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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handel. It is a Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. Handle Warning Crew. October 15th. Now it's, what,
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  Speaker 1: 19 days to go for the general election. Well, for
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. And I am looking at... The polling, and
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  Speaker 1: it's heading south for the Republicans day by day, even
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  Speaker 1: to the point where they have even given up on
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  Speaker 1: some races. Just, we're done. And these were red states.
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  Speaker 1: These are red districts.
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  Speaker 3: You mean political races.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I mean three-legged sack races. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: The kind that you have at the county fairs.
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  Speaker 3: The Republicans may have given up on races, certain races,
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  Speaker 3: a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see. Okay, yeah. They're still trying to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to the white race. That's the last bastion.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, Neil started this one. Okay, I want to
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  Speaker 1: point that out. That wasn't me. All right, there's Neil.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Good morning, sir. And, oh, look at Ann.
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  Speaker 1: Bright red this morning. She looks great. Yeah. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I've seen that before. Wow, thanks, guys. Yeah, really
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  Speaker 1: looking good. And Will looks like his usual schlubby self.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Will. Thank you so much. Good morning. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: There's Mario with the checkered shirt. He went to a...
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  Speaker 1: Mid-Eastern restaurant last night and grabbed the Palestinian flag and
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  Speaker 1: made a shirt out of it. Good for you. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. And and there's Amy in Dodger blue. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I want to point something out. Will. Oh, no. Will
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  Speaker 1: asks just has a T-shirt sort of blue. Yeah. Mario
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  Speaker 1: is wearing his Dodgers baseball cap. Oh, and his T-shirt, L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: got it. And then, of course, Amy wears Dodgers blue
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  Speaker 1: and will wear it all through the championship, which is
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  Speaker 1: going to end momentarily for the Dodgers. Amy, do you
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  Speaker 1: have any Dodger garb that has a red circle with
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  Speaker 1: a line through it? No. Well, you should. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers may be swept by the Brewers. It
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  Speaker 1: may go 4-0.
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  Speaker 3: Bill, she's wearing not only Dodgers garb, but it's also
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  Speaker 3: Disney garb on the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, is it? I don't see the D. D, yes. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that is. She's pulling out all her talisman. Oh, Disney 55. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the combination. You would think it'd be the Anaheim that
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  Speaker 1: would be the Angels for Disney, wouldn't it, instead of
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers?
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  Speaker 4: No, I love the Dodgers and I love Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: No, I understand you do. No, I'm not arguing that.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. But I'm talking about the combo of
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and Disneyland where you would think that the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: would not be part of Disneyland because of geography, the
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  Speaker 1: Anaheim Angels. Because they're right across the street? Yeah, pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much. You could walk almost from Disneyland to Anaheim Stadium. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: enough of that. Was that sports talk? I have absolutely
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  Speaker 1: no idea. Yeah, true. It's more sports garb talk. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be done with that discussion in a minute or two.
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  Speaker 1: When's the game, by the way, Amy? Five o'clock. Five o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. Okay, so this morning, well, tomorrow morning, I
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  Speaker 1: doubt that Amy is going to be wearing Dodger blue.
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  Speaker 1: She'll be in black. That's... I'm hoping not to be
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  Speaker 1: in mourning tomorrow morning. I understand. Tomorrow morning, no mourning.
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  Speaker 1: No mourning for you. All right. We're all here. We're
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  Speaker 1: all ready to go. Another day, another dollar, except if
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  Speaker 1: you work at iHeart, it's another 85 cents. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: do it. It's time for Handle on the News with
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  Speaker 1: Amy and Neil Saavedra and me. Lead story. Well, contrary
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  Speaker 1: to what we have been told by the administration, gas
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  Speaker 1: prices are not going down. Matter of fact, they went
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  Speaker 1: up again. We now have a CPI inflation rate at 3.7%
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  Speaker 1: reported for September 2020. And that is the fastest growing
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of years. It does not bode well.
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  Speaker 1: Things are getting a lot more expensive, primarily because of
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  Speaker 1: the gas prices. That seems to be the basis of it.
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  Speaker 1: So gas prices with a large driver, it's getting tough.
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  Speaker 1: Diesel is the toughest one of all because while we
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  Speaker 1: can slow down on our driving if we have gasoline-powered cars,
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  Speaker 1: Truck drivers cannot slow down on their deliveries. Trains cannot
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  Speaker 1: slow down and take a day off. We can say, OK,
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  Speaker 1: we'll hold off shopping and combine our shopping trips to
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  Speaker 1: one once a week or once every two weeks. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: work that way with farm equipment or diesel powered everything
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  Speaker 1: in this country. It's going to hit. Even more. Even
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  Speaker 1: more it's going to hit. So one of two things
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  Speaker 1: is happening. Either prices are going down, as the administration
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  Speaker 1: is telling us, or diesel prices are high and it's
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  Speaker 1: Zelensky's fault. That's who is causing the diesel prices to explode. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you pick your choice on that one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done.
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  Speaker 4: Attacks that were never really off are back on again.
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine has resumed attacks on Russian refineries. with a strike
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  Speaker 4: at an installation in the Ryazan region. President Zelensky had
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  Speaker 4: voiced his frustration with Russia's continued attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
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  Speaker 4: He said yesterday that 600,000 people were left without power.
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine would not suspend its own attacks indefinitely, according to Zelensky,
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  Speaker 4: if Russia did not reciprocate. And apparently Russia hasn't reciprocated,
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  Speaker 4: so the attacks are back on.
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  Speaker 1: The underlying issue here is the attack on the refineries.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where Trump is very upset that the
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  Speaker 1: attack on refineries is stopping a lot of the diesel
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  Speaker 1: fuel from being produced and being shipped. This is where
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  Speaker 1: it's Zelensky's fault. And is there some truth to that?
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  Speaker 1: You can argue because Zelensky keeps on attacking Russian diesel companies. facilities, refineries,
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  Speaker 1: as Putin attacks the same thing in Ukraine. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just this whole thing is.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't you just back it up another link and say
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  Speaker 3: this is why we should be supporting Ukraine?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's the other issue is the world supports Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: at least the Western world supports Ukraine. We supported Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: But now that Trump gave gave the Ukraine a gift. saying, OK,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to allow you to sell this oil, this
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  Speaker 1: diesel fuel after forcing the rest of the world to stop.
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  Speaker 1: buying diesel from Russia, and people are spinning on this one.
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  Speaker 3: This goes to show you how globally each of these
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  Speaker 3: places matter.
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  Speaker 1: And it goes to show you also the president is
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  Speaker 1: between a rock and a hard place. No matter which
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  Speaker 1: way he chooses, he loses on this one. Either he
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  Speaker 1: stops the diesel, keeps on going with the sanctions against Russia,
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  Speaker 1: and keeps on stopping them from selling the oil, or
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  Speaker 1: he allows them to sell the oil, theoretically, to bring
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  Speaker 1: down diesel prices. and he pisses off everybody else. There's
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  Speaker 1: no win on this one for him. It's a lesser
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  Speaker 1: of two evils. I mean, he is in a corner
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  Speaker 1: on this one. All right. Same part of the world,
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  Speaker 1: same folks.
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  Speaker 3: You have the Ukraine accusing SpaceX of imposing new restrictions
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  Speaker 3: on the StarShield internet. This is the service that SpaceX
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  Speaker 3: put up there. They say that it's been throttled without warning.
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  Speaker 3: And Elon Musk has come out and said, no, the
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  Speaker 3: Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Government.
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  Speaker 3: Any limits on the speed or usage are decided by
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. military and ultimately POTUS. the president of these
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  Speaker 3: United States.
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  Speaker 1: Now, is there any connection between the diesel fuel issue
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  Speaker 1: with Putin and this? Because Ukraine relies on Starlink big time.
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  Speaker 3: Both for their military and any basic infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The big one here is military and the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: shared military intelligence of which it has satellite intelligence, that
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing with Ukraine. And it stopped for
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  Speaker 1: two days. Now it's back on again. And again, here's
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  Speaker 1: the connection. And again, here is what does the president do?
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  Speaker 1: stuck between a rock and a hard place. Does he
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  Speaker 1: give Putin a gift, including stopping Ukraine from utilizing American
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  Speaker 1: intelligence of that part of the world? And so now
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of back on. This thing is in flux.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. It's changing minute to minute. Oh, and well,
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  Speaker 1: at least we have solidity in the White House where
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  Speaker 1: we know we have some kind of stability and we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about a changing morning to night,
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  Speaker 1: morning to afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: Making a list and checking it twice, the Justice Department
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  Speaker 4: is threatening legal action against the state of California. Acting
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  Speaker 4: Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent letters to California's
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  Speaker 4: Secretary of State Shirley Weber and L.A. County Registrar and
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  Speaker 4: Recorder Dean Logan with a list of names of possible
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  Speaker 4: non-citizens that have been identified by the federal government. The
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  Speaker 4: letters demand they review the list by noon today. Don't
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  Speaker 4: know how many names are on the list, but the
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  Speaker 4: list is on a thumb drive. The McOtter wrote that
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  Speaker 4: The government believes these are likely non-citizens who were sent
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  Speaker 4: vote-by-mail ballots for the 2026 election.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now this is interesting. You talk about a legal issue.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, federal law says you have to be
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  Speaker 1: a citizen to vote in a federal election. Real simple.
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  Speaker 1: And the federal government– well, the government with this administration
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  Speaker 1: thinks it has the duty and the ability– to question
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  Speaker 1: these voters based on their eligibility. How do you do that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they don't keep the records. The state keeps the records. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the states under the 10th Amendment, under the Constitution specifically,
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  Speaker 1: not even the 10th Amendment, they're the ones that have
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  Speaker 1: the power and they're the ones that run the election. OK,
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  Speaker 1: you got two different sources, two different rules going down
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  Speaker 1: the line. So what the state of California, through its officials,
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  Speaker 1: its election officials said real simple. The government can send
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  Speaker 1: us a list all they want. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: do anything with the list. And they're not demanding. They're
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  Speaker 1: just saying to the feds are saying to the state,
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  Speaker 1: you have to check this list against your voter rolls. No,
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  Speaker 1: we don't.
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  Speaker 3: The state can't override the national constitution.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: They can run the election, but they can't change the
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  Speaker 3: rules of a national election.
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  Speaker 1: But it is in the constitution. Here is the constitutional issue.
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  Speaker 1: That is a point. Which prevails because you have the
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  Speaker 1: Constitution itself saying the states run the election right there,
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  Speaker 1: black and white. By the rules of the national. No,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't say that. It doesn't say that. It says
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  Speaker 1: the states control, period. Stop. End game right there. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, you have this. The state doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to do that.
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  Speaker 3: State could do it by a raise of hands in
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  Speaker 3: a helicopter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. If that's what the state wants to do, you
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  Speaker 1: bet it does. Yep. State can absolutely do that. And
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  Speaker 1: so here's the issue. You have the supremacy clause of
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution, which says federal law overrides everything. You have
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution itself saying that the states control. Boy, this
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  Speaker 1: is Supreme Court time. I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: More Handel on the news. Amy, Neil and me.
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  Speaker 3: So eight states suing OpenAI just yesterday. They're accusing it
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  Speaker 3: of deceiving parents about the safety of chat GPT. And
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  Speaker 3: of course, as OpenAI came out and started pushing forward,
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  Speaker 3: they wanted to be the first to market. They advanced
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  Speaker 3: chat GPT at massive high speeds. And even though they
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  Speaker 3: knew it was hurting children, this is the accusation, lying
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  Speaker 3: to parents and breaking our laws. So says Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: Brenna Byrd. This is a news conference that went down.
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  Speaker 3: So let's see. Going through all these, you've got Arkansas,
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  Speaker 3: you've got West Virginia, you've got Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Arizona, Idaho,
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  Speaker 3: Ida Pimp and Montana.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Very strong. Now, in the meantime, the
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  Speaker 1: backlash is coming big time on this AI, particularly for
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  Speaker 1: use by the public. It is happening so quickly and
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  Speaker 1: it happened so quickly that the fallout. Now, let's see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. And there are some big issues here.
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  Speaker 1: Just according to the story out of NBC being reported
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  Speaker 1: this summer, the chat GPT surpassed 1 billion monthly active
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  Speaker 1: users that's over 10 of the population of the planet
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  Speaker 1: that's how many people have used uh use chat gpt
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  Speaker 1: i use it all the time i'm assuming the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us do too yeah it's a it's.
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  Speaker 3: Actually a wonderful tool it is properly.
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  Speaker 1: Amy do you use chat gpt no Okay. Will? I do,
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  Speaker 1: to ask, like, dumb questions. Okay, fair enough. Ann, do
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  Speaker 1: you use it? I sure do. Mario, do you even
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  Speaker 1: know what it is? I do. Okay, excellent. All right,
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  Speaker 1: moving on.
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  Speaker 4: It's do or die for the Dodgers. The defending back-to-back
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  Speaker 4: world champion Dodgers are in danger of being swept by
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  Speaker 4: the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers beat LA 6-2 last night
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  Speaker 4: and take a 3-0 lead in the National League Championship Series.
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  Speaker 1: So here's a question, a sports question. And Amy, you
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  Speaker 1: would probably know this more than the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: How many teams who are down 3-0 have ever taken
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  Speaker 1: the World Series?
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  Speaker 4: In the championship series? It's been done before in the
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  Speaker 4: championship series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the championship series. It's rare. Yeah, very rare. I
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  Speaker 1: heard one. Statistically, it's not very high.
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  Speaker 3: So speaking of statistics, listening to Conway last night, Which
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  Speaker 3: horse won? No, what's funny is that he thinks in percentages.
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  Speaker 3: So listening to him, he's like, they went from an 84%
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  Speaker 3: chance of winning this game. to a 12% chance. He
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  Speaker 3: kept doing the percentages after each play. And he goes,
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  Speaker 3: the percentage is going down and down and down.
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  Speaker 4: They do that on TV too. During the game, they
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  Speaker 4: were showing the projections. I'm like, what the hell?
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  Speaker 1: Stop it. I was watching football over the weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: they were doing that where percentages change second by second.
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  Speaker 1: Because people are gambling. I know, but it is so
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  Speaker 1: stupid for those of us that aren't gambling. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to bet that more people do not gamble than
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  Speaker 1: do watch the game. I thought it got in the
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  Speaker 1: way of analysis like crazy. It ruined that broadcast as
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  Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. Totally ruins it. I'll start gambling. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I do every morning when I come here. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: the people that listen gamble every morning when they come here. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way.
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  Speaker 4: Zero teams have ever come back from a three nothing
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  Speaker 4: deficit to win the National League Championship Series. But the
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  Speaker 4: Boston Red Sox did it in the American League Championships.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the one. That's the one.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do one more story and then we'll bail.
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  Speaker 3: 12 percent chance people aren't tuning out right now. For
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  Speaker 3: the first time in more than a quarter century. Americans
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  Speaker 3: have a new option when shopping for sunscreen. It's a
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  Speaker 3: skin-protecting chemical, long been a go-to in Europe and other
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  Speaker 3: parts of the world. Food and Drug Administration approved B-Motrizol. Yeah, B-Motrizol. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes called BEMT, B-E-M-T, in June. First sunscreen containing it
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  Speaker 3: are now hitting U.S. stores and the shelves, including formulas
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  Speaker 3: from Neutrogena. and other manufacturers. So that's a good news.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it's a better product. Okay, fair enough. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go take a break, and we'll come back.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 1: Back we go. More Handel on the news with Amy, Neil,
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  Speaker 1: and me. And, oh, this is fun. What a start
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  Speaker 1: this one had.
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  Speaker 4: Is China a state? Katie Zachariah, who's the new press secretary,
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  Speaker 4: says she's a lawyer, but there's no public record showing
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  Speaker 4: that she is licensed as a lawyer in the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: She was asked about it after her first press briefing
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  Speaker 4: on Tuesday. She was asked to name the state where
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  Speaker 4: she passed the bar exam, and she replied, when I
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  Speaker 4: moved to China. Zachary does have a law degree. She
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  Speaker 4: graduated from Pepperdine.
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  Speaker 1: Which is local here in Malibu, which is a good school.
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  Speaker 1: And so she, from what I understand, she took the bar,
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  Speaker 1: did not pass it. And the California State Bar is
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  Speaker 1: a very difficult bar to pass. Only about half the
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  Speaker 1: people who take it the first time out pass. And
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  Speaker 1: I've always been a big advocate of cocaine because that
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  Speaker 1: enabled me to pass the bar because I was stoned
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  Speaker 1: out of my mind when I took the bar. And
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  Speaker 1: her calling herself an attorney, I mean, that's just dumb.
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  Speaker 1: It's just stupid. I mean, how about I have a
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  Speaker 1: law degree and I have expertise in the law as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to touting yourself as an attorney. She's not a
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  Speaker 1: licensed attorney. It's that simple. She is. She does. She's
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to call herself an attorney. Now, can you
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  Speaker 1: call yourself a lawyer? Because the full phrase attorney at law.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a legal definition of someone who can represent
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the United States. You have to be a
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  Speaker 1: licensed attorney. She is not. However, in China, they may
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  Speaker 1: describe her as an attorney according to their rules. So
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  Speaker 1: this is sort of iffy. Now, it was already a
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  Speaker 1: disaster when she did her first press conference yesterday. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Did she screw that one up? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how long she's going to last. But there are
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  Speaker 1: a couple of facets of this. It's real easy. Just say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I graduated law school and I have legal expertise.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. You're done. But no, no, no. I'm an attorney.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I make that claim every weekend that
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  Speaker 1: I'm an attorney.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that is a horrible injustice on the legal, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as an actual profession.
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  Speaker 1: It just... It's an injustice. Now, I will share with
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  Speaker 1: you an absolute true story. As I graduated law school
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going across the dais and the chancellor, of course,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: reads the name of everybody who gets a diploma, the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: professors are all there on the stage. stage and they're
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: sitting down in their graduation garb, you know, they wear
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: their thing. And as I'm going past the lectern and
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I've gotten my degree is handed to me, my constitutional
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: law professor literally says, Handel, you're a travesty. That actually happened.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: While you were wearing a chef's hat that said law
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: on it?
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's absolutely true, too. Did I take it very seriously?
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Not really. But am I an attorney at law? Unfortunately,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, I am. State Bar License 90971. You
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: can look it up. It's very unfortunate. I understand. But
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Dems are the facts. What a travesty.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: The Trump administration's investigation into Representative Omar of Minnesota is
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: aimed at basically building a case to strip her of
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: her U S citizenship. That's the reality of it. Ultimately, uh,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: the desire is to deport her. I don't know that
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I'd shed a tear, but that's what's going on. Authorities
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: have also issued more than a dozen subpoenas, including to
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: some of Omar's relatives seeking testimony before Minnesota grand jury, um,
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  Speaker 3: So says some people familiar with the case.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. Do you think that
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it is of true concern that she is here illegally
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: as they're building the case? Or is it a political
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: attack for someone who has been attacking the president? If
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest, I don't care. I'm not
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a big fan of hers. I understand.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: So you're asking the wrong person.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Like, I don't care. Yeah, no, I get that. But
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: it's and this is within three weeks of the election.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And normally, I think by law, they can't do it
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: within 90 days. Oh, it's filthy. All of it's filthy.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: But I don't care. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. She
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: was born in Somalia. And they're saying that she was
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: brought over illegally or overstayed a visa, whatever. They're doing
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the investigation. And in fact, she was not born in Somalia.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: She was born at the same hospital in Kenya that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Obama was born at. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 4: Bill, I think you're making things up.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Attorney at law. One more and then we are off
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and running for our last break of the hour.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Two down. Two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: have sunk. They were hit by missiles. It's during the
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: largest rise in Iranian attacks on shipping since the start
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. The increase suggests that
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Iran is trying to close the Strait of Hormuz again
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to try to frustrate Trump's efforts to bring oil prices
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: down before the midterm elections.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: OK, reality check right now. The administration is saying the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: United States controls the Strait of Hormuz. We are the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: ones to determine whether it is open or not. And
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: we have determined that it is open. 10% of the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: shipping that happened before the war is going through. 10%.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And of that 10%, those ships have to pay a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: toll to Iran and get permission to pass the Strait. Yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: not looking good. It really is not looking good. So
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: no matter what you hear about, we control it. This
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is our call. It is not. So and one of
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the ways that even if it does open, even if
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it does open at some point, ships are probably not
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: going to go through there. It's going to be really
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: limited because just the insurance costs. It used to cost
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: two to three million dollars for these ships to go through.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Now it's 20 and 30 million dollars because insurance costs
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: are so prohibitive. You just can't do it. It's like California,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the fair plan. You buy a home in the hills
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: or in burn areas. You can't get insurance. They just say, no,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: just not interested.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: We finish, Handel, on the news, Amy, Neil, and me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, President Donald Trump said just at one of
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: the campaign rallies on Wednesday that there should be a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: fatal consequence, like pew, pew, for any government worker who
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: leaks sensitive information to the media. So he went on
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: to say, more specifically, leakers should be, in my opinion,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: leakers should be shot, you know, when they leak information.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: what time you're going to attack a country.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Why this makes news even a little bit floors me.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, we all know that the president shoots from
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the hip. We all know that he is bombastic. We
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: all know that he does not, he's pretty colorful and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: just says what he thinks at the moment. Now, would
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: he actually have these people shot if he had the ability? Maybe,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Well, isn't that treason? And can't you be killed for treason?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: No, it's not treason.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Only during times of war?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: No, it turns times of war. You can argue that's treason,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: but only if it is you are doing something against
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the policy of the United States proven wise to the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: detriment and to the harm of the United States. Treason
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: is joining the enemy. And the argument is, is the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: press the enemy? Well, according to some, but no, no,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: this is not treason. So can we shoot the press? Yeah,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: shoot the press.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: No, the show is called Meet the Press. Yeah, it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: shot in the press. Not in Trump world, it isn't.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: You know, that should be a show. With your host,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: President Trump. A new host of Shoot the Press. That's right.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Next question. No questions. That's funny.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Election interference. Secretaries of state offices in Ohio, Louisiana, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma all were sent packages this week with mysterious powders.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma and Louisiana say they got the envelopes. Ohio said
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: the Postal Service intercepted a package that was on its
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: way to the Secretary of State's office.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Do we know what was in those packets?
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: No.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Is it a good chance that they were packets of
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: sweet and low? Or talcum powder? Mysterious white powder. Certainly
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't cocaine because no one in their right mind is
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: going to send cocaine to a government official. They're going
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to use it themselves.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: But do you remember when we've had these things happen
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: and they had to bring in hazmat units and wash
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: people down in their underwear in front of the IHART building?
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Years ago, we had a couple of these scares.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Was there actual, like.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: No.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: No.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: No, it just was out of abundance. Once the white
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: powder came, I've received white powder before in mail.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: You have?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it turned out to be whiteout that had powdered
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: due to the folds.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. Yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Anyways, Hillary Swank, 52 years old, having her third child.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Her last, I think she had a set of twins
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: when she was 48. She's now 52. And this puts
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you in the category of geriatric pregnancy, which sounds.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's one of those things where, this is
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: medical science, can bring a postmenopausal woman back to premenopause
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: with drugs, fertility treatments, so that she is able to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: bear kids. Not her eggs. 52-year-old eggs don't work. But
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: certainly carrying a child. So this was no doubt of
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: egg donation. But women can do this. And it's pretty unusual.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Not that many 52 year olds want to be mothers. But,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, good for her.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I always like to get a whole different parentage when
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: you're older as somebody who's 57 with a nine year old.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I think you get a you're. We're not selfish the
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: same way we were when we were 25. And it's
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: just different.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Well, it's official.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I'm too old to dress up because I don't know
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: what any of these are. But Google has revealed the
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: top trending Halloween costumes. The first one, number one, is
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Buddy the Unicorn from Buddy.
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  Speaker 1: No idea.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Casper Kelly's horror film Buddy.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: No idea.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Neato, number two. Neato is that sensory stress relief
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: squishy toy.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I do know what those are. They're everywhere.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Nikki from Obsession. Remember Obsession was that movie that just
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: made a ton of money and they didn't.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Spend much on it?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: She's all over the place, though. She's at the Hollywood
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Horror Nights at Universal. Yeah. Agamemnon.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: From the Odyssey, which I did not see.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: A horrible film.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't like it at all. I did not like it. Agamemnon. Yes.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: That's the number four most popular. Lily Lovebraids from Poppy
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Playtime is number five. Again, never heard of it.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I haven't either. Oh, horror video game. Oh, nice.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Okay. Great.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: There's the top five for you.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Oliver Tree.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Whatever happened, is it still the thing, since I don't
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: have kids who dress up, but it's still the thing
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that we buy- You've got a kid living in the house? Yeah.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that. When you buy costumes,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you get them on Amazon, you go to the costume stores,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: all the little girls' costumes were all sexualized. Remember that?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Everything was sexualized. Not when they were little girls. Yeah,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: when they were little girls who were sexualized with the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: net stockings, you would buy a little red riding whore.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Where were you shopping? I am not particularly exaggerating on
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: that one. It is– well, anyway. So those days were
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: great when you took your six-year-old and had her look
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: like a hooker in whatever context. Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: That what you did with your girls?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And let me tell you what they ended up being,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: strangely enough. No, that's not what I did with my girls.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember the costumes that they wore as
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a kid. I don't. Okay. It was so long ago.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. Although Lindsay's costume I saw last
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: year because never mind. It's a joke about age difference.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Why don't we stop right there with the news and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk a little bit about politics.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: The Republicans are starting to sweat bullets and there's a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: lot of triage going on. And I'll dive into that
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: when we return. This is KFI AM 640. You've been
• 30:23
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• 30:26
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