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"We Love Hegseth", Tech Tuesday and Murder Overseas · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640 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: KFI and KOST HD2 Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time
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  Speaker 2: for your morning wake-up call. Sitting in for Amy King,
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  Speaker 2: here's Heather Brooker.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: It's 5 o'clock on this beautiful Tuesday morning. I'm Heather
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  Speaker 4: Brooker in for Amy King. It's Tuesday, November 10th. Happy
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  Speaker 4: to be here with you today. Good morning to the
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  Speaker 4: wake-up call crew. Will just sauntered in.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Will.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: And Anne is here. She is getting ready for the
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  Speaker 3: big show. Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Anne.
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  Speaker 3: I love this beautiful purple color on you. It's so pretty.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: It looks good with your blond hair. I like it.
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  Speaker 3: And then Mario, my buddy. Hey, good morning, sunshine. Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Mario and I get to hang out on Saturday mornings
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  Speaker 4: very early together. And we also have Bill on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: We should get hazard pay because we have to put
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  Speaker 4: up with him an extra day of the week.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, definitely, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I am so happy to be here with you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Amy King will be back tomorrow, as far as I know.
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  Speaker 4: So hold on tight. We'll get you back to your
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  Speaker 4: comfort and safety of Amy King, but we'll take good
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  Speaker 4: care of you and get you all the news you
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  Speaker 4: need to know in the meantime.
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  Speaker 3: I want to hear from you, though.
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  Speaker 4: I always love it having you interact with the show
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  Speaker 4: and leave me messages on the Talk Back button. My
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  Speaker 4: birthday is coming up on Sunday, so... And I want
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  Speaker 4: to hear from you. Where should I go to celebrate
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  Speaker 4: my birthday? Where's a good place to grab a bite
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  Speaker 4: to eat? Where's somewhere that feels like celebratory, but maybe
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  Speaker 4: isn't too fancy? Because, you know, I am on a
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  Speaker 4: radio budget.
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  Speaker 3: So let me know.
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  Speaker 4: Hit the talkback button on the iHeartRadio app. Give me
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  Speaker 4: your recommendations to celebrate a good birthday with friends and family.
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  Speaker 4: All right, here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. Sex
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  Speaker 4: lies in espionage. The CEO of one of the world's
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  Speaker 4: most powerful tech companies is caught up in a scandal
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  Speaker 4: involving infidelity and alleged Chinese spying. And Republican congressman wants
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  Speaker 4: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth impeached. Now Hegseth is fighting back.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be holding a rare news conference. To address the controversy,
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  Speaker 4: we're expecting.
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  Speaker 3: That any moment now. And murder on the high seas.
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  Speaker 3: A woman is found.
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  Speaker 4: Dead aboard a cruise ship. A suspect is in custody,
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  Speaker 4: and now the FBI is investigating. We'll have all the
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  Speaker 4: details there. Then at 6.05, it is Handel on the news.
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  Speaker 4: Handel's going to deep dive into the plans to impeach
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  Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth. You don't want to miss that. But first,
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  Speaker 4: let's get started with some of the stories coming out
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  Speaker 4: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Voters in California have rejected
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  Speaker 4: Prop 40... a first in the nation tax on the
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  Speaker 4: net worth of billionaires. Critics of the tax said it
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  Speaker 4: would have made the ultra wealthy taxpayers leave the state.
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  Speaker 4: The failure of Prop 40 is a win for Democratic
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  Speaker 4: leaders who opposed it, including Governor Newsom, who the no
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  Speaker 4: side raised roughly 10 times as much as the yes
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  Speaker 4: side did. The news is brought to you by American
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  Speaker 4: Vision Windows. Speaking of Governor Newsom, his decision to commute
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  Speaker 4: death row sentences to life in prison is drawing mixed
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  Speaker 4: reactions across California.
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  Speaker 7: It just makes me out of my mind.
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  Speaker 8: I am so upset about this.
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  Speaker 9: Mark Kloss is livid. His daughter, Polly, was killed in 1993.
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  Speaker 9: Her murderer, Richard Allen Davis, sentenced to die. But he
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  Speaker 9: says that won't happen thanks to Governor Newsom.
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  Speaker 7: He's giving them the gift that they denied all of
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  Speaker 7: their rights.
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  Speaker 5: Victims.
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  Speaker 9: But not everyone related to Polly agrees. Her half-sister and
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  Speaker 9: stepsister support ending the death penalty, meeting with Governor Newsom
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  Speaker 9: before he made his decision, and telling him their feelings
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  Speaker 9: shouldn't dictate public policy. Mark Kloss strongly disagrees.
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  Speaker 10: These women are going to live in shame for the
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  Speaker 10: rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 9: Jason Aithenson, KFI News.
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  Speaker 4: City of Glendale is being sued by the Justice Department
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  Speaker 4: over what its concealed carry permits cost. The DOJ says
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  Speaker 4: those costs now run at about $ 2, 000 for a first-time applicant.
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  Speaker 4: It says Glendale raised the initial application fee for a
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  Speaker 4: license to carry from $ 100 to $ 1, 078 and increased the
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  Speaker 4: renewal fee from $ 50 to $ 826. The city is also
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  Speaker 4: accused of using an arbitrary May issue process that lets
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  Speaker 4: officials decide who gets a permit based on their own
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  Speaker 4: judgment instead of objective requirements. Let's get into this story.
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  Speaker 4: There is a lot to unpack here. There's a sex
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  Speaker 4: scandal rocking one of the biggest companies in the world.
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  Speaker 4: NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, has admitted to being unfaithful to
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  Speaker 4: his wife amid reports that he was targeted by Chinese intelligence.
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  Speaker 4: Now the company's board is investigating. ABC News technology reporter
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  Speaker 4: Mike Dabusky joins us with the latest.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mike.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, guys. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: This feels a little bit like a Lifetime movie. There's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of layers here. A spy movie, a James
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  Speaker 4: Bond movie. Yeah, it feels like all of that.
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  Speaker 7: All of that. It is.
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  Speaker 11: It is pretty high stakes just because this is a
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  Speaker 11: company that is central to the AI boom that we're
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  Speaker 11: in right now. NVIDIA is a company that makes computer chips, right?
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  Speaker 11: They make processors. They started as a gaming company making
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  Speaker 11: processors for gaming computers, but they found themselves in the
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  Speaker 11: right place at the right time a few years ago,
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  Speaker 11: and pivoted to artificial intelligence. If you drive by a
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  Speaker 11: data center, chances are you are driving by a lot
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  Speaker 11: of NVIDIA processors owned by OpenAI or Anthropic or Google
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  Speaker 11: or Meta or Microsoft or others. They're crucial to all
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  Speaker 11: of this. They make the hardware that underpins the AI
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  Speaker 11: software that is out there. And now we are seeing
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  Speaker 11: this scandal rock the upper echelon of this company with
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  Speaker 11: NVIDIA's board announcing that they're opening this investigation into Jensen Huang,
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  Speaker 11: the CEO of NVIDIA, the co-founder of that company, over
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  Speaker 11: allegations that he had a quote-unquote close relationship with a
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  Speaker 11: woman suspected of being a Chinese spy.
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  Speaker 7: Now, this woman.
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  Speaker 8: U.S.
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  Speaker 11: Intelligence officials believe is Alice Huang, or Huang Li, as
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  Speaker 11: she's sometimes known. She is the executive at a company
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  Speaker 11: known as Megaspeed. Megaspeed is a Singapore-based data center company.
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  Speaker 11: They have a bunch of data centers all throughout Southeast Asia.
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  Speaker 11: And in 2024, the U.S. began investigating this company over
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  Speaker 11: concerns that some of the NVIDIA chips that they were
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  Speaker 11: buying were kind of making their way into China, which
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  Speaker 11: was the subject of an export ban that is at
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  Speaker 11: the center of this investigation that is now progressing.
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  Speaker 4: So is there any evidence at all that any sensitive
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  Speaker 4: company information or American tech or secrets or anything were
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  Speaker 4: actually compromised during this relationship that these two people had?
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  Speaker 11: So NVIDIA says that there is no reason for the
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  Speaker 11: board to believe that any trade secrets, any sensitive information
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  Speaker 11: made its way to Megaspeed or back to China. That
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  Speaker 11: was the main concern here. But that's, of course, also
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  Speaker 11: what the investigation is going to reveal. We just don't
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  Speaker 11: know at this point. Certainly the US and China are
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  Speaker 11: engaged in this very high stakes race to develop very
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  Speaker 11: advanced chips. The better your chips, the better the AI
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  Speaker 11: you have is, is kind of the idea here. And
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  Speaker 11: given that the US and China are kind of at
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  Speaker 11: the forefront of the AI race, both of these countries
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  Speaker 11: see AI as a thing that can bring about a
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  Speaker 11: new technological revolution and they want to own that. We
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  Speaker 11: can question the legitimacy of that belief, but that is
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  Speaker 11: kind of where these two countries find themselves right now. The,
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  Speaker 11: you know, chips are central to all of that. And
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  Speaker 11: China wants to develop chips that are just as good,
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  Speaker 11: if not better than ours. And it seems like, according
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  Speaker 11: to U.S. intelligence officials, getting to some sense of information
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  Speaker 11: through Jensen Huang was their way to do it. Again,
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  Speaker 11: we don't know if any of it actually made it
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  Speaker 11: back to China, but it's certainly a bad look for NVIDIA,
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  Speaker 11: which saw its stock price take a hit yesterday. We
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  Speaker 11: saw Jensen Huang cancel some upcoming events at the anthropic
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  Speaker 11: and 11 labs that he was supposed to attend. Hakeem
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  Speaker 11: Jeffries on Capitol Hill apparently discussed this with top government
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  Speaker 11: intelligence officials yesterday, and various congressional committees have said that
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  Speaker 11: they want to hear from Jensen Wang in the next
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  Speaker 11: few weeks here. Another important point of this, guys, is
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  Speaker 11: the New York Times published a follow-up story yesterday about
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  Speaker 11: the U.S. investigation into Megaspeed, again, the company that Alice
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  Speaker 11: Wong the alleged Chinese spy worked for. This started as
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  Speaker 11: a Commerce Department investigation, but that investigation abruptly halted After
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  Speaker 11: the Commerce Department got a call from NVIDIA's chief counsel,
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  Speaker 11: apparently even invoking the name of the investigator's boss at Commerce,
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  Speaker 11: Jeff Kessler, this apparently had like a chilling effect on
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  Speaker 11: the investigation there. Basically, it was taken as NVIDIA going
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  Speaker 11: over everyone's head to their boss. The case was then
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  Speaker 11: transferred to the Department of Justice, where they're conducting a
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  Speaker 11: criminal inquiry right now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is such a fascinating story. And if it
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  Speaker 4: isn't a movie now, I guarantee you it will be
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  Speaker 4: one day. So, Mike, thank you so much for your
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  Speaker 4: time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: Take care.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
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  Speaker 4: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Republican Ken Calvert
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  Speaker 4: has defeated fellow Republican Young Kim in California's 40th congressional district.
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  Speaker 4: NBC News projects Calvert won with about 54% of the vote.
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  Speaker 4: Kim conceded, blaming California's new congressional maps for forcing the
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  Speaker 4: two incumbents into the same race. Calvert has served in
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  Speaker 4: Congress for more than three decades and was endorsed by
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  Speaker 4: President Trump. The Supreme Court has cleared the way for
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in Texas.
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  Speaker 4: ABC's Chuck Sieverstein says this comes despite the opposition.
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  Speaker 8: With Justice Jackson as the lone dissenter, the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 8: has green-lighted continuing border wall construction throughout the Texas Big
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  Speaker 8: Bend region.
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  Speaker 4: A federal court issued a temporary order stopping it in October.
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  Speaker 4: during those legal challenges. The election results could change the
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  Speaker 4: way the U.S. elects its president. 18 states run by
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  Speaker 4: Democrats have already joined an interstate agreement to award their
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  Speaker 4: electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the
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  Speaker 4: popular vote. Just a few more states would push that
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  Speaker 4: number above the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
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  Speaker 4: The agreement is likely to face legal challenges and could
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  Speaker 4: end up before the Supreme Court. President Trump says he
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  Speaker 4: believes the war in Iran is militarily effectively over.
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  Speaker 5: They're talking to us and they're talking very politely. Then
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  Speaker 5: we'll see what happens. But there's a good chance that
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  Speaker 5: that could get.
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  Speaker 12: Ended.
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  Speaker 4: Trump's comments follow a meeting with the Qatari prime minister
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  Speaker 4: in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 6: Yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: This Thursday is the deadline for getting vaccinated against the
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  Speaker 4: flu before Thanksgiving. ABC's Yori Abinijad says the CDC estimates
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  Speaker 4: they've already been nearly two seen rather nearly two million cases.
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  Speaker 4: and 1,500 deaths from this flu season.
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  Speaker 2: Many families are expected to travel for Thanksgiving, and with
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  Speaker 2: the temperature dropping and people spending more time indoors together,
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  Speaker 2: it's an ideal environment for viruses to spread.
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  Speaker 4: Millions of Americans get the flu every year, including thousands
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  Speaker 4: who end up in the hospital or who have died.
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  Speaker 4: Officials are looking into some modern-day vandalism on some prehistoric art.
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  Speaker 13: The Bureau of Land Management Utah says a couple of
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  Speaker 13: petroglyphs near Moab were carved into. The prehistoric rock art
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  Speaker 13: panels depicting animals, including bighorn sheep, now also feature the
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  Speaker 13: names Craig W. and the name or word Meru, spelled M-E-R-U.
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  Speaker 13: The unfixable damage at the two locations are part of
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  Speaker 13: recent similar incidents in Hawaii, the Bighorn Basin area of Wyoming,
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  Speaker 13: and tribal rock carvings in Bishop, California. The bad guys
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  Speaker 13: or girls are not often caught, but a woman seen
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  Speaker 13: on video vandalizing in Utah in 2024 got hit with
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  Speaker 13: a year of probation and an almost $ 15, 000 fine. Michael Crozier,
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  Speaker 4: When we come back, impeachment threats, controversy at the Pentagon,
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  Speaker 4: and growing questions about the war in Iran. Defense Secretary
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  Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth says... He's not worried. He's actually talking right now.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to have the latest on what he
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  Speaker 4: has to say coming up after the break. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
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  Speaker 4: Of news happening right now. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
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  Speaker 4: is holding a press conference. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 4: what he has to say and also what President Trump
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  Speaker 4: is saying in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: But here's some of the other stories we're.
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  Speaker 4: Following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. And off duty, Ellie.
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  Speaker 4: County Sheriff's deputy has been killed in a crash. The
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  Speaker 4: department says Deputy Martin Maciel died on Saturday. He was
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  Speaker 4: a 10-year veteran of the department. Two passenger jets narrowly
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  Speaker 4: avoided a midair collision over LAX. The FAA says an
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  Speaker 4: Air France flight made an unauthorized turn into the path
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  Speaker 4: of an American Airlines jet. Just shortly after takeoff, the
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  Speaker 4: planes reportedly came within 400 feet of each other before
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  Speaker 4: air traffic controllers intervened. 605, its handle on the news.
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  Speaker 10: The U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Is mediating talks between Russia and Ukraine. Today, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to tell you why Washington is making another push to
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  Speaker 4: stop the war. But right now, President Trump is standing
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  Speaker 4: firmly behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, even as a fellow
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  Speaker 4: Republican pushes to impeach him. ABC News White House correspondent
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  Speaker 4: Karen Travers joins us with the latest.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to Karen.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: So President Trump making it very clear that he is
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  Speaker 4: standing by Pete Hegseth. What exactly did he say and
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  Speaker 4: how strongly is the White House pushing back against this
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  Speaker 4: impeachment effort?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the president said yesterday he will stand by him.
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  Speaker 6: He was asked, even if he's impeached, would you keep
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  Speaker 6: him as your defense secretary? And the president said, I'll
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  Speaker 6: stand by him.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: And, you know, we've seen the president be very supportive
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  Speaker 6: of him since the midterm election losses, even as he
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  Speaker 6: partly blamed.
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  Speaker 10: Those losses on the war with Iran.
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  Speaker 6: He has said that he is not considering any changes
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  Speaker 6: and has expressed confidence in Hegseth. But, of course, this
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  Speaker 6: comes now as Congressman Thomas Massey, outgoing Republican congressman, has
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  Speaker 6: filed these eight articles of impeachment, accusing Hegseth of violating
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  Speaker 6: the Constitution by illegally launching the war with Iran, endangering
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  Speaker 6: members of the military, and killing hundreds of civilians in
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  Speaker 6: those boat strikes against what the administration says are alleged
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  Speaker 6: drug smugglers. Hegseth is also very defiant. He's doing a
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  Speaker 6: press conference right now and says that this is all
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  Speaker 6: political and he makes no apologies for the war effort,
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  Speaker 6: which he says has been a success.
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  Speaker 4: Now, President Trump questioned why previous defense secretaries weren't impeached
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  Speaker 4: over the wars that they oversaw. Do you think the
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  Speaker 4: White House is framing this as a political attack rather
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  Speaker 4: than a legitimate challenge to Hegseth's leadership?
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  Speaker 6: They are. And, you know, I think that's certainly how
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  Speaker 6: Hegseth has been talking about it for the last 20 minutes, too. But,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they also have a political calculation they have
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  Speaker 6: to be concerned about. There are only three Republicans that
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  Speaker 6: they could potentially lose to see this pass in the House, because,
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  Speaker 6: of course, Republicans have a very, very slim majority. Assuming
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  Speaker 6: all Democrats were to vote in favor of this... If
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  Speaker 6: three Republicans vote for it, too, it would pass. Now,
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  Speaker 6: you have a lot of Republicans who are retiring, who
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  Speaker 6: lost primaries, who lost their elections last week. And so
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  Speaker 6: there is a universe of Republicans now who might have
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  Speaker 6: a different political calculation in terms of loyalty or allegiance
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  Speaker 6: to the administration right now that they didn't have just
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  Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: So with the war in Iran growing and the war
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  Speaker 4: in Iran, rather, and there's more scrutiny of the Pentagon,
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  Speaker 4: does the White House see this as a distraction from
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  Speaker 4: its military objectives? And then what's the administration's strategy for
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  Speaker 4: moving forward here?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if they see it as a distraction.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Hegseth was saying he sees it as a
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  Speaker 6: criticism of the efforts by service members. That's how he
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  Speaker 6: was framing it in his comments that are still ongoing
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  Speaker 6: right now. You know, this will all move pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 6: The House has to go forward with the resolution by Wednesday.
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  Speaker 6: There's kind of a ticking clock on this since Thomas
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  Speaker 6: Massey introduced it yesterday. We'll see tonight a procedural motion.
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  Speaker 5: That's put forward.
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  Speaker 6: It's not clear if that's an effort by Republican leadership
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  Speaker 6: to table it, effectively kill it. But we'll find out
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  Speaker 6: over the next couple of hours.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Karen Travers, thank you so much for your reporting this morning.
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. As you heard
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Karen say, Pete Hegseth is speaking right now. Let's listen in.
• 17:06
  Speaker 14: So if you want to talk about that, talk about
• 17:08
  Speaker 14: our recruiting success, talk about the military operations that we've
• 17:12
  Speaker 14: undertaken successfully, I'd welcome that conversation.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Right now he's taking questions from the press.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: Mr. Secretary, Vice President J.D.
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: Vance says the Iran war was a major reason why
• 17:23
  Speaker 12: the Republicans lost in the midterms.
• 17:25
  Speaker 15: Do you agree?
• 17:27
  Speaker 14: I respect the vice president greatly, and I'm certainly not
• 17:29
  Speaker 14: going to exchange in any finger pointing. And thankfully, politics
• 17:32
  Speaker 14: is not really my thing. I do the Department of
• 17:34
  Speaker 14: War and making sure we're prepared and ready. So a
• 17:37
  Speaker 14: lot of people are going to look at the conflict
• 17:39
  Speaker 14: and assess it. And the vice president has been a
• 17:42
  Speaker 14: critical member of the team in every aspect of this.
• 17:44
  Speaker 14: And we're grateful for all the input he's given me
• 17:46
  Speaker 14: personally in our department. And I think going forward, We're
• 17:50
  Speaker 14: going to learn all those lessons and apply them. But
• 17:53
  Speaker 14: I agree with what the president said when he said, hey,
• 17:56
  Speaker 14: if I had to do this all over again, would
• 17:58
  Speaker 14: we do it again?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 18:00
  Speaker 14: It was done for the right reasons to ensure Iran
• 18:03
  Speaker 14: never gets a nuclear weapon. As Marco Rubio said, I
• 18:07
  Speaker 14: think quite well, it's not necessarily popular, but it may
• 18:11
  Speaker 14: have been necessary. And that's certainly how I feel it
• 18:13
  Speaker 14: was a necessary undertaking.
• 18:17
  Speaker 16: A question on the impeachment effort and a question on
• 18:21
  Speaker 16: the war. On the impeachment effort, have you been making
• 18:23
  Speaker 16: calls to allies on Capitol Hill to get support during
• 18:27
  Speaker 16: this impeachment effort? And also, On the war, it's been
• 18:31
  Speaker 16: reported that Stephen Miller pitched himself for the job of
• 18:33
  Speaker 16: chief of staff on the promise that he would end
• 18:36
  Speaker 16: the Iran war. Have you spoken to Stephen.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Miller about that?
• 18:39
  Speaker 14: Well, I talked to Stephen Miller about a lot of things,
• 18:41
  Speaker 14: but he's busy in his new role right now. And
• 18:43
  Speaker 14: I look forward to meeting with him soon, in particular
• 18:45
  Speaker 14: about the ways that we'll work together.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: What was the first question again?
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: So we are listening right now to Secretary of Defense
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth. He called a press conference yesterday. This morning
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: to address the articles of impeachment that were proposed by
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Republican Senator Thomas Massey. And he has been holding this
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: press conference for about the past 15 minutes or so.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: And we are going to gather some of the sound
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: from his press conference. And we will share that with
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: you throughout the morning. So stay tuned with us for that.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: When we come back, we are going to check in
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: with our friends over at Bloomberg. And I'm taking your
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: talkback questions today. I'm taking a talkback question. Or if
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: you have questions for me, you're welcome to ask.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Me questions, too. If you want to hit the talkback
• 19:37
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• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Who is Heather Brooker?
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Who even are you? Honestly, that's a valid question. If
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: you want to hit the talkback button on the iHeartRadio
• 19:46
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• 19:48
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• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Wake Up Call.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Or let me know where you like to go to
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: celebrate your birthday. What's a good birthday celebration spot?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Let me know.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: We'd love to hear from you. Already some good responses
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: coming in. We'll play those a little bit later on.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Southland weather from KFI, sunny and warm today. Highs will
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: be in the mid-80s to low-90s in LA and OC.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: There is a coastal flood advisory in effect. Highs will
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: be in the mid-80s at the beaches, low-90s in the valleys,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: upper-80s in the Inland Empire, mid-70s to low-80s in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: high desert. What just happened there?
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: What you just said.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I need some coffee.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: We've got a lot going on.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Heat hug, Seth.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Secretary of Defense still speaking right now in response to
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the articles of impeachment that have been presented. And we're
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: going to hear from him in just a moment as well.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Ventura County father convicted of incest involving his teenage daughter
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: is expected to be released from jail after serving less
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: than six months. 41-year-old Steven Chavez pleaded guilty to incest.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: and providing alcohol to his 18-year-old daughter, who died by
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: suicide months later. A man is in critical condition after
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: a stabbing near a Glendale middle school. Police say two
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: men got into a fight Sunday night near Roosevelt Middle
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: School when one pulled a knife and stabbed the other.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: The suspect fled and was later arrested. Pink, singer Pink,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: is making history in Las Vegas. The Grammy-winning superstar will
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: become the first female solo artist to headline The Sphere
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: with her first-ever residency featuring immersive visuals and cutting-edge sound.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: That's going to be interesting.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: That'll be a really interesting show because she does a
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: lot of aerial acts and has a very immersive and
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: interactive show. And I don't know how you do the
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: aerial acts from something as large as The Sphere.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: That's going to be really interesting to see. Good for her.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Good for Pink.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I'm loving your talkbacks that are coming in today. We're
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: asking people, where do you go to celebrate a birthday?
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: What do you like to do? Where's your place?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: What do you do? Here's some good ones coming in.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Heather.
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: And happy upcoming birthday this Sunday. This is Steve in
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: West Hills.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: You guys are.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Doing a great job and Heather. Great job.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Doing the fill-in.
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: I suggest possibly Stonefire Grill. It's a real chill place.
• 22:11
  Speaker 12: You can hang out there for a couple hours if
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: you need to.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: And the prices are great with some good specials. So
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: just one suggestion of many.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. Yeah, Stonefire Grill. I don't think I've
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: ever been to a Stonefire Grill. That's a good suggestion.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'll check that out.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. And your talkbacks, I've got some more.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: We'll play those later on in the show. If you
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: guys want to weigh in, let me know. At 6.05 today,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: it's Handle on the News. President Trump has renewed his
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: rhetoric about rigged elections. Well, now he's reversing course and
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: saying the midterms were rigged. We're going to tell you
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: what else he had to say about the polls. Well,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's not worried about efforts
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: to impeach him.
• 22:57
  Speaker 14: Scrundled congressman even admitted this himself yesterday. No failure here,
• 23:04
  Speaker 14: just impeachment for success. As to the claim that the
• 23:08
  Speaker 14: American military targets civilians, well, that is a lie and
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: that is a slander against every professional who flew, sailed
• 23:15
  Speaker 14: and fought on these missions. The only people who target
• 23:19
  Speaker 14: civilians are the terrorists that we hunt.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: So that was Pete Hegseth.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Hegseth, moments ago, addressing the articles of impeachment, Thomas Massey,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Congressman Thomas Massey, introduced impeachment proceedings against Hegseth in the
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: House yesterday. Massey says the war in Iran is the
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: main reason.
• 23:38
  Speaker 14: We're not indicting him for being bad at his job.
• 23:41
  Speaker 14: In fact, he was very effective at killing school children
• 23:45
  Speaker 14: in Iran.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Massey says Hegseth needs to be impeached over his role
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: administrating the war with Iran without getting congressional approval. Two
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: passenger jets have nearly collided after taking off from LAX.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: The collision nearly happened when one plane made an unauthorized
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: turn into the flight path of the other around 12.30
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: Saturday afternoon. KTLA reports the Air France Flight 28 leaving
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: for Tahiti and an American Airlines plane departing from a
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: parallel runway came within 400 feet vertically of each other,
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: but the air traffic controllers steered them apart.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: Air France 028 Heavy, you are instructed to climb via SID,
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: not turn to a heading.
• 24:21
  Speaker 17: Okay, that sounds okay.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: Air France 028 Heavy, why did you turn to a heading?
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: There were roughly 500 passengers combined on the two planes
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: the FAA is investigating. Mark Rauner, KFI News.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I watched the flight pattern, you know, how you can
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: see the flight pattern with things like that. And it
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: literally does look like the plane for some reason just
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: suddenly veers off course. And really scary, scary situation. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: know they will be investigating that for quite some time.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Other stories were following a man from Pasadena accused of
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: pulling off the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history has
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: agreed to plead guilty. Carlos Cercado allegedly broke into a
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Brinks truck and swiped nearly $ 100 million worth of gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: and watches. He's expected to plead guilty today to a
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: single count of interference with commerce by robbery. That also
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: sounds like a movie. Man, all these criminals out here
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: trying to get their movie deal done. Maybe I've been
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: covering entertainment a little too long. It's time to get
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: in your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Good morning, Denise.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 25:28
  Speaker 17: How are you doing, Heather?
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Good.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: You sound great this morning. Oh, thank you so much.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: The coffee's finally kicking in. It usually kicks a little
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: bit much later. We've got a lot going on in
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: the business world. More job cuts and a bunch of companies.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Are we going to lose our job? Are we safe?
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 25:46
  Speaker 17: I mean, overall, the unemployment rate just dropped slightly in
• 25:50
  Speaker 17: October and the economy created a bunch of jobs. But
• 25:52
  Speaker 17: we are seeing, you know, a number of companies looking
• 25:55
  Speaker 17: at cost cutting, calibrating. They're facing rising costs themselves because
• 26:00
  Speaker 17: of inflation. They're trying to save money. PepsiCo cutting a
• 26:03
  Speaker 17: thousand jobs, the maker of Mountain Dew and Doritos. under
• 26:07
  Speaker 17: pressure because of weakness in the North American beverage division.
• 26:11
  Speaker 17: It's also struggling to hold on market share for its
• 26:13
  Speaker 17: salty snacks after its price increases. And it Recently lost
• 26:18
  Speaker 17: that contract with KFC's U.S. restaurants to Coca-Cola. So it's
• 26:22
  Speaker 17: reeling from that as well. And then in the media
• 26:24
  Speaker 17: and entertainment business, Comcast cutting jobs in the connectivity and
• 26:28
  Speaker 17: platforms division. Those cuts expected in California, Pennsylvania, and other states.
• 26:33
  Speaker 17: You know, they're undergoing that significant restructuring of cable TV, broadband,
• 26:37
  Speaker 17: and wireless business. And then planemaker Boeing cutting 5% of
• 26:42
  Speaker 17: one of its divisions. That has to do with sort
• 26:45
  Speaker 17: of production costs. of planes not being quite on the schedule,
• 26:50
  Speaker 17: it thought.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And also I saw that Skydance announced that they're going
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: to be having layoffs as well.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: So nobody is safe.
• 27:00
  Speaker 17: Yes, and that'll hit home in the entertainment business. So
• 27:05
  Speaker 17: a lot of folks watching that.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And small businesses are going to be raising prices.
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 17: More than a third of U.S. small business owners plan
• 27:14
  Speaker 17: to increase prices. This is the most in four years, Heather,
• 27:17
  Speaker 17: and it points to persistent inflationary headwinds. Interestingly, even so,
• 27:23
  Speaker 17: the National Federation of Independent Business also says more firms
• 27:26
  Speaker 17: reported the health of their business was good or excellent.
• 27:29
  Speaker 17: So they're raising prices and it's working, unfortunately. Fortunately for
• 27:35
  Speaker 17: the businesses, but not for the consumers.
• 27:37
  Speaker 16: I know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: I definitely feel like I see everywhere I go, everything
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: feels more expensive.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Doubles in price. Yes.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: And it's getting more and more noticeable with every grocery
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: store trip, every trip to the mall. A pair of
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: jeans now is, you know, way more expensive than it
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: ever has been before.
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 17: I've seen this thing at Whole Foods and my husband
• 28:02
  Speaker 17: thinks maybe I'm just sort of imagining it, which is
• 28:05
  Speaker 17: also possible. But I feel like I've seen this thing
• 28:07
  Speaker 17: in Whole Foods when they open that people run in
• 28:10
  Speaker 17: and they're grabbing the sale stuff off the shelves like immediately.
• 28:14
  Speaker 17: Like they're just running around from sale shelf to sale shelf,
• 28:17
  Speaker 17: piling the stuff in their carts.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I guess if everybody's trying to save
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: a buck, that would not surprise me at all.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Must be smart.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: And emergency room waits are getting longer.
• 28:30
  Speaker 17: People can spend 24 hours in the ER until a
• 28:33
  Speaker 17: bed opens up. The practice is called boarding. It's been
• 28:37
  Speaker 17: increasing because of overcrowding, according to a Wall Street Journal story.
• 28:41
  Speaker 17: But worryingly, patients who are stuck in the ER because
• 28:46
  Speaker 17: there's not a bed are at risk of worse care, including,
• 28:49
  Speaker 17: you know, missing their medication, early clinical deterioration, no PT,
• 28:55
  Speaker 17: stuff like that. I was kind of surprised that it
• 28:57
  Speaker 17: was only 24 hours because my now late mother-in-law, I
• 29:01
  Speaker 17: forget how many days it was, I think it was
• 29:04
  Speaker 17: four or five days in the ER before they had
• 29:07
  Speaker 17: a bed for.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Her here in New York.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: My mom has had to wait at least 24 hours
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: here as well when she's had to go to the hospital.
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: And you've got to stand up and advocate for them,
• 29:18
  Speaker 17: whoever you're patient is and say, you know, they're worth
• 29:22
  Speaker 17: investing in and they need to be moved.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: So I absolutely know that that is a problem. And
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: this one I've seen, this next story I've seen trending
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: on social media quite a bit. So I'm curious to
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: hear what's going on with the skims they're pulling, their
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: advent calendar off the market.
• 29:41
  Speaker 17: Yeah, a lot of people are really angry as you're
• 29:44
  Speaker 17: talking about how they're expressing themselves on Reddit and especially
• 29:48
  Speaker 17: on TikTok, complaining about this advent calendar from Skims. Kim
• 29:52
  Speaker 17: Kardashian's company, of course, saying the contents were cheap.
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: And disappointing.
• 29:56
  Speaker 17: And you could purchase the stuff yourself at, you know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 17: the 99 cent store for a fraction of the $ 148
• 30:04
  Speaker 17: price they were charging for it.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, it had like ponytail holders in it and
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: hair clips were like, so that's crazy.
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 17: So, you know, I can't blame them for trying, because
• 30:16
  Speaker 17: companies certainly must laugh all the time at, you know,
• 30:19
  Speaker 17: the way they can just put a name on something.
• 30:21
  Speaker 17: The things we're willing to pay. You know, call it
• 30:22
  Speaker 17: a Gucci or call it a whatever, and we're willing
• 30:25
  Speaker 17: to pay for it. But, you know, I mean, they
• 30:28
  Speaker 17: have to deliver something either unique or, you know, in
• 30:33
  Speaker 17: terms of the design, even if the quality isn't good,
• 30:35
  Speaker 17: the design has to be good. I guess it didn't
• 30:38
  Speaker 17: hit any of its marks, so they're pulling the advent
• 30:40
  Speaker 17: calendar from their website.
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 30:42
  Speaker 17: All together now. Don't you wonder what they're going to
• 30:45
  Speaker 17: do with the extra inventory? Are they going to donate it?
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that they'll be. I haven't heard yet.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: I bet you they will be offered at a deeply
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: discounted rate. If people just hang out after Christmas, they
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: can probably get one for half the price or less.
• 30:59
  Speaker 17: Yeah on ebay now it's a collector's item uh we
• 31:02
  Speaker 17: talked about prices so chocolate prices are going down coco
• 31:05
  Speaker 17: hitting a four month low on optimism over supply that
• 31:09
  Speaker 17: uh bodes very well for chocolate lovers this holiday season
• 31:13
  Speaker 17: uh coco futures they fell for a fourth day in
• 31:16
  Speaker 17: a row um after sales from ivory coast and really
• 31:20
  Speaker 17: strong exports from ecuador Indicating ample supply.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Awesome.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Denise, thank you so much, as always, for the great information.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Amy will be back tomorrow.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: So this will be a much more.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: This will be a much more professional segment for you tomorrow.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Denise.
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: When we come back. Okay.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: A suspected murder aboard a cruise ship has raised some
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: complicated questions. Who has jurisdiction over a crime committed at sea?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: And your talkback questions, loving these suggestions coming in on
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: what you do for your birthday, what I should do
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: for my birthday, where we go and celebrate. Keep them coming.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Hit the talkback button on the iHeartRadio app, and we'll
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: play them at the end of the show.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Major
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: cuts coming to Hollywood. Skydance plans to slash more than
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: $ 6 billion in expenses after its $ 111 billion acquisition of
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Warner Brothers Discovery, and that will include layoffs. A stolen
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: dinosaur is back home after a prehistoric police pursuit. Deputies
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: in San Joaquin County tracked down a dinosaur statue stolen
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: from a Sinclair gas station. They found the prehistoric mascot
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: in Stockton with a bag over its head. Oh, poor dinosaur.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: We are taking your TalkBack questions this morning. Some really
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: good ones coming in about where you'd like to celebrate
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: your birthday. Give me some suggestions I want to hear
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: from you. We're minutes away from handle on the news.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: administration to build a border wall through a section of Texas.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: We'll tell you all about that. But for right now,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: the FBI is investigating the suspicious death of a woman
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: aboard an M.S.C. ski seascape. Oh, that's a tongue twister
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: cruise ship, which returned to Galveston, Texas. A male suspect
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: is in custody, but determining who has the authority to
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: prosecute a crime in the high seas is. isn't very straightforward.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Joining us now is former FBI special agent in charge,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Rich Franco.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Rich.
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  Speaker 10: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: So walk us through this a little bit. This feels
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  Speaker 4: very complicated, almost like a James Bond movie. When someone
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  Speaker 4: is suspected of being murdered aboard a cruise ship in
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  Speaker 4: international waters, who takes charge of the investigation?
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  Speaker 10: It really could come down to... several different things. In
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  Speaker 10: this case, we'll just use this as an example. This
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  Speaker 10: was a US-based ship that's probably flagged in another country.
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  Speaker 10: So the US has jurisdiction. FBI would handle that for
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  Speaker 10: the US because they have the primary jurisdiction as the
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  Speaker 10: investigative team. But you also might have it flagged in
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  Speaker 10: a Caribbean nation. So the ship is Officially, it belongs
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  Speaker 10: to them. And then it may be sailing either in
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  Speaker 10: international waters or off of the coast of another country.
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  Speaker 10: So let's say it's in Mexican jurisdictional waters. So now
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  Speaker 10: you have Mexico potentially involved. And then you have a
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  Speaker 10: defendant and a victim who are from two different countries, potentially,
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  Speaker 10: and so their countries could also want to be involved.
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  Speaker 10: So you could have as many as four or five
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  Speaker 10: different countries looking to handle this case or to investigate
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  Speaker 10: this case. Now, there are protocols in place, treaties that
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  Speaker 10: have been tried and true over the years, but it
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  Speaker 10: still does come down sometimes to where the boat is.
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  Speaker 10: At the time, in this case, the ship sailed back
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  Speaker 10: into U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Waters.
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  Speaker 10: So immediately, FBI, Coast Guard, local law enforcement went on
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  Speaker 10: board and did the investigation. But if the ship had
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  Speaker 10: been in Mexican waters, that probably would not have been
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  Speaker 10: able to occur. And the Mexican authorities would have been
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  Speaker 10: doing the investigation.
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  Speaker 4: That's so interesting because, you know, you hear about crimes
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  Speaker 4: happening there. in international waters, and these types of questions
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  Speaker 4: come up a lot, who's in charge of these types
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  Speaker 4: of investigations? I've been on many cruise ships and there
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  Speaker 4: are thousands of people on these ships. There are many
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  Speaker 4: floating cities, including crew members and passengers. How difficult is
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  Speaker 4: it to secure a crime scene and preserve evidence while
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  Speaker 4: the ship is still at sea?
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  Speaker 10: Well, it really depends where on board and how quickly
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  Speaker 10: it was found. So if it's in a room on
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  Speaker 10: a ship, let's say whether it's a husband and wife
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  Speaker 10: or somebody comes into the room and commits a murder
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: or some other type of heinous crime, they can lock
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  Speaker 10: down that room fairly easily and keep it secure, put
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  Speaker 10: a guard out there. Most of these ships have brigs
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  Speaker 10: on board, and so you can take a person who's
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  Speaker 10: a subject and basically place them under arrest and have
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  Speaker 10: them kept away from all the other passengers. So that
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  Speaker 10: can be done. It becomes more of a problem when
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  Speaker 10: either it's out in the main area where many of
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  Speaker 10: the customers and passengers would be walking past, or being
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  Speaker 10: that it's on a ship, if somebody falls overboard and
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  Speaker 10: is believed to be criminal, that somebody had pushed somebody
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: or something else and caused the person to fall overboard.
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  Speaker 10: That is almost impossible to keep that scene, of course,
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  Speaker 10: because the body's not on board anymore and too many
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  Speaker 10: people have now walked back and forth. Again, it is doable,
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  Speaker 10: but it does make it does put in certain problems
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  Speaker 10: that you normally don't have when you just, you know,
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  Speaker 10: on land.
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  Speaker 4: So bigger picture here, do you think there's gaps in
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  Speaker 4: international maritime law that make it easier for criminals to
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  Speaker 4: escape prosecution when crimes happen at sea?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know if there are gaps. I think the
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  Speaker 10: issues do come up if somebody does this on the
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  Speaker 10: high seas and then is able to get to a
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  Speaker 10: third country. That's where I think you might have issues
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  Speaker 10: about how do you identify where the crime actually occurred,
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  Speaker 10: now who has jurisdiction, if the person can be extradited,
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  Speaker 10: all those type of issues. Um, you know, on the
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  Speaker 10: high seas, it's, it's fairly, um, I wouldn't say regular
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  Speaker 10: or common for these investigations to take place, but it
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  Speaker 10: is easier if it's off the coast of the U
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  Speaker 10: S coast of Mexico. You know, uh, the, the, I
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  Speaker 10: think you have more of an issue is if you're crossing,
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: you know, the Pacific or you're crossing the Atlantic and
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: then a crime happens in the middle of, you Then
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  Speaker 10: then it does come down to basically who gets to
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  Speaker 10: that person first, you know, based upon the laws of
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: the sea.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Rich Frankel, this is an interesting story and
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  Speaker 4: it will be really one to watch for sure to
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  Speaker 4: see how it all plays out. So thank you so
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  Speaker 4: much for your time and your insights this morning.
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
• 38:11
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• 38:15
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• 38:18
  Speaker 9: One more round of high tides. SoCal's current coastal flood
• 38:21
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• 38:23
  Speaker 7: Beaches in L.A.
• 38:24
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• 38:27
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• 38:35
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• 38:42
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• 38:44
  Speaker 4: A woman incarcerated for carjacking has walked away from an L.A.
• 38:48
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• 38:52
  Speaker 4: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says she took
• 38:55
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• 38:59
  Speaker 4: and hasn't been seen since. The woman was convicted in
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: San Diego County in 2025 and sentenced to six years
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: in prison for carjacking as a second offender. AI giant
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Anthropic is still moving ahead with plans to become a
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: publicly traded company.
• 39:13
  Speaker 15: According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic is planning to
• 39:16
  Speaker 15: set its value range this week and begin trading publicly
• 39:20
  Speaker 15: late next week. After recent market turmoil in the tech sector,
• 39:23
  Speaker 15: some investors think the company will be valued well below
• 39:26
  Speaker 15: $ 1. 5 trillion when earlier estimates were closer to $ 2 trillion. Meanwhile,
• 39:32
  Speaker 15: the company is releasing two new AI models, which Anthropic
• 39:36
  Speaker 15: says are 30% faster and 20% less expensive. Rory O'Neill,
• 39:41
  Speaker 15: KFI News.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: All right, we are almost done with Wake Up Call,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: the Heather Brooker edition. Amy King will be back tomorrow.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: I've always appreciate spending time with you guys. And I
• 39:51
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• 39:54
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• 39:57
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• 40:00
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• 40:03
  Speaker 4: And we have been listening to you guys. I've been
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: taking your talk backs about how should I celebrate my birthday?
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: Now that my days of thinking I was cool are
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: long behind me, spending my birthday with my kids at Disneyland?
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: is the best kind of birthday for me. And I
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: just turned 60 today.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Whoa.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: Holy smokes, I'm old.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Happy birthday, fellow Scorpio. And also Bill Handel. I don't
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: know if Bill would, I don't know if he did
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: his birthday at Disneyland. He did something at Disneyland recently
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: with his kids. So I love going.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: To Disneyland with my daughter and my family as well.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: So happy birthday.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Heather, this is Scott from Rancho Cucamonga.
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: Hello, Scott.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: You know what? I think you should probably go to
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: McDonald's and get that McRib. Oh, no. And then you'll
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: have more money to go buy yourself some nice clothes.
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: What else you would like?
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: No, wait a minute. What do you think? You're on
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: to something.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Love your show.
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  Speaker 8: Bye.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Oh, I love that. That's a great suggestion, Scott.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: For my birthday. I hike Mount Baldy.
• 41:06
  Speaker 16: I turned 64 this year.
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  Speaker 3: Still going strong. Happy birthday.
• 41:09
  Speaker 16: After my hike, I went out to dinner with my
• 41:11
  Speaker 16: sister in Orange County.
• 41:12
  Speaker 17: Woo-hoo.
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  Speaker 6: Woo-hoo.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: We love that. Orange County. I love that. Here's another
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: one for her.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Heather.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: Happy birthday.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: One of my favorite places to go would probably be
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown.
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  Speaker 7: They got excellent food, live bands.
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  Speaker 11: But you got to reserve a seat early because it
• 41:33
  Speaker 11: gets busy really fast.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: But I highly recommend it.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: Really good food.
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  Speaker 2: Can't complain.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I wonder what kind of food they have. Happy birthday.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Like, Pappy and Harry, it sounds like they would have
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: like a chicken fried steak. That sounds really good.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: And then we got to do this one. Good morning, Heather.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Make sure to tell every Marine out.
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  Speaker 5: There happy birthday.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: It is the Marine Corps birthday today.
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: Happy birthday to all my Marine brothers and sisters.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: And yeah, 251 today.
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: Lots of arthritis.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: I always love spending time with you on Wake Up Call.
• 42:12
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• 42:14
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• 42:18
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• 42:21
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