September 18, 2023 • 38 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday Wake Up Call. KFI’s Steve Gregory speaks on the shooting death of an on-duty deputy in Palmdal. Investigators with the LA County Sheriff's Department are trying to find those responsible. ABC White House Correspondent Karen Travers discusses President Biden heading to New York for UNGA. Amy talks with ABC News Political Analyst Steve Roberts about what is behind the House GOP impeachment inquiry. The show wraps with ABC National News Correspondent Steven Portnoy talking about former President Trump saying he might testify in the Mar-A-Lago Docs case.
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You're listening to Wake Up Call ondemand from kf I AM six forty K
five and kost H T two,Los Angeles, Orange County. Now,
Daddy, Aby King, it's fiveo'clock. This is your wake up call
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for Monday, September eighteenth. Goodmorning, I'm Amy King. Well,
we're gonna be talking Dodgers today.We're gonna be talking about voting today.
It's a very important day. We'regonna talk about gas prices. Oh my
god, the gas station of myneighborhood I've filled up on Friday. It
jumped like thirty cents from Thursday toFriday. And then when I was driving
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in this morning, I saw ithad jumped another thirty cents a gallon.
So I know the average prices isnot up that much, but at my
gas station in the last like fourdays, it's gone up sixty cents a
gallon. We've also got cheeseburgers totalk about today, Khan. I was
excited about that National Cheeseburger Day.Love cheeseburgers. So we're gonna have some
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fun. But we've also got someserious stuff, so let's get into it.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. A two hundred and fifty thousand
dollar reward has been offered for informationleading to the person who ambushed and killed
in La County Sheriff's deputy in Palmdale. It happened Saturday in front of the
Palmdale sheriff station. United Auto WorkersPresident Sean Fain says there hasn't been much
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project progress in talks with the Bigthree automakers. The strike is entering its
fourth day. He says the fightis about the CEOs making millions off the
backs of low paid workers. Vowingto pressure and backlash. Drew Barrymore has
decided not to start up her daytimetalk show again, at least not for
now. She says the show willnot return until the writer's strike ends.
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Writers are expected to sit down withthe studios for a new round of talks
this week. Let's get started withsome of the stories coming out of the
Kfight twenty four hour newsroom. Theprice of regular gas in La County has
shot up almost fourteen cents in oneday. That was yesterday. It's up
another five cents on average today.The average is now five ninety two a
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gallon in La County. That's thehighest since October of last year. The
average in Orange County up almost seventeencents a gallon yesterday, it's at five
ninety one. In the Inland Empire, the average is five seventy seven.
The Auto Club is blaming high oilcosts. The national average ah another reason
to love California. The national averageis three dollars in eighty nine cents a
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gallon. A lawmaker from Irvine hasadvanced a bill to the governor intended to
help law enforcement fight online sales offentinel. The measure, pushed by Assemblywoman
Katty Petri Norris, requires social mediacompanies to keep data that's associated with the
sale and distribution of illegal drugs,including fentyl. Currently, many platforms allow
users to erase chats, but ifsigned by the governor, the new law
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would require social media companies to postpolicies that that info could be shared with
law enforcement, and requires companies tokeep data associated with accounts suspended for drug
activity for ninety days. Corbin Carsonk if I news Drew Barrymore is not
restarting her talk show during the writersstrike after all. She made the announcement
yesterday following days of criticism for planningto go ahead with the show. Barrymore
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also apologize to anyone she hurts.She now says the show will restart when
the strike is over. Members ofthe Biden administration have been sent to Detroit
to support talks between the Big threeautomakers and striking workers. The union members
walked off the job last week demandingbetter pay and benefits. ABC says there
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were meetings with Ford and GM overthe weekend and there will be a meeting
with Statlantis today. Ford is laidoff six hundred workers at its assembly plant
in Wayne, Michigan, as theUnited Auto Workers strike continues. General Motors
is putting two thousand people out ofwork as it pauses production at its Fairfax
assembly plant in Kansas. The UAWsays the automakers are putting the squeeze on
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the union to settle for less bylaying off people who are not on strike.
Two public universities in California have comeout on top. UCLA has tied
with UC Berkeley for the number onespot and the top public schools and the
twenty twenty four US News and WorldReport Best Colleges in America list. UCLA
and UC Berkeley also tied for numberfifteen in the overall rankings of universities in
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the nation. Among the factors consideredin the survey where academic reputation, cost
of attendance, and return on investment. Nearly a third of the Westwood University
students our first generation college students AndyWells KFI News. Investigators with the La
County Sheriff's Department are trying to findthose responsible for the deadly shooting of an
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on duty deputy in Palmdale. SheriffLuna says the best clue so far might
be grainy surveillance video showing a carpulling up alongside a patrol suv at the
intersection of Sierra Highway in Avenue Q. The vehicles described as a two thousand
six to two twelve Toyota Corolla,dark gray in color. Luna said yesterday
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he wants anyone with any type ofvideo or recollection of being in the area
to come forward. On Saturday night, Deputy Ryan clincken Bremer was sitting in
the suv as he was approached trumpbehind and shot in the head. And
these suspects and I'm going to continuouslyrefer to them as cowards because that's what
they are cowards to attack a deputysheriff and uniform in a black and white
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who's just sitting there at a redlight about to go out and serve our
community. That is absolutely one hundredpercent unacceptable. A bystander saw Clintin Brumer
slumped over the steering wheel. Theyran over to the Palmdale station across the
street and reported the attack. ClinkinBrumer was taken to the Antelope Valley Medical
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Center, where he was pronounced Dad. Deputy Broomer was thirty years old and
an eight year veteran of our Sheriff'sdepartment. He worked the majority of his
tenures serving this Palmdale community. ClintinBrumer was also a field training deputy.
His family was slown by helicopter fromtheir homes in Santa Clarita to the hospital
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in Lancaster Saturday night. A fewhours later, Sheriff Luna announced that Clintin
Brumer had passed away. Clinton Brumer'sdeath isn't just a blow to the department,
but also the cities of Palmdale andLancaster. Lauren Bettencourt's the Mayor of
Palmdale. We stand together to mournand pay tribute to Deputy Ryan Clintin Brumer,
or Clink as we affectionately call himhere at the station, who made
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the ultimate sacrifice in the line ofduty. We have profound sorrow regarding this
unacceptable, an unprovoked attack, andemotions are running high. Let me be
crystal clear, this was an actof murder. This individual or individuals our
spineless criminals, and our community willjoin together to bring them to Jestin County
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Supervisor Katherine Barger announced yesterday a rewardof one hundred thousand dollars. It was
matched by the City of Palmdale,with another fifty thousand contributed by the primary
union representing deputies, for a totalof two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
with more expected. Deputy Clinkin Bremerwas a third generation member of law enforcement.
His father and grandfather were also LaCounty Sheriff's deputies, and just four
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days before he was shot, RyanClinkinbroomer had just proposed to his girlfriend for
a wake up call. I'm SteveGregory KFI News. You know Steve had
some really powerful posts over the weekendon Instagram and Facebook of the procession for
the deputy if you get a chanceto go check out Steve Gregory, or
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you also go to the KFI Instagrampage because it's up there too. Let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. A spokesman for Iran's Foreignministry says a prisoner swap with the US
is happening. Announced on State TVthat six billion dollars in Iranian oil money,
once frozen in South Korea has beentransferred to Cutter. ABC's Justin Finch
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says that's a key part of thedeal to swap five Iranian prisoners in the
US for five Americans held in Iran. They had the sin of Intelligence Committee
Mark Warner expressing concern about what Iranmay do with that six billion dollars.
He wants more details on the constraintsbeing placed on that money. The Biden
administration has said it'll make sure themoney only goes toward humanitarian causes, not
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Iran's nuclear program. It's not clearhow the US would do that. A
man from Willowbrook is looking it upto twenty years in federal prison for robbing
three banks over a span of sixdays in twenty nineteen. He's doing court
this afternoon. Ricky Lewis did guiltylast year to three counts of bank robbery
and one count of attempt at bankrobbery. Prosecutors say he threatened to shoot
bank tellers and got away with justover four thousand dollars. A child is
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suing the Claremont School District, claimingthe district and school officials failed to protect
him from other students who bullied andattacked him on campus this last spring,
forcing his mom to pull him outof school for his protection. The lawsuit,
filed on his behalf by his mother, alleged's assault and battery, dangerous
conditions at L Robel Intermediate School,negligent supervision, and negligent hiring, training
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and retention. The plaintiffs seeks unspecifiedcompensatory and punitive damages. The lawsuit claims
L Roble School also has an ongoingissue issue with students fighting. A pilot
based in Van Nuys or at VanNuys Airport, has been killed at an
air racing event in Reno. Twoplanes collided after they landed. The other
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pilot was also killed. Yesterday.She'll say there were no civilian injuries and
that they were in the process ofgathering and confirming more details about what led
to the crash. President Biden isin New York for the UN General Assembly.
ABC's Derek Wallace's tens of thousands ofclimate activists are also in Manhattan,
calling on Biden to end the useof fossil fuel, calling attention to the
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climate emergency that no doubt many ofthe world leaders here for the UN General
Assembly are also finally focused on todayhe's actually getting to work, not just
holding high level meetings, but alsoholding re election fundraisers. Tickets for tonight's
Broadway for Biden fundraiser are going foras much as seventy five hundred dollars.
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We're gonna be talking with ABC's KarenTravers in just a couple of minutes to
find out what else is on theagenda for President Biden. Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton has been acquitted on allcounts at his impeachment trial. State senators
voted Friday on sixteen articles of impeachment. A conviction on any one of them
would have led to an automatic removalfrom office. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says
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millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted onthe impeachment effort in the next regular session.
We should amend the constitution. Well, the issue of impeachment is currently
written that allowed this flawed process tohappen. Paxton was accused of abusing the
power of his office to help apolitical donor. He is still facing charges
of securities fraud. Okay, soin case you're just still laying in bed,
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check your feet, do you havesocks on? I gotta tell you
why you shouldn't do that anymore.So, apparently research have found a researchers
have found that wearing socks to bedis worse than sleeping in a toilet.
They did a poll of more thana thousand people. About eighteen percent of
people wear socks to bed. Nono, it sounds suffocating. No no,
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no, Well, on a coldnight, which we don't get cold
winter's nights here. But when Iused to live in Oregon and you go
to bed and it's really chilly,I would put on a good pair of
socks and then it kick them offonce my feet warmed up. But seventy
percent of the people who wear socksto bed don't change into a clean pair
and them apparently that's that's the problem, because some socks when they tested them
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and checked them for bugs and bacteriaand all that stuff, found that half
of them had something called pseudo moonsaragenosa. It's a type of bacteria that
causes infections the mattress next door.Researchers also discovered that some socks were dirtier
than uncleaned TV remotes and dirtier thantoilets. So if you are going to
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wear socks to bed, the recommendationis to put on a clean pair of
socks. Just so you know.Uh, did you know that? The
La Dodgers just clinched their tenth NationalLeague West tie in eleven years? Check
this out, Nick oh for fourtonight, swing on a groundball to second
base, bets to Freeman. TheDodgers win it, six to two.
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The Dodgers decade of dominance continues.They're the best in the West for the
tenth time in the past to elevenyears. Yep, the Dodgers are the
champions of the National League Western Divisionagain. They beat the Mariners tonight six
to two. The champs and thebest of the West again. That means
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the Dodgers are headed to the playoffs, but not for like three more weeks.
So they still have games to play. You can listen to every game
on AM five seventy l A Sportsand an HD on the iHeartRadio app.
The keyword is A five seventy lA Sports. The next home game is
tonight at Dodgers Stadium, and thenof course we have Blue Tober coming up,
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and we'll keep you posted about that. Can't wait, boys in Blue.
Good job right now, say goodmorning to ABC's Karen Travers. Thanks
for patiently waiting, Karen. We'vegot President Biden in the Big Apple.
What's he up to this week?Yeah, he's got fundraisers today, that's
the big focus. He is aquiet day until this evening when he has
a big round of fundraisers for hisreelection campaign, including a big one on
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Broadway with some of the biggest starsin theater. Then tomorrow he gets down
to business at the UN with hisspeech to the UN General Assembly and meetings
on the sidelines of that annual gatheringof world leaders, with the Prime Minister
of Israel, the President of Brazil, the UN Secretary General, and the
leaders of five Central Asian countries.The White House says his speech will echo
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a similar theme that we've heard fromhim before at the UN about advancing a
vision of US leadership built on workingwith allies, working with partners to solve
global problems. He's also, ofcourse, we're going to be talking about
continued support for the war in Ukraine. It's going to be a big issue
that world leaders will be addressing.And then later this week he'll act,
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we welcome to the White House theUkrainian President of Vladimore's Zelinsky, and they'll
be talking about that continued assistance.And Zolenski is also going to address the
General Assembly, isn't he or yeah, yeah, he is in New York
and then comes down to Washington,and you know, I think it's a
big week obviously, but probably thebiggest part of his week for Zelinski is
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going up to Capitol Hill, wherehe's going to meet with Republicans and Democrats
in both the House and Senate.And that's important because the administration has asked
for twenty four billion dollars in Ukrainefunding, and right now there is a
loud group of some Republicans in theHouse who has said no, they will
not approve that funding. The WhiteHouse last week that they felt confident that
there is enough bipartisan support to getthat funding through. But when asked if
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the President can assure Zelinsky in theirWhite House meeting that that money will be
there, that the US continuous support, he said that the President doesn't make
his foreign policy based on assurances,but that the US will continue to give
its continued support to Ukraine. Well, they need our help. So ABC's
Karen Travis, thank you so muchfor your time. She's on a tight
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schedule. We'll get a let hergo. Thanks Karen, thank you.
Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. The Riverside County DA'soffice is getting more than two million dollars
from the Board of State and CommunityCorrections to fight smash and grab robberies.
Prosecutors say this kind of crime isa serious problem that impacts every single consumer
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and retailer in Southern California. Adune buggy accident outside Las Vegas has left
a teenage firefighter in training from SouthernCalifornia with severe burns over most of her
body. Seventeen year old America salmarnis an explorer with the Pasadena Fire Department.
Those around her say what she needsmost now is support from the community.
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She still hopes to serve one day. State police in Pennsylvania say nine
teenagers who escaped from a detention centerin Morgantown have been captured. The teens
got away during a riot last night. Four of the night were caught less
than three miles away. The detentioncenter is about fifteen miles away from where
an escaped inmate was caught last week, and that guy the murderer who got
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away and then was on the loosefor a couple of weeks. The federal
government is trying to get back twentyone billion dollars in mistake in Social Security
payments. ABC's Rhiannon Alley says muchof that money went to low income and
disabled beneficiaries. A former Postal Serviceemployee in Florida perceived about nine hundred dollars
a month since two thousand and one. The Social Security once more than one
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hundred and twenty thousand dollars back becauseof a mistake on their end. One
woman claims are actually a former policeofficer. A former police officer shot on
duty in twenty eighteen says he andhis wife got a letter demanding they returned
thirty thousand dollars, and his appealwas denied. The Social Security Administration says
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staffing and resource constraints have challenged itsservice delivery, but its payment accuracy rates
remain high. Here's something kind ofcool that's going on at the beach I
wanted to share with you. Youknow, a lot of garbage ends up
in the water, and Newport Beachis doing something about it. So they
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have introduced plans to put a trashcollecting water wheel into a stream, and
apparently it's supposed to sort of filterthe water. It looks kind of like
a like a paddle boat wheel ifI'm looking at the picture right, and
it's supposed to like scoop up thetrash that flows down from communities upstream along
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the San Diego Creek and the SantaAnna Delhi Channel before it gets into the
Bay and the Harbor and ultimately inthe ocean. It's the West coasts first
such trash collecting water wheel, andit's apparently it's kind of a low tech,
high tech thing, so it doesn'ttake a ton, but it does
cost a lot of money. Theproject is five half million dollars. The
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city council has agreed to foot threepoint nine million dollars for construction of it.
The wheels system should be up andrunning, but not for a little
bit longer until December of twenty twentyfour. And this is kind of I
didn't realize this much garbage gets intothe bay, but officials estimate Upper Newport
Bay gets between one hundred and fivehundred tons of debris washed into it every
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year. It is National voter Registrationtoday. Are you registered to vote?
It only takes thirty seconds to register. You can either register or check to
make sure that your registration is upto date, Like if you've moved or
changed your name or anything like that, you need to go update it.
But since it's National Voter Registration Day, maybe a good time to do it.
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You can go and register or checkyour registration at LA vote dot gov.
AT's la vote dot gov. Rightnow, let's say good morning to
ABC's political analyst Steve Roberts. Stevehow Speaker Kevin McCarthy, of course,
has started an impeachment inquiry into PresidentBiden. What does this really mean?
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Well, what it means is thispolitics. This is not law or legality.
The Republicans know that they don't havethe votes to impeach Joe Biden.
They probably don't even have those votesin the House where they one, the
Democratic controlled center. But that's notthe point. The point here is politics.
The point is to do two thingsin one is to distract attention from
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Donald Trump's political legal problems ninety onecriminal charges in four different cases. But
in a larger sense, it's designedto sort of spread the idea well to
voters, well, they all doit. All politicians are corrupt. Of
this false equivalency that Trump might becorrupt, but Biden's corrupt too. And
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the goal here is not to convertBiden supporters to Trumps supporters. That's not
going to happen. The goal hereis to discourage Biden supporters. And let's
be honest, Biden already has alot of problems even with Democrats. They're
not particularly enthusiastic are excited about it. And if you can discourage your opponent's
supporters, if you get them tonot talk to their neighbors, they don't
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give money, and most importantly,they might not vote, might rain that
day, or the kid's babysitter mightnot show up, or they got to
do an extra turn at work,and if you can get people to stay
home or to vote for a thirdparty, you accomplished something very important.
And that's exactly what happened in twosixteen. Donald Trump's incessant campaign against Crooked
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Hillary helped discourage a certain number ofDemocrats people forgetting and in sixteen, six
percent of American voters voted for athird party that included a lot of Sandwich
supporters, a lot of Democrats likeand that was the key difference in the
key states of Wisconsin and Michigan thatwhere Trump eat out his victory. And
four years later, instead of sixpercent of Americans voting third party, fewer
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than two percent voted. So there'sa very clear strategy here. Trump is
following the same playbook he did intwo sixteen. Instead of attacking Crooked Hillary,
he's attacking Crooked Joe, but doingthat through Kevin McCarthy. Absolutely.
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I mean, Trump has been oneof the leading proponents of impeachment. But
this is all part of the samestudy that they're all linked together. McCarthy
is doing this largely out of pressurefrom conservatives who and there's another factor here.
I mean, it's important you know, elections have consequences. And it's
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true that the Republicans only control theHouse by a handful of poses. They
can't pass any legislation that's going tobecome law because it would be immediately be
buried in the Democratic Senate. Buteven if you control the House by one
or two votes, that means youcontrol every committee. That means you have
subpoena power, that means you cansearch bank records. That means you can
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hold hearings and ask questions and someonewitnesses, and so Republicans, by initiating
this inquiry enhance their power to goafter Biden's bank records. And again,
this has nothing to do with everimpeaching Joe Biden has nothing to do.
Is really easy to bring in criminalcharges against Hunter Biden. What it has
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to do is blemishing Joe Biden's reputationand discouraging Democrats who are already discouraged by
Biden's age and lack of energy anddynamism. And this is the strategy.
Throw as much money at the wallas you possibly can and hope some of
it sticks. Okay, So Steve, I have a question for you though,
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because you know the Democrats are sayingthat there's there's nothing there. Like
you, you said that it's reallynot about going after President Biden, it's
about discouraging voters. But the Republicanssay they have a lot of smoke and
that those bank records that they're subpoenaingcould prove that Biden received money from foreign
governments or something like that. Thatyou're saying that there's just no way that
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they're going to do that, thatthat stuff isn't there. I don't know
what's it. I don't know what'sin those bank records. I can tell
you that so far they haven't comeclose to proving any kind of connection.
Look, we all know that HunterBiden's a sleas ball. We all know
that Hunter Biden engaged in all sortsof shady business deals. We know that
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he tried to sell the appearance ofinfluence with his father. We know that
no one's going to make Hunter Bidenthe Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year
as honorable business person. That's alltrue. But whether Biden Joe Biden himself
directly profited from his son's dealings hasyet. There's just no smoking gun there.
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And I'm quoting Ken Buck. He'sone of the most conservative Republicans in
the House said that on TV overthe weekend. But you can say that
Joe Biden used questionable judgment and maybecontinues to use questionable judgment in terms of
how he dealt with his son.After all, Joe Biden did say my
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son has done nothing wrong, andthat's not true. His son was ready
to plead guilty to gun charges andtax charges. He's been indicted on those
gun charges. He's likely to beindicted on those tax charges because the original
key deal fell through last summer.This is not about making Hunter Biden into
some honorable figure. He's not.And Joe Biden, you know, to
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some extent, you could argue thatthis is certainly understandable. Everybody understands that
Joe Biden's wife and small childs werekilled many years ago. Hunter Biden and
Joe and his brother Boe Biden wasthe surviving small boys who had added the
injured in this wreck. Boe Bidenwas Joe Biden's favorite son, and he
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died of brain cancer at forty six. He was the golden boy. He
was the one who's supposed to succeedJoe Biden politics. The surviving son Hunter
has battled with addiction and has beena troublesome figure for years, and Biden
is clearly obsessed on this subject.And we know from reporting that when anybody
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tries to introduce the question of HunterBiden saying maybe we should distance the White
House from him, maybe you shouldbe more careful in your dealings with him,
Biden snaps at them and won't hearit. This is a father and
a son and whose battled addiction.It's a deep personal and emotional question.
So there's no doubt that Joe Bidenis guilty of many things, but whether
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he directly personally profited from Hunter's shadybusiness dealings as yet to be proven.
So I guess we're just going tohave to wait and see. And even
if they did, I'm playing thehypothetical game. Even if they said,
yep, there's a clear line thiswas compromised, he accepted payments, he
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still wouldn't get convicted in the Senate, would he? I don't think he'd
be convicted in the Senate. Butagain, here's what I'm saying. The
bottom line here is that this isessentially a political process, not a legal
process, And would that kind ofinformation be very useful to Republicans a year
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from now, would that be spreadover every campaign advertisement day? Put out
yes, and the slogan will becomeJoe Biden confused and corrupt. That's a
pretty damaging combination and it could bevery serious problems for Biden politically, not
legally. Yeah, okay, anddon't forget it's voter registration day, it
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actually is. Steve Roberts, thankyou so much for your time and your
insight this morning. I appreciated aton any time. Sorry, Let's get
back to some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
About six billion dollars in Iranian assetsunfrozen by South Korea now in cutter
The release is part of a planswap for five Americans held in Iran.
The deal also includes the release offive Iranians in prison in the US.
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A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry saidthe swap is happening today. The UN
has revised its death toll from theflooding in Libya. Officials now say at
least thirty nine hundred and fifty eightpeople have been killed. Last week,
they put them number at more thaneleven thousand. The revised report also says
more than nine thousand people are stillmissing. The military says it's searching for
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an F thirty five fighter jet thatwent down near Charleston, South Carolina.
Officials say the pilot ejected safely yesterdayafter a misshap a mishap involving the jet.
The pilot's in stable condition. Theplane's last known position was near Lake
Moultrie and Lake Marian. Actor RussellBrand has denied allegations of sexual assault by
four women. He says every encounterwas consensual. The women spoke anonymously in
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a documentary produced by several British mediaoutlets. Some were portrayed by actors.
I was pushing him away, pushinghim away as though I ended up having
to punch him really hard in hisstomach to get him off, and I
was crying and he said, oh, I only want to see him a
scar or run anyway. One womanclaims she was sixteen when she was assaulted.
Brand married pop star Katy Perry intwenty ten. The marriage lasted just
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over a year. In twenty thirteen, Perry told Vogue she knew the real
truth about her ex husband and thatshe was keeping that locked in her safe
for a rainy day. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen
Portnoy. Stephen, former President Trumphad a lot to say and didn't say
a lot on Meet the Press yesterdaywide ranging interview that ered yesterday, taped
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earlier at Bedminster, the President's golfClub, and the new moderator Meet the
Press, Kristen Welker asked the formerpresident about a number of things, but
what I found most interesting where withprospective two separate cases that he faces,
the one in Florida, the Marlagoclassified documents case, and the January sixth
case here in Washington. In themar Lago case, the former president said
he's prepared to testify against essentially someonewho's likely to be one of the prosecution
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star witnesses, and that's going tobe the IT team man at mar Lago
who will testify. He's right,well, the one who eventually decided to
testify against former President, that's right, who previously had indicated that this did
not happen, but later came outand said that the former president directed his
maintenance man to corner the I teamman in a closet at marl Lago and
say the boss wants the video footageof boxes being moved around mar Lago destroyed.
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Now. Former President Trump says,simply not true, and that he's
prepared to testify to that effect.And he also makes the point that he
did after being subpoena turnover the videoevidence, which he says he could have
fought. There's I don't know ifthat's a very strong argument, but look,
that's one case. The other caseis here in Washington, DC,
in the January sixth case, wherethe former president was defiant when he talked
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about testifying in Florida, and hewas willing to say that this particular element
that has been alleged it is nottrue. In the January sixth case,
when Kristin Walker tried to ask theformer president what he did on that day
he was, he clammed up.He said, I'm not going to tell
you. Why should I tell you. I don't want to talk about it.
I'll talk about it when it's appropriate. Yeah. I watched it and
he said that several times. He'slike, I'm not going to tell you
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that. Yeah, And it makesyou wonder why why did he Why was
he so willing to answer other questionsbut not that particular question, and it's
a very I found that very interesting. Yeah, and so Special Counsel Jack
Smith also wants to restrict Trump fromtalking about some of the from the twenty
twenty election interference case. Right,So that's the January sixth case here in
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Washington, DC. The prosecutors inthe last couple of weeks have sought a
gag order that was sealed until Friday. So the news broke on Friday that
the former president is the subject ofa request from prosecutors for a narrow what
the prosecutors are calling a narrow gagorder on the former president's speech when it
comes to things he might say aboutwitnesses or parties to the case, including
the court personnel, the judge,even the citizens of Washington, DC.
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And the filing cites many things thatthe former president's been saying on social media
and his propensity to say things,and the possibility that violence another unto where
things could happen as a result ofthings the president says. So this is
just a request. The fact thatit's being made formally is important because if
the request is made and ultimately theorder comes, it'll be very interesting to
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see how former president Trump is willingto comply, and if he's not,
then what happens. Well, that'swhat I was just going to ask you.
If if a judge did say,okay, yeah, you can talk
about this and he does anyway,as Trump is want to do, what
happens. Well, I don't know, but in the normal course of business,
if you violate the order of ayou know, sitting federal district court
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judge, you could expect to haveto answer for it. Yeah, and
you know, the potential for youknow, contempt of court is is a
real one. And uh, youknow, sometimes it can be dealt with
with a with a fine, butin other cases, you know, judges
are empowered to throw people in thelockup for violating their orders. Yeah,
okay, I'm going totally off topicbecause you're you're a correspondent. How did
you think Kristin did yesterday? Oh, Christin and I have been friends for
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years. I think she's a wonderfulperson, and I think she did a
fine job yesterday, and I reallyliked at the end of the program how
she paid tribute to Martha Rowntree,the first moderator of Meet the Press,
who originated the show on radio innineteen forty five and moved it to television
in forty seven, and Meet thePress as a proud tradition of being the
oldest and longest running program and broadcasting. And I'm very excited to see it
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in Kristin because if it's Sunday,it's Meet the Press, right of course,
you know, I work across thestreet, so we have a fine
show too. By the way,I watch your show too. It's part
of my Seriously, it's part ofmy Sunday morning routine is I tape them
all and then I go back andwatch them all have my coffee on Sunday
mornings. That's great. Thank youso much, Steve, appreciate your time
today. Let's get back to someof the stories coming out of the KFI
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newsroom. Ellen Kennty, Sheriff Lunasays his investigators are looking for a two
thousand and six to two twelve darkgray Toyota Corolla that may be connected with
the deadly ambush of a deputy Saturdayevening in Palmdale. Check your cameras,
check your cameras. That could bethe missing link to the information that we
need. Deputy Ryan Clintin Bremer wasshot in the back of the head as
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he sat in his patrol SUV duringa red light at the intersection of Sierra
Highway and Avenue Q. Clintin Bremerwas an eight year veteran of the department.
A two hundred fifty thousand dollar rewardhas been offered to catch those involved,
and we are we're hearing channel foris saying that we may have or
they may have a suspect in custody. We are waiting to confirm that,
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but hopefully that's the case. Butwe'll keep you posted on that. Dozens
of bills are waiting for a yesor a no from Governor Newsome. The
bills have been passed by the legislatureand are waiting for the governor's signature.
CSU East Bay Professor doctor Michael Schweltzsays one of the bills would require companies
in California they make more than abillion dollars a year to disclose what they're
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pumping into the air. This doesget at the tech industry, but it
also gets at the healthcare industry aswell, So we really want to target
those big emitters. When thinking aboutgreenhouse gas emissions. Governor Newsom says he's
going to sign that one. JessicaMachel Fresh of the International Cannabis Bar Association
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says another bill would allow cannabis cafesin California. Change is that now they're
also going to be able to selland offer non infused averages and food.
They're potentially going to be able tohave a band or other entertainment in the
space. Several gun and gun violencebills are also waiting for the governor's signature,
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along with a bill that would giveunemployment benefits to striking workers, one
that would require school buses to havezero emissions by thirty five, and another
that would allow automated cameras to bustpeople for speeding. The governor has until
October fourteenth to sign or reject eachbill. Speaking of cannabis cafes and the
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after effects of that, Today's NationalCheeseburger Day. So if you've got a
hanker in for a cheeseburgers and nokno does. McDonald's, Wendy's, and
Burger King all have specials today.You can buy a fifty cent double cheeseburger
at McDonald's if you order it throughthe app. Of course, they pushing
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everybody to those apps. Wendy's isselling junior bacon cheeseburgers for one cent and
that's not only today, that's allweek from today through Friday. But again
you have to do it on theWendy's app. Oh and you could try
the pumpkin spice Rosti. At thesame time, Burger King is offering members
of its Royal Perks program some limiteddeals, including a chance to get a
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free cheeseburger if you purchase something fora dollar, and then if you want
to sit down and have a niceburger. Applebee's has three of its classic
burgers on sale for eight ninety nine, which is like four to six bucks
off which you would normally normally.Hey, who is it that loved cheeseburgers
in the Popeye show? Kno,you're true young to know that lupy grumpy
(37:35):
what I can't remember what his namewas anyway, Wayne is telling me whimpy
wimpy. Yes, thank you Wayne. Okay. This is KFI and kost
HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. I'm anyking. This has been your wake up
call and if you missed any wakeUp Call. You can listen anytime on
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You're listening to Wake Up Call ondemand from kf I AM six forty K
five and kost H T two,Los Angeles, Orange County. Now,
Daddy, Aby King, it's fiveo'clock. This is your wake up call
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for Monday, September eighteenth. Goodmorning, I'm Amy King. Well,
we're gonna be talking Dodgers today.We're gonna be talking about voting today.
It's a very important day. We'regonna talk about gas prices. Oh my
god, the gas station of myneighborhood I've filled up on Friday. It
jumped like thirty cents from Thursday toFriday. And then when I was driving
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in this morning, I saw ithad jumped another thirty cents a gallon.
So I know the average prices isnot up that much, but at my
gas station in the last like fourdays, it's gone up sixty cents a
gallon. We've also got cheeseburgers totalk about today, Khan. I was
excited about that National Cheeseburger Day.Love cheeseburgers. So we're gonna have some
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fun. But we've also got someserious stuff, so let's get into it.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. A two hundred and fifty thousand
dollar reward has been offered for informationleading to the person who ambushed and killed
in La County Sheriff's deputy in Palmdale. It happened Saturday in front of the
Palmdale sheriff station. United Auto WorkersPresident Sean Fain says there hasn't been much
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project progress in talks with the Bigthree automakers. The strike is entering its
fourth day. He says the fightis about the CEOs making millions off the
backs of low paid workers. Vowingto pressure and backlash. Drew Barrymore has
decided not to start up her daytimetalk show again, at least not for
now. She says the show willnot return until the writer's strike ends.
(02:07):
Writers are expected to sit down withthe studios for a new round of talks
this week. Let's get started withsome of the stories coming out of the
Kfight twenty four hour newsroom. Theprice of regular gas in La County has
shot up almost fourteen cents in oneday. That was yesterday. It's up
another five cents on average today.The average is now five ninety two a
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gallon in La County. That's thehighest since October of last year. The
average in Orange County up almost seventeencents a gallon yesterday, it's at five
ninety one. In the Inland Empire, the average is five seventy seven.
The Auto Club is blaming high oilcosts. The national average ah another reason
to love California. The national averageis three dollars in eighty nine cents a
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gallon. A lawmaker from Irvine hasadvanced a bill to the governor intended to
help law enforcement fight online sales offentinel. The measure, pushed by Assemblywoman
Katty Petri Norris, requires social mediacompanies to keep data that's associated with the
sale and distribution of illegal drugs,including fentyl. Currently, many platforms allow
users to erase chats, but ifsigned by the governor, the new law
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would require social media companies to postpolicies that that info could be shared with
law enforcement, and requires companies tokeep data associated with accounts suspended for drug
activity for ninety days. Corbin Carsonk if I news Drew Barrymore is not
restarting her talk show during the writersstrike after all. She made the announcement
yesterday following days of criticism for planningto go ahead with the show. Barrymore
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also apologize to anyone she hurts.She now says the show will restart when
the strike is over. Members ofthe Biden administration have been sent to Detroit
to support talks between the Big threeautomakers and striking workers. The union members
walked off the job last week demandingbetter pay and benefits. ABC says there
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were meetings with Ford and GM overthe weekend and there will be a meeting
with Statlantis today. Ford is laidoff six hundred workers at its assembly plant
in Wayne, Michigan, as theUnited Auto Workers strike continues. General Motors
is putting two thousand people out ofwork as it pauses production at its Fairfax
assembly plant in Kansas. The UAWsays the automakers are putting the squeeze on
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the union to settle for less bylaying off people who are not on strike.
Two public universities in California have comeout on top. UCLA has tied
with UC Berkeley for the number onespot and the top public schools and the
twenty twenty four US News and WorldReport Best Colleges in America list. UCLA
and UC Berkeley also tied for numberfifteen in the overall rankings of universities in
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the nation. Among the factors consideredin the survey where academic reputation, cost
of attendance, and return on investment. Nearly a third of the Westwood University
students our first generation college students AndyWells KFI News. Investigators with the La
County Sheriff's Department are trying to findthose responsible for the deadly shooting of an
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on duty deputy in Palmdale. SheriffLuna says the best clue so far might
be grainy surveillance video showing a carpulling up alongside a patrol suv at the
intersection of Sierra Highway in Avenue Q. The vehicles described as a two thousand
six to two twelve Toyota Corolla,dark gray in color. Luna said yesterday
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he wants anyone with any type ofvideo or recollection of being in the area
to come forward. On Saturday night, Deputy Ryan clincken Bremer was sitting in
the suv as he was approached trumpbehind and shot in the head. And
these suspects and I'm going to continuouslyrefer to them as cowards because that's what
they are cowards to attack a deputysheriff and uniform in a black and white
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who's just sitting there at a redlight about to go out and serve our
community. That is absolutely one hundredpercent unacceptable. A bystander saw Clintin Brumer
slumped over the steering wheel. Theyran over to the Palmdale station across the
street and reported the attack. ClinkinBrumer was taken to the Antelope Valley Medical
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Center, where he was pronounced Dad. Deputy Broomer was thirty years old and
an eight year veteran of our Sheriff'sdepartment. He worked the majority of his
tenures serving this Palmdale community. ClintinBrumer was also a field training deputy.
His family was slown by helicopter fromtheir homes in Santa Clarita to the hospital
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in Lancaster Saturday night. A fewhours later, Sheriff Luna announced that Clintin
Brumer had passed away. Clinton Brumer'sdeath isn't just a blow to the department,
but also the cities of Palmdale andLancaster. Lauren Bettencourt's the Mayor of
Palmdale. We stand together to mournand pay tribute to Deputy Ryan Clintin Brumer,
or Clink as we affectionately call himhere at the station, who made
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the ultimate sacrifice in the line ofduty. We have profound sorrow regarding this
unacceptable, an unprovoked attack, andemotions are running high. Let me be
crystal clear, this was an actof murder. This individual or individuals our
spineless criminals, and our community willjoin together to bring them to Jestin County
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Supervisor Katherine Barger announced yesterday a rewardof one hundred thousand dollars. It was
matched by the City of Palmdale,with another fifty thousand contributed by the primary
union representing deputies, for a totalof two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
with more expected. Deputy Clinkin Bremerwas a third generation member of law enforcement.
His father and grandfather were also LaCounty Sheriff's deputies, and just four
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days before he was shot, RyanClinkinbroomer had just proposed to his girlfriend for
a wake up call. I'm SteveGregory KFI News. You know Steve had
some really powerful posts over the weekendon Instagram and Facebook of the procession for
the deputy if you get a chanceto go check out Steve Gregory, or
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you also go to the KFI Instagrampage because it's up there too. Let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. A spokesman for Iran's Foreignministry says a prisoner swap with the US
is happening. Announced on State TVthat six billion dollars in Iranian oil money,
once frozen in South Korea has beentransferred to Cutter. ABC's Justin Finch
(08:22):
says that's a key part of thedeal to swap five Iranian prisoners in the
US for five Americans held in Iran. They had the sin of Intelligence Committee
Mark Warner expressing concern about what Iranmay do with that six billion dollars.
He wants more details on the constraintsbeing placed on that money. The Biden
administration has said it'll make sure themoney only goes toward humanitarian causes, not
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Iran's nuclear program. It's not clearhow the US would do that. A
man from Willowbrook is looking it upto twenty years in federal prison for robbing
three banks over a span of sixdays in twenty nineteen. He's doing court
this afternoon. Ricky Lewis did guiltylast year to three counts of bank robbery
and one count of attempt at bankrobbery. Prosecutors say he threatened to shoot
bank tellers and got away with justover four thousand dollars. A child is
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suing the Claremont School District, claimingthe district and school officials failed to protect
him from other students who bullied andattacked him on campus this last spring,
forcing his mom to pull him outof school for his protection. The lawsuit,
filed on his behalf by his mother, alleged's assault and battery, dangerous
conditions at L Robel Intermediate School,negligent supervision, and negligent hiring, training
(09:35):
and retention. The plaintiffs seeks unspecifiedcompensatory and punitive damages. The lawsuit claims
L Roble School also has an ongoingissue issue with students fighting. A pilot
based in Van Nuys or at VanNuys Airport, has been killed at an
air racing event in Reno. Twoplanes collided after they landed. The other
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pilot was also killed. Yesterday.She'll say there were no civilian injuries and
that they were in the process ofgathering and confirming more details about what led
to the crash. President Biden isin New York for the UN General Assembly.
ABC's Derek Wallace's tens of thousands ofclimate activists are also in Manhattan,
calling on Biden to end the useof fossil fuel, calling attention to the
(10:20):
climate emergency that no doubt many ofthe world leaders here for the UN General
Assembly are also finally focused on todayhe's actually getting to work, not just
holding high level meetings, but alsoholding re election fundraisers. Tickets for tonight's
Broadway for Biden fundraiser are going foras much as seventy five hundred dollars.
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We're gonna be talking with ABC's KarenTravers in just a couple of minutes to
find out what else is on theagenda for President Biden. Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton has been acquitted on allcounts at his impeachment trial. State senators
voted Friday on sixteen articles of impeachment. A conviction on any one of them
would have led to an automatic removalfrom office. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says
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millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted onthe impeachment effort in the next regular session.
We should amend the constitution. Well, the issue of impeachment is currently
written that allowed this flawed process tohappen. Paxton was accused of abusing the
power of his office to help apolitical donor. He is still facing charges
of securities fraud. Okay, soin case you're just still laying in bed,
(11:26):
check your feet, do you havesocks on? I gotta tell you
why you shouldn't do that anymore.So, apparently research have found a researchers
have found that wearing socks to bedis worse than sleeping in a toilet.
They did a poll of more thana thousand people. About eighteen percent of
people wear socks to bed. Nono, it sounds suffocating. No no,
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no, Well, on a coldnight, which we don't get cold
winter's nights here. But when Iused to live in Oregon and you go
to bed and it's really chilly,I would put on a good pair of
socks and then it kick them offonce my feet warmed up. But seventy
percent of the people who wear socksto bed don't change into a clean pair
and them apparently that's that's the problem, because some socks when they tested them
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and checked them for bugs and bacteriaand all that stuff, found that half
of them had something called pseudo moonsaragenosa. It's a type of bacteria that
causes infections the mattress next door.Researchers also discovered that some socks were dirtier
than uncleaned TV remotes and dirtier thantoilets. So if you are going to
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wear socks to bed, the recommendationis to put on a clean pair of
socks. Just so you know.Uh, did you know that? The
La Dodgers just clinched their tenth NationalLeague West tie in eleven years? Check
this out, Nick oh for fourtonight, swing on a groundball to second
base, bets to Freeman. TheDodgers win it, six to two.
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The Dodgers decade of dominance continues.They're the best in the West for the
tenth time in the past to elevenyears. Yep, the Dodgers are the
champions of the National League Western Divisionagain. They beat the Mariners tonight six
to two. The champs and thebest of the West again. That means
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the Dodgers are headed to the playoffs, but not for like three more weeks.
So they still have games to play. You can listen to every game
on AM five seventy l A Sportsand an HD on the iHeartRadio app.
The keyword is A five seventy lA Sports. The next home game is
tonight at Dodgers Stadium, and thenof course we have Blue Tober coming up,
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and we'll keep you posted about that. Can't wait, boys in Blue.
Good job right now, say goodmorning to ABC's Karen Travers. Thanks
for patiently waiting, Karen. We'vegot President Biden in the Big Apple.
What's he up to this week?Yeah, he's got fundraisers today, that's
the big focus. He is aquiet day until this evening when he has
a big round of fundraisers for hisreelection campaign, including a big one on
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Broadway with some of the biggest starsin theater. Then tomorrow he gets down
to business at the UN with hisspeech to the UN General Assembly and meetings
on the sidelines of that annual gatheringof world leaders, with the Prime Minister
of Israel, the President of Brazil, the UN Secretary General, and the
leaders of five Central Asian countries.The White House says his speech will echo
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a similar theme that we've heard fromhim before at the UN about advancing a
vision of US leadership built on workingwith allies, working with partners to solve
global problems. He's also, ofcourse, we're going to be talking about
continued support for the war in Ukraine. It's going to be a big issue
that world leaders will be addressing.And then later this week he'll act,
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we welcome to the White House theUkrainian President of Vladimore's Zelinsky, and they'll
be talking about that continued assistance.And Zolenski is also going to address the
General Assembly, isn't he or yeah, yeah, he is in New York
and then comes down to Washington,and you know, I think it's a
big week obviously, but probably thebiggest part of his week for Zelinski is
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going up to Capitol Hill, wherehe's going to meet with Republicans and Democrats
in both the House and Senate.And that's important because the administration has asked
for twenty four billion dollars in Ukrainefunding, and right now there is a
loud group of some Republicans in theHouse who has said no, they will
not approve that funding. The WhiteHouse last week that they felt confident that
there is enough bipartisan support to getthat funding through. But when asked if
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the President can assure Zelinsky in theirWhite House meeting that that money will be
there, that the US continuous support, he said that the President doesn't make
his foreign policy based on assurances,but that the US will continue to give
its continued support to Ukraine. Well, they need our help. So ABC's
Karen Travis, thank you so muchfor your time. She's on a tight
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schedule. We'll get a let hergo. Thanks Karen, thank you.
Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. The Riverside County DA'soffice is getting more than two million dollars
from the Board of State and CommunityCorrections to fight smash and grab robberies.
Prosecutors say this kind of crime isa serious problem that impacts every single consumer
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and retailer in Southern California. Adune buggy accident outside Las Vegas has left
a teenage firefighter in training from SouthernCalifornia with severe burns over most of her
body. Seventeen year old America salmarnis an explorer with the Pasadena Fire Department.
Those around her say what she needsmost now is support from the community.
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She still hopes to serve one day. State police in Pennsylvania say nine
teenagers who escaped from a detention centerin Morgantown have been captured. The teens
got away during a riot last night. Four of the night were caught less
than three miles away. The detentioncenter is about fifteen miles away from where
an escaped inmate was caught last week, and that guy the murderer who got
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away and then was on the loosefor a couple of weeks. The federal
government is trying to get back twentyone billion dollars in mistake in Social Security
payments. ABC's Rhiannon Alley says muchof that money went to low income and
disabled beneficiaries. A former Postal Serviceemployee in Florida perceived about nine hundred dollars
a month since two thousand and one. The Social Security once more than one
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hundred and twenty thousand dollars back becauseof a mistake on their end. One
woman claims are actually a former policeofficer. A former police officer shot on
duty in twenty eighteen says he andhis wife got a letter demanding they returned
thirty thousand dollars, and his appealwas denied. The Social Security Administration says
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staffing and resource constraints have challenged itsservice delivery, but its payment accuracy rates
remain high. Here's something kind ofcool that's going on at the beach I
wanted to share with you. Youknow, a lot of garbage ends up
in the water, and Newport Beachis doing something about it. So they
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have introduced plans to put a trashcollecting water wheel into a stream, and
apparently it's supposed to sort of filterthe water. It looks kind of like
a like a paddle boat wheel ifI'm looking at the picture right, and
it's supposed to like scoop up thetrash that flows down from communities upstream along
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the San Diego Creek and the SantaAnna Delhi Channel before it gets into the
Bay and the Harbor and ultimately inthe ocean. It's the West coasts first
such trash collecting water wheel, andit's apparently it's kind of a low tech,
high tech thing, so it doesn'ttake a ton, but it does
cost a lot of money. Theproject is five half million dollars. The
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city council has agreed to foot threepoint nine million dollars for construction of it.
The wheels system should be up andrunning, but not for a little
bit longer until December of twenty twentyfour. And this is kind of I
didn't realize this much garbage gets intothe bay, but officials estimate Upper Newport
Bay gets between one hundred and fivehundred tons of debris washed into it every
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year. It is National voter Registrationtoday. Are you registered to vote?
It only takes thirty seconds to register. You can either register or check to
make sure that your registration is upto date, Like if you've moved or
changed your name or anything like that, you need to go update it.
But since it's National Voter Registration Day, maybe a good time to do it.
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You can go and register or checkyour registration at LA vote dot gov.
AT's la vote dot gov. Rightnow, let's say good morning to
ABC's political analyst Steve Roberts. Stevehow Speaker Kevin McCarthy, of course,
has started an impeachment inquiry into PresidentBiden. What does this really mean?
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Well, what it means is thispolitics. This is not law or legality.
The Republicans know that they don't havethe votes to impeach Joe Biden.
They probably don't even have those votesin the House where they one, the
Democratic controlled center. But that's notthe point. The point here is politics.
The point is to do two thingsin one is to distract attention from
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Donald Trump's political legal problems ninety onecriminal charges in four different cases. But
in a larger sense, it's designedto sort of spread the idea well to
voters, well, they all doit. All politicians are corrupt. Of
this false equivalency that Trump might becorrupt, but Biden's corrupt too. And
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the goal here is not to convertBiden supporters to Trumps supporters. That's not
going to happen. The goal hereis to discourage Biden supporters. And let's
be honest, Biden already has alot of problems even with Democrats. They're
not particularly enthusiastic are excited about it. And if you can discourage your opponent's
supporters, if you get them tonot talk to their neighbors, they don't
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give money, and most importantly,they might not vote, might rain that
day, or the kid's babysitter mightnot show up, or they got to
do an extra turn at work,and if you can get people to stay
home or to vote for a thirdparty, you accomplished something very important.
And that's exactly what happened in twosixteen. Donald Trump's incessant campaign against Crooked
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Hillary helped discourage a certain number ofDemocrats people forgetting and in sixteen, six
percent of American voters voted for athird party that included a lot of Sandwich
supporters, a lot of Democrats likeand that was the key difference in the
key states of Wisconsin and Michigan thatwhere Trump eat out his victory. And
four years later, instead of sixpercent of Americans voting third party, fewer
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than two percent voted. So there'sa very clear strategy here. Trump is
following the same playbook he did intwo sixteen. Instead of attacking Crooked Hillary,
he's attacking Crooked Joe, but doingthat through Kevin McCarthy. Absolutely.
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I mean, Trump has been oneof the leading proponents of impeachment. But
this is all part of the samestudy that they're all linked together. McCarthy
is doing this largely out of pressurefrom conservatives who and there's another factor here.
I mean, it's important you know, elections have consequences. And it's
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true that the Republicans only control theHouse by a handful of poses. They
can't pass any legislation that's going tobecome law because it would be immediately be
buried in the Democratic Senate. Buteven if you control the House by one
or two votes, that means youcontrol every committee. That means you have
subpoena power, that means you cansearch bank records. That means you can
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hold hearings and ask questions and someonewitnesses, and so Republicans, by initiating
this inquiry enhance their power to goafter Biden's bank records. And again,
this has nothing to do with everimpeaching Joe Biden has nothing to do.
Is really easy to bring in criminalcharges against Hunter Biden. What it has
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to do is blemishing Joe Biden's reputationand discouraging Democrats who are already discouraged by
Biden's age and lack of energy anddynamism. And this is the strategy.
Throw as much money at the wallas you possibly can and hope some of
it sticks. Okay, So Steve, I have a question for you though,
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because you know the Democrats are sayingthat there's there's nothing there. Like
you, you said that it's reallynot about going after President Biden, it's
about discouraging voters. But the Republicanssay they have a lot of smoke and
that those bank records that they're subpoenaingcould prove that Biden received money from foreign
governments or something like that. Thatyou're saying that there's just no way that
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they're going to do that, thatthat stuff isn't there. I don't know
what's it. I don't know what'sin those bank records. I can tell
you that so far they haven't comeclose to proving any kind of connection.
Look, we all know that HunterBiden's a sleas ball. We all know
that Hunter Biden engaged in all sortsof shady business deals. We know that
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he tried to sell the appearance ofinfluence with his father. We know that
no one's going to make Hunter Bidenthe Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year
as honorable business person. That's alltrue. But whether Biden Joe Biden himself
directly profited from his son's dealings hasyet. There's just no smoking gun there.
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And I'm quoting Ken Buck. He'sone of the most conservative Republicans in
the House said that on TV overthe weekend. But you can say that
Joe Biden used questionable judgment and maybecontinues to use questionable judgment in terms of
how he dealt with his son.After all, Joe Biden did say my
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son has done nothing wrong, andthat's not true. His son was ready
to plead guilty to gun charges andtax charges. He's been indicted on those
gun charges. He's likely to beindicted on those tax charges because the original
key deal fell through last summer.This is not about making Hunter Biden into
some honorable figure. He's not.And Joe Biden, you know, to
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some extent, you could argue thatthis is certainly understandable. Everybody understands that
Joe Biden's wife and small childs werekilled many years ago. Hunter Biden and
Joe and his brother Boe Biden wasthe surviving small boys who had added the
injured in this wreck. Boe Bidenwas Joe Biden's favorite son, and he
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died of brain cancer at forty six. He was the golden boy. He
was the one who's supposed to succeedJoe Biden politics. The surviving son Hunter
has battled with addiction and has beena troublesome figure for years, and Biden
is clearly obsessed on this subject.And we know from reporting that when anybody
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tries to introduce the question of HunterBiden saying maybe we should distance the White
House from him, maybe you shouldbe more careful in your dealings with him,
Biden snaps at them and won't hearit. This is a father and
a son and whose battled addiction.It's a deep personal and emotional question.
So there's no doubt that Joe Bidenis guilty of many things, but whether
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he directly personally profited from Hunter's shadybusiness dealings as yet to be proven.
So I guess we're just going tohave to wait and see. And even
if they did, I'm playing thehypothetical game. Even if they said,
yep, there's a clear line thiswas compromised, he accepted payments, he
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still wouldn't get convicted in the Senate, would he? I don't think he'd
be convicted in the Senate. Butagain, here's what I'm saying. The
bottom line here is that this isessentially a political process, not a legal
process, And would that kind ofinformation be very useful to Republicans a year
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from now, would that be spreadover every campaign advertisement day? Put out
yes, and the slogan will becomeJoe Biden confused and corrupt. That's a
pretty damaging combination and it could bevery serious problems for Biden politically, not
legally. Yeah, okay, anddon't forget it's voter registration day, it
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actually is. Steve Roberts, thankyou so much for your time and your
insight this morning. I appreciated aton any time. Sorry, Let's get
back to some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
About six billion dollars in Iranian assetsunfrozen by South Korea now in cutter
The release is part of a planswap for five Americans held in Iran.
The deal also includes the release offive Iranians in prison in the US.
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A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry saidthe swap is happening today. The UN
has revised its death toll from theflooding in Libya. Officials now say at
least thirty nine hundred and fifty eightpeople have been killed. Last week,
they put them number at more thaneleven thousand. The revised report also says
more than nine thousand people are stillmissing. The military says it's searching for
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an F thirty five fighter jet thatwent down near Charleston, South Carolina.
Officials say the pilot ejected safely yesterdayafter a misshap a mishap involving the jet.
The pilot's in stable condition. Theplane's last known position was near Lake
Moultrie and Lake Marian. Actor RussellBrand has denied allegations of sexual assault by
four women. He says every encounterwas consensual. The women spoke anonymously in
(29:22):
a documentary produced by several British mediaoutlets. Some were portrayed by actors.
I was pushing him away, pushinghim away as though I ended up having
to punch him really hard in hisstomach to get him off, and I
was crying and he said, oh, I only want to see him a
scar or run anyway. One womanclaims she was sixteen when she was assaulted.
Brand married pop star Katy Perry intwenty ten. The marriage lasted just
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over a year. In twenty thirteen, Perry told Vogue she knew the real
truth about her ex husband and thatshe was keeping that locked in her safe
for a rainy day. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen
Portnoy. Stephen, former President Trumphad a lot to say and didn't say
a lot on Meet the Press yesterdaywide ranging interview that ered yesterday, taped
(30:07):
earlier at Bedminster, the President's golfClub, and the new moderator Meet the
Press, Kristen Welker asked the formerpresident about a number of things, but
what I found most interesting where withprospective two separate cases that he faces,
the one in Florida, the Marlagoclassified documents case, and the January sixth
case here in Washington. In themar Lago case, the former president said
he's prepared to testify against essentially someonewho's likely to be one of the prosecution
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star witnesses, and that's going tobe the IT team man at mar Lago
who will testify. He's right,well, the one who eventually decided to
testify against former President, that's right, who previously had indicated that this did
not happen, but later came outand said that the former president directed his
maintenance man to corner the I teamman in a closet at marl Lago and
say the boss wants the video footageof boxes being moved around mar Lago destroyed.
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Now. Former President Trump says,simply not true, and that he's
prepared to testify to that effect.And he also makes the point that he
did after being subpoena turnover the videoevidence, which he says he could have
fought. There's I don't know ifthat's a very strong argument, but look,
that's one case. The other caseis here in Washington, DC,
in the January sixth case, wherethe former president was defiant when he talked
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about testifying in Florida, and hewas willing to say that this particular element
that has been alleged it is nottrue. In the January sixth case,
when Kristin Walker tried to ask theformer president what he did on that day
he was, he clammed up.He said, I'm not going to tell
you. Why should I tell you. I don't want to talk about it.
I'll talk about it when it's appropriate. Yeah. I watched it and
he said that several times. He'slike, I'm not going to tell you
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that. Yeah, And it makesyou wonder why why did he Why was
he so willing to answer other questionsbut not that particular question, and it's
a very I found that very interesting. Yeah, and so Special Counsel Jack
Smith also wants to restrict Trump fromtalking about some of the from the twenty
twenty election interference case. Right,So that's the January sixth case here in
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Washington, DC. The prosecutors inthe last couple of weeks have sought a
gag order that was sealed until Friday. So the news broke on Friday that
the former president is the subject ofa request from prosecutors for a narrow what
the prosecutors are calling a narrow gagorder on the former president's speech when it
comes to things he might say aboutwitnesses or parties to the case, including
the court personnel, the judge,even the citizens of Washington, DC.
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And the filing cites many things thatthe former president's been saying on social media
and his propensity to say things,and the possibility that violence another unto where
things could happen as a result ofthings the president says. So this is
just a request. The fact thatit's being made formally is important because if
the request is made and ultimately theorder comes, it'll be very interesting to
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see how former president Trump is willingto comply, and if he's not,
then what happens. Well, that'swhat I was just going to ask you.
If if a judge did say,okay, yeah, you can talk
about this and he does anyway,as Trump is want to do, what
happens. Well, I don't know, but in the normal course of business,
if you violate the order of ayou know, sitting federal district court
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judge, you could expect to haveto answer for it. Yeah, and
you know, the potential for youknow, contempt of court is is a
real one. And uh, youknow, sometimes it can be dealt with
with a with a fine, butin other cases, you know, judges
are empowered to throw people in thelockup for violating their orders. Yeah,
okay, I'm going totally off topicbecause you're you're a correspondent. How did
you think Kristin did yesterday? Oh, Christin and I have been friends for
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years. I think she's a wonderfulperson, and I think she did a
fine job yesterday, and I reallyliked at the end of the program how
she paid tribute to Martha Rowntree,the first moderator of Meet the Press,
who originated the show on radio innineteen forty five and moved it to television
in forty seven, and Meet thePress as a proud tradition of being the
oldest and longest running program and broadcasting. And I'm very excited to see it
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in Kristin because if it's Sunday,it's Meet the Press, right of course,
you know, I work across thestreet, so we have a fine
show too. By the way,I watch your show too. It's part
of my Seriously, it's part ofmy Sunday morning routine is I tape them
all and then I go back andwatch them all have my coffee on Sunday
mornings. That's great. Thank youso much, Steve, appreciate your time
today. Let's get back to someof the stories coming out of the KFI
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newsroom. Ellen Kennty, Sheriff Lunasays his investigators are looking for a two
thousand and six to two twelve darkgray Toyota Corolla that may be connected with
the deadly ambush of a deputy Saturdayevening in Palmdale. Check your cameras,
check your cameras. That could bethe missing link to the information that we
need. Deputy Ryan Clintin Bremer wasshot in the back of the head as
(34:45):
he sat in his patrol SUV duringa red light at the intersection of Sierra
Highway and Avenue Q. Clintin Bremerwas an eight year veteran of the department.
A two hundred fifty thousand dollar rewardhas been offered to catch those involved,
and we are we're hearing channel foris saying that we may have or
they may have a suspect in custody. We are waiting to confirm that,
(35:07):
but hopefully that's the case. Butwe'll keep you posted on that. Dozens
of bills are waiting for a yesor a no from Governor Newsome. The
bills have been passed by the legislatureand are waiting for the governor's signature.
CSU East Bay Professor doctor Michael Schweltzsays one of the bills would require companies
in California they make more than abillion dollars a year to disclose what they're
(35:28):
pumping into the air. This doesget at the tech industry, but it
also gets at the healthcare industry aswell, So we really want to target
those big emitters. When thinking aboutgreenhouse gas emissions. Governor Newsom says he's
going to sign that one. JessicaMachel Fresh of the International Cannabis Bar Association
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says another bill would allow cannabis cafesin California. Change is that now they're
also going to be able to selland offer non infused averages and food.
They're potentially going to be able tohave a band or other entertainment in the
space. Several gun and gun violencebills are also waiting for the governor's signature,
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along with a bill that would giveunemployment benefits to striking workers, one
that would require school buses to havezero emissions by thirty five, and another
that would allow automated cameras to bustpeople for speeding. The governor has until
October fourteenth to sign or reject eachbill. Speaking of cannabis cafes and the
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after effects of that, Today's NationalCheeseburger Day. So if you've got a
hanker in for a cheeseburgers and nokno does. McDonald's, Wendy's, and
Burger King all have specials today.You can buy a fifty cent double cheeseburger
at McDonald's if you order it throughthe app. Of course, they pushing
(36:50):
everybody to those apps. Wendy's isselling junior bacon cheeseburgers for one cent and
that's not only today, that's allweek from today through Friday. But again
you have to do it on theWendy's app. Oh and you could try
the pumpkin spice Rosti. At thesame time, Burger King is offering members
of its Royal Perks program some limiteddeals, including a chance to get a
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free cheeseburger if you purchase something fora dollar, and then if you want
to sit down and have a niceburger. Applebee's has three of its classic
burgers on sale for eight ninety nine, which is like four to six bucks
off which you would normally normally.Hey, who is it that loved cheeseburgers
in the Popeye show? Kno,you're true young to know that lupy grumpy
(37:35):
what I can't remember what his namewas anyway, Wayne is telling me whimpy
wimpy. Yes, thank you Wayne. Okay. This is KFI and kost
HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. I'm anyking. This has been your wake up
call and if you missed any wakeUp Call. You can listen anytime on
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