February 3, 2026 • 24 mins
(February 03, 2026)
Mayor Bass preaches ‘unity’ in Los Angeles ahead of 2028 Olympics. President Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections. Defending sheriff’s department cost L.A County over $100MIL. The IRS is cracking down on income earned by millions… the ‘side hustle.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're list scenes KF I am six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iheartradiop tell me I
you that I am six forty Bill handle here. Good
morning on a Taco Tuesday, February third. Some of the stories.
(00:21):
We are looking at the Artemis two spacecraft. It has
been delayed in launching with five well, they were going
to do a super duper end of the world test
on it and it didn't go off. And we've been
covering this this morning and it's became really a weird
story and obviously a national story because of who Savannah
Guthrie is. She's a host of Today, she's an anchor.
(00:44):
Her mom was abducted from her Arizona home. Her mother,
it is a crime scene. It doesn't look good. Sheriff's
department is scrambling to find out who did it. They
I don't think she's alive because they said it was
a crime scene, that she doesn't have dementi issues, and the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Way he described it, the sheriff described.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The same good news okay, yesterday reasonably good news. I
guess if you're a friend or a fan of Karen Bass.
And she delivered the first of two planned State of
the City speeches. She announces a new Clean Streets initiative
to accelerate the be at the beautification of the city.
(01:24):
Four hundred homes under construction and Pacific Palisades hundreds more
are approved. She and this is the part that I love.
This is political speak at its best. The main theme
of her speech is we Angelino's must come together ahead
of the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We all have to get along.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
She was a big fan of Rodney King, clearly, and
was thinking about him as she discussed what we have
to do in the city. We've got to get along,
all of us. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And then keeping with that theme, both UCLA and USC
marching bands played and they broke out in fistfight right afterwards.
The theme of unity as we prepare to host the
World Cup, the Olympics, the Paralympic Games, the Super Bowl,
I mean, that's going to be a lot of stuff
coming to California, and we have to unite in the
(02:20):
face of immigration raids just before we get picked up,
the homelessness crisis, the problems of the fires, I mean
goes on and on, and she said, even in this
difficult chapter in our history, great events, moments of unity
are possible, and they are coming. Okay, fair enough, Now,
(02:41):
a couple of interesting side notes here. Casey Wasserman, who
is the chair of the LA twenty eight Olympics Olympics
organized can come in.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He was putting it together here.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
There's a whole group of emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein,
and Wasserman said, I'm terribly sorry for having any association
with either of them, as Julaane Maxwell as well as
Jeffrey Epstein, And he said the emails were exchanged long
before her horrific crimes came to light. That's Maxwell and
(03:14):
so Bass's signature program inside Safe, she focuses on.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Cleaning up the encampments.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Also a new clean streets initiative called dubbed dubbed Clean Corridors.
As see, I would have just called it clean streets.
But then again, I'm not on her. I'm not on
her team at that point, and she would accelerate be
beautification is she's trying to make someone, Oh that that
(03:40):
is beatification when you become a saint.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That, by the way, was a joke about how she
perceives herself and she says we're also going to crack
down on illegal dumping, people who cut corners, disposal fees,
leave messes for workers and neighbors to deal with. Ten
she announces one hundred free watch parties during the World
Cup throughout the city. Now, a free watch party, I'm
(04:07):
assuming is they put up giant screens where thousands of
people get together. You know, we're in deficit. Okay, we
are seriously in deficit. So what is the cost of
putting up a giant screen, having the portable toilets there,
the police presence, the overtime, they have to pay for security.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Also, people can watch the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Grab any thousand people that are there do none of
them have friends that have a TV at home?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
None of them.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Also, the mayor talked about the immigration raids, spoke about
the Palisades fire and how terrific the city is dealing
with it, and she said, we're not just rebuilding, We
are real rebuilding smarter and faster and safer, and families
are returning home.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Put this in light of what President Trump said a
week ago when he said that he's criticized the city's
rebuild for going too slowly and he would preempt its
ability for issuing permits to people rebuilding the Palisades fire.
And so the President, well, he did another good one
because he wants to redo the election of the state,
(05:20):
so the election cycle and nationally he wants the federal
government to do that by executive order. And here is
something that's very little covered is that the President, having
once traveled in southern California motorcade at the corner of
Sunset La Sienega, by executive order, he has said that the.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Red light goes on too long.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So by executive order, he is now ordering that the
red light be limited to only thirty seconds. By the way,
if that's just a joke about how far he can
go by executive order, see Amy, I always have to
throw something in, don't I always help you?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I cannot help myself. It is genetic, it really is.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So last year, the mayor and the city council had
to close a one billion dollar budget shortfall, and so
layoffs to city workers were going to happen, and boy,
that produced a backlash, so the city avoided making the layoffs.
She turned around and went, Okay, we're not going to
do that. Cuts arrangements through city unions but we're looking
(06:25):
at another tough budget this year. She's up for election
in the June second election for a second term, and
she's going to deliver two State of the City speeches
within a three month span. And I am not a fan,
by the way, I am not a fan at all.
I mean I wish I had that Paul Caruso was elected.
(06:47):
I think it was done a much much better job.
Even if he tried to buy it. You can't in
this state. It's hard to buy elections, even when you
spend one hundred million dollars if you're not part of
the machinery. That's the democratic machinery. There's a saying as
a Republican machinery. I mean, Republicans don't exist legislatively and
elected officials unless you're in these tiny little congressional districts.
(07:11):
But you can't buck city hall when city hall is democratic.
I mean that is for those people that want a
true democracy, California is a tough way to go, not
because of many restrictions, it's because liberals live here. It's
that simple.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Here was a weird one, and at first glance, you go,
come on, this is just plain old ordinary. Trump's stupidity
because there is a lot and one of the things
about the president and you know, I'm not a fan,
but he says pretty bombastic stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, he does go out of his way.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Now, is it because he's Donald Trump and goes out
of his way just because he likes doing that? Does
he likes stirring the pot? Is there a method to
the madness where he'll say something just out of balance
as far as negotiating tactics, because he certainly is doing
that with the caraffs man, everybody is spinning. All the
other countries, Well, we don't know, but here's one that
(08:05):
came down yesterday. He is on a podcast. Former FBI
director Dan Bongino has a podcast. He resigned from his
posts in December and returned to the podcasting. So Trump
is being interviewed, and they got into election, the election
fraud that happened, and Trump again alleged that non citizen
(08:29):
voting influenced the election outcomes and it was rigged based
on voting, the non citizen voting as well as election
officials lying and changing ballots, all of it to make
sure that he lost in twenty twenty. I mean, the
guy is obsessed fixated on bad elections. So he said,
(08:50):
so what we have to do is take over the elections,
nationalize the elections. We can't let the states do it
because it's rigged. And if we the Republicans, and he
specifically said the Republicans should nationalize and take over the elections.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Now, as ludicrous as its soulends go, it is kind
of stupid. It's a direct violation of Article one of
a constitution.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I'll read that to you.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The time, places and manner of holding elections for senators
and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the
legislatures thereof.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But Congress may at any time, by law.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Make or alter such regulations, except as to the places
of choosing senators. Well, I mean theoretically you can say, okay,
Congress can change that. Republicans control Congress, and now let's
go ahead and make sure that by executive order. I say,
we change it, even though it says Congress, but we
don't pay attention to Congress.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's just an executive order. Will do it all. Okay. So,
assuming he does.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
This, I have no idea if he's going to or not,
then of course it's going to go out and the
Supreme Court would have to rule saying, yes, the Article
one section doesn't apply, even though it says Congress specifically
has to do this and nobody else doesn't matter when
it comes to President Trump. That's what's happening with terrorists
right now, going up to the court. And so at
(10:17):
first they go, Okay, how stupid can this be? I mean,
you know, what's the court going to do. Well, here's
the scary part. And it's not even Donald Trump so much,
it's legislature and even the Supreme Court, because when by
executive order, President Trump issued a direct by a direct
order that birthright citizenship no longer exists. That Amendment fourteen
(10:43):
that says unequivocally, if you're born in the United States,
you are a citizen, period. And Trump is saying, that's
not really what it means. What it really means is
if you're born of a citizen or a legal resident,
then you are a citizen. And if you're born in the
United States, not if your parent is an illegal migrant. Okay,
(11:05):
doesn't say that in the Constitution. And here's the scary part.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear that case as opposed
to just saying, are you out of your mind? And deny,
Sir Chieri, deny a hearing simply based on the fact.
Wait a second, it's the Constitution that says it directly. Okay,
So here's another case if he signs it. And again
(11:25):
I don't know if it's bombaster or not. Even though
Article one says that Congress may change the rules, but
the court has expansively gone the other way. The courts
have said that it really the Congress really doesn't have
the power, and it is up to the states. The
states make all the decisions. But you know, it's kind
(11:48):
of interesting with the court here that one too. Would
the court say, Okay, now that the president has signed
that Republicans must control the elections and Republicans will choose
how they're run.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But where does this beef come from? Bill? He was
off because it was I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
His beef is that the election was rigged in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I don't know what the damages are.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, damages are he was elected legally in twenty twenty,
that the Joe Biden, the Joe Biden victory was rigged.
He should have been elected in twenty twenty, and he
is going back. They just raided the offices of Fulton
County Election Board, seven hundred boxes. The FBI went in
(12:33):
and picked up all those boxes to prove that the
election was rigged. And even Trump said, we're going to
sign find something very interesting here.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, So let's say they find one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Or two, because you only have millions of votes, and
you told me, with millions of anything, or certainly hundreds
of thousands, you're not going to find one or two anomalies.
Keep in mind that the attack on that election made
in front of sixty three judges after the twenty twenty election,
(13:07):
sixty three judges, Trump appointee, Supreme Court, Appellate Court, State Court,
Federal District Court.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Every single one.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Voted or ruled that the election was not rigged, and
Joe Biden did win the election. And in fact, even
if Joe Biden lost in Georgia, he still would have
won the election. So I don't know where Trump is
going with this, but his latest is we want to
remove Article one and make sure that Congress now nationalizes
(13:39):
the elections and Republicans do it. Maybe the Court is
going to say, yeah, we uphold President Trump's position that
Republicans must control the elections that Democrats, by law are
not able.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
To even vote. I mean, where do you go with this?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
No, obviously that's a little hyperbolic, but I gotta tell
you it's less hyperbolic than not or it's more hyperbolic
than it isn't or could have been a little confusing there.
Oh okay, yeah, Neil, it's yeah. You know, sometimes I
know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I don't. Most of
the time I don't. But the reality is is, I mean,
(14:18):
what other president would ever say We're going to ignore
the Constitution completely and rewrite it. And the Supreme Court
is going to hear that. I mean, you want to
It's just it's craziness. Now, the Sheriff's department, well this
is typical, I mean, this is crazy typical stuff. And
the Sheriff's Department just released the figures of how much
(14:40):
money La County spent on legal payouts and lawyer's bills
two hundred and twenty nine dollars two hundred and twenty
nine million dollars. Half of that went to defend the
Sheriff's department lawsuits, particularly lawsuits, and a twelve percent uptick
from the year before. County spend ninety million dollars on
(15:02):
outside law firms, which it does all the time, all
the municipalities and county governments do, and the state government
does the same thing. Okay, So the sheriff's department was
the subject of a whole string of multimillion dollar settlements
accusing deputies of excessive force. If you look at the
eight costly settlements involving the county, six were the sheriff's department,
(15:25):
including a seven million dollar payout for a shooting in
a parking garage that left the man paralyzed, a seventeen
million dollar award for a car crash that involved a
deputy driving twice the speed there twice the speed limit.
A twenty five million dollars settlement that went to an
autistic man shot in his home. That one was in
(15:47):
March twenty twenty one. There was a nine to one
to one call for Isaiah Servantes, a deaf guy who
was in a mental health crisis. So his sister calls
asked the dispatcher if they can send someone out and
take him to the hospital because he had grown aggressive.
So here's a video and it shows deputies going into
the house where Servantes was on the couch seated, they
(16:09):
try to handcuff him. A struggle ensues and one of
the deputies said Servanda has tried to grab his gun
and the other deputies shot him, leaving him paralyzed. The
Sheriff's department said that that shooting did not violate the
use of force policies, which means nothing when you're in
front of a jury, and so I think politically in
(16:32):
this day and age, well, juries come down really hard.
Outside law firms continued to account for a significant chunk
of the legal spending. The amount spent on outside law
firms has gone up over the last forty years. Now,
all of this, by the way, when you talk about
(16:52):
the amount of money that was spent on these lawsuits
and defending the lawsuits and paying out these settlements, does
not even mention the nearly four point five billion dollars
the county agreed to pay to resolve thousands of claims
of sexual abuse in foster.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Homes and juvenile halls.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And that money will be paid out over five years
starting this year. That's a billion dollars a year that
the county has to pay.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Just add that to the budget.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And that was as a result of ab twenty eighteen,
a law that changed the statute of limitations for victims
they could sue over childhood sexual abuse, which means if
people women, particularly girls, So women now remember being abused
by a county facility twenty thirty, forty years ago. So
(17:48):
the county has been flooded with these lawsuits. The probation
department was served well two years ago, three hundred and
four lawsuits. This past year one thousand, nine and eighty
four lawsuits, and more and more are coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So this is county government.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
This is government in general, where anything that's done wrong,
anything immediately, is a lawsuit. Now, there are things that
are clearly crazy that governments can do. When police departments
do read Alex pretty in Minneapolis and Nicole Good. You know,
I keep on mixing. Now I think her middle name
is Nicole, right, do I have that right? In any case,
(18:31):
she was shot and killed in her SUV and so
that one those I think.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Are pretty easy to determine who's at fault.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But you know, again, when in doubt and the city
or the county said we're not settling, when demands are
made are huge, you go in front of a jury
and you take your chances. And this is big time
problems for city county governments, and it's our tax.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Dollars at work.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Of course, Hey, here is a stat to eve an
idea of where the economy is and where you fit
in our economy. As of twenty twenty five, last year,
twenty seven percent of American workers had some form of
side income, a side hustle. Over a quarter of all
(19:17):
employed people had a side hustle. That's a tough one.
According to a bank Rate survey. Bank Rate the organization.
Now for a lot of these people, it was negligible.
In twenty twenty five, the median hustler earned two hundred
bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Was nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
But if you think that income is too small for
the irs to bother with, oh you get to think again.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Why.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Because the agency that was part of the Inflation Reduction
Act of twenty twenty two, the agency modernized its operation,
expanded the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence, which
means that the taxman is now more of a teach
bought and no amount of income is too small for
(20:04):
this sophisticated kind of software. And if you're a freelance
or a gig worker, this is big problems for you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Big changes.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Now you only have to report any side income above
four hundred dollars a year. Nobody makes only four hundred
dollars a year if you're a side if you're a
gig worker. And by the way, there's a broad definition
of gigwork sharing ride sharing apps, renting out a portion
of your property, selling items online, running errands. Even it's
(20:39):
all considered a side gig. And people are desperate. And
if you fail to report side income, the agency has
several ways to track it. The IRS receives tremendous amounts
of data from third party vendors, and I am doing
a commercial on Handle on the law about third party
(21:00):
vendors and how you can deal with that, and so
it all has to be reported, and they have access
to all of it. I mean Venmo and PayPal. Now
those are good news because you need more than two
hundred transactions and twenty thousand dollars in a single tax here.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So that's bestly the way to go.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Cash transactions also are a little a little bit more
difficult to track. But to give you an idea of
how difficult it is in terms of workers, the other
day I was at Walmart and I happened to pass
a training class for Walmart greeters.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And there it was.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The instructor was saying, so, here is how we greet Hi,
welcome to Walmart. No, you can say, hey, good morning,
welcome to Walmart. And it's also a question of where
the syllable is welcome to Walmart. No, no, no, welcome
to Walmart. Hi welcome. I mean, side gigs are really important.
(22:09):
And as that reported, you bet that is no matter what.
So here is what the IRS tells you to do.
First of all, track everything, report all income and expenses.
That's what a lot of people don't understand because if
you report income, and you can also report expenses because
it costs you money to sometimes get into side gigs.
(22:34):
For example, let's say you are buying a software that
allows you to sell, well, that's deductible, so any business
expense can be related to your gigwork. But here's the
bottom line. I'm going to say it again. The IRS.
And you hear these commercials about the IRS being brutal,
they are and the IRS has unlimited power. They do,
(22:58):
and they're going to who now tax every dime because
of AI. That's the bad news of AI. And side hustles. Again,
I'm gonna repeat that stat. A quarter of a million,
or a quarter of the entire working population engages in
side gigs. So I've got a practice. Welcome to KFI. No, no,
(23:23):
good morning, Welcome to KFI. No, no, good morning, Welcome
to KFI.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'll get it, I'll get it all right.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Coming up Tech Tuesday with Rich tomorrow, and of course
we're gonna be talking about the big game, the Super Bowl,
which you can only say if you're not selling a product.
And I've got some other topics to talk to Rich
about too. This is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
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you that I am six forty Bill handle here. Good
morning on a Taco Tuesday, February third. Some of the stories.
(00:21):
We are looking at the Artemis two spacecraft. It has
been delayed in launching with five well, they were going
to do a super duper end of the world test
on it and it didn't go off. And we've been
covering this this morning and it's became really a weird
story and obviously a national story because of who Savannah
Guthrie is. She's a host of Today, she's an anchor.
(00:44):
Her mom was abducted from her Arizona home. Her mother,
it is a crime scene. It doesn't look good. Sheriff's
department is scrambling to find out who did it. They
I don't think she's alive because they said it was
a crime scene, that she doesn't have dementi issues, and the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Way he described it, the sheriff described.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The same good news okay, yesterday reasonably good news. I
guess if you're a friend or a fan of Karen Bass.
And she delivered the first of two planned State of
the City speeches. She announces a new Clean Streets initiative
to accelerate the be at the beautification of the city.
(01:24):
Four hundred homes under construction and Pacific Palisades hundreds more
are approved. She and this is the part that I love.
This is political speak at its best. The main theme
of her speech is we Angelino's must come together ahead
of the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We all have to get along.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
She was a big fan of Rodney King, clearly, and
was thinking about him as she discussed what we have
to do in the city. We've got to get along,
all of us. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And then keeping with that theme, both UCLA and USC
marching bands played and they broke out in fistfight right afterwards.
The theme of unity as we prepare to host the
World Cup, the Olympics, the Paralympic Games, the Super Bowl,
I mean, that's going to be a lot of stuff
coming to California, and we have to unite in the
(02:20):
face of immigration raids just before we get picked up,
the homelessness crisis, the problems of the fires, I mean
goes on and on, and she said, even in this
difficult chapter in our history, great events, moments of unity
are possible, and they are coming. Okay, fair enough, Now,
(02:41):
a couple of interesting side notes here. Casey Wasserman, who
is the chair of the LA twenty eight Olympics Olympics
organized can come in.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
He was putting it together here.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
There's a whole group of emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein,
and Wasserman said, I'm terribly sorry for having any association
with either of them, as Julaane Maxwell as well as
Jeffrey Epstein, And he said the emails were exchanged long
before her horrific crimes came to light. That's Maxwell and
(03:14):
so Bass's signature program inside Safe, she focuses on.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Cleaning up the encampments.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Also a new clean streets initiative called dubbed dubbed Clean Corridors.
As see, I would have just called it clean streets.
But then again, I'm not on her. I'm not on
her team at that point, and she would accelerate be
beautification is she's trying to make someone, Oh that that
(03:40):
is beatification when you become a saint.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That, by the way, was a joke about how she
perceives herself and she says we're also going to crack
down on illegal dumping, people who cut corners, disposal fees,
leave messes for workers and neighbors to deal with. Ten
she announces one hundred free watch parties during the World
Cup throughout the city. Now, a free watch party, I'm
(04:07):
assuming is they put up giant screens where thousands of
people get together. You know, we're in deficit. Okay, we
are seriously in deficit. So what is the cost of
putting up a giant screen, having the portable toilets there,
the police presence, the overtime, they have to pay for security.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Also, people can watch the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Grab any thousand people that are there do none of
them have friends that have a TV at home?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
None of them.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Also, the mayor talked about the immigration raids, spoke about
the Palisades fire and how terrific the city is dealing
with it, and she said, we're not just rebuilding, We
are real rebuilding smarter and faster and safer, and families
are returning home.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Put this in light of what President Trump said a
week ago when he said that he's criticized the city's
rebuild for going too slowly and he would preempt its
ability for issuing permits to people rebuilding the Palisades fire.
And so the President, well, he did another good one
because he wants to redo the election of the state,
(05:20):
so the election cycle and nationally he wants the federal
government to do that by executive order. And here is
something that's very little covered is that the President, having
once traveled in southern California motorcade at the corner of
Sunset La Sienega, by executive order, he has said that the.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Red light goes on too long.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So by executive order, he is now ordering that the
red light be limited to only thirty seconds. By the way,
if that's just a joke about how far he can
go by executive order, see Amy, I always have to
throw something in, don't I always help you?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I cannot help myself. It is genetic, it really is.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So last year, the mayor and the city council had
to close a one billion dollar budget shortfall, and so
layoffs to city workers were going to happen, and boy,
that produced a backlash, so the city avoided making the layoffs.
She turned around and went, Okay, we're not going to
do that. Cuts arrangements through city unions but we're looking
(06:25):
at another tough budget this year. She's up for election
in the June second election for a second term, and
she's going to deliver two State of the City speeches
within a three month span. And I am not a fan,
by the way, I am not a fan at all.
I mean I wish I had that Paul Caruso was elected.
(06:47):
I think it was done a much much better job.
Even if he tried to buy it. You can't in
this state. It's hard to buy elections, even when you
spend one hundred million dollars if you're not part of
the machinery. That's the democratic machinery. There's a saying as
a Republican machinery. I mean, Republicans don't exist legislatively and
elected officials unless you're in these tiny little congressional districts.
(07:11):
But you can't buck city hall when city hall is democratic.
I mean that is for those people that want a
true democracy, California is a tough way to go, not
because of many restrictions, it's because liberals live here. It's
that simple.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Here was a weird one, and at first glance, you go,
come on, this is just plain old ordinary. Trump's stupidity
because there is a lot and one of the things
about the president and you know, I'm not a fan,
but he says pretty bombastic stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, he does go out of his way.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Now, is it because he's Donald Trump and goes out
of his way just because he likes doing that? Does
he likes stirring the pot? Is there a method to
the madness where he'll say something just out of balance
as far as negotiating tactics, because he certainly is doing
that with the caraffs man, everybody is spinning. All the
other countries, Well, we don't know, but here's one that
(08:05):
came down yesterday. He is on a podcast. Former FBI
director Dan Bongino has a podcast. He resigned from his
posts in December and returned to the podcasting. So Trump
is being interviewed, and they got into election, the election
fraud that happened, and Trump again alleged that non citizen
(08:29):
voting influenced the election outcomes and it was rigged based
on voting, the non citizen voting as well as election
officials lying and changing ballots, all of it to make
sure that he lost in twenty twenty. I mean, the
guy is obsessed fixated on bad elections. So he said,
(08:50):
so what we have to do is take over the elections,
nationalize the elections. We can't let the states do it
because it's rigged. And if we the Republicans, and he
specifically said the Republicans should nationalize and take over the elections.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Now, as ludicrous as its soulends go, it is kind
of stupid. It's a direct violation of Article one of
a constitution.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I'll read that to you.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The time, places and manner of holding elections for senators
and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the
legislatures thereof.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But Congress may at any time, by law.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Make or alter such regulations, except as to the places
of choosing senators. Well, I mean theoretically you can say, okay,
Congress can change that. Republicans control Congress, and now let's
go ahead and make sure that by executive order. I say,
we change it, even though it says Congress, but we
don't pay attention to Congress.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's just an executive order. Will do it all. Okay. So,
assuming he does.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
This, I have no idea if he's going to or not,
then of course it's going to go out and the
Supreme Court would have to rule saying, yes, the Article
one section doesn't apply, even though it says Congress specifically
has to do this and nobody else doesn't matter when
it comes to President Trump. That's what's happening with terrorists
right now, going up to the court. And so at
(10:17):
first they go, Okay, how stupid can this be? I mean,
you know, what's the court going to do. Well, here's
the scary part. And it's not even Donald Trump so much,
it's legislature and even the Supreme Court, because when by
executive order, President Trump issued a direct by a direct
order that birthright citizenship no longer exists. That Amendment fourteen
(10:43):
that says unequivocally, if you're born in the United States,
you are a citizen, period. And Trump is saying, that's
not really what it means. What it really means is
if you're born of a citizen or a legal resident,
then you are a citizen. And if you're born in the
United States, not if your parent is an illegal migrant. Okay,
(11:05):
doesn't say that in the Constitution. And here's the scary part.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear that case as opposed
to just saying, are you out of your mind? And deny,
Sir Chieri, deny a hearing simply based on the fact.
Wait a second, it's the Constitution that says it directly. Okay,
So here's another case if he signs it. And again
(11:25):
I don't know if it's bombaster or not. Even though
Article one says that Congress may change the rules, but
the court has expansively gone the other way. The courts
have said that it really the Congress really doesn't have
the power, and it is up to the states. The
states make all the decisions. But you know, it's kind
(11:48):
of interesting with the court here that one too. Would
the court say, Okay, now that the president has signed
that Republicans must control the elections and Republicans will choose
how they're run.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But where does this beef come from? Bill? He was
off because it was I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
His beef is that the election was rigged in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I don't know what the damages are.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, damages are he was elected legally in twenty twenty,
that the Joe Biden, the Joe Biden victory was rigged.
He should have been elected in twenty twenty, and he
is going back. They just raided the offices of Fulton
County Election Board, seven hundred boxes. The FBI went in
(12:33):
and picked up all those boxes to prove that the
election was rigged. And even Trump said, we're going to
sign find something very interesting here.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Okay, So let's say they find one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Or two, because you only have millions of votes, and
you told me, with millions of anything, or certainly hundreds
of thousands, you're not going to find one or two anomalies.
Keep in mind that the attack on that election made
in front of sixty three judges after the twenty twenty election,
(13:07):
sixty three judges, Trump appointee, Supreme Court, Appellate Court, State Court,
Federal District Court.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Every single one.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Voted or ruled that the election was not rigged, and
Joe Biden did win the election. And in fact, even
if Joe Biden lost in Georgia, he still would have
won the election. So I don't know where Trump is
going with this, but his latest is we want to
remove Article one and make sure that Congress now nationalizes
(13:39):
the elections and Republicans do it. Maybe the Court is
going to say, yeah, we uphold President Trump's position that
Republicans must control the elections that Democrats, by law are
not able.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
To even vote. I mean, where do you go with this?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
No, obviously that's a little hyperbolic, but I gotta tell
you it's less hyperbolic than not or it's more hyperbolic
than it isn't or could have been a little confusing there.
Oh okay, yeah, Neil, it's yeah. You know, sometimes I
know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I don't. Most of
the time I don't. But the reality is is, I mean,
(14:18):
what other president would ever say We're going to ignore
the Constitution completely and rewrite it. And the Supreme Court
is going to hear that. I mean, you want to
It's just it's craziness. Now, the Sheriff's department, well this
is typical, I mean, this is crazy typical stuff. And
the Sheriff's Department just released the figures of how much
(14:40):
money La County spent on legal payouts and lawyer's bills
two hundred and twenty nine dollars two hundred and twenty
nine million dollars. Half of that went to defend the
Sheriff's department lawsuits, particularly lawsuits, and a twelve percent uptick
from the year before. County spend ninety million dollars on
(15:02):
outside law firms, which it does all the time, all
the municipalities and county governments do, and the state government
does the same thing. Okay, So the sheriff's department was
the subject of a whole string of multimillion dollar settlements
accusing deputies of excessive force. If you look at the
eight costly settlements involving the county, six were the sheriff's department,
(15:25):
including a seven million dollar payout for a shooting in
a parking garage that left the man paralyzed, a seventeen
million dollar award for a car crash that involved a
deputy driving twice the speed there twice the speed limit.
A twenty five million dollars settlement that went to an
autistic man shot in his home. That one was in
(15:47):
March twenty twenty one. There was a nine to one
to one call for Isaiah Servantes, a deaf guy who
was in a mental health crisis. So his sister calls
asked the dispatcher if they can send someone out and
take him to the hospital because he had grown aggressive.
So here's a video and it shows deputies going into
the house where Servantes was on the couch seated, they
(16:09):
try to handcuff him. A struggle ensues and one of
the deputies said Servanda has tried to grab his gun
and the other deputies shot him, leaving him paralyzed. The
Sheriff's department said that that shooting did not violate the
use of force policies, which means nothing when you're in
front of a jury, and so I think politically in
(16:32):
this day and age, well, juries come down really hard.
Outside law firms continued to account for a significant chunk
of the legal spending. The amount spent on outside law
firms has gone up over the last forty years. Now,
all of this, by the way, when you talk about
(16:52):
the amount of money that was spent on these lawsuits
and defending the lawsuits and paying out these settlements, does
not even mention the nearly four point five billion dollars
the county agreed to pay to resolve thousands of claims
of sexual abuse in foster.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Homes and juvenile halls.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And that money will be paid out over five years
starting this year. That's a billion dollars a year that
the county has to pay.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Just add that to the budget.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And that was as a result of ab twenty eighteen,
a law that changed the statute of limitations for victims
they could sue over childhood sexual abuse, which means if
people women, particularly girls, So women now remember being abused
by a county facility twenty thirty, forty years ago. So
(17:48):
the county has been flooded with these lawsuits. The probation
department was served well two years ago, three hundred and
four lawsuits. This past year one thousand, nine and eighty
four lawsuits, and more and more are coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
So this is county government.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
This is government in general, where anything that's done wrong,
anything immediately, is a lawsuit. Now, there are things that
are clearly crazy that governments can do. When police departments
do read Alex pretty in Minneapolis and Nicole Good. You know,
I keep on mixing. Now I think her middle name
is Nicole, right, do I have that right? In any case,
(18:31):
she was shot and killed in her SUV and so
that one those I think.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Are pretty easy to determine who's at fault.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But you know, again, when in doubt and the city
or the county said we're not settling, when demands are
made are huge, you go in front of a jury
and you take your chances. And this is big time
problems for city county governments, and it's our tax.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Dollars at work.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Of course, Hey, here is a stat to eve an
idea of where the economy is and where you fit
in our economy. As of twenty twenty five, last year,
twenty seven percent of American workers had some form of
side income, a side hustle. Over a quarter of all
(19:17):
employed people had a side hustle. That's a tough one.
According to a bank Rate survey. Bank Rate the organization.
Now for a lot of these people, it was negligible.
In twenty twenty five, the median hustler earned two hundred
bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Was nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
But if you think that income is too small for
the irs to bother with, oh you get to think again.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Why.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Because the agency that was part of the Inflation Reduction
Act of twenty twenty two, the agency modernized its operation,
expanded the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence, which
means that the taxman is now more of a teach
bought and no amount of income is too small for
(20:04):
this sophisticated kind of software. And if you're a freelance
or a gig worker, this is big problems for you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Big changes.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Now you only have to report any side income above
four hundred dollars a year. Nobody makes only four hundred
dollars a year if you're a side if you're a
gig worker. And by the way, there's a broad definition
of gigwork sharing ride sharing apps, renting out a portion
of your property, selling items online, running errands. Even it's
(20:39):
all considered a side gig. And people are desperate. And
if you fail to report side income, the agency has
several ways to track it. The IRS receives tremendous amounts
of data from third party vendors, and I am doing
a commercial on Handle on the law about third party
(21:00):
vendors and how you can deal with that, and so
it all has to be reported, and they have access
to all of it. I mean Venmo and PayPal. Now
those are good news because you need more than two
hundred transactions and twenty thousand dollars in a single tax here.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So that's bestly the way to go.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Cash transactions also are a little a little bit more
difficult to track. But to give you an idea of
how difficult it is in terms of workers, the other
day I was at Walmart and I happened to pass
a training class for Walmart greeters.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And there it was.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The instructor was saying, so, here is how we greet Hi,
welcome to Walmart. No, you can say, hey, good morning,
welcome to Walmart. And it's also a question of where
the syllable is welcome to Walmart. No, no, no, welcome
to Walmart. Hi welcome. I mean, side gigs are really important.
(22:09):
And as that reported, you bet that is no matter what.
So here is what the IRS tells you to do.
First of all, track everything, report all income and expenses.
That's what a lot of people don't understand because if
you report income, and you can also report expenses because
it costs you money to sometimes get into side gigs.
(22:34):
For example, let's say you are buying a software that
allows you to sell, well, that's deductible, so any business
expense can be related to your gigwork. But here's the
bottom line. I'm going to say it again. The IRS.
And you hear these commercials about the IRS being brutal,
they are and the IRS has unlimited power. They do,
(22:58):
and they're going to who now tax every dime because
of AI. That's the bad news of AI. And side hustles. Again,
I'm gonna repeat that stat. A quarter of a million,
or a quarter of the entire working population engages in
side gigs. So I've got a practice. Welcome to KFI. No, no,
(23:23):
good morning, Welcome to KFI. No, no, good morning, Welcome
to KFI.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'll get it, I'll get it all right.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Coming up Tech Tuesday with Rich tomorrow, and of course
we're gonna be talking about the big game, the Super Bowl,
which you can only say if you're not selling a product.
And I've got some other topics to talk to Rich
about too. This is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
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Speaker 1 (23:53):
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