June 30, 2025 • 33 mins
Jury deliberations have started in the case against Sean “Diddy” Combs. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL recaps of the trial and where observers think it will end up.
It looks like there will be a vote tonight on President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. White House Correspondent JON DECKER explains what is in the legislation and why it is controversial.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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The Senate's going to start it so called vote a
Rama for President Trump's big beautiful bill starting this morning. Meanwhile,
North Carolina Senator Tom tell Us says, I've had enough
of this. I'm out of here. In twenty twenty six
and the President will is expected anyway to visit Alligator
(01:09):
Alcatraz in Florida, and then something very troubling. Two firefighters
are dead, another injured after reportedly being ambushed. Guy sets
a fire, waits for the fire department to arrive, and
then starts taking shots. We know very little other than
that at this point, but Rory O'Neil, our national correspondent
at your morning show, is joining us. Rory, any idea
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what the motive is and let's hope this isn't a
dry run to some new trend well.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Right, And you know, authorities initially were concerned that there
could be multiple shooters here, but now they're pretty confident
it was a lone gunman who was acting. In fact,
it was this suspect cell phone that maybe gave him up.
When they were monitoring the situation trying to analyze things,
they noticed one cell signal in the area wasn't moving
and that's what police closed in on. And when they
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did close on that site, they found the susp's body
with a gun nearby, but they didn't have too much
time to secure it as a crime scene because the
fire he set was fast at ingtion. So yeah, so
they got him out of there and are doing the
investigation that they can. Obviously, it's now go through social media,
see if you left behind any messages.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Clearly this was something that was planned, all.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, So still to come the identity of the suspect
and what potentially they've been able to gain as a motive.
You'll probably get some clues on social media. All right,
We've talked a lot about this for weeks now and
it's go time. So the jury is expected to get
the case of Sean Ditty Combs scum of the earth
to Bocher's terrible person. But have they come close to
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proving racketeering or sex trafficking in any way? All Time's
gonna tell, but it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, it seems it's gonna be a nail bier again.
This I think is week number seven of this trial.
As you said, five charges against Diddy, who could get
life in prison. Racketeering is probably the more most complicated.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It might bog down the jury.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
There are others like transportation over state lines for prostitution.
That one you might get on pretty easily. So we'll see,
you know what the kind of punishment you could have
as a result. But this is not going to be
Diddy's last time in the courtroom. I think He's facing
something like seventy civil suits as well that are all outstanding. So,
as you said, the jury is going to get the
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case today and then it's going to be in their hands.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm not a lawyer, John Decker is. He'll be along
next half hour. But burden of proof for a civil
trial far less than that of a criminal. Most people
felt like Diddy's biggest problems will be monetary in these
more fiduciary trials than really this criminal one.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But we'll see. You're right. I think he'll get something.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But his worst days are ahead, that's for exactly, and
that's a bad one behind him, all right for his lawyers. Yes,
Roy's gonna be back a little bit later on. There's
a new term we all have to learn, Henry, believe.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It or not.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The left they don't like Henry's either. I'll explain what
a Henry is later with where were you and Neil?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I just played a clip and I want to replay
it in case your alarm clock just went off. There's
nothing bigger than what happened Friday, and these Supreme Court rulings.
To use my terrible analogy, it's like when you're watching
a running back and there's just one defender to beat
and you see some guy just block him right out
of the play and in that instant, I mean, there's
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three seconds to go, you know he's got to run,
but you know in that instant he's going to go
all the way. That's what the left is seeing. There's
nothing to stop Donald Trump's agenda.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Now, the way to stop Donald Trump's agenda would be
to hear him out and vote against him, but no
one did. But see, left doesn't care about democracy. They
don't care about election results. They were using law fare
to try to block him before he could even engage
in a primary and failed, and then a general and failed.
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And then they were using rogue judges to try to
stall everything that the American people elected him to do.
And there's not big conversations about the wording of the
fourteenth Amendment? Is that clearly talking let me look at
the timing, look at the language. Wasn't that clearly about
slave children? Nobody's even you know, you can have that
(05:38):
conversation and it should be had.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Nobody's even having that.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Narratives don't go any deeper than the president hates anybody
that's not from America, which isn't true. Presidents is very
pro law and order, very pro secured borders.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I honed on this.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So here's CNN with their chief Legal affairs correspondent.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
PAULA. Reid.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Listen to her wording right here now.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Just to explain to you the significance of this. One
of President Trump's lawyers told me this case, this is
the ballgame for President Trump's agenda because we know more
than any modern president he loves to govern through executive action.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Remember she said that more than any other modern president,
who would be the definition of modern president, would FDR
fall under a modern president, would Reagan?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Would Obama?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's a modern president? And does this president, more than
any other modern president, rely on leading through executive orders.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I'll let her finish them.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
And the majority of these have been blocked by lower
court judges. So he has not been able to follow
through the things he wanted to do on the budget,
on mass firings, on immigration.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All of them have been overturned by appellate judge. She
leaves that up.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
So now that the justices are limiting the power that
judges have to block those policies. This is going to
allow them to implement these policies more quickly. Though it
is possible that some of these might come before the
Justices and in two or three years, not with constitutional concerns,
But right now, the question was really whether a single
judge anywhere in the country could block an executive action
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for the entire nation. And here, in a historic opinion,
the Justices are limiting that power. And again President Trump's
lawyers have told me this isn't the case that they
are watching. This means everything for the president's ability to
govern through executive actions. Now, we'll say these nationwide injunctions.
This is a bipartisan concern. These have plagued every modern president.
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But because President Trump does so much through executive action,
he has faced the greatest number of these nationwide and judgments.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So the president does so many executive orders, so many
more than any in modern history. That's why he has
faced so many injunctions. Okay, I'm going to say modern
history begins with FDR. My mother's still alive and FDR
was president, so that's pretty modern. She's alive. I'm going
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to see her in a couple hours, and he was
president when she was a child. That's pretty modern. How
many executive orders do you think FDR issued two thousand
and twenty three? What presidents back then did executive orders?
Twenty twenty three of them. Guess who's second on the list.
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His successor and also a Democrat. Rry Truman nine hundred
and six Eisenhower. Now remember, as we do this, in
the case of FDR more than two terms, but in
the others we're talking two terms versus one term. So
I had two terms, and he's third on the list
at four hundred and eighty four executive orders.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
John F.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Kennedy not even completing his first term two hundred and fourteen.
LBJ three hundred and twenty five, one term in a year.
By the way, that's four of the top five, all Democrats.
In fact, you can add up FDR and Truman and
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you have more executive orders in the next fifteen Nixon
three hundred and forty six, not quite two terms, four
to one hundred and sixty nine. That's a lot of
executive orders for a short period of time. Carter one term,
three hundred and twenty, Ronald Reagan two terms, three hundred
and eighty one sixty one more executive orders, and he
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served twice as long. H. W. Bush one term one
hundred and sixty six, half of the one term, Jimmy Carter,
Bill Clinton two terms three hundred and sixty four executive orders,
George W. Bush two terms two hundred ninety one, Barack
Obama two terms two hundred and seventy seven, Donald Trump
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in his first term two hundred and twenty one. By
the way, you add up Donald Trump's first year of
his second term and his first term, and you're roughly
where Jimmy Carter was after one term. Joe Biden one
hundred and sixty two in his first term, Donald Trump
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one hundred and sixty four. Right now, I'm not going
to sit here and beat you over the head and
make a case that the Democrats are the kings of
executive order, but they certainly lead in numbers. The case
I would make is since Ronald Reagan, it's roughly been
about the same for everybody. But that isn't how CNN
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is characterizing it, is it. No, this is a president
who loves to tyrannically rule through executive order more than
anyone in modern history.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Because President Trump does so much through executive action. He
has faced the greatest number of these nationwide injunctions, so
he and his Republican allies here on Capitol Hill is willing.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I guess that is a quick little fat check, right, Oh,
the death of journalism.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's your morning show with Michael del journal.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Can't have your morning show without your voice. Good morning,
and welcome to the show, Joe.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Good morning, Michael. The Islamist that's running for mayor.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Do people realize that he has the power to do
half the things that he wants to do when he
becomes mayor and loses that power like freezing the rent
as an assemblyman?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I think you're looking to technically, I think this
is more of a movement. I sense I'm just gonna
put this out there because I got to get to the
top five story worries. I sense this is the beginning
of a civil war and the turf is urban big
cities versus the rest of America. And that's what I
think this Canada represents more than literally pulling off this pandering,
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ridiculous agenda. Randy is next. Good morning, Michael. I just
want to tell you you're not crazy. I've been listening
to Christmas music almost every day from my entire life.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It's one of my joys. It just calms my soul.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I do it in the middle of heat, in the
middle of chaos, put on a Christmas It's my favorite season.
So the neuroassociation, and it just centers me. It's probably
what a lot of people use. Has anybody notice the
growth in contemporary Christian music radio stations in the last
five years.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh? Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
As this world starts paying the price for abandoning God,
more people are returning to God and to his music.
I just prefer Christian music over some of this modern
contemporary Christian Chris, one of my police officers listening.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Good morning, Michael. As a police officer, I really appreciate
what you said, but ambush is on police officers are uncommon.
They just don't get reported nationally. Just two days ago,
there were two officers in Milwaukee that were ambushed on
almost critically worked it. You can just google policeman Bush
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and see how often it happens.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh yeah, I know what happens.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But these two firefighters in Idaho represent an expansion of that.
And or let's hope it's one sick puppy and not
more of an ongoing trend, and it betrays the trust
we have when firefighters come to risk their life to
put out a fire and save life, they shouldn't have
to have their first thought be saving their own. Gabe
(13:50):
gets the final So here's a quick history lesson for
you is.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
I don't know if you know what the fireworks represent.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
But back when they had a fight at Warnick One
us our freedom back in seventeen seventy six, the only
way they had the light the battlefield that they fought
on was rockets and then fireworks. So that's what that represents.
That represents the light that was shown down on the
battlefield from the rockets above. That's what they seen as
they were winning the war, or.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Another way of saying it is and the rockets RADLM.
Bob's first.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Gameproof through that night.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yes, it all makes sense when we study history instead
of a ignore it all right. Two firefighters were killed
a third was injured by a gunman in Idaho, brad
Ford reports.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Toting County Sheriff Robert Norris says the suspect started a
brush fire and began shooting when firefighters arrived.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We do believe. We do believe that.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
That the suspect started the fire, and we do believe
that it was an ambush and it was intentional.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Three hundred police officers descended on the area and exchanged
gunfire with a aspect. His cell phone led them to
his location. He was found dead with a gun nearby.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm brad Ford, North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis is a
no vote on the Big Beautiful Bill and.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
A no go for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
The two term Republicans said in a statement that decision
is quote not a hard choice and that he hasn't
exactly been excited about running for another term. His announcement
comes after he said that he would oppose President Trump's
Big Beautiful Bill. Tillis's seat in the battleground state was
already a top target for Democrats in the twenty twenty
six mid term elections.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Amazoner Partley has a short list of actors to portray
the next Bond James.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Bond for Riot.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
He says his studio wants a British actor under the
age of thirty. According to the Outlook, The list includes
Spider Man actor Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson, and Jacob o'lordi,
who is Australian, but that's not seen as a deal
breaker for Amazon. The next James Bond film is expected
to release in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I'm Mark Mayfiew.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This is James from Greenwood, South Carolina, and my morning
show is your Morning Show with Michael Dojorno.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Hey, it's Michael.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
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Speaker 1 (16:39):
I'm Michael the Senate.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We'll start a so called vote rama on the President
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Senator Tillis of North Carolina is
a no go, no vote and a no go for
reelection in twenty twenty six, and he is a White
House Supreme White House correspondent for eight presidents, a Supreme
Court bar attorney, and what they affectionately call the King
(17:04):
of finn John Decker back from Finland.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Good morning, John.
Speaker 13 (17:08):
Hey, I wouldn't say that I'm not back from Finland.
I'm just you know, being mentioned in Finland. I'm back
from the Netherlands where the NATO summit took place last week.
That's where I was for a full week, and it's
good to be back on US soil.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
So the Finn using lots of your clips a lot,
what a week for the seriously, you've covered eight presidents,
Now what a week?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
He takes out the nukes in Iran, orchestrates the ceasefire
within thirty hours, gets everybody at NATO to pony at
five percent of GDP from two percent, and then gets
the week ends with the Supreme Court rulings. It's basically
that final block before the running back is going down
the sidelines all the way for a touchdown. I mean,
(17:50):
it's hard to have a better week than Donald Trump
just had.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
What a week.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
You know that Supreme Court decision handed down on Friday
of last week. I don't know if you looked at
your calendar, but the date was June the twenty seventh,
one year ago. On June the twenty seventh is when
that debate took place between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
What a remarkable year it has been for Donald Trump
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since that debate. Think about all that has happened, and
think about all that he accomplished just in the course
of one week.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, in terms of national security, foreign policy, it's been
a great year for the American people too. I might add,
all right, let's talk about this big beautiful bill. Why
are we calling it a vote a rama? I mean,
what is that all about.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
Well, it's because during the course of this day, the
Senate will vote on a slew of amendments to this
big beautiful bill, as the President calls it, as it
is called actually, and so because of all of those
votes on all of those amendments, it is called a
vote arama. And that's what will take place during the
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course of the day. Still know one hundred percent certainty
that this bill will pass, but it's it's looking that way.
And then, of course, if it does pass, it goes
back to the House, and then the House has to
determine whether they like all the changes that have been
made to this bill in the US Senate.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
John, when we say big beautiful bill, what do you
think the American people are thinking, Because I mean the
extension of the tax cuts to avoid one of the
largest tax increases in American history. Well, that's a good thing,
But the bill itself, we really don't know what it
is until these amendment votes.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
Right, Well, we now have a good idea. These are
additions to what's already contained in this legislation. I doubt
very much that every member of the US Senate, Democrat
or Republican or Independent, has read almost the one thousand
page bill, the one thousand piece of legislation that they're
voting on. But you know, there are things that, you know,
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make some senators uncomfortable. You mentioned Tom Tillis, he doesn't
like the cuts in medicaid. You know that's the reason
why he decided to, you know, vote the way he
did and essentially put his political ambitions aside. And you
know that's a decision that he's made. And now that's
a competitive seat in twenty twenty six during the mid
term elections and you know, to me, you don't see
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that that often.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
That's for sure. I have seen it, but you don't
see it that often. And that's what happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
So the President would probably argue that we're not really
cutting medicaid as much as we're cutting fraud. But the
reality is you are cutting Medicaid and I'm living in
a medicaid crisis right now with two elderly parents. That's
got a lot of Americans concerned, and not just the poor.
As Medicaid has expanded beyond the poor, whether that's good
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or bad, it.
Speaker 13 (20:42):
Has well, it has, you know, and you know, if
you are a senator in which you have rural hospitals
that you know really depend on that Medicaid funding, you
know you're concerned about what's contained in the legislation.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's the reason why you know, it.
Speaker 13 (20:58):
Took some amendments which have now been thrown out. It
puts the vote in doubt. You know that there were
some amendments that benefited those rural hospitals that were at
the behest of Lisa Murkowski, she's a Republican senator from Alaska.
Don't know if this changes her vote. She was a
yes vote but now those provisions have been taken out
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of the legislation, and I don't know how ultimately she
will vote on this bill when it's on the floor
of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And ironically, the gold date anyway, is have it done
by the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
That is the gold date.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
That is an artificial date. You know, if it slides
past the fourth of July, it slides past to.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
The fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
But that was the marker that the President laid down,
and you know, we'll see if he gets his wish.
That would be pretty remarkable if the House and the
Senate were able to meet that deadline. But even if
they don't, you know, I've always said there is just
so much pressure that the president is applying to Republicans
in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. I
do think, Michael, that a bill will make it to
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the president's desk, whether it's by July fourth or not.
I do think that a bill will make it to
the president's desk, certainly within his first year in office,
and then that.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Bill will be signed by the president.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
And that's pretty remarkable in terms of a legislative accomplishment.
A domestic legislative accomplishment for the president, and.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Whether that'll be seen as freedom from taxation or enslavery
due to even greater debt.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Time will tell John Decker, great to have you back,
Thanks a lot, Michael, good to be back with you.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We discovered somebody who may be one of the biggest
names in comedy that nobody knows. He was an original
writer and director for legendary shows Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage.
He's a key genius mind behind a lot of genius
(22:56):
genius household names, including mel Brooks, Larry Charles is sharing
all those experiences and all those memories, as well as
why he decided to write the memoir comedy Samurai, which
has now been released. And the first thing we had
to address is do you ever stop and think about
(23:16):
the extraordinary resume you resembled?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Yeah, I mean, my life has been very surreal.
Speaker 14 (23:23):
I have you stumbled through my life span and wound
up doing some great things, very inadvertently, as it turned out.
Only in retrospect did that all become clear, And it
seemed like it needed to be written down.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
And I've been sort of keeping.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Notes on it for a long time and I have
a great memory, so I remember almost everything. And I thought,
this is a This is when I see other memoirs,
I don't find them as compelling, right, And I, oh,
this is a story that everybody is going to be
interested in.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I think, well, yeah, because we love these shows were iconic.
I mean, let's start with Seinfeld and curve your enthusiasm
because I would really honestly say I would throw Frasier
in there with those three, if you'll forget me for
doing that, but I think those three were quite essentially
the best comedies ever. And I'll tell you what this.
I hope this doesn't offend you. I think most people
will put Seinfeld first. I put curb your enthusiasm first.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I'm okay with that. With that one two of whichever
way you want to put it.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
I think that the fact that Seinfeld still has resonance
to this data, that people still quote it, that people
still watch it.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
I've been comparing it to church.
Speaker 14 (24:29):
You know, people go to church and they want to
hear that same sermon in a way, and they know
it by heart already, but they like hearing it. And
there's something about Seinfeld that has that power. The quoting
of the lines, the concepts. I've been around the world
and I've been to Islamic countries and people will say
to me, my friend is just like Kramer. How do
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you explain that? I mean, we didn't know that it
was going to have that kind of power to it
when we were desperately trying to come up with funny stories.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
In preparing for this, I was like, well, how do
we really do justice to this book and to you
if we don't as we go acknowledge the greatness of
these shows and then acknowledge some of the stories behind
the scenes. So here's Seinfeld. What made it great? I
think the cast complimented the writing, which complimented the concept
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of nothing that made it unique and different. But you
were a part of it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So what was the secret sauce?
Speaker 14 (25:27):
Well, I think at the time when we first started
doing it, the only secret sauce was the belief, the
fatalistic beliefs that it was going to fail, that it
would never stay on the air, And that was okay
with us, and in a way that liberated us to
just do the funniest show that we thought was funny
and not worry about what anybody else thought, And in
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a sense that was the liberation of Seinfeld, was not
worrying about networks or notes or the audience and just
doing what we thought was funny, thinking that it would
be hanseled. You know, in retrospect looking back, all the
elements just happen to fall together, a great chemistry amongst
the cast, which.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Is accidental to a large degree.
Speaker 14 (26:11):
You don't know when you hire these disparate group of
people that they're going to click that way. It's like,
what would the Beatles be without Ringo and stay with
the Beatles?
Speaker 8 (26:21):
It might not have been the same thing. So I
feel like there's a lot.
Speaker 14 (26:25):
Of kind of synchronistic sort of events that makes Seinfeld
the thing that.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
It is, and you can't really predict that in advance.
You can only see that in retrospect.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The name of the book is comedy Samurai, and Larry
Tarr is one of the original writers of Seinfeld. I mean,
and by the way, the resume just gets stronger and
stronger and stronger. You put yourself in a room with
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, that alone must be I mean,
what else throwing mel Brooks in there?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
There's all the legends.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
Yeah, No, I mean working with mel Brooks, was you know,
working with Bob Dylan. I've had tremendous luck in these
I called them in the book. I called them my
inadvertent oracles because they come along with these crucial times
in my life, and they kind of set the next next.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Path for me go this way, you know, I'm madden,
yes exactly, And and I listened to them because they
were very wise men. And I because of that, I'm
here talking to you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well, Larry, I got I got interrupted and ask, all right,
so who's the funniest?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean, when you're.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Talking about the funniest of the funniest who have ever lived,
who's the funniest?
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Well, mel Brooks.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
I don't think there's anybody who was funnier than mel Brooks,
you know, I mean, he just had and he not
only was he the funniest, but he was.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
The most inspiring.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
Also, all the other comedians that we're talking about have
been inspired and influenced by mel Brooks.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Then you go on, not only were you an executive
producer of Curb your Enthusiasm, and I'm sure that relationship
was established with Seinfeld, but you directed eighteen episodes of Curb.
You were also involved with Entourage. I mean, we're talking
about the greatest comedies, the greatest cast. What kind of
stories do you have and share in this memoir? I
(28:12):
can only imagine with this group of people.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Oh well, each each show brought its own challenges.
Speaker 14 (28:18):
I mean, Curb actually was probably the loosest set that
I ever worked on, because everybody was just having a
really good time and you were able to go from
behind the scenes and just bring those people in front
of the camera and keep that vibe going.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You know, it was ad libbed right primarily it was.
Speaker 14 (28:36):
It's kind of a misnowmer in a way, because Larry
is a very fastidious, meticulous writer, and so he wrote
a very elaborate outline right where we knew everything that
had to happen in every scene and how it connected
to the other scenes. And then the dialogue would not
be written, and we would audition actors who have the
(28:57):
ability to add lib and improvise, and Larry, by the way,
would audition with every single actor, every actor that came in,
even if it was a whole day worth of people.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
He would sit there with him and do the scenes
with them. And that's how we chose people, and we
found great people.
Speaker 14 (29:15):
JB's smooth, and he sat down with Larry and they
just started going and suddenly a small part became you know,
Leon and so there was that you know, kind of
like treasure of like, you know, wow, we just discovered
something here that we didn't even know existed and transcended
the material.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
There is no wasted moments in kurbyr Enthusiasm, you know.
I think of Beat Panic, which I think is probably
the most perfect one episode of comedy ever.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
It's just so brilliant.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
There's so many things at the beginning that you think
are funny, and they're just they happen and they're gone,
but they're setting up something even funnier that ties to it.
I mean, that's what you get into that meticulous outline,
and then you add very talented people in great chemistry
so that it has the room to ad lib. I
think that's why it comes away the most influential series
of my life. It's just brilliant and I loved it.
(30:07):
But I mean we haven't even had a chance to
even talk about Entourage. That's a whole concept in and
of itself. The working with Bob Dylan, with Bill Maher,
do you ever feel kind of like the Forrest Gump
of comedy that did your life was just so effortlessly fortuitous.
I mean, didn't you start as a runner.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm mad about you. No, not at all.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
First of all, I don't feel like Forrest Gump at all.
Speaker 14 (30:34):
Actually, I feel like the comedy samurai who came into
these projects that were in their nasson stage and helped
make them what they were. I'm not an observer. I
wasn't just I didn't just happen to be there. I
made a difference on all these projects. And that's an
important point for me to recognize the role that I
(30:57):
played in all these things. And that's one of the
reasons you list off all those things is because when
I came up, Entourage was not going to be picked
up until I worked on it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Seinfeld was destined to be a failure, right. Jerry would
tell you that.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
All these shows, you know, Bora had been canceled and
they said, well, if you in directed, well we'll resurrect it.
So there's a lot, you know, there's a lot of
examples of things that were on the verge of just
being forgotten about, and that when I was able to
step in and see what needed to be done. I
was able to rise, you know, raise those those projects
(31:31):
to the level that we're talking about now, that we're
worthy of talking about in the book.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That's Larry Charles, A brilliant mind behind a lot of
brilliant minds.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
President Trump shrugging off any upcoming deadline for US tariffs
to go back into effect on several countries. Mark Mayfield
has more.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Trump told Fox.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
News he will soon inform those countries they can trade
with the US, but the tariffs aren't returning.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's the end of the schedule. I could send one
to Japan. Jam mister Japan, here's the story. You're going
to pay a twenty five percent tariff.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
The White House deadline for countries to come to the
bargaining table is July ninth. Trump told Fox News that
it's going to be very simple. He says he's going
to send letters to the countries that don't make a
deal by then and inform them they can trade with
the US, but the tariffs are returning.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm Mark Nefhewd.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Two firefighters were killed a third was injured when a
gunman created an ambush fire in Idaho.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Cotney Caddy Sheriff Robert Norris says the suspect started a
brush fire and began shooting when firefighters arrived.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
We do believe, We do believe that the.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Suspect started the fire, and we do believe that it
was an ambush and it was intentional.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Three hundred police officers descended on the area and exchange
gunfire with the suspect. His cell phone led them to
his location. He was found dead with a gun nearby.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. I'm
brad Ford.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
The judge is expected to give instructions to the jury today.
In the Sean Diddy Coombe sex trafficking case.
Speaker 15 (33:02):
It defends for Combs, says he's on trial for his
lifestyle and not a real crime. Comb's attorneys deliver they're
closing arguments on Friday, Thursday. A federal prosecutor told the
jury that Combs used violence, power, and fear to control
his victims. Chloe Maloss with more on the jury's considerations.
Speaker 16 (33:18):
There are five charges, including rico claiming organized crime, which
could carry the most complicated sentence. It could be life
in prison for him.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
So there's so much data.
Speaker 16 (33:29):
There's been over seven weeks of testimony, and it's a
lot for these jurors to sift through.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I'm we see Taylor. Well.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
The Democrats have always had an eye problem Israel. They
have a double eye problem now within Tafada. A visit
with Chris Walker coming up. We're all in this together.
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The Senate's going to start it so called vote a
Rama for President Trump's big beautiful bill starting this morning. Meanwhile,
North Carolina Senator Tom tell Us says, I've had enough
of this. I'm out of here. In twenty twenty six
and the President will is expected anyway to visit Alligator
(01:09):
Alcatraz in Florida, and then something very troubling. Two firefighters
are dead, another injured after reportedly being ambushed. Guy sets
a fire, waits for the fire department to arrive, and
then starts taking shots. We know very little other than
that at this point, but Rory O'Neil, our national correspondent
at your morning show, is joining us. Rory, any idea
(01:30):
what the motive is and let's hope this isn't a
dry run to some new trend well.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Right, And you know, authorities initially were concerned that there
could be multiple shooters here, but now they're pretty confident
it was a lone gunman who was acting. In fact,
it was this suspect cell phone that maybe gave him up.
When they were monitoring the situation trying to analyze things,
they noticed one cell signal in the area wasn't moving
and that's what police closed in on. And when they
(01:57):
did close on that site, they found the susp's body
with a gun nearby, but they didn't have too much
time to secure it as a crime scene because the
fire he set was fast at ingtion. So yeah, so
they got him out of there and are doing the
investigation that they can. Obviously, it's now go through social media,
see if you left behind any messages.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Clearly this was something that was planned, all.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Right, So still to come the identity of the suspect
and what potentially they've been able to gain as a motive.
You'll probably get some clues on social media. All right,
We've talked a lot about this for weeks now and
it's go time. So the jury is expected to get
the case of Sean Ditty Combs scum of the earth
to Bocher's terrible person. But have they come close to
(02:42):
proving racketeering or sex trafficking in any way? All Time's
gonna tell, but it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, it seems it's gonna be a nail bier again.
This I think is week number seven of this trial.
As you said, five charges against Diddy, who could get
life in prison. Racketeering is probably the more most complicated.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It might bog down the jury.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
There are others like transportation over state lines for prostitution.
That one you might get on pretty easily. So we'll see,
you know what the kind of punishment you could have
as a result. But this is not going to be
Diddy's last time in the courtroom. I think He's facing
something like seventy civil suits as well that are all outstanding. So,
as you said, the jury is going to get the
(03:26):
case today and then it's going to be in their hands.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm not a lawyer, John Decker is. He'll be along
next half hour. But burden of proof for a civil
trial far less than that of a criminal. Most people
felt like Diddy's biggest problems will be monetary in these
more fiduciary trials than really this criminal one.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But we'll see. You're right. I think he'll get something.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But his worst days are ahead, that's for exactly, and
that's a bad one behind him, all right for his lawyers. Yes,
Roy's gonna be back a little bit later on. There's
a new term we all have to learn, Henry, believe.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It or not.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The left they don't like Henry's either. I'll explain what
a Henry is later with where were you and Neil?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I just played a clip and I want to replay
it in case your alarm clock just went off. There's
nothing bigger than what happened Friday, and these Supreme Court rulings.
To use my terrible analogy, it's like when you're watching
a running back and there's just one defender to beat
and you see some guy just block him right out
of the play and in that instant, I mean, there's
(04:39):
three seconds to go, you know he's got to run,
but you know in that instant he's going to go
all the way. That's what the left is seeing. There's
nothing to stop Donald Trump's agenda.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Now, the way to stop Donald Trump's agenda would be
to hear him out and vote against him, but no
one did. But see, left doesn't care about democracy. They
don't care about election results. They were using law fare
to try to block him before he could even engage
in a primary and failed, and then a general and failed.
(05:15):
And then they were using rogue judges to try to
stall everything that the American people elected him to do.
And there's not big conversations about the wording of the
fourteenth Amendment? Is that clearly talking let me look at
the timing, look at the language. Wasn't that clearly about
slave children? Nobody's even you know, you can have that
(05:38):
conversation and it should be had.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Nobody's even having that.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Narratives don't go any deeper than the president hates anybody
that's not from America, which isn't true. Presidents is very
pro law and order, very pro secured borders.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I honed on this.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So here's CNN with their chief Legal affairs correspondent.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
PAULA. Reid.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Listen to her wording right here now.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Just to explain to you the significance of this. One
of President Trump's lawyers told me this case, this is
the ballgame for President Trump's agenda because we know more
than any modern president he loves to govern through executive action.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Remember she said that more than any other modern president,
who would be the definition of modern president, would FDR
fall under a modern president, would Reagan?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Would Obama?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's a modern president? And does this president, more than
any other modern president, rely on leading through executive orders.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I'll let her finish them.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
And the majority of these have been blocked by lower
court judges. So he has not been able to follow
through the things he wanted to do on the budget,
on mass firings, on immigration.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All of them have been overturned by appellate judge. She
leaves that up.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
So now that the justices are limiting the power that
judges have to block those policies. This is going to
allow them to implement these policies more quickly. Though it
is possible that some of these might come before the
Justices and in two or three years, not with constitutional concerns,
But right now, the question was really whether a single
judge anywhere in the country could block an executive action
(07:28):
for the entire nation. And here, in a historic opinion,
the Justices are limiting that power. And again President Trump's
lawyers have told me this isn't the case that they
are watching. This means everything for the president's ability to
govern through executive actions. Now, we'll say these nationwide injunctions.
This is a bipartisan concern. These have plagued every modern president.
(07:50):
But because President Trump does so much through executive action,
he has faced the greatest number of these nationwide and judgments.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So the president does so many executive orders, so many
more than any in modern history. That's why he has
faced so many injunctions. Okay, I'm going to say modern
history begins with FDR. My mother's still alive and FDR
was president, so that's pretty modern. She's alive. I'm going
(08:23):
to see her in a couple hours, and he was
president when she was a child. That's pretty modern. How
many executive orders do you think FDR issued two thousand
and twenty three? What presidents back then did executive orders?
Twenty twenty three of them. Guess who's second on the list.
(08:44):
His successor and also a Democrat. Rry Truman nine hundred
and six Eisenhower. Now remember, as we do this, in
the case of FDR more than two terms, but in
the others we're talking two terms versus one term. So
I had two terms, and he's third on the list
at four hundred and eighty four executive orders.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
John F.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Kennedy not even completing his first term two hundred and fourteen.
LBJ three hundred and twenty five, one term in a year.
By the way, that's four of the top five, all Democrats.
In fact, you can add up FDR and Truman and
(09:30):
you have more executive orders in the next fifteen Nixon
three hundred and forty six, not quite two terms, four
to one hundred and sixty nine. That's a lot of
executive orders for a short period of time. Carter one term,
three hundred and twenty, Ronald Reagan two terms, three hundred
and eighty one sixty one more executive orders, and he
(09:53):
served twice as long. H. W. Bush one term one
hundred and sixty six, half of the one term, Jimmy Carter,
Bill Clinton two terms three hundred and sixty four executive orders,
George W. Bush two terms two hundred ninety one, Barack
Obama two terms two hundred and seventy seven, Donald Trump
(10:17):
in his first term two hundred and twenty one. By
the way, you add up Donald Trump's first year of
his second term and his first term, and you're roughly
where Jimmy Carter was after one term. Joe Biden one
hundred and sixty two in his first term, Donald Trump
(10:38):
one hundred and sixty four. Right now, I'm not going
to sit here and beat you over the head and
make a case that the Democrats are the kings of
executive order, but they certainly lead in numbers. The case
I would make is since Ronald Reagan, it's roughly been
about the same for everybody. But that isn't how CNN
(11:01):
is characterizing it, is it. No, this is a president
who loves to tyrannically rule through executive order more than
anyone in modern history.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Because President Trump does so much through executive action. He
has faced the greatest number of these nationwide injunctions, so
he and his Republican allies here on Capitol Hill is willing.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I guess that is a quick little fat check, right, Oh,
the death of journalism.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's your morning show with Michael del journal.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Can't have your morning show without your voice. Good morning,
and welcome to the show, Joe.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Good morning, Michael. The Islamist that's running for mayor.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Do people realize that he has the power to do
half the things that he wants to do when he
becomes mayor and loses that power like freezing the rent
as an assemblyman?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I think you're looking to technically, I think this
is more of a movement. I sense I'm just gonna
put this out there because I got to get to the
top five story worries. I sense this is the beginning
of a civil war and the turf is urban big
cities versus the rest of America. And that's what I
think this Canada represents more than literally pulling off this pandering,
(12:14):
ridiculous agenda. Randy is next. Good morning, Michael. I just
want to tell you you're not crazy. I've been listening
to Christmas music almost every day from my entire life.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It's one of my joys. It just calms my soul.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I do it in the middle of heat, in the
middle of chaos, put on a Christmas It's my favorite season.
So the neuroassociation, and it just centers me. It's probably
what a lot of people use. Has anybody notice the
growth in contemporary Christian music radio stations in the last
five years.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh? Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
As this world starts paying the price for abandoning God,
more people are returning to God and to his music.
I just prefer Christian music over some of this modern
contemporary Christian Chris, one of my police officers listening.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Good morning, Michael. As a police officer, I really appreciate
what you said, but ambush is on police officers are uncommon.
They just don't get reported nationally. Just two days ago,
there were two officers in Milwaukee that were ambushed on
almost critically worked it. You can just google policeman Bush
(13:22):
and see how often it happens.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh yeah, I know what happens.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But these two firefighters in Idaho represent an expansion of that.
And or let's hope it's one sick puppy and not
more of an ongoing trend, and it betrays the trust
we have when firefighters come to risk their life to
put out a fire and save life, they shouldn't have
to have their first thought be saving their own. Gabe
(13:50):
gets the final So here's a quick history lesson for
you is.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
I don't know if you know what the fireworks represent.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
But back when they had a fight at Warnick One
us our freedom back in seventeen seventy six, the only
way they had the light the battlefield that they fought
on was rockets and then fireworks. So that's what that represents.
That represents the light that was shown down on the
battlefield from the rockets above. That's what they seen as
they were winning the war, or.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Another way of saying it is and the rockets RADLM.
Bob's first.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Gameproof through that night.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yes, it all makes sense when we study history instead
of a ignore it all right. Two firefighters were killed
a third was injured by a gunman in Idaho, brad
Ford reports.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Toting County Sheriff Robert Norris says the suspect started a
brush fire and began shooting when firefighters arrived.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We do believe. We do believe that.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
That the suspect started the fire, and we do believe
that it was an ambush and it was intentional.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Three hundred police officers descended on the area and exchanged
gunfire with a aspect. His cell phone led them to
his location. He was found dead with a gun nearby.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm brad Ford, North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis is a
no vote on the Big Beautiful Bill and.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
A no go for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
The two term Republicans said in a statement that decision
is quote not a hard choice and that he hasn't
exactly been excited about running for another term. His announcement
comes after he said that he would oppose President Trump's
Big Beautiful Bill. Tillis's seat in the battleground state was
already a top target for Democrats in the twenty twenty
six mid term elections.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Amazoner Partley has a short list of actors to portray
the next Bond James.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Bond for Riot.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
He says his studio wants a British actor under the
age of thirty. According to the Outlook, The list includes
Spider Man actor Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson, and Jacob o'lordi,
who is Australian, but that's not seen as a deal
breaker for Amazon. The next James Bond film is expected
to release in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I'm Mark Mayfiew.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This is James from Greenwood, South Carolina, and my morning
show is your Morning Show with Michael Dojorno.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Hey, it's Michael.
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Speaker 1 (16:39):
I'm Michael the Senate.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We'll start a so called vote rama on the President
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Senator Tillis of North Carolina is
a no go, no vote and a no go for
reelection in twenty twenty six, and he is a White
House Supreme White House correspondent for eight presidents, a Supreme
Court bar attorney, and what they affectionately call the King
(17:04):
of finn John Decker back from Finland.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Good morning, John.
Speaker 13 (17:08):
Hey, I wouldn't say that I'm not back from Finland.
I'm just you know, being mentioned in Finland. I'm back
from the Netherlands where the NATO summit took place last week.
That's where I was for a full week, and it's
good to be back on US soil.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
So the Finn using lots of your clips a lot,
what a week for the seriously, you've covered eight presidents,
Now what a week?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
He takes out the nukes in Iran, orchestrates the ceasefire
within thirty hours, gets everybody at NATO to pony at
five percent of GDP from two percent, and then gets
the week ends with the Supreme Court rulings. It's basically
that final block before the running back is going down
the sidelines all the way for a touchdown. I mean,
(17:50):
it's hard to have a better week than Donald Trump
just had.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
What a week.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
You know that Supreme Court decision handed down on Friday
of last week. I don't know if you looked at
your calendar, but the date was June the twenty seventh,
one year ago. On June the twenty seventh is when
that debate took place between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
What a remarkable year it has been for Donald Trump
(18:15):
since that debate. Think about all that has happened, and
think about all that he accomplished just in the course
of one week.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, in terms of national security, foreign policy, it's been
a great year for the American people too. I might add,
all right, let's talk about this big beautiful bill. Why
are we calling it a vote a rama? I mean,
what is that all about.
Speaker 13 (18:36):
Well, it's because during the course of this day, the
Senate will vote on a slew of amendments to this
big beautiful bill, as the President calls it, as it
is called actually, and so because of all of those
votes on all of those amendments, it is called a
vote arama. And that's what will take place during the
(18:58):
course of the day. Still know one hundred percent certainty
that this bill will pass, but it's it's looking that way.
And then, of course, if it does pass, it goes
back to the House, and then the House has to
determine whether they like all the changes that have been
made to this bill in the US Senate.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
John, when we say big beautiful bill, what do you
think the American people are thinking, Because I mean the
extension of the tax cuts to avoid one of the
largest tax increases in American history. Well, that's a good thing,
But the bill itself, we really don't know what it
is until these amendment votes.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
Right, Well, we now have a good idea. These are
additions to what's already contained in this legislation. I doubt
very much that every member of the US Senate, Democrat
or Republican or Independent, has read almost the one thousand
page bill, the one thousand piece of legislation that they're
voting on. But you know, there are things that, you know,
(19:52):
make some senators uncomfortable. You mentioned Tom Tillis, he doesn't
like the cuts in medicaid. You know that's the reason
why he decided to, you know, vote the way he
did and essentially put his political ambitions aside. And you
know that's a decision that he's made. And now that's
a competitive seat in twenty twenty six during the mid
term elections and you know, to me, you don't see
(20:13):
that that often.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
That's for sure. I have seen it, but you don't
see it that often. And that's what happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
So the President would probably argue that we're not really
cutting medicaid as much as we're cutting fraud. But the
reality is you are cutting Medicaid and I'm living in
a medicaid crisis right now with two elderly parents. That's
got a lot of Americans concerned, and not just the poor.
As Medicaid has expanded beyond the poor, whether that's good
(20:41):
or bad, it.
Speaker 13 (20:42):
Has well, it has, you know, and you know, if
you are a senator in which you have rural hospitals
that you know really depend on that Medicaid funding, you
know you're concerned about what's contained in the legislation.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's the reason why you know, it.
Speaker 13 (20:58):
Took some amendments which have now been thrown out. It
puts the vote in doubt. You know that there were
some amendments that benefited those rural hospitals that were at
the behest of Lisa Murkowski, she's a Republican senator from Alaska.
Don't know if this changes her vote. She was a
yes vote but now those provisions have been taken out
(21:20):
of the legislation, and I don't know how ultimately she
will vote on this bill when it's on the floor
of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And ironically, the gold date anyway, is have it done
by the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
That is the gold date.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
That is an artificial date. You know, if it slides
past the fourth of July, it slides past to.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
The fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
But that was the marker that the President laid down,
and you know, we'll see if he gets his wish.
That would be pretty remarkable if the House and the
Senate were able to meet that deadline. But even if
they don't, you know, I've always said there is just
so much pressure that the president is applying to Republicans
in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. I
do think, Michael, that a bill will make it to
(22:05):
the president's desk, whether it's by July fourth or not.
I do think that a bill will make it to
the president's desk, certainly within his first year in office,
and then that.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Bill will be signed by the president.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
And that's pretty remarkable in terms of a legislative accomplishment.
A domestic legislative accomplishment for the president, and.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Whether that'll be seen as freedom from taxation or enslavery
due to even greater debt.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Time will tell John Decker, great to have you back,
Thanks a lot, Michael, good to be back with you.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We discovered somebody who may be one of the biggest
names in comedy that nobody knows. He was an original
writer and director for legendary shows Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage.
He's a key genius mind behind a lot of genius
(22:56):
genius household names, including mel Brooks, Larry Charles is sharing
all those experiences and all those memories, as well as
why he decided to write the memoir comedy Samurai, which
has now been released. And the first thing we had
to address is do you ever stop and think about
(23:16):
the extraordinary resume you resembled?
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Yeah, I mean, my life has been very surreal.
Speaker 14 (23:23):
I have you stumbled through my life span and wound
up doing some great things, very inadvertently, as it turned out.
Only in retrospect did that all become clear, And it
seemed like it needed to be written down.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
And I've been sort of keeping.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Notes on it for a long time and I have
a great memory, so I remember almost everything. And I thought,
this is a This is when I see other memoirs,
I don't find them as compelling, right, And I, oh,
this is a story that everybody is going to be
interested in.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I think, well, yeah, because we love these shows were iconic.
I mean, let's start with Seinfeld and curve your enthusiasm
because I would really honestly say I would throw Frasier
in there with those three, if you'll forget me for
doing that, but I think those three were quite essentially
the best comedies ever. And I'll tell you what this.
I hope this doesn't offend you. I think most people
will put Seinfeld first. I put curb your enthusiasm first.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
I'm okay with that. With that one two of whichever
way you want to put it.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
I think that the fact that Seinfeld still has resonance
to this data, that people still quote it, that people
still watch it.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
I've been comparing it to church.
Speaker 14 (24:29):
You know, people go to church and they want to
hear that same sermon in a way, and they know
it by heart already, but they like hearing it. And
there's something about Seinfeld that has that power. The quoting
of the lines, the concepts. I've been around the world
and I've been to Islamic countries and people will say
to me, my friend is just like Kramer. How do
(24:51):
you explain that? I mean, we didn't know that it
was going to have that kind of power to it
when we were desperately trying to come up with funny stories.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
In preparing for this, I was like, well, how do
we really do justice to this book and to you
if we don't as we go acknowledge the greatness of
these shows and then acknowledge some of the stories behind
the scenes. So here's Seinfeld. What made it great? I
think the cast complimented the writing, which complimented the concept
(25:20):
of nothing that made it unique and different. But you
were a part of it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So what was the secret sauce?
Speaker 14 (25:27):
Well, I think at the time when we first started
doing it, the only secret sauce was the belief, the
fatalistic beliefs that it was going to fail, that it
would never stay on the air, And that was okay
with us, and in a way that liberated us to
just do the funniest show that we thought was funny
and not worry about what anybody else thought, And in
(25:48):
a sense that was the liberation of Seinfeld, was not
worrying about networks or notes or the audience and just
doing what we thought was funny, thinking that it would
be hanseled. You know, in retrospect looking back, all the
elements just happen to fall together, a great chemistry amongst
the cast, which.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Is accidental to a large degree.
Speaker 14 (26:11):
You don't know when you hire these disparate group of
people that they're going to click that way. It's like,
what would the Beatles be without Ringo and stay with
the Beatles?
Speaker 8 (26:21):
It might not have been the same thing. So I
feel like there's a lot.
Speaker 14 (26:25):
Of kind of synchronistic sort of events that makes Seinfeld
the thing that.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
It is, and you can't really predict that in advance.
You can only see that in retrospect.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The name of the book is comedy Samurai, and Larry
Tarr is one of the original writers of Seinfeld. I mean,
and by the way, the resume just gets stronger and
stronger and stronger. You put yourself in a room with
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, that alone must be I mean,
what else throwing mel Brooks in there?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
There's all the legends.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
Yeah, No, I mean working with mel Brooks, was you know,
working with Bob Dylan. I've had tremendous luck in these
I called them in the book. I called them my
inadvertent oracles because they come along with these crucial times
in my life, and they kind of set the next next.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Path for me go this way, you know, I'm madden,
yes exactly, And and I listened to them because they
were very wise men. And I because of that, I'm
here talking to you.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well, Larry, I got I got interrupted and ask, all right,
so who's the funniest?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean, when you're.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Talking about the funniest of the funniest who have ever lived,
who's the funniest?
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Well, mel Brooks.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
I don't think there's anybody who was funnier than mel Brooks,
you know, I mean, he just had and he not
only was he the funniest, but he was.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
The most inspiring.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
Also, all the other comedians that we're talking about have
been inspired and influenced by mel Brooks.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Then you go on, not only were you an executive
producer of Curb your Enthusiasm, and I'm sure that relationship
was established with Seinfeld, but you directed eighteen episodes of Curb.
You were also involved with Entourage. I mean, we're talking
about the greatest comedies, the greatest cast. What kind of
stories do you have and share in this memoir? I
(28:12):
can only imagine with this group of people.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Oh well, each each show brought its own challenges.
Speaker 14 (28:18):
I mean, Curb actually was probably the loosest set that
I ever worked on, because everybody was just having a
really good time and you were able to go from
behind the scenes and just bring those people in front
of the camera and keep that vibe going.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You know, it was ad libbed right primarily it was.
Speaker 14 (28:36):
It's kind of a misnowmer in a way, because Larry
is a very fastidious, meticulous writer, and so he wrote
a very elaborate outline right where we knew everything that
had to happen in every scene and how it connected
to the other scenes. And then the dialogue would not
be written, and we would audition actors who have the
(28:57):
ability to add lib and improvise, and Larry, by the way,
would audition with every single actor, every actor that came in,
even if it was a whole day worth of people.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
He would sit there with him and do the scenes
with them. And that's how we chose people, and we
found great people.
Speaker 14 (29:15):
JB's smooth, and he sat down with Larry and they
just started going and suddenly a small part became you know,
Leon and so there was that you know, kind of
like treasure of like, you know, wow, we just discovered
something here that we didn't even know existed and transcended
the material.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
There is no wasted moments in kurbyr Enthusiasm, you know.
I think of Beat Panic, which I think is probably
the most perfect one episode of comedy ever.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
It's just so brilliant.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
There's so many things at the beginning that you think
are funny, and they're just they happen and they're gone,
but they're setting up something even funnier that ties to it.
I mean, that's what you get into that meticulous outline,
and then you add very talented people in great chemistry
so that it has the room to ad lib. I
think that's why it comes away the most influential series
of my life. It's just brilliant and I loved it.
(30:07):
But I mean we haven't even had a chance to
even talk about Entourage. That's a whole concept in and
of itself. The working with Bob Dylan, with Bill Maher,
do you ever feel kind of like the Forrest Gump
of comedy that did your life was just so effortlessly fortuitous.
I mean, didn't you start as a runner.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm mad about you. No, not at all.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
First of all, I don't feel like Forrest Gump at all.
Speaker 14 (30:34):
Actually, I feel like the comedy samurai who came into
these projects that were in their nasson stage and helped
make them what they were. I'm not an observer. I
wasn't just I didn't just happen to be there. I
made a difference on all these projects. And that's an
important point for me to recognize the role that I
(30:57):
played in all these things. And that's one of the
reasons you list off all those things is because when
I came up, Entourage was not going to be picked
up until I worked on it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Seinfeld was destined to be a failure, right. Jerry would
tell you that.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
All these shows, you know, Bora had been canceled and
they said, well, if you in directed, well we'll resurrect it.
So there's a lot, you know, there's a lot of
examples of things that were on the verge of just
being forgotten about, and that when I was able to
step in and see what needed to be done. I
was able to rise, you know, raise those those projects
(31:31):
to the level that we're talking about now, that we're
worthy of talking about in the book.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That's Larry Charles, A brilliant mind behind a lot of
brilliant minds.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Del Chrono.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
President Trump shrugging off any upcoming deadline for US tariffs
to go back into effect on several countries. Mark Mayfield
has more.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Trump told Fox.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
News he will soon inform those countries they can trade
with the US, but the tariffs aren't returning.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's the end of the schedule. I could send one
to Japan. Jam mister Japan, here's the story. You're going
to pay a twenty five percent tariff.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
The White House deadline for countries to come to the
bargaining table is July ninth. Trump told Fox News that
it's going to be very simple. He says he's going
to send letters to the countries that don't make a
deal by then and inform them they can trade with
the US, but the tariffs are returning.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm Mark Nefhewd.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Two firefighters were killed a third was injured when a
gunman created an ambush fire in Idaho.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Cotney Caddy Sheriff Robert Norris says the suspect started a
brush fire and began shooting when firefighters arrived.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
We do believe, We do believe that the.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Suspect started the fire, and we do believe that it
was an ambush and it was intentional.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Three hundred police officers descended on the area and exchange
gunfire with the suspect. His cell phone led them to
his location. He was found dead with a gun nearby.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. I'm
brad Ford.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
The judge is expected to give instructions to the jury today.
In the Sean Diddy Coombe sex trafficking case.
Speaker 15 (33:02):
It defends for Combs, says he's on trial for his
lifestyle and not a real crime. Comb's attorneys deliver they're
closing arguments on Friday, Thursday. A federal prosecutor told the
jury that Combs used violence, power, and fear to control
his victims. Chloe Maloss with more on the jury's considerations.
Speaker 16 (33:18):
There are five charges, including rico claiming organized crime, which
could carry the most complicated sentence. It could be life
in prison for him.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
So there's so much data.
Speaker 16 (33:29):
There's been over seven weeks of testimony, and it's a
lot for these jurors to sift through.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I'm we see Taylor. Well.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
The Democrats have always had an eye problem Israel. They
have a double eye problem now within Tafada. A visit
with Chris Walker coming up. We're all in this together.
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