You're listening to camp i AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Someone tuning in who never tuned in before literally think that this station is must be out of Buffalos, Wyoming with an entire population of two hundred people. And now Handle on the news, Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle and good morning. It is, say, Monday morning, July fifteenth. You think a weekend that was in the news. You know,
I say this over and over again. The weekends usually are dead, which is why when whatever organization, political entity, subelebrity has to release some kind of a statement, it's done Friday evening, so it disappears by Monday when the new cycle starts. And how long have we been talking about new cycling is gone? The new cycle now is twenty four hours. So here was a weekend. Let me see the weather, It was hot? What
was going on? Oh yeah, and the presidential candidate, one Donald Jay Trump there was an assassination attempt and he was hit, and of course that has been on everyone's mind. We're gonna spend a lot of time talking about today. First of all, the minute by minute, just exactly what happened. Some of the big questions the Secret Service. Oh, there are questions about the Secret Service. So I've got a few and I'm going to sound
I may sound a little misogynistic when I start talking about that. And then what's going on as a result of what happened. The politics, of course is who is it? Jd Vance, the Senator. I think it's from Ohio, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton directly responsible. Now we're getting conspiracy conversations that various people in government or outside of government ordered the assassination attempt, pick
up the phone and said, here is what you must do. The anti Trumpets are saying that, and then some are saying this whole thing was a red flag. It was done by the Trump organization to garner support. I mean, just crazy stuff. So we'll be talking more about that later on. And then just one segment that I want to do on Paris, maybe too, because the Olympics are starting in a couple of weeks and we'll see
how crappy that city is going to be. And of course we've got today the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, so it's going to be a phil full two days. Okay, let me say a quick hello Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill. Yeah, what a weekend? Huh? Oh my god? Yeah. What were you doing when you found out? I think I was at home. I was rewatching Dexter, I was watching Despicable me h. My friends started like texting and calling. I'm like, would you let
me alone? And watching a movie? I know it was so of course. Then I turned immediately on to then insert name of news outlet here, and they went wall to wall, all of them. Did I know I was doing the same thing? Channel? Yeah, and there was. And the problem with wall to wall coverage is you repeat, they repeat, they repeat, they repeat until a little bit of news comes out, and it's
a it's kind of boring. Although during the Kennedy assassination, and I was just a kid at that time, I was pretty young, I watched it wall to wall for sure, and nine to eleven, of course we watched it well to wall. Anyway, Good morning, Amy, there you go. We'll talk a little bit about that today and good morning, good morning, there you go. Leaning over the mic cono. Good morning morning, Bill, welcome back, Cono gone all week? Actually today's oh yeah,
well, and I'll go back to end, don't okay it. Yeah, I already talked about her coming back, and of course I already thought I talked about it, so I completely forgot. So Cono, I'm going to go back for a minute and happy to have you back. Oh it's a pleasure. Yeah, And was gone for a week and went to New York with her daughter, a mother and daughter. A week of taking a shower
in the morning. Because you take a shower in the morning, you step outside of the hotel room onto the sidewalk and you've just taken another shower. It's pretty hot. Cono, you were gone for just a couple of days, right, yep, just the two all right, just enjoying yourself. No, no, no, no, just moving. It's not fun. It's not all. Oh. Yeah, and since you have no money, you had to move yourself, right, that is why I took off. Yes, I do it myself. You know, this is why God invented
moving companies. You know that, don't you. Well those are called my brothers, and they have to help because we're related. And I assume you served up pizza and beer beer. Yes, they had to buy their own pizza. Again, I don't make any money, so okay for beer and Wayne is off today. So uh, Neil, Neil is off today. Wayne is also off today. He's been off since January. That's true, but so what and then there is Neil is off today. I had we had dinner last night. As a matter of fact, Fred Rogan is in,
Fred, good morning. You had dinner with the guy and you didn't realize he was off today? Yeah, no, we talked about it, but I completely forgot and Fred, we have to get the monitors working because I can't see Yeah no, I just sent him a link. Okay, yeah, because you know, as again, we look at each other on monitors now. Because it's called zoom, Bill, and ye, there's also there's also teams. There's also do we use zoom as a matter of fact,
Anne, this is one hundred percent. You're on zoom right now. Okay, there's also studio cameras, but we use the zoom for this. So there's a bunch of different ways. You're not going to see me, Bill, it doesn't work. It doesn't work again, Anne, you're not going to see me. I love you, but you can't see me.
So I can only allow people to see me at certain times. Apparently obviously not now Okay, and as we often see, I keep on saying this over and over again, that we have we're broadcasting in a whole different world now where a lot of us have home studios. Fred, I'm assuming you're at home, right, Yeah, well you can say that I am. Yeah, No, I understand that. No, I'm saying that's the change
in the world. I mean, five years ago, pre COVID, if you say, oh, I want to broadcast from the house, you know, management would look at you like you're crazy. Well, those days have changed, and it's kind of nice. Well no, they still kind of look at you like you're crazy. Bill, Yeah, they still kind of do that. I mean, you're the only one that doesn't think they do that. They do. Huh. They got you like your crazy. Uh yeah, that's true. But you know, I like my commute. It's
ten feet and it's it is not bad. And I don't shower until after the show. Okay, that's enough. We don't need that. We don't have to. Let me explain what I'm wearing under my shirt. That won't be necessary. Pants, nope, nope, underwear, no, Bill, please, Bill, Bill, Bill, Okay, it's okay, all right, it's good. All right, you guys ready to do it. Yeah, let's go. Let's do it. It's time for Handle on the News,
Amy, Fred, and for Neil Oh. And yesterday, by the way, before we start, Neil and I went to that Basteel Day event at the White House Anaheim White House and it was absolutely terrific French food, and like many other restaurants and venues, they are now marketing themselves in various ways. For example, bas Steel Day French Food, yesterday Bastile Day being
the French their July fourth effectively. So I went to Silvano, who is the nephew of Bruno and manages the restaurant, and I think he's going to do it. I think he's going to do it because I came up with the best themed day that you could ever have for a restaurant. August sixth, What is it bill? The day that Hiroshima was bombed? No sauteed mushrooms? No, God, No, the guy thought it was good. No, nobody thinks that's good. Nobody thinks that's good, but nobody.
Okay, let's do a story and then we'll move on. Handle on the News, Amy and Fred and me lead story which deff me well, it's a combination actually lead stories, one of course being the big one, the assassination attempt former President Trump on Saturday and the opening of the Republican National Convention today, and the two are going to be and are inextricably linked because of the politics, the fallout, the crazy responses, the luck that Donald Trump
had, and it was horrific. I don't care what you think of Donald Trump, yay or nay, Assassination attempts and assassinations should not be what America is about. And thank goodness that he wasn't hurt more than he was. And then that poor firefighter who was hit and died. I mean, it's just all of it heartbreaking, all right. So we got a lot of
that coming up. Taking a little pause, but not for long. The assassination attempt on former President Trump has caused the Democratic Party to pause its advertising and campaign for the President Biden. Yeah, I mean, look at the difference you've got. This is when President Biden in the campaign would be spending buckets of money to take the to take the light off of the RNC convention, sort of move the attention over. Now that's gone because it's inappropriate for
him to do the attack ads, etc. Which they do. So America is now concentrating on the RNC and the Democratic Party disappears for the next few days, the presidential campaign of Biden, except that the Biden campaign says they are going to be restarting. It could happen as soon as today. They took the weekend off, and so they're kind of constantly evaluating. I would like to see because the personal attacks on Trump, because the Biden campaign is
not Look how great Joe Biden is, that's not flying. It's basically anti Trump. And in light of what happened, you can't be anti Trump, not for a few days. This thing is way too fresh, it really is. Normally I wouldn't pay attention. Yeah, no, I wouldn't care about the acceptance speech because it's going to be the same that you hear every time from every politician of every ilk on both sides. Everybody's going to be watching Trump. Everybody, Hey, hey, Bill, what does it?
What does it mean for Trump? After what happened this weekend? He survives? What does that? You know? In the end, I don't think it's going to make a whole lot of difference. I think that it's so baked in. And I don't think Independence are going to move towards Trump simply because he was in thank goodness, just wounded a little tiny bit, I mean two inches difference, and it would have been just unbelievable. But yeah, I think in the end it's not going to make a whole lot of
money. Here's why I want to do football pool. How big is the bandage is going to be on his ear? I say, it's going to cover up his entire right side. I don't think he'll go out on stage like that. He'll probably just have a band aid, is what he probably will do. But you know, doesn't it do him more if his whole right side is covered or a good part of it. Yeah, I don't know, because then the accusation is going to be he's making too big a deal about it now. And he got shot off. Yeah, but he
nicked his ear. It's not as if this is not by Tyson biting his ear off. The ear is still there. It was a graze. Oh, A reading story about it was blood was gushing from the wound, gushing. No, and oh, I got all kinds of questions. I thought the way Donald Trump handled it was brilliant as he's being shuffled off, well shuffled off, thrown off the stage, and his defiance throwing his fist up in the air. I mean, obviously it wasn't planned, but it couldn't
be more dramatic, and it just couldn't have been just more effective. I'm looking at him, and I'm thinking, good for you. Instead of cowering, which I would have done. He came back and he says nothing stopping me. I can't wait to see the cover of Time and Newsweek this week. It's oh, I haven't seen it. Which of those Which of those photos are? I know, the fist up in the air? Wait? Wait, Amy, Amy, Wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait,
let's guess I haven't seen it yet. Okay, it's the one with the female Secret Service in front of him, the guy behind him, the flag there and his fist up. That's what I'm going with, Okay. I would have gone for just him that one crop shot of him just putting his fist up in the air and the blood coming down the side of his face and a little bit on in front over his lip and coming down his chin. I thought that would have been the most traumatic. But anyway,
what a weekend. I'm gonna we have a lot to talk about, questions about the Secret Service. They're in trouble big time. And I'm a little history of some assassination, assassination attempts which we've lived through. Fred, you and I are old enough, Amy, You and I are old enough to remember some of these. Yep. Jerald forod twice in a month wiki from
Ronald Reagan. And I'm going to go back through history too as to what happened and unfortunately, how many real assassinations that is assassination, not just attempts, but ones that panned out with the death of a president. Okay, more on Fred, all right. Nicki Haley's going to speak at the Republican Convention. The former candidate will be speaking. She has taken baby steps Bill towards supporting Trump, and her speech will represent a full surrender to Trump's dominance
in the party. So for Nicki Haley, this is just basically survival exactly. And she she's the last holdout. Well, she wasn't gonna speak until, like they just announced it after the assassination and until he got shot. Yeah, well, this is one of the things that happens in the Trump world. And that is if you somehow, if you castigate him, if you talk anyway in the negative about Trump, you are an enemy. If you come back and basically kiss the ring he is, he appreciates loyalty and
believes that none of it happened before, or it doesn't matter. You're now on my team as long as you support me, and she had to and you're right for one is basically a survival. You can't survive in the Republican Party today without being pro Trump can't do it. So she's gonna speak and I cannot wait for the accolades to start. One hundred speakers, one hundred speakers are going to come. It's going to be just piling on the greatest
guy in the world, our savior. By the way, that doesn't mean that on the Democratic side you don't hear the same thing, just not to the extent because of the engagement of Trump followers across the board. Because frankly, a lot of Democrats are looking at Joe Biden as a negative you're hurting me. There's not one Republican out there that is looking at his or her association with Trump in a negative light. Not one. Kellie's London, a
few dozen helping hands to the RNC. Dozens of law enforcement officers from California are headed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Actually they're already there, so Governor Newsom says sixty one law enforcement officers. There's forty CHP members, and then also police officers from Bakersfield, Fresno, and Long Beach police departments. Now, the governor also says this is not in response to the attempted assassination assassination on Saturday, but that these plans have been in place since May. Yeah.
I mean, I don't know if that's true or not, because Davin Newsom has a way of saying things that don't pan out or are not true. But it makes sense. It makes sense because you want security. There aren't enough Secret Service people. There certainly aren't enough local law enforcement. When you're talking about how many people were at the convention, how many thousands of people, and the securities has to be completely insane, especially in light of what
happened. So Corey Opetory, the man at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, the firefighter who dove in front of his family to protect them and ultimately was shot and killed by the assassin he is being hailed as a hero built Well, he jumped. From what I understand, he jumped on top of his family or his wife to protect her. I mean that is a legitimate hero. On CNN, I was watching a woman or maybe NBC was being interviewed.
She was in the front row and the reporter was asking her, so, what happened at that moment, and she said, if you look at it, not one person in the front row went down. We were all standing up and we were all about to grab hands to be in front of the president to protect him. I'm thinking, what in the meantime, she was the first one that hit the deck. Let's take a hey, welcome to Welcome to the world of politics. So Israel says it took out top
commander, but Hamas is saying not so fast. So the Israeli military says a senior Hamas commander, Rafa Salama, who is said to be one of the masterminds of the October seventh attack, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza on Saturday. Hamas hasn't confirmed it. They say instead that Israel's air strike hit a camp for displaced people in a designated humanitarian zone and killed ninety Palestinians.
Yeah, I mean, of course that happened. And what's happening is Israel is calling these various zones humanitarian zones and safe zones, and then they go in and blow them up across the board. So all right, now wide, I mean, no one believes Israel anymore when they go you have to evacuate over there because it's safe over there, and then they bomb and attack over there. Well, how about going over there and the same thing happens. I was reading an article in the New York Times. Hamas is
no longer a uniformed military f They are now all civilians. All the Hamas militants are civilians now, or they're dressed as civilians, and no one knows, and they're attacking Israeli soldiers and Israeli soldiers are basically shooting back. Because the argument is going to be that if Israel does not have what they say are is collateral damage, are they aiming at civilians? I don't think so. I don't think that, Oh there's a kid, let's shoot that kid
up. Are they bombing that place? Yeah, because that's where the militants are. So if you take into account civilian casualties. And you don't go in an area where civilians you've just lost the war. Hamas has just won it. You might as well say it's over. You can't attack Hamas can attack you. You can't attack back. This is a mess. This is a mess, and we're going to talk a lot more about that. But Hamas is not giving up, not giving up his military strength and is fully
committed and is said, so, Palestinians are fodder. We will sacrifice the buildings and we will sacrifice our population because of this holy war we have against Israel. How do you fight that? Huh? No, you can't, No, you can't. Shannon Dherty nine O two one oh star battled cancer four years I think about ten years. Died over the weekend at the age of fifty three. She first went public with the breast cancer diagnosis in twenty fifteen. A lot of folks watched that show. I think it became part
of American pop culture. And her battle has come to an end at the age of fifty three. You know, and you just you hear that fifty three, You think, my god, how young. Oh that is unless you're a teenager. Then you die. Then you die of old age at fifteen, right, and as you get older. Now, Bill, somebody looks at you and they go, you know, we just lost my friend. How old? Eighty seven? Oh my god? How young? Yeah? When you get that? Who was it that said one of it?
Could have been Mick Jagger in his mid twenties who said, don't trust or anybody over thirty is considered too old or something along those lines. You can't trust anybody over thirty. He's seventy six years old and still dancing on stages. Yeah. I think Paul McCartney has already hit his eighties, hasn't he? And he's still performed believe. Wow. Yeah. We also lost Richard Simmons over the weekend and doctor Ruth. Yes, Bill, you used to
take a lot of sex advice from doctor Ruth, didn't you. Yeah? And I not only did I take a lot of sex advice from doctor youth Ruth, doctor Ruth, but I would actually follow that advice with Richard Simmons. Oh my god, did I just come out? Oh? Oh, okay, I retract. That wasn't bad, though, I got to give you that. That was good. That actually was very good. You did a sticker. Yeah, that was good, get the power back on or
else, says Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He's threatening to an issue an executive order forcing an electrical provider called Center Point Energy to improve the reliability of its equipment and its level of storm preparedness if it doesn't address concerns in the wake of Hurricane Barrel about I think two million, maybe even three million customers were in the dark at the height of it, and a week later, almost three hundred thousands still don't have their power back on. It's Texas is very
weird with its power grid. You remember the big freeze where Texas, I mean the whole state was just at a standstill. Couldn't you couldn't turn light in the state. And that's peak because Texas decided they weren't going to be part of the national grade because no federal government is going to tell us what to do, and so they could have had power, but they didn't. Well, now you've got well, how unusual you have a utility that is
being nailed. I think utilities here have a little bit of problem across the country PG and E for example here in California. So we'll see what the governor does with that. One. And I think governor has a lot of power here. What happens if not? What happens if they don't do the job? What do they do? What does he do to center point? Shut him down? Then there's no power for anyone? Yeah, and then what do you do? Yeah, here'll show you. Here's an interesting factoid.
I actually have a picture with Texas Governor Abbott. I just want that on the record. I actually have a picture. Will wow, are you patting his head? That is so wrong that you did that. That is so wrong that you said. That is just so wrong. And you know it. Let's just know it. Okay, all right? Is me? Now? Ye? Do we keep going? Yeah? Yeah? Did you? Sorry? Argentina Columbia. The game was in Miami. It went into
overtime. Argentina won the Coopa, but they had to delay the start of the game for almost an hour because fans were so unruly trying to get into the stadium that they were storming the stadium and trying to climb over gates, and the players were afraid. Fans were afraid. They had to call in more police officers and delay the start bill because people were trying to storm the stadium to get in. Yeah, and that's not unusual in the world of
soccer. You've reported this. How about that one game it was Columbia where the referee made a bad call and the field was overrun and the crowd killed him. Let's it just killed them, stomped them to death. Yeah, that was a bad call. Oh yeah, I understand it was a bad call. Now why Yeah, that costs you your life. Yeah, soccer fans are completely crazy, I mean, completely out of their minds. Fred, Why are soccer fans completely out of their minds? They all are because
it's it's a gross generalization, but you know what I mean. No, but I'll tell you it's a different mentality because it is part of their national pride. In this country, we have a lot to do. And you know, our sports basically are professional sports. In other countries, everybody plays football and their national pride means an awful lot to them. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. That's a good analogy, good analysis. I like that. Also, every time LA wins whatever kind of a championship,
everybody's going around is that our team won. Our team one. I go, wait a minute, it's not your team. It's Jerry Buss's team, and we explain if it was yours, you wouldn't have to pay two hundred dollars to go see a game. Really not our team, but the pride is such that overwhelms everything. And you're right. In these third world countries, that's what they have. This is what they have. Yeah,
this is it. Yeah, so they are completely nuts. Excellent, Fred, here's a candidate a lot of people, including me, could get behind. Matthew McConaughey has teased a possible political run during the National Governor's Association summer meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Happened on Friday. Apparently he had been out drinking the night before with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and that they were talking about stuff and he said, you know, I've thought about running
for office. He says he's out on a learning tour and probably has been for the last six years. He's trying to understand what this category, as he calls it, means. I don't know if that means he's going to run for president. But Matthew McConaughey and politics with wait a minute, the world, you said, here's an I can get behind. Why are you going to get behind him. What is it about him aside from he'd probably
went because people know him and he enough charming and charismatic. And his argument is that, like right now, what we're dealing with, the extremes are going further left and further right, decencies off the table, and he wants to change that. But everybody is saying that also he, as you point out, charming. He's very good looking, and if you look at a close up picture, he's got quite the fruit package. Put all of that together, is quite He's not quite what he has quite the fruit package.
Oh okay, well I didn't look that closely, Bill. Well there you go. Now we're going to do a Richard Simmons story in a minute, so it all works out anyway. We did mention Richard Simmons seventy six years old. You could say he was colorful, and he certainly was that. He also, I think redefined the way people worked out. He made it fun. He was one of the first people to do that, encouraging people of all ages and basically sizes. Yeah, he was big too. He
was big. He had a personal interest in this. He but then he lost all the weight. Yeah, that's the whole point. I mean, he walked the walk. You know, he saw it from both sides. I don't want to go there, but he he did. You know, Fred, you're making me say this stuff. It's you. You know that you are the incident. I'm not doing anything. I'm just sitting here. I'm just sitting here. You get this way when I'm on with you. But I'm not doing it. You are doing it, okay, and it's
kind of funny, but you you know you're doing it. I understood, all right, God, Alec Baldwin has thanked his supporters. In a big surprise. Late on Friday, Alec Baldwin's case was dismissed. They said that
he that the prosecution withheld evidence that had to do with some bullets. Of course, the big question was how did life I'll get on the on the scene of the Rust movie shooting or the movie set that turned into a movie shooting, and so the judge threw it out and Alec Baldwin burst into tears when they announced that the case was dismissed without prejudice, which means they we prejudice, are with with prejudice. Yeah, it means they can't file again.
It's over, it's done, and this is the prosecution just screwing the pooch from the minute they got it. One of the things, you know, originally it was a second degree murder charge, which the defense asked to be dismissed, and the judge instantly dismissed it because number one, it's overreaching. Number Two, that provision in that law didn't exist at the time that
Baldwin shot Helena Hutchins. It wasn't even on the books. Well, we don't care, We're going to charge him with a law that didn't exist, I mean, just insanity. And then this issue, the reason that they tossed it is because there was an armorer who knew Helena hutchins stepdad or stepmother was very close, walked into the prosecution and said, I have some bullets here that might have some influence on the case. These are live bullets and
they may actually be connected. Prosecutors not only would not take it as evidence, or they did, they put a different number, put it on another case and said we don't think it's relevant. Hey, it's not up to prosecution to argue relevancy or not. It's up to the judge. And so the judge got so pissed off, just said, you guys are done, You're finished. And it was just just horrific. They were so anxious because there was a national story. Oh I'm going to show you how good I
am. Just horrific. I alos thought that the case was crazy. Yeah, but still in all for them to make that kind of mistake, I mean, that is really very poorly executed. So horrible, horrible, and now he can never be charged with this name with prejudice. He's done, he's done. Now it's all Now, it's all civil liability, which should
be the case, should be the case, but and it is. I mean, there are settlements all over the place, but criminality, no. Lady Baka, the former La County sheriff who was suffering from Alzheimer's was lost and wandering around and nobody could find him. He's eighty two years old in the San Marino area. They found him. He's okay. There was great concern. You have an eighty two year old man suffering from Alzheimer's who was lost, and the former sheriff was in fact found and he had been missing
since Sunday, so that is good news. Of course, Baca was the sheriff from ninety eight to twenty fourteen. Big problems to federal prison. Yeah, a lot of corruption, a lot of corruption there. And it's tough to see these public figures suffering from Alzheimer's and you know they're they're just out of their minds. Unfortunately, you lose your mind and you are you are not who you were. I was their joke here Fred, for your sake, but don't do it. Okay. I thought it was pretty good.
I thought it was a good one. You got one, yeah, okay. When they found him, he said I was the sheriff of La County. They go, come on, you have an eightyterial man. He goes, No, you weren't. He goes, I was Napoleon. How about that? Does that work? I told you it was bad, Actually it wasn't. I can't come on with you anymore. This is all. I can't let this happen. It's not even my job to monitor this stuff. And I can't let this stump it anymore. I can't allow it. All
right, let's do one more and then we'll go on. Steady as she goes, US stock futures barely budged after the assassination attempt on former President Trump Saturday, signaling calm in the markets as Trump of course survived it. Yep, and that is this is where we talked about the fall out, Amy, and you had asked does this change the politics? And people are looking I think Fred had brought this up to this assassination attempt, and I'm going
to go, I think it's not going to do much short term. Maybe the market's nothing, nothing, And thank goodness, it was a nothing other than that poor firefighter who was killed and the two people that are still critical. Had there been a successful assassination, I think you would have seen worldwide response financially. Also, all right, we're done, guys. Coming up, Fred is always thank you for doing the news with us because I love
it. Coming up a minute by minute timeline of what happened during the assassination, some of the things that we found out as the story was breaking. And how about the Secret Service? Huh? How about them? Yeah? Yeah, they show they're metaled and they know you've seen. And then I'm going to say something is probably misogynistic by the way, and I may get sure. No, no, I'm still here, Bill, Yeah, no, I know you kissed me off, but I'm still sitting here kf I
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