December 22, 2025 • 22 mins
(December 22, 2025)
How a speeding ticket can be worse than killing someone with your car in California. 60 Minutes pulls piece, producer says it's political. The year of the ‘cranky consumer.’ The hottest Christmas gifts! Poop tests & sleep monitors.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty Get the Money.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Day KFI AM six forty Bill Handle. Here. It is
a Monday morning, December twenty two, and we're in the
holiday season, obviously, Thursday being Christmas, and I have no
idea what day next week is New Year's Day and
(00:31):
we're all kinds of modified programming here at KFI. I'm
Wednesday is my last day, and then the Jesus Show
comes in on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Am I right on that? Yaresday is next Thursday. I
knew that, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So Jesus comes back on Christmas, which he always does.
On his way to his Jesus goes, doesn't he go
in his sleigh and drop off drops off toys for
kids all over the world. Oh, because I thought Jesus
went up on Easter to get ready for the holiday
(01:07):
season to give toys to all the boys and girls.
So I have that confused. Yes, okay, thank you for that.
I'll straighten that out. We have a big, big winter
storm coming too, that is real, and we're going to
see the rains hitting us. What amy tomorrow night or
tonight is when it really starts.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Tomorrow is when the rain's going to roll in, yeah,
and then the heaviest of it's going to be on Wednesday. Okay,
I can't wait for that the day before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So for those of you that are traveling, good luck
to you, you know, then take a kayak.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Now I want to spend a minute talking about unintended
consequences when legislation is passed. I was involved in writing
the first surrogacy bill here in the state of California,
and that is controlling and dealing with safeguards.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Its area, etc.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
In the world of surrogacy, we spent more time dealing
about dealing with unintended consequences than we ever did actually
writing the legislation, because that's what comes to bite you
in the ass. Whenever legislation or court cases have been decided,
(02:23):
here we go in unattended consequences.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So here's one that you might enjoy.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
There was a criminal justice reform law that was passed
in twenty twenty allowing judges to basically erase as a
race a misdemeanor case from existence.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And what it does and we all thought, all right,
not bad.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It shields people accused of low level crimes from the
stigma of having a conviction on their record, because a
conviction of any kind on your record limits your workability
or housing opportunities getting hired. I mean, having convictions on
your record is not fun. And believe me, everybody that
(03:05):
you're that you're going to work for or wherever you're
gonna rent, is doing a background check because it's so
easy today, which means are you ready for this the
land of unintended consequences? You can face more penalties for
a speeding ticket than running someone over and killing that person. Now,
(03:28):
how is that? Well, here's an example. In April, a
twenty three year old Connor Lopez, who hamsby a piano teacher,
was riding his motorcycle when an oncoming car makes a
left turn right in front of him and collides. There
was a collision. Lopez dies right there in the driveway.
(03:52):
The DA's office charges the driver, hard Jit Cower, with
misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, not a felony, no drunk driving here,
It was just he was in violation of the law.
He made an illegal left turn and ended up killing someone.
And one of the charges can be a vehicular manslaughter,
(04:13):
but misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, and it was, of course a
legend at her failure to yield is what caused the
is what caused the crash. I mean, it was right there, right,
the dots were all connected. So the prosecutor said the
case could be wiped off of Cower's record completely and
(04:36):
sealed from view if Cower asks for diversion and the
judge grants it. Diversion programs have been around for decades
across the country.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What they do is let a judge stop a case.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Order a defendant to meet certain requirements over a period
of time, by going to rehab, going to traffic school,
et cetera, and usually doing community service, and if the
defendant completes those terms, the case is dismissed.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Done.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now that twenty twenty law lets judges in California order
diversion for almost all misdemeanors, even this one, even over
the objection of a prosecutor. So five years after twenty twenty,
here we are twenty twenty five, and defense attorneys are
routinely requesting diversion, not just for shoplifting under nine hundred
(05:29):
and fifty dollars we changed that limit and drug possession,
but also for cases where someone has died.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Cal Matters looked.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Into this and they identified about three dozen drivers who
avoided the vehicular manslaughter charge by doing the diversion charges.
And can you imagine families in arguing against letting the
drivers off. The judge sometimes goes no because it's not
(05:59):
that much of a The judge views it as just
an accident in which someone unfortunately was killed, which means
that if a diversion program is removed or is enacted,
there are not even any points against your driving record
with a DMV. If you're caught speeding, yes you get points.
(06:23):
And in this case there was the left term, but
no cops saw it and there wasn't a ticket issued.
Welcome to unintended consequences, all right. Sixty minutes was supposed
to air an investigative peace about Venezuelan's hundreds of them
(06:47):
being deported to l Salvador under the immigration crackdown, and
they were sent to this prison, one of the I
think most is being described as one of the most
horrific prisons and all of El Salvador. And according to
the sixty minute piece, they endured systematic torture and abuse
(07:08):
I'm reading here, including sexual assault, and the report went
on to say, the conditions at sey Kat, it's the
name of the prison, breached the United Nations minimal rules
and that's according to the Human Rights Watch. So what happened, Well,
the decision came directly from the network's editor in chief,
(07:32):
new One, Bari Weiss. According to an internal email that
was produced from the correspondent of that piece, Sharon al Fonsei,
called the decision to yank the piece from the broadcast
ten amount to handing the White House a kill switch.
(07:55):
The team had sent questions and requested comments from the
White House, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security
for the story. The administration denied or declined to grant
the interview. Alfonsi wrote, government silence is a statement, not
a veto, and their refusal to be interviewed is a
tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. Now, CBS said
(08:19):
the sixty minute report on inside Sikat will air in
a future broadcast. Don't know when we determine it needed
additional reporting, And then a question was asked of CBS
to comment on Alfonsi's statement. No comment from CBS. Matter
(08:39):
of fact, Alfonsi didn't comment after she said that, so
the segment is yell is yanked after tremendous promotional aspects
to this. I mean they were running it on TV,
the trailer and on their website.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And let me tell you a little bit about Weiss.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Weiss was named CBS's top editor this fall after David Ellison,
he owns Paramount Sky Dance with his dad. He ended
up buying The Free Press an opinion an opinion website
actually that Weiss had found it and by the way,
sold it for one hundred and fifty million dollars. She
did just great in her early days, rapid changes, restructuring, layoffs,
(09:25):
a town hall series, including an interview with Erica Kirk,
the widow of Charlie Kirk. I mean it went on,
and it went on and on, and in the email,
Alfonsi says, the sources in this segment risked their lives
to speak with us, and we have a moral and
professional obligation to these sources themselves who entrusted us with
(09:50):
their stories. And then she went on to say, and
here I'm going to quote, if the standard for airing
a story becomes the government must agree to be intervie dude,
then the government effectively gains control over the sixty minutes
broadcast and we go from investigative powerhouse to a stenographer
for the state.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And here's the allegation.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
CBS management is saying that we needed the input of
the government, We had to have their response.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Therefore, without their response, we don't have a story and
we're not going to broadcast it. And Alfonsi writes, if
that is the standard for airing a story that the
government has to respond, then look what we have. We
don't have a free press, we don't have a robust,
investigated aspect. And she said, the story itself is factually correct,
(10:48):
rigorous internal checks have been meat. This is not an
editorial decision. This is all about a political decision. And
it is one of the things about this administration. It
is truly stretching the bounds of not only its power legally,
(11:09):
but its power psychologically.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's political power.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And in these cases it is and I'm going to
talk about a minute some of the cases that have
been brought up Jimmy kimmelcase. A timeline of Trump's fights
with the media. I mean, it goes on and on,
and this one and I'll tell you the President has
(11:36):
won this battle.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
President won it because people are afraid people. You've got universities,
you have private companies, you have law firms, all scared
to death of what the president can do. Also, keep
in mind, Republicans in Congress are all lining.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Up to do exactly what the president wants.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
If the President says A, we go to A, and
if he changes his mind and say let's go to B,
we go to B. Case in point, Epstein files screaming
about how they have to be released, and now his
ardent supporters who screamed about it are now staying completely silent.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Nope, don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And that's just a tip of the Iceberg presentative or
excuse me, she was a reporter. If it takes the
White House to respond, and it doesn't respond and we
kill the story, that means that the White House essentially
has the ability to kill a story.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All it has to do is not respond.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And the media and the President have had some very
interesting stories and very interesting episodes. The Kimmy Jimmy Kimmel
episode in which he was yanked off the air and
put back on because of the backlash, and what did
he do well. He had a monologue which included a
reference to the Charlie Kirk assassination. He also compared Trump's
(13:07):
grief to a four year old mourning of a goldfish.
And I find that offensive too, because I think a
goldfish mourns far for a far longer time. Okay, Am
I going to be yanked off the air for that?
Quite possibly? And the point is that if you have
(13:29):
an outlet, a news outlet, a broadcast outlet that says
anything derogatory about the president, that outlives a lot in
a lot of trouble. Now, Brendan Carr, who is the
FCC chair appointee of Trump's, threatened outright to pull the
license of ABC literally, to pull those broadcast licenses affiliates.
(13:51):
Although ABC does own I think five they used to
own five stations the major networks or five OHO to
zero owned and operated.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't know. I don't think there's a limit now.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Anyway, it was they were so frightened ABC that they
yanked Kimmel for a period of a few days. Thank goodness,
because can you imagine the government be able to tell
a network, here is who you're going to have on
the air, and who you're not. Stephen Colbert's show was yanked.
(14:21):
Now they're saying the network is saying CBS was for
financial reasons. However, the announcement came three days after Colbert
criticized the settlement between Trump and Paramount over a sixty
minute story, which in and of itself as a hell
of a story. Paramount decided to pay Donald Trump sixteen
(14:43):
million dollars to settle a lawsuit regarding the editing of
a sixty minute CBS sixty minute segment. The interview was
with then Vice president Kamala Harris and what the accusation was,
and it's a legit accusation that they edited the interview
(15:04):
and put pieces of it together to make Kamala Harris
look better.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, true?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And so as a result of that, it's not just
a retraction that's usually the case. No, it was a lawsuit,
I think for twenty billion dollars. And what were the damages?
Trump could not argue that he lost the election because
of it. He suffered mental anguish as a result of
(15:36):
that interview. Now, every lawyer that they could find, that
we could find that anybody could find, said this is
ludicrous on its face.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
How does Donald.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Trump argue mental anguish because that sixty minute piece made
Kamala Harris look better. They settled sixteen million dollars. They caved.
Trump also signed an order in which he defunded PBS
and NPR. They don't have governmental money anymore. Why because
(16:17):
they're considered liberal and they come out against Trump or
some policies against Trump. Then there was a fifteen million
dollar settlement from ABC News because George Stephanopolis on the
air said that the president elect. At that point, the
(16:37):
president had just been elected. He was found civilly liable
of raping the writer e Gen Carroll, and the network
agreed to pay the fifteen million plus a million.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Dollars in legal fees.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And why is this, Well, Stephanopolos repeatedly misstated the verdict
in the two civil lawsuits, and the verdict was not rape.
Is not what came down is rape as New York
under New York law. It was I think simply sexual assault,
which technically is not rape. And you would think, of
(17:10):
course ABC News would just settle it or just print
or broadcast or retraction, which is.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Always the case.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Fifteen million dollars plus a million dollars in legal fees.
CBS News just now the sixty minute piece. It's pretty
scary for the world of broadcasting. Also pretty scary for
law firms too. And how does he deal with law firms. Well,
he just said a lot of the major major law
rooms law firms are involved in federal cases and are
(17:41):
paid for in federal dollars. He decided, We're not going
to pay anymore. Major corporations. If you're woke, we are
going to make it miserable for you. Universities, colleges, they
get federal money and lots of it. If you are woke,
we are going to yank hundreds of mills millions of
dollars across the board.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's scary stuff, it really is.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And the courts, well, Supreme Court has given President Trump
well effectively unbridled presidential power. I mean he has, I mean,
look at he's got the perfect storm going. He has
Congress in his pocket, he has the ability to shut
down networks. He has the ability of withholding hundreds of
(18:30):
millions billions of dollars from universities if they don't do
what he says, or if they don't stop doing what
he is arguing that they should stop.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Anyway, it's pretty scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Let's have some fun now, Okay, all right, We're going
to end the show with holiday gifts, and I'll tell
you what's really hot.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Poop tests.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Now, really yeah, because what's happening is health tracking gifts
are really the hot. One. Micro biome tests, also known
as poop tests, in which you poop into I guess
(19:15):
some kind of a box or a thing. Actually not,
I think you put a little litmus test kind of strip. Anyways,
what it is not only is it completely disgusting, it
also measures the microbiomes, the bacteria in your gut. And
some of these tests measure blood sugar. And you can
get a panel of blood tests. Man, that's just something
(19:36):
you get a Christmas gift, for a holiday gift, and
there it is. It's a monitor show your blood, what
your blood levels are, and on top of that a
little kit that says here you go poop into here.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Now. I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Great a gift that would be personally, I thought it'd
be kind of what does it say a value would
to say about someone that you are gifting. There are
devices like the Aura ring. Remember the mood ring. Well,
this is the Aura ring, which is a lot more
sophisticated and whoop, they track sleep, physical activity, health metrics.
(20:16):
Those are hotter than hell. It's health that we're giving
gifts to each other. And you know, am I going
to receive any? I know? I don't receive gifts for
the most part, nor do I want them. And everybody
you don't get you guys don't get gifts from me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So there you go. I don't have you. Has anybody
gotten a Christmas card for me?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, okay, small gift, but have you ever received a.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Christmas card from me? Not an actual Christmas card? Okay?
Have you ever received a holiday card for me?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Amy?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I have never given a holiday card in my life. No,
it didn't come from me. And Lindsay was my name
on it? No it was not your signature, was it?
No it was not my signature, Yes it was. That
is a no, it's a fact simile. This is what
she uses to forge my name on checks.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
All right.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And by the way, uh will don't expect a card
from me?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And uh yeah, hold way too late, although.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
You know what, Lindsay does give New Year's cards, you know,
and people give us sometimes Thanksgiving cards because you're inundated
with cards.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What Why? Because it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Of work to open up the envelope and then throw
the cards into the trash.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That is a lot of work. You're not supposed to
throw them in the trash.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You're supposed to display them. Yeah, I'll take a picture
of my empty mantle and I'll share that, I'll post that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I can't think we're done. Guys, you've been listening to
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Speaker 2 (22:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Day KFI AM six forty Bill Handle. Here. It is
a Monday morning, December twenty two, and we're in the
holiday season, obviously, Thursday being Christmas, and I have no
idea what day next week is New Year's Day and
(00:31):
we're all kinds of modified programming here at KFI. I'm
Wednesday is my last day, and then the Jesus Show
comes in on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Am I right on that? Yaresday is next Thursday. I
knew that, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So Jesus comes back on Christmas, which he always does.
On his way to his Jesus goes, doesn't he go
in his sleigh and drop off drops off toys for
kids all over the world. Oh, because I thought Jesus
went up on Easter to get ready for the holiday
(01:07):
season to give toys to all the boys and girls.
So I have that confused. Yes, okay, thank you for that.
I'll straighten that out. We have a big, big winter
storm coming too, that is real, and we're going to
see the rains hitting us. What amy tomorrow night or
tonight is when it really starts.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Tomorrow is when the rain's going to roll in, yeah,
and then the heaviest of it's going to be on Wednesday. Okay,
I can't wait for that the day before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So for those of you that are traveling, good luck
to you, you know, then take a kayak.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Now I want to spend a minute talking about unintended
consequences when legislation is passed. I was involved in writing
the first surrogacy bill here in the state of California,
and that is controlling and dealing with safeguards.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Its area, etc.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
In the world of surrogacy, we spent more time dealing
about dealing with unintended consequences than we ever did actually
writing the legislation, because that's what comes to bite you
in the ass. Whenever legislation or court cases have been decided,
(02:23):
here we go in unattended consequences.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So here's one that you might enjoy.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
There was a criminal justice reform law that was passed
in twenty twenty allowing judges to basically erase as a
race a misdemeanor case from existence.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And what it does and we all thought, all right,
not bad.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It shields people accused of low level crimes from the
stigma of having a conviction on their record, because a
conviction of any kind on your record limits your workability
or housing opportunities getting hired. I mean, having convictions on
your record is not fun. And believe me, everybody that
(03:05):
you're that you're going to work for or wherever you're
gonna rent, is doing a background check because it's so
easy today, which means are you ready for this the
land of unintended consequences? You can face more penalties for
a speeding ticket than running someone over and killing that person. Now,
(03:28):
how is that? Well, here's an example. In April, a
twenty three year old Connor Lopez, who hamsby a piano teacher,
was riding his motorcycle when an oncoming car makes a
left turn right in front of him and collides. There
was a collision. Lopez dies right there in the driveway.
(03:52):
The DA's office charges the driver, hard Jit Cower, with
misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, not a felony, no drunk driving here,
It was just he was in violation of the law.
He made an illegal left turn and ended up killing someone.
And one of the charges can be a vehicular manslaughter,
(04:13):
but misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, and it was, of course a
legend at her failure to yield is what caused the
is what caused the crash. I mean, it was right there, right,
the dots were all connected. So the prosecutor said the
case could be wiped off of Cower's record completely and
(04:36):
sealed from view if Cower asks for diversion and the
judge grants it. Diversion programs have been around for decades
across the country.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What they do is let a judge stop a case.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Order a defendant to meet certain requirements over a period
of time, by going to rehab, going to traffic school,
et cetera, and usually doing community service, and if the
defendant completes those terms, the case is dismissed.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Done.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now that twenty twenty law lets judges in California order
diversion for almost all misdemeanors, even this one, even over
the objection of a prosecutor. So five years after twenty twenty,
here we are twenty twenty five, and defense attorneys are
routinely requesting diversion, not just for shoplifting under nine hundred
(05:29):
and fifty dollars we changed that limit and drug possession,
but also for cases where someone has died.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Cal Matters looked.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Into this and they identified about three dozen drivers who
avoided the vehicular manslaughter charge by doing the diversion charges.
And can you imagine families in arguing against letting the
drivers off. The judge sometimes goes no because it's not
(05:59):
that much of a The judge views it as just
an accident in which someone unfortunately was killed, which means
that if a diversion program is removed or is enacted,
there are not even any points against your driving record
with a DMV. If you're caught speeding, yes you get points.
(06:23):
And in this case there was the left term, but
no cops saw it and there wasn't a ticket issued.
Welcome to unintended consequences, all right. Sixty minutes was supposed
to air an investigative peace about Venezuelan's hundreds of them
(06:47):
being deported to l Salvador under the immigration crackdown, and
they were sent to this prison, one of the I
think most is being described as one of the most
horrific prisons and all of El Salvador. And according to
the sixty minute piece, they endured systematic torture and abuse
(07:08):
I'm reading here, including sexual assault, and the report went
on to say, the conditions at sey Kat, it's the
name of the prison, breached the United Nations minimal rules
and that's according to the Human Rights Watch. So what happened, Well,
the decision came directly from the network's editor in chief,
(07:32):
new One, Bari Weiss. According to an internal email that
was produced from the correspondent of that piece, Sharon al Fonsei,
called the decision to yank the piece from the broadcast
ten amount to handing the White House a kill switch.
(07:55):
The team had sent questions and requested comments from the
White House, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security
for the story. The administration denied or declined to grant
the interview. Alfonsi wrote, government silence is a statement, not
a veto, and their refusal to be interviewed is a
tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. Now, CBS said
(08:19):
the sixty minute report on inside Sikat will air in
a future broadcast. Don't know when we determine it needed
additional reporting, And then a question was asked of CBS
to comment on Alfonsi's statement. No comment from CBS. Matter
(08:39):
of fact, Alfonsi didn't comment after she said that, so
the segment is yell is yanked after tremendous promotional aspects
to this. I mean they were running it on TV,
the trailer and on their website.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And let me tell you a little bit about Weiss.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Weiss was named CBS's top editor this fall after David Ellison,
he owns Paramount Sky Dance with his dad. He ended
up buying The Free Press an opinion an opinion website
actually that Weiss had found it and by the way,
sold it for one hundred and fifty million dollars. She
did just great in her early days, rapid changes, restructuring, layoffs,
(09:25):
a town hall series, including an interview with Erica Kirk,
the widow of Charlie Kirk. I mean it went on,
and it went on and on, and in the email,
Alfonsi says, the sources in this segment risked their lives
to speak with us, and we have a moral and
professional obligation to these sources themselves who entrusted us with
(09:50):
their stories. And then she went on to say, and
here I'm going to quote, if the standard for airing
a story becomes the government must agree to be intervie dude,
then the government effectively gains control over the sixty minutes
broadcast and we go from investigative powerhouse to a stenographer
for the state.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And here's the allegation.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
CBS management is saying that we needed the input of
the government, We had to have their response.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Therefore, without their response, we don't have a story and
we're not going to broadcast it. And Alfonsi writes, if
that is the standard for airing a story that the
government has to respond, then look what we have. We
don't have a free press, we don't have a robust,
investigated aspect. And she said, the story itself is factually correct,
(10:48):
rigorous internal checks have been meat. This is not an
editorial decision. This is all about a political decision. And
it is one of the things about this administration. It
is truly stretching the bounds of not only its power legally,
(11:09):
but its power psychologically.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's political power.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And in these cases it is and I'm going to
talk about a minute some of the cases that have
been brought up Jimmy kimmelcase. A timeline of Trump's fights
with the media. I mean, it goes on and on,
and this one and I'll tell you the President has
(11:36):
won this battle.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
President won it because people are afraid people. You've got universities,
you have private companies, you have law firms, all scared
to death of what the president can do. Also, keep
in mind, Republicans in Congress are all lining.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Up to do exactly what the president wants.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
If the President says A, we go to A, and
if he changes his mind and say let's go to B,
we go to B. Case in point, Epstein files screaming
about how they have to be released, and now his
ardent supporters who screamed about it are now staying completely silent.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Nope, don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And that's just a tip of the Iceberg presentative or
excuse me, she was a reporter. If it takes the
White House to respond, and it doesn't respond and we
kill the story, that means that the White House essentially
has the ability to kill a story.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All it has to do is not respond.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And the media and the President have had some very
interesting stories and very interesting episodes. The Kimmy Jimmy Kimmel
episode in which he was yanked off the air and
put back on because of the backlash, and what did
he do well. He had a monologue which included a
reference to the Charlie Kirk assassination. He also compared Trump's
(13:07):
grief to a four year old mourning of a goldfish.
And I find that offensive too, because I think a
goldfish mourns far for a far longer time. Okay, Am
I going to be yanked off the air for that?
Quite possibly? And the point is that if you have
(13:29):
an outlet, a news outlet, a broadcast outlet that says
anything derogatory about the president, that outlives a lot in
a lot of trouble. Now, Brendan Carr, who is the
FCC chair appointee of Trump's, threatened outright to pull the
license of ABC literally, to pull those broadcast licenses affiliates.
(13:51):
Although ABC does own I think five they used to
own five stations the major networks or five OHO to
zero owned and operated.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I don't know. I don't think there's a limit now.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Anyway, it was they were so frightened ABC that they
yanked Kimmel for a period of a few days. Thank goodness,
because can you imagine the government be able to tell
a network, here is who you're going to have on
the air, and who you're not. Stephen Colbert's show was yanked.
(14:21):
Now they're saying the network is saying CBS was for
financial reasons. However, the announcement came three days after Colbert
criticized the settlement between Trump and Paramount over a sixty
minute story, which in and of itself as a hell
of a story. Paramount decided to pay Donald Trump sixteen
(14:43):
million dollars to settle a lawsuit regarding the editing of
a sixty minute CBS sixty minute segment. The interview was
with then Vice president Kamala Harris and what the accusation was,
and it's a legit accusation that they edited the interview
(15:04):
and put pieces of it together to make Kamala Harris
look better.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, true?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And so as a result of that, it's not just
a retraction that's usually the case. No, it was a lawsuit,
I think for twenty billion dollars. And what were the damages?
Trump could not argue that he lost the election because
of it. He suffered mental anguish as a result of
(15:36):
that interview. Now, every lawyer that they could find, that
we could find that anybody could find, said this is
ludicrous on its face.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
How does Donald.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Trump argue mental anguish because that sixty minute piece made
Kamala Harris look better. They settled sixteen million dollars. They caved.
Trump also signed an order in which he defunded PBS
and NPR. They don't have governmental money anymore. Why because
(16:17):
they're considered liberal and they come out against Trump or
some policies against Trump. Then there was a fifteen million
dollar settlement from ABC News because George Stephanopolis on the
air said that the president elect. At that point, the
(16:37):
president had just been elected. He was found civilly liable
of raping the writer e Gen Carroll, and the network
agreed to pay the fifteen million plus a million.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Dollars in legal fees.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And why is this, Well, Stephanopolos repeatedly misstated the verdict
in the two civil lawsuits, and the verdict was not rape.
Is not what came down is rape as New York
under New York law. It was I think simply sexual assault,
which technically is not rape. And you would think, of
(17:10):
course ABC News would just settle it or just print
or broadcast or retraction, which is.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Always the case.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Fifteen million dollars plus a million dollars in legal fees.
CBS News just now the sixty minute piece. It's pretty
scary for the world of broadcasting. Also pretty scary for
law firms too. And how does he deal with law firms. Well,
he just said a lot of the major major law
rooms law firms are involved in federal cases and are
(17:41):
paid for in federal dollars. He decided, We're not going
to pay anymore. Major corporations. If you're woke, we are
going to make it miserable for you. Universities, colleges, they
get federal money and lots of it. If you are woke,
we are going to yank hundreds of mills millions of
dollars across the board.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's scary stuff, it really is.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
And the courts, well, Supreme Court has given President Trump
well effectively unbridled presidential power. I mean he has, I mean,
look at he's got the perfect storm going. He has
Congress in his pocket, he has the ability to shut
down networks. He has the ability of withholding hundreds of
(18:30):
millions billions of dollars from universities if they don't do
what he says, or if they don't stop doing what
he is arguing that they should stop.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Anyway, it's pretty scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Let's have some fun now, Okay, all right, We're going
to end the show with holiday gifts, and I'll tell
you what's really hot.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Poop tests.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Now, really yeah, because what's happening is health tracking gifts
are really the hot. One. Micro biome tests, also known
as poop tests, in which you poop into I guess
(19:15):
some kind of a box or a thing. Actually not,
I think you put a little litmus test kind of strip. Anyways,
what it is not only is it completely disgusting, it
also measures the microbiomes, the bacteria in your gut. And
some of these tests measure blood sugar. And you can
get a panel of blood tests. Man, that's just something
(19:36):
you get a Christmas gift, for a holiday gift, and
there it is. It's a monitor show your blood, what
your blood levels are, and on top of that a
little kit that says here you go poop into here.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Now. I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Great a gift that would be personally, I thought it'd
be kind of what does it say a value would
to say about someone that you are gifting. There are
devices like the Aura ring. Remember the mood ring. Well,
this is the Aura ring, which is a lot more
sophisticated and whoop, they track sleep, physical activity, health metrics.
(20:16):
Those are hotter than hell. It's health that we're giving
gifts to each other. And you know, am I going
to receive any? I know? I don't receive gifts for
the most part, nor do I want them. And everybody
you don't get you guys don't get gifts from me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So there you go. I don't have you. Has anybody
gotten a Christmas card for me?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, okay, small gift, but have you ever received a.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Christmas card from me? Not an actual Christmas card? Okay?
Have you ever received a holiday card for me?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Amy?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I have never given a holiday card in my life. No,
it didn't come from me. And Lindsay was my name
on it? No it was not your signature, was it?
No it was not my signature, Yes it was. That
is a no, it's a fact simile. This is what
she uses to forge my name on checks.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
All right.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And by the way, uh will don't expect a card
from me?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And uh yeah, hold way too late, although.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
You know what, Lindsay does give New Year's cards, you know,
and people give us sometimes Thanksgiving cards because you're inundated
with cards.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What Why? Because it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Of work to open up the envelope and then throw
the cards into the trash.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
That is a lot of work. You're not supposed to
throw them in the trash.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
You're supposed to display them. Yeah, I'll take a picture
of my empty mantle and I'll share that, I'll post that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I can't think we're done. Guys, you've been listening to
the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
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