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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640, the Bill Handel Show on
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  Speaker 2: Did you see the video of that neighborhood in New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey where the shark.
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  Speaker 3: Is swimming down the middle of the street?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God, you have to look at that. It's literally
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  Speaker 2: the street is flooded. You have houses on both sides
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  Speaker 2: and there's a shark going down the middle.
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  Speaker 5: It was a small, smooth dogfish shark.
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  Speaker 3: I have never heard it regarded as that.
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  Speaker 4: You can tell because it stops at the fire hydrant
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  Speaker 4: and lifts its fin.
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  Speaker 3: That's actually very funny.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 6: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 6: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it is a Tuesday now, exactly. A Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 2: exactly two weeks before the midterm. A little bit of
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  Speaker 2: political news today, and it's probably going to get more,
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  Speaker 2: and it's getting really interesting. I report a couple things
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  Speaker 2: that happened yesterday, which of course are insane. Some Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration insanity, but I don't even have to tell you
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  Speaker 2: we have Trump administration insanity yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: That's sort of a given.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's do it and say good morning to
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. Mario, you're up here.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, everybody. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: And Mario is still here Tuesday through Friday because he
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  Speaker 2: works on Saturday on the legal show. But as soon
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  Speaker 2: as they realize that Tony basically doesn't know what the
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  Speaker 2: hell he's doing, then they're going to speed this thing
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  Speaker 2: up fairly dramatically.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Tony does a great job. The guy is just
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  Speaker 4: pulled in a thousand directions.
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  Speaker 3: That's true, actually.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got No Monday Mario.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's good. It's a No Monday Mario. I like that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: Mario is soon to be Monday through Friday. And that's Neil.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Neil.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Willie Wolf.
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  Speaker 3: There you are, Amy. Hi. Hi, Will Kohlschreiber. Hey. And Ann,
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  Speaker 3: producer extraordinaire. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody. You know, I told you I'm watching
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  Speaker 2: football games now. So last night, the Commanders-San Francisco game,
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  Speaker 2: Washington-San Francisco, very exciting game.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed it immensely.
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  Speaker 4: Go Niners.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Niners now.
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  Speaker 4: Put some hair on your chest.
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  Speaker 2: 6-0.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. They're 6-0. They're undefeated. Who else is undefeated? Kansas
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  Speaker 3: City is still undefeated. I do believe. And then a
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  Speaker 3: couple of other teams. UCLA. UCLA for college.
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  Speaker 5: Different division.
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  Speaker 2: And I think my high school is undefeated. I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea if that's true or not. I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know if the high school has a team anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: I used to go every Friday, but I was in
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  Speaker 2: marching band where we used to get higher than a kite.
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  Speaker 2: We outdid Stanford marching band. You know how Stanford gets
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  Speaker 2: up there and just goes all over the place and
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  Speaker 2: moves around and dresses in every kind of outfit.
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  Speaker 3: That was us.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Oscar Pistorius still undefeated.
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  Speaker 3: That's not bad either. You know, I've got to tell you,
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  Speaker 3: not bad, Neil.
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  Speaker 4: It's an old reference.
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  Speaker 2: It may be an old reference, but it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: it's not funny. I mean, it's not as if I
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  Speaker 2: don't appreciate jokes told for the second, third, 15th, 18th time.
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  Speaker 4: I know this about you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you have. After 30 years.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: You can only do so much.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: How many hours?
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  Speaker 2: What's 33 years times 20 hours a week? Whatever that
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  Speaker 2: hell is, you're going to repeat some stories once in
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  Speaker 2: a while. Matter of fact, I'm stunned that I don't
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  Speaker 2: repeat every story.
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  Speaker 4: Every once in a while, you surprise me, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I have not heard that.
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  Speaker 3: I know. Isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 4: A chimp, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go figure that one out. Bill, are you teabagging
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  Speaker 3: your eye?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks better, buddy. No, I didn't use a teabag.
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  Speaker 2: I'm using warm compresses.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking it up.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday I had my teeth cleaned and I had the
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  Speaker 2: dentist throw compresses, the warm, hot compresses on my eye
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  Speaker 2: the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't have anything.
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  Speaker 5: You need the tea. You need the acid in the
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  Speaker 5: tea to draw the Stye stuff out.
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  Speaker 4: You got to teabag your eye, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for listening, though.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome. Oh, I listened.
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  Speaker 2: I just didn't pay attention. So what I'm doing today
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  Speaker 2: is I'm going to the doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Did they hurt your mouth? Are you going to teabag
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  Speaker 4: your mouth?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I will ask him for a digital exam, though. And
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  Speaker 2: he'll go, oh, you're here for your eye. I go, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: while I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: All right. The old rotisserie tooth cleaning. Good for you.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: We are, you know, they don't do that anymore. You know, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: you're aware of that.
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  Speaker 4: The digital exam?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They don't do that anymore because it, this Kaiser Foundation, they,
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  Speaker 2: they're all the studies they do found that it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: change anything. Mortality rate doesn't change, which I find very
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  Speaker 2: strange because if you find something, you know what it is,
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  Speaker 2: it's the spongy prostate.
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  Speaker 3: Now let's talk about spongy prostates for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not. 6.07 in the morning, the old spongy prostate stories.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like a new cartoon. Spongy prostate, square pants.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys, let's do it. It is that time.
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  Speaker 2: Handle on the news with Amy, Neil, and me.
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  Speaker 3: Lead story. All right, this is another one. OK, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of politics.
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  Speaker 2: It goes to show you what what is going on
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  Speaker 2: with the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 3: They're just missing the boat.
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  Speaker 2: OK, this one has to do with the allegation that
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  Speaker 2: there is voter fraud, rampant voter fraud. And you've we've
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  Speaker 2: been following the story that the feds have asked to
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  Speaker 2: California to segregate 20,000 votes. to make sure that non-citizens
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  Speaker 2: are not voting. Well, the federal authorities, well, they have
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  Speaker 2: found some, 28 people have been charged across California with
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  Speaker 2: illegally registering to vote. And proof positive, according to the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration, that it is rampant voter fraud all over
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  Speaker 2: the country. Now, 11 of these 28 were arrested yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: 17 will be taken into custody in the near future,
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  Speaker 2: according to the feds. By the way, all of them
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  Speaker 2: were green card holders and are charged with lying about
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  Speaker 2: registering or voting on their naturalization paperwork. And so it's rampant,
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  Speaker 2: rampant fraud that is- Do they deport.
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  Speaker 4: Them at this point?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, they're legally here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they can take away green cards.
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  Speaker 2: Green cards are not, once you're a citizen, you're a citizen,
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  Speaker 2: they can't deport you unless you have fraudulently applied for citizenship.
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  Speaker 2: Then they still can deport you. Yeah, well, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why they did it. I have no idea. You
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  Speaker 2: have to ask 28 people. But as Bonta said, our
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  Speaker 2: attorney general, that's. 0001 of the registered voter. And this
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  Speaker 2: is proof positive. Oh, there was one also. Well, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do the story a little bit later where
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  Speaker 2: the numbers are. It's proof positive. For example, an illegal
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  Speaker 2: alien who has been picked up and committed a murder
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  Speaker 2: was who has been charged proof that the vast majority
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  Speaker 2: or huge numbers of illegal idioms are rapists and murderers.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't fly. Now, here is the difference. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about this again. Here is the problem.
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  Speaker 2: How important is it? that an illegal alien vote, is
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  Speaker 2: that more important than the cost of gas, than the
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  Speaker 2: cost of food, than the cost of housing?
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  Speaker 3: It's far more important to the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 4: The Trump administration has to come to the conclusion that
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  Speaker 4: it's not, California is not voting for idiots. because of
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  Speaker 4: rampant fraud they're voting for idiots because they're idiots because.
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  Speaker 2: They're stupid yeah and what good does it do what
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  Speaker 2: good does it do when you have 28 people been
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  Speaker 2: arrested uh it changes absolutely nothing it is not rampant
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  Speaker 2: fraud uh you cannot say you know you have a
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  Speaker 2: town of a hundred thousand people two people have been
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  Speaker 2: diagnosed with cancer therefore they're It's rampant cancer in the town.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the analogy. Yeah, I think that works,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So anyway, they're just the optics are terrible.
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  Speaker 2: And this is panning out to be absolutely horrible for
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  Speaker 2: the vote coming up.
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  Speaker 4: It's he's causing fear so that people that are illegal
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  Speaker 4: don't vote. That's what he does.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but how many people who are illegal do vote anyway?
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  Speaker 2: The numbers are minuscule that they have absolutely no influence. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's move on because I'm going to do that at
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  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to stay, eh? Voters in Alberta decided that
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  Speaker 5: they're going to stay part of Canada. With just a
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  Speaker 5: third of the votes counted by a 75 to 25
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  Speaker 5: percent margin, roughly, voters are choosing to remain part of
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  Speaker 5: Canada and not separate from the country. Prime Minister Mark
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  Speaker 5: Carney welcomed the result. He says Albertans chose Canada. All
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  Speaker 5: Canadians will move forward together with renewed purpose and high ambition.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if Alberta does succeed?
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  Speaker 3: Now you have Canada, Alberta. Canada.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Gaza and the West Bank. If you look
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  Speaker 2: at Palestine being a country, which it should be and
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  Speaker 2: will be at some point, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Gaza, then Israel, then the West Bank. How do you
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  Speaker 3: run a country like that where it's not contiguous? So
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  Speaker 3: go figure.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we've been like that before.
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  Speaker 3: We were that way. No, we were never that way.
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  Speaker 2: We, what happened was we were, you're talking about early days.
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  Speaker 2: We were the United States or America, yeah, the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And then, uh, At the border of the United States
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  Speaker 2: was the French territories, but we never had states.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, we did. We had territories, though, between them. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you're right. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Not particularly governed, by the way. It wasn't legitimate,
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  Speaker 2: huge governments. It was just crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. But I think, you know, your point is—
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  Speaker 3: We call that Alabama.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but right now you have to go through Canada
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  Speaker 5: to get to Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, that's also true. So we do have, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's true. That's true. Okay, guys, uh, here's the next, uh, rule. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and I write this down.
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  Speaker 3: Do not ever correct me. All right.
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  Speaker 2: That is not part and parcel of this show. We
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  Speaker 2: do not do that. Even though you are right. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: that is off the table. One more before we take
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  Speaker 2: a break, uh, Neil.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Chris, uh, Christiane Amanpour announced that she's going
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  Speaker 4: to be leaving CNN next June. So we won't be
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  Speaker 4: able to hear her say Kuala Lumpur. Anymore, which will
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  Speaker 4: be sad.
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  Speaker 3: I love her. She is a terrific journalist. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: one of the best.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's one of those that you look up to
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  Speaker 4: and that seems solid. 44 years. She's the chief international anchor.
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  Speaker 4: But she's going to sign off after 43 fantastic years.
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  Speaker 2: Kuala Lumpur. And she speaks several languages. I mean, she's
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  Speaker 2: one sharp, sharp lady. All right. Now we'll take a
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  Speaker 2: break and we will come back and continue on with
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  Speaker 2: more Handel on the News.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Let's return to Handel on the News with Amy, Neal
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  Speaker 2: and me.
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  Speaker 5: The judge comes out swinging, swinging about a golf course.
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  Speaker 5: East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C. There was a
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  Speaker 5: hearing held about the fate of the golf course. And
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  Speaker 5: a federal judge went to extraordinary lengths to try to
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  Speaker 5: figure out who's been responsible for making decisions about the
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  Speaker 5: property and And whether plans to overhaul this city golf
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  Speaker 5: course have been kept from the court.
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  Speaker 2: This is another one where optics just are just off
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  Speaker 2: the table or bad optics are on the table. So
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  Speaker 2: the president is obsessed with this golf course. It's a
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  Speaker 2: city golf course that he wants to make into a
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  Speaker 2: professional golf course.
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  Speaker 5: It would still be a city golf course, though.
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  Speaker 3: But he, a.
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  Speaker 2: Professional like, yes, it would be an upscale golf course.
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  Speaker 2: And so there are lawsuits that have been filed. So
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  Speaker 2: the court said, hold off until I, until you notify everybody.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, 400 trees are torn down and the
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  Speaker 2: judge is not very happy about that. And what the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration has a want to do is it goes
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  Speaker 2: forward with these construction jobs. People go to court and
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  Speaker 2: by the time a judge makes a decision, the job
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  Speaker 2: is three quarters done. And the Trump administration's position is
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  Speaker 2: we're already half built.
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  Speaker 3: We're already three quarters built.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, and this was reported, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: been repeated, but I think it was one of the
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  Speaker 2: majors reported that one of the arguments, one of the
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  Speaker 2: arguments made in front of the judge regarding those 400
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  Speaker 2: trees being torn out in a matter of two days,
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  Speaker 2: it was normal maintenance for the course.
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  Speaker 3: You know, what do you do with that? What do
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  Speaker 3: you do with that?
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  Speaker 2: Normal maintenance tearing out 400 trees. So anyway, here are
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  Speaker 2: the options. He's very much asked for forgiveness, not for permission, Guy.
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  Speaker 2: It is not even forgiveness. It's just it's too late.
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  Speaker 2: We've delayed it. Now it's too late to stop. And again,
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  Speaker 2: here's the problem. Not so much that issue. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the court's going to decide, which is fine. That's legitimate.
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  Speaker 2: It's where the optics are. Look where the president is concentrating.
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  Speaker 2: Look where he is concentrating on. Hey, we're having a
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  Speaker 2: hard time making ends meet. And you're sitting there talking
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  Speaker 2: about golf courses. That is, I think, a huge problem.
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  Speaker 2: And the midterms are going to point that out.
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  Speaker 4: Withdrawing aid from the West Bank. See what I did there, Amy?
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  Speaker 4: Bank withdrawal.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: We can all do it, sister. The United Nations has
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  Speaker 4: cut food assistance, this actually is quite horrible, to 500,000
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  Speaker 4: Palestinians in Gaza, 200,000 in the West Bank. Funding shortage,
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  Speaker 4: of course, said the UN and the food agency there.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what it comes down to because the money
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  Speaker 4: shortage number of people receiving assistance was reduced this month.
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  Speaker 4: How do you even do that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because the United States decides, and I think it's
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. for the most part, that no more money
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  Speaker 2: is going to go to the food program.
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  Speaker 4: No, I understand that. I'm just saying, how do you feed–
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  Speaker 4: you're just going to start riots and.
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  Speaker 2: They're able to feed them. It's just a question of distribution.
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  Speaker 2: There's plenty of food out there. That's the shame of
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  Speaker 2: it all. There's enough food in the world to feed everybody.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is the distribution. It's distribution and food being.
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  Speaker 3: Used as a method of war, fighting war.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying if you had 10 people and you
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  Speaker 4: feed five of them, there's going to be problems.
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  Speaker 3: Well, not if Hamas controls what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Hamas will beat themselves because they don't give a rat's ass.
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  Speaker 3: Of course not.
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  Speaker 5: UN teams say they've had 50 attacks per day in
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  Speaker 5: the last week.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And here is something. This is where I give Netanyahu
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  Speaker 2: a lot of credit. He's not even pretending that he
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  Speaker 2: cares about the Palestinians. Hey, let him starve. It's pretty brutal.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. And 80% or 90% live off of aid.
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  Speaker 2: There is no infrastructure in Gaza or the West Bank.
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  Speaker 3: None. It doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: Gaza doesn't have anything anymore. 80% of the buildings are
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  Speaker 2: gone in Gaza. People live in tents. And the only
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  Speaker 2: way they can live is on humanitarian aid. And Israel
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  Speaker 2: is stopping a lot of that from coming in, the
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  Speaker 2: vast majority coming in. And the United States is complicit
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  Speaker 2: with that. And it's horrific. It is absolutely horrific what's
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  Speaker 2: going on.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Wiley's been around for a while. Wildlife officials, as
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  Speaker 5: you'll recall, euthanized a coyote after it attacked a 16-month-old
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  Speaker 5: child in Atwater Village. The coyote got into the backyard,
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  Speaker 5: bit the kid, and then apparently chased the kid and
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  Speaker 5: the mom back into their house before he left. And
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  Speaker 5: then they tracked down the coyote a little bit later
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  Speaker 5: and euthanized it. People in the neighborhood say that coyote
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  Speaker 5: At least the one they believe was involved had been
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  Speaker 5: a nuisance since at least January when they say somebody
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  Speaker 5: in the neighborhood started feeding it.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, it's our neighbor's dog. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: You can't go next door, grab the dog and feed
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  Speaker 2: it to a coyote. Let the coyote live. Kill the
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  Speaker 2: person that is feeding it. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: L.A.
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  Speaker 3: DWP.
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  Speaker 4: Man uh what is referred to as unbelievable outrageous downright
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  Speaker 4: insane is what we as Angelenos are describing their recent
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: uh LADWP bills long hot summer you've got the air
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: conditioning on you're using water whatever it is um already
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: struggling and now everything else comes back at you. So
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: not only jumping hundreds, some people it's jumping thousands of
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: dollars and it's becoming a big, big issue along with
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: everything else in the LA mayoral race.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, add that to affordability.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: By the way, on John Kobelt today, the big show
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: with Mayor Bass.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: The big showdown.
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  Speaker 2: What John ought to do is turn off the lights
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  Speaker 2: and do it in the dark.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Well, to prove that there is a Department of Water
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and Power issue.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: No water for anybody, no air conditioning.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Well, Mayor Bass, would you like to comment on the
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: fact there's no lights and the drinking fountain has run dry?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: My DWP bill was $ 2, 400 this month. That's insanity. How
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: does that happen? I don't know. Something is wrong. Yes,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: two months.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Still, $ 1, 200 a month.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: It's crazy. Absolutely crazy.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: DWP had a problem, if you remember, a few years
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: ago where there were glitches in the system where it was–
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: charging people insane amounts of money.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: This may not be glitches. This may be what is
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: being used.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Now, electricity is a great deal in Southern California, particularly
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the Department of Water and Power, DWP.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: We have a good deal on electricity.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: The water is something else, and the sewage charges are
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: something else. Water is a very scarce resource, and something's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: got to give.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: We're no longer in a drought. What's going on? Oh, yeah,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: we're in drought. No, we are not in a drought.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: We are in drought. Look at the Colorado River.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Look at the reservoirs.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Come on, Bill.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Go swimming in Lake Powell. Go swimming in Lake Powell,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and you're going to be up to your ankles in mud.
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  Speaker 4: We are not in a drought.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Come on, Bill.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, got it. All right, I got it. I got
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the sarcasm.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Finally.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Finally, I got it. Thank you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: It's not sarcasm. We're not in a drought.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, we're coming back, though. We will return.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: The midterms are coming up and then starting at seven
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: o'clock this morning, I'm going to do a spin on that.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: But first, let's return to Handel on the news with Amy,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Neil and me.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Kind of reminds me of a Blondie song, Heart of Glass.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: You know, mutual mistrust lost all behind. Steve Witkoff and
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Jared Kushner. are soon going to be meeting with Ukraine's
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Volodymyr Zelensky as the relationship between Ukraine and the U.S.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: faces increasing strain over intelligence sharing sanctions, Ukrainian attacks on
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Russian energy. And the path to peace. Trump, the president,
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: on Monday accused Zelensky of not knowing what he was
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: talking about and suggested that it was time for someone
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine. Over the weekend,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Kiev launched one of its biggest drone attacks this year
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: on Russia and hit a key oil terminal. Of course,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: that's what President Trump doesn't want him to do. Russia,
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: of course, continues to pound the crap out of Ukraine.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Now, here's crazy. What did the president say yesterday?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: It's Zelensky is the one that wants the war and
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: never intended not to stop the war.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Russia is doing fine. That's a quote.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: It's Russia that is the defendant here. Ukraine is kicking
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: the crap out of Russia, even though civilians are dying
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: like crazy. He's chosen Putin. Trump is right out there,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: chosen Putin over Zelensky, straight out. And even Republicans are
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: upset about this. Not enough of them. Most Republicans just
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: shut up. It just shuts up because all of a
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: sudden— remember in that movie 1984, the book 1984— You wake
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: up in the morning and your enemy is now your friend.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: And then two weeks later, everything switches around and your
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: friend now becomes your ally or your enemy becomes your
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: ally again. That's what's happening here is that Trump, as
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: of yesterday, said Zelensky is the bad guy. He's the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: one that wants to continue with the war. Putin wants
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: to stop the war. Where do you go with that?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And then you have most Republicans are just lined up.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: President's right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: The president's right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: And if it goes the other way, yep, the president's right.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: It is crazy and it's heartbreaking is what it is.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: It is absolutely heartbreaking. Zelensky doesn't want to stop the war.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: All Zelensky wants to do is keep Ukraine, keep his
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: country intact.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: But he's wrong. When I heard this news, it's literally heartbreaking.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: It really is. The photographer with the Washington Post who
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: was attacked by Jewish settlers there in the occupied West Bank.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: was attacked so badly that several vertebrae were broken. She
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: increasingly got angry that Israel's military seems to protect settlers
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: more than the Palestinians they threaten. And this was an
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: attack on Heidi Levine. What's that, an Irish last name?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And Palestinians during this sensitive olive harvest that they have,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: followed a day later by an attack on European diplomats
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: in a Christian village there. Rampant settler violence.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. And she's right. The military of Israel backs
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: up the settlers.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Illegal settlements in which the settlers are beating up.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: The citizens beating.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: The residents of these here before Palestinian towns and the
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: government of Israel just backs them up. The military just
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: absolutely backs them up. As I said, it's horrific what's
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: going on over there. I think we can do one more.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: We got a trading trouble, a lot of trading trouble.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Thieves have made off with nearly a million dollars in sports,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Pokemon and other trading cards. They were taken from a
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: FedEx truck in Southern California. The theft included two pallets
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: full of cards, and then they also got into a
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: third pallet, apparently. Professional Sports Authenticator in the city of
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Santa Ana is who they were stolen from. The authenticator
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: says it can sell customers cards online for a percentage
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: of the selling price and turn cards into currency. They
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: say this could be one of the biggest trading card
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: heists in history.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Yep, it's the old 19, what is it, 1990, I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: having a hard time saying, 1995, and that's upper deck
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: 23K gold Michael Jordan card, which is worth more than
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the entire GDP of Pakistan.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Because people are nuts. That's why. All right, let's take
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: a break. We'll be back. Yep, plenty more.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and finish up handle on the news. Amy, Neil,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and me.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: This is strange. Rare move by a Russian made satellite
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: light may have brought it within less than a mile,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: which is close there in space of a commercial earth
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: observation satellite. And, uh, It may be used to provide
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: national security services to countries such as Ukraine. And they're,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: you know, that obviously, because of the war and all,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: it's not a good thing. But it's not clear what
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: exactly the Russian satellite called Cosmos 2612 or intended to
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: accomplish by getting this close.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, usually you get this close to do docking.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like rendezvous type stuff.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so no one really knows what's going on with that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Evening the educational playing field. The Supreme Court has agreed
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: to consider outlawing school diversity policies that limit Asian American
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: students at magnet programs and some high schools. So three
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: years ago, the court ruled that Harvard and other universities
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: can't discriminate on who they admit based on the race
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: of applicants. Evidence in the case had showed that Asian
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: applicants with very high test scores were often turned down.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: But the justices apparently have been divided over admission rules
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: for high schools in Boston, New York, Fairfax County, Virginia,
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: as well as magnet programs for gifted middle school students.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is an interesting legal issue.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And that is we know that Hispanics and African-Americans and
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Pacific Islanders are minorities. You would think Asians are minorities
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: in this country. Not when it comes to education, they're not.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Because go to Berkeley and see how many Asians there
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: are at Berkeley. In the mathematics department. The problem is
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Asians do so much better. And so what they have
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: to do is sort of do a reverse discrimination. Too
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: many Asians because they do too well. And we have
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to knock them down. And there is now that's happening
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: in the university, right, where it's much harder for an
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Asian to get in because there's too many. Oh, yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: We don't have a.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Merit based anything. It should be meritocracy. Of course it is.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: But we don't have a meritocracy. We do not have
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: a meritocracy. It's that concept is gone. My mother, for example,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: had when she went to dental school in Brazil, it
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: was a pure meritocracy in that you took the entrance exam.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: They didn't ask. They had no idea who you were.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: There was no application. It was the entrance exam. And
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: if you look at her class, I have photographs of
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: her class. It is 100%, 50% Japanese Brazilians, huge Japanese
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: population in Brazil, and 100% or 50% Jews, European Jews
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: who came to Brazil. Not one native Brazilian in her class,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: not a one. because it was a pure meritocracy, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that's the problem.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: But when did we get to this place where it's
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: instead of pulling people up, we pull.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: People down to get it leveled? Now the other side
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: of the coin. There's been so much racism in this
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: country that when I interviewed Jesse Jackson once, he said,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: we want a level playing field, but beyond that, we
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: want more than a level playing field. We have to
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: make up so the pendulum goes the other way to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: make it fair.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: And that's the argument.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, so you make it so minorities get discounts on
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: or get free education.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: That's discrimination. Now you're discriminating and giving minorities an advantage.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: You can't do that under the law. Not with blacks
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: because it could be reparations. No, reparations are off the table.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: We haven't yet received reparations. That one has not yet happened.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: But again, you're right. Reparations, if it translates into advantages
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: in school, that's still discrimination. It doesn't matter what it's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: based on. I mean, was there legitimate, horrific discrimination? Yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: slavery is a kind of discrimination, wouldn't you think?
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Well, then you could go and say that being poor
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: and you get funding— is discrimination.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess in one sense, but that's accepted. Society
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: is accepted. That's the way it works.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I mean, you have a point, but
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you know, it's where the line is drawn. Let's do
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: one more. Cause hopefully we can have a couple of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: other stories.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Neil.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: All right. So Kenyan cult leader, uh, found guilty. This
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: is a horrific story. 190 children were starved to death.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: The leader of this Christian cult found guilty of murder
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: for those 190 children. Uh, fasting basically is what it
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: was from. They were starved to death in hopes of
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: meeting Jesus.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a horrible story. That's a tough Jesus, isn't it?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Wanting to starve kids to death.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure where, I've read it cover to cover,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: big fan of the book myself.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Nowhere in there do kids starve to death.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: No, not on purpose to meet Jesus.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look how sick this is.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: But we're talking, what, 190 kids were found starved to death,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: not even the ones that weren't found.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's pretty nuts. stuff. OK, guys, we are
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: done with that.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Coming up, what's happening with the voter rolls, how much
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: fraud there is in California. The feds have uncovered massive,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: massive numbers of fraud.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: All 28 of them.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And I'll talk about what is going on here in
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: California and voter rolls and. The fraud in voting. We'll
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: be right back with that. KFI AM 640.
• 30:07
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