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Caroline Levitt set to leave her role as White House
Press secret next half hour analysis of the job she
has done and what might be really next for her?
(01:05):
With John Decker, our White House correspondent. Another key inflation
report due out today. There is widespread flash flooding in
Indiana's dangerous storms continue to pound the Midwest. And yes,
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(01:27):
enough money to fix the roads. Roy O'Neil is here.
The Trump administration is scheduling I guess some nearly one
billion dollars in construction at the White House. What does
it all entail? Our correspond at roy O'Neil is here
to explain. Good morning Rory, Yeah, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The Washington Post essentially running all the numbers. So when
you take the ballroom project that has been so high profile,
but then you add on improvements to Lafayette Square, construction
of that helipad which the helicopter maker is offsetting that cost,
but a new visitor screening center and other reported projects
all coming together added up, it's about nine hundred and
(02:07):
twenty seven million dollars. And when they talk about the ballroom,
they literally mean the ballroom, the above ground part where
the event takes place. A lot of the money is
being spent under the ballroom, where new bunkers are being installed,
military facilities, secret service equipment as well. So the big
money is going into the basement of the ballroom project.
(02:29):
And the one concern that's being raised is that Congress
didn't really approve.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Much of any of this.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's a lot of this is being shuffled around in
order to pay for it, and that's out of the
historical norm.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Shall we say, yes, two things. One that points to
there might be a security need that they more than
are willing to have everybody talking about the ballroom and
debating the ballroom when really it's a divided country and
a very unsafe place for anyone to be and probably
only going to get more unsafe. I mean, we see
(03:02):
these kinds of renovations from all presidents, whether it happens
to be a Democrat living there or Republican. The question
is how much of this is Donald Trump? He's a
builder and he wants to build well.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Right, you know, the Obamas had a big was the
last big spend two thousand and nine, three hundred and
seventy six million dollars, A lot of that, but all
that went through the process of oh, we brought in
historians and architects, and we're going to Congress and Congress
and we have three hundred and seventy six million dollars
in Congress said, okay, not all in one lump sum.
We're going to give it to you over these few years,
(03:33):
et cetera, et cetera. So, which was the more traditional
way that fire White House renovations had taken place. President
Trump though a bit more of a bullet of china
shop approach, but you know that's to be expected of
timing personality.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Timing is is everything, you know. Like today, you know,
we were going over the inflation numbers, and what it
points to is inflation settling down, but you know it's
still three point four nets out over two and a half,
which means don't expect a rate cut, but it maybe
settling down enough to not have to worry about a
rate increase. But the American people are struggling right now,
(04:09):
and it's hard to think of a billion dollars of
renovations at the White House. I suspect there is out
of all of those. I will tell you the if
you've ever been on a White House tour that that
area is very tiny, and it does seem less secure
because of the proximity. By the time I'm screened, I
could have done a lot of damage. I do not
(04:31):
like that the way that visitor screening area is set
up right now that I'd like to say ballroom, I
don't know well.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Right, And actually Congress approved money to do the new
visitor center that they're doing, so that was part of
this that's all been sort of shuffled around. A lot
of this though, is now a lot of it's coming
from the Secret Service budget directly. Money that Congress thought
it was approving to recruit new agents instead is being
used for the Secret Service infrastructure that's going to be
part of the ballroom project. You can argue valid spending, absolutely,
(05:01):
It's just that typically you go to Congress, which controls
the purers to do this stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, coming up in the third hour, Roy's going to
be back to talk about the cost of diesel fuel.
It's soaring as a result of the wars in Ukraine
and Iran. Since everything from food to construction supplies all
use diesel drugs. This as a way of getting back
to all of us, Roy'll breakdown those numbers for you
(05:25):
real quickly, because we can't have your morning show without
your voice. A lot of reaction to Caroline Levitt, yeah
we can. First of all, the first response should be
what a remarkably talented twenty eight year old this is
with as bright as a future as she chooses to
(05:46):
prioritize and walk into. Then we got into speculating, well,
you know she was at that Correspondent Center. You know
she was on that transfer to another plane in fear
of a terrorist attack. This is the most targeted president
in history. You know, a mother's instinct is this is
getting too dangerous. I'm gonna go home and be with
my kids. That could have played a role. The old
(06:08):
trajectory was you had a very successful career. Pierre Salinger
already very successful when he became a White House press secretary.
The latest trajectory is you use press press secretary to
go on to your greatest achievements. And the trajectory of
the last twenty five years is you become a talking
(06:30):
head or you get your own talk show on a
cable network. There's no future in that, and Caroline Levitt
is way too good for that. I have always suspected
she will run for office again. She will win the
next time, and she will continue to go very far.
Her political future is a lightning rod. So I'm a
little suspicious. You know that I just missed my kids.
(06:54):
I want to be home. I would be very shocked, though.
It is a very high calling, and one my wife answered,
and I'll go to my grave respecting the most to
prioritize raising children. And it's a thankless job and an
endless job. But I think she's coming back, kind of
like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. This is a this is a
(07:15):
future whatever she wants to be, representative, senator, governor, maybe
even a lot higher down the road. More of your reaction.
This is Steven ohkse listening to Kat.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Okay, so raise the class, the Caroline's run, the talent
that's shone brighter than the sun, stepping aside with nothing
to hide. Great things have only Begunnen. We knew it
was inevitable. She's going to be extremely difficult to replace.
She was amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, very well, said Steve dallas Is in Nashville.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Hey, I was just wondering if you guys experienced the
seven seconds of zero gravity yesterday. I'm still waiting for it.
To just wonder if I'm the only one. All right,
I've been following a lot of things. Caroline Leavitt stepping
down a watching the WNBA with an amazing opportunity solidify
(08:11):
itself as a real league destroy itself. I don't know
what that what is he referring to? I'm lost what
I had read? Lost about that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
There was supposed to be seven seconds of zero gravity yesterday,
something with the Earth's access or I'll have to look
it up. But yeah, I did hear that story yesterday.
That would have been cool. That guy is in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
A mic and gang. I always found global warming redistributed
wealth from one section of rich people to another section
of rich people. None of it ever got just distributed
to me. At this point, I'll take a fift.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I would have taken some hope and change from Obama.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I tended to twenty one was first and foremost designed
to create a one world government. Order to do that,
you got to get rid of the economic and military
superpowers that won't go along with it. That was the
big problem. So they wanted to create a fear great
enough for the world to pressure itself to develop dedeveloped
countries and de develop develop countries through redistribution of wealth.
(09:19):
It was all a game. The point of the analogy
was they couldn't. They scared a lot of people. I mean,
it's part of the birthing crisis, along with abortion, along
with selfishness, people waiting longer to have children, And give
you a laundry list of things that have created a
birth crisis that is really going to topple all of
our entitlement programs. And I think the Left was silently
(09:41):
trying to solve with allowing invaders to come in make
up the difference. But yeah, it was. It was ultimately
not scary enough to make anybody like whenever you would
ask a question just global warring matter, oh, they'd say, yeah,
would you be willing to pay ten percent more in tax? No?
Would you be willing to do anything?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's why you used always say. I had the highest
respect for Ed Bagley Junior. At least that moron for
forty years living in LA who could have been driving
any car he wanted to and was peddling around. He
must have at least really believed it. I don't think
most people really believed it. But when COVID came along,
they believed it, and they feared for their life, and
(10:24):
they did comply and they did obey. That's why you've
got to remember COVID was a political weapon, not just
a virus, and its main operative was Fauci, who was
involved in the very gain of function research where it
leaked and stood to gain from the RNA technology that
(10:45):
he clearly was peddling. So as an operative and as
a political weapon, this needs to be exposed, not just
for justice let Fauci get it, but to diffuse this
weapon from ever being used again. What he gets the
final say this second.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Morning, Michael, I hope you're right about El Sayed and Michigan.
But what does Nostro Deljorno see in Texas? Because as
bad as a candidate as tall Rico is, I am
just so uneasy that the establishment, Rhinos Corn and supporters
are going to undermine Paxton because they hate him more
(11:22):
than they do the love of conservative causes.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I don't really want to claim a Noster del journal
on this, but I would say that we're all talking about,
including pollsters, why the poles are so inaccurate. Look, every
pole ends with a margin of error and if you
get your sample size right, well, if you get it
strategized right and filled right, the margin of ara should
(11:47):
be somewhere around two and a half three percent. That's
the best you can do without talking to everybody. But
when you only have fifteen twenty percent turnout in a primary,
that margin of air doesn't stay three point four percent.
That's why Frank Lentz is saying, we've got to throw
these poles out in the primary process until we can
figure out how to measure this better. And of course
(12:09):
the answer is to anybody that's done this for a
long time or used it. Red's been and data analysis
by way of his job. I was in research by
way of my job for decades. You're never going to
find the answer. And in this matrix devised divided country
we're in right now, you're never gonna get everybody to participate.
Even if you could find him and get them to
(12:30):
answer their phone, you got big problems. I mean, you
better reinvent the freaking wheel if you want to get
polling accurate. And your question to Nostru del jorno is
based on polls that we know are inaccurate, so you're
only asking such an urgent question, because you believe the
(12:51):
Poles have tel Rico closer to Paxton. I just don't
see it, because Texas isn't Michigan with a fifteen percent
turnout mostly from Deerborn. No, I don't believe it. I
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A mark Mainfield, another key inflation report is due out today.
Speaker 12 (14:54):
The Producer Price Index takes a look at prices at
the wholesale level before they reach consumers and can be
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(15:14):
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over one point seven billion dollar fund and insists no
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people convicted in connection with the January sixth, twenty twenty
one attack on the Capitol could be awarded payments from
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(15:49):
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anybody ever just look you in the eye and say,
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We do. Good morning. Welcome to Thursday, August the thirteenth
year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six, thirty five minutes
after the hour. If you are in the Eastern time zone,
you got twenty five minutes to be to work by
eight o'clock. Caroline Levitt is out. Why who will replace her?
(18:10):
What might she ultimately do? Down the line, we'll talk
about that with John Decker, our White House correspondent moments
from now, but first Dona's in Philadelphia. Oh uh, good morning.
Speaker 15 (18:21):
I was able to see the tail end of the
Percy and Media shower this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Haste to get up early? Well, I was up early,
but I was too busy trapped in this room Big
John Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So Big John's pick is Kaylee mclenny, bring up back bang.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We got some picks for you, and I got a leak.
So I don't think it's going to be her. Steve
from Oklahoma City, this is too for Steve today. This
is in the timit. I have similar tastes in music.
Speaker 15 (18:49):
When you announced Jethro Tull seventeen more dates, I thought
I've probably seen him seventeen times now. I was instantly
reminded of the first time I saw him in Red
Rocks Theater in Colorado nineteen seventy one. Toe Riode going
on outside, tear gas everywhere, and they told I and
he couldn't go on stage.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He just said, if I don't go on stage, there
will be a riot. I saw that show, so that
I bet it was all right. Thirty seven minutes after
the hour, Caroline Levett is leaving her role as White
House Press Secretary at the end of the month. This
is a remarkable twenty eight year old woman. And I think,
you know, whether she decides to be a stay at
home mom, which is the toughest job on Earth, or
(19:28):
goes on to become a representative, senator, governor, or even higher,
the sky's a limit for her down the road. But
who might replace her? We're going to talk about that
with somebody who's been at the White House for thirty
years covering presidents John This is a pretty pretty, pretty
big breaking story. Some of my listeners have speculated, well,
(19:50):
you know, she was at that correspondence dinner. Then when
the President tod make a switch a route to get
out of proximity to Iran. You know, maybe a couple
of you know, death scares made her want to go home.
Why do you suspect now, I mean, you know, yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Yeah, good, good question. I don't know a simple answer
to your question. It caught me by surprise. I have
a lot of respect for Caroline Levitt. You know, I've
covered and worked with seventeen different White House Press secretaries,
including Caroline, and I put her in the top tier
(20:25):
she was very good at her job. She was loyal
to the president, and he had her trust. And you know,
when she spoke from behind the podium, you knew that
she knew what she was talking about in the sense
that she was involved in those policy meetings, sitting in
in those policy meetings, which is not always the case
with White House Press secretaries. But you know, look, she
(20:47):
did just come back from eternity leave just a few
weeks ago. I think that since she's been back, she's
had two White House Press briefings, and so for that reason,
I was caught by surprise that announcement from Caroline Levitt.
She texted me yesterday. You know, I've got a personal
relationship with her. I'm really sad to see her go.
And the President when he names a replacement, whoever that is,
(21:09):
that replacement will have some big shoes to fill.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, how good was she? You've seen seventeen of them.
Tony Snow is still tops on my list. You know,
we talked earlier behind your back about the trajectory. Like
Pierre Salinger and others used to be you had a
great career and this was your reward. Now it's been
more people that are unknown that go on to have careers,
(21:34):
and I suspect hers will be. She ran for office
and loss, she will run again for office and win
in the future. And I think this guy's the limit.
But how good was she? But her? I mean, who
was your favor Who do you think was the best?
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Yeah, you always said, you know, the best Republican press
secretary Tony Snow.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I agree with you. I work with Tony. I like Tony.
I miss Tony very sad the fact that he died
so young.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
And I thought the best Democratic White House press secretary
was Mike McCurry, who was the first press secretary that
I worked with, who worked obviously for Bill Clinton. But
having said that, Caroline Levitt right behind those. I mean,
she was top tiers. She was very good at what
she did. And you mentioned her age just twenty seven,
which she's crazy crazy, so she gets extra poins for that,
(22:21):
which is crazy. She was just so poised from the start,
not a surprise to me. You know, I've known her
since when she served in the first term. So I
agree with you Sky's limit in terms of what she
decides to do for the rest of her incredible career.
And you know, whether it's elective office or you know,
being a pundit on television.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
She'll be very good at what she does. She's above
pundit on television. But she will run for office and win.
All Right, replacements, you know you're always bragging. I have sources,
I have people. I have sources too, and my sources
are all saying Alena Habba. But I would go with
Breitbart White House Bureau chief Matthew Boyle. Except when's the
last time we had a man? I don't think it's
(23:01):
you know, it just doesn't seem like any would consider
a man for the job anymore.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Yeah, the last males press secretary was actually Sean Spicer.
Sean Spicer, of course, served as Donald Trump's first press
secretary in his first term. So you know, that is
how far you have to go back to find that.
You know, I've heard Monica Crowley as another possibility who
works in the Trump white House and has some experience
(23:26):
in front of the camera. So that's a possibility as well.
We shall see. I don't know, I can't get inside
the president's head. You know, the president has had to
rely less on the White House Press secretary position because
he often is his best voice out there explaining administration
positions and answering questions on a daily basis. That's one
(23:49):
of the reasons why we haven't had that many White
House press briefings in the course of this year.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, we would have talked a lot about what we're
about to say, but until this Caroline Levitt's surprise announcement.
But the new approval ratings, it's been two years, we're
heading into mid terms of an end of his presidency.
Let's face it, it's you know, he enters that lame duck stage.
What can we learn from these approval ratings? John, Well,
they're not good. You know.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
There are a few polls that I'm looking at. One
was the Economist magazine did one with you gov and
as the president's approval rating at thirty two percent. Another
one coming out earlier this week from Quinnipiac has the
president's approval rating at thirty five percent. Regardless of which
one you're looking at, there's no doubt that his approf
rating overall is down. Still extremely strong with his base.
(24:37):
I mean, he's like ninety percent with his base, but overall.
It's the reason why independents have essentially soured on the president.
That's the reason for his declining approval ratings. And it's
not a good place to be when you're less than
three months away from the midterm elections in which Republicans
are trying to hold on to both the House and
(24:58):
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, conditions were normal, and they're far from normal whether
the socialist Islamist fever has broken or not. The Democrats
are so divided, but yeah, this would normally spell disaster.
We all understand the approval rings will never be in
the seventies again, you know, the fifties probably a new
norm where that divided this president, in particular with derangement
(25:20):
syndrome versus worship, you know. But I would think anything
anything in the thirties is really really bad, And this
is really really bad.
Speaker 13 (25:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What's coming up today on the White House Briefing Room
with John Decker?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Well, we're going to talk first and foremost about the
story that you and I just spoke about, which is
Caroline Levitt stepping down from her post as the White
House Press Secretary.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And we'll also talk about a legal story, the.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Convening of a grand jury right here in Washington, DC,
a special grand jury. What that means and why this
is happening. So that will all be on today's White
House Press Briefing, and I'm looking forward to talking with
you more as the week progresses about Caroline Levitt and
who those replacements that the President may be considering.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I think Caroline Levitt will be a United States Senator
very very soon, maybe sooner than people think. I don't
needs to be at least thirty.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
You need well, by the Constitution, you have to be
thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Say he's got to wait a little bit. Well, next, next, next,
By the way, with you, how is that? How old
is she? Next cycle? Yeah, that's right, I will and
old enough thirty years. You should have learned your lesson
when I told you Donald Trump would sweep all the
swing stage. Just question him. The great noster. You go
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All right, I don't have but two minutes, but I
have to do this. This is more than just in
the sounds of the day. It's remarkable to me. And
it's thanks to the Indiana fever, and it's thanks to
Sophie Cunningham. It's thanks to starting with the three points Kit,
(27:30):
Caitlyn Clark, Clark Mitchell. I mean, this is a pretty
remarkable team, and there's this all the sudden interest in
women's basketball, and if they would ride that, it would
solidify them finally. But they can't stop like the Democrats, right,
they can't stop destroying themselves. Now. At some point, I
always remind people passion equals focus equals action sets in motion,
(27:56):
a direction arrives at a destination. If the past was
the game, if the passion was growing the game, celebrating
the game, you wouldn't be having these issues. It is
right to question with the passion of the WM at
the point you're the WNBA and you can't define the
(28:18):
w you got a problem. Now, what everybody is watching
is a bunch of thug greate and fights hoping a
basketball game breaks out there are enough interesting people. And
in the case of Sophie Cunningham, she combines attitude, beauty
(28:41):
four threes. She can play. But there's almost like a
turf war going on between those with the sexual preference
one way versus those with another. Are those of a
certain race versus those of another, and you can't hide it.
(29:01):
It's obvious for everyone to see. Now. The latest was
Sophie Cunningham, who has brought most of the popularity of
the game, even over Katelyn Clark and especially her relationship
with Katelyn Clark and her protector role of Katelyn Clark
and all this other drama. And I was watching the
game live. She goes up for a layup and this
(29:22):
girl wraps her, I mean just clotheslines her right around
the neck and throws her to the ground. She could
have really, really hurt her, so flagrant, and the criticism
became that the coach, Stephanie White, didn't come. In fact,
the most chilling part of about the video is you
can see her seeing it happen, and she comes onto
(29:42):
the court real fast, and you think she'd go to Sophie.
She doesn't. She goes to the player that committed the fall,
and then after the game did nothing to defend or
stand up for Sophie Cunningham. And now yesterday goes off
the rails. Listen, anybody that questions her. Here's her message
to you.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
I hate the fear mongering, the devisiveness, the stuff that's
trying to hijack our league.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Will not win. It won't win.
Speaker 16 (30:08):
We are united, we are connected, we will not be divided.
Every day these women put their ass on the line.
Every day when they go low, we go high.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Love will win, Grace will win, Humility will win, Love
will win. Doesn't she sound loving? Grace will win? Sounds crazy?
And then watch this.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
And kindness will win.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I stand by them. I will always stand by them.
Everybody else can go to hell. Everybody else can go
to hell. I love the Bible Verse. Out of the
abundance of the heart, the month speaks, Eventually, it slips,
it speaks. She read her statement love. This is all
LGBTQ codewords. It's always the inclusion that all the buzzwords
(30:58):
are in there. Love, love, love, They go low, we
go hi, Michelle Obama reference. But in the end, and
everybody else can go to hell. The kindness will win. Michael.
You know, there's a lot of people saying, and she
got booed in the last home game, that Stephanie White
(31:21):
needs to go. Obviously she needs to go, but the
league's got a bigger problem than that. Everybody running this
league needs to go. And kind of like Francesco and
others that were trying to, you know, kind of hide
(31:42):
everything that they said, El sayed in the past, it's
too late. It's out, and everybody knows they had an
amazing chance to be a real league with real popularity.
You can go anywhere the Fever are playing at home
or away, and good luck finding a place to sit
(32:03):
out of the jaws of victory. The WNBA has found
defeat because their passion, their obsession all along, has been
sexuality and wokeness, not the sport. It deserves the death
that's coming and that was supposed to be our one
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Hips Your Morning Show with Michael Del Chorno.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Mike the basketball coach did say every day these women
put their lives on the line or put their asses
on the line.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Is she serious? They're not saving lives. I don't get it.
The WNBA is just like the Democrat Party. All they
have to do is not be crazy, and they just
can't do it. They can't do it. They can't help them.
Completely subsidized by the NBA, by the way, so you
know clearly they're more interested in being their little club,
(34:32):
and they don't like you want to get to the
heart of it. They don't like seeing these people getting
How does Sophie Cunningham, a sixth off the bench, get
her own shoe deal? That's the rub for them, that's
(34:52):
the part. You know that, and and that the fever
has broken this mold and captured the attention of America.
And let's face it, two of the four if you
really follow the team, and it's a really good brand
of basketball. They're good, back of a lot. I mean,
they couldn't compete against an NBA team, but they're good.
(35:16):
And two of the four are white, and two of
the four are heterosexual, and two of the four are
bringing a lot of tension and popularity to the sport
and filling stands. They'd rather those stands be empty. One
of they care NBA is picking up the tab for
this financial failure. And how the buttons of the heart
(35:43):
the mouth speaks not just in her slip. Love will win,
grace will win, kindness will win. Go to hell. But
I mean, it's leftist arrangement, it really is, and it
costs them an opportunity to be a real league. But
you know what, it reveals they never were interested in
being a real league. It really shouldn't be the WNBA,
(36:08):
the BLMA, the LGBTQUA, I don't know, but boy, have
they blown him. And they don't just need a new
coach in Indiana, they need a new commissioner. They need
to decide what they're going to be or the NBA
needs to stop funding it. And what a shame it is.
But I guess we'll make the coach a loser of
the day, but the league ultimately is the loser of
the date.
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Caroline Levitt set to leave her role as White House
Press secret next half hour analysis of the job she
has done and what might be really next for her?
(01:05):
With John Decker, our White House correspondent. Another key inflation
report due out today. There is widespread flash flooding in
Indiana's dangerous storms continue to pound the Midwest. And yes,
we all lost a winning ticket at Wednesday night's billion
dollar powerball drawing was sold somewhere in Illinois. Someone has
(01:27):
enough money to fix the roads. Roy O'Neil is here.
The Trump administration is scheduling I guess some nearly one
billion dollars in construction at the White House. What does
it all entail? Our correspond at roy O'Neil is here
to explain. Good morning Rory, Yeah, Good morning Michael.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The Washington Post essentially running all the numbers. So when
you take the ballroom project that has been so high profile,
but then you add on improvements to Lafayette Square, construction
of that helipad which the helicopter maker is offsetting that cost,
but a new visitor screening center and other reported projects
all coming together added up, it's about nine hundred and
(02:07):
twenty seven million dollars. And when they talk about the ballroom,
they literally mean the ballroom, the above ground part where
the event takes place. A lot of the money is
being spent under the ballroom, where new bunkers are being installed,
military facilities, secret service equipment as well. So the big
money is going into the basement of the ballroom project.
(02:29):
And the one concern that's being raised is that Congress
didn't really approve.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Much of any of this.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's a lot of this is being shuffled around in
order to pay for it, and that's out of the
historical norm.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Shall we say, yes, two things. One that points to
there might be a security need that they more than
are willing to have everybody talking about the ballroom and
debating the ballroom when really it's a divided country and
a very unsafe place for anyone to be and probably
only going to get more unsafe. I mean, we see
(03:02):
these kinds of renovations from all presidents, whether it happens
to be a Democrat living there or Republican. The question
is how much of this is Donald Trump? He's a
builder and he wants to build well.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Right, you know, the Obamas had a big was the
last big spend two thousand and nine, three hundred and
seventy six million dollars, A lot of that, but all
that went through the process of oh, we brought in
historians and architects, and we're going to Congress and Congress
and we have three hundred and seventy six million dollars
in Congress said, okay, not all in one lump sum.
We're going to give it to you over these few years,
(03:33):
et cetera, et cetera. So, which was the more traditional
way that fire White House renovations had taken place. President
Trump though a bit more of a bullet of china
shop approach, but you know that's to be expected of
timing personality.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Timing is is everything, you know. Like today, you know,
we were going over the inflation numbers, and what it
points to is inflation settling down, but you know it's
still three point four nets out over two and a half,
which means don't expect a rate cut, but it maybe
settling down enough to not have to worry about a
rate increase. But the American people are struggling right now,
(04:09):
and it's hard to think of a billion dollars of
renovations at the White House. I suspect there is out
of all of those. I will tell you the if
you've ever been on a White House tour that that
area is very tiny, and it does seem less secure
because of the proximity. By the time I'm screened, I
could have done a lot of damage. I do not
(04:31):
like that the way that visitor screening area is set
up right now that I'd like to say ballroom, I
don't know well.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Right, And actually Congress approved money to do the new
visitor center that they're doing, so that was part of
this that's all been sort of shuffled around. A lot
of this though, is now a lot of it's coming
from the Secret Service budget directly. Money that Congress thought
it was approving to recruit new agents instead is being
used for the Secret Service infrastructure that's going to be
part of the ballroom project. You can argue valid spending, absolutely,
(05:01):
It's just that typically you go to Congress, which controls
the purers to do this stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, coming up in the third hour, Roy's going to
be back to talk about the cost of diesel fuel.
It's soaring as a result of the wars in Ukraine
and Iran. Since everything from food to construction supplies all
use diesel drugs. This as a way of getting back
to all of us, Roy'll breakdown those numbers for you
(05:25):
real quickly, because we can't have your morning show without
your voice. A lot of reaction to Caroline Levitt, yeah
we can. First of all, the first response should be
what a remarkably talented twenty eight year old this is
with as bright as a future as she chooses to
(05:46):
prioritize and walk into. Then we got into speculating, well,
you know she was at that Correspondent Center. You know
she was on that transfer to another plane in fear
of a terrorist attack. This is the most targeted president
in history. You know, a mother's instinct is this is
getting too dangerous. I'm gonna go home and be with
my kids. That could have played a role. The old
(06:08):
trajectory was you had a very successful career. Pierre Salinger
already very successful when he became a White House press secretary.
The latest trajectory is you use press press secretary to
go on to your greatest achievements. And the trajectory of
the last twenty five years is you become a talking
(06:30):
head or you get your own talk show on a
cable network. There's no future in that, and Caroline Levitt
is way too good for that. I have always suspected
she will run for office again. She will win the
next time, and she will continue to go very far.
Her political future is a lightning rod. So I'm a
little suspicious. You know that I just missed my kids.
(06:54):
I want to be home. I would be very shocked, though.
It is a very high calling, and one my wife answered,
and I'll go to my grave respecting the most to
prioritize raising children. And it's a thankless job and an
endless job. But I think she's coming back, kind of
like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. This is a this is a
(07:15):
future whatever she wants to be, representative, senator, governor, maybe
even a lot higher down the road. More of your reaction.
This is Steven ohkse listening to Kat.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Okay, so raise the class, the Caroline's run, the talent
that's shone brighter than the sun, stepping aside with nothing
to hide. Great things have only Begunnen. We knew it
was inevitable. She's going to be extremely difficult to replace.
She was amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, very well, said Steve dallas Is in Nashville.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Hey, I was just wondering if you guys experienced the
seven seconds of zero gravity yesterday. I'm still waiting for it.
To just wonder if I'm the only one. All right,
I've been following a lot of things. Caroline Leavitt stepping
down a watching the WNBA with an amazing opportunity solidify
(08:11):
itself as a real league destroy itself. I don't know
what that what is he referring to? I'm lost what
I had read? Lost about that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
There was supposed to be seven seconds of zero gravity yesterday,
something with the Earth's access or I'll have to look
it up. But yeah, I did hear that story yesterday.
That would have been cool. That guy is in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
A mic and gang. I always found global warming redistributed
wealth from one section of rich people to another section
of rich people. None of it ever got just distributed
to me. At this point, I'll take a fift.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I would have taken some hope and change from Obama.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I tended to twenty one was first and foremost designed
to create a one world government. Order to do that,
you got to get rid of the economic and military
superpowers that won't go along with it. That was the
big problem. So they wanted to create a fear great
enough for the world to pressure itself to develop dedeveloped
countries and de develop develop countries through redistribution of wealth.
(09:19):
It was all a game. The point of the analogy
was they couldn't. They scared a lot of people. I mean,
it's part of the birthing crisis, along with abortion, along
with selfishness, people waiting longer to have children, And give
you a laundry list of things that have created a
birth crisis that is really going to topple all of
our entitlement programs. And I think the Left was silently
(09:41):
trying to solve with allowing invaders to come in make
up the difference. But yeah, it was. It was ultimately
not scary enough to make anybody like whenever you would
ask a question just global warring matter, oh, they'd say, yeah,
would you be willing to pay ten percent more in tax? No?
Would you be willing to do anything?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's why you used always say. I had the highest
respect for Ed Bagley Junior. At least that moron for
forty years living in LA who could have been driving
any car he wanted to and was peddling around. He
must have at least really believed it. I don't think
most people really believed it. But when COVID came along,
they believed it, and they feared for their life, and
(10:24):
they did comply and they did obey. That's why you've
got to remember COVID was a political weapon, not just
a virus, and its main operative was Fauci, who was
involved in the very gain of function research where it
leaked and stood to gain from the RNA technology that
(10:45):
he clearly was peddling. So as an operative and as
a political weapon, this needs to be exposed, not just
for justice let Fauci get it, but to diffuse this
weapon from ever being used again. What he gets the
final say this second.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Morning, Michael, I hope you're right about El Sayed and Michigan.
But what does Nostro Deljorno see in Texas? Because as
bad as a candidate as tall Rico is, I am
just so uneasy that the establishment, Rhinos Corn and supporters
are going to undermine Paxton because they hate him more
(11:22):
than they do the love of conservative causes.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I don't really want to claim a Noster del journal
on this, but I would say that we're all talking about,
including pollsters, why the poles are so inaccurate. Look, every
pole ends with a margin of error and if you
get your sample size right, well, if you get it
strategized right and filled right, the margin of ara should
(11:47):
be somewhere around two and a half three percent. That's
the best you can do without talking to everybody. But
when you only have fifteen twenty percent turnout in a primary,
that margin of air doesn't stay three point four percent.
That's why Frank Lentz is saying, we've got to throw
these poles out in the primary process until we can
figure out how to measure this better. And of course
(12:09):
the answer is to anybody that's done this for a
long time or used it. Red's been and data analysis
by way of his job. I was in research by
way of my job for decades. You're never going to
find the answer. And in this matrix devised divided country
we're in right now, you're never gonna get everybody to participate.
Even if you could find him and get them to
(12:30):
answer their phone, you got big problems. I mean, you
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polling accurate. And your question to Nostru del jorno is
based on polls that we know are inaccurate, so you're
only asking such an urgent question, because you believe the
(12:51):
Poles have tel Rico closer to Paxton. I just don't
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A mark Mainfield, another key inflation report is due out today.
Speaker 12 (14:54):
The Producer Price Index takes a look at prices at
the wholesale level before they reach consumers and can be
a good go sideline of what will be paying in
the months to come. It comes after the Consumer Price
Index was released on Wednesday showing inflation went up slightly
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(15:14):
Reserve when it comes to determining interest rates. I'm Tanny TRIHUEO.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche is again insisting that the Justice
Department's proposed anti weaponization fund is dead. More from Scott
Carr and Washington.
Speaker 13 (15:26):
Attorney General Blanche says he's rescinded the order creating the
over one point seven billion dollar fund and insists no
money was ever distributed. The fund faced fierce criticism from
both sides of the aisle, largely out of concerns that
people convicted in connection with the January sixth, twenty twenty
one attack on the Capitol could be awarded payments from
the taxpayer funded account. While several federal judges have also
(15:49):
questioned the legality of how the fund was even created,
Blanche says he and President Trump still support compensating people
they believe were victims of a weaponized Justice Department in Washington.
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We do. Good morning. Welcome to Thursday, August the thirteenth
year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six, thirty five minutes
after the hour. If you are in the Eastern time zone,
you got twenty five minutes to be to work by
eight o'clock. Caroline Levitt is out. Why who will replace her?
(18:10):
What might she ultimately do? Down the line, we'll talk
about that with John Decker, our White House correspondent moments
from now, but first Dona's in Philadelphia. Oh uh, good morning.
Speaker 15 (18:21):
I was able to see the tail end of the
Percy and Media shower this morning.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Haste to get up early? Well, I was up early,
but I was too busy trapped in this room Big
John Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So Big John's pick is Kaylee mclenny, bring up back bang.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We got some picks for you, and I got a leak.
So I don't think it's going to be her. Steve
from Oklahoma City, this is too for Steve today. This
is in the timit. I have similar tastes in music.
Speaker 15 (18:49):
When you announced Jethro Tull seventeen more dates, I thought
I've probably seen him seventeen times now. I was instantly
reminded of the first time I saw him in Red
Rocks Theater in Colorado nineteen seventy one. Toe Riode going
on outside, tear gas everywhere, and they told I and
he couldn't go on stage.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He just said, if I don't go on stage, there
will be a riot. I saw that show, so that
I bet it was all right. Thirty seven minutes after
the hour, Caroline Levett is leaving her role as White
House Press Secretary at the end of the month. This
is a remarkable twenty eight year old woman. And I think,
you know, whether she decides to be a stay at
home mom, which is the toughest job on Earth, or
(19:28):
goes on to become a representative, senator, governor, or even higher,
the sky's a limit for her down the road. But
who might replace her? We're going to talk about that
with somebody who's been at the White House for thirty
years covering presidents John This is a pretty pretty, pretty
big breaking story. Some of my listeners have speculated, well,
(19:50):
you know, she was at that correspondence dinner. Then when
the President tod make a switch a route to get
out of proximity to Iran. You know, maybe a couple
of you know, death scares made her want to go home.
Why do you suspect now, I mean, you know, yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Yeah, good, good question. I don't know a simple answer
to your question. It caught me by surprise. I have
a lot of respect for Caroline Levitt. You know, I've
covered and worked with seventeen different White House Press secretaries,
including Caroline, and I put her in the top tier
(20:25):
she was very good at her job. She was loyal
to the president, and he had her trust. And you know,
when she spoke from behind the podium, you knew that
she knew what she was talking about in the sense
that she was involved in those policy meetings, sitting in
in those policy meetings, which is not always the case
with White House Press secretaries. But you know, look, she
(20:47):
did just come back from eternity leave just a few
weeks ago. I think that since she's been back, she's
had two White House Press briefings, and so for that reason,
I was caught by surprise that announcement from Caroline Levitt.
She texted me yesterday. You know, I've got a personal
relationship with her. I'm really sad to see her go.
And the President when he names a replacement, whoever that is,
(21:09):
that replacement will have some big shoes to fill.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, how good was she? You've seen seventeen of them.
Tony Snow is still tops on my list. You know,
we talked earlier behind your back about the trajectory. Like
Pierre Salinger and others used to be you had a
great career and this was your reward. Now it's been
more people that are unknown that go on to have careers,
(21:34):
and I suspect hers will be. She ran for office
and loss, she will run again for office and win
in the future. And I think this guy's the limit.
But how good was she? But her? I mean, who
was your favor Who do you think was the best?
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Yeah, you always said, you know, the best Republican press
secretary Tony Snow.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I agree with you. I work with Tony. I like Tony.
I miss Tony very sad the fact that he died
so young.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
And I thought the best Democratic White House press secretary
was Mike McCurry, who was the first press secretary that
I worked with, who worked obviously for Bill Clinton. But
having said that, Caroline Levitt right behind those. I mean,
she was top tiers. She was very good at what
she did. And you mentioned her age just twenty seven,
which she's crazy crazy, so she gets extra poins for that,
(22:21):
which is crazy. She was just so poised from the start,
not a surprise to me. You know, I've known her
since when she served in the first term. So I
agree with you Sky's limit in terms of what she
decides to do for the rest of her incredible career.
And you know, whether it's elective office or you know,
being a pundit on television.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
She'll be very good at what she does. She's above
pundit on television. But she will run for office and win.
All Right, replacements, you know you're always bragging. I have sources,
I have people. I have sources too, and my sources
are all saying Alena Habba. But I would go with
Breitbart White House Bureau chief Matthew Boyle. Except when's the
last time we had a man? I don't think it's
(23:01):
you know, it just doesn't seem like any would consider
a man for the job anymore.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Yeah, the last males press secretary was actually Sean Spicer.
Sean Spicer, of course, served as Donald Trump's first press
secretary in his first term. So you know, that is
how far you have to go back to find that.
You know, I've heard Monica Crowley as another possibility who
works in the Trump white House and has some experience
(23:26):
in front of the camera. So that's a possibility as well.
We shall see. I don't know, I can't get inside
the president's head. You know, the president has had to
rely less on the White House Press secretary position because
he often is his best voice out there explaining administration
positions and answering questions on a daily basis. That's one
(23:49):
of the reasons why we haven't had that many White
House press briefings in the course of this year.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, we would have talked a lot about what we're
about to say, but until this Caroline Levitt's surprise announcement.
But the new approval ratings, it's been two years, we're
heading into mid terms of an end of his presidency.
Let's face it, it's you know, he enters that lame duck stage.
What can we learn from these approval ratings? John, Well,
they're not good. You know.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
There are a few polls that I'm looking at. One
was the Economist magazine did one with you gov and
as the president's approval rating at thirty two percent. Another
one coming out earlier this week from Quinnipiac has the
president's approval rating at thirty five percent. Regardless of which
one you're looking at, there's no doubt that his approf
rating overall is down. Still extremely strong with his base.
(24:37):
I mean, he's like ninety percent with his base, but overall.
It's the reason why independents have essentially soured on the president.
That's the reason for his declining approval ratings. And it's
not a good place to be when you're less than
three months away from the midterm elections in which Republicans
are trying to hold on to both the House and
(24:58):
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, conditions were normal, and they're far from normal whether
the socialist Islamist fever has broken or not. The Democrats
are so divided, but yeah, this would normally spell disaster.
We all understand the approval rings will never be in
the seventies again, you know, the fifties probably a new
norm where that divided this president, in particular with derangement
(25:20):
syndrome versus worship, you know. But I would think anything
anything in the thirties is really really bad, And this
is really really bad.
Speaker 13 (25:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What's coming up today on the White House Briefing Room
with John Decker?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Well, we're going to talk first and foremost about the
story that you and I just spoke about, which is
Caroline Levitt stepping down from her post as the White
House Press Secretary.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And we'll also talk about a legal story, the.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Convening of a grand jury right here in Washington, DC,
a special grand jury. What that means and why this
is happening. So that will all be on today's White
House Press Briefing, and I'm looking forward to talking with
you more as the week progresses about Caroline Levitt and
who those replacements that the President may be considering.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I think Caroline Levitt will be a United States Senator
very very soon, maybe sooner than people think. I don't
needs to be at least thirty.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
You need well, by the Constitution, you have to be
thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Say he's got to wait a little bit. Well, next, next, next,
By the way, with you, how is that? How old
is she? Next cycle? Yeah, that's right, I will and
old enough thirty years. You should have learned your lesson
when I told you Donald Trump would sweep all the
swing stage. Just question him. The great noster. You go
(26:41):
and I'll sell you. The White House Briefing Room of
John Decker is a must here every day. He keeps
it short, concise, unbiased. It's everything going on in and
around the White House. Just search John Decker, j O
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It'll pop right up if you give it a program position,
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(27:04):
All right, I don't have but two minutes, but I
have to do this. This is more than just in
the sounds of the day. It's remarkable to me. And
it's thanks to the Indiana fever, and it's thanks to
Sophie Cunningham. It's thanks to starting with the three points Kit,
(27:30):
Caitlyn Clark, Clark Mitchell. I mean, this is a pretty
remarkable team, and there's this all the sudden interest in
women's basketball, and if they would ride that, it would
solidify them finally. But they can't stop like the Democrats, right,
they can't stop destroying themselves. Now. At some point, I
always remind people passion equals focus equals action sets in motion,
(27:56):
a direction arrives at a destination. If the past was
the game, if the passion was growing the game, celebrating
the game, you wouldn't be having these issues. It is
right to question with the passion of the WM at
the point you're the WNBA and you can't define the
(28:18):
w you got a problem. Now, what everybody is watching
is a bunch of thug greate and fights hoping a
basketball game breaks out there are enough interesting people. And
in the case of Sophie Cunningham, she combines attitude, beauty
(28:41):
four threes. She can play. But there's almost like a
turf war going on between those with the sexual preference
one way versus those with another. Are those of a
certain race versus those of another, and you can't hide it.
(29:01):
It's obvious for everyone to see. Now. The latest was
Sophie Cunningham, who has brought most of the popularity of
the game, even over Katelyn Clark and especially her relationship
with Katelyn Clark and her protector role of Katelyn Clark
and all this other drama. And I was watching the
game live. She goes up for a layup and this
(29:22):
girl wraps her, I mean just clotheslines her right around
the neck and throws her to the ground. She could
have really, really hurt her, so flagrant, and the criticism
became that the coach, Stephanie White, didn't come. In fact,
the most chilling part of about the video is you
can see her seeing it happen, and she comes onto
(29:42):
the court real fast, and you think she'd go to Sophie.
She doesn't. She goes to the player that committed the fall,
and then after the game did nothing to defend or
stand up for Sophie Cunningham. And now yesterday goes off
the rails. Listen, anybody that questions her. Here's her message
to you.
Speaker 16 (30:00):
I hate the fear mongering, the devisiveness, the stuff that's
trying to hijack our league.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Will not win. It won't win.
Speaker 16 (30:08):
We are united, we are connected, we will not be divided.
Every day these women put their ass on the line.
Every day when they go low, we go high.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Love will win, Grace will win, Humility will win, Love
will win. Doesn't she sound loving? Grace will win? Sounds crazy?
And then watch this.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
And kindness will win.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I stand by them. I will always stand by them.
Everybody else can go to hell. Everybody else can go
to hell. I love the Bible Verse. Out of the
abundance of the heart, the month speaks, Eventually, it slips,
it speaks. She read her statement love. This is all
LGBTQ codewords. It's always the inclusion that all the buzzwords
(30:58):
are in there. Love, love, love, They go low, we
go hi, Michelle Obama reference. But in the end, and
everybody else can go to hell. The kindness will win. Michael.
You know, there's a lot of people saying, and she
got booed in the last home game, that Stephanie White
(31:21):
needs to go. Obviously she needs to go, but the
league's got a bigger problem than that. Everybody running this
league needs to go. And kind of like Francesco and
others that were trying to, you know, kind of hide
(31:42):
everything that they said, El sayed in the past, it's
too late. It's out, and everybody knows they had an
amazing chance to be a real league with real popularity.
You can go anywhere the Fever are playing at home
or away, and good luck finding a place to sit
(32:03):
out of the jaws of victory. The WNBA has found
defeat because their passion, their obsession all along, has been
sexuality and wokeness, not the sport. It deserves the death
that's coming and that was supposed to be our one
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Speaker 10 (33:59):
Hips Your Morning Show with Michael Del Chorno.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Mike the basketball coach did say every day these women
put their lives on the line or put their asses
on the line.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Is she serious? They're not saving lives. I don't get it.
The WNBA is just like the Democrat Party. All they
have to do is not be crazy, and they just
can't do it. They can't do it. They can't help them.
Completely subsidized by the NBA, by the way, so you
know clearly they're more interested in being their little club,
(34:32):
and they don't like you want to get to the
heart of it. They don't like seeing these people getting
How does Sophie Cunningham, a sixth off the bench, get
her own shoe deal? That's the rub for them, that's
(34:52):
the part. You know that, and and that the fever
has broken this mold and captured the attention of America.
And let's face it, two of the four if you
really follow the team, and it's a really good brand
of basketball. They're good, back of a lot. I mean,
they couldn't compete against an NBA team, but they're good.
(35:16):
And two of the four are white, and two of
the four are heterosexual, and two of the four are
bringing a lot of tension and popularity to the sport
and filling stands. They'd rather those stands be empty. One
of they care NBA is picking up the tab for
this financial failure. And how the buttons of the heart
(35:43):
the mouth speaks not just in her slip. Love will win,
grace will win, kindness will win. Go to hell. But
I mean, it's leftist arrangement, it really is, and it
costs them an opportunity to be a real league. But
you know what, it reveals they never were interested in
being a real league. It really shouldn't be the WNBA,
(36:08):
the BLMA, the LGBTQUA, I don't know, but boy, have
they blown him. And they don't just need a new
coach in Indiana, they need a new commissioner. They need
to decide what they're going to be or the NBA
needs to stop funding it. And what a shame it is.
But I guess we'll make the coach a loser of
the day, but the league ultimately is the loser of
the date.
Speaker 10 (36:27):
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