish lightning. So there were a group of
Jewish leaders part of the Anti Defamation Leagues organization that
fights anti Semitism, and they came to see me and
we had a meeting with the management, et cetera. And
they were pretty offended and said, you know, Bill, you're
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saying this. Yes I am, and you know that's not true.
We insist that you stop saying that. And I said
to them, I'll tell you what, Why don't we pull
some claims records, insurance claims on buildings in that district,
the clothing district that burned up, and at least let's
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see how many names were Cohen, Finkelberg, Steinberg. And at
that point they said, will you at least downplay it?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Please? Was you not talk so much about that?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I was in the meeting. They were lovely people and
incredible reasonable.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They wanted me to tell with they wanted to they
did they not want me to downplay the Jewish lightning concept?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They yes, They asked you to be more respectful because
it's a stereotype that is not across the board and
it probably doesn't even exist to this date. It was
probably something that took place more.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, because the arts and investigators are much better these days. Okay,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I just remember them being very kind and one of
the best groups to deal with.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, And I smiled and uh, well, okay. Anyway, See,
we look at life very differently, Neil and I. Neil
thinks everybody is great.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Wonder if they had a sense of humor, and trust me,
some people don't and some people have gone after me
to try when I'm trying to be fair about something.
Horrible horrible groups out there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, very entertaining too. Okay, we're going to start some news.
What do you think guys? It is time for handle
on the news on this Friday morning, August fourteenth. It's
Amy and Neil and me lead storry China. Well, no surprise.
White House has accused China of literally rerouting billions of
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dollars of goods through other countries to avoid the president's
twenty eighteen tariffs.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And by the way, I believe every word of this.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think the White House is right on not surprising
because what China is doing is avoiding billions of dollars
in tariffs, and that means lost revenue to the United States.
Someone would have to help them, right, Yeah, forty other
countries that'll do it. Yeah, but it's international trying to
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undo Trump's tariffs. But this is a it's just a
it's not even a conspiracy because there's so many people
doing this, it's just simply a way of life.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't even think they're talking to each other.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, I mean, I guess to some extent, repackaging, relabeling
the goods, performing limited assembly. And I shared the story
about Israel and Saudi Arabia. Obviously their enemies have been
for a long time. Saudi Arabia Arab country, Israel, not Arab,
and Saudi Arabia received that F sixteen's from Israel, I
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mean from the United States.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Israel fought it like crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, Saudi Arabia wanted to buy some long range tanks,
gasoline tanks for their F sixteens.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The United States didn't make them.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Israel manufactured those and the only way Saudi Arabia could
get them is buy them from Israel.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So what did Israel do? Set up the front company
in Cyprus.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And funnel those tanks through Cyprus, so they're on the
boxes that were shipped the crates manufactured in Cyprus and
then went on to side Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And that's just one example that I know of.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So that happens all over the world, and particularly now,
and this ramping up because of the because of.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
The tariffs, replacement therapy USS George Washington is making its
way toward the Middle East. This after reports started popping
up that there was mental health and supply issues aboard
the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more
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than two hundred and sixty days. That's the longest aircraft
carrier deployment ever. Several Democratic lawmakers are pressing for accountability
from the Pentagon over conditions on board the carrier. Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth says those conditions were completely misrepresented.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Right, and it seems I haven't heard this very much.
I mean the suicide attempts on the Abraham Lincoln I
have increased traumatically and strangely enough, a lot of these
attempts to are these sailors trying to shoot themselves in
the head? Okay, what what come on?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And joke?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Oh ah?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Seekno, because Cono is as depraved as I am.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He and I were separated at birth. He knows exactly
where we're going, all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
The people Mover dubbed Skylink, along awaited automated people mover
or train at LAX is expected to transform traffic ahead
of twenty twenty eight. I mean, we're really scrambling for
the Olympics. We don't do it for the people of
la But if we're going to have guests, oh boy,
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everybody's ready. So visitors to the airport have been able
to watch the trains in action. They're kind of going
back and forth and testing him and all that. No
one's been on him yet, no one's been riding them.
Must yeah, tests.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Because they're trying to find a volunteer that's willing to
be crushed between the cars, like what happened in Disneyland
and they shut down the people Mover.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Damn it, no one's out there willing for us to
try this thing.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
That's not exactly what happened at Disneyland. But that's all right,
pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now there was that kid who felt they jumped out
and they shut shut it down.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That was done. People Mover was finished.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You know, if you're driving on the freeway and you
jump out of a car, same thing will happen.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, that's true, but they can't get rid of cars.
They certainly can't. Anyway, the people Mover and a lot
of a lot of air runs.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
All this.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They say, it's like ninety eight percent done Fitch ratings
and they look over the financial you know, they rate
them financially with the bonds and whatever. They have the
credit ratings for the project, which was a one point
two billion dollar senior bond, and they moved it to
their their negative watch list, which means they're looking at
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the timeline and saying, you're not hitting certain markers and
we don't believe that you're going to hit that margin,
that little limited margin, and you're in a precarious position,
so that could breach the lenders long stop. That long
stop is the dead end points they're supposed to hit.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Right and if they don't.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
If they don't, the bonds probably are called. You are
as an investor, this was not a good investment in
buying these bonds for the people Mover. What I didn't
know is that there's this is not airport bonds, general blonds.
This is for specifically the people Mover, which.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, so then you would have to bring in another
contractor and that or.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Be a mess. It'd be a mess.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
DOJ has some splaning to do. A federal judge is
pressing lawyers from the Department of Justice to explain why
some of the materials from the Epstein Files were withheld
from the public. It has to do with a lawsuit
filed by an independent journalist who sued over what she
claimed were improper redactions and withheld materials from the files
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on Jeffrey Epstein. Now in June, the judge concluded the
redactions and withheld materials violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act
and ordered the DOJ to either turn over all the
materials or explain why the materials needed to be withheld.
Apparently they haven't done either one yet.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, I think dog has argued that the notes are
quote substantially similar to the FBI reports that are already
out there, and the judge said, where does it say
and the act substantially similar?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And so at some point this is going to come
home to bite him in the as big time, because
right now the Department of Justice has been pretty adamant
about not releasing a lot of these files because I
think heads are going to roll and I think information
is going to be released that's very, very embarrassing to
some very highly placed individuals, both on the Democratic and
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on the Republican side, as well as public figures. I
mean f Stein, Well, he painted a large swath. A
lot of people that were involved with that.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Which people do those kinds of things. They flocked together
and all that. But I think bare minimum, we the
people have the right to hear if the President of
the United States what portions he's in most important.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, we're going to see if that happens.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
All right, So amid fire dangers, Malibu is doing something interesting.
So a peak fire season, which is almost comical out here,
it's always fire season, Malibu has declared this local emergency
and this gives them a particular chit to call in.
So you've got Normally, when you under California law, you
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say you want to move homeless in camp mins, it
takes forty eight to seventy two hours of advance written
notice before you can clear those in that meant but
they're calling this local emergency because of what are affectionately
referred to as hobo fires, the drug rush conditions there.
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City council has approved the declaration this week to reduce
the risk of fires associated with homeless individuals cooking outdoors
and keeping warm and all that stuff. So they're able
to get this done day up. They can't deal it
within twenty four hours. Yeah, here's a question.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Emergency order allowing notice the same day, does that mean
ten minutes after the order the notice is given? Is
there a time line here?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I think they walk in, they say you got to go.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Right, That's what I think, and they start cleaning it
up and sorry, we're going to know.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The fire danger is so great. All of Malibu is
a Class one fire danger area.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I mean, there's one part of Malibu that isn't. I
don't want.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I don't know why. It's if I started a fire
out on the sidewalk, I'd be arrested, and you should be.
And you're right, I don't know why. You know, everyone
always says, you know, home being poor is not a crime.
It's not about that. It's about defecating and urinating on
this three.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But those are individual ants. Yeah, those are individual acts.
Those aren't encampments. These are individual and they burning things
all of that. Maybe, and people should they should be arrested.
Of course, they should.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Not gonna get there. The city impost deadline for Lineage
Logistics to clean up millions of pounds of rotting, smelly,
bug and rodent infested food from the burned out warehouse
and boil Heights is today at five pm. Lineage is saying, yeah,
we're not going to hit that deadline, but they say
that they have the real deadline is a week from
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today and they'll get it done by then. They said
that based on the timeline of when they could actually
get in and start cleaning up, the forty five days
should be next Friday. But local officials are saying, nope,
we're going after Lineage. They need to be held responsible
for not finishing the cleanup.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now we're being told that if they don't make it
by today, which they're not going to, obviously, there'll be
consequences for the company.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So with that Dutch, especially if they make it by
next week, they make it by next week, I don't
see the huge, huge downside on that. Does anybody know,
by the way, what the consequences are amy are you
aware of?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
They've talked about fines and withholding permits, that kind of thing,
But they're just saying that they should be held responsible.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Okay, all right. Flock we've all heard about Flock Safety.
They're that's surveillance technology company, and more and more we're
learning their name. They're under scrutiny from both parties. By
the way, civil liberties associations citizens across the US apparently
getting all upset. They announced Thursday that they're making some
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changes to their platform. They're the ones that have those
security care cameras that can read the license plate. And
this is supposed to you know, quell all the qualms
about privacy concerns and you know, abuses, address these abuses
in the system by some members of law enforcement. But
this is a massive network of automated cameras across the country,
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you know, vehicles passing to it from every day, and
law enforcement agencies in forty nine states can search these
shared flock data cameras. Police have credited this technology and
praised it as an important crime fighting tool of innovation
to locate missing people, track suspects of polent crimes. You
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know what's weird on this though, build is why is
it that in public, a somebody with you know, an
influencer or with a website or anything like that can
film me eating or video me eating, can be in
my grill and say this is my constitutional right.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No, not in not at your grill, in your backyard.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
They can't no, no, no in my grill life face.
I'm sorry I used oh oh.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Because because you have no expectation of privacy out in
publica however, you do have an expectation of not being harassed.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And I think that's where your argument is as well.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
But they still they there's one guy that does it
just to show he's got.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
His No, I understand, but in public, in public, you're
allowed to do that. What do you think paparazzi do?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
What is?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So what why is this to fight crime? A problem?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Because it is a it's because it's collecting data. It's
an authority that does this. It's the police, not some
crazy influencer. And therein I think you caught onto the
problem and it's a big one. And that is the
more the police and agencies are able to find out
where you are, who you are, which is what technology
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is going, the more, uh, the bigger the risk is
and the more invasion of your That's where it is.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They own that license plate. I don't I own the car.
They own that license plate.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, but you own your own you own your own
fate or face. So when they take a picture of
your car and they a picture of your face, driving
the car.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
They don't own that.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
If they had people standing on the street. Yes, the
automatic camera.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You can't use.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And you're right, they're in lies the problem. For example,
Really we don't like drones flying overhead and videoing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Hey, why don't you pitch about the helicopters.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
They've been doing that for forty years, you know, flying overhead,
you know the police helicopters no.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Place to escape, the US Department of Justice exposing what
it says is an horrific environment of staff misconduct and
sexual abuse inside women's prisons in California. The DOJ announced
results of a year's long investigation into two of the
women's prisons and say that they failed to protect the
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women incarcerated from sexual use from prison staff. The investigation
followed a lawsuit brought forward by more than one hundred
and thirty formerly incarcerated women who said they were sexually
abused while they serve time at the prisons in Chino
and chow Chilla. One of the survivors said, it's not
just sexual abuse. A lot of it is verbal abuse.
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The way they put us down, the way they make
sexual gestures they mock us, and the sexual statements they.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Make any you've been reporting on the news for a
long time, a very long time, and you've been described
to me as you know, she's no fried chicken. That
would be what my mother would say.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
His mother had malaprops too, and means you're no spring chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Okay, well, yeah, a little guess. Thank you, Neil, Yeah,
Neil speaks handle. In any case, you've been reporting on this,
how long has this story about women being abused in
prisons been around.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
It's been around for years and years.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Years and years, and you think something would be done,
and it would have been at this point taken care of,
were brought to a real minimal level, and it doesn't
seem to have. Yeah, not a good place to go
if you're a woman, and that's prison Male guards, I
guess even female guards abuse these women, not necessarily sexually,
but just in general. Well, guards have unbelievable power, and
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it takes to find a guard who does not not
manipulate the system, but not deal with this this power
trip that they're on. It takes a person who you
would normally not hire, and who those kind of people
don't go into the prison guard world.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
They're also dealing with really bad people.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, that's the true too. And where's the line that
is correct? Where is the line because you're dealing with
it's a very good point. That's a difficult line to navigate,
it really is. And going right down the middle, being fair,
still being strict, still not being abusive, standing up for
prisoners when it's appropriate, as against authority. I mean, I
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wouldn't want that job.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Just to defend Amy for a second. There is someone
who just send a talkback Ignacio. What's up? Not Joe?
He says, Hey, Bill, not so much a question, But
I have an idea for the holiday the fundraiser with
the White House and all the kids, Why don't you
win a date with Amy Raffle. Imagine all the guys
and maybe some women would love to have a date
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with this beautiful Amy. I know I would. I'm in thanks, Bill.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Oh yeah, you know, well let's do that Amy, can
we raf?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's a bit that is actually a great idea. Amy.
Would you be up for.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
It if I had a chaperone?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah? You know that?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Or not?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Unless you find some cute then she's like, why did
you go find something else to do?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Chepone The last pastathon dinner or the auction, and they
auctioned off dinner with me. I was so frightened. No
one was going to bid I bid on myself. So
at least it wouldn't be at least it wouldn't be embarrassing. Okay,
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let's go ahead and finish up this segment and then
we'll go on to the next.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Okay, So Trump is giving the green light for certain companies,
although we don't know which companies, who, or what or
where to aim hacks at cyber criminals. So to go
after people, they would work alongside with the Justice Department
Homeland Security departments to strike foreign cyber criminal groups with
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hacks under certain conditions. Some of these would be those
you know scourges like ransom where and that type of thing.
But they would build this green light to allow us
to attack back.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, I mean, that's just back to be proactive, and
up to this point, all companies can do is be reactive.
Now these companies can become hackers in and of themselves.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
That makes guy, it makes sense to me.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It's kind of curious.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, if that curious, it makes a lot of sense
to me.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, what's in a name? Well to Trump, it's pretty
much everything. So now, the Kennedy Center's board of trustees
voted just yesterday to inscribe President Donald Trump's name on
the building exterior and again to close the performing arts
venue for two years of renovations. So this may this
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is really challenging two key elements of the federal court order.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So I don't know, he is so obsessed with this,
what is going on? I mean, I understand that he
is trying to change put his name on everything in Washington.
I get that, But what's with the Kennedy Center and.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Still would like to for what?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I guess?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, and he's just I don't I don't understand this,
this obsession.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Let me ask the new president.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, new president comes in, what's the first thing that
a new president would do? I would remove Trump's name
because here it is, it's the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
Fair enough, and then under that it's going to read
restored and renovated by President Donald J.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And if it turns out there's one hundred million dollars
the endowment fund reaches, it will also add endowed by
the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I mean, and this one probably gonna go through.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh, by the way, this was an independent board that
made that decision, headed by the president and made the
members are made up of.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
People that he chose. What a shocker.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
They voted this in a just crazy stuff. Okay, more
important news.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Still you, Neil, look at that.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, I'm super important today. You are Luigi Maggioni. His
hearing is fueling some speculation and it comes down to this.
They're hurrying the schedule for the hearing of Mangioni to
today I think sometime this morning in the killing of
the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. But the belief is
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the you know, rushing this through this makes people speculate
that he might plead guilty in these proceedings. So you're
looking at Mangione faces two stocking counts in his federal case,
as well as murder and weapons charges separate two separate cases.
Here are charges in the New York state case.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Right, And the problem is that what he his attorneys
are arguing, if he pleads guilty to the federal case,
which gives him light up to life imprisonment, which he
would get with parole, and then he goes to trial
in the state, then he would get he could get
life without parole, and the argument is gonna be double jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You can't charge and that's the rule.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You can't be charged twice for the same crime, except
they're different jurisdictions. Plenty of times people are charged for
the same crime in both federal and state and they're
different crimes. And the defense is arguing this comes out
of the same act. Yeah it does. That's going to
be the argument. The argument is going to be double jeopardy,
and the state charges should be dropped. That's what the
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rush is here. Oh, here's one that's fun if you
the vombing machine.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
The X two is xed out at least for now.
So X two is among the most intense roller coasters
in the world, and you can find it at six
Flags Magic Mountain, but you can't get on it right
now because it's closed and has been for the last
month because of something that happened involving a writer, but
we don't know what. July fifth, at nine point fifteen pm,
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LA Fire responded to six Flags on a report of
an unconscious person. But when KTLA, who's been digging around
to try to figure out what is going on and
why the coaster is closed? Is calling and saying, hey,
what happened? What happened? All they're saying is the coasters
closed and it's been that way for a month.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
We do know that the first responder has had a
tough time even trying to figure out what happened to
him because he was covered in vomit from top to vomit,
toping yes, tasso' wattam?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
How in this age does that information not leak out somewhere?
How do we not know what happened to this person
on the roller coaster?
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Don't know? Yeah, and nobody seems to know, and they're
not flags.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Isn't talking? All right?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
A family that prays to there stays together. Unfortunately, this
is p R e Y nice very uh So, this
is gross story. They're calling these three suspects tomb raiders.
They're accusing these three people. You've got the identified suspects.
You've got a thirty three year old man. You've got
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his girlfriend thirty two years old, and her mother fifty
two years old. All are wanting in Florida on warrants
for going to a bunch of East Coast cemeteries and
stealing jewelry and things that were left.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Or left in those in those crevices where the urns
are the mausoleum, and they stick things in there, and
people are nuts enough to put jewelry in there, you
know something that why is that nuts?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
You'd assume people would be.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, because as you know, I have a question. Yeah,
and you know, I'm not a very religious guy.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Really handle how how happy would a bunch of ashes
be with a nice piece of jewelry next to That's
the question.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing. Minute
I read started reading the story, I'm all, that's a
white people thing. There is no blacks or Latinos going
in and stealing jewelry from a mausoleum. Okay, I do
know that it is superstitious, religious, whatever you know what
to call it. That's not happening.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I'll be able to make some kind of racist shoke
out of that. All right, guys, we are completely done.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
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Apps five to six wake up call Neil and I
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the ratings just came out and we have exploded in ratings.
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And that's in spite of the rest of the morning crew.
It's all about me. It's that simple. Okay, We're done,
and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle. All right, it's a fruity Friday, follow Friday
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this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
What's going on with my throat?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's fruity Friday time and I'm fine. August fourteenth and
we start to the end of the week, foody Friday.
We're not gonna do ass candle anything Friday. We're gonna
try something new at a thirty and it's going to
be a handle on history. Just some really interesting, weird
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historical facts and background information and some things that were
some historical facts that of course you know about, but
how they connect with each other. So I'll deal with
that at a thirty. Hold on, man, I'm going to
try to cough through this. Wow, Okay, much better, fright.
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Good morning to one and all.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Neil, good morning, stay there, Friday, you bet let me
put the We're gonna put the air condition.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Now, please make yourself comfort called the work.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Now I'm going to there we go. God, now I've
got but damn, hold on.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
There.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It is all right.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I have an air sure in the studio here, so
it wasn't on and it was wrong temperature. I'm always prepared.
I was the boy scout. Be prepared.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Nothing scarier than seeing you with an electronics of any kind,
especially a remote control.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, it's absolutely true. I mean boy scouts to tell
you how you be prepared. You make sure your pants
are on really tight. You really want to be prepared. Okay, Neil,
good morning, there you are, and Amy, good.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
There you are, Will, Good morning Bill. We have to
start making fun of you somehow this morning. Ann you're
there here, I am.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We started, and then Kona was back today, Coono was yesterday.
I understand your child was starting kindergarten yesterday.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah, started kindergarten. That's correct.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And is that the boy or the girl?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
The girl?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
The girl?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And was she apprehensive a little scared walking into kindergarten class.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, no, okay, she's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay, good, yeah, excellent thing with the grain of salt.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
A quick story I want to share with you that
we're not going to be talking about much in the news,
and because it's the New York story, but it leads
right into a funny, reasonably funny story of what happened
on this show. And that is Zohoran Mondami, who is
the mayor of New York, who is a Muslim and
not particularly well liked among the Jewish crowd, and he
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is not particularly in favor of Israel, and he's very
pro Palestinian. Anyway, a group of rabbis went to see him.
That's not a joke, by the way, a group of
rabbi is walking into the mayor's office. Anyway, A group
of rabbis go to see him at his invitation and
to sit and talk about the relations between the Jewish
community and what's happening with the mayor's office, etc. He
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wants to I guess, plaster over differences. Okay, So they're
telling him, you know, we know you have a right
to say what you're saying, but please downplay the tie
Jewish anti Israel sentiment, and so they talked about it
reminds me of a story that I did, and Neil
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will no doubt remember this.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I would whenever there was a fire.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
In New York among the schmat the business that is
the clothing business. It is schmat rake rags. But that's
what the clothing business is known as. And what ended
up happening is there's sort of a history of all
of a sudden, if a business is going way south,
and that business goes up and down, you make a
(04:36):
lot of money on clothes, or you lose a lot
of money guessing what the next year's fashions are going
to be, because that's just a wild ass guests, all right.
So the companies that lose business or are losing their
shirts somehow they catch on fire those warehouses, and that
is known as Jewish lightning, and that is it's just
(04:57):
sort of a phrase that's used.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
That's offensive.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Of course it is, And so I kept referring to
it as Jewish lightning. So there were a group of
Jewish leaders part of the Anti Defamation Leagues organization that
fights anti Semitism, and they came to see me and
we had a meeting with the management, et cetera. And
they were pretty offended and said, you know, Bill, you're
(05:21):
saying this. Yes I am, and you know that's not true.
We insist that you stop saying that. And I said
to them, I'll tell you what, Why don't we pull
some claims records, insurance claims on buildings in that district,
the clothing district that burned up, and at least let's
(05:43):
see how many names were Cohen, Finkelberg, Steinberg. And at
that point they said, will you at least downplay it?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Please? Was you not talk so much about that?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I was in the meeting. They were lovely people and
incredible reasonable.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They wanted me to tell with they wanted to they
did they not want me to downplay the Jewish lightning concept?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They yes, They asked you to be more respectful because
it's a stereotype that is not across the board and
it probably doesn't even exist to this date. It was
probably something that took place more.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, because the arts and investigators are much better these days. Okay,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I just remember them being very kind and one of
the best groups to deal with.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, And I smiled and uh, well, okay. Anyway, See,
we look at life very differently, Neil and I. Neil
thinks everybody is great.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Wonder if they had a sense of humor, and trust me,
some people don't and some people have gone after me
to try when I'm trying to be fair about something.
Horrible horrible groups out there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, very entertaining too. Okay, we're going to start some news.
What do you think guys? It is time for handle
on the news on this Friday morning, August fourteenth. It's
Amy and Neil and me lead storry China. Well, no surprise.
White House has accused China of literally rerouting billions of
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dollars of goods through other countries to avoid the president's
twenty eighteen tariffs.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And by the way, I believe every word of this.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think the White House is right on not surprising
because what China is doing is avoiding billions of dollars
in tariffs, and that means lost revenue to the United States.
Someone would have to help them, right, Yeah, forty other
countries that'll do it. Yeah, but it's international trying to
(07:47):
undo Trump's tariffs. But this is a it's just a
it's not even a conspiracy because there's so many people
doing this, it's just simply a way of life.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't even think they're talking to each other.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well, I mean, I guess to some extent, repackaging, relabeling
the goods, performing limited assembly. And I shared the story
about Israel and Saudi Arabia. Obviously their enemies have been
for a long time. Saudi Arabia Arab country, Israel, not Arab,
and Saudi Arabia received that F sixteen's from Israel, I
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mean from the United States.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Israel fought it like crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, Saudi Arabia wanted to buy some long range tanks,
gasoline tanks for their F sixteens.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The United States didn't make them.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Israel manufactured those and the only way Saudi Arabia could
get them is buy them from Israel.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So what did Israel do? Set up the front company
in Cyprus.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And funnel those tanks through Cyprus, so they're on the
boxes that were shipped the crates manufactured in Cyprus and
then went on to side Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And that's just one example that I know of.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So that happens all over the world, and particularly now,
and this ramping up because of the because of.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
The tariffs, replacement therapy USS George Washington is making its
way toward the Middle East. This after reports started popping
up that there was mental health and supply issues aboard
the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more
(09:29):
than two hundred and sixty days. That's the longest aircraft
carrier deployment ever. Several Democratic lawmakers are pressing for accountability
from the Pentagon over conditions on board the carrier. Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth says those conditions were completely misrepresented.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Right, and it seems I haven't heard this very much.
I mean the suicide attempts on the Abraham Lincoln I
have increased traumatically and strangely enough, a lot of these
attempts to are these sailors trying to shoot themselves in
the head? Okay, what what come on?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And joke?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Oh ah?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Seekno, because Cono is as depraved as I am.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He and I were separated at birth. He knows exactly
where we're going, all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
The people Mover dubbed Skylink, along awaited automated people mover
or train at LAX is expected to transform traffic ahead
of twenty twenty eight. I mean, we're really scrambling for
the Olympics. We don't do it for the people of
la But if we're going to have guests, oh boy,
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everybody's ready. So visitors to the airport have been able
to watch the trains in action. They're kind of going
back and forth and testing him and all that. No
one's been on him yet, no one's been riding them.
Must yeah, tests.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Because they're trying to find a volunteer that's willing to
be crushed between the cars, like what happened in Disneyland
and they shut down the people Mover.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Damn it, no one's out there willing for us to
try this thing.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
That's not exactly what happened at Disneyland. But that's all right,
pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now there was that kid who felt they jumped out
and they shut shut it down.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That was done. People Mover was finished.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You know, if you're driving on the freeway and you
jump out of a car, same thing will happen.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, that's true, but they can't get rid of cars.
They certainly can't. Anyway, the people Mover and a lot
of a lot of air runs.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
All this.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They say, it's like ninety eight percent done Fitch ratings
and they look over the financial you know, they rate
them financially with the bonds and whatever. They have the
credit ratings for the project, which was a one point
two billion dollar senior bond, and they moved it to
their their negative watch list, which means they're looking at
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the timeline and saying, you're not hitting certain markers and
we don't believe that you're going to hit that margin,
that little limited margin, and you're in a precarious position,
so that could breach the lenders long stop. That long
stop is the dead end points they're supposed to hit.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Right and if they don't.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
If they don't, the bonds probably are called. You are
as an investor, this was not a good investment in
buying these bonds for the people Mover. What I didn't
know is that there's this is not airport bonds, general blonds.
This is for specifically the people Mover, which.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Yeah, so then you would have to bring in another
contractor and that or.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Be a mess. It'd be a mess.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
DOJ has some splaning to do. A federal judge is
pressing lawyers from the Department of Justice to explain why
some of the materials from the Epstein Files were withheld
from the public. It has to do with a lawsuit
filed by an independent journalist who sued over what she
claimed were improper redactions and withheld materials from the files
(13:04):
on Jeffrey Epstein. Now in June, the judge concluded the
redactions and withheld materials violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act
and ordered the DOJ to either turn over all the
materials or explain why the materials needed to be withheld.
Apparently they haven't done either one yet.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, I think dog has argued that the notes are
quote substantially similar to the FBI reports that are already
out there, and the judge said, where does it say
and the act substantially similar?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And so at some point this is going to come
home to bite him in the as big time, because
right now the Department of Justice has been pretty adamant
about not releasing a lot of these files because I
think heads are going to roll and I think information
is going to be released that's very, very embarrassing to
some very highly placed individuals, both on the Democratic and
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on the Republican side, as well as public figures. I
mean f Stein, Well, he painted a large swath. A
lot of people that were involved with that.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Which people do those kinds of things. They flocked together
and all that. But I think bare minimum, we the
people have the right to hear if the President of
the United States what portions he's in most important.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, we're going to see if that happens.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
All right, So amid fire dangers, Malibu is doing something interesting.
So a peak fire season, which is almost comical out here,
it's always fire season, Malibu has declared this local emergency
and this gives them a particular chit to call in.
So you've got Normally, when you under California law, you
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say you want to move homeless in camp mins, it
takes forty eight to seventy two hours of advance written
notice before you can clear those in that meant but
they're calling this local emergency because of what are affectionately
referred to as hobo fires, the drug rush conditions there.
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City council has approved the declaration this week to reduce
the risk of fires associated with homeless individuals cooking outdoors
and keeping warm and all that stuff. So they're able
to get this done day up. They can't deal it
within twenty four hours. Yeah, here's a question.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Emergency order allowing notice the same day, does that mean
ten minutes after the order the notice is given? Is
there a time line here?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I think they walk in, they say you got to go.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Right, That's what I think, and they start cleaning it
up and sorry, we're going to know.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The fire danger is so great. All of Malibu is
a Class one fire danger area.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I mean, there's one part of Malibu that isn't. I
don't want.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I don't know why. It's if I started a fire
out on the sidewalk, I'd be arrested, and you should be.
And you're right, I don't know why. You know, everyone
always says, you know, home being poor is not a crime.
It's not about that. It's about defecating and urinating on
this three.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But those are individual ants. Yeah, those are individual acts.
Those aren't encampments. These are individual and they burning things
all of that. Maybe, and people should they should be arrested.
Of course, they should.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Not gonna get there. The city impost deadline for Lineage
Logistics to clean up millions of pounds of rotting, smelly,
bug and rodent infested food from the burned out warehouse
and boil Heights is today at five pm. Lineage is saying, yeah,
we're not going to hit that deadline, but they say
that they have the real deadline is a week from
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today and they'll get it done by then. They said
that based on the timeline of when they could actually
get in and start cleaning up, the forty five days
should be next Friday. But local officials are saying, nope,
we're going after Lineage. They need to be held responsible
for not finishing the cleanup.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now we're being told that if they don't make it
by today, which they're not going to, obviously, there'll be
consequences for the company.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So with that Dutch, especially if they make it by
next week, they make it by next week, I don't
see the huge, huge downside on that. Does anybody know,
by the way, what the consequences are amy are you
aware of?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
They've talked about fines and withholding permits, that kind of thing,
But they're just saying that they should be held responsible.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Okay, all right. Flock we've all heard about Flock Safety.
They're that's surveillance technology company, and more and more we're
learning their name. They're under scrutiny from both parties. By
the way, civil liberties associations citizens across the US apparently
getting all upset. They announced Thursday that they're making some
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changes to their platform. They're the ones that have those
security care cameras that can read the license plate. And
this is supposed to you know, quell all the qualms
about privacy concerns and you know, abuses, address these abuses
in the system by some members of law enforcement. But
this is a massive network of automated cameras across the country,
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you know, vehicles passing to it from every day, and
law enforcement agencies in forty nine states can search these
shared flock data cameras. Police have credited this technology and
praised it as an important crime fighting tool of innovation
to locate missing people, track suspects of polent crimes. You
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know what's weird on this though, build is why is
it that in public, a somebody with you know, an
influencer or with a website or anything like that can
film me eating or video me eating, can be in
my grill and say this is my constitutional right.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No, not in not at your grill, in your backyard.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
They can't no, no, no in my grill life face.
I'm sorry I used oh oh.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Because because you have no expectation of privacy out in
publica however, you do have an expectation of not being harassed.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And I think that's where your argument is as well.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
But they still they there's one guy that does it
just to show he's got.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
His No, I understand, but in public, in public, you're
allowed to do that. What do you think paparazzi do?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
What is?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So what why is this to fight crime? A problem?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Because it is a it's because it's collecting data. It's
an authority that does this. It's the police, not some
crazy influencer. And therein I think you caught onto the
problem and it's a big one. And that is the
more the police and agencies are able to find out
where you are, who you are, which is what technology
(19:52):
is going, the more, uh, the bigger the risk is
and the more invasion of your That's where it is.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
They own that license plate. I don't I own the car.
They own that license plate.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, but you own your own you own your own
fate or face. So when they take a picture of
your car and they a picture of your face, driving
the car.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
They don't own that.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
If they had people standing on the street. Yes, the
automatic camera.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You can't use.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And you're right, they're in lies the problem. For example,
Really we don't like drones flying overhead and videoing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Hey, why don't you pitch about the helicopters.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
They've been doing that for forty years, you know, flying overhead,
you know the police helicopters no.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Place to escape, the US Department of Justice exposing what
it says is an horrific environment of staff misconduct and
sexual abuse inside women's prisons in California. The DOJ announced
results of a year's long investigation into two of the
women's prisons and say that they failed to protect the
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women incarcerated from sexual use from prison staff. The investigation
followed a lawsuit brought forward by more than one hundred
and thirty formerly incarcerated women who said they were sexually
abused while they serve time at the prisons in Chino
and chow Chilla. One of the survivors said, it's not
just sexual abuse. A lot of it is verbal abuse.
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The way they put us down, the way they make
sexual gestures they mock us, and the sexual statements they.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Make any you've been reporting on the news for a
long time, a very long time, and you've been described
to me as you know, she's no fried chicken. That
would be what my mother would say.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
His mother had malaprops too, and means you're no spring chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Okay, well, yeah, a little guess. Thank you, Neil, Yeah,
Neil speaks handle. In any case, you've been reporting on this,
how long has this story about women being abused in
prisons been around.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
It's been around for years and years.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Years and years, and you think something would be done,
and it would have been at this point taken care of,
were brought to a real minimal level, and it doesn't
seem to have. Yeah, not a good place to go
if you're a woman, and that's prison Male guards, I
guess even female guards abuse these women, not necessarily sexually,
but just in general. Well, guards have unbelievable power, and
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it takes to find a guard who does not not
manipulate the system, but not deal with this this power
trip that they're on. It takes a person who you
would normally not hire, and who those kind of people
don't go into the prison guard world.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
They're also dealing with really bad people.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, that's the true too. And where's the line that
is correct? Where is the line because you're dealing with
it's a very good point. That's a difficult line to navigate,
it really is. And going right down the middle, being fair,
still being strict, still not being abusive, standing up for
prisoners when it's appropriate, as against authority. I mean, I
(23:11):
wouldn't want that job.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Just to defend Amy for a second. There is someone
who just send a talkback Ignacio. What's up? Not Joe?
He says, Hey, Bill, not so much a question, But
I have an idea for the holiday the fundraiser with
the White House and all the kids, Why don't you
win a date with Amy Raffle. Imagine all the guys
and maybe some women would love to have a date
(23:37):
with this beautiful Amy. I know I would. I'm in thanks, Bill.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Oh yeah, you know, well let's do that Amy, can
we raf?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's a bit that is actually a great idea. Amy.
Would you be up for.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
It if I had a chaperone?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah? You know that?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Or not?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Unless you find some cute then she's like, why did
you go find something else to do?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Chepone The last pastathon dinner or the auction, and they
auctioned off dinner with me. I was so frightened. No
one was going to bid I bid on myself. So
at least it wouldn't be at least it wouldn't be embarrassing. Okay,
(24:27):
let's go ahead and finish up this segment and then
we'll go on to the next.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Okay, So Trump is giving the green light for certain companies,
although we don't know which companies, who, or what or
where to aim hacks at cyber criminals. So to go
after people, they would work alongside with the Justice Department
Homeland Security departments to strike foreign cyber criminal groups with
(24:53):
hacks under certain conditions. Some of these would be those
you know scourges like ransom where and that type of thing.
But they would build this green light to allow us
to attack back.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, I mean, that's just back to be proactive, and
up to this point, all companies can do is be reactive.
Now these companies can become hackers in and of themselves.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
That makes guy, it makes sense to me.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It's kind of curious.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, if that curious, it makes a lot of sense
to me.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, what's in a name? Well to Trump, it's pretty
much everything. So now, the Kennedy Center's board of trustees
voted just yesterday to inscribe President Donald Trump's name on
the building exterior and again to close the performing arts
venue for two years of renovations. So this may this
(25:45):
is really challenging two key elements of the federal court order.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So I don't know, he is so obsessed with this,
what is going on? I mean, I understand that he
is trying to change put his name on everything in Washington.
I get that, But what's with the Kennedy Center and.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Still would like to for what?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I guess?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah, and he's just I don't I don't understand this,
this obsession.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Let me ask the new president.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, new president comes in, what's the first thing that
a new president would do? I would remove Trump's name
because here it is, it's the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
Fair enough, and then under that it's going to read
restored and renovated by President Donald J.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And if it turns out there's one hundred million dollars
the endowment fund reaches, it will also add endowed by
the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I mean, and this one probably gonna go through.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh, by the way, this was an independent board that
made that decision, headed by the president and made the
members are made up of.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
People that he chose. What a shocker.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
They voted this in a just crazy stuff. Okay, more
important news.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Still you, Neil, look at that.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, I'm super important today. You are Luigi Maggioni. His
hearing is fueling some speculation and it comes down to this.
They're hurrying the schedule for the hearing of Mangioni to
today I think sometime this morning in the killing of
the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. But the belief is
(27:32):
the you know, rushing this through this makes people speculate
that he might plead guilty in these proceedings. So you're
looking at Mangione faces two stocking counts in his federal case,
as well as murder and weapons charges separate two separate cases.
Here are charges in the New York state case.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Right, And the problem is that what he his attorneys
are arguing, if he pleads guilty to the federal case,
which gives him light up to life imprisonment, which he
would get with parole, and then he goes to trial
in the state, then he would get he could get
life without parole, and the argument is gonna be double jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You can't charge and that's the rule.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You can't be charged twice for the same crime, except
they're different jurisdictions. Plenty of times people are charged for
the same crime in both federal and state and they're
different crimes. And the defense is arguing this comes out
of the same act. Yeah it does. That's going to
be the argument. The argument is going to be double jeopardy,
and the state charges should be dropped. That's what the
(28:39):
rush is here. Oh, here's one that's fun if you
the vombing machine.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
The X two is xed out at least for now.
So X two is among the most intense roller coasters
in the world, and you can find it at six
Flags Magic Mountain, but you can't get on it right
now because it's closed and has been for the last
month because of something that happened involving a writer, but
we don't know what. July fifth, at nine point fifteen pm,
(29:08):
LA Fire responded to six Flags on a report of
an unconscious person. But when KTLA, who's been digging around
to try to figure out what is going on and
why the coaster is closed? Is calling and saying, hey,
what happened? What happened? All they're saying is the coasters
closed and it's been that way for a month.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
We do know that the first responder has had a
tough time even trying to figure out what happened to
him because he was covered in vomit from top to vomit,
toping yes, tasso' wattam?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
How in this age does that information not leak out somewhere?
How do we not know what happened to this person
on the roller coaster?
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Don't know? Yeah, and nobody seems to know, and they're
not flags.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Isn't talking? All right?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
A family that prays to there stays together. Unfortunately, this
is p R e Y nice very uh So, this
is gross story. They're calling these three suspects tomb raiders.
They're accusing these three people. You've got the identified suspects.
You've got a thirty three year old man. You've got
(30:21):
his girlfriend thirty two years old, and her mother fifty
two years old. All are wanting in Florida on warrants
for going to a bunch of East Coast cemeteries and
stealing jewelry and things that were left.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Or left in those in those crevices where the urns
are the mausoleum, and they stick things in there, and
people are nuts enough to put jewelry in there, you
know something that why is that nuts?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
You'd assume people would be.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, because as you know, I have a question. Yeah,
and you know, I'm not a very religious guy.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Really handle how how happy would a bunch of ashes
be with a nice piece of jewelry next to That's
the question.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing. Minute
I read started reading the story, I'm all, that's a
white people thing. There is no blacks or Latinos going
in and stealing jewelry from a mausoleum. Okay, I do
know that it is superstitious, religious, whatever you know what
to call it. That's not happening.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I'll be able to make some kind of racist shoke
out of that. All right, guys, we are completely done.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
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