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Healthcare Subsidies Passes House Vote | California Sues Trump Admin… Again · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration, and we're going to be talking about
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  Speaker 2: that big time. Well, here is a new one that
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  Speaker 2: just came down the House passed. Oh do I get
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  Speaker 2: the wrong one here? Yeah, yeah, we'll do that later on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. This has to do with what happened yesterday
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the healthcare subsidies. As you know Obamacare,
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  Speaker 2: it allows for extended tax credits.
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  Speaker 1: This is what Biden put into place as.
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  Speaker 2: A result of the pandemic helping people who heretofore didn't
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  Speaker 2: have medical insurance all of a sudden have medical insurance,
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  Speaker 2: like twenty million people. Well, it's sunseted January first or
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  Speaker 2: December thirty one. Done, and there has been a fight
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  Speaker 2: like crazy to extend that. Now, keep in mind, the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans have fought Obamacare and every aspect of Obamacare since the.
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  Speaker 1: Day it was passed.
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  Speaker 2: Bill after bill, I think there's sixty or seventy bills
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  Speaker 2: were introduced to kill Obamacare, and of course the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: kept on saying, it's terrible, horrible, it's horrible, it's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: And then the question is, well, do you have to
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  Speaker 2: anything to replace it? No, but as terrible, as horrible,
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  Speaker 2: as god awful.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So with that in mind, now came the issue of
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  Speaker 2: the end of the subsidies allowing twenty some oni million
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  Speaker 2: people to have insurance or could afford insurance under Obamacare
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  Speaker 2: because of the subsidies, and the Republicans said, nope, absolutely not,
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  Speaker 2: and so something and there was no way it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be coming to the floor. There was no
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  Speaker 2: way a vote was going to be put on the
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  Speaker 2: floor because it's a Republican speaker Mike Johnson, who controls that.
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  Speaker 1: He's the one that controls what vote takes place.
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  Speaker 2: Unless something called a discharge petition is voted into place,
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  Speaker 2: which unlocks debate bypasses the speaker and goes on to
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  Speaker 2: the floor for a vote. Well, that discharge petition was
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  Speaker 2: voted on, and it won just by a few I
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  Speaker 2: think there were five Republicans that jumped to the other side,
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  Speaker 2: and Trump immediately went nuts and said, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the set in the House anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make sure that they're primaried out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't go against the president, which is
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  Speaker 2: why so many Republicans are scared to.
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  Speaker 1: Death to say anything against the president.
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  Speaker 2: So what ended up happening It is it's passed two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty to one ninety six to extend those
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  Speaker 2: affordable care subsidies for three years. Seventeen Republicans jumped, defied
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  Speaker 2: leadership and joined the Democrats on this one. This is
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  Speaker 2: what the Democrats did. I have to have a funding bill,
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't have it. We had the biggest stoppage,
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  Speaker 2: the longest stoppage in the history United States in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the government shutting down.
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  Speaker 1: It was over this issue.
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  Speaker 2: It was over the subsidies under Obamacare. Thirty eight days
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  Speaker 2: and what the what Congress wanted to do with the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats say, let's extend this thing for three years while
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  Speaker 2: we work out what's going on. Well, in the end,
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  Speaker 2: what happened. The Democrats caved, Donald Trump won, and the
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  Speaker 2: extension did happen. But the extension only happened till the
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  Speaker 2: end of January. And in the middle of all that,
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  Speaker 2: the promise was made to the Democrats that we will
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  Speaker 2: talk about extending. Well they weren't talking about extending. That
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  Speaker 2: just was a non starter. Why because well, everybody lies
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  Speaker 2: to everybody, and so whoever promises one thing, it just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen. And welcome to Congress, and so fine. So
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  Speaker 2: now this thing ends December thirty one, the extended subsidies,
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, twenty million people are looking
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  Speaker 2: at not having medical insurance under Obamacare. Now you may
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  Speaker 2: think it's horrible, and a lot of people do. And
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of holes to be plugged, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree. There are a lot of problems with it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's insurance versus not having Obamacare, where it's zero
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  Speaker 2: insurance without these subsidies, and that's over twenty million people
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  Speaker 2: that are affected. So the Democrats are saying, we need
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  Speaker 2: those three years. The Republicans under Johnson say no, we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to give.
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  Speaker 1: Them to you.
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  Speaker 2: So the discharge petition is voted on with five Republicans
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  Speaker 2: jumping ship, and the House passed the bill to extend
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  Speaker 2: by two thirty to one ninety six, with seventeen Republicans
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  Speaker 2: jumping over to the under side to join the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: And it all has to do with affordability. The President
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  Speaker 2: has a real interesting issue here because Congress has passed
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  Speaker 2: the bill. The Senate it has failed even though this
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  Speaker 2: bill has been introduced in the Senate. But they are
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  Speaker 2: now senators and congress people who are sitting down and
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  Speaker 2: trying to come up with some reconciliation. Both the House
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  Speaker 2: and the Senate have to pass the same bill before
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  Speaker 2: it goes forward for signature by the President, and they're
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  Speaker 2: now trying to come to some reconciliation. And that's usually
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  Speaker 2: what happens. You have a House bill, you have a
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  Speaker 2: Senate bill. The Senate puts three four or five people
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  Speaker 2: into a room, the Democrats. The House puts three four
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  Speaker 2: or five people into a room on both sides of
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  Speaker 2: the aisle, and everybody sits down, thrashes out a bill,
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  Speaker 2: compromises here, pushes there, and finally a bill is put
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  Speaker 2: through and the president signs it. Well, that's happening right
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  Speaker 2: now before the Senate votes, and then it goes to
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  Speaker 2: the president. Assuming that the bill goes through, don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it's up in the air as far as the Senate
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  Speaker 2: is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Now what does the president do? I think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to veto it.
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  Speaker 2: And there's three things that the president can do is
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  Speaker 2: sign it, veto it, or just let it sit there
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  Speaker 2: for ten days and do nothing and it becomes law.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the easiest way because it quietly becomes law.
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  Speaker 2: The president is involved. There are no press conferences, there
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  Speaker 2: are no table set up where his signature is put
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  Speaker 2: on a piece of paper, a directive with everybody behind
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  Speaker 2: the president, those people that are in favor of the
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  Speaker 2: bill being signed, and then the president hands out the pens.
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  Speaker 2: I've often went hands out like thirty pins. I've often wondered,
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  Speaker 2: how do you sign something with thirty pens? I don't
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  Speaker 2: get that, but that's what normally happens. You'll see one
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  Speaker 2: of the most infamous ones, or one of the most
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  Speaker 2: famous ones, is President Johnson handing the pen to Martin
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  Speaker 2: Luther King when the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act
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  Speaker 2: was passed, And there's an iconic photo of the President
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  Speaker 2: handing Martin Luther King that pen. So we're seeing what's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. But this is very rare. What does
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  Speaker 2: this mean? That means they're cracks starting to happen, that
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  Speaker 2: there are now a few Republicans who are who are
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  Speaker 2: who are vulnerable. Okay, let's just say they're those who
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  Speaker 2: have to resign. There's no issue, they don't care. But
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  Speaker 2: there are a few Republicans who are in district swing
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  Speaker 2: districts that are vulnerable can be voted out. And all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, you know, backing up the President when
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  Speaker 2: he says affordability is a hoax, is a Democrat hoax,
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden you have a Republican congress
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  Speaker 2: person nods his head and goes, that's right, that's right,
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  Speaker 2: it's a hoax. It's a hoax. The President says it's
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  Speaker 2: a hoax, therefore it's a hoax. Well, you're telling that
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  Speaker 2: to people who constituents w or have a hard time
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  Speaker 2: making the rent, whor have a hard time buying groceries,
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  Speaker 2: who have to decide do we buy medicine or do
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  Speaker 2: we buy groceries. And you have a Republican in this case,
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  Speaker 2: Republican congress person parroting it's a hoax.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hoax. Well it's not. And the president is
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  Speaker 1: moving away from that by the way.
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  Speaker 2: He has gone from it's a Democrat hoax to now
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  Speaker 2: he is the affordability president.
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  Speaker 1: Eh, we'll see what happens. Anyways, that's what happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to share that with you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, maybe I got that one wrong, but let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you one that I think I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: right or at least explain what's going on. And this
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  Speaker 2: has to do with the Ice shooting of that thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven year old woman. It happened a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: So whenever there is an officer involved shooting, particularly when
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  Speaker 2: there is a death involved, particularly there is an investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the police investigation happens. So this was a
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  Speaker 2: federal officer, an ice agent, who shot this woman. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into the particulars as to
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  Speaker 2: was the agent was it justified shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Was he in fact in.
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  Speaker 2: Danger of being run over and therefore it was self defense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've gone through that. You probably have seen
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  Speaker 2: the video, and there is a slight argument that it
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  Speaker 2: was self defense. Not much of one in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: because as you know, Good turned right there, she is
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  Speaker 2: in her SUV. The police officers, the ICE agents go
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  Speaker 2: up to her as they're talking to her in hand
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  Speaker 2: on the door. Right, the Asian has a hand on
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  Speaker 2: the door. She is backing up and appears to be
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  Speaker 2: turning away from the agent who was on her left
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  Speaker 2: side fender area, and then the agent shot a few
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  Speaker 2: times and killed her, shot her in the head. So
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  Speaker 2: that issue, whether or not that was justified or not,
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  Speaker 2: is one aspect of this case.
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  Speaker 1: Another one is the jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 2: You heard Vance say yesterday that the ICE agent has
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  Speaker 2: total immunity, can't even be tried by the state of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Now, originally it was announced that it.
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  Speaker 2: Was going to be a joint investigation by the state,
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  Speaker 2: the BCA of the State of Minnesota, that's their investigative arm,
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension with the FBI well
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  Speaker 2: and the government.
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  Speaker 1: US government said yeah, that's what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the FBI soon reversed course and almost immediately now
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  Speaker 2: the state's not getting involved. This is simply an FBI issue.
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  Speaker 2: Will do our own investigating? What investigation? Because Christinome within
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  Speaker 2: minutes after the shooting was announced, straight out and maybe
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  Speaker 2: even before she saw the video, for all I know,
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  Speaker 2: said this was self defense, this was a justified shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Conversation over Vance said the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: The President posts that it was defensible, and so the
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  Speaker 2: government has already made his decision. There is no investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Now the FBI is still there. But you tell me
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  Speaker 2: what kind of investigation? What kind of conclusion the FBI
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  Speaker 2: is going to have after the Department of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 2: of which the FBI is under, the president and the
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  Speaker 2: Vice president all saying this was a justifiable shooting, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think the conclusions are going to be? So
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  Speaker 2: with that, where is the investigation? Where is the jurisdiction?
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  Speaker 2: Because it was a federal agent, does the State of
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota have the right to investigate and try and adjudicate
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  Speaker 2: adjudicate the issue of whether the agent was this was
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  Speaker 2: self defense or not. And it gets a little complicated
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  Speaker 2: because it's not that easy.
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  Speaker 1: What ends up happening on Renee.
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  Speaker 2: Nicole Macklin Good was shot killed by the ice officer.
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  Speaker 2: The analysis by The New York Times of the videos
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  Speaker 2: found that the footage contradicted what the Trump administration's account
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  Speaker 2: was of the shooting defense versus not defense move.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so here's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Van says, you have federal law enforcement official engaging in
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  Speaker 2: a federal law enforcement action that's a federal issue. The
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  Speaker 2: police officer, the I Sation is protected by absolute immunity.
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  Speaker 1: He is doing his job.
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  Speaker 2: And the idea that Tim Wilson a bunch of radicals
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  Speaker 2: in Minneapolis is always radicals, the left wing radical wackos.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that Waltz and a bunch of radicals are
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  Speaker 2: going to go after this guy and make his life
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  Speaker 2: miserable is preposterous. And Walts Democratic governor, demanded that the
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  Speaker 2: state investigators be allowed to participate in the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Is a joint investigation? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because, yeah, it's a federal officer. But the shooting occurred
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  Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. And the issue is does the federal law
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  Speaker 2: does the investigation by federal authorities supersed anything the state
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  Speaker 2: is doing. Usually under these circumstances as a joint investigation
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  Speaker 2: and federal officers can be charged because a crime was
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  Speaker 2: committed or a crime is presumed to have been committed
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  Speaker 2: on Minnesota Minnesota soil. And quite often you know that
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  Speaker 2: there are cases that are brought up that either the
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  Speaker 2: state or the Feds can charge, and usually one or
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  Speaker 2: the other agrees. Now, there as certain cases that can
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  Speaker 2: only be charged federally, and that is a crime committed
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  Speaker 2: on federal land parks for example, federal parks, well, the
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  Speaker 2: state has absolutely no jurisdiction there.
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  Speaker 1: But this was not in a federal park. This was
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  Speaker 1: just the public street. And so what happens.
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  Speaker 2: What's going to happen, My guess is the Feds are
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  Speaker 2: going to prevail on this one because under the Supremacy
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  Speaker 2: Clause of the United States, federal law supersedes state law. However,
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  Speaker 2: this is a jurisdictional issue, and it's going to take
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  Speaker 2: a judge to determine whether it is whether Minnesota should
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  Speaker 2: engage in this or can even try the ice agent.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know, but it's going to take a federal
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  Speaker 2: judge to make that decision. And up to this point,
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  Speaker 2: federal judges usually go on behalf of the Feds. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, when I say a federal judge, federal judge
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  Speaker 2: is not under the auspices of the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: That's an independent agency.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about the court system, the judiciary, which is
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  Speaker 2: separate than the executive, which is separate than the legislative.
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  Speaker 1: Although of these days it's kind of all mixed up,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. As we know, so what are we going
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  Speaker 1: to see. You're going to see a fight.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to see a fight where the state is
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  Speaker 2: determining and saying, hey, listen, we have jurisdiction here. We
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  Speaker 2: should have the ability to investigate. The Feds are saying no,
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  Speaker 2: you don't. By the way, as a practical course, the
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  Speaker 2: Feds have shut out the state.
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  Speaker 1: They will not produce.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI came in almost immediately and gathered evidence, talk
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  Speaker 2: to witnesses, and will not share any of that with
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  Speaker 2: the state Minnesota. And so the head of the BCA,
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  Speaker 2: the investigative arm of Minnesota, the Minnesota Bureau of the
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  Speaker 2: Criminal Apprehension, has said we're done. We have no information,
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  Speaker 2: we have no evidence, we have no witness statements. That's
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  Speaker 2: all been done by the FBI and the GRAB it
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  Speaker 2: all and will not turn it over. So as a
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  Speaker 2: practical measure, is there going to be a Minnesota state investigation? No?
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  Speaker 2: Not really, why because you know, at this point the
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  Speaker 2: Feds just don't pay attention. You know, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: situation with a federal government that believes it is far
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  Speaker 2: reaching to the point where it overrides anything Congress says,
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  Speaker 2: overrides anything the judiciary says.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to America. All right.
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  Speaker 2: The jobs report just came out this morning at five
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  Speaker 2: point thirty on at our time, and this is really
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  Speaker 2: important stuff when the federal jobs report comes out because
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  Speaker 2: so much of the economy is predicated on that report,
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  Speaker 2: and so this gets it was okay, real quickly, fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand jobs radded in December.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's not bad. That's a solid gain for the economy,
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  Speaker 1: but also it ends.
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  Speaker 2: The worst year for the labor market since the pandemic recession.
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  Speaker 2: These numbers are astoundingly wonky how this comes out, and
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  Speaker 2: politics are all through this thing too. So what ends
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  Speaker 2: up happening is they're looking at October and there was
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  Speaker 2: an initial announcement the Fed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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  Speaker 2: comes out and gives you a number and then a
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  Speaker 2: month later, two months later, they start revising it as
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: more numbers come in, and the revisions can be pretty dramatic. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when the numbers are higher than expected, oh boy, the administration,
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  Speaker 2: any administration, by the way, takes credit for it.
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  Speaker 1: And when the numbers are revised lower.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's more information, well, in the case of Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: he's firing everybody in the Labor Statistics says no, we
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  Speaker 2: need better numbers. And it's a Department of Labor Statistics
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  Speaker 2: is an independent or a quasi independent department, which that's
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  Speaker 2: going to disappear very quickly. So the job creation for
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  Speaker 2: October was revised weaker, showing the economy actually lost one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy three thousand jobs that month.
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  Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of.
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  Speaker 2: Federal workers took a deferred resignation package, and November job
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  Speaker 2: creation was revised down slightly. So the economists had estimated
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  Speaker 2: that the employers added seventy three thousand jobs in December.
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  Speaker 2: And so this gets really complicated. I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: to unwank it a little bit because there are so
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  Speaker 2: many factors to this job market. Unemployment rates are all
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  Speaker 2: over the place because there's U two and U three.
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  Speaker 2: For example, people looking for work, people who have dropped
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  Speaker 2: out of the market, who no longer count For example,
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  Speaker 2: if you've been unemployed for a year and you go
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  Speaker 2: I'm done, I'm not I'm going to go back to school,
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  Speaker 2: you're not even counted as unemployed because you've dropped out
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  Speaker 2: of the job market. According to some labor statistics, others
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  Speaker 2: are different. So, for example, here we go in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, the labor market was better than expected even
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  Speaker 2: under Trump administration policies. Tariff and immigration enforcement policies still
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  Speaker 2: going through the economy, but layoffs, which is another statistic,
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  Speaker 2: are now contained, layoffs hitting a seventeen month low in December,
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  Speaker 2: much better than expected. However, it's a lot more difficult
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  Speaker 2: to get a job now. Corporate America is looking to
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  Speaker 2: an extended hiring pause.
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  Speaker 1: And why is that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, AI is stopping Corporate America from hiring people.
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  Speaker 1: It is much harder to.
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  Speaker 2: Get a job, particularly in those sectors in which AI
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  Speaker 2: really is booming, legal sector, the computer sector. Certainly, entry
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: level computer folks just don't get a job. Also, the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Alliance Trade America's economists, and that's one of the big ones,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: said a lot of job openings are ghost openings, which
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: means that they're posted, but they're really not meant to
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: be filled unless an awesome candidate comes along. They're just
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: up there looking for that perfect banner woman who has
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary skills.
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  Speaker 1: This is about a real job opening.
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  Speaker 2: Now, fifty thousand job opening, fifty thousand jobs have actually
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: been increased, have actually now been added to the economy.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Some economists say that it's possible that fifty thousand jobs
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: a month is enough to maintain a healthy labor market.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Others say no, but why.
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  Speaker 2: Net immigration plummeted in twenty twenty five, So if you
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: have fewer people, you really need fewer jobs, and so
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: fifty thousand jobs a month seems to be okay. However,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: corporations are not hiring for the most part. Even though
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: the December numbers seem to be pretty good, they're less
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: than what was expected, which means that the economy is
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: going south, except that it means that it's still healthy
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: because we need fewer jobs out there.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Am I making that clear? That's how crazy this is.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And to look at labor statistics, which are critically important
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: in terms of the way our economy is based. The
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Fed looks at labor statistics when dealing.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: With interest rates.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Corporations look at labor statistics in terms of trying to
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: figure out what's going to happen in the future. And
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: you've got recession issues from the pandemic, you've got AI issues,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: you've got immigration issues.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It's how about jobs under the table?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Where economy is based on the agriculture industry, what's happening
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: now because there are no illegal migrants coming in, which
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: is great unless you happen to be unless you own
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: a farm, unless you're in the construction industry, where so
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: many illegal migrants work and they create a big part
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: of the economy. So what's the bottom line here? You
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: don't know what the hell's going on. And more importantly,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell's going on. But my
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: job is to try to explain to you something that
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell's going on. And even
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: if I did explain it to you appropriately, you still
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: wouldn't know what the hell's going on.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: This is a handle topic. This is what we do
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: every single day.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, Now I talk about this lot, the ongoing fight
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: between the Trump administration and California, and you've got left
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: wing wackos, you know, the radical left versus the crazy right,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the folks that don't believe in the constitution read the
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Trump administration.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Those are the fights going back and forth.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: It is as polarized as you can humanly get one
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: thing about the president. And he has said this, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: we elected him based on this. You say no to me,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I hit you back, or you fight me. You hit
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: me once, I hit you back twice.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: He is not adverse to having a fight.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: He is conservative, actually is more of a populist, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: he certainly aligns himself with the super conservative movement read Maga.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: On the other side, is a super liberal movement read California.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Well, there's the fight now.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: The problem is that when you're dealing with those kinds
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: of fights between the Feds and the states, Feds have
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of power because a lot of federal dollars
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: go into the programs that the states have.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So California just sue the Trump administration. Why is that?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Well, the Trump administration has frozen ten billion dollars in
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: childcare and family assistant not.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: To ten billion dollars.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Now, this is no small amount of change, and the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: lawsuit said that the freeze is based on unsupported allegations
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: of fraud and violates Congress's spending power. That's another fight
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: that the president is having with Congress. The President says,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I have the power, you don't, Congress.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: But Congress says, well, here it is in the constitution.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I have the power.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: And of course there are so many Republicans in Congress
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: they have to agree with the president. Why is that
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Because he has the power to primary them out. He
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: literally can go into a district and say I support
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the opponent of the the city in Congress person, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: in the primary, the city in Congress person is gone.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: The president has that kind of power politically speaking, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: is taking that kind of power judicially speaking or in
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: terms of administratively speaking by saying, unilaterally, without Congress, we're
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: freezing ten billion dollars in childcare and family assistance based
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: on fraud, widespread fraud, and here is and he's done
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: this to other states. And of course the argument this
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: is political, No, it's not, it's all about fraud. Well,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: why is it that only the Democratic cities and the
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Democrat states are getting nailed? Well, because you're the fraudulent ones. Well,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: does that mean that there is no fraud in Republican states,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: there is no fraud in Republican cities. Why aren't you
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: investigating fraud? For example, Letitia James, who is the DA
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: in Manhattan, is being tried and investigated for fraud because
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: she signed a document saying that she lived in one
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: place versus living in another place. She claims that there's
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: no fraud involved, and that's another issue, but the Trump
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: administration is going balls to the wall doing everything it
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: can to put her in prison for this. In the meantime,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: you have well fifteen sixteen hundred, sixteen hundred insurgents who
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: overran the capital arguing to undo the government. We have
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: to take over the government. They all got pardoned. There
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: are billionaires, multi billionaires who have screwed people out of
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: literally hundreds of millions of dollars pardoned. Why Because it's
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: one side believes in what the president says.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: On the other side is on the other side on
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the other side.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: So the argument of polarization and the politicizing of this,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: to me, it's obvious, and to you it has to
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: be obvious. I mean, do you really believe let me
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: ask you a question. Okay, even if you are a
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Trump supporter, okay, And by the way, I have no
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: problem with people being Trump supporters, you know, Conservatives, liberals, Democrats,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: or Republicans. To me, it's all the same. I have
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: voted both ways, I have supported both sides. But my
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: question is, do you really believe that fraud only takes
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: place in democratically led cities and states, that no fraud
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: exists in the Republican states jurisdictions none, and criminal activity,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: strangely enough, only goes against in terms of this level,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: against those that oppose Donald Trump. For example, Mark Kelly,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Senator from Arizona, was one of those five senators who
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: did that videotape saying to the arm services you do.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Not follow illegal acts.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Has to do with the allegation that the president is
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: acting unconstitutionally. Well, Pete Hegseth is now bringing Mark Kelly
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: up and is going to demote him because he is
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: allowed to do that because Mark Kelly is still in
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the reserves, which means he is still under the jurisdiction
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: of the Defense Department, and Pete Headseth is bringing up
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: to demote him and cut his retirement. And let me
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: tell you the defense that Mark Kelly has it's in
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the rules, it's in the code of the Military justice system.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: You can't follow an illegal act or an illegal order. Well,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: heg Seth said that sedition, that's being a traitor. And
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: does he have the right to Does heag Seth have
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: a right to demote Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Well, yeah,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: he has the right. Does it mean anything because the
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: guy's been out of the army the Armed services for years.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: He does have the right, But it has to do
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: with his retirement, his pension. That is where the issue
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: is here. And heg Seth can really screw Mark Kelly
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: and is going to go forward. Now they'll be, of course,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: an appeal and is going to go up and will
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: a court martial effectively be instituted And we'll see which
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: way that goes. But it's this is ten billion dollars, right,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: this is just the start. By the way, We've got
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: more and more and more of these coming in. It's just, uh,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's really tough. It really is tough.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: And I hate this level of politics where it's not
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: only a question of polarization, but it's just it's just cruel.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what it is. It's just cruel. I mean,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: you can argue all you want. These are kids that
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: are eating. That's what this is about, you know, supporting
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: food banks. I mean, that's what this stuff is about.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, at some point, is there some point?
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Probably not. You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show
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