July 28, 2025 • 26 mins
7:05 - Jon Decker discusses the possibility of a Trump rebate check
7:20 - Trump and EU strike trade deal. Winner and losers???
7:30 - Newsom ramps up redistricting threat as Texas weighs new GOP gerrymandered maps.
7:50 - FAFO parenting
7:20 - Trump and EU strike trade deal. Winner and losers???
7:30 - Newsom ramps up redistricting threat as Texas weighs new GOP gerrymandered maps.
7:50 - FAFO parenting
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI Handle here and the Morning Crew on a Monday morning,
July twenty eighth. As I have been saying, we'll talk
about it a little bit later. We'll get more into
the EU US trade deal that the President cut over
the weekend. But here's a story for you that's kind
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of unique to us, and that is that the President
is considering a rebate, a taxpayer rebate on the tariff issue.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And where do you get this idea?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
John Decker, KFI White House Correspondent, John, good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Hey, good morning to you, Bill, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
A happy Monday to you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Happy Monday. So take us through this because this is
a great story.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, the President often takes questions from reporter when he
departs the White House, and that's what he did on
Friday when he was leaving the White House to get
on Marine one to head out to Scotland. And I
had an opportunity to ask the President a number of
questions during the departure. One of those questions had to
do with the tens and tens of billions of dollars
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of revenue coming into the US Treasury because of the
president's tariff's policy. And I asked the President, would you
consider providing a rebate of sorts tariff rebate of sorts
through tariff checks to the American taxpayer because of all
this money coming into the US treasury. And the President,
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you could tell right away, loved the idea. A light
bulb went off above his head. He called it a
great idea. He said, it's a great question. He said,
I just made a lot of news. And the President
seemed to put the wheels in motion in terms of
making my question his answer policy of the United States government.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A couple of things that are kind of interesting about
that is, first of all, the president does spin on
a dime. I mean, he goes and he decides Monday
morning that like a tarot's going to come in, and
by noon the number of changed, and by five o'clock
in the afternoon, the number is changed. And the president,
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as of right now has the unilateral ability to say
this is the number, and this is the country that
I've put the number on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And that is an entire issue that's going to go
to court.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But let me ask you, you've been there for a
long time in terms of reporting and also being the
White House reporter, how did you feel that you may
very well have changed the American policy.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, it doesn't happen that often, and you know, you
think about ideas. You know, people have ideas all the time.
I was just surprised. I've been talking about this for weeks,
this idea. It was my opportunity to ask the President
whether he had what's how he felt about this idea.
And in fact, after I asked the President this question,
Bill Caroline Levitt, who's the White House Press Secretary, came
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up to me and she said, that's a brilliant idea.
We haven't thought of that before. We're going to run
with it. I'm going to tell Steven Miller, who's the
White House Deputy chief of Staff, to put the wheels
in motion as it relates to policy on this front.
And in fact, within an hour, Josh Hawley, who's a
Republican senator from Missouri, said he's going to introduce legislation
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in the Senate when the Senate comes back from its
August recess to move this legislation forward, potentially providing those
tariff rebate checks to American taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now, do you think you're going to get the credit
for it. Is this going to be the John Decker
tariff bill?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The Decker dollars? Is that what you're thinking of?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's even better?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Look, you know, I think that Donald Trump's going to
put his stamp on this idea. He's going to put
his signature if indeed there are checks that go out,
maybe even his picture on the checks. It's going to
be an administration idea that they've embraced because of a
suggestion that I put forward to them. But if you
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get a check in the mail, bill, if any of
your listeners get a check in the mail, you know
who to think. You know who to think.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Absolutely, it's you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And one of the things the President has said, and
he's wrong about that, is that it's the company. It's
the countries that are sending us the goods that pay
the tariffs. That's not true. We pay the terroriffs.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's not true.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Actually the producer pays the tariffs, the importer, the manufacturer.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Who brings in goods.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But I got to tell you something just happened to
me over the weekend, and that is, we just bought
this beautiful painting thing made out of moss. And it's
just phenomenal, and it was a couple of thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It was not cheap.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We got a tiff bill two hundred and fifty dollars
when it was delivered. Wait a minute, that's never came
from Ireland. But you know, we bought stuff overseas and
we've never had a tariff bill, so this was not
the manufacturer of the paint. I actually have to put
this up because it's absolutely a knockout. When you're there
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outside of the White House, when he's walking to Marine one.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How many reporters are there?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, my gosh, I think there may have been. They're
not all reporters. Remember, there's there's camera people, there's sound people,
there's still photographers. But when you factor in all the
people that are out there that are awaiting the president's
departure from the White House, it's probably about one hundred
people that are out there, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, these are just news people or some kind of newspeople,
normal crowd people that are behind like a stanchion or
behind a rope.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
That's right, just to bring people's supporters. Do they do that?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They do that. The President also had opposite of us
on Friday, Group of about i'd say fifty individuals. I
don't know how they're chosen, but they were there to
shake hands, maybe even get an opportunity to chat with
the President before he boarded Marine one. So the President
first went out to those folks, and after chatting with them,
shaking hands, taking selfies, he came over to us to
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take some questions, and he took a number of questions
from me, in particular, is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The most accessible president when it comes to walking to
Marine one or just going to an event as far
as the press is concerned.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yes, absolutely, I say that without any hesitation, and I've
covered the White House going back to Bill Clinton's first term,
there has never been a president more accessible than President Trump.
It applies to his first term, it applies certainly to
his second term. And I think that there is not
one reporter who doesn't appreciate that, because there there is,
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you know, this fair minded way that the president has
of taking questions from reporters. He doesn't ask, you know,
who do you work for? He just points at people,
and you know, some people he knows, he knows me,
but there are other people he may not know. And
it's I think that equal opportunity that foreign reporters happen
to have as well, because they don't get those opportunities
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to ask questions of the president that often.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
All right, John, congratulations on a major policy move of that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The White House is going to do the Decker dollar.
I like that. Take care, go back and harass the
president for us.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
All right, that's kind of a great story. All right,
coming out talking about the trade deal. I want to
spend some moments talking about that because over the weekend
some extraordinary things happened and the President really scored and
he's being given a lot of credit and he should.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now what's the fallout going to be? I'll deal with
that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Can if I handle here on a Monday morning, July
twenty eight, Oh man, We've got a lot of news
to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'll tell you what happened over the weekend. And this
was big time.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Is the European Union and the US trade deal came
together exactly what President Trump wanted, what he moved to do,
and he got it. Now we don't know the fallout yet,
the long term fallout, we don't know. But when he
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talked about reciprocity, the fact that the United States has
in fact been on the short end of this tariff
business through the years.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He was absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So the US and the EU have averted that big
time trade war. The agreement on tariffs and investment. They
put two together together. So President Trump and European Commission
Present and an Ursa von der Leyen and she leads
the EU's executive body, announce the preliminary deal yesterday that
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puts the baseline tariffs European goods coming into the United
States at fifteen percent. At the same time, the deal
involves European companies buying seven hundred and fifty billion dollars
of American energy products over three years. Right now they're
paying Russia a lot for natural gas. We're trying to
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move it to have Europe buy more gas from US
natural gas. Also investing in additional six hundred billion dollars
in the US on top of the billions they're putting
in here now. Exemptions aircraft and components, certain chemicals, semiconductor equipment,
some agricultural products look like they're going to be exempted
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from the new tariffs. Cars look like they're going to
face fifteen percent tariffs, which is lower than the current level.
Our deal with China. If it turns out fifteen percent
tariffs on cars coming in the EV market is going
to be completely upended by byd I think that's the
initials of the Chinese company that is producing superior cars
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at lower prices, and they already have the world market.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
They're really going to affect us.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So I don't think Trump is going to have only
a fifteen percent tariff on that. So this leaves Europe
in a worse deal than it did, and it puts
America in a better deal than it did.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So why do they cave Well two reasons.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
One America, the United States is still the economic juggernaut
of the world, and previous presidents have not used that,
have not used that to bully other countries. And by
the way, I don't talked about that negatively either. If
there is an unfair trade deal, unfair tariff deal, which
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there has been, this is going to help turn it around.
And you notice that certain products are exempt. Trade negotiations
go on forever because it all has to do with
different products and different different tariffs on different products and exemptions.
So so far this is a global deal. The particular
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is going to be worked out. The other reason that
the other countries are caving is and this has to
do with the way that Donald Trump simply does business
and the way he lives. What markets and countries want
is stability.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That's the big one. For financial markets, they need stability.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's critical for them. And Donald Trump is anything other
than stable. I'm not talking about mentally, that's a different issue.
I am talking about stable in terms of economic policy.
I mean, he can turn it around in two hours.
Look what does with teriffs. Wakes up on a Monday morning,
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Here is the tariff number. By afternoon, it's a different
tariff number. And guess what. The stability does not work
out that way. And here is what the other members
of the EU are saying is this is about as
good as we're going to get. Even though we're not
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thrilled with this, we're not going to do a lot better.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
With this president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Several European business groups costume cautiously optimistic. They want more
clarity on the specifics, but what they need well. The
European Roundtable for Industry said that this will be This
will restore much needed predictability after periods of great uncertainty.
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Uncertainty being the President with his tariffs. I gotta tell you,
he certainly has gotten what he wanted and so far,
so far, so good for him.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And we'll see what happens big time.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Now, I will tell you, and I explained this in
the previous segment, is that I just got hit with
a tariff. Well there's two issues I got hit with
a tariff I want to share with you, and.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It really is. It affects business big time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
One. I'm in the business of cookwear import as you know,
with my partner Savill, and we just bought seventy two
thousand dollars worth of cook cookwear. We imported seventy two
thousand dollars dollars worth of cookwar in a part of
a container. Our tariff bill that we had to write
to the government was eighty seven thousand dollars on seventy
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two thousand dollars man we need.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And we don't know what it's going to be now
next week.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And if it goes on that kind of level, well
that's unsustainable. However, it's going to change, and it's exactly
what President Trump wants. He wants it to change so
it becomes a reasonable amount of terrorists got if we
got fifteen percent tariff, it used to be two point
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three percent. If we at this point got fifteen percent tariff,
we would be cheering right now. We would be hiring
high school cheering teams with the pomp poms.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And all of it. Interesting stuff to say the leaf
our least. All right, coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
There's a redistricting issue that's going on, and I'll explain
why redistricting, redistricting and congressional seats is so important and
how the Democrats are really at a huge, huge disadvantage
although we were trying we as in Democrats were trying
to be good guys, and the Republicans are saying, you
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guys are morons.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And I'll go through that when we come back. All right,
you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
KFI AM six forty Handle here on a Monday morning,
July twenty eighth. There is an issue going on around
the country and it's starting with Texas.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It has to do with redistricting.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Redistricting is redrawing congressional district maps, and jerry mandering is involved.
This is how legislators keep republican areas republican and democratic
areas democrats. Other words, safe steats, seats, stay safe seats,
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and it's anything but democratic. And in Texas they're doing
exactly that, making sure that they don't lose any Republican
seats and actually add actually add Republican seats that you
can actually do by drawing the maps. Okay, So with
that being said, Gavin Newsom is saying that's enough.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, we're gonna do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And that's one of the fallouts of a redistricting plan
because other states are going, oh no, here's the problem.
They can do it in Texas, you can't do it
in the United States. Why excuse me, you can't do
it in California.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, because you have the Blue states and laws have
been passed where only independent commissions can redistrict based on
the census. Now, the last time redistricting happened was in
twenty twenty two, three years ago, based on the twenty
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twenty census. How can Texas do that because the legislature
is allowed to change that. Around California, New York, New Jersey,
independent commissions who are non partisan and not interested in
maintaining Republican seats or Democratic seats to make sure that
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if there is a Republican majority, for example, in Texas
there is a slight majority or actually a fair amount
of majority of Republicans are congress people. They want to
make absolutely sure that even those that are at risk
these swing districts maintain their political party, in this case Republicans.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So how do you redraw?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, let's say you have a Republican neighborhood right and
next to it is a Democratic neighborhood that's in the district. Well,
you redraw the map that excludes the Democratic part of
that district, So it's a Republican stronghold and the Democratic
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district goes to the Democrat, which is sort of a
given anyway, so it maintains the seats.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Newsome is trying to unravel this as quickly as possible,
but it would take a special election.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No one knows if that's even going.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
To fly constitutionally because of this independent commission. It's well,
is it fair, not particularly, But this is when trying
to be fair and democratic kicks you in the ass.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And that's exactly what happened. We voted this twice.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Laws, We voted during the course of two different elections,
I think eight years apart, to make sure that the
legislature doesn't use politics in determining congressional districts because our
state should be fair. We should not allow this kind
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of political map drawing to take effect.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Okay, fair enough, because.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We want that part of it to be nonpartisan, which
is true, and it can only happen every ten years.
By the way, well that's screwing us because you have
Texas saying, oh no, we're allowed to do it, and
that's exactly what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So we'll see what happens. Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
By the way, Newsom is in favor of the non
redistricting redistricting plan by having the independent commission. He's the
one that pushed for an independent commission to keep the
politics out of drawing the maps. The problem is he
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is now looking at his position in others position, going
straight against them and changing the congressional seats in this
case towards towards Republicans. Now that's only Texas, but other
states are looking at this. Other red states are looking
at exactly this, and it's going to break apart. Problem
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is all the liberal states, all the blue states, can't
do it because they passed these laws. So he wants
to fight fire with fire, and he wants to undo
the independent Commission just to fight the Red States gentle parenting.
I did this, Well it's over. It's over now kids
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get kicked in the ass and it is a real
interesting parenting solution that we're coming back to. I'll talk
about that coming up. Clay f I handle here, good
morning on a Monday, July twenty eight and a couple
(20:47):
of stories we're looking at. An internal US government review
found no evidence of wid widespread theft by a commas
of the US funded humanitarian aid and Gaza. According to
Prime Minister Nettagno, who there is no starvation in guys,
it's fake news, even though look at the videos we've
seen those.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Kids starving to death. Well, no surprise.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They are considering the Netsa Yahu and the hard hard
right war cabinet.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That he has.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
All right, moving over to parenting, of which I have
been one. Actually I still am one, and we've come
from flakiness.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And that was me.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
There's snowflakeness. Everybody is the same. I remember my kids
going to a.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bowling alley because it was a birthday thing and they
were eight years old, and everybody got a trophy World's
Greatest Bowler.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, you know some bowlers are better than other. If
you have a contest, they have to know that that
is life. Not everybody gets a trophy no matter what
you do. So what's going on now, Well, there's a
movement going back to parenting what anti gentle parenting like
(22:07):
I did, And it's called basically f around and find
out kind of like that. And there's a story story
on the Wall Street Journal about Carla Dillon who has
a thirteen year old that she couldn't discipline or tried,
even had him write the same sentence one hundred times
when he did something wrong, and then he sprayed her
(22:29):
with a water gun at a campground after she asked
him not to. So she threw him in the pond,
close all of it, and she said, some of the
best lessons in life for hard ones. So the Internet
calls this FAFO f around with that word and find out.
And it's a child rearing style that gives consequences over
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the gentle parenting methods that have helped shape.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Jen Z.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And it's based on a simple idea parents can ask,
but if a kid breaks the rules, Mom and dad
are not standing in the way or giving.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
In fact the repercussions.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Let's say it's raining and you forget your raincoat, walk
home in the rain. Let's say you don't feel like
having lasagna for dinner. Okay, no dinner until breakfast. Left
your toy on the floor floor again, it's in the
trash under the lasagna. And parenting that's been light on
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discipline has been dominated the culture for decades. Well, it
doesn't help, It really doesn't, because here's what happens. You
have kids that everything is good, everything is great. Every
time something is wrong, well, let's figure it out. Let's
redo it, let's be nice about it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Go to work sometime and don't perform and see what
your boss says. All right.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know, you go to college and let's say you
want to enter in some sports activity.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Guess what if you come in third? Your third, if.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You don't make it in the top, you don't make it,
you get tossed out. And so this FAFO parenting goes
by a lot of names, tough love, authoritarian, authoritative parenting.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
One of it is method to out faroh the Pharaoh.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Even President Trump has used that phrase during that diplomatic
dispute with Columbia, which we'll talk about later. He reposted
on true Social a doctored image of himself in front
of a yellow sign and a sign read faffo and
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hardline parenting parents are now telling us is necessary for
a child survival in a harsh world.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That is true. It is more competitive than it has
ever been. Not only is it more difficult to get
a job.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Once you've gotten a job and you don't perform, you
have managers and owners of businesses who just don't have
the kind of patience that they used to have.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I mean, you're out the door. It's that simple. And
tough love, well it really works.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It really works, And I am guilty of well not
so much tough love.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
As a matter of fact, do I share this? Sure?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Whenever my kids no, I'll blame this on Marjorie. I
feel better doing that. So whenever my kids acted out
and really did.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Something wrong, she would apologize to the kid, I'm so
sorry I made you do this. I wanted to kick
him in the ass.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You know, I've never hit my kids once once in
my entire life, and there are times when I should
have taken a baseball bat to their heads.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, maybe not all right, We're done with that, sure, Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
James Carville and Columbia, the Columbia story about the negotiations
between the administration and Columbia.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh did Columbia cave?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And other schools are caving big time too, So I'll
talk about what James Carvel said and he's written and boy,
this is really getting some attention.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI Handle here and the Morning Crew on a Monday morning,
July twenty eighth. As I have been saying, we'll talk
about it a little bit later. We'll get more into
the EU US trade deal that the President cut over
the weekend. But here's a story for you that's kind
(00:29):
of unique to us, and that is that the President
is considering a rebate, a taxpayer rebate on the tariff issue.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And where do you get this idea?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
John Decker, KFI White House Correspondent, John, good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Hey, good morning to you, Bill, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
A happy Monday to you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Happy Monday. So take us through this because this is
a great story.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, the President often takes questions from reporter when he
departs the White House, and that's what he did on
Friday when he was leaving the White House to get
on Marine one to head out to Scotland. And I
had an opportunity to ask the President a number of
questions during the departure. One of those questions had to
do with the tens and tens of billions of dollars
(01:19):
of revenue coming into the US Treasury because of the
president's tariff's policy. And I asked the President, would you
consider providing a rebate of sorts tariff rebate of sorts
through tariff checks to the American taxpayer because of all
this money coming into the US treasury. And the President,
(01:40):
you could tell right away, loved the idea. A light
bulb went off above his head. He called it a
great idea. He said, it's a great question. He said,
I just made a lot of news. And the President
seemed to put the wheels in motion in terms of
making my question his answer policy of the United States government.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A couple of things that are kind of interesting about
that is, first of all, the president does spin on
a dime. I mean, he goes and he decides Monday
morning that like a tarot's going to come in, and
by noon the number of changed, and by five o'clock
in the afternoon, the number is changed. And the president,
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as of right now has the unilateral ability to say
this is the number, and this is the country that
I've put the number on.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And that is an entire issue that's going to go
to court.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But let me ask you, you've been there for a
long time in terms of reporting and also being the
White House reporter, how did you feel that you may
very well have changed the American policy.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, it doesn't happen that often, and you know, you
think about ideas. You know, people have ideas all the time.
I was just surprised. I've been talking about this for weeks,
this idea. It was my opportunity to ask the President
whether he had what's how he felt about this idea.
And in fact, after I asked the President this question,
Bill Caroline Levitt, who's the White House Press Secretary, came
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up to me and she said, that's a brilliant idea.
We haven't thought of that before. We're going to run
with it. I'm going to tell Steven Miller, who's the
White House Deputy chief of Staff, to put the wheels
in motion as it relates to policy on this front.
And in fact, within an hour, Josh Hawley, who's a
Republican senator from Missouri, said he's going to introduce legislation
(03:34):
in the Senate when the Senate comes back from its
August recess to move this legislation forward, potentially providing those
tariff rebate checks to American taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now, do you think you're going to get the credit
for it. Is this going to be the John Decker
tariff bill?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The Decker dollars? Is that what you're thinking of?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's even better?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Look, you know, I think that Donald Trump's going to
put his stamp on this idea. He's going to put
his signature if indeed there are checks that go out,
maybe even his picture on the checks. It's going to
be an administration idea that they've embraced because of a
suggestion that I put forward to them. But if you
(04:19):
get a check in the mail, bill, if any of
your listeners get a check in the mail, you know
who to think. You know who to think.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Absolutely, it's you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And one of the things the President has said, and
he's wrong about that, is that it's the company. It's
the countries that are sending us the goods that pay
the tariffs. That's not true. We pay the terroriffs.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's not true.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Actually the producer pays the tariffs, the importer, the manufacturer.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Who brings in goods.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But I got to tell you something just happened to
me over the weekend, and that is, we just bought
this beautiful painting thing made out of moss. And it's
just phenomenal, and it was a couple of thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It was not cheap.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We got a tiff bill two hundred and fifty dollars
when it was delivered. Wait a minute, that's never came
from Ireland. But you know, we bought stuff overseas and
we've never had a tariff bill, so this was not
the manufacturer of the paint. I actually have to put
this up because it's absolutely a knockout. When you're there
(05:22):
outside of the White House, when he's walking to Marine one.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How many reporters are there?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, my gosh, I think there may have been. They're
not all reporters. Remember, there's there's camera people, there's sound people,
there's still photographers. But when you factor in all the
people that are out there that are awaiting the president's
departure from the White House, it's probably about one hundred
people that are out there, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, these are just news people or some kind of newspeople,
normal crowd people that are behind like a stanchion or
behind a rope.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
That's right, just to bring people's supporters. Do they do that?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They do that. The President also had opposite of us
on Friday, Group of about i'd say fifty individuals. I
don't know how they're chosen, but they were there to
shake hands, maybe even get an opportunity to chat with
the President before he boarded Marine one. So the President
first went out to those folks, and after chatting with them,
shaking hands, taking selfies, he came over to us to
(06:26):
take some questions, and he took a number of questions
from me, in particular, is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The most accessible president when it comes to walking to
Marine one or just going to an event as far
as the press is concerned.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yes, absolutely, I say that without any hesitation, and I've
covered the White House going back to Bill Clinton's first term,
there has never been a president more accessible than President Trump.
It applies to his first term, it applies certainly to
his second term. And I think that there is not
one reporter who doesn't appreciate that, because there there is,
(07:02):
you know, this fair minded way that the president has
of taking questions from reporters. He doesn't ask, you know,
who do you work for? He just points at people,
and you know, some people he knows, he knows me,
but there are other people he may not know. And
it's I think that equal opportunity that foreign reporters happen
to have as well, because they don't get those opportunities
(07:24):
to ask questions of the president that often.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
All right, John, congratulations on a major policy move of that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The White House is going to do the Decker dollar.
I like that. Take care, go back and harass the
president for us.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
All right, that's kind of a great story. All right,
coming out talking about the trade deal. I want to
spend some moments talking about that because over the weekend
some extraordinary things happened and the President really scored and
he's being given a lot of credit and he should.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Now what's the fallout going to be? I'll deal with
that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Can if I handle here on a Monday morning, July
twenty eight, Oh man, We've got a lot of news
to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'll tell you what happened over the weekend. And this
was big time.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Is the European Union and the US trade deal came
together exactly what President Trump wanted, what he moved to do,
and he got it. Now we don't know the fallout yet,
the long term fallout, we don't know. But when he
(08:35):
talked about reciprocity, the fact that the United States has
in fact been on the short end of this tariff
business through the years.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He was absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So the US and the EU have averted that big
time trade war. The agreement on tariffs and investment. They
put two together together. So President Trump and European Commission
Present and an Ursa von der Leyen and she leads
the EU's executive body, announce the preliminary deal yesterday that
(09:09):
puts the baseline tariffs European goods coming into the United
States at fifteen percent. At the same time, the deal
involves European companies buying seven hundred and fifty billion dollars
of American energy products over three years. Right now they're
paying Russia a lot for natural gas. We're trying to
(09:32):
move it to have Europe buy more gas from US
natural gas. Also investing in additional six hundred billion dollars
in the US on top of the billions they're putting
in here now. Exemptions aircraft and components, certain chemicals, semiconductor equipment,
some agricultural products look like they're going to be exempted
(09:56):
from the new tariffs. Cars look like they're going to
face fifteen percent tariffs, which is lower than the current level.
Our deal with China. If it turns out fifteen percent
tariffs on cars coming in the EV market is going
to be completely upended by byd I think that's the
initials of the Chinese company that is producing superior cars
(10:20):
at lower prices, and they already have the world market.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
They're really going to affect us.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So I don't think Trump is going to have only
a fifteen percent tariff on that. So this leaves Europe
in a worse deal than it did, and it puts
America in a better deal than it did.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So why do they cave Well two reasons.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
One America, the United States is still the economic juggernaut
of the world, and previous presidents have not used that,
have not used that to bully other countries. And by
the way, I don't talked about that negatively either. If
there is an unfair trade deal, unfair tariff deal, which
(11:07):
there has been, this is going to help turn it around.
And you notice that certain products are exempt. Trade negotiations
go on forever because it all has to do with
different products and different different tariffs on different products and exemptions.
So so far this is a global deal. The particular
(11:30):
is going to be worked out. The other reason that
the other countries are caving is and this has to
do with the way that Donald Trump simply does business
and the way he lives. What markets and countries want
is stability.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That's the big one. For financial markets, they need stability.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's critical for them. And Donald Trump is anything other
than stable. I'm not talking about mentally, that's a different issue.
I am talking about stable in terms of economic policy.
I mean, he can turn it around in two hours.
Look what does with teriffs. Wakes up on a Monday morning,
(12:14):
Here is the tariff number. By afternoon, it's a different
tariff number. And guess what. The stability does not work
out that way. And here is what the other members
of the EU are saying is this is about as
good as we're going to get. Even though we're not
(12:35):
thrilled with this, we're not going to do a lot better.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
With this president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Several European business groups costume cautiously optimistic. They want more
clarity on the specifics, but what they need well. The
European Roundtable for Industry said that this will be This
will restore much needed predictability after periods of great uncertainty.
(13:03):
Uncertainty being the President with his tariffs. I gotta tell you,
he certainly has gotten what he wanted and so far,
so far, so good for him.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And we'll see what happens big time.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Now, I will tell you, and I explained this in
the previous segment, is that I just got hit with
a tariff. Well there's two issues I got hit with
a tariff I want to share with you, and.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It really is. It affects business big time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
One. I'm in the business of cookwear import as you know,
with my partner Savill, and we just bought seventy two
thousand dollars worth of cook cookwear. We imported seventy two
thousand dollars dollars worth of cookwar in a part of
a container. Our tariff bill that we had to write
to the government was eighty seven thousand dollars on seventy
(13:55):
two thousand dollars man we need.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And we don't know what it's going to be now
next week.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And if it goes on that kind of level, well
that's unsustainable. However, it's going to change, and it's exactly
what President Trump wants. He wants it to change so
it becomes a reasonable amount of terrorists got if we
got fifteen percent tariff, it used to be two point
(14:21):
three percent. If we at this point got fifteen percent tariff,
we would be cheering right now. We would be hiring
high school cheering teams with the pomp poms.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And all of it. Interesting stuff to say the leaf
our least. All right, coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
There's a redistricting issue that's going on, and I'll explain
why redistricting, redistricting and congressional seats is so important and
how the Democrats are really at a huge, huge disadvantage
although we were trying we as in Democrats were trying
to be good guys, and the Republicans are saying, you
(15:04):
guys are morons.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And I'll go through that when we come back. All right,
you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
KFI AM six forty Handle here on a Monday morning,
July twenty eighth. There is an issue going on around
the country and it's starting with Texas.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It has to do with redistricting.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Redistricting is redrawing congressional district maps, and jerry mandering is involved.
This is how legislators keep republican areas republican and democratic
areas democrats. Other words, safe steats, seats, stay safe seats,
(15:48):
and it's anything but democratic. And in Texas they're doing
exactly that, making sure that they don't lose any Republican
seats and actually add actually add Republican seats that you
can actually do by drawing the maps. Okay, So with
that being said, Gavin Newsom is saying that's enough.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, we're gonna do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And that's one of the fallouts of a redistricting plan
because other states are going, oh no, here's the problem.
They can do it in Texas, you can't do it
in the United States. Why excuse me, you can't do
it in California.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, because you have the Blue states and laws have
been passed where only independent commissions can redistrict based on
the census. Now, the last time redistricting happened was in
twenty twenty two, three years ago, based on the twenty
(16:51):
twenty census. How can Texas do that because the legislature
is allowed to change that. Around California, New York, New Jersey,
independent commissions who are non partisan and not interested in
maintaining Republican seats or Democratic seats to make sure that
(17:14):
if there is a Republican majority, for example, in Texas
there is a slight majority or actually a fair amount
of majority of Republicans are congress people. They want to
make absolutely sure that even those that are at risk
these swing districts maintain their political party, in this case Republicans.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So how do you redraw?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, let's say you have a Republican neighborhood right and
next to it is a Democratic neighborhood that's in the district. Well,
you redraw the map that excludes the Democratic part of
that district, So it's a Republican stronghold and the Democratic
(18:02):
district goes to the Democrat, which is sort of a
given anyway, so it maintains the seats.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Newsome is trying to unravel this as quickly as possible,
but it would take a special election.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No one knows if that's even going.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
To fly constitutionally because of this independent commission. It's well,
is it fair, not particularly, But this is when trying
to be fair and democratic kicks you in the ass.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And that's exactly what happened. We voted this twice.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Laws, We voted during the course of two different elections,
I think eight years apart, to make sure that the
legislature doesn't use politics in determining congressional districts because our
state should be fair. We should not allow this kind
(19:01):
of political map drawing to take effect.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Okay, fair enough, because.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We want that part of it to be nonpartisan, which
is true, and it can only happen every ten years.
By the way, well that's screwing us because you have
Texas saying, oh no, we're allowed to do it, and
that's exactly what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So we'll see what happens. Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
By the way, Newsom is in favor of the non
redistricting redistricting plan by having the independent commission. He's the
one that pushed for an independent commission to keep the
politics out of drawing the maps. The problem is he
(19:41):
is now looking at his position in others position, going
straight against them and changing the congressional seats in this
case towards towards Republicans. Now that's only Texas, but other
states are looking at this. Other red states are looking
at exactly this, and it's going to break apart. Problem
(20:03):
is all the liberal states, all the blue states, can't
do it because they passed these laws. So he wants
to fight fire with fire, and he wants to undo
the independent Commission just to fight the Red States gentle parenting.
I did this, Well it's over. It's over now kids
(20:27):
get kicked in the ass and it is a real
interesting parenting solution that we're coming back to. I'll talk
about that coming up. Clay f I handle here, good
morning on a Monday, July twenty eight and a couple
(20:47):
of stories we're looking at. An internal US government review
found no evidence of wid widespread theft by a commas
of the US funded humanitarian aid and Gaza. According to
Prime Minister Nettagno, who there is no starvation in guys,
it's fake news, even though look at the videos we've
seen those.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Kids starving to death. Well, no surprise.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
They are considering the Netsa Yahu and the hard hard
right war cabinet.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That he has.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
All right, moving over to parenting, of which I have
been one. Actually I still am one, and we've come
from flakiness.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And that was me.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
There's snowflakeness. Everybody is the same. I remember my kids
going to a.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bowling alley because it was a birthday thing and they
were eight years old, and everybody got a trophy World's
Greatest Bowler.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, you know some bowlers are better than other. If
you have a contest, they have to know that that
is life. Not everybody gets a trophy no matter what
you do. So what's going on now, Well, there's a
movement going back to parenting what anti gentle parenting like
(22:07):
I did, And it's called basically f around and find
out kind of like that. And there's a story story
on the Wall Street Journal about Carla Dillon who has
a thirteen year old that she couldn't discipline or tried,
even had him write the same sentence one hundred times
when he did something wrong, and then he sprayed her
(22:29):
with a water gun at a campground after she asked
him not to. So she threw him in the pond,
close all of it, and she said, some of the
best lessons in life for hard ones. So the Internet
calls this FAFO f around with that word and find out.
And it's a child rearing style that gives consequences over
(22:51):
the gentle parenting methods that have helped shape.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Jen Z.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And it's based on a simple idea parents can ask,
but if a kid breaks the rules, Mom and dad
are not standing in the way or giving.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
In fact the repercussions.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Let's say it's raining and you forget your raincoat, walk
home in the rain. Let's say you don't feel like
having lasagna for dinner. Okay, no dinner until breakfast. Left
your toy on the floor floor again, it's in the
trash under the lasagna. And parenting that's been light on
(23:30):
discipline has been dominated the culture for decades. Well, it
doesn't help, It really doesn't, because here's what happens. You
have kids that everything is good, everything is great. Every
time something is wrong, well, let's figure it out. Let's
redo it, let's be nice about it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Go to work sometime and don't perform and see what
your boss says. All right.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know, you go to college and let's say you
want to enter in some sports activity.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Guess what if you come in third? Your third, if.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You don't make it in the top, you don't make it,
you get tossed out. And so this FAFO parenting goes
by a lot of names, tough love, authoritarian, authoritative parenting.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
One of it is method to out faroh the Pharaoh.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Even President Trump has used that phrase during that diplomatic
dispute with Columbia, which we'll talk about later. He reposted
on true Social a doctored image of himself in front
of a yellow sign and a sign read faffo and
(24:46):
hardline parenting parents are now telling us is necessary for
a child survival in a harsh world.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That is true. It is more competitive than it has
ever been. Not only is it more difficult to get
a job.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Once you've gotten a job and you don't perform, you
have managers and owners of businesses who just don't have
the kind of patience that they used to have.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I mean, you're out the door. It's that simple. And
tough love, well it really works.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It really works, And I am guilty of well not
so much tough love.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
As a matter of fact, do I share this? Sure?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Whenever my kids no, I'll blame this on Marjorie. I
feel better doing that. So whenever my kids acted out
and really did.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Something wrong, she would apologize to the kid, I'm so
sorry I made you do this. I wanted to kick
him in the ass.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You know, I've never hit my kids once once in
my entire life, and there are times when I should
have taken a baseball bat to their heads.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, maybe not all right, We're done with that, sure, Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
James Carville and Columbia, the Columbia story about the negotiations
between the administration and Columbia.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh did Columbia cave?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And other schools are caving big time too, So I'll
talk about what James Carvel said and he's written and boy,
this is really getting some attention.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This is KFI AM six point forty. You've been listening
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Speaker 2 (26:39):
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