WEBVTT - Relocating Olympics from Boston | Powerful Passport Top 10 List 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.360 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:04.920 six forty. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.719 I am six forty Bill Handle. Here. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:14.520 It is a Thursday morning, October sixteenth, storry I want 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.520 to share with you. And this is another story of 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.759 this president doing things that other presidents not only have 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.960 never done, never dreamed of doing. And this is a 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:33.320 story about the President saying that if Boston wasn't prepared 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:38.960 enough for crime, it wasn't being made any safer than 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.680 he would seek to move the twenty twenty six World 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:48.839 Cups World Cup out of Boston. But where's it gonna go? 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.000 No idea, but we wanted out of Boston. He also 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.360 said the same thing about la and the Olympics. This 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.480 is and this is not a statement that he made 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:03.240 pursuant to a press conference or a policy statement. These 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.680 are reporters that throw stuff at him and he reacts 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.560 because that's what he does. So, mister President, do you 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.040 plan on assassinating you know, Macrone of France? 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.640 Well, I haven't thought about it. 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.479 And then that becomes world that becomes front page news. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.679 And it's almost as this as these as if. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:30.560 These reporters are goating the president into responding, and usually 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.080 things that aren't even at issue there and so, and 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.480 the President does respond. And as I said during the 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.320 news segment, the president has such unbelievable influence that when 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.880 the President of the United States sneezes, the world catches 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:50.680 a cold. And so his lines are just they're ridiculous. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.280 So he doesn't have any jurisdiction. Does he really have 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:59.480 the authority to tell Boston you or tell FIFA move 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.920 the World Cup out of Boston eight months before the 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.920 World Cup is scheduled to start. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:08.399 How do you do that? 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.639 Or how about the Olympics move the twenty twenty eight 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.800 Olympics out of Los Angeles? Because Los Angeles has a 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:23.200 Democratic mayor in California is newsome, and Boston is a liberal. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.760 Chicago has a mayor who is Democrat. And the President 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.480 has made absolutely no bones about it. He thinks that 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:36.720 all democratic cities, who well mayors of democratic cities, those 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.560 cities are in ruins. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.400 Those cities are overrun with criminals. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.280 There's no republican city in the United States, by the way, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:47.960 that has that problem. I want to point that out. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.600 There is not a republican city. When I mean republican 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.960 city that's run by a Republican mayor or a city 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:00.560 council and a mayor. So this became a really big deal. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.639 So there's a couple of bits of politics I want 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.520 to throw in here too. The head of FIFA is 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.920 actually a friend of Trump's, if not a friend, certainly 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:17.959 an ally of Trump's. Matter of fact, Trump invited him 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.880 to be at the signing in Gaza or in Egypt 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.959 for the peace conference. And what the hell does the 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.720 head of FIFA I have to do with anything? And 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:32.560 so as he said, I love the people of Boston. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.480 I know the games are sold out, but your mayor 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.560 is not good. And this is during the lunch with 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.160 the Argentinian president, and I think she, the mayor, is 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.480 hurting Boston. The answer is yes, if somebody is doing 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.160 a bad job, and if I feel there's unsafe conditions, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.960 I would call Giannini, the head of FIFA, who's phenomenal, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.720 and I would say let's move it to another location. Now, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.280 of course that's not physically possible, but again it is 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.520 simply a statement. So a word about the Argentinian president, 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:06.880 another ally of President Trump's, who is truly ally the 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.119 president could do no wrong. He can do no wrong 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.120 as far as the president is concerned. And Argentina just 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.680 got a twenty billion dollar bailout from the government. Okay, 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.159 I can't tell you the intricacies of that, but I 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:25.360 can tell you what's going on in Brazil. Brazil, the 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:34.640 president of Brazil is no friend of Donald Trump's. Okay, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.640 Lula and he loved bol Scenario, who was tried and 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.080 convicted of or who has been convicted of corruption. Now 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:49.040 the president currently Lula, Lula de Silva was convicted of 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.000 corruption and spent four years in prison or two years 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.279 in prison, and that was overturned. So it's one corrupt 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.239 after another, corruption replaced by another corrupt individual. But here's 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.279 the point I want to make. It is as President 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:09.160 Trump argues in terms of tariffs, and he's absolutely right 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.160 in the vast majority of cases, and that is it's 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:13.359 about balance of trade. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.000 It's about just fairness. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.200 So when we have a negative balance of trade, for example, 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:23.599 when China sells US five hundred billion dollars worth of 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.000 goods and we or we buy five hundred billion dollars 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.320 worth of goods but we only sell them two hundred billion, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.000 there's a balance of there's an imbalance of trade. You're 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.880 always better off selling more than buying. That makes so 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.880 much stronger economy. And when it's unfair, it's unfair. So 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.279 with China, it's unfair. With the European market, it's unfair. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.960 We simply buy more than we sell. And what Donald 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.320 Trump is doing saying, Okay, we're gonna make it fair. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.560 We're gonna make it an even playing field, all right, tariffs, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.960 That's what tariffs are all about, is to make it 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.400 as even playing field field as possible. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:00.920 Let me tell you something about Brazil. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.560 Brazil not only does not have a negative trade balance 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.039 with US, we. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:12.280 Do better than Brazil does. Brazil is one of. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.479 The very few countries that actually buy more from US 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:20.360 than we buy from them. We have a positive balance 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.120 of trade with Brazil. Why they still have a fifty 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:31.160 percent tariff? Why do you think because he does not 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.159 like the president and the guy who was thrown out polscenario, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.200 who lost the election a rigged election, I might add, 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.760 that's the language that was used. It was a rigged 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:46.680 election in Brazil. Interesting, isn't it. And so that's what's 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.960 going on in that world. So now does the president 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.360 have the right to throw on a fifty percent tariff 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.440 of course he does, and in many cases is for 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.920 great reasons, and in this case with Brazil is ridiculously 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.719 and simply because he likes bols narrow. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.440 That's it, you know, that's it. You know he said it. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.760 And how about forcing the Olympics to be moved from 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:14.560 Los Angeles. Maybe I'll force the Olympics to be moved, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.920 or I'll ask the mayor to undo the FIFA Games 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.120 World FIFA Games, or excuse me, I'll ask FIFA to 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.400 transfer the games out, which, by the way, I don't 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.320 think they can anyway, I mean, let's get practical about it, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.520 and back to my original position. These are just throwaway lines. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.840 A reporter throws something at the president. The president instead 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.400 of being measured, let me think about it, and hands 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.200 it off to a and hands off to one of 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.280 his staffers. Because presidents tend to be measured and very 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:50.200 careful in what they say and think things through sometimes 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:51.480 too slow, Biden. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.160 But very few presidents. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.800 Do what this president does, and that's just throw things 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.560 out and reporters though it. So there's a lot of 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.040 gotchats going on in the world of press conferences. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:10.960 But the question is does he think he has the influence. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:18.760 To have the US the International Olympic Committee, remove LA 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.160 and go someplace else. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:21.440 Can they? 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.800 I don't think they can't, even contractually if they wanted to. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.760 All Right, enough of that, Okay, what's going on on 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.840 the I five? And this is the I five goes 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.800 right next to the ocean and Camp Penalton is on 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.720 each side, and you're when you're going next to the ocean, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.840 there's only a few hundred yards of beach between the freeway. 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.959 And the and the ocean, and it's kind of neat. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:51.360 I've seen a couple of amphibious training exercises. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.120 They are and you don't know what is happening. It's 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.520 just happenstance, man. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.640 They look great with the helicopters and the hovercraft and ah, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.480 it's just tremendous. Well, there's going to be a big 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.679 one coming up to commemorate the Marine Corps two hundred 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.600 and fiftieth anniversary and it's being called See to Shore, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.920 a Review of Amphibious Strength, and Vice President Vance is 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.680 going to be there and this is going to be 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.920 a big one. One of things about the Trump administration 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:26.560 is they are not shy about showing American fighting force, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.680 not shy at all. This is an administration that is 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.320 proud of its ability to fight, proud of its armed services, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.440 and we're going to show you that we're going to 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.440 do it well. Obviously, there's all kinds of controversy because 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:47.960 we've got a governor, the governor's administration that doesn't particularly 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:52.080 like the Trump administration and is saying, wait a minute, 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.400 we've heard that there are going to be live exercises, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.640 live fire. Okay, then you just shut down the freeway 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.560 and it becomes part and part soul of the event 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.360 or the argument here or the stories is that the 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.439 freeway is still going to continue on and there will 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:13.400 be live fire over the freeway, as in attacking the 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.080 amphibious forces coming in with live fire. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.040 Now, are they going to hit anybody? Of course not. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:18.920 That's not the point. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.439 The point is is that the governor is so pissed off, saying, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.000 how can you possibly do this on our beaches. By 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.920 the way, Camp Pendleton is a federal property. How can 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:35.080 you do this and allow people to go through? Well, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:36.760 we're talking about shutting down. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.200 We don't know. It may be closed. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.319 It may be closed by the federal government and may 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:43.600 be closed by the state. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:44.120 Government. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:49.840 We have absolutely no idea, but there will be a 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.280 huge show of force that we know. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:52.920 It's kind of neat. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.400 I don't know if you've ever seen it, As I told you, 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:55.960 it's really neat to see that. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.240 I've lived out here forever and passed by Pendleton one 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:00.000 thousand times. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.520 Doesn't don't they have. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.520 Signs that always say that there's possibility of live fire? 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:06.240 You know what? 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.920 I've ever noticed that? Yeah, I've never noticed that. I've 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:10.880 never noticed that. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.000 Yeah, and brother graduated there at Pendleton as a marine, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.600 and I remember driving back and forth. There's signs on 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:24.320 those beaches everywhere that say caution live fire drills. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.680 Okay, how do you caution against live fire? Droves explain 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.319 that just don't don't go onto the beach. It doesn't 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:31.360 say don't look at you. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.559 You're not allowed on the beach anyway, are you? 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:34.800 No? 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.079 But are you allowed onto a Pendleton beach? 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.680 No? But you're not allowed in area fifty one. It 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.640 doesn't mean there isn't people that try and get in 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:46.880 there every year. But but there are signs all over there, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.920 Okay that I don't remember seeing it. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.319 The one thing I do remember, I've seen a couple 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.880 of exercises, and they are neat to see that they 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:55.440 really are. 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.840 So in any case, we'll see what happens with this. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.960 And it's going to coincide with No King demonstration or 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.960 No Kings demonstration on Saturday, demonstrations all over the country, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.920 the anti Trump administration demonstration. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.840 The demonstration is saying that they're. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.240 Over the government is overreaching of course when it comes 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.520 to immigration and all the stuff that people have a 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.040 problem with. So we're going to have a dual demonstration. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:28.000 So who's gonna win. Are the demonstrators going to win 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.760 or are the guys who have artillery pieces, helicopters, tanks 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.400 and armed infantry. 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.439 Who do you think is going to win that battle? 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:39.319 I mean, they're not gonna fight. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.880 But it's a it's a fun visual, it really is, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.000 all right now, Oh this is another one. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.000 Oh god, I love politics, all right. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:52.320 There were some leak messages from young Republican leaders, and 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.160 these messages included this is political, pick this up, racist slurs, 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:03.320 rape jokes, gas chamber commentaries, and man, you've got politicians 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.640 on both sides of the aisle going nuts and calling 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.520 for those who were engaged in these slurs and commentary 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:13.679 just to resign. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.040 Well, the VP jd Vance dismissed it. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.040 You're just doing pearl clutching that these participants were just 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.520 kids telling stupid jokes and that shouldn't ruin their lives, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.480 one of the kids being Vermont state Senator Sam Douglas, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.200 who happens to be a very young sixty nine. So 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.680 it was just kids doing this, mind you. And this 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.040 is the Young Republicans National Federation, the GOP's political organization 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:45.080 for Republicans between eighteen and forty and other people in 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.160 this case, for example, Sam Douglas was in on the 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:57.680 chat and the group described the exchanges as unbecoming of 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.640 any Republican. The official group is saying, come on, this 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.320 is ridiculous, and there were months of exchange of this 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:10.480 crazy stuff that Politico picked up. Now Here is the problem, 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:16.360 and that is Vance immediately comes out and rips into 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:22.960 the one interview that was said by I think a 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.520 a Democrat about somehow two shots should be put in 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.000 someone's head, you know, an assassination, and he said, that's 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:36.720 the problem, not kids making jokes about the Holocaust or rape. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.280 That's the problem. Guys like this, which is far far 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.200 more dangerous. You know what, why can't you call for 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:49.160 the resignation of both sides on that? Why can't you 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:55.720 simply say both are reprehensible? And you can't advocate or 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.480 say it's a good thing that Charlie Kirk was killed. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.040 You can say you disagree with Charlie Kirk. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.200 You can certainly say the world has changed because Charlie 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.320 Kirk was killed. But to say that's a good thing, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.200 if you're a politician, I'm gonna argue you're done with that, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:10.280 You're gone. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.760 And the same thing with anybody who says and. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:20.600 These were open chats, Holocaust jokes and rape commentary, and 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:25.200 I mean just such offensive stuff. Vance does not want 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.720 those people to resign. That was just jokes among young people. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.160 So according to Vance, it doesn't matter what a Republican says, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:40.200 it does not matter. There will be no retribution, there 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.560 will be no accountability. If the Democrats say it, it's 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.120 all over. They've got to go. They've got to go. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.160 And you know, when we talk about polarity, even that 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.640 even people talking about and joking about the Holocaust and 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.800 rape and lynching. I don't know if lynching even took 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.520 place in this conversation, But no, no, we don't resign 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.840 for that because those are just ah shucks, just kids. 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:12.520 It's just kids having a good time. I've really gotten there. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.200 And by the way, on both sides of the aisle, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:19.560 I mean politicians who in my opinion, actually have a 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.440 decent view of what this country is about. Both sides 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.640 were screaming, they've got to go. You cannot have this, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:34.360 you cannot have this, and here we go. He reiterated 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.800 about the kids. This is on Wednesday Vance and on 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.680 the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, which I think is run 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.280 by Charlie Kirks, Charlie Kirk's wife. I think she's handling 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.440 the podcast and other conservatives are coming in and taking 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.680 turns doing the podcast. And he was asked about the 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.080 reporting that a person seriously wishing for political violence and 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:01.280 political assassination is one thousand times worse than what a 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.679 bunch of young people, a bunch of kids say in 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:12.680 a group chat. You know, when I say we've gone crazy, 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.800 when I say politics has gone absolutely nuts, I mean it. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.720 And that's all the way up up, that's up the 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.200 ladder to the very highest reaches of our government. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:24.719 It's all crazy. 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:30.040 Pritzker, who absolutely disagrees with the president. So the President 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.360 doesn't come back and say Pritzker is nuts. Well he does, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.119 you know, And I am I'm okay with that. I mean, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.080 I like, thank frankly Donald Trump getting to our level 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.960 and being real. The guy's a jerk, the guy's an ass. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.800 But how about the guy should be arrested. We should 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.520 arrest him for what he's doing. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.800 You know what. And I'm saying, this is the president, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.080 you know what, have some balls? Have some balls? Call 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.520 cash Pttel call him. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.639 Right now, get on the phone and say, you go 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.480 arrest Pritzker, and you argue that he has violated some 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.119 kind of federal law, and you go handcuff him right now, 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:11.919 you gutless wonder. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:18.040 You say he should be arrested. Then do it? All right? 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:25.399 Oh all right? Let me tell you what used to happen. 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.200 I think if you did any traveling decades ago, and 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.720 when I started traveling in my twenties and through my 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.720 thirties and my forties, even my fifties. Now I'm one 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.120 hundred and thirty years old, I was told many times 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.320 that that American passport that you hold is the most 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:49.160 valuable passport on earth. And why is that well, because, 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.359 first of all, the most countries in the world that 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.679 allow you to come in without a visa was the 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:59.760 American passport. The countries that accepted and wanted to a 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.119 Mariamericans in more than any other country in the world. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:10.080 And so we've sort of gone down. The Henley Passport Index, 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.000 which of course no one knows what they hell that is, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:18.560 has rankings measuring passport potency in this regard the number 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.280 of countries that let you in without a visa. Countries 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.119 will let you in without a visa, are countries that 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:29.399 want you in, and that is a part of this index. Okay, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.399 for the first time in twenty years, we're out of 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.600 the top ten. Three Asian passports now command the top 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:41.160 Singapore one hundred and ninety three destinations worldwide visa free, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.400 and then South Korea and then Japan. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.440 We're now down to twelfth place. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.120 We were number one even as late as twenty fourteen, 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:57.520 where the American passport was worth everything. The American passport 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:03.000 was worth real, real money back in the day. I 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.000 mean people, what you were told is you hang on 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:11.680 to your money, your wallet, and your passport, with your 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.720 passport being the most valuable thing that you had on 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:21.920 you if you were traveling overseas, and so now it's 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.120 just access changes. 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.280 In April, Brazil withdrew the visa. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:30.280 Free access for citizens from the US, Canada, Australia. Because 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:35.720 of reciprocity, China has been introducing more welcoming policies. It 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.400 used to be impossible to go into China. Now, man, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:43.359 they want everybody in there except the US citizens. We 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.280 still need a visa and it's not that easy to 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:53.800 get in Papua New Guinea and me and mar they're 0:20:53.960 --> 0:21:00.160 higher than we are. Somalia, okay, Somalia is a launch 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.560 of a new eVisa system and Vietnam's exclusion of the 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.840 US from its visa free edition. Now keep involved. I 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:11.720 don't know if you've ever been to Somalia, but Somalia 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.600 they're chefs. They have a couple of three star Michelin 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:20.680 chefs who use branches to serve you dinner. Because that's 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:27.320 it sticks. This is Somalia, and you need a visa 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.840 to get into Somalia. You think Somalia would desperately want 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:32.800 anybody with money. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:33.960 Nope. 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.720 The UK had the top spot on the index in 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.200 twenty fifteen. I remember twenty fourteen, the US dropped out 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:47.240 and the UK is now in its lowest ever six 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:51.640 to eighth place. Okay, there are a few that are 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.520 at the bottom, at the very bottom of the list. 0:21:55.000 --> 0:22:01.040 Number one oh six Afghanistan visa free access to just 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.760 twenty four destinations. I want to know which countries love 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:11.840 Afghanis coming into their countries because Afghanis have so much money. Right, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:18.080 Syria is way down at the bottom too, not good, so. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.720 Highly desirable passports. 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:26.040 Well, not only do they represent people who countries want 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.880 in read money investment, we. 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.160 Want to treat people from that country very well. 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:37.920 But also that also translates into very few restrictions between 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.359 the US and Europe. For example, we don't have a 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.480 passport issue. I mean, there's no country that gives me 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:45.439 we need a visa with flying to Germany, who fly 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:50.200 into France with fly into the UK internative passport other countries. Yeah, 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.080 all right, this is KFI Am sixty. 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:56.400 You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.280 Catch my show Monday through Friday, six am to nine 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:03.320 am in any time on demand on the iHeartRadio app.