September 30, 2025 • 25 mins
(September 30,2025)
Trump and Hegseth address top military leaders. Newsom signs AI Transparency Bill prioritizing safety. Americans’ support for Israel dramatically declines times poll shows. Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy.
Trump and Hegseth address top military leaders. Newsom signs AI Transparency Bill prioritizing safety. Americans’ support for Israel dramatically declines times poll shows. Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Here we use a taco Tuesday, September thirties.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What a day today.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The President is speaking in front of the senior military
officials at Quantico right now, following Pete hegxyth speech in
front of them because of the Defense Secretary. Hegxith called
for senior military officials from all over the world to
listen to what he had to say raw Ross Beach
and matter of fact, I'll talk that about it right now.
But first quick reminder that I've been gone for a
(00:41):
couple of weeks, which means on Friday, we once again
engage in Ask Handle Anything and would love to have
you because it's basically based on your questions. So you
ask me anything and we have a great fun humiliating
for me. And what you do is you go to
during the show the iHeartRadio app click on the Bill
(01:02):
Handle show corner right hand corner. You'll see a microphone.
Click on that and then just ask the question. You
have fifteen twenty seconds to ask a question. Don't want
your opinion of the world, Just ask a question and
I answer. By the way, the vast, vast majority of
the questions. Now, the President is speaking at this moment
(01:23):
in front of the top military brass from around the
world that Hegsith brought in, and it was described prior
to the speech as a raw, raw speech in front
of the military officials. Well it went a little bit
beyond that, that's for sure, because what heg Sith did
(01:43):
is lay out the future of the military, going back
to when the military was let's say, woke. Quotas didn't exist,
women weren't in a well, they certainly weren't in combat,
and they weren't actually in the services. Although he is
(02:04):
okay with that with some changes. And the bottom line
is he wants the military going back to its fundamental
reason for existing.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's to protect the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It is to kill our enemies, to break our enemies.
And the way it has gone with diversity, with quotas,
those days are gone. He says it's tiring to look
at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops.
(02:41):
Doesn't say that about presidents, by the way, I think
he's okay with that, But that is a different issue.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's unacceptable seeing fat generals and admirals in the halls
of the Pentagon leading commands around the country, around the
world is a bad luck. So he is overhauling the
Pentagon's equal opportunity program. Actually, he is getting rid of it.
It is done.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
He says. It's a bad look, all of it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We're overhauling the Inspector General process, the IG that has
been weaponized, putting complainers, ideologues, poor performers in the driver seats.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's gone. It's going to happen with the same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The Department where is going to be getting rid of
equal opportunity and simply not equal opportunity in terms of
stopping people who are meritorious from moving up and becoming
command command officers.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We're not going to do it because we want equal opportunity,
and we want diversity, and we want quotas and we
want fairness to everybody. No, no, we just want to
go back to where we were. The Department is going
to do the same thing. The equal opportunity complaints of
things like sexual harassment, discrimination based on race, religion, gender gone.
(04:08):
No more frivolous complaints, although I don't know it's frivolous.
No more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints. No more
smearing reputations, no more endless waiting, no more legal limbo,
no more sidetracking careers, no more walking on eggshells.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
As far as.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Women is concerned, if they can make the grade, they're fine.
They're going to be held as same standards as men.
Upholding and enforcing high standards is not toxic. Leading war
fire fighters towards the goals of high, gender neutral, uncompromising standards,
(04:46):
well formidal and lethal Department of War is not toxic.
He's undertaking a full review of the definitions of what
he called so called toxic leadership, bullying hazy uh. He said,
words like bullying and hazing, and toxic and weaponized and
bastard eyes, undercutting commanders. No more beards, especially with women.
(05:11):
No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We're gonna
cut our hair, We're gonna shave our beards. We're going
to adhere to standards. In other words, he said, we
are going back to the military as we knew the military.
Basic training is going to go back to basic training,
(05:32):
in which drill sergeants, they screamed at people, they use
the horrible words, they hit recruits.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Right now, you can't touch them. Well, he used to
be they be slapped around.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We're going back to that because that is the way
you make real men. Now a lot of this makes
sense to a lot of people because the military he
has in many ways gotten away from what it's supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He said, it's really clear. We're here to kill.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We're here to make ourselves as combat ready as possible.
We're here here to protect America, and that means we're
ready to kill the enemy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We're going to make ourselves as formidable as we can.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We will have absolutely no issue as to moving forward.
Bottom line is humanity stops at our border, or at
least I don't know if the word humanity is fair,
but the love of the love of humanity stops at
our border. We're not here to talk about the Kumbayau world.
(06:52):
We're here to break things, kill things, and that's where
we're going to go. That's where the military is going
to go. Interesting stuff. It really is, boy, you talk
about we sort of knew it was going to be
raw raw man. He went way beyond raw raw. It's
a new world with the Pentagon. Now. I wonder if
a democratic president, if it comes in the next the
(07:15):
next time out where you have a next administration, are
they going to go back?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I don't know's it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
If nothing else, I've told you this over and over again,
how incredibly fascinating this administration is. As a matter of fact,
the president is now speaking in front of the same group.
Heck says heg Seth was there for what twenty minutes,
give or take. The President is already up there, probably
half an hour. He is going to be going on
(07:42):
for a while.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
How long does it take to just say ditto?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I know, well, because the president likes to speak, and
he goes off script. I mean, there is a prompter
that he's looking at. I don't even know why they
bother with the teleprompter. And one of the things about
the president, we talked to some reporters here on our
show who come in and report for us. He goes
this president is the most successible president that has ever
(08:10):
been seen. He is there every time Air Force one
flies and you have the press corps in the back.
He always talks to them for the most part, always
answers questions after a press conference or as he's walking
from Marine one into the White House. As a matter
of fact, yesterday we're going to talk about that. After
(08:32):
the speech, the press conference between Natanyahu and Trump announcing
the new peace plan. First time I can remember, neither
one of them took questions. He actually walked off the stage,
all right. The other thing that happened, yes, say, sort
of lost somehow in the shuffle is Newsome signed the
(08:53):
AI Transparency Bill.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And this has to do with trying to deal with AI.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
One of the things about technology, and I dealt with
this when I first started practicing in third party reproductive law,
is that the technology happens, and then the law struggles
to keep up and deal with it. Technology is always first,
and then we go.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Huh, how do we deal with it? Deal with it?
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The ethicists come in in my case, and the experts
try to get it together, and then the legislators are
dealing with it. And so what Newsom did was sign
legislation requiring AI companies to publicly disclose security protocols.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Up to this.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Point, the companies are pretty secret about it. Oh yeah,
we give lots of security. Well, how well it's proprietary,
Well not anymore. The companies have to report critical safety incidents.
When there is a problem, there's a breach in terms
of AI, then the law creates called common sense guardrails
(10:02):
to for AI development. And this is after Newsom vetoed
basically the same AI bill last year.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Senator Scott Wiener.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Who is insanely liberal, he's out of San Francisco with
a shocker, talks about these common sense guardrails to ensure
that the innovations don't sacrifice safety and transparency with this
incredible growth of AI technology.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And by the day, AI, by the day is.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Coming into fruition. By the way, an interesting story that
I want to do. As I was reading, I think
of Wall Street Journal, how it's an AI bubble that
when they look at the income coming in AAI and
the money being spent, it doesn't make sense corporations companies
(10:55):
are moving to AI with such speed and with so
much money. Is that they are guessing that there is
going to be a payback And a lot of experts
are saying, uh, it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Look at the numbers.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And so Newsom said in a statement, California has proven
we can establish regulations to protect our communities and ensure
at the same time the growing AI industry continues to thrive.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So the bill that was passed last year.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That Newsom vetoed, which was supported by Elon musk AI
researchers to put some guardrails in there, was opposed by
Meta Open AI and he said that. Newsom said that
that bill was quote well intentioned, but not the best
approach to protecting the public posed by real threats by
(11:51):
the technology. So he convened a working group of leaders
and experts and that become the basis the basis for
this new bill.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So what's it going to do. Well, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You know, companies have to report cyber attacks, unsafe behavior
by autonomous AI systems. Those have to be reported to
the state's Office of Emergency Services. That will be publishing
annual reports in twenty twenty seven, and we will know
exactly how many incidents and to what extent we're getting that. Anyway,
(12:30):
I just don't get how much more because all of
our information is out there. There is no information with
a not even with AI, just with the Internet. If
I wanted to easily I know where you live, where
you work, who you live next to, where you have lived,
(12:50):
who your friends are, where you hang out, where you
go to restaurants.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What do you eat at restaurants?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They know what I buy at Costco and someone goes,
you know, handle, you don't dress very well with Costco clothing.
Matter of fact, today I'm going to Costco. Strangely enough,
they have this chicken thing that I love, Tyson.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's the chicken tender loins.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Which are bredded and they just have this wonderful, spicy
little tang to it, which are absolutely wonderful. All Right,
So we've got that, We've got Newsom signing the transparency bill,
and we have yesterday, Oh what a day. Yesterday you
had Nittanyahu and the President release their twenty point peace
(13:40):
plan for Israel and Hamas, and you've got people countries
all over the Mid East saying yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well it's exactly what Israel wants, right in line with
Israel wants, except for one thing, and that is the
possibility of a Palestinian state, which heretofore ne Na who
(14:02):
said was not going to happen. So what's going on
as a result of this horrific war which is now
over sixty five thousand Palestinians killed. Well, American support for
Israel has declined dramatically. Now we know the world is
looking much of the world is looking at Israel as
a pariaha state because the number of people that have
been killed in this two year war. As a result
(14:25):
of twelve hundred and fifty Israelis being killed on the
October seventh attack, Israel came back starting the next day
and Hamas guessed very wrong on this one, and it
has not stopped Israel's position. Hamas has to be demilitarized,
has to disappear, can no longer be a political force,
(14:46):
has to just leave. Well, Hamas isn't about to give
up its power, and so now you have Palestinians are
being killed like crazy with Israel going after Hamas leadership
and going after ram militants. The problem is they're embedded.
You know, there are no open fighting areas. Hamas doesn't
(15:09):
have tanks or artillery, they have nothing. They have tunnels
and they have places to hide. So Israel is kicking
the crop out of them. And out came the peace
plan yesterday. Well, here's the problem we that is, the
citizens of the US used to be the staunchest supporters
of Israel, the first country to recognize Israel when it
(15:33):
declared its independence on May fifteenth, nineteen forty eight, was
the United States, and we've been allies ever since. Israel
can really not survive militarily without the US. The US
has given the number one country the US has supported
militarily has been Israel and continues to be Israel. But
(15:55):
Americans are saying we're done, we are done killing Palestinians
because of the Palestinian deaths, and the world is moving
in that direction to the point where the country of Palestine,
which I don't even know where it is, it's a
West Bank and it's Gaza. How do you have a
country that is on either side of Israel. The other
(16:18):
thing that Natagna who said is that the Palestinian authority,
which governs the West Bank, that disappears too. There's going
to be an international force, an international government authority that's
going to sort of control all of it for a
period of time, and Israel will have security. In other words,
(16:38):
there'll be a demilitarized zone so to speak, that Israel
will be able to control the security. I mean, it
is not going to be pleasant for the people of
Gaza and the West Bank, particularly Gaza. As long as
the United States backs Israel up militarily, economically, politically, Israel
(17:00):
is in the driver's seat, even though much of the
world has turned against Israel and it is it's quickly
becoming a pariah state. It doesn't matter to Netaao who,
It doesn't matter to President Trump. Netanyahu yesterday said that
President Trump, rightly so, is the biggest fan Israel has
(17:22):
ever had. Mima's pro Israel president. And if you listen
to net Genya who what he said, and I'm going
to paraphrase.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Grid now, do a good job, man Yaya.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Because that was his head up Trump's rear end as
he was talking about how great President Trump was. It
started with and this is Netayaho, the greatest president, the
greatest leader, the man who is most responsible for peace
anywhere in the world. Why because Trump wants to hear that,
(17:56):
and Netto who was playing that game, He's got nothing
to lose.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The president wants to hear it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
This is a president that likes to accolades, and you
get on his good side.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And so net Yeaho not stupid, started with that.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And then coming back he and President Trump created that
twenty point peace plan, which is exactly what Israel has
purported the entire time. Hamas has not responded yet a
lot of the Mid East is saying this is good,
this is what we want because they all hate Hamas.
Kamas is a terrorist organization. It is the rest of
(18:36):
the Middle East wants reasonable relations with Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I mean it is time. Israel is an economic force.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Israel wants peace with the rest of the region, and
Hamas is saying no. Lebanon of course is saying no.
Irana say no. But they have lost power big time,
and now is the time. The problem is is that
the people of America, the citizens going from being staunch
(19:08):
supporters of the State of Israel, have really gone the
other way. Now, the bottom line is it doesn't matter.
It really doesn't matter as long as President Trump, representing
the United States, backs up Israel and Israel maintains its
military force, which of course it's not going to give up.
(19:31):
What's going to happen, Well, Palestinians are going to continue
to suffer. And Nintaiell, who made it very clear yesterday,
he said, we can do it the hard way, we
can do it the easy way, and if Hamastas not
come to the table, we're moving forward. And now when Nintonno,
who says we're moving forward, he's not kidding. You'll see
(19:53):
the rest of Gazo. Eighty percent so far the buildings
have been destroyed or damaged. You'll see the rest of
them going down, one by one by one. When this
thing is over, and we know it has to end,
at some point, there will be not a building left standing.
There will be no infrastructure, there will be no hospitals,
(20:14):
there will be no water lines or electricity, gas lines.
It's all gone. And Hamas doesn't care. Israel looks at
Hamas as an existential threat to itself. We don't want
a terrorist organization, and that's exactly what it is. By
the way, Hamas wants to wipe out Israel. Israel doesn't
(20:38):
necessarily want to wipe out Palestinians. It wants to wipe
out Hamas. Hamas is saying no, Israel saying no. And
who ends up dying, of course, Palestinians Civilians. Now Hamas
doesn't differentiate between civilians and military of the sixty five thousand,
but you can bet probably two thirds or civilian. All right, now,
(21:01):
what's going on today? Well, oh a man, what's going
on today? First, the government shuts down at midnight tonight,
and we'll talk more about that tomorrow, because that's going
to happen even though there's negotiations. I think negotiations.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
If you can stop now between Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Then we have the peace plan that was produced by
President Trump and Nittanyahu. Waiting for Hamas's response, they're going
to say no. The Secretary of Defense Pete hegsith this
morning he had called the senior military leaders from all
over the world, admirals, generals, to come to Quantico, the
(21:42):
military base in Virginia, and he is he gave this speech,
this raw row speech in which you talked about completely
changing the Pentagon, going back to the Pentagon before wokeism,
before women were allowed in the military, when drill sergeants
could kick the crap out of recruits, when military leaders
(22:07):
and the members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force
were there to kill people to protect the United States.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That's where he went.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So while he's doing that, and the President spoke also,
and we're trying to get what the President has said
because I've been doing the show and been watching this
and obviously I can't listen to the sound and what
this debate was about, well, it wasn't even a debate.
What Pete Hess really did was change the national defense strategy,
(22:40):
the primary guide how the Pentagon prioritizes resources and positions
US forces around the world.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Life is changing.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He brought up a very interesting thing, and that is
how many people, how many generals and admirals in the room,
fought combat. How many of you were actually in combat,
And there weren't many hands raised, And he talked about
what actually, what was the fight that we won strategically
(23:15):
overwhelmingly in the last several decades, What was the one
fight that we won the goal for there was no issue,
and why.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Did we win the golf war? We knew what we
were going to do.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
The people that were at the top of the heap,
Colin Powell and Schwartzkoff, had fought. All the senior military
leaders have fought in the war, most of them from
uh well out of the Vietnam War. And there's the difference.
And he wants to go back to those days. He
(23:54):
wants to go back to the days when the military
when men were men and women were men some of
the time, not anymore. And that's what's going to happen
he's changed the entire.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Culture of the military.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And you've got people there that are going, wait a minute, why,
Because woke has been part of the military.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It has quota systems.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You talk about the opportunities for women for minorities, which
interestingly enough, never happened. I don't know if he's going
back to those days where it's all white guys. He
had even said, I'm not going to do that. If
women meet the standards of men, then they are certainly
(24:42):
accepted into the military. And therein lies a whole issue
of women meeting the standards. Women aren't as strong, he says,
they have to be as strong. Women aren't as fast,
they have to be as fast. Now we're talking combat.
When it comes to pilots, women can do it as better,
as good as anybody else, logistically, as good as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Intelligence. You don't need strength for any of that.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But heg said, said you the military, all of you
have to be ready to fight, all the way up
to the senior military leadership. Effectively, what you learned in
boot camp with that rifle in your hands.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That's the way we're going to run the military.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And you're gonna see, well already he's fired a whole
bunch of people, and he's going to hire fire a
whole bunch more. It's going to be fascinating, just fascinating
what's going on. I don't remember a day where this
much stuff was happening. KFI AM sixty you've been listening
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(25:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Here we use a taco Tuesday, September thirties.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What a day today.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The President is speaking in front of the senior military
officials at Quantico right now, following Pete hegxyth speech in
front of them because of the Defense Secretary. Hegxith called
for senior military officials from all over the world to
listen to what he had to say raw Ross Beach
and matter of fact, I'll talk that about it right now.
But first quick reminder that I've been gone for a
(00:41):
couple of weeks, which means on Friday, we once again
engage in Ask Handle Anything and would love to have
you because it's basically based on your questions. So you
ask me anything and we have a great fun humiliating
for me. And what you do is you go to
during the show the iHeartRadio app click on the Bill
(01:02):
Handle show corner right hand corner. You'll see a microphone.
Click on that and then just ask the question. You
have fifteen twenty seconds to ask a question. Don't want
your opinion of the world, Just ask a question and
I answer. By the way, the vast, vast majority of
the questions. Now, the President is speaking at this moment
(01:23):
in front of the top military brass from around the
world that Hegsith brought in, and it was described prior
to the speech as a raw, raw speech in front
of the military officials. Well it went a little bit
beyond that, that's for sure, because what heg Sith did
(01:43):
is lay out the future of the military, going back
to when the military was let's say, woke. Quotas didn't exist,
women weren't in a well, they certainly weren't in combat,
and they weren't actually in the services. Although he is
(02:04):
okay with that with some changes. And the bottom line
is he wants the military going back to its fundamental
reason for existing.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's to protect the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It is to kill our enemies, to break our enemies.
And the way it has gone with diversity, with quotas,
those days are gone. He says it's tiring to look
at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops.
(02:41):
Doesn't say that about presidents, by the way, I think
he's okay with that, But that is a different issue.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's unacceptable seeing fat generals and admirals in the halls
of the Pentagon leading commands around the country, around the
world is a bad luck. So he is overhauling the
Pentagon's equal opportunity program. Actually, he is getting rid of it.
It is done.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
He says. It's a bad look, all of it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We're overhauling the Inspector General process, the IG that has
been weaponized, putting complainers, ideologues, poor performers in the driver seats.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's gone. It's going to happen with the same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The Department where is going to be getting rid of
equal opportunity and simply not equal opportunity in terms of
stopping people who are meritorious from moving up and becoming
command command officers.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We're not going to do it because we want equal opportunity,
and we want diversity, and we want quotas and we
want fairness to everybody. No, no, we just want to
go back to where we were. The Department is going
to do the same thing. The equal opportunity complaints of
things like sexual harassment, discrimination based on race, religion, gender gone.
(04:08):
No more frivolous complaints, although I don't know it's frivolous.
No more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints. No more
smearing reputations, no more endless waiting, no more legal limbo,
no more sidetracking careers, no more walking on eggshells.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
As far as.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Women is concerned, if they can make the grade, they're fine.
They're going to be held as same standards as men.
Upholding and enforcing high standards is not toxic. Leading war
fire fighters towards the goals of high, gender neutral, uncompromising standards,
(04:46):
well formidal and lethal Department of War is not toxic.
He's undertaking a full review of the definitions of what
he called so called toxic leadership, bullying hazy uh. He said,
words like bullying and hazing, and toxic and weaponized and
bastard eyes, undercutting commanders. No more beards, especially with women.
(05:11):
No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We're gonna
cut our hair, We're gonna shave our beards. We're going
to adhere to standards. In other words, he said, we
are going back to the military as we knew the military.
Basic training is going to go back to basic training,
(05:32):
in which drill sergeants, they screamed at people, they use
the horrible words, they hit recruits.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Right now, you can't touch them. Well, he used to
be they be slapped around.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We're going back to that because that is the way
you make real men. Now a lot of this makes
sense to a lot of people because the military he
has in many ways gotten away from what it's supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He said, it's really clear. We're here to kill.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We're here to make ourselves as combat ready as possible.
We're here here to protect America, and that means we're
ready to kill the enemy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We're going to make ourselves as formidable as we can.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We will have absolutely no issue as to moving forward.
Bottom line is humanity stops at our border, or at
least I don't know if the word humanity is fair,
but the love of the love of humanity stops at
our border. We're not here to talk about the Kumbayau world.
(06:52):
We're here to break things, kill things, and that's where
we're going to go. That's where the military is going
to go. Interesting stuff. It really is, boy, you talk
about we sort of knew it was going to be
raw raw man. He went way beyond raw raw. It's
a new world with the Pentagon. Now. I wonder if
a democratic president, if it comes in the next the
(07:15):
next time out where you have a next administration, are
they going to go back?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I don't know's it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
If nothing else, I've told you this over and over again,
how incredibly fascinating this administration is. As a matter of fact,
the president is now speaking in front of the same group.
Heck says heg Seth was there for what twenty minutes,
give or take. The President is already up there, probably
half an hour. He is going to be going on
(07:42):
for a while.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
How long does it take to just say ditto?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I know, well, because the president likes to speak, and
he goes off script. I mean, there is a prompter
that he's looking at. I don't even know why they
bother with the teleprompter. And one of the things about
the president, we talked to some reporters here on our
show who come in and report for us. He goes
this president is the most successible president that has ever
(08:10):
been seen. He is there every time Air Force one
flies and you have the press corps in the back.
He always talks to them for the most part, always
answers questions after a press conference or as he's walking
from Marine one into the White House. As a matter
of fact, yesterday we're going to talk about that. After
(08:32):
the speech, the press conference between Natanyahu and Trump announcing
the new peace plan. First time I can remember, neither
one of them took questions. He actually walked off the stage,
all right. The other thing that happened, yes, say, sort
of lost somehow in the shuffle is Newsome signed the
(08:53):
AI Transparency Bill.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And this has to do with trying to deal with AI.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
One of the things about technology, and I dealt with
this when I first started practicing in third party reproductive law,
is that the technology happens, and then the law struggles
to keep up and deal with it. Technology is always first,
and then we go.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Huh, how do we deal with it? Deal with it?
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
The ethicists come in in my case, and the experts
try to get it together, and then the legislators are
dealing with it. And so what Newsom did was sign
legislation requiring AI companies to publicly disclose security protocols.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Up to this.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Point, the companies are pretty secret about it. Oh yeah,
we give lots of security. Well, how well it's proprietary,
Well not anymore. The companies have to report critical safety incidents.
When there is a problem, there's a breach in terms
of AI, then the law creates called common sense guardrails
(10:02):
to for AI development. And this is after Newsom vetoed
basically the same AI bill last year.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Senator Scott Wiener.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Who is insanely liberal, he's out of San Francisco with
a shocker, talks about these common sense guardrails to ensure
that the innovations don't sacrifice safety and transparency with this
incredible growth of AI technology.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And by the day, AI, by the day is.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Coming into fruition. By the way, an interesting story that
I want to do. As I was reading, I think
of Wall Street Journal, how it's an AI bubble that
when they look at the income coming in AAI and
the money being spent, it doesn't make sense corporations companies
(10:55):
are moving to AI with such speed and with so
much money. Is that they are guessing that there is
going to be a payback And a lot of experts
are saying, uh, it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Look at the numbers.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And so Newsom said in a statement, California has proven
we can establish regulations to protect our communities and ensure
at the same time the growing AI industry continues to thrive.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So the bill that was passed last year.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That Newsom vetoed, which was supported by Elon musk AI
researchers to put some guardrails in there, was opposed by
Meta Open AI and he said that. Newsom said that
that bill was quote well intentioned, but not the best
approach to protecting the public posed by real threats by
(11:51):
the technology. So he convened a working group of leaders
and experts and that become the basis the basis for
this new bill.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So what's it going to do. Well, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You know, companies have to report cyber attacks, unsafe behavior
by autonomous AI systems. Those have to be reported to
the state's Office of Emergency Services. That will be publishing
annual reports in twenty twenty seven, and we will know
exactly how many incidents and to what extent we're getting that. Anyway,
(12:30):
I just don't get how much more because all of
our information is out there. There is no information with
a not even with AI, just with the Internet. If
I wanted to easily I know where you live, where
you work, who you live next to, where you have lived,
(12:50):
who your friends are, where you hang out, where you
go to restaurants.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What do you eat at restaurants?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They know what I buy at Costco and someone goes,
you know, handle, you don't dress very well with Costco clothing.
Matter of fact, today I'm going to Costco. Strangely enough,
they have this chicken thing that I love, Tyson.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's the chicken tender loins.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Which are bredded and they just have this wonderful, spicy
little tang to it, which are absolutely wonderful. All Right,
So we've got that, We've got Newsom signing the transparency bill,
and we have yesterday, Oh what a day. Yesterday you
had Nittanyahu and the President release their twenty point peace
(13:40):
plan for Israel and Hamas, and you've got people countries
all over the Mid East saying yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well it's exactly what Israel wants, right in line with
Israel wants, except for one thing, and that is the
possibility of a Palestinian state, which heretofore ne Na who
(14:02):
said was not going to happen. So what's going on
as a result of this horrific war which is now
over sixty five thousand Palestinians killed. Well, American support for
Israel has declined dramatically. Now we know the world is
looking much of the world is looking at Israel as
a pariaha state because the number of people that have
been killed in this two year war. As a result
(14:25):
of twelve hundred and fifty Israelis being killed on the
October seventh attack, Israel came back starting the next day
and Hamas guessed very wrong on this one, and it
has not stopped Israel's position. Hamas has to be demilitarized,
has to disappear, can no longer be a political force,
(14:46):
has to just leave. Well, Hamas isn't about to give
up its power, and so now you have Palestinians are
being killed like crazy with Israel going after Hamas leadership
and going after ram militants. The problem is they're embedded.
You know, there are no open fighting areas. Hamas doesn't
(15:09):
have tanks or artillery, they have nothing. They have tunnels
and they have places to hide. So Israel is kicking
the crop out of them. And out came the peace
plan yesterday. Well, here's the problem we that is, the
citizens of the US used to be the staunchest supporters
of Israel, the first country to recognize Israel when it
(15:33):
declared its independence on May fifteenth, nineteen forty eight, was
the United States, and we've been allies ever since. Israel
can really not survive militarily without the US. The US
has given the number one country the US has supported
militarily has been Israel and continues to be Israel. But
(15:55):
Americans are saying we're done, we are done killing Palestinians
because of the Palestinian deaths, and the world is moving
in that direction to the point where the country of Palestine,
which I don't even know where it is, it's a
West Bank and it's Gaza. How do you have a
country that is on either side of Israel. The other
(16:18):
thing that Natagna who said is that the Palestinian authority,
which governs the West Bank, that disappears too. There's going
to be an international force, an international government authority that's
going to sort of control all of it for a
period of time, and Israel will have security. In other words,
(16:38):
there'll be a demilitarized zone so to speak, that Israel
will be able to control the security. I mean, it
is not going to be pleasant for the people of
Gaza and the West Bank, particularly Gaza. As long as
the United States backs Israel up militarily, economically, politically, Israel
(17:00):
is in the driver's seat, even though much of the
world has turned against Israel and it is it's quickly
becoming a pariah state. It doesn't matter to Netaao who,
It doesn't matter to President Trump. Netanyahu yesterday said that
President Trump, rightly so, is the biggest fan Israel has
(17:22):
ever had. Mima's pro Israel president. And if you listen
to net Genya who what he said, and I'm going
to paraphrase.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Grid now, do a good job, man Yaya.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Because that was his head up Trump's rear end as
he was talking about how great President Trump was. It
started with and this is Netayaho, the greatest president, the
greatest leader, the man who is most responsible for peace
anywhere in the world. Why because Trump wants to hear that,
(17:56):
and Netto who was playing that game, He's got nothing
to lose.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The president wants to hear it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
This is a president that likes to accolades, and you
get on his good side.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And so net Yeaho not stupid, started with that.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And then coming back he and President Trump created that
twenty point peace plan, which is exactly what Israel has
purported the entire time. Hamas has not responded yet a
lot of the Mid East is saying this is good,
this is what we want because they all hate Hamas.
Kamas is a terrorist organization. It is the rest of
(18:36):
the Middle East wants reasonable relations with Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I mean it is time. Israel is an economic force.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Israel wants peace with the rest of the region, and
Hamas is saying no. Lebanon of course is saying no.
Irana say no. But they have lost power big time,
and now is the time. The problem is is that
the people of America, the citizens going from being staunch
(19:08):
supporters of the State of Israel, have really gone the
other way. Now, the bottom line is it doesn't matter.
It really doesn't matter as long as President Trump, representing
the United States, backs up Israel and Israel maintains its
military force, which of course it's not going to give up.
(19:31):
What's going to happen, Well, Palestinians are going to continue
to suffer. And Nintaiell, who made it very clear yesterday,
he said, we can do it the hard way, we
can do it the easy way, and if Hamastas not
come to the table, we're moving forward. And now when Nintonno,
who says we're moving forward, he's not kidding. You'll see
(19:53):
the rest of Gazo. Eighty percent so far the buildings
have been destroyed or damaged. You'll see the rest of
them going down, one by one by one. When this
thing is over, and we know it has to end,
at some point, there will be not a building left standing.
There will be no infrastructure, there will be no hospitals,
(20:14):
there will be no water lines or electricity, gas lines.
It's all gone. And Hamas doesn't care. Israel looks at
Hamas as an existential threat to itself. We don't want
a terrorist organization, and that's exactly what it is. By
the way, Hamas wants to wipe out Israel. Israel doesn't
(20:38):
necessarily want to wipe out Palestinians. It wants to wipe
out Hamas. Hamas is saying no, Israel saying no. And
who ends up dying, of course, Palestinians Civilians. Now Hamas
doesn't differentiate between civilians and military of the sixty five thousand,
but you can bet probably two thirds or civilian. All right, now,
(21:01):
what's going on today? Well, oh a man, what's going
on today? First, the government shuts down at midnight tonight,
and we'll talk more about that tomorrow, because that's going
to happen even though there's negotiations. I think negotiations.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
If you can stop now between Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Then we have the peace plan that was produced by
President Trump and Nittanyahu. Waiting for Hamas's response, they're going
to say no. The Secretary of Defense Pete hegsith this
morning he had called the senior military leaders from all
over the world, admirals, generals, to come to Quantico, the
(21:42):
military base in Virginia, and he is he gave this speech,
this raw row speech in which you talked about completely
changing the Pentagon, going back to the Pentagon before wokeism,
before women were allowed in the military, when drill sergeants
could kick the crap out of recruits, when military leaders
(22:07):
and the members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force
were there to kill people to protect the United States.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That's where he went.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So while he's doing that, and the President spoke also,
and we're trying to get what the President has said
because I've been doing the show and been watching this
and obviously I can't listen to the sound and what
this debate was about, well, it wasn't even a debate.
What Pete Hess really did was change the national defense strategy,
(22:40):
the primary guide how the Pentagon prioritizes resources and positions
US forces around the world.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Life is changing.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He brought up a very interesting thing, and that is
how many people, how many generals and admirals in the room,
fought combat. How many of you were actually in combat,
And there weren't many hands raised, And he talked about
what actually, what was the fight that we won strategically
(23:15):
overwhelmingly in the last several decades, What was the one
fight that we won the goal for there was no issue,
and why.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Did we win the golf war? We knew what we
were going to do.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
The people that were at the top of the heap,
Colin Powell and Schwartzkoff, had fought. All the senior military
leaders have fought in the war, most of them from
uh well out of the Vietnam War. And there's the difference.
And he wants to go back to those days. He
(23:54):
wants to go back to the days when the military
when men were men and women were men some of
the time, not anymore. And that's what's going to happen
he's changed the entire.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Culture of the military.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And you've got people there that are going, wait a minute, why,
Because woke has been part of the military.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It has quota systems.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You talk about the opportunities for women for minorities, which
interestingly enough, never happened. I don't know if he's going
back to those days where it's all white guys. He
had even said, I'm not going to do that. If
women meet the standards of men, then they are certainly
(24:42):
accepted into the military. And therein lies a whole issue
of women meeting the standards. Women aren't as strong, he says,
they have to be as strong. Women aren't as fast,
they have to be as fast. Now we're talking combat.
When it comes to pilots, women can do it as better,
as good as anybody else, logistically, as good as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Intelligence. You don't need strength for any of that.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But heg said, said you the military, all of you
have to be ready to fight, all the way up
to the senior military leadership. Effectively, what you learned in
boot camp with that rifle in your hands.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
That's the way we're going to run the military.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And you're gonna see, well already he's fired a whole
bunch of people, and he's going to hire fire a
whole bunch more. It's going to be fascinating, just fascinating
what's going on. I don't remember a day where this
much stuff was happening. KFI AM sixty you've been listening
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