You're listening to KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Alec Baldwin opening statements and there had to be two film sets here. And I have one big question. The prosecution argued that he aimed the gun at Helena Hutchins, cinematographer and killed her. And you don't aim a gun at anybody. That is a cardinal, inviolate rule. And he did leaving out the fact. And I don't know if this is the case
or not. I've always assumed this he was aiming at the camera because he was rehearsing a shot where he's supposed to aim right at the camera. Now she left that out completely, And I didn't hear the defense say anything other than he's not responsible. He was told it was a cold gun. How can you expect an actor to check? And if it was aiming at the camera, which he was supposed to do, then I think there's no issue.
Now, if he did aim at her, just you know, basically playing around or rehearsing and aiming at her, then the argument is he breached a fundamental rule of firearms that's aiming at a human being. Therefore, the gun shot and therefore someone was killed in its involuntary manslaughter. So also it
didn't help him. And when he went on that interview with George Stephanopoulos ABC, and he insisted he didn't pull the trigger, and of course said the gun went to the FBI, who said, oh, yeah, someone pulled this trigger. There's no way without a pulling a trigger. So it's not that clear cut. All right, let's move on. Who's a big boy President Biden? Biden of course facing a lot of scrutiny since the debate with
President or former President Trump a couple of weeks ago. So he today is going to be having a press conference and they're literally calling it the big boy press conference. It came up during the White House meeting a couple of days ago, the White House Press briefing, and they said, is he going to do a big boy press conference? And cringe. Jean Pierre said, yes, he's going to do a big boy press conference. And then I heard John Kirby say he was going to do a big boy press conference yesterday
just because he's going to take questions. Yeah, it's actually his first press conference since last November. Wow, that just seems weird that seems odd. I know not when it comes to Joe Biden, his handlers, his consultants are saying, his advisors are saying they've kept him on a short leash, that they're after the debacle. And by the way, for months before that, no one really paid attention until the debate. He gave five minute interviews
three minute where he would just blurt out yes or no. Now. I kind of like the yes or no. Hey, mister president, are you going to do this? Yeah or no? I like that sure, But when he's asked to expand and he says yes again and doesn't want to get that gets a little problematic. All right, let's take a break and we'll zip through these stories. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty Back we go more Handle on the News with Amy Neil and Me.
Peter Welch, Democratic senator called on US President Joe Biden to ditch his reelection bid. And this kind of topped a pretty brutal day yesterday that had tons of mounting pressure from high profile actor and donor George Clooney, who just had a whopping thirty million dollars you know, hosted that money raising event, and then you had the party heavyweight, Nancy Pelosi not wanting to respond. Well, yeah she was. It was unequivocal with her, but the big
player but she has been like no, heeah or and everything. So, and the big player here is George Clooney. He's a massive player in the Democratic Party, raises a ton of money, pretty close to Biden. And he said, you save democracy in twenty twenty save democracy again in twenty twenty four, get out. That is a tough one to stomic. And he also said that he all the Senators, all the congressmen, and all the governors that he has talked to. And you said, he's a pretty big
player as far as fundraiser, so he probably knows all these people. Oh you have said privately, they too think that he should get out, but they won't say it publicly. Yeah, and Biden's not going to get out. So okay, let's guess, now, how big of a landslide is Trump going to have in the election if it's Trump, unless something happens to Trump, unless they find he's had sex with five more porno queens simultaneously. Oh no, his ratings go up on that one, all right, let's
just move line. Safety is our top priority. We've heard that before, but that is the word from the new Metro board chair. Mayor Bass used to be the chair. She handed it over to County Supervisor Jenis Hahn yesterday during their State of the Metro meeting. They say that ridership has gone up every month for the last eighteen months, which means they're getting nearly a million
people on the Metro system each day. That's coming in spite of the fights and the deadly stabbings and the attacks that have happened on board the trains. And that's why Han of saying, hey, we're going to make these things safer, and she says one of the ways they're going to do that is she's going to ride the trains and then report back on what she sees. So we're gonna have a dead mayor. That's for starters, not a mayor. County supervisor. Oh, county supervisor. All right, fair enough.
And then of course you have seen this incredible run up, the competition that Morgues are having wanning the contract with the Metro. You see where that goes? Yeah, okay, they just they're putting instead of putting security there, they're putting the morgue closer, Yeah to Metro. You know what, it is interesting that the mayor kind of pushed it off on someone else, not wanting her name tied to it directly. Yeah, that's yeah, that makes
sense politically, doesn't it. Yeah, it's like, hey, I trust you, you do it. I wonder if she hates Han. It's like, you do it all right. Every day, dozens of people line up outside this nonprofit here in Los Angeles called Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles and they pick up crack pipes, other drug paraphernilia and then they light it up right there
on the skid row sidewalk. And a video has come out and you could see drug dealers literally profiting from selling drugs to the very people Homeless Healthcare LA is supposed to be helping. And there's this person who's connected to the nonprofit who has seen fist bumping a drug dealer before entering the building, and it's
just kind of what people are referring to as a taxpayer funded crackhouse. Now, let me ask, is this video of one person doing this or do they have videos of several or many people, Because if you have one person, they videoed it, Okay, you fire that person and you're kind of gun, kind of gone done, and tell you then your argument, Oh look what's happening. Unless everybody knew it, they just came out there and said, we just threw the camera up there and look at this. But
well, I don't know. To me, like they've been going after this place for a while, local business leaders in the like in that area, So I don't know that it's a they. If somebody got it on video, they got it on video because they have an issue with it. Yeah, exactly. And I'm wondering if this really was a problem, I would want more than one video of one person doing this. I think one video
should start an investigation. I think that's legitimate, all right, But even the rumors that are flying around, I mean, there should be investigations of all these places anyway, because there's taxpayer dollars, dollars and how much do they actually sell crack four at these centers? Is it a discount to the homeless? Is it a regular? Is it what the market would bear?
This guy barely made it out alive. John Kyle Moore was doing a fifty mile run from his home in June Lake up over the Sierra Nevada down to the Yosemite Valley and he's just very very close to the finish line when he says he felt some sharpness on his shoulder, followed by a powerful shove that sent him stumbling into the dark, because by the time he was done,
it was nighttime. And then he said he turned around and about one hundred feet away there were a bunch of people shining headlamps in his direction, shouting bear, and that's when he saw it, a large black bear. Apparently he had a little crash with him and knocked a bag of garbage out of the bear's mouth, which didn't make the bear very happy, so the bear
started coming at him. But then he started yelling, slapping his running poles on the pavement, and then the people who were nearby started shouting and banging pots and pans, and it scared the bear off. And he's he's a little bit injured, he had some cuts and stuff, but he's okay. Amy, when you're running a fifty mile run and you run into a bear, isn't this God telling you maybe you don't want to do these runs. That's exactly why I don't run, Bill it's a religious thing. It's a
sign from God. Yes, it's crazy though that he's okay because man, a bear encounter like that, although bears don't kill people in yosemity, at least they kill people kill people. Yes, I know, but you know it's not like a grizzly bear, which he probably would have been dead if it was a grizzly Yeah, okay, black bears. Okay, why you shouldn't, Well, you can't African American bear? Is that fair to say? Really? Okay? Let's yeah, Well you got to be politically correct.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I am six forty back we go more Handle on the news with Amy and Neil and me. You got your hurricane in my frontal boundary that's passing. The combination of remnants of Hurricane Barrel and this passing frontal boundary is going to cause this dual severe weather risk for the Northeast and it's going to bring this rare tornado threat thingy along
with the chance of significant flooding through at least this morning. Yeah. Where when's the last time there has been a tornado next to Buffalo, New York? I can't remember the last time. Yeah, and you come from that area, Yes, I come from south of that area. Okay, But you pay attention to what's going on because when they do the weather reports, don't they always talk about what's going on upstate? Oh yeah, it's very
rare for that to be issued. I've never heard it. Baby baby, Baby, there's This baby is being considered a miracle baby in Louisiana because it survived two days during some stormy weather before a truck driver spotted the one year old crawling along the side of the road. The baby was found after his four year old brother was found dead and his mother was arrested. Was that happened in Mississippi? Can you imagine a mother abandoning her kid's a four year
old and a baby by the side of the road. Yeah, and this also is in the South. I mean, I don't think she's ever going to see the outside of cell a jail cell again, nor should she. Wow. Well, and I don't think she only abandoned because the four year old was his body was found in a lake. Oh yeah, that's hard to stomach. I mean, I don't get that. I really don't.
Alexandria, Okay, Cassio Cortes and a group of House progressives yesterday introduced introduced to articles of impeachment against conservative Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. So probably not going to go anywhere, but it's just a waste enough. It's a waste of time. What it does is completely take away any credibility
that AOC and the other the squad has. It's it's like Marjorie Taylor Green introducing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden ten minutes after he was sworn in for real, and now you have this crap. They can't get impeached for this? Please? What happenstrategy? It stupid, It dies, It dies in santry, it's it moves over to the Judiciary Committee and it dies instantly. It's I mean she can demand hearings, but I mean complete waste of time.
So I you know, do I understand your super liberal your left wing introduced stuff that makes sense or you want to push even if it's not going to go any place, or maybe a bill that may pass. This is just completely stupid. It's just it's a political statement. It really is. Doesn't it open the door? Uh, for more and more of this kind of on the Only the crazies do stuff like this, So this just maybe it's her saying, well, you've got the far right doing this, We
want to do it too. I don't. That's the problem is everybody wants to jump in and take out someone who they disagree just beyond stupid. Uh, Rudy just can't catch a break. A judge is now considering dismissing Rudy Giuliani's request for bankruptcy protection. Why because, for apparently for months, the former mayor of New York has been ignoring court filings and evating questions about his fin finances. So if the judge does dismiss the case, then it would
allow creditors to pursue foreclosures or just grab everything. Lawsuits grab everything he has. He's going to have nothing when this is finished. And you know how crazy Juliani is, right, It's obvious that he is nuts. I've shared this with you before, but I'm going to share it again. I know someone who knows someone who is very close to Juliani. Okay, this is not I know you know. I know someone who knows someone that will crack
your knees with a baseball bat like Michelle does. But this is absolutely real. I mean, the connection here is is true. Okay, information is accurate. And I asked, is he as nuts as he comes off? And I was told he is far more nuts than that. I mean, the guy is barking mad, But how did he fall? So I don't know, And I asked that question, and I said, how do you do that? America America's mayor probably one of the best prosecutors US attorneys in
the in the United States. He almost single handedly brought them mafia down in New York. I mean, that's no small trick. He got caught up in Trump's orbit, and when you're caught up in Trump's orbit, you just spin and you tend to lose all control. And that says more about the charisma that Trump has, that he's he has that kind of power where he's able to do that with people. I mean, it's it's really astounding.
So anyway, the judge is probably going to say no to the bankruptcy because he lied and he wouldn't give the information, and he obfuscated and he delayed and he wouldn't give enough information. So they just says no, thank you. You're not going to be discharging bankruptcy. You owe everybody everything. And so he's going down. Also, he had a show on iHeart you know that, syndicated by Premieer Radio. Lost that gone, Yeah, it's gone.
The guy is he's not making much of a living. There are little bits and pieces where he's asked to speak, but those are disappearing very quickly. I'm going to tell you he has to learn. Do you want to supersize that order? French fries in FARSI? Yeah? Are you ready to take a break? Oh sure, I was all right five minutes ago. Okay, we're coming back. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I AM six forty. So about a year ago, a President Biden vowed
to provide F sixteen jet fighters to Ukraine, if you remember so. A year later, first planes are being delivered, boosting Kiev's capability to shoot down Russian missiles and attack its ground forces. Not more to be said NATO, the United States because Russia is at this point prevailing and no one wants that to happen. So they're gonna give arms, no no boots on the ground
yet from anybody other than Ukrainian soldiers. And then the question is if Ukraine literally starts losing this thing big time and it has to give up land and sue for peace, what happens there If it's close to Ukraine losing it all, does NATO jump in? Don't know the answer to that. Don't mess with Putin because now a Russian court has ordered the arrest of the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalni. Of course, he died in prison not too
long ago, and his wife is Julia Navagna. She he is living outside of Russia, so she will be arrested as she returns home to Russia anytime soon. Navoli came back right because they had the worn out for him. He could have just stayed away, and he came back. Well, he was the chief opponent, and this is a guy who knew he was going to go down, I mean, and he still came back. And he
died in prison, and they keep on upping the sentence. You appeal and the appeals court gives you more, more years, and then more years. So anyway, everybody knows Putin killed him. Everybody does. But so what you know now? What you don't say anything? Against Putin inside of Russia. It's a leak totalitarian government. Now he's basically Kim Jong Uin wearing a Russian mask. Oh there's some horrible handle. Oh oh no, all right.
Costco is hiking its membership fee for the first time since twenty seventeen. Now it's membership fee will go up by five bucks in the US and Canada is of September. First. That increases, you know, from sixty bucks to sixty five bucks. But if you have the executive membership, which I'm assuming you do and I do, as do I, it'll increase from one thirty a year, no, two more up to one thirty from one twenty. You know, just go ahead and charge us more for the hot dog
and the coke already and they won't and they won't. But yeah, but see it doesn't seed anything because they just raise everything else. Yeah. These increases incidentally, five bucks and ten bucks annually a quarter of a billion dollars bottom line goes straight up. Oh so, and it's nothing like if you get the membership and you get the Costco visa card, you get money back. Oh yeah, and here money back every so now with that which I do have, both and you know, I make a pretty good living.
Okay, that's uh, everyone understanding in the bathroom. Yeah, And so eighty percent of my disposable income I spend at Costco. So what ends up happening is if you spend enough and you get money back. This is the biggest bargain in the world, and I get back the maximum you're allowed to get back. Of course I spend much more than that, but it's a win win, I'll tell you. But still hiking the prices. Oh, by the way, quick aside, do you see this plate? Oh boy,
it is Costco for tatas. That's what they for. That's what they look like. The red stuff is tapatia sauce on top of it. So I'm almost out, and I'm going today to Costco and I am buying a palletful of fritatas you can make them. I'm home by the dozen for about a tenth of the price. I don't care. I don't care. You lost him at home. Yeah. Another discount retailer is in trouble. Big Lots Is. It's going to close up to forty stores this year and may
have to declare bankruptcy. It had a net loss of two hundred and five million dollars in the quarter ending May fourth of this year, Big Lots stock is down eighty four percent. Yes, it has to be going under because here they are eight hundred million dollars a year. If this continues on loss company. Unless you're one of the massive, massive, multi billion dollar companies
that can sustain something like that, you can't. Wasn't the Big Luck guy, the guy who said he was going to try to bail out the ninety nine cent only stores. I don't know. I could swear it was there, I don't know, sort of familiar, but every time you walk into Big Lots it looks like a hurricane went through it. Yeah, that's true. Met Yeah, it does. It does. They don't do a good
job of merchandising. Yes, so when they buy things, they buy second and they buy the great prices, and then they come and they bring it in the store, and they bring in it with a skiploader and just pile of stuff in the middle of the store and go here you look for it. Yeah, they're going to bulldoze them all and they're going to call them big parking lots. Yeah. I like big Lots. Oh, and it's pick and save. That's gonna bail off the ninety nine cents. I thought
Pick and Save became big lots, that's right. I don't think they had a problem in the store because they originally it was called Pickpockets and Save and they changed it. Let's move on. That was just stupid. Their stuff was up, yeah, which was good. Okay. The California home prices what are rising nearly eight percent? This is in June from a year earlier,
marking the fourth straight month values hidden all time high. It gets crazier and crazier and fewer and fewer people are able to buy those homes because of the mortgage rates. I mean, you talk about a market that is skewed food and this is going to go on for years because there aren't enough homes being built. They can't get permits. No, there's not enough land.
As a matter of fact, I have a great fun topic coming up at when is that oh seven point thirty and some numbers are going to be stunning relative to housing here in southern California. You know, we hosted essentially a PTA meeting for my son's school here of which my wife is a president or something like that, and I was talking to some of the parents who own homes here, and we all agreed we couldn't buy our own homes. Oh
no, I don't think I could afford the Persian Palace today. It's no. I mean I built it twenty five years ago, and even then I thought it was expensive to build. And that's after stealing most of the building materials and still from other laws. Yes, pretty much, you can do. You know they don't guard those construction sites very well. They do now, Yeah, because because of me. Yeah, Okay, we're done, guys with Handle on the news. Coming up, California's solar problem, A
huge solar problem we have here and what is the problem. Too much solar energy being produced and the changes with utilities, and I'll explain, and what's the answer. I'll tell you it's more money across the board for us, of course, it is southern California and houses. And we'll be back with that. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My show Monday through Friday six am to nine am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.