February 12, 2026 • 25 mins
(February 12, 2026)
Key takeaways from Pam Bondi's House hearing. LAPD on course to put drones in the sky as first responders. Thousands of apartments set to take over empty office buildings with new L.A. ordinance. FDA declines to review Moderna flu vaccine.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. I think I might be able to help
with the pan m dilemma.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You are listening to the Bill Handle show. We can't
we just.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here Thursday morning, February twelfth. Hey,
you can listen to any segment, any segment of this
show or any show here on KFI, simply by going
to the radio app, the iHeart iHeartRadio app and listening
to Well, you can find the podcast because there's a
(00:42):
lot of stuff that you are missing and we're gonna
have fun.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
All right. Well fine, I don't know if that's the
appropriate word.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yesterday, as we were doing this show, I was looking
up at the screen and CNN and Fox and even BBC.
We're carrying the hearings, hearings being that Pambondy in front
of the Congressional Congressional Committee, that is the House Oversight Committee,
(01:12):
and it's these investigative committees aren't investigative in any sense.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Of the word they're supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But what they are, as I said, it's a dog
and pony show where Republicans are telling her and stating
you are wonderful, You're terrific. The administration has done everything.
You're saving America under the leadership of President Trump. I mean,
on and on and on. You know, the same crap
that you hear from any member of the administration or
(01:40):
any Republican that's in Congress. For the most part, the fast,
fast majority of the Republicans would jump off a building
if Trump asked them to jump off. As Mike Johnson said,
he's a speaker, my job is to further the private
president's agenda. Well, how about your job as running the
(02:01):
House of Representatives. Yes, to further the agenda of the president.
There's no such thing as an independent, independent legislative branch anyboard.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It doesn't exist. Es with the Republicans in control and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The Democrats on the other side ripped into her and
mainly Epstein is what came up, and the argument was
that the Democrats are accusing the administration of not releasing
all the Epstein files and trying to hold them back
and only releasing them when a bipartisan group of Congress
(02:37):
people passed the law and President President Trump was gonna
lose the veto there was gonna be overridden. So finally
he did sign it and say he's always wanted to
release those documents, which is just not true. I mean,
it's a we get a lot of utter lies, I
mean just straight out lies from the administration. So here
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you have a political fight, and she is so contentious
she throws it right back at them. The days of
having any respect for congress people or even senators in
these hearings have long gone. Accusation is made. Congressperson, this
is just theatrics for you, None of this makes sense.
All you care about is theatrics. For example, a group
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of survivors were sitting in the audience behind Pambondi and
she was asked, will you turn to them and apologize
for what the administration didn't do, as in talk to you,
as in investigate what happened? And Pambondi refused too, she goes,
that's just theatrics. Well, the reality is it is it
(03:43):
is on both sides. So as I told you, I
have the answer for this, and I do, and that
is how do you have How do we not pay.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Attention to this kind of crapola?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
This meeting, this hearing was broadcast live for five hours.
That's how long BONDI was in front of the committee,
So what is the answer. I'll tell you what the
answer was as I was watching this after we got
off the air. If the committee opened up its hearing
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and every Democrat on the committee stood up and walked outside,
just walked out the door, all you would have is
Republicans telling Bondie how brilliant President Trump was and is
how brilliant a job she is doing, how you are
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saving America? And there was lots of Biden Harris stuff
going on. Is the true Attorney General that Biden the
Biden Harris administration destroyed America? Yes it is. Isn't it
true that they did not enforce any laws regarding immigration? Well,
I guess to that extent it is. Isn't it true?
Isn't it true? Okay, who's going to cover that? Who
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is going to cover five hours of that? Where you
have Congress people just telling her she's brilliant, telling it
that the president is building is brilliant, that Ice is
doing a terrific job, that Border Patrol is saving America,
and otherwise if President Trump were not in power, America
would be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And simply parrot what the President.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Has said isn't it true that President Trump is the
greatest president that ever lived? Isn't it true that America
would go into the sewer if President Trump were not
our president? Who's going to cover that? Amy, you're a newsperson,
and let me ask your opinion. Seriously, if it were
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only the Republicans telling a Pam Bondy, tell me how
wonderful you are and what the president is tell us
about how wonderful the country is?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Now, who's going to cover that, nobuddy? Because it's just propaganda.
There's a there you go that's out there.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
There you go, and the contentiousness that was what made
it somewhat I guess relevant, but it's not relevant.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
None of it was relevant, but it is.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Meaning Yeah, well five hours of it from the Democratic
side and the Republican side, it's all. It's all dog
and pony and we know it. It means nothing. It
means zero today. All right, coming up the lapd and drones,
how do they connect? Well, we're gonna get drone here.
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I'm going to drone and drone on that one. You're
gonna get bored with that much like you did yesterday.
And look at the segue I just did I connected
this segment with the segment that's coming up. This is
why you have to listen and podcast are segments, because
otherwise you're going to miss amy. Isn't it true that
this broadcast is the greatest talk show broadcast in the
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history of mankind? Isn't it true that we are saving
talk radio? Isn't it true?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Objection exactly, I'd like to get my time back.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Please come next Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We have a new show that is appearing here broadcast
here on KFI, and some new times for existing shows.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
This doesn't change.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We're on from six to nine am, and wake Up
Call is still from five to six, and then nine o'clock.
It's going to be Gary and Shannon from nine till noon,
and then the new show kicks in Chris Merrill, who
you know has been filling in for years, and Michael Monks,
who is our news person extraordinaire. They are going to
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have their program, and then John starts at three o'clock,
three to six, and then it's Tim Conway six to
ten o'clock. That's our new lineup, and that those are
our new times. So by the way it's gonna is
it going to be the Monks and Merrill show, or
is it going to be in the Merrill and Monks
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show or is it going to be eminem.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's monks and merrill.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't think it matters. It matters, It matters. No,
you have to have top billing. Top billing absolutely matters.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
If they're right next to each other.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Top billing matters completely.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like when I have flown on the same airplane with
George Norri, I've done that three times to Las Vegas.
We always argue if the plane goes down, who gets
top billing? That is all we care about. Top billing
is critical in life. Anyway, I'm looking forward to it,
looking forward to it. That starts Tuesday, by the way,
Merrill or Monks and Merrill start at noon on Tuesday,
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and I think you'll have a good time with that. Okay,
let's talk about the lapd is putting up drones in
the skies as first responders, not necessarily, as just looking
at what's going on, much like helicopters do that. The
police have just you know, surveillance and with the big
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light they do it. I don't know if you've ever
been under one of those lights or like ten billion lumens. Yeah,
a helicopter. It is just see them every day. Yeah,
but have you ever been Have you ever been under
one of those lights? Yeah, it is high noon on
the brightest day of the year.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It is crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So anyway, drones are now moving beyond investigative purpose right
into first responders. And there's a two point one million
dollar donation. LA Board of Police Commissioners agreed to this
to purchase twenty four drones and to equip them to
bolster LAPD's plans to use them as first responders.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There was a successful.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Pilot program and the funds with one point eight million
dollars going to go with a three year contract with Skydio.
Skydio Okay, interesting name for the purchase of the drones
and docking stations, installations at stations and public facilities. Anyway,
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the point of all this is to use them, not
so much as flying over to figure out what's going on,
believing below them. Expanding that as to first responders. Now
before they were limited to jumping in and dealing with
barricaded suspects or explosives. Well, today what's going to happen
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is these drones and high definition cameras because the cameras
are getting superb and thermal imaging is going to give
officers and I'm going to quote here, real time awareness
to assess threats, locate suspects, identify hazards, and at times
resolve calls without direct contact. Just make it easier and
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safer to for the police to do their jobs. And
that expand expands dramatically the use of the drones. Now
you have advocacy, We have privacy advocates that of course
argue with any of that. They have a tough time
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with any governmental entity knowing about you where you're going.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And this is police action.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I have not heard, by the way, anybody come in
against this as of this point. But this program, the
First Responder program, by the way, it's funded by private
donations because the foundation LA Police Foundation, which pays for
a lot of this new stuff and pays for some
military equipment and vests and whatever that the LAPD just
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doesn't have money for, and so they pay for a
lot of They donate a lot of gear and a
lot of programs, et cetera. And so it's important it's
not tax dollars. But what happens is here's the quote
again by proving response times, proving better situational awareness, enhances
his officer safety and enables more informed decision making, supports
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de escalation efforts, and advances the department's use of modern technology,
which makes a lot of sense. You call the cops,
and the cops come and there's traffic. Let's say, is
bumper them up for traffic? And you call the police.
You know what, it's going to take a while. You
send up a drone and they're going to go there immediately,
and the drone is going to be able to see
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what's going on, and you have thermal imaging, which the
police don't have a helicopters do, but helicopters can be
a ways away and you're limited with a number of helicopters.
With drones, you can send up a dozen of them
overhead and it makes a great deal of sense. Now,
the next I think the next part of this program,
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and I think it's going to be expanded, is using
military tactics to deal with the bad guys.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
For example, they can put hell fire.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Missiles on these drones, fly them overhead, and if someone
is barricaded, that entire building is vaporized. That is a
way to deal with the criminals. Okay, I think we're
done with that now.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I've taught. Oh, we've talked a lot about housing over
the years.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And there's two things going on and that is number one,
we need housing, clearly and no issue there. And there
is approximately fifty million square feet of empty office space
in LA. You combine the two and you have an answer,
and that is converting the office space into residential dwellings,
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into apartments or condos. And you take an old building,
actually you take even a newer building because there's a
new law that says you can now do it with
buildings that are fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It used to be way older than that.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And you start constructing apartments, Well, the building is already there,
foundation is poured, the steel is there.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So it's a fraction of the cost.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Now there are some costs because you have to replumb
and re electrical and all of that, but you still
have the bones of the building which make the conversion
much much cheaper. And the city, Wow, what a shaker,
finally got onto this. And so there is a new
law that has just been passed and what it does
is allowed streamlines these conversion approvals that have actually removes
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one of the biggest hurdles for developers because historically you
have a developer. Nothing stops a developer, by the way,
from developing an older office building, older older than fifteen years.
Now it's now newer ones can be converted, so nothing
stops the developer from doing that. The problem is how
long the regular process takes.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And it took years, and developers saying we don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean, we're going to invest millions of dollars in
this and we don't know when this is a go. Well,
the city realized that that is a big issue, and
so they passed an ordinance making it far, far easier.
One of the buildings that is being converted, that pyramid
building right off the one on one Freeway in Sherman Oaks,
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the sun Kissed Headquarters building. Remember that one beautiful building.
It's inverted pyramid. Yeah, and it's empty.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's empty.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Sun Kissed Headquarters moved. It was the Headquarters from nineteen
seventy to twenty thirteen. It's a long time. And now
what the hell do they do with it? Or are
they going to make condos or are they going to
make apartments out of it?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They've already started construction there. The whole lot of construction
going on there.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, there's You go to New York, you go to Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Where they have really made an effort to make this
happen by ten accibatements, by subsidizing construction, by approval ratings
flying through the door. You have buildings there that have
over a thousand units. Now these are big units, and
they're adding residential residential space by the thousands and thousands
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of dollars. So rents, thank god, have rents have actually
leveled out. So now the average is only two and
sixty seven dollars per month, and that was in December.
And even the cost of a used tent under a
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bridge in one of the suburbs and one of the
communities in LA has gotten cheaper. You could actually go
TORII and buy used bridge and put it underneath the
used tent and put it undneath the bridge. So rents
have actually gotten cheaper, and so it just makes so
much sense, it really does. And also high rises office space,
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well you still have the windows, you still have the
great window views. It's just a question of now electrical
new electrical new walls, but again just walls that aren't aren't.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Aren't weight bearing walls either.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Those you're looking at plumbing for dorlets.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
You are you're looking No, you're you're definitely looking at
additional you are definitely looking at.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Every place has to have windows, so the center, the
center space is hard to use.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, you you there are plenty of office spaces. You're
allowed to have inside offices and that they're allowed to
do that. The elevators are already in, uh the bones
of the building. The windows are already there.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You can't have a dwelling with no windows to the outside.
You have to light.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Okay, you know I don't and I don't know that
that does resonate, and I don't know the answer to that.
But I'm I'm going to give you the benefit of
the doub because it makes sense what you say. So
you have of the residence is all over. How about
this mixed use where the inside our only is office
space or kitchens exactly or yes, or you make yeah,
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I think that would work.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I think that would work. It's a good idea. We
have to do this. It makes all you know, the
problem is, it makes so much sense that it's.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Probably gonna fail because we're dealing with city ordinances.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Smart to work.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's too smart to work for a city council, city government. Okay, Now,
as I promoted just before we went to break, I'm
going to talk about the death of a thousand cuts.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
RFK Junior, who is the head of Health and Human Services,
was and is still a anti vaxxer. He promised during
his hearings that he wouldn't do that. Bill Cassidy the
last vote the senator from Kentucky. I guess believed him
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because it's RFK lied outright, and I'm sure he's kicking
himself in the ass for this one because Kennedy was Cassidy.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Cassidy was a pro vax or even ran a vaccine
program in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So now here's the latest.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
The FDA under Health and Human Services has refused to
review Moderna's application that its seasonal flu vaccine is well,
it's not even going forward. They won't even review the application.
This is the latest setback for the development of mRNA
based vaccines, which is the new technology. Maderna said it
(19:46):
had received a refusal to file letter from the FDA.
By the way, the company noted that the FDA didn't
say there was any specific safety or efficacy concerns because concerns,
or even would review testing. They just said, we're just
not going to period. And Moderna said, wait a minute,
(20:09):
this rejection is inconsistent with the feedback we got in
twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, and all we
want is a meeting to sit down with the FDA
to discuss this, and the FDA is saying no, absolutely not.
During the World econom Economic Forum in Davos, Davos, Switzerland,
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Sephanie stefan A Bontel said the company is not going
to invest anymore in the vaccine trials late stage vaccine
trials because of the growing opposition to immunizations from the US.
They're just not going to do it. And I assume
that's what RFK Junior wants. We know that the FDA
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has stopped recommending vaccines under certain circumstances for kids under
the age if I think three months or four months,
and by the way, the certain vaccines are given at
birth and the FDA say you don't do that anymore,
and certain other vaccines that the American Medical Society has said,
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this is crazy, this makes no sense. This is not science, guys.
The science says this all helps, and you're saying no.
And they are saying no because of the debunked, unproven
claims that are being made by RFK with the like
the autism study that RFK used to quote, which I
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don't think he's crazy enough to do anymore. The fact
that vaccines cause autism was based on one paper written
by a crazy ass doctor later debunked, later recanted, and
he lost his license to practice medicine. That is the
basis of autism. I mean, it's just crazy. So the
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guidance on childhood immanization was rolled back against six infections diseases,
and the Department of Health and Human Services said it's
going to wind down the vaccine development activities under its
Biomedical Research Unit, and it's basically saying we are not
interested in a more modern version and a more technological
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aspect or technological furtherance of our vaccines.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Now, these programs.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Were being told by people within the government or outside
of the government that used to be in government that
these sweeping changes, not just this one, but sweeping changes
across the board to vaccines, to food, to medicine policies
will impact twenty two projects worth nearly five hundred million dollars.
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That's a lot of money that the government used to
spend for research for furtherance of the health plans that
were in place. And one of the issues and remember
this when the President said and when it was cutting
like crazy programs, and one of them he said, fifty
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million dollars was dedicated to condoms in the Third World,
and then three days later he said, one hundred million
dollars is being spent on condoms by the World Health
Organization and funded by the United States, leaving out the
fact that, of course it wasn't one hundred million.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Of course it wasn't fifty million.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It was just I think either in the one hundreds
of thousands or the low millions of dollars. But here
is where the difference the thinking is different. That is,
these condoms were given out and about HIV prevention, that
was the point of handing out condoms, and instead it
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was portrayed by the President that this is condoms so
people can just stoop like crazy. And it's just a
different view of looking at it. RFK Junior does not
believe in vaccines. He is in a position as head
of Health and Human Services, to stop research, to stop education,
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and to stop vaccinations under federal programs. It's going to
be an interesting three years, by the way. And this
is truly the death of a thousand cuts because he
will not admit that he is anti vaccine anymore. Oh no, no,
absolutely not. I believe in vaccinations. I think they're very valuable.
I believe they're overused, but I think they should be utilized. Yeah,
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we believe that, don't we. Okay, we're done with that,
and I guess yeah, that gets my eyer up. It
drives me completely crazy. I mean, I'm a big fan
of vaccine.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I really am.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I vaccinated my kids everything you can vaccinate them for.
I even vaccinated them against parvo and distemper. And that's
not easy to have a doctor vaccinated a child for.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Distemper and worms and all that.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All that are your heart worm medication. I mean, all
of it. You bet kfi am sixty. You've been listening
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
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we just.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here Thursday morning, February twelfth. Hey,
you can listen to any segment, any segment of this
show or any show here on KFI, simply by going
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to Well, you can find the podcast because there's a
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lot of stuff that you are missing and we're gonna
have fun.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
All right. Well fine, I don't know if that's the
appropriate word.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yesterday, as we were doing this show, I was looking
up at the screen and CNN and Fox and even BBC.
We're carrying the hearings, hearings being that Pambondy in front
of the Congressional Congressional Committee, that is the House Oversight Committee,
(01:12):
and it's these investigative committees aren't investigative in any sense.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Of the word they're supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But what they are, as I said, it's a dog
and pony show where Republicans are telling her and stating
you are wonderful, You're terrific. The administration has done everything.
You're saving America under the leadership of President Trump. I mean,
on and on and on. You know, the same crap
that you hear from any member of the administration or
(01:40):
any Republican that's in Congress. For the most part, the fast,
fast majority of the Republicans would jump off a building
if Trump asked them to jump off. As Mike Johnson said,
he's a speaker, my job is to further the private
president's agenda. Well, how about your job as running the
(02:01):
House of Representatives. Yes, to further the agenda of the president.
There's no such thing as an independent, independent legislative branch anyboard.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It doesn't exist. Es with the Republicans in control and.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The Democrats on the other side ripped into her and
mainly Epstein is what came up, and the argument was
that the Democrats are accusing the administration of not releasing
all the Epstein files and trying to hold them back
and only releasing them when a bipartisan group of Congress
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people passed the law and President President Trump was gonna
lose the veto there was gonna be overridden. So finally
he did sign it and say he's always wanted to
release those documents, which is just not true. I mean,
it's a we get a lot of utter lies, I
mean just straight out lies from the administration. So here
(02:58):
you have a political fight, and she is so contentious
she throws it right back at them. The days of
having any respect for congress people or even senators in
these hearings have long gone. Accusation is made. Congressperson, this
is just theatrics for you, None of this makes sense.
All you care about is theatrics. For example, a group
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of survivors were sitting in the audience behind Pambondi and
she was asked, will you turn to them and apologize
for what the administration didn't do, as in talk to you,
as in investigate what happened? And Pambondi refused too, she goes,
that's just theatrics. Well, the reality is it is it
(03:43):
is on both sides. So as I told you, I
have the answer for this, and I do, and that
is how do you have How do we not pay.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Attention to this kind of crapola?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
This meeting, this hearing was broadcast live for five hours.
That's how long BONDI was in front of the committee,
So what is the answer. I'll tell you what the
answer was as I was watching this after we got
off the air. If the committee opened up its hearing
(04:21):
and every Democrat on the committee stood up and walked outside,
just walked out the door, all you would have is
Republicans telling Bondie how brilliant President Trump was and is
how brilliant a job she is doing, how you are
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saving America? And there was lots of Biden Harris stuff
going on. Is the true Attorney General that Biden the
Biden Harris administration destroyed America? Yes it is. Isn't it
true that they did not enforce any laws regarding immigration? Well,
I guess to that extent it is. Isn't it true?
Isn't it true? Okay, who's going to cover that? Who
(05:04):
is going to cover five hours of that? Where you
have Congress people just telling her she's brilliant, telling it
that the president is building is brilliant, that Ice is
doing a terrific job, that Border Patrol is saving America,
and otherwise if President Trump were not in power, America
would be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And simply parrot what the President.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Has said isn't it true that President Trump is the
greatest president that ever lived? Isn't it true that America
would go into the sewer if President Trump were not
our president? Who's going to cover that? Amy, you're a newsperson,
and let me ask your opinion. Seriously, if it were
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only the Republicans telling a Pam Bondy, tell me how
wonderful you are and what the president is tell us
about how wonderful the country is?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Now, who's going to cover that, nobuddy? Because it's just propaganda.
There's a there you go that's out there.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
There you go, and the contentiousness that was what made
it somewhat I guess relevant, but it's not relevant.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
None of it was relevant, but it is.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Meaning Yeah, well five hours of it from the Democratic
side and the Republican side, it's all. It's all dog
and pony and we know it. It means nothing. It
means zero today. All right, coming up the lapd and drones,
how do they connect? Well, we're gonna get drone here.
(06:37):
I'm going to drone and drone on that one. You're
gonna get bored with that much like you did yesterday.
And look at the segue I just did I connected
this segment with the segment that's coming up. This is
why you have to listen and podcast are segments, because
otherwise you're going to miss amy. Isn't it true that
this broadcast is the greatest talk show broadcast in the
(06:59):
history of mankind? Isn't it true that we are saving
talk radio? Isn't it true?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Objection exactly, I'd like to get my time back.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Please come next Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We have a new show that is appearing here broadcast
here on KFI, and some new times for existing shows.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
This doesn't change.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We're on from six to nine am, and wake Up
Call is still from five to six, and then nine o'clock.
It's going to be Gary and Shannon from nine till noon,
and then the new show kicks in Chris Merrill, who
you know has been filling in for years, and Michael Monks,
who is our news person extraordinaire. They are going to
(07:43):
have their program, and then John starts at three o'clock,
three to six, and then it's Tim Conway six to
ten o'clock. That's our new lineup, and that those are
our new times. So by the way it's gonna is
it going to be the Monks and Merrill show, or
is it going to be in the Merrill and Monks
(08:04):
show or is it going to be eminem.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's monks and merrill.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't think it matters. It matters, It matters. No,
you have to have top billing. Top billing absolutely matters.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
If they're right next to each other.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Top billing matters completely.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like when I have flown on the same airplane with
George Norri, I've done that three times to Las Vegas.
We always argue if the plane goes down, who gets
top billing? That is all we care about. Top billing
is critical in life. Anyway, I'm looking forward to it,
looking forward to it. That starts Tuesday, by the way,
Merrill or Monks and Merrill start at noon on Tuesday,
(08:45):
and I think you'll have a good time with that. Okay,
let's talk about the lapd is putting up drones in
the skies as first responders, not necessarily, as just looking
at what's going on, much like helicopters do that. The
police have just you know, surveillance and with the big
(09:10):
light they do it. I don't know if you've ever
been under one of those lights or like ten billion lumens. Yeah,
a helicopter. It is just see them every day. Yeah,
but have you ever been Have you ever been under
one of those lights? Yeah, it is high noon on
the brightest day of the year.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It is crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So anyway, drones are now moving beyond investigative purpose right
into first responders. And there's a two point one million
dollar donation. LA Board of Police Commissioners agreed to this
to purchase twenty four drones and to equip them to
bolster LAPD's plans to use them as first responders.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
There was a successful.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Pilot program and the funds with one point eight million
dollars going to go with a three year contract with Skydio.
Skydio Okay, interesting name for the purchase of the drones
and docking stations, installations at stations and public facilities. Anyway,
(10:15):
the point of all this is to use them, not
so much as flying over to figure out what's going on,
believing below them. Expanding that as to first responders. Now
before they were limited to jumping in and dealing with
barricaded suspects or explosives. Well, today what's going to happen
(10:36):
is these drones and high definition cameras because the cameras
are getting superb and thermal imaging is going to give
officers and I'm going to quote here, real time awareness
to assess threats, locate suspects, identify hazards, and at times
resolve calls without direct contact. Just make it easier and
(10:57):
safer to for the police to do their jobs. And
that expand expands dramatically the use of the drones. Now
you have advocacy, We have privacy advocates that of course
argue with any of that. They have a tough time
(11:18):
with any governmental entity knowing about you where you're going.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And this is police action.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I have not heard, by the way, anybody come in
against this as of this point. But this program, the
First Responder program, by the way, it's funded by private
donations because the foundation LA Police Foundation, which pays for
a lot of this new stuff and pays for some
military equipment and vests and whatever that the LAPD just
(11:46):
doesn't have money for, and so they pay for a
lot of They donate a lot of gear and a
lot of programs, et cetera. And so it's important it's
not tax dollars. But what happens is here's the quote
again by proving response times, proving better situational awareness, enhances
his officer safety and enables more informed decision making, supports
(12:10):
de escalation efforts, and advances the department's use of modern technology,
which makes a lot of sense. You call the cops,
and the cops come and there's traffic. Let's say, is
bumper them up for traffic? And you call the police.
You know what, it's going to take a while. You
send up a drone and they're going to go there immediately,
and the drone is going to be able to see
(12:31):
what's going on, and you have thermal imaging, which the
police don't have a helicopters do, but helicopters can be
a ways away and you're limited with a number of helicopters.
With drones, you can send up a dozen of them
overhead and it makes a great deal of sense. Now,
the next I think the next part of this program,
(12:53):
and I think it's going to be expanded, is using
military tactics to deal with the bad guys.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
For example, they can put hell fire.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Missiles on these drones, fly them overhead, and if someone
is barricaded, that entire building is vaporized. That is a
way to deal with the criminals. Okay, I think we're
done with that now.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I've taught. Oh, we've talked a lot about housing over
the years.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And there's two things going on and that is number one,
we need housing, clearly and no issue there. And there
is approximately fifty million square feet of empty office space
in LA. You combine the two and you have an answer,
and that is converting the office space into residential dwellings,
(13:52):
into apartments or condos. And you take an old building,
actually you take even a newer building because there's a
new law that says you can now do it with
buildings that are fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It used to be way older than that.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And you start constructing apartments, Well, the building is already there,
foundation is poured, the steel is there.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So it's a fraction of the cost.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Now there are some costs because you have to replumb
and re electrical and all of that, but you still
have the bones of the building which make the conversion
much much cheaper. And the city, Wow, what a shaker,
finally got onto this. And so there is a new
law that has just been passed and what it does
is allowed streamlines these conversion approvals that have actually removes
(14:39):
one of the biggest hurdles for developers because historically you
have a developer. Nothing stops a developer, by the way,
from developing an older office building, older older than fifteen years.
Now it's now newer ones can be converted, so nothing
stops the developer from doing that. The problem is how
long the regular process takes.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And it took years, and developers saying we don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean, we're going to invest millions of dollars in
this and we don't know when this is a go. Well,
the city realized that that is a big issue, and
so they passed an ordinance making it far, far easier.
One of the buildings that is being converted, that pyramid
building right off the one on one Freeway in Sherman Oaks,
(15:27):
the sun Kissed Headquarters building. Remember that one beautiful building.
It's inverted pyramid. Yeah, and it's empty.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It's empty.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Sun Kissed Headquarters moved. It was the Headquarters from nineteen
seventy to twenty thirteen. It's a long time. And now
what the hell do they do with it? Or are
they going to make condos or are they going to
make apartments out of it?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
They've already started construction there. The whole lot of construction
going on there.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, there's You go to New York, you go to Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Where they have really made an effort to make this
happen by ten accibatements, by subsidizing construction, by approval ratings
flying through the door. You have buildings there that have
over a thousand units. Now these are big units, and
they're adding residential residential space by the thousands and thousands
(16:18):
of dollars. So rents, thank god, have rents have actually
leveled out. So now the average is only two and
sixty seven dollars per month, and that was in December.
And even the cost of a used tent under a
(16:38):
bridge in one of the suburbs and one of the
communities in LA has gotten cheaper. You could actually go
TORII and buy used bridge and put it underneath the
used tent and put it undneath the bridge. So rents
have actually gotten cheaper, and so it just makes so
much sense, it really does. And also high rises office space,
(17:03):
well you still have the windows, you still have the
great window views. It's just a question of now electrical
new electrical new walls, but again just walls that aren't aren't.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Aren't weight bearing walls either.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Those you're looking at plumbing for dorlets.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
You are you're looking No, you're you're definitely looking at
additional you are definitely looking at.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Every place has to have windows, so the center, the
center space is hard to use.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, you you there are plenty of office spaces. You're
allowed to have inside offices and that they're allowed to
do that. The elevators are already in, uh the bones
of the building. The windows are already there.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You can't have a dwelling with no windows to the outside.
You have to light.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Okay, you know I don't and I don't know that
that does resonate, and I don't know the answer to that.
But I'm I'm going to give you the benefit of
the doub because it makes sense what you say. So
you have of the residence is all over. How about
this mixed use where the inside our only is office
space or kitchens exactly or yes, or you make yeah,
(18:13):
I think that would work.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I think that would work. It's a good idea. We
have to do this. It makes all you know, the
problem is, it makes so much sense that it's.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Probably gonna fail because we're dealing with city ordinances.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Smart to work.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's too smart to work for a city council, city government. Okay, Now,
as I promoted just before we went to break, I'm
going to talk about the death of a thousand cuts.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
RFK Junior, who is the head of Health and Human Services,
was and is still a anti vaxxer. He promised during
his hearings that he wouldn't do that. Bill Cassidy the
last vote the senator from Kentucky. I guess believed him
(19:05):
because it's RFK lied outright, and I'm sure he's kicking
himself in the ass for this one because Kennedy was Cassidy.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Cassidy was a pro vax or even ran a vaccine
program in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So now here's the latest.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
The FDA under Health and Human Services has refused to
review Moderna's application that its seasonal flu vaccine is well,
it's not even going forward. They won't even review the application.
This is the latest setback for the development of mRNA
based vaccines, which is the new technology. Maderna said it
(19:46):
had received a refusal to file letter from the FDA.
By the way, the company noted that the FDA didn't
say there was any specific safety or efficacy concerns because concerns,
or even would review testing. They just said, we're just
not going to period. And Moderna said, wait a minute,
(20:09):
this rejection is inconsistent with the feedback we got in
twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, and all we
want is a meeting to sit down with the FDA
to discuss this, and the FDA is saying no, absolutely not.
During the World econom Economic Forum in Davos, Davos, Switzerland,
(20:32):
Sephanie stefan A Bontel said the company is not going
to invest anymore in the vaccine trials late stage vaccine
trials because of the growing opposition to immunizations from the US.
They're just not going to do it. And I assume
that's what RFK Junior wants. We know that the FDA
(20:59):
has stopped recommending vaccines under certain circumstances for kids under
the age if I think three months or four months,
and by the way, the certain vaccines are given at
birth and the FDA say you don't do that anymore,
and certain other vaccines that the American Medical Society has said,
(21:22):
this is crazy, this makes no sense. This is not science, guys.
The science says this all helps, and you're saying no.
And they are saying no because of the debunked, unproven
claims that are being made by RFK with the like
the autism study that RFK used to quote, which I
(21:45):
don't think he's crazy enough to do anymore. The fact
that vaccines cause autism was based on one paper written
by a crazy ass doctor later debunked, later recanted, and
he lost his license to practice medicine. That is the
basis of autism. I mean, it's just crazy. So the
(22:08):
guidance on childhood immanization was rolled back against six infections diseases,
and the Department of Health and Human Services said it's
going to wind down the vaccine development activities under its
Biomedical Research Unit, and it's basically saying we are not
interested in a more modern version and a more technological
(22:31):
aspect or technological furtherance of our vaccines.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Now, these programs.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Were being told by people within the government or outside
of the government that used to be in government that
these sweeping changes, not just this one, but sweeping changes
across the board to vaccines, to food, to medicine policies
will impact twenty two projects worth nearly five hundred million dollars.
(23:03):
That's a lot of money that the government used to
spend for research for furtherance of the health plans that
were in place. And one of the issues and remember
this when the President said and when it was cutting
like crazy programs, and one of them he said, fifty
(23:24):
million dollars was dedicated to condoms in the Third World,
and then three days later he said, one hundred million
dollars is being spent on condoms by the World Health
Organization and funded by the United States, leaving out the
fact that, of course it wasn't one hundred million.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Of course it wasn't fifty million.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It was just I think either in the one hundreds
of thousands or the low millions of dollars. But here
is where the difference the thinking is different. That is,
these condoms were given out and about HIV prevention, that
was the point of handing out condoms, and instead it
(24:08):
was portrayed by the President that this is condoms so
people can just stoop like crazy. And it's just a
different view of looking at it. RFK Junior does not
believe in vaccines. He is in a position as head
of Health and Human Services, to stop research, to stop education,
(24:29):
and to stop vaccinations under federal programs. It's going to
be an interesting three years, by the way. And this
is truly the death of a thousand cuts because he
will not admit that he is anti vaccine anymore. Oh no, no,
absolutely not. I believe in vaccinations. I think they're very valuable.
I believe they're overused, but I think they should be utilized. Yeah,
(24:53):
we believe that, don't we. Okay, we're done with that,
and I guess yeah, that gets my eyer up. It
drives me completely crazy. I mean, I'm a big fan
of vaccine.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I really am.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I vaccinated my kids everything you can vaccinate them for.
I even vaccinated them against parvo and distemper. And that's
not easy to have a doctor vaccinated a child for.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Distemper and worms and all that.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
All that are your heart worm medication. I mean, all
of it. You bet kfi am sixty. You've been listening
to The Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
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