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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're list Saints.
- 0:01Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty The bill Handles show on demand
- 0:05Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app KFI AM six forty Bill Handle
- 0:12Speaker 2: here on Monday morning, March sixteen. Okay, let me go
- 0:15Speaker 2: into what is happening during the war and a little
- 0:19Speaker 2: bit of handle history I want to throw into the
- 0:22Speaker 2: mix here. Obviously, the cost of gasoline is going to
- 0:27Speaker 2: go up up because the cost of oil is going
- 0:31Speaker 2: up up because the Straight of Horror MoES is being
- 0:33Speaker 2: closed by Iran during this war. And I assume at
- 0:38Speaker 2: some point is going to be open when negotiations and
- 0:40Speaker 2: the war, and so how does the what does the
- 0:44Speaker 2: president do well? The President has ordered under the Defence
- 0:50Speaker 2: Production Act that a California coastline that the oil wells
- 0:58Speaker 2: production fills the be open. We need more oil.
- 1:02Speaker 1: And there's one company in particular, and I don't want
- 1:05Speaker 1: to get.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Into the particulars here into the minutia, but it's an
- 1:09Speaker 2: oil company that has leases on Chevron oil production facilities
- 1:15Speaker 2: that are not being used because the California regulations. California
- 1:19Speaker 2: has passed environmental regulations that say you are not going
- 1:23Speaker 2: to pump oil from the coast from the California coast.
- 1:28Speaker 1: That's California.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Well, the President has invoked the Defense Production Act. This
- 1:35Speaker 2: was Friday, ordering the restart of in this case, the
- 1:40Speaker 2: Santa Inez offshore oil platform and pipeline that was shut
- 1:46Speaker 2: down eleven years ago because thousands of barrels of crude
- 1:50Speaker 2: oil poured into the Pacific.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Ocean off the coast by.
- 1:56Speaker 2: A by some kind of a sure of the pipeline.
- 2:03Speaker 2: And the move comes in response to these skyrocketing oil
- 2:06Speaker 2: fuel prices. And what the President is doing is saying,
- 2:10Speaker 2: we have to we need the oil.
- 2:13Speaker 1: It's a national issue.
- 2:15Speaker 2: The price of oil is going up and it's hurting
- 2:17Speaker 2: the economy. Therefore, under the Defense Production Act, I am
- 2:22Speaker 2: now ordering the pipeline and the businesses be open. Of course,
- 2:25Speaker 2: California filed an immediate lawsuit. How can the president do
- 2:29Speaker 2: this under what powers does he have?
- 2:32Speaker 1: Well?
- 2:33Speaker 2: This Defense Production Act was passed in nineteen fifty when
- 2:38Speaker 2: President Truman nationalized the steel industry, said all steel production
- 2:44Speaker 2: now goes to or more of the steel production is
- 2:48Speaker 2: now going into defending the United States and the Korean War,
- 2:52Speaker 2: and the steel industry basically said no. So what he
- 2:55Speaker 2: did is he nationalized it under the Defense Production Act, saying,
- 3:00Speaker 2: but the president, under certain circumstances, in defending the United
- 3:03Speaker 2: States and declaring an emergency, does have the power to
- 3:07Speaker 2: override any state law. Well, you can argue all you
- 3:12Speaker 2: want that in this case, Newsom says, well, you started
- 3:15Speaker 2: the war, you are doing this to bypass California law,
- 3:20Speaker 2: which he is. Therefore the whole thing is a sham
- 3:25Speaker 2: and all you really are interested is helping your oil buddies. Well,
- 3:30Speaker 2: here's the problem with that argument. The president, even if
- 3:34Speaker 2: he started the war, can say that the production of
- 3:38Speaker 2: oil is critical to the national security because the cost
- 3:43Speaker 2: of oil is so high that it is going to
- 3:46Speaker 2: get in the way of the economy of the United States.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Does he have the right to do that? Probably?
- 3:52Speaker 2: Probably because there is a rationale for passing or using
- 3:59Speaker 2: this law. And for those people that think, oh my god,
- 4:02Speaker 2: it's never been used the top before, it's been used
- 4:04Speaker 2: fifty times by presidents.
- 4:08Speaker 1: So I guarantee you this will go to court.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Of course, it is California immediately filed lawsuit as well
- 4:13Speaker 2: as environmental groups. It will go to court. And here
- 4:17Speaker 2: is what the court is going to say. And this
- 4:18Speaker 2: is traditional. This is not going to be just to
- 4:20Speaker 2: Donald Trump and just to this administration, that administrative decisions.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Can be marginally rational.
- 4:30Speaker 2: That the administrative agencies involved in this case is the
- 4:34Speaker 2: executive branch through an administrative agency. There is a rational
- 4:40Speaker 2: reason for this to be passed. And even if the
- 4:43Speaker 2: court disagrees with the reason, we the court give wide
- 4:48Speaker 2: deference to administrative decisions. The decision before we're going to
- 4:52Speaker 2: get involved and overturn it has to be arbitrary, capricious,
- 4:58Speaker 2: have absolutely absolutely no connection to reality. Much like what
- 5:04Speaker 2: the court said when dismissed the case against James came
- 5:08Speaker 2: and Leticia James saying there was absolutely no evidence here, none,
- 5:14Speaker 2: and the charging of them going into the grand jury
- 5:19Speaker 2: was strictly, strictly political. It has to be that crazy,
- 5:23Speaker 2: which of course it was. There is a rationale here,
- 5:28Speaker 2: whether you agree with it or not, and I think
- 5:30Speaker 2: the court is going to uphold it. And I think
- 5:32Speaker 2: that the oil production, the opening up of that oil
- 5:37Speaker 2: well and the pipeline is going to effectively happen. Then
- 5:42Speaker 2: you have the constitution, this pesky constitution we had that
- 5:47Speaker 2: federal law supersedes any state law involved. Okay, moving on,
- 5:52Speaker 2: and yet another episode of what is happening in the
- 5:56Speaker 2: mid East. The President, our president has called on various nations,
- 6:02Speaker 2: allied nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz
- 6:07Speaker 2: because Iran has effectively shut down the strait. And as
- 6:13Speaker 2: by now everybody knows, twenty percent of the world's oil goes.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Through the strait.
- 6:19Speaker 2: So if the straits are closed, twenty percent is done
- 6:23Speaker 2: and the markets are reacting to it.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Although oil is down this morning right now.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Down to ninety three dollars a barrel, which is still
- 6:32Speaker 2: very high relative to what it was two weeks ago,
- 6:36Speaker 2: and so the straits are straight of Hormuz is critical,
- 6:42Speaker 2: and so he has asked several allied countries that rely
- 6:47Speaker 2: on oil. The US doesn't rely on oil coming from
- 6:50Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz, now the rest of Europe certainly does,
- 6:56Speaker 2: so he's asked. Britain spoke with Pine Minister Keir Starmer.
- 7:03Speaker 2: We need some help here. You need to do this
- 7:05Speaker 2: for your benefit as well as the world's benefit. They
- 7:09Speaker 2: had a conversation no details disclosed. Ed Miliband, the Energy
- 7:15Speaker 2: Ministry Minister of the UK, said Britain was looking at
- 7:18Speaker 2: any options to help start shipping. But what we really
- 7:22Speaker 2: want to do is de escalate. No details all right. Japan,
- 7:27Speaker 2: he had told his parliament that Japan has no plans
- 7:32Speaker 2: to send warships to the Persian Gulf.
- 7:35Speaker 1: It's a she I'm sorry, she said.
- 7:38Speaker 2: The government is currently considering how and what we do.
- 7:42Speaker 2: No details at all. China, the biggest buyer of Irani,
- 7:47Speaker 2: of Iran or Iranian oil, has not responded but called
- 7:53Speaker 2: for cessation of hostilities. France, same thing. We don't know,
- 7:57Speaker 2: we're not saying. Everybody is moving very cautiously, except.
- 8:01Speaker 1: The United States.
- 8:02Speaker 2: And as I disagree so much with what the president
- 8:06Speaker 2: is doing, as you know, this reminds me of what
- 8:10Speaker 2: happened in nineteen thirty eight at the start of World
- 8:13Speaker 2: War Two, when the Western world could have stopped Hitler,
- 8:18Speaker 2: and they watched him arm arm arm Germany. And when
- 8:24Speaker 2: Hitler moved in that direction, look what happened. Iran is
- 8:30Speaker 2: moving towards an atomic weapon. Iran is saying that it's
- 8:34Speaker 2: enrichment program of uranium is only.
- 8:36Speaker 1: For peaceful purposes. That is a croc.
- 8:40Speaker 2: The manufacture of all those ballistic missiles for defense purposes. No,
- 8:47Speaker 2: they're all offensive missiles. That's Iran. And the point is
- 8:53Speaker 2: do we wait now? I often said, we don't wait.
- 8:56Speaker 2: And the president is giving among his supporters. He has
- 8:59Speaker 2: been give in the credit for finally doing something. Pete
- 9:02Speaker 2: hegseth set out right. This president has the balls to
- 9:06Speaker 2: move forward, unlike the previous seven presidents that did nothing.
- 9:11Speaker 2: So you know where I sit on this one. However,
- 9:14Speaker 2: what you have are all these other nations that will
- 9:17Speaker 2: not commit at all to opening the straits, and the
- 9:22Speaker 2: Strait of Horror moves is critical to the movement of
- 9:26Speaker 2: that oil. So here is what might happen. This is
- 9:29Speaker 2: the worst case scenario, and I don't know if the
- 9:31Speaker 2: President is willing to go that far.
- 9:33Speaker 1: And that is carg Island.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Carg Island is about sixteen miles off the coast of Iran.
- 9:39Speaker 2: Carg Island is the depot where ninety percent of Iran's
- 9:45Speaker 2: oil is shipped out and sold to the world. If
- 9:51Speaker 2: carg Island is destroyed, and already there have been attacks
- 9:54Speaker 2: on carg Island, but not the oil facilities themselves, military
- 10:00Speaker 2: bases or military facilities guarding those oil depots. If that
- 10:05Speaker 2: is attacked and taken out, which I think the President
- 10:09Speaker 2: is going to certainly threaten guaranteed If that is taken out,
- 10:15Speaker 2: then what you have is Iran having nothing more to lose.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Nothing.
- 10:21Speaker 2: And when you have anybody, any country that has nothing
- 10:27Speaker 2: more to lose, they go balls to the wall. Why not,
- 10:32Speaker 2: And look what happened to us. If you're taking us down,
- 10:35Speaker 2: We're going to take you down as hard as we can.
- 10:38Speaker 2: And I think that's what's going to happen. And I
- 10:40Speaker 2: think the President is going to have to make some
- 10:42Speaker 2: real choices. How does he destroy Iran? The quickest possible
- 10:47Speaker 2: way is not to bomb facilities all over the country.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Simply take out card Island. There are no air defenses left.
- 10:55Speaker 2: The President Trump, the Americans, who are the only ones
- 10:58Speaker 2: that are attacking in Israel, of course, have the ability
- 11:02Speaker 2: because they now control the air to take out that
- 11:06Speaker 2: island tomorrow afternoon. And it's going to be very, very tricky.
- 11:11Speaker 2: And do the rest of the allies get involved, you know,
- 11:15Speaker 2: do they will wait?
- 11:17Speaker 1: We'll see and do they wait until Iran.
- 11:22Speaker 2: Decides it's going to go and shut it down and
- 11:25Speaker 2: there will be no oil.
- 11:26Speaker 1: And they have the.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Ability to do that because if carg Island is taken out,
- 11:30Speaker 2: remember Iran still has missiles, still has the ability to mine.
- 11:34Speaker 2: The Strait of Hormuz still has the ability to throw
- 11:38Speaker 2: mines against ships because they're fishing boats all over the
- 11:43Speaker 2: island or all over those seas, and it's relatively easy
- 11:47Speaker 2: for them to do that. It's man, is it a
- 11:51Speaker 2: standoff to this extent and the Straight of Hormuz is
- 11:55Speaker 2: at risk? So which way do you think the president
- 11:59Speaker 2: is going to go? And if I had to guess,
- 12:03Speaker 2: he'll I think he's going to attack.
- 12:05Speaker 1: It's my guess.
- 12:06Speaker 2: I think he's going to attack as part of bringing
- 12:09Speaker 2: Iran to its knees. If carg Island is attacked and
- 12:12Speaker 2: those oil facilities are taken offline, as in destroyed, Iran's
- 12:17Speaker 2: entire economy just collapses almost instantly because Iran's soul revenue
- 12:23Speaker 2: is oil.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Okay, no fun. Now some more news.
- 12:30Speaker 2: I know this administration news because they've done it this
- 12:32Speaker 2: weekend between the war and what is happening here that domestically,
- 12:39Speaker 2: this one has us to do with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
- 12:46Speaker 2: So the President yesterday indorsed FCC Commission Chairman Brendan Carr's
- 12:51Speaker 2: threat to revoke broadcast licenses over the news coverage of
- 12:57Speaker 2: the US Israeli war, calling media organizations corrupt and highly unpatriotic.
- 13:04Speaker 2: They get billions of dollars of free American airwaves and
- 13:08Speaker 2: use it to perpetuate lies in caps, both in news
- 13:12Speaker 2: and almost all of their shows, including the Late Night Morons,
- 13:15Speaker 2: who get gigantic salaries for horrible ratings. And I used
- 13:19Speaker 2: to say in the Impredent, as I used to say
- 13:21Speaker 2: in The Apprentice fired Carr on Saturday posted that he
- 13:27Speaker 2: would deny revoke government issue licenses if broadcasters run what
- 13:33Speaker 2: the FCC deems fake news, and it will be the
- 13:37Speaker 2: administration that determines what fake is or is not, he wrote.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions, also known
- 13:48Speaker 2: as the fake news, have a choice now to correct
- 13:51Speaker 2: course before their license renewals come up. Law is clear
- 13:57Speaker 2: broadcasters must operate in the public interests, and they will
- 14:00Speaker 2: lose their license if they do not. I think every
- 14:03Speaker 2: two years broadcast licenses have to be renewed. I think
- 14:07Speaker 2: licenses that have been revoked are maybe a handful since
- 14:12Speaker 2: the twenties when the government issued licenses, and I don't
- 14:18Speaker 2: know when the last license was revoked, and would you
- 14:21Speaker 2: look that one up. I'm just curious as to when
- 14:23Speaker 2: the last license was revoked. And so if you change course,
- 14:28Speaker 2: if you go to our side, will allow you to
- 14:33Speaker 2: keep your license. And he went on to say trust
- 14:37Speaker 2: and legacy medium has now fallen to an all time
- 14:40Speaker 2: low of just nine percent. And our ratings disasters, well,
- 14:44Speaker 2: you can argue ratings disasters as any way you want,
- 14:48Speaker 2: but the figure of nine percent, that's just not correct. Yeah,
- 14:52Speaker 2: in one stat it is nine percent, but it was
- 14:56Speaker 2: one group of people that think it down to nine percent.
- 14:58Speaker 2: But then you had a group said it had some trust.
- 15:03Speaker 2: So you know, you can do anything, of course with statistics.
- 15:09Speaker 2: If Trump doesn't like your coverage of the war, this
- 15:12Speaker 2: is gad Gavin Newsom. Of course his FCC will pull
- 15:15Speaker 2: your broadcast license. And that is freight flagrantly unconstitutional. And
- 15:19Speaker 2: that might be This is a tougher one than what
- 15:23Speaker 2: I said earlier invoking the War Powers Production Act, where
- 15:27Speaker 2: President Trump has the ability to open up leases on
- 15:30Speaker 2: the West coast of California. This one flies right in
- 15:35Speaker 2: light of the First Amendment. Does a broadcaster have the
- 15:40Speaker 2: right to broadcast with the president what the administration calls lies?
- 15:48Speaker 2: For example, Fox News that outright said the election was
- 15:53Speaker 2: rigged and stolen. That is not fake news. That is
- 15:58Speaker 2: true news. Any fake news that is in any way,
- 16:05Speaker 2: in any way talks about broadcasts negative story about the administration,
- 16:10Speaker 2: that is fake news, and that broadcaster should and will
- 16:14Speaker 2: have a licenses removed. Now, the license the FCC does
- 16:20Speaker 2: license broadcaster and it has to be in the public good,
- 16:23Speaker 2: and the public good has been widely interpreted. Well, now
- 16:28Speaker 2: we're looking at a much more narrow interpretation according to
- 16:32Speaker 2: the governmental which oversees FCC license. And it's real simple.
- 16:37Speaker 2: You broadcast fake news that puts the administration in a
- 16:42Speaker 2: poor light, you're going to lose your license. But we're
- 16:45Speaker 2: going to give you a chance to change course. This
- 16:49Speaker 2: is a quote from Brendan Carr. We're going to give
- 16:52Speaker 2: you a chance to change course. If you stop broadcasting
- 16:55Speaker 2: fake news, we're going to allow you to keep your life.
- 17:00Speaker 2: Pete Hegsith on Friday talked about fake news from CNN
- 17:05Speaker 2: over a report indicating that the administration underestimated the war's
- 17:10Speaker 2: impact on the Strait of Horror Moose. That's fake news.
- 17:15Speaker 2: We did not underestimate what was going to happen with
- 17:19Speaker 2: the Strait of Horror Moose. If I remember it was,
- 17:22Speaker 2: we've won the war. We've wiped out their ability to
- 17:26Speaker 2: do anything. Didn't hear the straits were shut down until well,
- 17:32Speaker 2: the straits were shut down. To argue that you are
- 17:37Speaker 2: saying that you, the broadcaster, are saying we the administration
- 17:41Speaker 2: underestimated the impact. That's fake because it puts the administration
- 17:45Speaker 2: in a poor light. That's fake. And then Trump went
- 17:48Speaker 2: on to say that this news that's being broadcast by
- 17:54Speaker 2: the licensed broadcasters, that is people that broadcast ABC, CNN
- 17:59Speaker 2: that use the airwaves, not cable and certainly not internet
- 18:05Speaker 2: based broadcasting, that when they broadcast this fake news, they
- 18:11Speaker 2: are traders and want America to lose the war.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Crazy, isn't it.
- 18:19Speaker 2: So of course there's been a lawsuit filed, and I
- 18:22Speaker 2: think the court is going to say, you know, this
- 18:26Speaker 2: is going too far, because broadcasters have the right to broadcast,
- 18:31Speaker 2: much like Fox has the right to say that the
- 18:35Speaker 2: election was rigged.
- 18:37Speaker 1: No one can take away their right to say that.
- 18:39Speaker 2: How many people does the administration have the right to
- 18:42Speaker 2: take away CNN's ability to say the administration did not
- 18:48Speaker 2: plan on the straight of horn moves being closed. Okay,
- 18:54Speaker 2: now I want to tell you about an industry, a
- 18:57Speaker 2: job you can have that you did not think of,
- 18:59Speaker 2: and why it's there. First of all, AI robotics are here,
- 19:03Speaker 2: and humanoid robots are just right around the corner where
- 19:06Speaker 2: they're going to do all kinds of fun stuff. Get
- 19:08Speaker 2: to fold your laundry, you're going to go get drinks,
- 19:11Speaker 2: going to just do household chores. Well, where do they learn?
- 19:17Speaker 2: I mean, if you're having an AI powered robot that
- 19:20Speaker 2: does household chores, it's got to learn how to do it.
- 19:24Speaker 2: I mean, that's a lot of information. So there's a
- 19:27Speaker 2: new industry. People are being asked to strap cameras on
- 19:32Speaker 2: their foreheads, on their bodies, on their arms, and do
- 19:36Speaker 2: things like fold laundry, cleaning toilets, prepare dinner, over and
- 19:44Speaker 2: over again by the millions of people. And with that information,
- 19:51Speaker 2: AI companies are now putting together the ability for robots
- 19:55Speaker 2: to do that sort of thing. And we're talking about
- 20:00Speaker 2: there's a bunch of companies doing this. It looks like
- 20:03Speaker 2: we're being told that it's going to be a seventeen
- 20:06Speaker 2: billion dollar industry by twenty thirty, the global data collection
- 20:12Speaker 2: and labeling market. And it makes sense when you think
- 20:16Speaker 2: about it, that how does AI how do robots, and
- 20:22Speaker 2: of course they're AI powered, how do they go around
- 20:25Speaker 2: and approximate what humans do? I mean, you think about it.
- 20:29Speaker 2: It is enormously inordinately complex. I mean by the billions
- 20:35Speaker 2: of bits of information. I mean, how do you know
- 20:38Speaker 2: to move your hand a fraction over the left, or
- 20:40Speaker 2: something is heavier and you have to press harder to
- 20:43Speaker 2: lift that item up. That just one an example. I
- 20:45Speaker 2: mean it goes on and on. I could go on
- 20:47Speaker 2: forever on that one. To give you an idea of
- 20:50Speaker 2: how important this is. China, which in many ways is
- 20:54Speaker 2: way ahead of the United States and the rest of
- 20:56Speaker 2: the world and a lot of technology, has four party
- 21:00Speaker 2: state op operated companies doing just this. There are hundreds
- 21:08Speaker 2: of hundreds of people helping AI around the world and
- 21:15Speaker 2: being taught how we as humans operate. Interesting stuff, and
- 21:21Speaker 2: you don't get a lot of money, you know, for example,
- 21:24Speaker 2: there's one guy, Salvador Arciga, He's LA. He gets eighty
- 21:30Speaker 2: bucks for two hours of footage, so you'll only do
- 21:34Speaker 2: it for a limited amount of time. But it actually
- 21:38Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. And since they are now
- 21:41Speaker 2: gathering this information, then we have to assume the robotics
- 21:45Speaker 2: that AI has evolved to the point where we're right
- 21:48Speaker 2: around the corner on that one. Okay, coming up airport disruptions.
- 21:56Speaker 2: You combine the weather with the fact that TSA agents
- 22:02Speaker 2: are well stretched thin, even the fat ones. Remember it
- 22:07Speaker 2: used to be where the security people were these, you know,
- 22:12Speaker 2: very heavy set women with black capri pants, every one
- 22:17Speaker 2: of them.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Remember those are the days, don't you remember? No, Yeah,
- 22:23Speaker 1: I do, I do. Okay, now we have some thin ones,
- 22:28Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of a shocker.
- 22:30Speaker 2: All right, anybody who go go back in the day,
- 22:32Speaker 2: all right, Neil doesn't know what he's talking about. Go
- 22:34Speaker 2: back in the day and remember TSA agents when it
- 22:38Speaker 2: first started, and tell me they weren't heavy set women,
- 22:43Speaker 2: big ones.
- 22:44Speaker 1: Who were at the.
- 22:47Speaker 2: Never mind, never mind, okay, let's let's just get out
- 22:52Speaker 2: of here. I'm going to talk about that when we return.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Fat women.
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