You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. How goes it, mister Warlock winter? Please, I've got my magic power working just fired. I can cast up a big freeze, Yes, sir, I think I can guarantee oh white Christmas wonderful. Then let's be off. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy Kegy you bet? Why you bet? Are not try? I better not power?
I tender block Sata pauses woman, Oh, yes he is. It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Wednesday, December twentieth. I'm Amy King. Good morning. Thanks for getting your day started with us today. The countdown is on. Are you feeling the pressure? I'm totally feeling the pressure because I got behind over the weekend from being sick very much. Yeah. So I've got presence like in piles around my house. My two
hundred dollars tree is dead, and I haven't made Christmas cookies yet. I mean I did those ones that we talked about on wake Up Call, where we did the actual decorating of with royal icing and all that stuff. But I usually make Christmas cookies and I haven't even had a chance to do that, So feeling the pressure. But you know what, let's not worry about that right now because we got a lot of fun and a lot of really cool things coming up today. On wake up call, I also want to
mention to you. I don't know if you guys noticed it, Ann and Kono, but coming in, even though there's not a lot of rain on the roads, they're slick. I noticed that just and thankfully there's not anybody on the roads, but just like moving lanes, I was like, ooh, I think I felt a little slide there, and then putting on brakes, I felt a little slide. Well, they do say light rain is
a little more dangerous because it brings up the oil. Yeah, when it just hits the pavement, yeah, So be careful on your way in this morning, because I was not expecting the slippery stuff until the heavy rains which are supposed to come in later today. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Ooh. Talking of rain, the National Weather Service has issued a floodwatch for all of La County as a second storm moves into southern California. Up
to five inches of rain could fall in areas through Saturday. The rains expected to start by this afternoon. Amasa's top leader is in Cairo for talks on the war in Gaza. It could be another sign that a truce and hostage swap are being worked on as the war rages on. Israel's still saying no pause in fighting until hostages are released. Amas is saying no more hostages will be released until the war ends. New IRS data shows people with money are
leaving the state, while people who make less are moving in. The data shows the average income of taxpayers who've moved out to find lower taxes, fewer regulations, and a different political climate made about one hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars a year. People moving into California make an average of seventy five thousand a year. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Colorado's Supreme Court has removed former President Trump from the state's twenty twenty four primary ballot, saying he is not an eligible presidential candidate because of the fourteenth Amendment. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley who's also running for president, says she will beat Trump fair and square. I want to see this in the hands of the voters. We're going to win this the
right way. We're going to do what we need to do. But the last thing we want is judge just telling us who can and can't be on that. The court upheld a trial judge's decision that Trump engaged in the January sixth riot at the US Capitol. He has until January fourth to appeal. We're going to be talking to ABC Stephen Portnoy about this, dig a little deeper into the ruling and what's next and all of that that's coming up.
At five point fifty two brothers have been sentenced for an almost twenty year scheme that used to call or used two call centers in Orange County to distribute nearly sixty four pounds of heroin. They were basically delivered heroin on demand. US Attorney spokesman Kira and McAvoy says Julio and Victor Martinez had the call centers use code words, a code word for one gram of heroin because obviously it would not be smart to say one gram of heroin on the phone. That code
word was taco. The brothers set up an elaborate banking scheme to hide the cash. The Martinez brothers imported heroin from Mexico into the US by couriers who concealed the drug, sometimes in their body cavities. The brothers were sentenced this week to twenty four years in prison in Orange County. Corbin Carson KFI News. Israel Defense forces say they've found about fifteen hundred tunnel shafts and underground passages in Gaza since the start of the war. The IDF says most were under
schools, hospitals, mosques, un facilities, and civilian institutions. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says a number of nations reached out to get involved with Operation Prosperity Guard and Guardian to protect ships from attacks in the Red Sea. We do have a number of countries that continue to come in and offer assistance in this overall effort. I think that'll continue to grow going forward. Austin didn't name the countries he spoke well on board the uss Ford Carrier, which is stationed
in the Mediterranean Sea. He says the US could begin to move some resources out of the region, including the uss Ford wants Israel shifts to a low intensity conflict in Gaza. Got your lotto ticket just in time for Christmas. The powerball jackpot worth five hundred and seventy two million dollars for tonight Strong. If you match all six winning numbers, you would get yearly payments or could take that lump sum of two hundred and eighty six million dollars. Either way,
it'd be nice. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom, Good Morning. The UN Security Council wants a ceasefire. To date, the US has not been in favor of that. What is the latest. Yeah, So that kind of if you will theme was presented yet again on Monday. This is an Arab sponsored resolution this time and again they wanted to get the US on board, and the initial language was basically they talked about humanitarian aid. But everybody is sort of an agreement on that. That's
not going to be an issue. But the language specific language on a halt in fighting, that is the bone of contention. The US asked then for more time, so instead of you know, getting it vetoed, the organizer said, Okay, let's let's let's come back let's let's rest for twenty four hours and in essence say the old language basically said they're seeking urgent and sustainable
cessation of hostilities, which is pretty direct and straightforward. The new language trying and to incorporate talks about urgent steps toward steps toward a sustainable cessation of hostilities, so that that unique, if you will, in position of a couple of more words, may be enough to persuade the US to either abstain this time or actually sign up to it. And a lot of people around the rest of the world be very happy if that in fact, we're the case.
But keep watching today, watch the news today, see exactly what shakes out at the UN. Okay, now, you mentioned that if the US abstains, then the resolution could pass. Yes, exactly, simply as okay, So just to be clear and make sure that we've got it straight. Everybody could vote for it, but there's no majority rules here. If one, if one country vetos it, then the resolution isn't passed. Is that correct? Correct? Okay? Exactly, You've got it. So for US
says you know we're going to abstain, it'll pass. So you know, everybody, that's why this vote today, the US has bought it's time to think and ponder, and now it has to really decide what it's going to do. Okay, Now, if the resolution passes, does it doesn't have any teeth though, does it. There's no enforcement thing. It's just basically saying, hey, the world wants you to knock it off or is there
Yeah, that's it. That's it in a nutshell. And you know, it's kind of hard to go against one hundred and ninety eight countries if you're Israel, if that's the case, but you know that that's the way it will be. Okay, And why is the Security Council pushing so hard for that ceasefire when they know Israel saying we've got every intention of wiping out Amos.
We're not stopping until that's done. Well again, you know that they are incredibly isolated, and the US and the UK as well are pretty isolated. Other countries now are developing sanctions, some countries in in Asia saying we're not going to allow any cargo ships that are either flagged Israel or are owned by Israeli concerns. We're not gonna let them dock in our ports. So you know, that stuff's going to build, so there will be other pressures
that can be brought to bear. Uh. But yeah, if you want to say, heck with that, I'm gonna ignore everybody and I'm going to go forward. You can do that. But as I say, they are going to be you know, a lot of finger pointing, and there's gonna be a lot of sanctions, a growing list of sanctions coming to the fore. Okay, so there are repercussions. Okay. And then wasn't a sticking point tom that in the resolution there's no mention that Hamas is a terrorist organization?
Was that a thing? I think I heard that from that. I think they can they can, they can they I think they can win that if you will vote by not even mentioning that language. Don't even put that language in there. And uh, you know, a cessation is a cessation, and then is up to the principal parties to figure out how to go from here. But at this stage, I don't think you have to throw
that line. Too much information to throw in there. Okay, All right, So you were saying that we need to watch so we could see a vote today or did they delay it? We could see one today. Exactly. I mean, you can kick it into the taller grass tomorrow, but I think it'll be done with one way shape or form today. All right, ABC's Tom Rivers, thanks so much for the information. Appreciated a ton. Take care. All right, take care. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The California Highway Patrol Is issued a warning for people to drive safe and sober. During the upcoming holiday weekend. The agency will be doing its annual Christmas time maximum enforcement period. That's when all available officers are sent out to catch dangerous drivers. The increased patrols will start Friday at six pm and then we'll end late
Monday. Then they picked back up again for New Year's weekend. A man from Pico Rivera has been convicted of laundering more than fifteen million dollars for international drug dealers. Prosecutor say Gustavo Aldona Martinez was part of a team that would pick up drug money across the country and deposit it into different bank accounts. The team operated from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen undercover DEE agents. Bust at
Aldona Martinez by staging a fake money laundering operation through him. Aldona Martinez is now the third person convicted for the operation. He's set to be sentenced next year. A fourth person tied to the operation is still on the run. Blake Trolley k if I News the laped has been sued over alleged violent and
risky tactics when stopping vehicles suspected of being stolen. One woman said yesterday she was forced to walk into the middle of the street, dropped to her knees, and had guns pointed at her when she and her friend were pulled over in twenty twenty. She says police mistakenly believed they were in a stolen U haul. A man pulled over last year says it was the most traumatizing event in his life. A news helicopter from Philadelphia has crashed in New Jersey,
killing the pilot and a photographer. The helicopter belongs to WPVII Action News. The station says it went down last night in a wooded area of Burlington County on its way back from an assignment at the Jersey Shore. The La County Board of Supervisors has approved converting the historic General Hospital into affordable housing. The motion was introduced by Supervisor Hill to Solice to address homelessness and the mental health
crisis in the county. This speaker says the new General Hospital will be upheld as a beacon of humanity. Imagine if all of our energy went towards supporting projects such as this, that will lead to honest and foundational change. Salie said yesterday. The hospital could provide up to seven hundred units for the homeless and people with low income. The surrounding space is also projected to be used
for mental health resources. Chris Adler KA fine News. When we come back, if you use an Android phone, you could be coming into a little bit of cash. KTLA's tech guy Rich de muro, I'll tell you why plus why time is running out to get a new Apple Watch for Christmas. Former President Trump says the ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court to kick him off
the state's twenty twenty four presidential primary ballot is a completely flawed decision. The Colorado Supreme Court said he violated the Fourteenth Amendment by encouraging the US Capitol riot. The ruling is expected to be appealed. We're going to be talking with
ABC Stephen Portnoy. More about this coming up at five point fifty. The Anti Defamation League says over four hundred Jewish facilities around the US have received bomb threats by email just since Saturday. The FBI says because of the language and the emails, it appears the threats are connected and came from outside the US. They also said they are not credible threats. Some areas of LA have seen a three hundred percent increase in car thefts in the past ten years.
South LA has had the most car stolen, more than sixteen thousand. Other hardhead areas are Downtown LA, Chinatown, and Little Tokyo. Kia and Hyundai cars are the most commonly stolen. At six o five, it's handle on the news. No surprise here. Violent attacks on metro workers are on the rise. Let's say now, good morning to KTLA tech reporter and the host of Rich on Tech. Here on KFI, it's Rich Demurro. Good morning,
Rich, Good morning to you. Amy. Okay, we got a lot of stuff to get through, so let's try to power through as much as we can. First of all, quick Apple Watch. If you want one, you better get it quick. Yeah. So they have a problem with a company out of Irvine, Massimo that sells medical technology, and basically
this company is saying that the Apple Watch infringes on their patent. This has been going on for a while, and I guess it's coming to a head because Apple has to stop selling their Apple Watch Series nine and the Ultra two on December twenty first from their website, and then retail locations will stop selling it after December twenty fourth. The only way that this can end is with
a presidential review. I guess a veto from the president himself, which is so wild to think about it. Wait, the president, the president of the United States. Yes, the President of the United States. Like, how wild is that that he has to sit there and worry about this stuff? But I think these two companies are probably going to settle. This is obviously a money thing. We'll see what happens. But yes, lots of people have been buying these two watches in advance of the holidays. And if
you buy the watches, Apple assures you they will work just fine. Everything will be okay. But in the meantime, Apple is working on a software update which may sort of side I guess, I don't know. Try to avoid this whole mess. Okay, So again, the twenty fourth in stores is the last day, and the last day on the website is tomorrow. Did you say, yeah, the twenty first. We'll see. I mean, this isn't this is one of the odder things I've seen in a while.
So we'll see what happens. Okay, one hundred million Android users switching from Apple to Android could be in coming into a little bit of cash. Yeah. So it seems like we have a lot of like ft settlements at the end of the year. This is one of them. Google's going to pay seven hundred million dollars to settle this antitrust lawsuit that basically said it used its position of power to you know, to have the monopoly with the Google
Play Store on the Android phones. So one hundred and two million consumers in the US all fifty states, if you've downloaded an app or used an Android phone basically from the last couple of years up until from July twenty twenty one until sorry, August twenty sixteen to September twenty twenty three, you're going to get a little bit of money. But here's the deal. If you do the math, it's probably like six bucks so it's not a ton of money.
But but here's the changes that Google is making. They're going to make it easier for people to sideload apps. This means install your own software on an Android phone, and they're going to give app developers the ability to do third party payment options so you don't necessarily have to buy the app through Google
Play. We don't have time to talk about it, but I think those two changes are kind of odd for the average consumer because it definitely introduces a level of security issue that I think the reason why Google does things a certain way is for that reason. And from you describing what those things are, there are things that I would never do. Yeah, exactly like it, just I get it. And here's the thing. You can already sideload. You can already load any app you want onto an Android phone, which is
a big difference between that and the iPhone. But only nerds do it because only nerds know how to do it. And that's a good thing, because there are major security implications of putting third party apps on an Android phone. If you know what you're doing, it's fine, but if you don't, it could be really really bad. And then the third party payment options you know, it's actually a lot easier to just have your payments through Google.
If you subscribe to an app, you know where to de subscribe right or to unsubscribe right. Whereas if you're doing a million different apps, you know, on your credit card or your bank account, it could get a little messy. So there's there's pros and cons of all this stuff. Okay, And if you want that whopping six dollars, do you have to register for
it or will you automatically get a credit or something. It's going to be automatic for like seventy million people, but then there will be some people that have to file something. There hasn't been a website set up just yet to get that filing all right, So your face is safe at ride aid for
a while. Yeah, this is another one of those FTC things. So writ Aid apparently was abusing facial recognition at their stores for years, and so now the FTC has banned right Aid from using facial recognition technology for surveillance for the next five years. So way were they were they doing it and not telling people that they were doing it? Is that why they're in trouble? Yeah? I mean there might have been a tiny sign there's a couple of
reasons why they're in trouble. Number one, this technology was not exactly very good, and so it would lead to their employees following customers around the store that they suspected were on some sort of facial recognition lift for being a you know, a thief, and that wasn't the case. It definitely favored folks of color, and that was a problem because they would be harassed more so than other folks. And they didn't really tell people. They encourage their employees
to not reveal that this was going on. And I'm sure there was a tiny sign somewhere at the entrance that said we use facial recognition, but it wasn't very apparent to the average consumer. I didn't know about this, but it's one of these things where they thought it could help their bottom line. And as we know right Aight is kind of struggling. They're closing a lot of stores, so this clearly did not help them. Okay, and then one last one, we're going to get through all our topics today. I'm
so excited Tesla. This would make buying in Tesla much more appealing. Is working on wireless home charging. Yeah, so we know we can wirelessly charge our phones. Obviously, this is kind of a holy grail for cars that are electric, because you could just drive over a wireless charging pad in your
garage and your car would charge, no need to plug it in. So Tesla for years has not really said if they're doing this, but they just did an interview with Jay Leno on his show Jay Leno's Garage, where the engineer said, yes, we are working on a charging pad for your garage. You would drive over it, it would charge your car, and that's that. We don't know when this is going to come out. We don't know how much it's going to cost, and it will be slower than traditional
plug in charging, which obviously you know is an issue. But if you're leaving your car in your garage overnight, it's kind of a nice thing to not have to plug it in. Absolutely absolutely so. But you said they don't know how far off. How far off it is, so it's probably years down the road. I don't know if it's years, but you know, there's a lot of unanswered questions here. They just basically said they're working on it, which means it could be a year, it could be two
years. But I think the bigger thing for many EV owners right now is really the regular car companies adopting Tesla's infrastructure. I think that's going to be the bigger story in the next year, as we see automakers do that. Okay, rich On Tech the host with the most He's the KTLA Tech reporter, rich Demiro and the host of rich on Tech right here on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two. You can follow Rich on Instagram, rich on tech
is website, rich on Tech dot TV. Thank you so much for all that information we powered through it. I'm so proud of us, and have a very merry Christmas, you too, Amy, Merry Christmas. I will see you after the holiday. Yep, talk to you next year. Okay, Thanks Amy, Bye bye. No, no, don't look at me that way. I love to say that. All right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
La and Orange Counties are under a floodwatch through Friday morning. The first of two storm systems at southern California yesterday, with the second, more powerful storm expected later today. Forecasters say we could get two to four inches of rain by the end of the week, four to eight inches possible in the foothills and near the coast. Long Beach has approved a proclamation calling for a humanitarian
sea spot in Gaza. Over one hundred and fifty public commentors have spoken on the motion, most of them in favor of the proclamation, but not this Jewish woman, who says supporting the ceasefire is the same as supporting jew hatred. I am grateful for the security here tonight, yet I still fear fear for my physical safety the moment I leave this room at the end of the night. Hate is around us. The proclamation adopted last night also calls for
the release of all hostages. Mayor Rex Richardson says a lot of thought and effort went into the motion and the language was vetted. Chris Sadler Ka Fine News, the top leader of Hamas, has gone to Cairo for talks on the war in Gaza. The talks are part of an effort to get another ceasefire and also to swap hostages. Israeli President Isaac Herzog said yesterday Israel is ready for another humanitarian pause an additional humanitarian aid for the release of hostages.
Disney has provided a sneak peek at Tiana's Bayou Adventure. That's the ride that's replacing Splash Mountain at Disneyland. It's expected to open next year. The attraction is based on the movie The Princess and the Frogo. Posted on social media show Cruise working on a scene that features an old cabin a magnolia tree in tall grassy fields set against a night sky. They didn't show pictures of the big drop at the end. That's the best part. When we come back,
Amy's on it. Another Christmas movie you may have missed that I think is worth your while. We'll tell you about that Southland weather from KFI. Steady rain expected to roll in by this afternoon. Rain and thunderstorms possible through Friday. I will be in the sixties, overnight lows in the fifties. We, as I mentioned, have a floodwatch in effect through Friday at four am. Showers are possible Saturday. Then we should be dry and sunny again
by Christmas Eve. On Sunday, the National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for all of La County and Orange County as a second storm moves into southern California. Two to four inches of rains expected, with higher rain totals in the foothills and mountain areas. The rain is expected to start by this afternoon. Amasa's top leaders in Cairo for talks on the warre in gozz It could be another sign that a truce and hostage swapper being worked on as the
war rages on. Israel's been saying that there won't be a pause in fighting until hostages are released, and apparently has asked for forty hostages to be let go in exchange for seven or five or seven day pause in fighting, but there's no deal yet. TSA is expecting a six percent increase in travelers passing through security checkpoints this holiday season across the nation. LAX is expecting more than two million people to fly in and out over the next week and a half.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and New Year's Day are expected to be the busiest travel days. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. A judge, actually the Supreme Court of Colorado has kicked President Trump or former President Trump off the twenty twenty four ballot. Wayne's going to dig into that. At five fifty. Steve Portnoy's also going to help us take a deeper look of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling and whether that ruling will stay in
place. Dami's on it, Aami's on it, Damien's on it. What am I on? I'm on streaming shows, movies and series and documentaries, sometimes books, sometimes movies in theaters. But there's so much content out there, how do you know what to pick? And so I take recommendations from friends and coworkers and that kind of stuff, and then hopefully I can pass that along to you and make sure that you maybe see something you might have missed or pass on something that's just not worth your time. This week,
the recommendation came from our very own news editor, Aaron ben Mosch. We were talking about holiday movies and and she said, hey, have you seen Clause? And I said, no, I've never even heard of it. So it's on Netflix. It's four years old, so it was it was released in twenty nineteen, but like I said, I never even heard of it. It's an animated movie. And actually they in the movie they call him Klaus So but it's got the voice talents of Jason Schwartzman, Norm MacDonald,
Joan Cusack, love Her Rashida Jones and JK. Simmons. It's the story of a lazy rich boy or young man. His name is Jessper, and he still lives at home with his dad, who just happens to be very rich. His father wants his son to be productive, so he makes him, for some reason, set up a new post office on the island town of Smeerensburg. And so when you see the town right at the very beginning, it's this desolate, lifeless island town. There's no color, there's
no life, there's no joy. It actually feels a little bit like a Halloween town in a dark way, and Jessper doesn't get a very warm reception. He meets a secret toymaker though through the course of the movie named Klaus, so it progresses as they get to know each other. And it's rather dark twist on origins of Santa Claus. But it's a really interesting story. And like I said, it starts off very dark, not lots of color, not lots of life, and it doesn't feel like a Christmas movie.
But as the movie progresses, it becomes more and more like that. The animation feels a little bit like Emperor's New Clothes and a little bit like Nightmare before Christmas. But the animation's it's good. It's like the classic animation, not the computerized CG animation, which it probably still is CG, but it looks like the classic animation. And I always, I always appreciate that. It's a fun story. It's a little bit dark, but it is a
new take on how Santa got started. It's gonna be fun for kids but also for grownups. And it's called Klaus or Claus, however you want to say it. In the movie, they say Klaus. It's a good watch. So there's still time to squeeze that one in on your Christmas viewing list if you haven't seen it yet. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Triple A says one hundred and fifteen million people across the US are expected to travel this holiday season.
TSA Federal Security Director Tom Carter, SA's airports are going to be the busiest they've ever been with millions expected to fly. You will be fully staffed for the holiday. We have high confidence that will be able to handle this volume. Carter says. They're taking extra measures so they are prepared to screen a record number of passengers from December twenty third to January first, and as I mentioned a couple of minutes ago, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and then New
Year's Day are expected to be the busiest days of the travel season. Of course, I'm flying on Friday. Good choice, Amy. A new strain of COVID nineteen has become the fastest growing variant in the country. ABC's Lionel Moys Moyes says according to the CDC, JN DOT one accounts for more than one fifth of all infections in the US and in the Northeast, where there's been a surge of cases in respiratory illness. The CDC estimates JAYN one is
responsible for thirty two percent of new cases. The strain has been detected in at least twelve country. Symptoms include sore throat, congestion, running nose, cough, and fatigue. Former NFL player Derek Ward has been arrested for allegedly committing multiple robberies around La Lise. Ward was taken into custody Mondays, being
held on two hundred fifty thousand dollars bail. They say he didn't use a gun during the Robberies, but allegedly did use force, and fear Ward won a Super Bowl with the New York Giants after the two thousand and seven season. He retired in twenty twelve. A psychologist in Costa, Mesa has a few suggestions to help the nine to ten adults who say they get stressed out
during the holidays. Joy happens when we honor our needs and feelings. Vanguard University psychologist doctor Brenda Gazelle says one top stressor can be avoided by accepting family won't change. Chad isn't going to suddenly change his political beliefs Our sister isn't going to suddenly stop criticizing, says the other top stressor is trying to buy
this unrealistic magical holiday. You can decide what you need to do and feel permission to take breaks, take care of yourself, and set Gazelle suggests volunteer work as another proven way to decrease holiday stress. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News, the IRS will be waiving penalties for people who didn't pay back taxes of one hundred thousand dollars or less during the pandemic. Nearly five million people, businesses, and tax exempt organizations are going to be eligible for
the relief. That adds up to about a billion dollars. The Anti Defamation League says over four hundred Jewish facilities around the US have received bomb threats by emails since Saturday. The FBI says because of the language and the emails, it appears the threats are connected and came from outside the US. It also said that there are not any credible threats. Seven California cities have the highest
percentage of homes costing a million dollars or more. San Francisco topped the Visual Capitalist list with eighty one percent of homes worth at least a million dollars. Eighty one percent of the homes in San Francisco amazing. San Jose was second, followed by Anaheim, Oakland, San Diego, and La. We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning. Maybe those home prices have something to do with this. Home sales in California have hit their lowest level
in sixteen years. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's national news correspondent Stephen Portnoy. Good morning, Stephen, Well, hi, Amy, So anti Trump force has got a big win in keeping the former president off
the ballot in Colorado. Yesterday, they certainly did. A divided Colorado Supreme Court ruled four to three that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the ballot in that state because he engaged in insurrection and under the Fourteenth Amendments, Section three, any person who had sworn an oath to support the Constitution who then violated that oath by engaging the insurrection is ineligible to again serving government, and
therefore Donald Trump cannot appear on the ballot on Super Tuesday, March fifth, in the state's GOP primary. The response from Republicans has been fierce. Donald Trump leads the way, call an Unamerican. His campaign says that he will immediately appeal to the US Supreme Court, and I expect that the Court will
dive into this as quickly as it can. The Colorado ruling has been stayed for two weeks to allow for this appeal to the Supreme Court, but the deadline for certification of the ballot in the Super Tuesday primary is January fifth, So the idea being that the Supreme Court, one way or another will have to weigh in on this to see to it if it's going to see to it that Donald Trump is on the ballot on Super Tuesday in Colorado. The
ramifications of this are obviously huge. I mean, what we're talking about is the idea that it shouldn't be up to voters to decide whether Donald Trump should be president, but instead it should be up to either unelected judges or state
elections officials in the particular jurisdictions. And if this ruling in Colorado is allowed to stand, you could, in theory, have state elections officials, or county or city election officials all across America themselves deeming Donald Trump ineligible and having him removed from the ballot. Enormous ramifications to our system of self governance.
But the argument is that that's exactly what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment had in mind in the late eighteen sixties, when, in the aftermath of the Civil War, they decided that democracy should not apply in the South. Where people who had served in Congress violated their oaths went back to their states engaged in war against the United States, they should be ineligible to people of those states should not have the power to send them back to Washington, regardless of
their will. So if the framers of the fourteenth Amendments of there are certain circumstances in which democracy should not apply it was true, then the question is should be true today? And does it apply to Donald Trump? Does insurrection mean now what it meant or something similar to what it meant then? And did the January sixth riot amount to insurrection in the way that the framers meant it when they wrote it in the aftermath of the Civil War. That's a
lot to weed through, isn't it. It is And it's just some of the stuff that the Supreme Court is dealing with when it comes to Donald Trump right now over this heady as we head into the Christmas holidays at New Year's
break by four pm Eastern time, one o'clock your time today. The Trump legal team has been ordered by the Court to respond to Special Counsel Jack Smith's request that the High Court dive right into these questions of immunity and double jeopardy protections that Trump has said he enjoys in the federal January sixth case here in Washington, and the Special Council says that because Trump has raised these issues, we should immediately take it to the Supreme Court and have the Supreme Court decide
that Trump legal team has until this afternoon to respond, and they'll probably say, note, the proper course is to go through the d C. Circuit Court of Appeals first, because, as you know, the Trump legal strategy seems to be to draw this out as long as it can be drawn out, because they want this to linger and not have it wrapped up before the election. Okay. So then going back to the Colorado thing for just a
second. That was the Colorado Supreme Court issued the ruling because a lower court judge had ruled that Trump had committed insurrection and so he couldn't be on the ballot. Is that correct? That is right. So you had a trial in Denver where testimony was heard, and the judge in Denver said, look,
two things. One, she agreed that Donald Trump did engage an insurrection, but she also said that it wasn't her reading of the Fourteenth Amendment that the President of the United States is in the text of the Amendment an officer of the United States. How could that be? She says that certain offices
are spelled out. An officer of the United States is also referred to in the Constitution to mean, you know, let's just say a cabinet secretary or someone who serves in an official post that's then confirmed by the Senate, and not the president, because the president is elected by the Electoral College and doesn't
serve as an officer who is generally viewed as inferior to the president. Afters of the fourteenth Amendment actually weighed this question and in the debate in the in the transcript of the debate, the answer was, when the question was raised, does it apply to the presidency? The answer, well, it says very clearly here officer of the United States, which is to say that the answer is yes, but it's a bit ambiguous. Point is the Colorado Supreme
Court last night, said the judge, patting her on the head. The judges, you know, appreciate the point, but we disagree. So the Supreme Court overturned the judges ruling, Oh, that's right in that respect. H upheld the fact finding on the insurrection question, but rejected her rationale that the president is not an officer of the United States, and so therefore what they said was it not only it applies is the point? And they said
that the fourteenth Amendment prohibits Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot. The key question here for all time is whether what happened on January sixth amounts to an insurrection and whether it applies to Donald Trump having engaged in it. These are really big questions that are not easy to answer. And it's worth noting that this was not a unanimous opinion of the Colorado Supreme Court, right, I mean it was split. It was four to three, that's right, very
narrow. And all seven of the justices are appointed in that state by governors, and the last several governors have been Democrats. And so the argument is, well, it's a part is in court, fine, but it was still divided. Yea. And the idea that you know, the weighty question of who should be the next president should be determined by a divided state court. Look, at the end of the day, it'll be up to the
justices of the US Supreme Court to decide how this turns out. And that's why it's all eyes on the High Court here, and it's going to be all eyes on them soon because they have to make a decision quickly. The ballot deadline is January fifth, and that doesn't mean it can't be extended right can't be delayed, that the Supreme Court might might say, all right,
we're going to apply to stay and hold it in place. In fact, that the state party in Colorado, the Republicans there, are saying, you know what, screw it, Let's not have a primary at all, Let's have a caucus. Primaries have been set up mainly over the last half century to democratize what had previously been a smoke filled room process where party big wigs
anointed their party's nominee. Yeah, that's how it really worked in this country up until the nineteen seventies, where we started having these primaries and then we focus why do we focus on Iowa in New Hampshire. It all started in
nineteen seventy six. So this primary structure is really optional. And the Supreme Court of Colorado having issued its ruling that he can't appear on the ballot, the state party says, okay, fine, we'll just give him our delegates of the national convention anyway, and we won't even put the question to voters. They have that power. Oh my gosh. It's just so it's like mind boggling. All the repercussions from this thing and the fallout. What it
could do. You better believe it all right, Well, we'll be watching it. Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much. That was so helpful and informative. You got it all right. Take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Evacuation warnings and advisories have been issued in Ventura County as people are to prepare in case of flooding during the storm that's about to roll in. The peak of
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