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Trump's '60 Minutes' and RIP Cybertrucks · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640 Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: It is 5 o'clock on your wake up call, Monday,
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  Speaker 3: November 9th. I'm Heather Rooker in for Amy King, who
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  Speaker 3: is taking a few days off. Don't worry, folks. She
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  Speaker 3: will be back soon. I'll take good care of you
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  Speaker 3: while she's gone. Maybe. We'll see. I want to say
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  Speaker 3: good morning to everyone who is listening. Thank you so
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  Speaker 3: much for tuning in this morning. We hope to get
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  Speaker 3: your week started off right, your Monday started off right,
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of good news happening locally and around
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  Speaker 3: the world. Also going to try to, you know, inject
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of fun into your Monday. That's what
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  Speaker 3: I do. All right. Pipe down with the paper over there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Will. I was done with that one.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Did you turn on your mic just to roll up
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  Speaker 3: the wad of paper so we could all hear it? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I can put that together.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's some good. Here's Heather talking. Now I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: wad up my trash and throw it away. Thanks for that.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So Will's here, everybody. Tony's here.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: Tony works with me every Sunday morning, so he's over me.
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  Speaker 3: And Anne is here running around, getting ready for a
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  Speaker 3: handle on the news. You know, I love it when
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  Speaker 3: you all are a part of the show. Whether I'm
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  Speaker 3: hosting KFI Live on Sundays with Heather Brooker, that's me.
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  Speaker 3: or if I'm here filling in for Amy, I love
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  Speaker 3: it when you're a part of the show. So hit
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  Speaker 3: the talkback button or talkback question today. You know, President
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  Speaker 3: Trump has been floating some names, interesting names for potential
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  Speaker 3: new press secretary. He joked about Nicki Minaj a few
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago, and most recently UFC CEO Dana White. My
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  Speaker 3: question to you is, who do you think Would be
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  Speaker 3: a good press secretary. Now, good could mean somebody kind
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  Speaker 3: of funny, could be kind of entertaining, maybe a comedian,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe somebody you think would be super serious in
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  Speaker 3: the role and just all about business and that sort
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  Speaker 3: of thing. I want to hear from you. Hit the
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  Speaker 3: talk back button on the iHeartRadio app and weigh in
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  Speaker 3: on today's topic. Or you can just say hello and
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  Speaker 3: tell me how you're doing. We'd love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get started. A lot of news to get to today.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. President Trump's new
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  Speaker 3: chief of staff is raising some eyebrows on both sides
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  Speaker 3: of the aisle. We're going to talk about why Stephen
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  Speaker 3: Miller's appointment could set the stage for a major showdown
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  Speaker 3: in Washington. And could Democrats face criminal investigation simply for
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  Speaker 3: investigating the Trump administration? Well, the attorney general is raising
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  Speaker 3: that possibility and he's getting some serious questions about free speech.
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  Speaker 3: And is it the end of the road for Tesla's Cybertruck?
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk is pulling the plug on one of the
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  Speaker 3: most talked about vehicles in recent history. What went wrong?
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about it. Stick around to the end of
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  Speaker 3: the show. You don't want to miss that. Then at 6.05,
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  Speaker 3: it's Handle on the News. Lawmakers are back in Washington
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  Speaker 3: today for the first time since the midterms, where the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats took control of the House and Senate. We'll talk
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  Speaker 3: about what Republicans hope to accomplish in their last few
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  Speaker 3: weeks of power. But for now, let's get started with
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  Speaker 3: some of the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 3: Ice out of L.A.
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  Speaker 8: Ice out of L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Ice out of L.A.
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  Speaker 3: That is Mayor-elect Nithya Raman. She joined protesters saying she's
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  Speaker 3: appalled after what happened at White Memorial Hospital in Boyle
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  Speaker 3: Heights on Saturday. ICE agents blocked the emergency room entrance
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  Speaker 3: for several hours while a person they detained was being
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  Speaker 3: treated inside. Community members say they want ICE out of
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  Speaker 3: their neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 9: We want accountability and we want them out of Boyle Heights,
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  Speaker 9: out of L.A., out of California.
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  Speaker 3: ICE agents detained two U.S. citizens during the protest. Rahman
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  Speaker 3: told the protesters the agents were out of line.
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  Speaker 10: Especially today, after elections showed that the brutality of the
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  Speaker 10: Trump administration is unwelcome, not just in Los Angeles, but.
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  Speaker 5: All over this country.
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  Speaker 3: What happened last night at this hospital was an affront.
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  Speaker 3: First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Assele responded to Rahman in
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  Speaker 3: a post on X saying, I don't know if you're
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  Speaker 3: new to this, but facts matter. ICE was there to
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  Speaker 3: get medical treatment for a detainee who requested to see
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  Speaker 3: a doctor.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
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  Speaker 5: AM 640. All right.
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  Speaker 3: As I mentioned, President Trump has named Stephen Miller as
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  Speaker 3: his new chief of staff. That move is drawing criticism
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  Speaker 3: from both Democrats and Republicans after the midterm elections. So
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  Speaker 3: what does this mean for Trump's final two years in office?
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  Speaker 3: Joining us now to break it all down is ABC
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  Speaker 3: News political analyst Steve Roberts. Good morning, Steve.
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  Speaker 4: Well, good morning. And yes, it was kind of a
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  Speaker 4: stunning decision because Donald Trump himself last night on 60
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  Speaker 4: Minutes admitted that his hardline policies toward immigration and particularly
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  Speaker 4: angered the Hispanic vote. And yet he appoints the guy
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  Speaker 4: who was the chief architect of that policy he says
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  Speaker 4: was damaging. I mean, it's a totally mixed message. And take,
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  Speaker 4: for example, Republican Senator in North Carolina, Tom Tillis, who's
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  Speaker 4: a harsh critic of the president, but he said Miller
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  Speaker 4: was the worst possible choice. And when you think about
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  Speaker 4: the election that just passed, Trump had been very successful
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  Speaker 4: with his immigration policies early on. When he said, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to build the wall, keep out the criminals, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of Hispanic voters said, yes, that's good. It's going
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  Speaker 4: to keep our community safe. But when he got into office,
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  Speaker 4: the policy changed from protecting the safety of Hispanic communities
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  Speaker 4: to endangering the safety of those communities. Because the face
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  Speaker 4: of the policy was not building a wall. It was
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  Speaker 4: armed and masked ICE agents marching through communities, killed two
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  Speaker 4: people in Minnesota, harassed thousands more, deported people. Communities were
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  Speaker 4: frightened and terrified. and decimated by these policies. Republican member
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  Speaker 4: of Congress in Florida did an ad during the campaign
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  Speaker 4: saying Trump had betrayed Hispanics with his policies. And in
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  Speaker 4: addition to that, and folks in Los Angeles would understand this,
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  Speaker 4: the business community, a strong core of Republican support, also
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  Speaker 4: very upset with these policies. The construction industry, the agriculture industry,
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  Speaker 4: the healthcare industry, all furious with Trump because he was
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  Speaker 4: deporting their workers. So this is a very mixed message.
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  Speaker 4: Trump says, yeah, my policies didn't work, but I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to appoint the guy who was the architect to be
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  Speaker 4: my chief advisor. It's a very mixed message.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think one thing that people, you know, who've
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  Speaker 3: been paying attention will notice that President Trump rewards loyalty.
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  Speaker 3: And Stephen Miller has been very loyal to him for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, about a decade now, I believe. And it
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  Speaker 3: seems to be that he is maybe in part here
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  Speaker 3: rewarding Stephen Miller's loyalty. Is this also sort of his
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  Speaker 3: way of signaling that he has no intention of changing course,
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  Speaker 3: despite what the voters just told him in the midterms?
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  Speaker 4: I think both things are true. He said about Miller,
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  Speaker 4: he's a fighter, and he's very loyal, and it's true.
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  Speaker 4: Miller is extremely loyal, and he's very hard-nosed, and Trump
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  Speaker 4: likes that about him. But Trump is now going to
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  Speaker 4: face a very different landscape in Washington come January with Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just that Democrats control the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things to keep your eye on is
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  Speaker 4: their investigations. Trump has the veto power. He can block
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  Speaker 4: a lot of Democratic legislation. Don't expect very much in
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  Speaker 4: the way of practical legislation. Democrats will pass a lot
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  Speaker 4: of bills out of Congress reducing the cost of health insurance,
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  Speaker 4: for instance, and restoring some of the cuts that Trump
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  Speaker 4: put in Medicaid, but they're very unlikely to become law.
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  Speaker 4: But starting in January, Democrats will control every committee in
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  Speaker 4: both houses of Congress. That means they have subpoena power.
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  Speaker 4: That means they can hold hearings. They can summon witnesses.
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  Speaker 4: They can subpoena documents. They can ask questions. They can
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  Speaker 4: make Donald Trump's life miserable. And Robert Garcia, from California,
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  Speaker 4: the incoming head of this House Oversight Committee, said it
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  Speaker 4: in two words, a warning to the White House, which
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  Speaker 4: was lawyer up. So Trump, I think, to some extent,
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  Speaker 4: and pointing Miller out, is anticipating the fact that there's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a whole series of conflicts with Congress
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  Speaker 4: over subpoenas, documents, hearings, witnesses. That's going to dominate the
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  Speaker 4: next two years.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and quickly in our last few moments here, let's
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  Speaker 3: look ahead briefly to 2028. You know, for the first
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  Speaker 3: time in decades, we're going to have a presidential race
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  Speaker 3: without a Bush, a Clinton, Obama or a Trump on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot. Who are some of the early contenders in
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  Speaker 3: both parties, and how soon does that race begin?
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, both parties are wide open because there's no
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  Speaker 4: obvious successor in either party. J.D. Vance, the vice president,
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  Speaker 4: certainly wants to run, but you've got to remember, it's
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  Speaker 4: hugely difficult for a vice president to run and win,
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  Speaker 4: to succeed a president. It's only happened in the last
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  Speaker 4: 200 years in America, it's only happened once, George Bush
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  Speaker 4: 41 in 1988. And he was basically running for Ronald
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  Speaker 4: Reagan's third term. It's very difficult because there are only
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  Speaker 4: really two slogans in American politics. You never had it
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  Speaker 4: so good, which is what incumbents run on. And it's
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  Speaker 4: time for change, which is what challenges run on. A
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  Speaker 4: vice president has to do both at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: They have to be loyal to the administration they served.
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  Speaker 4: but also somehow separate themselves. And you saw this in
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  Speaker 4: the last week, this kind of torturous attempt by Vance
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  Speaker 4: to say, well, I'm still loyal to the president, but
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  Speaker 4: the war was difficult and it's cost us some votes.
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  Speaker 4: And Trump then says, well, I agree with him, but
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  Speaker 4: he should have explained that the war was necessary. It's
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  Speaker 4: by definition a mixed message. Every single vice president. We
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  Speaker 4: saw it with Kamala Harris two years ago. She had
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  Speaker 4: to defend the Biden administration and yet also criticize it
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  Speaker 4: and separate herself. So on the I think the governors,
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  Speaker 4: there are a lot of governors, including outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 4: who dream about being the Democratic nominee. But you've got
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  Speaker 4: to remember, the most successful Democratic nominees in the last
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  Speaker 4: 60 years have tended to be younger. Average age, 47,
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  Speaker 4: of Kennedy, Clinton, Carter, Obama, 47 years old. Two of
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  Speaker 4: them were governors from border states. So look to a
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  Speaker 4: younger governor as the most promising Democratic candidate.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there is certainly a lot of politicking to do
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  Speaker 3: between now and then. So it will be interesting to watch.
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  Speaker 3: And Steve, we always appreciate your analysis. Thank you so
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  Speaker 3: much for your time this morning. All right, let's get
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  Speaker 3: back to some of the stories coming out of the
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  Speaker 3: KFI 24-hour newsroom. Speaking of Governor Newsom, he is sliding
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  Speaker 3: in the prediction markets as he decides whether he is
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  Speaker 3: running for president.
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  Speaker 6: Right now, the prediction markets have Newsom with an 11%
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  Speaker 6: chance to win the next presidential election. He's currently behind
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  Speaker 6: Democratic Senator John Ossoff from Georgia, who topped the field
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  Speaker 6: at 27%, and Congresswoman AOC from New York, who's sitting
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  Speaker 6: at 17%. However, California Democrat is sitting ahead former Vice
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  Speaker 6: President Kamala Harris. Newsom has said that he will wait
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  Speaker 6: to see if Harris will make a decision on the
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  Speaker 6: White House before he announces any plans for a run
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  Speaker 6: at the presidency. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
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  Speaker 3: Record rainfall in the Southwest is providing rare relief to
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  Speaker 3: the region's depleted reservoirs. Storms in October and November sent
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  Speaker 3: torrents of water through normally dry creeks and into reservoirs
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  Speaker 3: and rivers. Hundreds of people were evacuated, roads were washed out,
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  Speaker 3: and cell phone service was knocked out in some spots.
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  Speaker 3: A man who allegedly killed six people in a shooting
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  Speaker 3: at a city square in Poland has died at the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: ABC's Hannah Bada says the man targeted an area popular
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  Speaker 3: with tourists on Saturday.
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  Speaker 10: One official says the shooter held radical, ultra-nationalistic views, but
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  Speaker 10: a motive still under investigation. Among the victims, an artist
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  Speaker 10: who had traveled to Krakow to show her work, along
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  Speaker 10: with multiple foreigners, including people from the U.K. and Austria.
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  Speaker 3: The man had been in critical condition since police shot
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  Speaker 3: him on Saturday to end the attack. When we come back,
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  Speaker 3: President Trump wants the Justice Department to investigate Democrats planning
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  Speaker 3: oversight hearings. But have any laws actually been broken? We're
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  Speaker 3: going to dig into that coming up. And, of course,
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  Speaker 3: we're taking your talk back. Some really good ones coming in,
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  Speaker 3: a surprisingly common thread. The question is, who do you
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  Speaker 3: think should be the next press secretary? Let me hear
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  Speaker 3: from you. Hit the talkback button on the iHeartRadio app
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  Speaker 3: and we'll play some of those coming up throughout this show.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
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  Speaker 5: AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: UFC boss Dana White could be trading the octagon for
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  Speaker 3: the White House briefing room. President Trump, he says he's
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  Speaker 3: offered the White House the job of White House press
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  Speaker 3: secretary today. to Dana White, although it's kind of unclear
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  Speaker 3: how serious the offer is. He only recently said he's
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  Speaker 3: just kidding. We're going to talk about that a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more. And I see your talkbacks coming in. That
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  Speaker 3: is our talkback question today. Who do you think would
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  Speaker 3: make a great press secretary? Could be somebody super serious,
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  Speaker 3: could be a politician, could be an actor, could be
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  Speaker 3: a comedian. Let me hear from you. Hit the talkback
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  Speaker 3: button on the iHeartRadio app And we will let you
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  Speaker 3: guys weigh in during the show today. Coming up at 6.05,
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  Speaker 3: it's Handel on the News. President Trump says his crackdown
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  Speaker 3: on immigration may have hurt him in the midterms. And
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  Speaker 3: he's got a surprising reaction he's going to share with
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  Speaker 3: us to his approach on deportations. Right now, a new
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  Speaker 3: political showdown is brewing in Washington. Attorney General Todd Blanche
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  Speaker 3: says Democrats planning investigations into the Trump administration could find
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  Speaker 3: themselves under investigation, too. But is there any legal basis
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  Speaker 3: for that? Joining us now is ABC News investigative reporter
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  Speaker 3: Peter Haralambos. Good morning, Peter.
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  Speaker 5: Morning.
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  Speaker 11: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: So let's start with what the attorney general actually said.
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  Speaker 3: Is he suggesting that Democrats could face criminal investigation simply
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  Speaker 3: for doing their jobs and conducting congressional oversight?
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  Speaker 11: He appears to be suggesting that. He was asked about
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  Speaker 11: this multiple times on Sunday after President Trump put out
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  Speaker 11: that threatening tweet on Saturday. And Blanche said there, quote,
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  Speaker 11: could be these kind of investigations, that if these threats become, quote,
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  Speaker 11: violent and dangerous, you have to follow the law. Though
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  Speaker 11: it's really unclear what legal basis there would be to
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  Speaker 11: investigate Democrats for using the newly found authority they have.
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  Speaker 11: with a majority in Congress. This, of course, coming after
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  Speaker 11: Trump said on social media that this is, quote, that
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  Speaker 11: these kind of calls for oversight, for investigations are, quote,
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  Speaker 11: extortion at the highest level. And he specifically went on
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  Speaker 11: to say that, quote, I'm ordering the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 11: to look into these criminal acts. Blanche, again, suggesting that
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  Speaker 11: there could be these investigations, though really struggling to answer
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  Speaker 11: what exactly is a crime about this and what the
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  Speaker 11: DOJ would do about it.
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  Speaker 3: So President Trump also has gone even further than that,
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  Speaker 3: suggesting that Democrats could be imprisoned. Is there any evidence
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  Speaker 3: that these lawmakers have actually broken the law?
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  Speaker 11: Really, at this point, there is not, though that's not
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  Speaker 11: necessarily going to stop the Department of Justice from carrying
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  Speaker 11: out these investigations. Again, even Todd Blanch, the highest law
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  Speaker 11: enforcement official in the Trump administration, struggled to figure out,
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  Speaker 11: to say what exactly was criminal about this. Though, again,
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  Speaker 11: he is vowing to open an investigation at this point.
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  Speaker 11: One person who appears to be at the center of
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  Speaker 11: this is Michigan Senator Lissa Slotkin, who was specifically called
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  Speaker 11: out by President Trump in that social media post for
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  Speaker 11: making comments about young conservatives. This comes back to an
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  Speaker 11: interview she gave. She gave at the University of Chicago
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  Speaker 11: back in October where she basically said that young Republicans,
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  Speaker 11: people coming out of college, should be skeptical of going
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  Speaker 11: to work for the Trump administration because at this point
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  Speaker 11: they could eventually face scrutiny, whether that be legal or
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  Speaker 11: just some kind of social scrutiny. for being a part
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  Speaker 11: of the administration, especially if they engage in some kind
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  Speaker 11: of illegal or unlawful acts on behalf of the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 11: That comment from that interview at the University of Chicago
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  Speaker 11: has kind of gone viral in conservative circles, where she
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  Speaker 11: basically said that she wants to create some kind of
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  Speaker 11: deterrence effect for young people going to work for the
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  Speaker 11: Trump administration, Republicans saying that this is too much, that
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  Speaker 11: this is basically her threatening young conservatives I'm going to
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  Speaker 11: work for the president. And that now is one thing
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  Speaker 11: that's being specifically called out by President Trump. So it's
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  Speaker 11: very much possible that while we're not necessarily going to
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  Speaker 11: get a very broad investigation in terms of every single
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  Speaker 11: person who's now saying that the Trump administration should lawyer
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  Speaker 11: up and be prepared for more oversight, it's possible we
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  Speaker 11: could see more scrutiny at this point of Senator Slotkin
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  Speaker 11: in particular based on those now viral comments. All right.
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  Speaker 3: So let's talk about the bigger picture here. If the
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  Speaker 3: Justice Department starts investigating political opponents over their calls for oversight,
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  Speaker 3: what kind of precedent would that set? And is there
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  Speaker 3: anything that Congress or the courts can do to stop it?
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  Speaker 11: At this point, there's not much necessarily that could be
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  Speaker 11: done by the courts to stop these kind of investigations
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  Speaker 11: from going forward. That being said, the courts ultimately do
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  Speaker 11: have the final say when it comes to what actually
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  Speaker 11: comes out of those investigations. When we have seen these
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  Speaker 11: more aggressive cases out of the Department of Justice, the
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  Speaker 11: grand jury system itself has been a very effective measure
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  Speaker 11: kind of pushing back. on these overly broad investigations. Think
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  Speaker 11: back to when we saw a group of lawmakers, both
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  Speaker 11: senators and members of Congress, put out a social media
• 17:52
  Speaker 11: video earlier in the Trump administration encouraging members of the
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: military to not follow unlawful orders. Following that statement, we
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: saw kind of a wave of investigations out of the
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: Department of Justice and an effort from the U.S. attorney
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: in D.C. to try to actually indict these members of Congress.
• 18:10
  Speaker 11: Despite repeated efforts, though, the grand jury refused to issue
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: an indictment on that matter, and the case has effectively
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: gone away at that point. That is really the biggest
• 18:19
  Speaker 11: kind of struggle. pushback we'll see from the courts in that, yes,
• 18:23
  Speaker 11: the DOJ can go about these investigations. They can go
• 18:26
  Speaker 11: about issuing subpoenas with really not that much scrutiny. They
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: could force people to potentially testify before a grand jury.
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: But ultimately, the grand jury itself is the ultimate check
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: on this in terms of preventing folks from actually being
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: indicted if there's no evidence to prove they committed a crime.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: All right, Peter Haralambous, there is a lot to dissect
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: here today, but I know we have to let you go,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: but we appreciate your time and insights this morning.
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: Thanks so much for having me.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Social security benefits
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: are expected to run out in six years if Congress
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: doesn't take action.
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: The Social Security Trust Fund is running out of money,
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: having been reduced by rising health care costs and government spending.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: The program, which started in 1935, is set to run
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: out of reserves by late 2032. which will cause automatic
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: cuts of up to 24% for retirees. Social Security has
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: a separate fund for disability benefits. Trustees say that fund
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: is expected to keep paying full benefits through the end
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: of the century. Aileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Young gym bros are going to need to show ID
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: in California if they want to pump up.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Starting January 1st, if you want to purchase the wildly
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: popular supplement of creatine in California, you'll need to show ID.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: The new law requires you to be at least 18
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: years old to buy this stuff, and if you buy online,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: internet sellers must verify your name, address, and date of
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: birth against a security guard. government-linked commercial database before you
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: can buy it. Right now, the powdery substance is considered
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: an over-the-counter muscle-building and weight-loss dietary supplement. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Israel's president has tapped a political rival of Prime Minister
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government. Former military chief
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Gadi Eisenkot has 28 days to build a coalition after
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: no alliance won a majority in recent elections. Eisenkot says
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: potential partners must support mandatory national service and the designation
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: of Hamas as a terrorist organization. One week from today,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the Chargers take on the Ravens in Baltimore with kickoff
• 20:32
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• 20:39
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  Speaker 3: we're going to check in with Bloomberg and we're going
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: to talk about Tesla Cybertruck. I am loving the talkbacks
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: coming in today. Our question is, Who would you like
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: to see as the new press secretary? Somebody called in
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: last week and left a great message on Gary and Shannon.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: And they said, you know what I think? I think
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon should be like co-presidents and Heather Brooker
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: should be like the like a like a treasury or
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: secretary of fun. And I was like, is that a thing?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Can I run for the secretary of fun? I nominate myself.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: So hit the talkback button if you'd like to weigh
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: in this morning, and we will play some of those
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: coming up.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
• 21:29
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• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Justice
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Department is dropping its lawsuit seeking to set aside roughly
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: 20,000 California ballots suspected of belonging to non-citizens. And a
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: man claiming to be LeBron James' son has been arrested
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: at the NBA star's Brentwood home. LAPD officers responded to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: reported burglary over the weekend after security spotted the man
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: on surveillance cameras. And flu season, oh boy, here we go,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: is off to an unusually early start. And a mutated
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: strain is to blame. The CDC says flu infections are
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: increasing in 42 states, including right here in California. Everybody,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: go get your flu shot. We're not trying to mess
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: with the flu. We're taking your talkback questions today. You
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: know me, when I fill in for Amy, it's like
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: mom and dad are away and Heather gets to be
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: in charge and the fun auntie gets to be in charge.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: So I love to hear from you all when I'm
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: here in the talkback question today. You know, President Trump
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: has been joking. He has a A very well-known sense
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: of humor. He's been joking around about who he thinks
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: would be the press secretary from Nicki Minaj to the
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: UFC's Dana White. So my question to you is, who
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: do you think should be the next press secretary? And
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: there's some really great talkbacks coming in. Here's one.
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: Good morning from Houston, Texas.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Texas. I think it would be awesome if
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Jon Stewart.
• 23:02
  Speaker 13: from The Daily Show were the press secretary.
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: It would be absolutely nonstop entertainment.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I love that. He's not only very funny, but he's
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: so smart. You know, he's a comedian. People forget because
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: he dips his toe quite a bit into, you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: the political world and commentary and that sort of thing.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: But he's really funny and he seems to really be
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: having a good time with it. You know, it would
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: be very divisive. I don't know that Trump would go
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: for a Jon Stewart, but... It would be entertaining. It
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: would absolutely be entertained. That's a good one. Keep the
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: talkbacks coming in. There's a couple I'm going to play
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: you later where two people, at least two people so far,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: have been very like-minded about who they think should be
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the press secretary. And it might surprise you who that is.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: So hit the talkback button on the iHeartRadio app and
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: you can be a part of the show today. At 6.05,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: everybody's favorite morning show host, Bill Handel, is going to
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: bring us Handel on the news today. There is a
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: massive boycott of Jewish restaurants, and it has created some
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: protests and arrests in Philadelphia. We're going to break all
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: that down, tell you why they are upset. But right now,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: we're going to get back to some of the stories
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A new appointment
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: by Governor Newsom is raising eyebrows.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Newsom has appointed Nate Ballard to the State Historical Resources Commission,
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: who will help designate historical landmarks in the state. Ballard
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: is a former aide to Newsom, and in 2020, he
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: pleaded no contest to charges that he pushed his then-wife
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: into a glass door and held a pillow over his
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: four-year-old daughter's head while in a Napa Valley hotel. Ballard
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: only got four years probation. Newsom's office says that the
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: governor believes that any abuse of any individual is unacceptable,
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: but he also believes in second chances. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Democrats are promising to push for more clean energy to
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: help tackle rising energy costs when they take control of
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Congress in January. President Trump says he'll use his veto
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: power aggressively. He also says he and Democrats eventually will
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: find a way to work together after a couple of
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: months of vetoes. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has criticized
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: President Trump's appointment of Stephen Miller as his new chief
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: of staff.
• 25:11
  Speaker 14: During an appearance on ABC's This Week, Jeffries called the
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: decision irresponsible.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: There's not going to be any opportunity, certainly, to work
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: with Stephen Miller and what he represents. And we're committed
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: to forcefully pushing back against the extremism. that they may
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: try to continue to unleash on the American people.
• 25:28
  Speaker 14: The president announced on Friday that Miller would replace Susie
• 25:31
  Speaker 14: Wiles in the role, telling reporters outside the White House
• 25:34
  Speaker 14: that Wiles has done a very good job, but he
• 25:36
  Speaker 14: wanted to make a change. Miller served as deputy chief
• 25:39
  Speaker 14: of staff and has driven the administration's immigration crackdown. Mark Mayfield,
• 25:43
  Speaker 14: KFI News.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Kids and teens are getting hurt on e-bikes and e-scooters
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: at alarming rates, according to a Stanford medicine-led study. Researchers
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: evaluated more than 13,000 injury reports from 2023 through this
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: year and found the rate of serious e-bike injuries for
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: children around the age of 13 increased by 33%. We're
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: certainly seeing that here as well. That's compared to a 2%
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: increase for traditional bikes. That includes head trauma. ABC News
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: medical correspondent and ER physician Dr. Darian Sutton says there
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: are signs to look for.
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: Significant headaches, changes in vision, nausea, vomiting, or weakness, numbness,
• 26:20
  Speaker 15: or tingling. Those are red flags, but making sure you
• 26:22
  Speaker 15: have a helmet and making sure that it's age-appropriate for
• 26:24
  Speaker 15: your child is the most important part here.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Children involved in e-bike injuries are twice as likely to
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: suffer a head injury. Right now it is time to
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: get in your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pelligrini.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: Good morning.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Heather.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: Happy Monday.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Happy Monday. So happy to be here. So Amy could
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: take a little bit of a break. And we have
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: got a lot to talk about today. As if the
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: spy accusations weren't enough now. Is it NVIDIA? I always
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: want to say it wrong.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: NVIDIA.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: It is NVIDIA. That's what I thought.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: So I'm correct.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: You got it. Good.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I need that validation every now and then. You're doing great.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: They're facing new competition from Google.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: So, I mean, you've probably seen some of these NVIDIA stories.
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: Kind of shocking, really. The company, it's the chipmaker Darling
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: that has really led tech stocks higher, worth billions and
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: billions of dollars. Now it's investigating CEO Jensen Huang's affair
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: with an alleged Chinese spy. Everybody's talking about that, raising
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: questions about his job and the company's future. board assembling
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: a committee of independent directors to investigate the matter, outside
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: counsel looking in. And that old photo from 2024 showing
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: him signing a Women's Broad, a tech conference, that wasn't
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: a secret, but now that's not helping things either. And now,
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: as you mentioned, NVIDIA is facing more competition from rival Google,
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: which this morning announced it is rolling out a broader
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: array of artificial intelligence chips with two new variations of
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: these things they call TPUs. Those are custom-made semiconductors that
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: help develop and run AI software. So NVIDIA shares are
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: sharply lower this morning, but stock market's booming right now.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: If you look at the futures with Dow's futures, S &
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: P futures, all surging overall. So problem with NVIDIA is
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: not raining on the parade this morning.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And Toyota and Subaru have apparently picked the perfect time
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: to roll out some affordable new models.
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: They're scooping up all these drivers hurt by high gas
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: prices and market share that might otherwise have gone to
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: rivals who stopped making EVs. The point is that Toyota
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: and Subaru didn't stop making EVs, and now their new
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: EV SUVs are priced from $ 35, 000 to $ 45, 000, which is
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: seen in the affordable range. Year-to-date, Toyota's U.S. EV sales
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: have almost doubled. Subaru EV sales have jumped 47% according
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: to Cox Automotive.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: That's what makes a Subaru a Subaru. I always think that.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: That's some good marketing right there. Every time I hear
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: the word Subaru, that is the tagline I think of.
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: You know, and it's crazy because people who buy Subarus
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: apparently never switch to another car brand.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: No, they love them. Subaru people are very dedicated. I,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: every few years, will switch to a new car just
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: to try something new. All right, let's talk about the
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: crackdown against people trying to bet on the outcome of
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: reality TV shows.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it was probably inevitable. Prediction markets have really ballooned
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: in popularity. People are betting on, you know, Rotten Tomatoes
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: scores and what they'll be. The release date of Grand
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: Theft Auto 6, that's not a reality show. but just
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: kind of goes to show how things have gotten.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Love Island.
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: Apparently, that's a big one. that a lot of people
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: are voting on and making a lot of money on.
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: And Kalshi has now stepped in and fined an employee
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: of YouTube streamer MrBeast, suspended for placing bets related to
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: what would happen in future MrBeast videos. So the problem
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: is insider trading. Because, you know, when you make these
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: productions and everything's pre-taped, right? Yeah, anybody can go on
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: there and place a bet, right? But unlike Wall Street,
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: where there are all these laws and, you know, I'm
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: not saying they're perfect, but people are aware of the
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: laws and the punishments. And there's not, you know, insider
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: trading is clearly not rife on Wall Street, but it
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: is right now. But there was one guy who said
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: he just bet on everyone. On Love Island, and he
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: won $ 1, 000. His thinking was if one couple doesn't win,
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: another one will. So he felt like he could get
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: a winner, and the win would be bigger than the
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: losses from betting on the losers.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess if you've got money to burn,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know how much he bet, but if you've
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: got the money to spend.
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: He says his $ 8 bet.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Turned into $ 1, 000. Okay. Well, now I'm going to look
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: into that. Maybe it could be my part-time job.
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: Now you know why people are doing this.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: And he doesn't even watch the show.
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: Oh, wow.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: He does not watch the show.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: All right, Denise, thank you so much. We'll talk to
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: you again tomorrow.
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: Talk to you tomorrow.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, it's the end of
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: the road for Tesla's Cybertruck. Elon Musk is pulling the
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: plug on one of the most talked about vehicles in
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: recent history. What went wrong? We're going to talk all
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: We've got a lot of stories we're working on today,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: including President Trump defending Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as an
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: impeachment vote looms in Congress. NVIDIA is launching an independent
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: investigation after reports its CEO was targeted by Chinese intelligence.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: And a former NFL player is helping dads get fit
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: and find friendship. We are going to have all those
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: stories and more coming up this morning. And some great
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: talkback questions coming in. Keep them coming. We're asking you
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: who you think should be the next press secretary. Then
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: we're just minutes away from Handle on the News. Don't
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: keep the debris. The NTSB is telling people not to
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: keep debris from the Learjet that crashed in Florida last weekend.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: We're going to tell you why. Right now, Elon Musk
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: says Tesla is winding down production of the Cybertruck after
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: sales fell way short of expectations. ABC News technology reporter
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Mike Tobusky joins us to talk about what's happening in
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: the automotive world. Good morning, Mike.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Heather.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: I'm great. Thank you so much. Okay, so pour one
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: out for the Cybertruck.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly seems that way.
• 32:34
  Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: So according to Elon Musk, they are winding down production
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: of the Cybertruck. This is something that he posted on
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: social media. last week. And he says that the reason
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: that they're doing this is so that they can free
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: up more production space in their factories for the cyber cab.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: And you guys may have seen these things rolling around
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: some cities across the country, these low slung two seat
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: gold electric little cars, and they don't have steering wheels
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: in them, which means they are robo taxis. That's a
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: technology that Elon Musk says is the future of Tesla,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: that they're going to kind of transition in the car
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: maker to someone that is a little bit more like
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: a Uber or a Lyft, where they operate like a
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: fleet of taxis in cities around the world that are
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: completely autonomous. There's a lot of speed bumps that, you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: kind of stand in the way of that future. But
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: even still, that's kind of where Elon Musk is pointing Tesla.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: And given some of the lackluster sales that the Cybertruck
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: has seen in recent years, they're pulling the plug on
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: that very controversial electric vehicle.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: So he, Musk originally talked about selling half a million
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Cybertrucks a year. How far off was Tesla from that goal?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: And what does this sort of tell us about the
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: appetite for futuristic electric vehicles?
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so in 2024, which was the first full year
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: of Cybertruck sales, they sold a couple in like December
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: of 2023, so technically went on sale then. But in
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the first full year of sales, they only managed about
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: 38,000-39,000 Cybertruck units moved, which is.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: A far cry from the almost half a million that
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk had been promising as recently as 2023. The
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: following year, in 2025, sales fell off by almost half,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: so a pretty dramatic decline, and this year they are
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: expected to sell less than 20,000. So again, pretty far
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: off of what the expectations had been. Elon Musk is
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: no stranger to making big promises and then not totally
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: delivering on them, including with the Cybertruck. If you go
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: back to when this vehicle was first unveiled back in 2019,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: we all remember that very attention-grabbing event where one of
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: the company's engineers smashed the supposedly unsmashable windows. Well, Musk
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: also made some big promises about things like range. He
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: said the Cybertruck would have more than 500 miles of range.
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  Speaker 2: It would be able to tow up to 14,000 pounds.
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  Speaker 2: It would have seating for six people. None of those
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  Speaker 2: actually showed up in the production version of the Cybertruck
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  Speaker 2: that rolled off the assembly line in late 2023. You know,
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  Speaker 2: range was closer to 325 miles. There was this idea
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  Speaker 2: that you could buy this like external battery to install
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  Speaker 2: in the bed that would give you a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more range, but it never actually ended up going into production.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: What does it say about the larger sort of electric
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  Speaker 2: vehicle market? Well, it means that there's some very strong
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: headwinds that, you know, we're facing just electric pickup trucks
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  Speaker 2: in general. We've seen Ford, Pull the plug on its
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: equivalent of the Cybertruck, the F-150 Lightning, a few months
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  Speaker 2: ago amid flagging sales for that vehicle. General Motors has
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  Speaker 2: rolled back some future production of their electric pickup trucks
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  Speaker 2: as well. There's some challenges to this, right? People like
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  Speaker 2: to tow with pickup trucks, and that eats into your
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: range if you go for the all-electric option. They like
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: to go on long road trips, and that contributes to
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: range anxiety, despite the fact that most of these things
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: get 300, 400 miles of range.
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  Speaker 3: It's not dead.
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  Speaker 2: Rivian, I think, is a real bright spot in the
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  Speaker 2: electric pickup truck market where they're selling a lot of
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: their R1T pickup trucks. But even still, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: of the more established automakers like Tesla and like General
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  Speaker 2: Motors and Ford have kind of pulled back on that
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: particular end of their electric vehicle strategy. In addition to
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: all just the normal headwinds, Tesla had some challenges. You know,
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  Speaker 2: beyond that, the styling of the Cybertruck was very divisive.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: It became a bit of a political lightning rod as
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: it was hitting the road around the time that Elon
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Musk was installed as the head of the Department of
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Government Efficiency. And it kind of became the physical manifestation
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: of him in the real world with people reporting, you know,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: their Cybertrucks vandalized or them getting rude hand gestures in
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: traffic and things like that. And that is kind of
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: the lasting legacy of the Cybertruck, it seems like right now.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Well, plus, and, you know, no shade or hate to
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: our listeners who are cruising around town in their Cybertrucks.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: They're just really ugly. They're really ugly car vehicles. I'm sorry.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: They're so hideous. According to Elon Musk, it looks that
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: way for a reason. So the story goes, one of
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: his kids said, hey, dad, why does the future not
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: look like the future? And he said that, well, this
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: is the future. But you're absolutely right. Pretty divisive looking thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. OK, well, we have to run. We've
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: got to move on to get to some other stories today.
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  Speaker 3: But thank you so much. And I look forward to
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  Speaker 3: talking with you again soon.
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  Speaker 2: No problem.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Take care. All right, let's get back to some of
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. High
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: tides in California have broken 100-year records lately, and the
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: worst may still be yet to come.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: Tide gauges in Southern California, including L.A. and San Diego,
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: have shown the highest readings in a century during the
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: last week of October. Meteorologist Brian Lewis with the National
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: Weather Service says more records could be broken during king
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: tides around Thanksgiving and Christmas, especially if there's a big swell.
• 37:50
  Speaker 14: When we see those really big waves, breaking at the
• 37:54
  Speaker 14: coast in addition to those really high water levels, that's
• 37:57
  Speaker 14: where we could see some more significant coastal flooding.
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: King tides are predicted from November 22nd to 27th and
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: again from December 22nd to 26th. Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
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  Speaker 3: The California Veterinary Medical Association says at least 368 animals
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: in California have tested positive for rabies this year. That's
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: the highest number recorded in the state in 28 years.
• 38:19
  Speaker 14: The rabid animals were mostly bats and skunks found in
• 38:22
  Speaker 14: Southern California. A pair of rabid raccoons were also found
• 38:25
  Speaker 14: in Los Angeles County in October, the first to test
• 38:28
  Speaker 14: positive for the disease in L.A. County in over 50 years.
• 38:32
  Speaker 14: The CVMA says the risk to humans remains low. Mark Mayfield,
• 38:36
  Speaker 14: KFI News.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: The SS United States will soon leave Alabama for the
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Florida coast where it will be sunk to become the
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: world's largest artificial reef.
• 38:48
  Speaker 13: When the ship made its first voyage in 1952, the
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: 990-foot vessel was the largest passenger ship ever built in
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: the United States. It broke speed records making the transatlantic
• 38:58
  Speaker 13: voyage between New York and London. It was no surprise
• 39:01
  Speaker 13: to see celebrities, royalty, and even presidents on the passengers list.
• 39:05
  Speaker 13: While plans to turn the ship into an attraction fell
• 39:07
  Speaker 13: through over the years, the vessel will find a new
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: purpose on the bottom of the ocean. The sinking is
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: set for November 12th. Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: We have been, we're almost to the end of the
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: show here, and we have been taking your talkbacks this morning,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: and they are so entertaining. We are asking you I've
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: been asking you guys, who do you think would make
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: a great press secretary for the Trump administration? There's some
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: good ones coming in.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Heather.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 12: So I nominate Andrew Dice Clay as our next press secretary.
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: He did a great job.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Have a good day.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: That is one choice. Andrew Dice Clay. And then you
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: know what's so funny? Listen to this one.
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: Good morning.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: Morning.
• 39:55
  Speaker 11: I think since America could use a few good laughs
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: right about now, I think the next press secretary should
• 40:02
  Speaker 11: be Andrew Dice Clay.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Happy Monday.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Wow. There is an Andrew Dice Clay renaissance happening right now.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I cannot believe, like, you guys are very like-minded there.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Two people had the same thought for Andrew Dice Clay.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: That's an interesting choice.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: I haven't even heard his name in years.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: In years. Is he still doing stand-up? That's rude. I
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: should know that.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: Hey, what's up?
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Wake up call. What's up?
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: What's up, Heather?
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: This is Devin in Vegas. Hey, Devin. New press secretary
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: for the White House.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: I got Mike Tyson.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Okay all right that's a good choice uh mike tyson
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: it certainly would be uh you know it certainly make
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: things uh interesting let's see i know right cover your
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: ears that's a.
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: Good one good morning heather i forgot that you were
• 40:53
  Speaker 12: filling in this week or would have tuned in much
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: earlier me too great to hear you though um white
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: house press secretary i would love to see bill murray.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Or or john belucci okay all right.
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: Thanks heather have a good day and a good week thank.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: You you too you know bill murray that would certainly
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: be an interesting choice he's getting more eccentric in his
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: old age um yes he is uh like bill handle
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: right i do feel like he's not listening so i
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: can say that right now i do feel like a
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: comedian would be a good A good way to go.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, we do need a little bit of levity,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: so I agree with that. Love your talkbacks, everybody. Thank
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: you so much for being a part of the show today.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: We got more tomorrow. I'll be in for Amy tomorrow
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: as well, keeping her seat warm while she takes a
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: little bit of a well-deserved break. And stick around, though.
• 41:47
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• 41:51
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• 41:53
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• 41:56
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• 41:56
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• 41:58
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• 41:59
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