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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM 640 is at Taco Tuesday, September 15th. Morning, morning, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: as we start another day. Fun, fun topic today that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about. And it'll be just a
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  Speaker 2: mention of Donald Trump because we can't do a day
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  Speaker 2: without a mention of Donald Trump. And new, I would
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  Speaker 2: almost say new levels of insanity, but no, just a
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  Speaker 2: really good couple of Donald Trump utterances. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: it is Tuesday. Let me say hello to everybody. Will Kohlschreiber,
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  Speaker 2: there you are. Good morning, Will. And you may want
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  Speaker 2: to turn your microphone on, Will, because you're such a pro. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Okay. All right, Kono. Hello, Bill. You're
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  Speaker 2: in a t-shirt, Kono. Usually I see you in a
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  Speaker 2: long-sleeve shirt. I'm in a long, um, okay. You are
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  Speaker 2: in a t-shirt. I'm always in a t-shirt. No, usually
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  Speaker 2: in a long-sleeve shirt, the way I look at it,
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  Speaker 2: or what I see. And the reason I always describe
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  Speaker 2: how we're dressed in the morning is it's a visual. See,
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  Speaker 2: we have to pretend that this is radio, and we
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  Speaker 2: have to have people imagine what you look like. So
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  Speaker 2: do you want to describe my pecs and my... Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so anyway, Kono has quite the fruit package. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Not bad, but then compared to me, almost anything is impressive.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Like raspberries.
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  Speaker 2: Neil.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you. It's like almost people think that
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  Speaker 2: I've taken a lot of steroids. Take enough steroids. You know,
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  Speaker 2: your nuts are as big as raisins. You know how
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  Speaker 2: that works, don't you? Right.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got the one with no muscles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how you can tell weightlifters. You want to
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  Speaker 2: see them. Pimples on the back and, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: scrotal area is not very large. A lot of shrinkage.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they live in Antarctica.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Amy. Hi, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to be talking about shrinkage this early in
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  Speaker 3: the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Yes. Well, we're getting a little cooler. It's,
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  Speaker 2: oh my God, just during the summer. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: During the summer, man, there's a lot of bell ringing.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you, a lot of bell ringers. Okay. Neil, what? Amy,
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  Speaker 2: you're shaking your head. You don't understand what i just
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  Speaker 2: said oh i think i understand oh you're just shaking
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  Speaker 2: your head in general it's a little early in the
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  Speaker 2: morning for this oh i get i'm sorry i um
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  Speaker 2: yeah all right i keep on forgetting amy's been working
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  Speaker 2: with me long enough to where she understands every one
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  Speaker 2: of those depraved.
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  Speaker 3: References yep i understand them all now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah depravity my middle name neil also depraved yeah Every day.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're friends.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And then there's Anne. Good morning, Anne. And
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  Speaker 2: the weather today is not schwitzy. Last night, it was
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely wonderful. I had my in-laws a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days over for dinner. And do you know why making
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  Speaker 2: pizzas on the barbecue, on the grill is really a
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  Speaker 2: neat thing?
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  Speaker 3: Did you do it on the egg?
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't do it on the egg. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: egg is basically used for smoking more than anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I find it was. For you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of us know how to use it for
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I bake on mine.
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  Speaker 2: With the lid closed? Yeah. Yeah, you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no. You can do a pizza with it open. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I do pizza on the grill. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: really good. What's your method? Do you flip it, the dough? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cook the dough, then flip it, then put the toppings
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  Speaker 1: on it. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And then close it up and have it melted. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's great. It is. Neat way of doing it. And so,
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  Speaker 2: all right. So the weather is, let's go back, Amy,
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  Speaker 2: talk about the weather today.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Great. Yeah. In the meantime, look what's happening on the
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  Speaker 2: East Coast. It's crazy making with the storms. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't stop. And we've got a fire going on.
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  Speaker 2: How's that fire in, is it Hacienda Heights?
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  Speaker 3: La Habra Heights, near Whittier. La Habra Heights. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: not a big fire. It's just 17 acres, but it
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  Speaker 3: destroyed at least three homes. It damaged another one. So
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  Speaker 3: it did some damage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, every time that happens, be prepared for your home
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  Speaker 2: insurance to go up in the air. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 2: ready to do it? It's a Tuesday morning. It's a
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  Speaker 2: taco Tuesday, which for the last several Tuesdays, I have
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  Speaker 2: not had tacos. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: I've been craving birria. I want that right now.
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  Speaker 2: Birria?
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  Speaker 1: Birria. It's a stewed meat taco.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. I thought it would be birria, the
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  Speaker 2: guy who ran the KGB in Russia. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: None of us know that reference.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's Beria. And you can look that one up.
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  Speaker 1: Not to be confused with Barry M.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. Okay, guys, it's time to do it. Handle
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  Speaker 2: on the news. In and on a Tuesday morning, September 15th, Amy, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: and me lead story. Well, Supreme Court knocked down that
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  Speaker 2: mail ballot restriction that the president has been pushing for
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  Speaker 2: the midterm elections yesterday. That doesn't mean that it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to move forward. And the basic reason it was, well,
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  Speaker 2: Brett Kavanaugh wrote that it may be within the administration's rule,
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  Speaker 2: within its authority. It could be, however, imposing changes at
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  Speaker 2: this point because balloting has already gone out in various states.
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  Speaker 2: So it's merely an issue of time with the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court order at this time with this issue. And it's
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  Speaker 2: still wide open whether the president has the authority to
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  Speaker 2: change the balloting. I think he will because of this court,
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  Speaker 2: because when you have Alito and Clarence Thomas, who seems
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  Speaker 2: like no matter what the president wants to do, he
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  Speaker 2: has the authority to do it the way they view it. Unparalleled,
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  Speaker 2: uncontested presidential authority.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there are only two.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying. As long as those two
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  Speaker 2: and you have the other members, it's a 6-3 court.
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  Speaker 2: And the 6-3 court, keep in mind that the president
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  Speaker 2: was pretty careful about choosing the justices. And I'm guessing
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  Speaker 2: that his advisers went pretty deep into the selection of
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  Speaker 2: the justices because it's not just acolytes. It's not simply
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  Speaker 2: people that are being plugged into these various positions because
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  Speaker 2: of who they are. and their connection to Trump and
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  Speaker 2: having no credentials. Every one of his nominations have deep credentials.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a question of philosophy more than anything else.
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  Speaker 2: So do I think that inevitably the court does? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think the court is gonna hold that the states
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  Speaker 2: control the election, but the government controls how the mail-in
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  Speaker 2: ballots are mailed. And part of the restriction is we
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  Speaker 2: want all of those lists Or we're going to provide
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  Speaker 2: lists and we want to compare them to all of
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  Speaker 2: the voters that you have on record and see who
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  Speaker 2: is illegal and who is not. And then the question
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  Speaker 2: of what's going to go, what's going to have precedence,
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  Speaker 2: because the president is going to say it's national security.
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  Speaker 2: And it's all national security as far as the president
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  Speaker 2: is concerned. Doesn't matter what it is. It's national security.
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  Speaker 2: And under the rules of national security, the president can
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  Speaker 2: do a whole lot. It's just a question of how
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  Speaker 2: much is a whole lot. where there have been plenty
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  Speaker 2: of presidents who have used national security, tons of them.
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  Speaker 2: Last time around where there was sweeping national security was
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden during COVID. Okay, moving on.
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  Speaker 3: Still hedging his bet, Governor Newsom says he will not
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  Speaker 3: run for president if Kamala Harris runs. He told CNN's
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  Speaker 3: Jake Tapper. Why would I? I wouldn't do that to her.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't do it to you. I wouldn't waste everyone's time.
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  Speaker 2: Why he thinks it's wasting everyone's time. This is the primary.
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  Speaker 2: This is to figure out who is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the nominee. This is the baptism in fire. This is
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  Speaker 2: the way for the electorate, at least the Democratic electorate,
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  Speaker 2: to figure out who they want, what kind of messaging
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  Speaker 2: they want. And I think they both should run. I
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  Speaker 2: don't get this. Yeah, isn't that.
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  Speaker 1: that defeats the whole process of democracy. The whole point
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  Speaker 1: at that point is to say which one of us
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  Speaker 1: would be best. That's the problem with Democrats in the
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  Speaker 1: last handful of elections because they weren't putting the best
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  Speaker 1: foot forward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know that the political, the hierarchy of the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party is arranging all of this, figuring out that
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  Speaker 2: maybe Newsom has more baggage than Kamala Harris does because
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  Speaker 2: Newsom is known to be or perceived to be very left-wing,
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris more moderate. So we'll see. And people are
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  Speaker 2: really angry with Kamala Harris because she inherited the run,
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  Speaker 2: although anybody would. And, gee, she got away. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: and Joe Biden went through the baptism of fire. They
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  Speaker 2: went through the process where the American people knew who
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  Speaker 2: they were, especially Donald Trump. They knew who he was. Man,
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  Speaker 2: he said, this is what I'm going to do. And
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what he did. And the electorate said, you bet.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we want. That's democracy. Kamala Harris just winning
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  Speaker 2: or being anointed. That's a different animal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because remember when she first ran, she dropped out
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  Speaker 3: before even the California primaries. And then didn't really have
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  Speaker 3: to run in 2024 because they appointed her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And we don't like appointed. We don't like appointed,
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  Speaker 2: especially appointed presidential nominees. I mean, we're fine when a
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  Speaker 2: senator or a congressperson goes down and, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: daughter comes in or the wife comes in. In the
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  Speaker 2: case of Lindsey Graham, the sister comes in who has
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  Speaker 2: no experience. All right.
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  Speaker 1: To the Environmental Protection Agency just yesterday. said it's repealing
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  Speaker 1: rules that limit planet warming greenhouse gas emissions from power
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  Speaker 1: plants that are fueled by coal and of course, natural gas.
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  Speaker 1: They announced it's taking a separate but related step to
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  Speaker 1: prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants.
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  Speaker 1: So this was proposed last year, this particular rule change,
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  Speaker 1: and it would be a fundamental shift from efforts like
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  Speaker 1: from President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, that were really focused
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  Speaker 1: on addressing climate change and regulating those carbon dioxide and
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  Speaker 1: other greenhouse gases that get trapped and it traps the
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  Speaker 1: sun's heat and causes issues.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the Environmental Protection Agency taking away protection.
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  Speaker 2: So it is a new definition of protection. And since
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  Speaker 2: the greenhouse gas issue and the warming of the planet
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  Speaker 2: is all a hoax, therefore, why would you put irrelevant
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  Speaker 2: or simply for no reason to establish controls on power plants?
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to blow wide open. What I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand is I can see the president saying, OK, we
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  Speaker 2: were drill, baby, drill. We're on the side of power
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  Speaker 2: plants and we have no problem with the emissions because
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  Speaker 2: that's all a hoax. And they say it's going to
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  Speaker 2: give the consumer more choice. At the same time, he
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  Speaker 2: hates alternative energy and is doing everything he can to
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  Speaker 2: shut down alternative energy. And because that's going to give
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  Speaker 2: people more choice by not having alternative energy.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't understand. He's very pro electric vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: just golf carts.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point. Good point. So I don't get this.
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  Speaker 2: So again, massive change, massive change. The Environmental Protection Agency
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  Speaker 2: position is now to eliminate pollution controls. Big changes of foot.
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  Speaker 1: The health department wants to eliminate vaccines. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: on brand.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Here's a fun story, Amy. I was referring
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  Speaker 2: to this this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, IQ trumps AI. President Trump rejected the idea of
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  Speaker 3: putting guardrails on artificial intelligence, saying in a Truth Social post,
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  Speaker 3: The only control needed is a strong and smart, high
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  Speaker 3: IQ president. And the U.S. has that in spades. He
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  Speaker 3: said the Trump administration has stopped AI people from doing
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  Speaker 3: bad or potentially bad things. Like Dario, he's the head
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  Speaker 3: of Anthropic, who is now pretending to be a perfect
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  Speaker 3: little angel. And we will continue to do so.
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  Speaker 1: He said.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do with that? I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: what you do with that. I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is frightened of everybody. All the honchos are frightened
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  Speaker 2: of where AI is going. Even Elon Musk is joining
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  Speaker 2: forces with Anthropic and ChatGPT or OpenAI.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're private companies. Can't they do whatever they want?
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily.
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  Speaker 3: They can't put guardrails on AI if they want to?
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  Speaker 2: But they have to agree. And they have to agree,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't. And they'll never agree ever. So they're
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  Speaker 2: saying to the government, you have to do it because, frankly, admission,
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  Speaker 2: they'll never agree. And then the other issue, what do
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  Speaker 2: you do with China that has no restrictions? And that
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  Speaker 2: is a legitimate concern. And the president, this is where
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  Speaker 2: I agree with the president on the issue of China.
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  Speaker 2: And what he says is we have to stay ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the Chinese. I mean, we are ahead of the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese by leaps and bounds. And who's ever going to
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  Speaker 2: win AI is going to win, period. You know what?
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  Speaker 2: He may be dead right on this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an arms race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's basically what it is, an arms race. But
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  Speaker 2: the only thing that's going to save us, if it is,
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  Speaker 2: is a strong and smart, high IQ president. And we
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  Speaker 2: have that in spades.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I suppose what the government would do here
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  Speaker 1: is put on guardrails for something. But you can't you
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  Speaker 1: got to have a place where you can explore it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what they're saying. Oh, the technology is moving
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  Speaker 2: ahead at breakneck speed. It's just even they, I was
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  Speaker 2: listening to an interview with Sam Altman, who is head
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  Speaker 2: of ChatGPT, OpenAI, and he said, we're moving ahead at
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  Speaker 2: a rate, at a speed I never imagined that we could.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going, whoa, this is basically going to be
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  Speaker 2: out of control very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But it's always the bad things. It's always like nobody's
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  Speaker 1: looking at the good. I'm the good guy that has
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  Speaker 1: to wait for someone to come and unlock the spray
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  Speaker 1: paint because some wingnut spray paint's on a building.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about that's always the case. Now, for example,
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  Speaker 2: atomic weapons. nuclear weapons. I mean, they're not all bad.
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  Speaker 2: Just killing 100,000 people in one fell swoop in Japan twice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, small price to pay. But looking at, to
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  Speaker 2: your point, looking at atomic energy, look at what it
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  Speaker 2: can produce peacefully.
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  Speaker 1: Has it as any been dropped since?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so be it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, because there's so many first and it
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  Speaker 2: stops more war. It does, except in the case of
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  Speaker 2: crazy people like Iran. Is that going to stop?
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  Speaker 1: Which is why we're trying to keep them from having one.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Even North Korea, with crazy man Kim Jong-un,
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  Speaker 2: who has the bomb, is saying, whoa, because it guarantees
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  Speaker 2: that your country, whichever country does use a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 2: will instantly become a parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: Do they test President Psycheu?
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  Speaker 2: No. I wish they do. We test presidents' IQ, and
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  Speaker 2: we call that through elections. Okay, I think we do
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  Speaker 2: one more before we bail the next break. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Amy or me?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's you. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: El Nino. Oh. It's already strong, but it's turning super
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  Speaker 1: as the phenomenon crosses the unprecedented territory. We thought we
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  Speaker 1: got rid of that word with COVID. So the natural
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  Speaker 1: climate cycle has been strengthening at breakneck speed, and they're
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  Speaker 1: saying it's not done bulking up. So it gets that energy.
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  Speaker 1: El Nino is warmer than average water temperatures along the
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  Speaker 1: equator in the Pacific Ocean. The warmer water triggers corresponding shifts.
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  Speaker 1: The atmosphere changes. has this domino effect and weather patterns
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  Speaker 1: start changing across the globe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be worse. And it's like a
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  Speaker 2: snowball kind of just gaining more and more. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be bad. Super El Ninos make major changes. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be they're saying that there'll be more water
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  Speaker 2: in Southern California, which is a good thing. But the
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  Speaker 2: storms throughout the rest of the United States are going
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  Speaker 2: to increase. Hurricanes are going to increase, certainly in strength.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a mess. It's a mess. Climate change
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  Speaker 2: is not a hoax.
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  Speaker 3: Must have been quite a party. Some of the festivities
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  Speaker 3: for Donald Trump Jr. 's wedding celebration happened on two
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  Speaker 3: private islands in the Bahamas in May. Who paid for
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  Speaker 3: those islands and those parties? A wealthy Russian who does
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  Speaker 3: business with the state. His name is Umar Kremlev. He's
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  Speaker 3: the president of the International Boxing Association. He recently accompanied
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  Speaker 3: Russia's President Putin on a delegation to China. And he
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  Speaker 3: is under Ukrainian sanctions that describe him as a close
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  Speaker 3: friend of the head of Putin's security service. He hosted
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  Speaker 3: two nights of celebrations, apparently after the wedding ceremony for
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  Speaker 3: Trump Jr., The bride said, yep, they paid for it.
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  Speaker 3: She put it up on social media yesterday.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, according to the Trumps, they didn't pay for
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the wedding. OK, just the wedding gift, the party afterwards.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: So Donald Trump said it was a small private ceremony
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: at the wedding. Could be. And it but to two
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: parties afterwards at two different islands paid for by this guy,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: this Russian who has pretty close ties to Putin. And
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: she doubled down. She says it's a wedding gift from
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: a friend. And we're grateful. It's that simple. Don't you
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: find it interesting that the president did not go to
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: his son's wedding?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Did you hear his response?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: He didn't go to the parties. Did he go to
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: the wedding?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Did he go to the wedding?
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I heard that he did. go to the parties.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I was under the impression he didn't go to the wedding.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, he did not attend the wedding. Out of Washington Post,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: President Trump did not attend the wedding. He said it's
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: going to be a small private affair. It's not good
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: other things.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: It's probably good if he didn't go. Can you imagine
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: if he would have gone? They would have just gone crazy.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. And so some advisor said, Mr. President, you
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: cannot go to this thing.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Because of the connection with Putin.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It's a horrible look regardless.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And so I think he made a good
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: political move, as ridiculous as it seems for a dad
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: not to go to a son's wedding. Under these circumstances,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I think Trump made the right political move.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But as a son, would you, just for a wedding,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: would you, especially if it's a small affair, would you
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: put your father in that position?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have to go that far because I fought
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: to not go to my wedding and I caved. Yeah,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I wondered where you were.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: In the hole.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: What?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I almost had to get married to her because you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: were a no-show.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: All righty. Mitch McConnell. He's back. 84 years old. Put
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: together with duct tape and popsicle sticks. He prepared to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: cast his first vote. Uh, a lot of speculation about
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: his health. As you remember, he kind of ducked out
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of things for months long absence. And, uh, He's back.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And it seemed to be frail, but in good spirits
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and wanted to get in there for the latest farm
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bill and support legislation.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Now, have you seen the memes? Have you seen the memes?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: A lot of weekend at Mitch's, a lot of carrying
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: urns around. Very funny stuff.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: He's a hard guy. A hard-looking 84. Yeah, he is. Nowadays,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you don't even think of 84 as old. Yeah, and tremendous.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Now, he did give up the majority ship to John
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Thune a couple of years ago. But still, at some point,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you say, hey, it is time. But the people, they–
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I think it's– what is it? What state is it?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: South Carolina? I'm always confused where he comes from. McConnell? Kentucky. Yeah. Kentucky. Okay.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: That's it with Rand Paul, right? Yeah. Okay. And the people,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, he could be long dead and he'll get elected.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: They'll elect a box if Mitch McConnell is in there.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: At what age do you think people should step down
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: from important roles?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Depends on which party it is. If you disagree with me,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I think maybe mid-30s, mid-30s. And if you agree with me,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: as you approach 100 is fine, even if you're in
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: a wheelchair and you have no idea who you are
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and you need aids to change your diapers. Okay.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Fair.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Green card programs getting gutted, but that's being fought. New
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: York and 21 other states are suing the Trump administration
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: for To try to block a new Department of Homeland
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Security rule. The rule change is supposed to kick in
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: on Friday, would make it tougher for a lot of
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: immigrants to get green cards if they use or are
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: deemed likely to need public benefits like food stamps, Medicaid
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: and housing vouchers. The states are arguing that they would
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: lose billions of dollars in federal funding if immigrants, particularly
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: mixed status families... disenroll from programs because of fears about
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: immigration consequences.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And we're not the only country that does that.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Plenty of countries around the world do exactly that. I mean,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I remember as a student, long hair, I actually had
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: long hair at one point and I would travel and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: it was a young traveling immediately. Immigration would pull me
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: aside and say, do you have do you have enough
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: money to be in this country? And it was in
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the range of $ 1, 000 if you were going to stay
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: for more than a couple of weeks. And if not,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: you're on an airplane going home. And this affects immigrants
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: coming in because they live here. So, you know, there's
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: two sides to this coin. And it's the people who
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: are saying we want to protect America from immigrants because
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: it's mainly downside. And others who say, open arms, you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Emma Lazarus, give us your poor, your wretched yearning to
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: be free. You know, the placard of the base of
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the Empire State Building. Oh, excuse me, the Statue of Liberty. Okay.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: We've had many conversations about the need for air traffic
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: control reforms. Unfortunately. We don't have the money. The Federal
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Aviation Administration needs more funding from Congress to complete phase one,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: not phase two, three, or any of those, phase one
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of a $ 10. 6 billion air traffic control reform plan and
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: has underestimated the total cost of operations for the new system.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So this new government report that came out yesterday from
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the Government Accountability Office said the FAA had not fully
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: assessed the costs of operating the new system or set
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a detailed schedule for completion forms.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: So I have a question. Clearly, the war in Iran,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: which had $ 35 billion so far, is far more important
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: than air traffic safety.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: They're not the same. It's like here. They're not the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: same coffers.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Well, still it comes out of the general fund. Yeah,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, you still have to pay for it. The
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: American taxpayer still pays for it. I get it, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: it's not all funds aren't equal. The government doesn't just
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: have one big bucket of money. No, no, it does. No,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: you're right. It's dispersed out of different categories, but it
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: is paid for by the American taxpayer. And it's just
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: a question of priorities. That's all. Also, one of the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: reasons that it's so expensive with the air traffic control
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: system is they've tried to change it a bunch of times.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And the last time around, there was a huge... amount
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: of money paid, and the contractor screwed it up completely.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: And they've tried to change it over and over. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: one of the problems is marrying the new controls, according
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to this story, marrying the new systems to the old
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: systems because they have to run simultaneously. You can't just
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: stop one and go to another, not with air traffic control.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So it's a mess.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even the station, we have a backup antenna when
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: we're working on the main antenna.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if we switch over, it's not just an
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: automatic switch over. It runs simultaneously until one is more
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: important or one works better than the other. Theoretically, the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: new one works better, although we've had some real issues. Okay, oh,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: an alligator Alcatraz story.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kept in cages, apparently. Nearly 80 immigrant detainees who
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: were held at the makeshift detention center in Florida known
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: as Alligator Alcatraz, which is shut down now, were held
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: in small metal enclosures for periods ranging from several minutes
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: to nearly two hours, according to a federal watchdog report.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Apparently it was about an 18 square foot floor space
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: and was unlike anything that the team had observed in
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: ICE facilities before. Hmm.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: And Alligator Alley Alcatraz is basically closed, $ 400 million, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: very few people ever went, although the administration says the
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: reason so few people went and it's empty now is
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: because we threw or the government was able to process
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the detainees so quickly and deport them. So two sides
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of that coin, but the people that were caught in
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the middle, eh, not so good.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe a place for homeless.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an argument. All right.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, snap. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding can face a
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: major shakeup at the end of September, unless Congress passes
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a resolution to delay major changes, including in H.R. 1,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: commonly known as the GOP's one big, beautiful bill. So
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: starting October 1st, states will have to pick up 75
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: percent of the administrative costs of running the program.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: And yeah, those pesky, those pesky hungry kids don't, they
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: just get in the way.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm all for feeding kids and I get it
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: when they're fed, they're going to be thinking better, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the issue is. It's not feeding
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: some kids that are underprivileged. What ends up happening is they,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that's how it starts. And then they say, well, we
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: don't want the underprivileged kids to feel awkward or different.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So let's do it for all the kids.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and you're right. And, and the, and that's
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: a legitimate argument. The number of people that are on
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: stamp that are food stamps are a huge percentage of
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the population of the United States.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is those.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Small offered to my child who doesn't need it because
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you don't want kids to feel different. And then we
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: end up paying for my kid who, It's fine.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, one more story, and we'll bail.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Not shedding a lot of tears here, Bruce Davis was
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Charles Manson's right-hand man. He died in prison at the
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: age of 83.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's accused of the murder and the slayings of
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Gary Hinman, who was a stuntman who was killed by
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the Manson people separately than the Celio Drive Sharon Tate murder.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: What was it? They thought he was going to tell
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: on him?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they thought he was– Manson thought of him as
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: some kind of a threat. Anyway, he was sentenced to
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: life in prison with the possibility of parole. And he–
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: but all his parole hearings were turned down. He just
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: said Schwarzenegger and– Brown. Gray Davis. No one was going
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: to parole him. Can you imagine the politics of that?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Was Manson actually part of one of those murders?
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yes. No, he ordered those murders. I thought he actually took...
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: He wasn't even there. He wasn't even there. No, I
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: mean this particular stuntman. I thought that... It could have been. No,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: you're right. He could have been there because it was
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: at the Spahn Ranch where they lived. Okay, guys, we're
• 30:38
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• 30:41
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