January 13, 2025 • 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh the speaker, you know, I can't even begin. Tip
O'Neill was speaker during my life, my early childhood, and
I remember it. And there are those that if we
were in a classroom setting would debate whether or not
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Tip O'Neil or Newt Gingrich or quite frankly, both of
them are the two most effective and significant speakers of
the last sixty years. The Contract for America was historic,
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We're going to talk to the speaker about that tomorrow.
If you're just waking up, the death toll has now
risen to twenty four The visuals from the Los Angeles
area continue to be apocalyptic looking. Containment is not very good.
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For six days later. We're looking at fourteen percent containment
in the Palisades area fire and twenty seven percent containment
in the Eton fire. Roy O'Neil is going to be
joining us throughout the morning. We talk about Blue Origin
here in a second, But first things first, down these fires,
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very little containment six days in Rory. Then the death
toll continues to rise.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well right, and you know, some of these other fires
are popping up, like the Hurst fire there was a
subhulvid of fire are also quickly being pounced upon and
they are getting controlled and contained. I think the Hurst
fire is around ninety percent contained at this point, but
you're right, the two big ones, the Palisades fires, about
twenty five thousand acres and it's only about thirteen fourteen
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percent contained. But a lot of progress was made over
the weekend, and there are fears that that could all
get wiped away today and tomorrow as those Santahna winds
return with GUSS forty to fifty sixty miles per hour,
still well below where they were a week ago this time,
but really going to slow down their efforts. It's a
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question as to whether or not they can still operate
the helicopters and the planes, just how bad the wind
get winds.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, is
expected to make its first launch into space this week.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Tell us about this competition, trime and busses. They tried
to do it this morning, but it was a no go.
Technical problems for this brand new rocket three hundred and
twenty feet tall. It's the big Falcon rocket that Musk flies,
is about three hundred and seventy feet tall depending on
its configuration. The old Saturn five that took us to
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the Moon was about three hundred and sixty feet tall.
So this one is up there. But look, these technical
problems on a first ever flight are all to be expected.
Blue Origin has been successful in launching you know, William
Shatner and celebrities on a much smaller New Shepherd rocket
in Texas, but this baby's sitting on a launch pad
still in Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The role of this, the role of the competition with
Elon Musk, the cooperation with NASA. You follow the space
program from its origins. Give everybody a sense of the
encouragement of this and why it's so vital.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, NASA, we NASA is funding a lot of this
first SpaceX and now Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos because
we want to develop a commercial space industry. NASA wants
to focus on doing the hard stuff go into the
Moon and to Mars. That's why they sort of went
away from Space Shuttle saying it's it's one hundred and
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fifty miles up, it's not really a big deal. Let's
focus on and let's turn this over to the private sector,
which is what they're trying to do with a lot
of seed money to get these companies going. And they
want to use SpaceX and Blue Origin to get us
back to the Moon. So they are contracted on a
lot of the future NASA missions to go to the
Moon and on to Mars. So it's a lot of
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this work is being farmed out to companies like this.
Competition is a good thing as a space race again, yeah,
do we have sixty seconds or no? Thirty seconds? Thirty seconds?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay, So is this partly to handoff We'll keep doing
the hard science to get us there, but by doing
it simultaneously, you're there to bring others there, perhaps for
living or visiting. Is that why they're doing it in conjunction? Yeah,
and then they can find the problem.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
The private companies can find profitable ways to do things.
You know, we help to develop and pay for the
develop up and say of space accidents were usable rocket. Well,
now they're launching all those Starlink satellites thanks on a
rocket that we helped defund the development of. So it's
sort of that compared to aviation initially when the US
Postal Service started sending air mail, that was a huge
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boon to aviation in the US.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Sort of similar to that in this century or my
national correspondent Rory O'Neill be back again next hour. Thanks
roor V. She's gonna get smoking time for your Sounds
of the Day.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what he
said either.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's got to be a big bits understanding. I'm going
I'm going l I like. I guess it's fitting that
we have that Sounds of the Day intro because we
start with Joe Biden, who claims not only would he
have beaten Donald Trump had he run against Donald Trump,
but so would Kamala Harris have.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think I when beaten Trump could have beaten Trump,
and I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump, would
have beaten Trump.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It wasn't about.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I thought it was important to unify the party, And
when the party was worried about whether or not I
was going to be able to move, I thought, even
though I thought I could win again, I thought it
was better to unify the party. And it was the
greatest honor in my life to be President United States.
But I didn't want to be one who caused a
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party that wasn't unified to lose an election.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
And that's why I stepped aside. But I was confident
she could win.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, in his defense, I think it was just poorly worded.
He I think he knows Kamala Harris lost. I think
he does. But in making the choice, he thought she
could win and would win, and that by stepping away
he would unite the party in a way that it
could not have come out of the Convention United had
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he remained. We'll give him an excuse on that one.
This little tirade on freedom of speech or the lack thereof,
Not so certain I can make sense of this one.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
For him of walking away from facts checking, as well
as not reporting anything having to do with discrimination regarding
to TPS, I find to be just contrary to American justice,
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American the way we.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Talk about one another telling the truth matters. I mean,
it's I know I'm on.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
National television, but you all are local reporters and national reporters.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I'm not this not allergit real question.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
But what do you think you think it doesn't matter
that they let be printed.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Joe Biden ever has dreams that he fells leap during
a news go But yes, it's a lot. The reason
Facebook is stepping away from these third party fact checkers
is they haven't been accurate. So to say you're against
Facebook stopping the practice of using third party fact checkers
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when it's been proven to have enemy nations involved and
being false fact checking is kind of ignoring the root
of the story. But it went on and on.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Millions of people reading things that are simply not true.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I mean, I want to know what that's all about.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It's just completely contrary to everything America is about.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
We want to tell the truth. We haven't always done
it in a nation. We want to tell the truth
and the.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Idea that you know, a billionaire can buy something and say,
by the way, from this point on, we're.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Not gonna we're not going to fact check anything.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And you know, when you have millions of people reading
going online reading this stuff it is anyway, I think it's.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And by the way, yeah, um, I don't know what
he was saying, and I don't think he knows what
he was saying to quote to quote Donald Trump. I
think the meme my favorite. Well, actually, I think it
might have been a Babylon Bee headline fake headline, which
was Facebook who denies censoring Americans says it will stop
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censoring Americans might have been the more accurate portrayal. Here's
The State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana
Bash as they cover the election and it's results.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Biden was asked by reporters at the White House Friday
if he regretted his initial decision to run for re election,
and well, let's just buld the table.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I think I would have beaten Trump, could have beaten Trump,
and I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump, would
have beaten Trump.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
And when the party was worried about whether or not
I was.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Going to be able to move, I thought it was
even though I thought I could win again, I thought
it was better to unify the party.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
But I didn't want to be one who.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Caused a party that wasn't unified to lose an election,
and that's why I stepped aside.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
But I was confident she could win.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
First of all, it's just I think Kamala would have
beaten Trump. She ran against them, as you lost, that's
just nonsensical.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Well, I think he was trying. I think he was
trying to give her kudos for running a strong campaign.
I think he.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Was trying to backtrack after he's been spending the last
couple of months like basically dissing her.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I see, I don't think that's fair.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
I could have want, I could have won.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
There is not a politician in the world who's going
to tell you that they couldn't have won, wouldn't have
won had they stayed in the race. I mean, these
that's just that is how they are. I still think
the question no one's asking is who's been running the
country for four years? And if not Joe Biden, who
who might be running it right now? Why not the
twenty fifth Amendment right now? Because he doesn't seem to
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be any better. In fact, he seems worse, which leads
us to our final side of the day, Bill Maher
discussing all eighty year olds are not the same.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
This was a case, okay, where Biden was too old.
Having made that case that it's a case by case basis,
I was now saying, yes, some of those cases are
that the person just is too old for the job.
And he was going to be much like Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
someone who was seen in history as one who stay
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stayed at the fair too long and cost his party dearly.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And he did. And you know, I don't.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Think history is going to treat Joe Biden kindly for
doing that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
All I want to end on that note, all right, So, no,
history is not going to be kind to Joe Biden.
In fact, he's already leaving office at the bottom with
Richard Nixon, and I said, time will be even more unkind.
It will not just rule him the worst president ever.
It will rule that he was never actually president, and
it make it to the bottom of who's been president.
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But that's Bill Maher saying history won't be kind to
Joe Biden, who didn't go through the rigors of a campaign.
He was hit in a basement during a COVID shadow
campaign to save the democracy? But will reality be kind
to this? Will the lesson be how do we survive
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four years with no president or will the lesson be
Let's take a look at all of these people who
come to office at a very young age and stay
for a half a century until a tow tag arrives.
Will this get America to look differently at aged senators
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to narrativize that the Trump administration will withhold disaster relief
from California following the deadly fires. Appearing on Fox News Sunday,
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Van said, poor governance is one of the big reasons
these fires were so destructive.
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I mean, some of these reservoirs have been dry for
fifteen twenty years. The fire hydrants are being reported as
going dry while the fire fighters are trying to put
out these fires. There is a serious lack of competent
governance in California, and I think it's part of the
reason why these fires have gotten so bad. We need
to do a better job at both the state and
federal level.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Future Vice President promise the upcoming administration will prioritize disaster response.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
I do think, frankly, the federal government has to do
a better job. President Trump is committed to doing a
better job when it comes to disaster relief. That's true
for the hurricane victims and flood victims in North Carolina.
It's true for the fire victims in California, with fourteen
percent containment in the Palisades just twenty seven percent containment
and eating. The Los Angeles Police Department is warning of
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to look up for false job solicitation scams, including job
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and asking for payment or other services. There is also
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The LAPEDA is inviting people to call it's non emergency
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Watching football this weekend. I think you could sense from
all the announcers. I think real football fans could sense
the Baltimore Ravens healthy at the right time, playing their
best football at the right time. Always one of the
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best coached and prepared football teams. But the addition of
Derrick Henry to already Lamar Jackson, and they do have
some injuries at wide receiver, but this is still a
very very good football team and a very good young defense.
They look like the buzz Saw to me. In other words,
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I have to like kind of like when I had
this illness, I have to swim to the top of
my head to have a thought the notion. And we're
going to find out this weekend. Now, the tough part
for Baltimore is going to be they have to play
the Bills in Buffalo. I get that, but I can't
see a way in which Buffalo wins this game, let
alone the Chiefs after that. I don't think I'll have
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a problem with Houston. The question is are the Rams
the Baltimore Ravens of the NFC, And I think they are.
Will find out they don't get to play at home tonight.
They're going to be distracted by what's happening at home,
and they're gonna be playing in an arrival city in Phoenix.
But this is a Super Bowl team of a few
years ago that we'll be ready for this game tonight
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against the Vikings. But that'll be the final piece of
the puzzle. If you fell asleep last night, the Commanders
joinked their way to the divisional round, winning twenty three
to twenty over the Buccaneers. Big fumble by Baker Mayfield
set that up. Packers fell to the Eagles twenty to twenty.
Packers just couldn't get out of their own way the
entire game. The Eagles look beatable to me. Commanders I
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was expecting to win, but not the way they won.
Bills dominated Denver. Now, Sean Painn's had a terrific job
of that football team, but they've got a wayte to go,
and it's tough to win in Buffalo. Baltimore will find
that out next weekend. Chargers just not even in it
against the Texans. So you know, as I'm watching this,
you can always get caught up in the wildcard round.
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And there's a reason why the Lions are on a bye.
There's a reason why the Chiefs are on a bye.
They're the two best teams in football, So everybody's got
one of these other teams have got to rise up
and try to knock them out. I still think the
Rams and Baltimore are the only two teams that can,
but time will tell. We do have our national championship set.
Do you know in the end we end up with
a five versus six? No? Boy, of those are good
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fives and sixes, aren't they? Ohio's date and Notre Dame?
And then we have the Red Wings Winter last Night
six to two over the Kraken Stars one three two
over the Senators, Lightning five to two over the Penguins,
and the Ducks are three to two and overtime over
the Canes. All our hockey teams of your morning shows,
City Interest one Kings by five over the Bulls, Calves
(20:52):
lost Thunder Big forty one over the Wizards. Do you
think if we put the Wizards in March Madness they'd
get very far? Or the New Orleans Pelicans. I don't
think the Pelicans could make it to the Sweet sixteenth,
I really don't. Soun's the winner over the Hornets, and
Bucks lost to the Knicks, and the Maps felt of
the Nuggets. All right, that sports let's get out of talk.
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I talk about The Matrix a lot. And by the way,
if you haven't seen and you'd be surprised. I didn't
see the movie Matrix until well, maybe it's four years
ago now, and I was shocked how relevant it was.
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How a government that was intended to have you in
charge as folician and they just put kings that have
evolved into the illusion of a king and a worship
of the presidency, but are really behind the scenes, deep state,
administrative state, and you're nothing but pawns in this game.
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You might as well be batteries. And the effect of
the Matrix of what you think you're living versus what
you're living now today you can turn on a television
and you can see Los Angeles in at state. The
question is, could you or the elected leaders have seen
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this before it happened and prevented it from happening? And
what keeps you from seeing that? Or even better yet,
look at the twenty twenty election. Not my theory, what
the left told you. They did in a Time magazine
manifesto February fifteenth of twenty twenty one entitled the Shadow
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Campaign to Save the Democracy. Oh we did some bad things,
but we had to in order to do a good thing,
save the democracy. And so we controlled narratives. How do
you do that? We silenced any opposing views. How do
you do that? And then we weaponize COVID and changed
(23:05):
selection laws. The matrix is what allows you to do
all that. And David's not isis senior contributor on this show,
and he visits often, and we have talked for years.
Five companies control all the media, really two maybe three,
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but two in general, the Empire of Comcast and the
Empire of Disney. And these are not truthful journalists. This
is pure narrative backing a pure agenda. And they're all
at the table. They were for COVID, they were during
the shadow campaign. But you're in a position that allows
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them to play this or you were in twenty twenty.
And that is the matrix, succelf. Now, how does the
matrix what's left of the main as it is alive today? Look, well,
let's do the fires in Los Angeles. They're a great
example the left narrative that these fires are the result
(24:11):
of global warming denial. Hop at peace in the New
York Times over the weekend, going through the winds and
the temperatures, and going back to al Gore, the denial
of catastrophic global warming that is, in essence, by theory
man caused and therefore must be man solved and tied
to CO two, all of which has been defunked. Do
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we have climate change whether cycles? Absolutely, But they're trying
to sell you this is global warming. CNN was trying
to do it immediately. Then you have another side of
the matrix that's saying this would be the right narrative.
This is DEI focus and failed governance. That's why Los
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Angeles is burning to the ground.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
The question is where is the matrix.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Here?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
In January of twenty twenty five, we just came out
of a twenty twenty four election, and through the entire process,
a demonized candidate tied up in a courtroom, charged with
thirty two felonies under gag order, was able to secure
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the primary without even running in it, without even debating
in a single primary debate, and the party was unified
and he got elected. Somewhere along the line, their ability
to control the narratives didn't work any longer. Does that
mean the matrix is broken? Because if it is, that's
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the really big, untalked about story this morning. Can Gavin
Newsom can see can MSNBC? Can the New York Times?
I don't even think she's trying, But can the mayor?
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Can they all sell you this is global warming? Or
is Donald Trump? Jd vance? And even sensible Americans on
mainstream legacy media pretty capable of seeing some of the
ridiculous lack of leadership that led to this. I'm not
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going to answer the question. I'm just going to ask
you it would be reasonable for somebody to assume, well,
the matrix must be dead or Donald Trump wouldn't have
got elected. I mean, they couldn't control the narrative, so
it's dead. They couldn't silence opposition thought. We now have
X owned by Elon Musk. We had an alliance of
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Musk and Vivek Ramaswami and Telsey Gabbard and RFK and
Donald Trump. Fifty four percent of Americas today approve of
the Trump transition. I mean, really, what kind of games
do you think you're going to have today? With the
Senate confirmation hearings? Even watching CNN try, even reading the
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New York Times, try, They're still trying to play the matrix.
Was the matrix destroyed in terms of the electoral process
or was it destroyed in general? Even Facebook is worth
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thinking about. Right? Did Trump checkmate Zuckerberg? He has no
other move? I mean that one's breathtaking. Right, Zuckerberg had
to acknowledge that Elon Musk's way of handling fact checking
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was wiser and better, and his was proven influenced by
foreign bad actors. I mean, he not only had to
admit that they were censoring falsely and stop doing it,
he had to adopt their process. That's a legitimate question.
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Is that an example of the matrix is dead or
just dead when it comes to Facebook? Just dead when
it comes to the twenty twenty four election. Well, we
can learn a lot by keeping our eye on this fire. Meanwhile,
the tragedy of the fire, the death toll it's risen
to twenty four, continues to ravage parts of southern California.
Sheriff's department is arrested nearly thirty people for looting. Do
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you remember when the citizens chased down the guy with
a flamethrower and then detained him until police arrived. He
turned out to being an a legal immigrant, And you know,
things are bad in Los Angeles when the Ukrainian President
Zelensky is offering to send firefighting help to Loss Angelus.
These are just some of the top stories waking up
this morning. This is Your Morning Show with Michael Del Trono.
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It was the fifth ranked Notre Dame Irish against the
sixth ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. But it is the seventh
seed Notre Dame eighth seed Buckeyes. Uh, that's I confused
seed and ranking. The death toll has now risen to
twenty four as the wildfires continue to burn. There's a
twenty seven percent containment in the Eaten fire. There's only
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a thirteen percent containment in the Palisades fire. As roy
O'Neil pointed out, there were some other fires that had
broke out. They were much smaller in size, more like
thousand acres or less that have been contained. But for
the two big fires, containment and bad wins today make
the fires in day six look still out of control.
(29:56):
All right, Big Senate confirmation hearings begin today. When we
last visited with John Decker, our White House correspondent, he
thought perhaps Telsea Gabbert might get a rough ride. Our
FK Junior might get a rough ride. Any other names
you want to add to that list, John Well.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Pete Haig Sets and his confirmation hearing actually gets underway
tomorrow the Senate Armed Services Committee, and there will be
some tough questions for Pete Haig Sets coming from Democrats
in particular, but maybe even.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
Some Republicans on the Senate.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
Armed Services Committee. Very important position to the Secretary of Defense.
So there are ten confirmation hearings that will get underway
this coming week. Those are ten individuals hoping to serve
in Donald Trump's administration who require Senate confirmation.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Okay, so they've all gone through the process of meeting
with Republicans and that was to kind of not only,
you know, head off any trouble before it starts, but
also to prepare for it. But the list that we're
going forward with, they feel good about going forward with.
It doesn't mean it's not going to come without challenges, right, Well.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
You know, nothing's ever a given. Yes, Republicans have a
fifty three forty seven advantage in the US Senate. If
every Republican is voting in unity, then of course that
individual will get through it be confirmed. But that's not
always a sure thing. You have some Republicans who have
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expressed some concerns about some of the nominees that we
just spoke about. I don't think that, you know, Donald
Trump is going to get everybody that he wants. I
think he's going at ninety nine point nine percent of
what he wants in terms of people being confirmed. But
there's always one or two people that can't make it.
And sometimes it's because of their FBI background checks.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
Sometimes it's because.
Speaker 11 (31:47):
Of other issues, maybe issues related to their financial disclosures.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
But we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 11 (31:54):
This process will take place over the course of the
next few weeks, leading up to, of course, what happens
next week.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
It's next week that Donald.
Speaker 12 (32:03):
Trump is born in as America's forty seventh president.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Real quickly, we have the latest Rasmus and fifty four
percent of the American people approve of Donald Trump's transition. Again,
I think Democrats, you know, will handle the process fiery,
but they might want to limit just how much trouble
or should they limit how much trouble they want to cause?
Knowing the American people are somewhat sitting in approval the
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way this process is.
Speaker 12 (32:29):
Headed well, that's right, you know.
Speaker 11 (32:31):
And for Joe Biden, you know, when he went through
this process four years ago his administration, when he was
sworn into office, people forget he had a fifty.
Speaker 12 (32:40):
Five percent approval rating, and.
Speaker 11 (32:42):
You know, six months later that's when it really started tanking.
Speaker 12 (32:45):
So I think that, you know, there is this.
Speaker 11 (32:46):
Honeymoon period that presidents have. I don't know how long
it will be, but I think most people would like
to see a new president succeed. And you know that
even goes for some individuals who may not have been
all thrilled about Ronald Trump being elected president.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
If they're Americans, first, they want to see the president succeed.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
John Decker is a Supreme Court bar attorney in addition
to being a White House correspondent. I know you got
to listen in to the Supreme Court hearings on the
TikTok case on Friday. We always talk about how you
can tell a lot by the questions the court is asking,
what was your take and should America anticipate at least
the Supreme Court allowing the ban or the sale, the
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mandatory sale to go forward.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
Yeah, my takeaway being in the court for almost two
and a half hours of oral arguments. Is that they
are not going to throw a lifeline to TikTok. They
believe that the national security concerns override the First Amendment concerns.
And to me, I think that the nineteenth is going
to come. That's the deadline, and if TikTok is not
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sold by that time, TikTok and their attorney acknowledges will
go dark. So we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Not that is not the.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Supreme Court banning to attack. That's the Supreme Court saying
that a national security threat is a reason to move
forward with this mandatory sale. Then it'll be left up
to TikTok. But all educations are TikTok.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Will not sell, right, Yeah, I don't think they will
because that algorithm.
Speaker 10 (34:16):
Is so valuable. It's valuable to the Chinese Communist Party. Michael.
Speaker 11 (34:21):
I think that's the reason why they haven't used the
two hundred and seventy days that they've had to seek
out a buyer.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
Of TikTok and make some money, you know.
Speaker 12 (34:31):
But we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
The clock is ticking, and the clock is kicking also
for the Supreme Court, they have to turn around an
opinion pretty quickly before that nineteenth deadline rolls around.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Tohn Decker is always thanks for your comments. We're all
in this together. This is your Morning Show with Michael
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A new way of talk, a new way of understanding.
Because we're in the stage. This is your morning show
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh the speaker, you know, I can't even begin. Tip
O'Neill was speaker during my life, my early childhood, and
I remember it. And there are those that if we
were in a classroom setting would debate whether or not
(01:20):
Tip O'Neil or Newt Gingrich or quite frankly, both of
them are the two most effective and significant speakers of
the last sixty years. The Contract for America was historic,
and he and his wife are the executive producers and
the co hosts of a ninety minute documentary called Journey
(01:43):
to America with Newt and calistic Ingridge. It's going to
air on PBS tomorrow night at nine Central, ten Eastern.
Check your local listings. We're going to visit with the
speaker about this project. It begs the question what is
greater the illegal immigration sins of Commission or the legal
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immigration sins of Omission. They're going to highlight nine and
celebrate nine immigrant lives that have impacted America and the world.
We're going to talk to the speaker about that tomorrow.
If you're just waking up, the death toll has now
risen to twenty four The visuals from the Los Angeles
area continue to be apocalyptic looking. Containment is not very good.
(02:28):
For six days later. We're looking at fourteen percent containment
in the Palisades area fire and twenty seven percent containment
in the Eton fire. Roy O'Neil is going to be
joining us throughout the morning. We talk about Blue Origin
here in a second, But first things first, down these fires,
(02:48):
very little containment six days in Rory. Then the death
toll continues to rise.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well right, and you know, some of these other fires
are popping up, like the Hurst fire there was a
subhulvid of fire are also quickly being pounced upon and
they are getting controlled and contained. I think the Hurst
fire is around ninety percent contained at this point, but
you're right, the two big ones, the Palisades fires, about
twenty five thousand acres and it's only about thirteen fourteen
(03:15):
percent contained. But a lot of progress was made over
the weekend, and there are fears that that could all
get wiped away today and tomorrow as those Santahna winds
return with GUSS forty to fifty sixty miles per hour,
still well below where they were a week ago this time,
but really going to slow down their efforts. It's a
(03:35):
question as to whether or not they can still operate
the helicopters and the planes, just how bad the wind
get winds.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, is
expected to make its first launch into space this week.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Tell us about this competition, trime and busses. They tried
to do it this morning, but it was a no go.
Technical problems for this brand new rocket three hundred and
twenty feet tall. It's the big Falcon rocket that Musk flies,
is about three hundred and seventy feet tall depending on
its configuration. The old Saturn five that took us to
(04:10):
the Moon was about three hundred and sixty feet tall.
So this one is up there. But look, these technical
problems on a first ever flight are all to be expected.
Blue Origin has been successful in launching you know, William
Shatner and celebrities on a much smaller New Shepherd rocket
in Texas, but this baby's sitting on a launch pad
still in Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The role of this, the role of the competition with
Elon Musk, the cooperation with NASA. You follow the space
program from its origins. Give everybody a sense of the
encouragement of this and why it's so vital.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, NASA, we NASA is funding a lot of this
first SpaceX and now Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos because
we want to develop a commercial space industry. NASA wants
to focus on doing the hard stuff go into the
Moon and to Mars. That's why they sort of went
away from Space Shuttle saying it's it's one hundred and
(05:06):
fifty miles up, it's not really a big deal. Let's
focus on and let's turn this over to the private sector,
which is what they're trying to do with a lot
of seed money to get these companies going. And they
want to use SpaceX and Blue Origin to get us
back to the Moon. So they are contracted on a
lot of the future NASA missions to go to the
Moon and on to Mars. So it's a lot of
(05:27):
this work is being farmed out to companies like this.
Competition is a good thing as a space race again, yeah,
do we have sixty seconds or no? Thirty seconds? Thirty seconds?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay, So is this partly to handoff We'll keep doing
the hard science to get us there, but by doing
it simultaneously, you're there to bring others there, perhaps for
living or visiting. Is that why they're doing it in conjunction? Yeah,
and then they can find the problem.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
The private companies can find profitable ways to do things.
You know, we help to develop and pay for the
develop up and say of space accidents were usable rocket. Well,
now they're launching all those Starlink satellites thanks on a
rocket that we helped defund the development of. So it's
sort of that compared to aviation initially when the US
Postal Service started sending air mail, that was a huge
(06:18):
boon to aviation in the US.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Sort of similar to that in this century or my
national correspondent Rory O'Neill be back again next hour. Thanks
roor V. She's gonna get smoking time for your Sounds
of the Day.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what he
said either.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's got to be a big bits understanding. I'm going
I'm going l I like. I guess it's fitting that
we have that Sounds of the Day intro because we
start with Joe Biden, who claims not only would he
have beaten Donald Trump had he run against Donald Trump,
but so would Kamala Harris have.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think I when beaten Trump could have beaten Trump,
and I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump, would
have beaten Trump.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
It wasn't about.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I thought it was important to unify the party, And
when the party was worried about whether or not I
was going to be able to move, I thought, even
though I thought I could win again, I thought it
was better to unify the party. And it was the
greatest honor in my life to be President United States.
But I didn't want to be one who caused a
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party that wasn't unified to lose an election.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
And that's why I stepped aside. But I was confident
she could win.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, in his defense, I think it was just poorly worded.
He I think he knows Kamala Harris lost. I think
he does. But in making the choice, he thought she
could win and would win, and that by stepping away
he would unite the party in a way that it
could not have come out of the Convention United had
(07:59):
he remained. We'll give him an excuse on that one.
This little tirade on freedom of speech or the lack thereof,
Not so certain I can make sense of this one.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
For him of walking away from facts checking, as well
as not reporting anything having to do with discrimination regarding
to TPS, I find to be just contrary to American justice,
(08:34):
American the way we.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Talk about one another telling the truth matters. I mean,
it's I know I'm on.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
National television, but you all are local reporters and national reporters.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I'm not this not allergit real question.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
But what do you think you think it doesn't matter
that they let be printed.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Joe Biden ever has dreams that he fells leap during
a news go But yes, it's a lot. The reason
Facebook is stepping away from these third party fact checkers
is they haven't been accurate. So to say you're against
Facebook stopping the practice of using third party fact checkers
(09:21):
when it's been proven to have enemy nations involved and
being false fact checking is kind of ignoring the root
of the story. But it went on and on.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Millions of people reading things that are simply not true.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I mean, I want to know what that's all about.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It's just completely contrary to everything America is about.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
We want to tell the truth. We haven't always done
it in a nation. We want to tell the truth
and the.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Idea that you know, a billionaire can buy something and say,
by the way, from this point on, we're.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Not gonna we're not going to fact check anything.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And you know, when you have millions of people reading
going online reading this stuff it is anyway, I think it's.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And by the way, yeah, um, I don't know what
he was saying, and I don't think he knows what
he was saying to quote to quote Donald Trump. I
think the meme my favorite. Well, actually, I think it
might have been a Babylon Bee headline fake headline, which
was Facebook who denies censoring Americans says it will stop
(10:34):
censoring Americans might have been the more accurate portrayal. Here's
The State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana
Bash as they cover the election and it's results.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Biden was asked by reporters at the White House Friday
if he regretted his initial decision to run for re election,
and well, let's just buld the table.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I think I would have beaten Trump, could have beaten Trump,
and I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump, would
have beaten Trump.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
And when the party was worried about whether or not
I was.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Going to be able to move, I thought it was
even though I thought I could win again, I thought
it was better to unify the party.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
But I didn't want to be one who.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Caused a party that wasn't unified to lose an election,
and that's why I stepped aside.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
But I was confident she could win.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
First of all, it's just I think Kamala would have
beaten Trump. She ran against them, as you lost, that's
just nonsensical.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Well, I think he was trying. I think he was
trying to give her kudos for running a strong campaign.
I think he.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Was trying to backtrack after he's been spending the last
couple of months like basically dissing her.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I see, I don't think that's fair.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
I could have want, I could have won.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
There is not a politician in the world who's going
to tell you that they couldn't have won, wouldn't have
won had they stayed in the race. I mean, these
that's just that is how they are. I still think
the question no one's asking is who's been running the
country for four years? And if not Joe Biden, who
who might be running it right now? Why not the
twenty fifth Amendment right now? Because he doesn't seem to
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be any better. In fact, he seems worse, which leads
us to our final side of the day, Bill Maher
discussing all eighty year olds are not the same.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
This was a case, okay, where Biden was too old.
Having made that case that it's a case by case basis,
I was now saying, yes, some of those cases are
that the person just is too old for the job.
And he was going to be much like Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
someone who was seen in history as one who stay
(12:44):
stayed at the fair too long and cost his party dearly.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And he did. And you know, I don't.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Think history is going to treat Joe Biden kindly for
doing that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
All I want to end on that note, all right, So, no,
history is not going to be kind to Joe Biden.
In fact, he's already leaving office at the bottom with
Richard Nixon, and I said, time will be even more unkind.
It will not just rule him the worst president ever.
It will rule that he was never actually president, and
it make it to the bottom of who's been president.
(13:17):
But that's Bill Maher saying history won't be kind to
Joe Biden, who didn't go through the rigors of a campaign.
He was hit in a basement during a COVID shadow
campaign to save the democracy? But will reality be kind
to this? Will the lesson be how do we survive
(13:38):
four years with no president or will the lesson be
Let's take a look at all of these people who
come to office at a very young age and stay
for a half a century until a tow tag arrives.
Will this get America to look differently at aged senators
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Show with Michael del Journo. Vice President elect jd Vance
is pushing back against any claims the left is trying
to narrativize that the Trump administration will withhold disaster relief
from California following the deadly fires. Appearing on Fox News Sunday,
(15:44):
Van said, poor governance is one of the big reasons
these fires were so destructive.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
I mean, some of these reservoirs have been dry for
fifteen twenty years. The fire hydrants are being reported as
going dry while the fire fighters are trying to put
out these fires. There is a serious lack of competent
governance in California, and I think it's part of the
reason why these fires have gotten so bad. We need
to do a better job at both the state and
federal level.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Future Vice President promise the upcoming administration will prioritize disaster response.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
I do think, frankly, the federal government has to do
a better job. President Trump is committed to doing a
better job when it comes to disaster relief. That's true
for the hurricane victims and flood victims in North Carolina.
It's true for the fire victims in California, with fourteen
percent containment in the Palisades just twenty seven percent containment
and eating. The Los Angeles Police Department is warning of
(16:36):
post fire recovery scams that may appear following the deadly
Palisades Eating fires.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Daniel Martindale has more in a.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Post share to social media on Sunday. The lapedtails residents
to look up for false job solicitation scams, including job
offers circulating on social media that claim to be from
the government or reputable agencies. It is also warning about
people who are posing as city, county, or federal employees
and asking for payment or other services. There is also
concern about phone and text message scams in which colors
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ask for donations for fire recovery or claim to be
able to help people impacted by the fires recover their losses.
The LAPEDA is inviting people to call it's non emergency
numbers to verify badge numbers and credentials.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
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Watching football this weekend. I think you could sense from
all the announcers. I think real football fans could sense
the Baltimore Ravens healthy at the right time, playing their
best football at the right time. Always one of the
(18:19):
best coached and prepared football teams. But the addition of
Derrick Henry to already Lamar Jackson, and they do have
some injuries at wide receiver, but this is still a
very very good football team and a very good young defense.
They look like the buzz Saw to me. In other words,
(18:40):
I have to like kind of like when I had
this illness, I have to swim to the top of
my head to have a thought the notion. And we're
going to find out this weekend. Now, the tough part
for Baltimore is going to be they have to play
the Bills in Buffalo. I get that, but I can't
see a way in which Buffalo wins this game, let
alone the Chiefs after that. I don't think I'll have
(19:00):
a problem with Houston. The question is are the Rams
the Baltimore Ravens of the NFC, And I think they are.
Will find out they don't get to play at home tonight.
They're going to be distracted by what's happening at home,
and they're gonna be playing in an arrival city in Phoenix.
But this is a Super Bowl team of a few
years ago that we'll be ready for this game tonight
(19:21):
against the Vikings. But that'll be the final piece of
the puzzle. If you fell asleep last night, the Commanders
joinked their way to the divisional round, winning twenty three
to twenty over the Buccaneers. Big fumble by Baker Mayfield
set that up. Packers fell to the Eagles twenty to twenty.
Packers just couldn't get out of their own way the
entire game. The Eagles look beatable to me. Commanders I
(19:44):
was expecting to win, but not the way they won.
Bills dominated Denver. Now, Sean Painn's had a terrific job
of that football team, but they've got a wayte to go,
and it's tough to win in Buffalo. Baltimore will find
that out next weekend. Chargers just not even in it
against the Texans. So you know, as I'm watching this,
you can always get caught up in the wildcard round.
(20:06):
And there's a reason why the Lions are on a bye.
There's a reason why the Chiefs are on a bye.
They're the two best teams in football, So everybody's got
one of these other teams have got to rise up
and try to knock them out. I still think the
Rams and Baltimore are the only two teams that can,
but time will tell. We do have our national championship set.
Do you know in the end we end up with
a five versus six? No? Boy, of those are good
(20:31):
fives and sixes, aren't they? Ohio's date and Notre Dame?
And then we have the Red Wings Winter last Night
six to two over the Kraken Stars one three two
over the Senators, Lightning five to two over the Penguins,
and the Ducks are three to two and overtime over
the Canes. All our hockey teams of your morning shows,
City Interest one Kings by five over the Bulls, Calves
(20:52):
lost Thunder Big forty one over the Wizards. Do you
think if we put the Wizards in March Madness they'd
get very far? Or the New Orleans Pelicans. I don't
think the Pelicans could make it to the Sweet sixteenth,
I really don't. Soun's the winner over the Hornets, and
Bucks lost to the Knicks, and the Maps felt of
the Nuggets. All right, that sports let's get out of talk.
(21:15):
I talk about The Matrix a lot. And by the way,
if you haven't seen and you'd be surprised. I didn't
see the movie Matrix until well, maybe it's four years
ago now, and I was shocked how relevant it was.
(21:35):
How a government that was intended to have you in
charge as folician and they just put kings that have
evolved into the illusion of a king and a worship
of the presidency, but are really behind the scenes, deep state,
administrative state, and you're nothing but pawns in this game.
(21:55):
You might as well be batteries. And the effect of
the Matrix of what you think you're living versus what
you're living now today you can turn on a television
and you can see Los Angeles in at state. The
question is, could you or the elected leaders have seen
(22:17):
this before it happened and prevented it from happening? And
what keeps you from seeing that? Or even better yet,
look at the twenty twenty election. Not my theory, what
the left told you. They did in a Time magazine
manifesto February fifteenth of twenty twenty one entitled the Shadow
(22:41):
Campaign to Save the Democracy. Oh we did some bad things,
but we had to in order to do a good thing,
save the democracy. And so we controlled narratives. How do
you do that? We silenced any opposing views. How do
you do that? And then we weaponize COVID and changed
(23:05):
selection laws. The matrix is what allows you to do
all that. And David's not isis senior contributor on this show,
and he visits often, and we have talked for years.
Five companies control all the media, really two maybe three,
(23:25):
but two in general, the Empire of Comcast and the
Empire of Disney. And these are not truthful journalists. This
is pure narrative backing a pure agenda. And they're all
at the table. They were for COVID, they were during
the shadow campaign. But you're in a position that allows
(23:50):
them to play this or you were in twenty twenty.
And that is the matrix, succelf. Now, how does the
matrix what's left of the main as it is alive today? Look, well,
let's do the fires in Los Angeles. They're a great
example the left narrative that these fires are the result
(24:11):
of global warming denial. Hop at peace in the New
York Times over the weekend, going through the winds and
the temperatures, and going back to al Gore, the denial
of catastrophic global warming that is, in essence, by theory
man caused and therefore must be man solved and tied
to CO two, all of which has been defunked. Do
(24:35):
we have climate change whether cycles? Absolutely, But they're trying
to sell you this is global warming. CNN was trying
to do it immediately. Then you have another side of
the matrix that's saying this would be the right narrative.
This is DEI focus and failed governance. That's why Los
(24:55):
Angeles is burning to the ground.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
The question is where is the matrix.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Here?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
In January of twenty twenty five, we just came out
of a twenty twenty four election, and through the entire process,
a demonized candidate tied up in a courtroom, charged with
thirty two felonies under gag order, was able to secure
(25:25):
the primary without even running in it, without even debating
in a single primary debate, and the party was unified
and he got elected. Somewhere along the line, their ability
to control the narratives didn't work any longer. Does that
mean the matrix is broken? Because if it is, that's
(25:50):
the really big, untalked about story this morning. Can Gavin
Newsom can see can MSNBC? Can the New York Times?
I don't even think she's trying, But can the mayor?
(26:11):
Can they all sell you this is global warming? Or
is Donald Trump? Jd vance? And even sensible Americans on
mainstream legacy media pretty capable of seeing some of the
ridiculous lack of leadership that led to this. I'm not
(26:37):
going to answer the question. I'm just going to ask
you it would be reasonable for somebody to assume, well,
the matrix must be dead or Donald Trump wouldn't have
got elected. I mean, they couldn't control the narrative, so
it's dead. They couldn't silence opposition thought. We now have
X owned by Elon Musk. We had an alliance of
(26:58):
Musk and Vivek Ramaswami and Telsey Gabbard and RFK and
Donald Trump. Fifty four percent of Americas today approve of
the Trump transition. I mean, really, what kind of games
do you think you're going to have today? With the
Senate confirmation hearings? Even watching CNN try, even reading the
(27:19):
New York Times, try, They're still trying to play the matrix.
Was the matrix destroyed in terms of the electoral process
or was it destroyed in general? Even Facebook is worth
(27:39):
thinking about. Right? Did Trump checkmate Zuckerberg? He has no
other move? I mean that one's breathtaking. Right, Zuckerberg had
to acknowledge that Elon Musk's way of handling fact checking
(28:00):
was wiser and better, and his was proven influenced by
foreign bad actors. I mean, he not only had to
admit that they were censoring falsely and stop doing it,
he had to adopt their process. That's a legitimate question.
(28:22):
Is that an example of the matrix is dead or
just dead when it comes to Facebook? Just dead when
it comes to the twenty twenty four election. Well, we
can learn a lot by keeping our eye on this fire. Meanwhile,
the tragedy of the fire, the death toll it's risen
to twenty four, continues to ravage parts of southern California.
Sheriff's department is arrested nearly thirty people for looting. Do
(28:44):
you remember when the citizens chased down the guy with
a flamethrower and then detained him until police arrived. He
turned out to being an a legal immigrant, And you know,
things are bad in Los Angeles when the Ukrainian President
Zelensky is offering to send firefighting help to Loss Angelus.
These are just some of the top stories waking up
this morning. This is Your Morning Show with Michael Del Trono.
(29:09):
It was the fifth ranked Notre Dame Irish against the
sixth ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. But it is the seventh
seed Notre Dame eighth seed Buckeyes. Uh, that's I confused
seed and ranking. The death toll has now risen to
twenty four as the wildfires continue to burn. There's a
twenty seven percent containment in the Eaten fire. There's only
(29:33):
a thirteen percent containment in the Palisades fire. As roy
O'Neil pointed out, there were some other fires that had
broke out. They were much smaller in size, more like
thousand acres or less that have been contained. But for
the two big fires, containment and bad wins today make
the fires in day six look still out of control.
(29:56):
All right, Big Senate confirmation hearings begin today. When we
last visited with John Decker, our White House correspondent, he
thought perhaps Telsea Gabbert might get a rough ride. Our
FK Junior might get a rough ride. Any other names
you want to add to that list, John Well.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Pete Haig Sets and his confirmation hearing actually gets underway
tomorrow the Senate Armed Services Committee, and there will be
some tough questions for Pete Haig Sets coming from Democrats
in particular, but maybe even.
Speaker 12 (30:28):
Some Republicans on the Senate.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
Armed Services Committee. Very important position to the Secretary of Defense.
So there are ten confirmation hearings that will get underway
this coming week. Those are ten individuals hoping to serve
in Donald Trump's administration who require Senate confirmation.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Okay, so they've all gone through the process of meeting
with Republicans and that was to kind of not only,
you know, head off any trouble before it starts, but
also to prepare for it. But the list that we're
going forward with, they feel good about going forward with.
It doesn't mean it's not going to come without challenges, right, Well.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
You know, nothing's ever a given. Yes, Republicans have a
fifty three forty seven advantage in the US Senate. If
every Republican is voting in unity, then of course that
individual will get through it be confirmed. But that's not
always a sure thing. You have some Republicans who have
(31:25):
expressed some concerns about some of the nominees that we
just spoke about. I don't think that, you know, Donald
Trump is going to get everybody that he wants. I
think he's going at ninety nine point nine percent of
what he wants in terms of people being confirmed. But
there's always one or two people that can't make it.
And sometimes it's because of their FBI background checks.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
Sometimes it's because.
Speaker 11 (31:47):
Of other issues, maybe issues related to their financial disclosures.
Speaker 12 (31:53):
But we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 11 (31:54):
This process will take place over the course of the
next few weeks, leading up to, of course, what happens
next week.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
It's next week that Donald.
Speaker 12 (32:03):
Trump is born in as America's forty seventh president.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Real quickly, we have the latest Rasmus and fifty four
percent of the American people approve of Donald Trump's transition. Again,
I think Democrats, you know, will handle the process fiery,
but they might want to limit just how much trouble
or should they limit how much trouble they want to cause?
Knowing the American people are somewhat sitting in approval the
(32:28):
way this process is.
Speaker 12 (32:29):
Headed well, that's right, you know.
Speaker 11 (32:31):
And for Joe Biden, you know, when he went through
this process four years ago his administration, when he was
sworn into office, people forget he had a fifty.
Speaker 12 (32:40):
Five percent approval rating, and.
Speaker 11 (32:42):
You know, six months later that's when it really started tanking.
Speaker 12 (32:45):
So I think that, you know, there is this.
Speaker 11 (32:46):
Honeymoon period that presidents have. I don't know how long
it will be, but I think most people would like
to see a new president succeed. And you know that
even goes for some individuals who may not have been
all thrilled about Ronald Trump being elected president.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
If they're Americans, first, they want to see the president succeed.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
John Decker is a Supreme Court bar attorney in addition
to being a White House correspondent. I know you got
to listen in to the Supreme Court hearings on the
TikTok case on Friday. We always talk about how you
can tell a lot by the questions the court is asking,
what was your take and should America anticipate at least
the Supreme Court allowing the ban or the sale, the
(33:26):
mandatory sale to go forward.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
Yeah, my takeaway being in the court for almost two
and a half hours of oral arguments. Is that they
are not going to throw a lifeline to TikTok. They
believe that the national security concerns override the First Amendment concerns.
And to me, I think that the nineteenth is going
to come. That's the deadline, and if TikTok is not
(33:50):
sold by that time, TikTok and their attorney acknowledges will
go dark. So we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Not that is not the.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Supreme Court banning to attack. That's the Supreme Court saying
that a national security threat is a reason to move
forward with this mandatory sale. Then it'll be left up
to TikTok. But all educations are TikTok.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Will not sell, right, Yeah, I don't think they will
because that algorithm.
Speaker 10 (34:16):
Is so valuable. It's valuable to the Chinese Communist Party. Michael.
Speaker 11 (34:21):
I think that's the reason why they haven't used the
two hundred and seventy days that they've had to seek
out a buyer.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
Of TikTok and make some money, you know.
Speaker 12 (34:31):
But we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
The clock is ticking, and the clock is kicking also
for the Supreme Court, they have to turn around an
opinion pretty quickly before that nineteenth deadline rolls around.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Tohn Decker is always thanks for your comments. We're all
in this together. This is your Morning Show with Michael
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