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Sound Red, keeping an eye on the car and call
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me a child, But every time I hear the name K,
I still think of the Brady Bunch.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well that was Alice, I'm K probably a different K.
Good morning, Michael and team. I would like to know
if anybody's taking bets on what Zolensky will be wearing
this time, if he's going to dress appropriately in a
suit or if he's going to go all casual in
his sweatsuit.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I gain, yeah, I think you know. Selensky's always kept
a hard line on this. He's at war, his people
are at war, and he comes as he is. I
don't know, with all of Europe being there as well,
I'm going to go out on a lemon say suit.
I'll let the rest of you chime in when it's
more appropriate. All right, So Zelensky comes to the White House,
as does Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Finland European leaders.
(01:51):
As we heard from our White House correspond By the way,
that's my favorite talk back of the day. The guy
from Mississippi referred to our White House correspondent John Decker
as a little feller. I heard that little fell long there.
They'll meet alone JD. Vance and Donald Trump, President and
Vice President will meet with Silensky alone first, then they'll
bring in the European leaders. The powerball jackpot is up
(02:14):
to six hundred and five million, no matches over the weekend.
A hurricane, yes, headed for the US, not necessarily is
it a rip current or a riptide. Aaron could bring
life threatening surf and rip currents to the Eastern seaboard
in the coming days. And you know, we'll blink coming
out of August recess. We'll have about a month and
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then you know, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, holidays, and then boom,
the midterms are in full swing. So it is not
too early to start looking at these things and thinking
about these things. Now. If the President doesn't even achieve
peace with Ukraine, he's achieved a lot in the first
two hundred and fifty days, in fact, an eight year
(02:56):
an eight year two term presidency in the first two
hundred and fifty days. But how do the Senate and
House races that will shape which party controls Congress play
out and how do they look a year out. Chris
Walker is a Republican consultant in Your Morning Show contributor
and joins us.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Good Morning, Chris, Good Morning, Michael how are you.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, we did the story last week. Brown's a big
name in Ohio and he's coming back to run for
a Senate seat. And I made the bold statement, just
glancing at the numbers, he may offer their best chance
for a flip. Although the way I kind of see
it playing is lose this and maybe come back and
win two years later. But time will tell. What are
(03:37):
you seeing across the country? And I think we should
probably go Senate first in then House.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah, well, you know we're playing a lot of defense
in a lot of places where you know, it could
be explosive race than it should be. You mentioned Ohio.
I'm looking at North Carolina. You know, Tom tillis the
you know income and it's not running for re election.
He decided he did not want to deal with the
(04:04):
day to day of the Senate anymore. And so now
we have Michael Wattley, the R and C chair, popping
in the race against Cooper, got former Governor Cooper, which
is a he's a very popular Democrat.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
In North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
That's going to be a very very expensive, very typical race.
And you know, like we're gonna see what happens. But
I've got I've got my North Carolina. I've got my
eye on Texas, I've got my yes, you know, certainly Ohio,
you're right, Michigan. You know, there's a lot of states
that we can play some offense with. We're also playing defense.
I mean, Georgia is our white whale right now, where
(04:35):
we seem to constantly, you know, snatch defeat from the
dows of victory.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Consistently.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
We've had three straight Senate seats that should be winning
by us that we're not. So you know, there's a
there's a lot there that needs to be kind of
thought through as we go to the primary process.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So so the big headline is, it didn't have to
be this this tight. It didn't have to be this dramatic,
But such is what has been played. You've been doing
this for for a long time time. When take Tillis
in North Carolina, when somebody bows out and creates an
open an election, you would think that that state would
still lean the way it did with the previous center.
(05:10):
But it opens a door. How much does it open
a door just generically and creating an open contest like that?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I mean, you know, very very candidly, this the North
Carolina race is probably going to be the central race
of this election. And so what was going to be
an easy Republican you know, uh Keep is now going
to be a very difficult, hard fought, you know election
between Michael Wadley and and uh and Cooper. So yeah, like,
(05:39):
well we'll see what happens. I would say that went
from a you know, nine you know certainty for you
know Republican pic Keep to a fifty to fifty race,
and you know, that's something we've got to We've got
to really put put our time and effortive resources in.
And the resources are you know, finite. And so if
you're spending money in North Carolina, that's not money you're
spending in Michigan, Ohio to try to you know, or
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you know really you know states like Michigan another place
where you can do pick up.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Opportunities in Georgia.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
That's what we're just I was just going to say,
And if these are.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
If these are as close as you feel they'll be,
that's going to be a resource issue. That's that's areas
of focused strategy and money you could have spent elsewhere.
Does that create other ones that could become more vulnerable?
These will be the challenges moving forward. All right, So
if I said generically a year out and a lot
can happen in a year that generically the Senate gains
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look more possible than taking control of the House, would
you say true or false?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I'd say false. I think that you know the Senate well,
I mean, how do you how do you cast a
question a Senate gains?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I think the.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Senate map is what everybody kind of looks at because
it's just it's easier to talk about the Senate than
it is the House because there's four hundred and thirty
five rates in the House and there's usually about three
or four for the Senate that are people are going
to look at or kind of pay attention to. So
you know, I would say that the Senate, we've got
a pretty good majority there and it will be hard
to lose it. But you know, there's going to be
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a lot of state wide flights that the media is
going to cover aggressively. One thing that I think is different,
this is the first midterm election where you know, it's
a new social media and media reality that just didn't
exist in twenty twenty four, or I'm sorry, in twenty
twenty two. So you know, Elon didn't buy Twitter until
I think October of twenty two, and so it really
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didn't have any impact on the social media moderation all
the things that all the other social media networks were doing.
And so, you know, that inherent advantage that the Democrats
have had for forty plus years is generally different now.
So you know, from a standpoint of media coverage, from
a standpoint of of you know, kind of acceptance of
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the idea that somehow the party in power in midterms
is going to lose. I think that's an old narrative
that I think needs to be revisited, that they're just
people aren't paying attention to to ABCCBSNBC like they did
even five years ago. Yeah, that's a lot of the
lazy narratives.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Just aren't there. Yeah, and that's what's baked in that. Oh,
it's a midterm and if you have a Republican president,
think America likes checks and balances, they tend to have
a proclivity to vote Democrat in the midterm election. Yeah,
but you don't control newspapers anymore. Newspapers are irrelevant. You
don't control network television narratives anymore. ABCNBCCBS, PBS are all
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in turmoil. They have low audience, nobody's really watching it anymore.
The same is true for cable news. Podcast is now king,
maybe even more so than talk radio that they never
had an answer for and they really don't have an
answer for that. And then social media, so all things
are different. It's also a different division in America going
through a cultural reawakening, and the left has played the
(08:53):
narrative game so bad. I mean, they have gone from
simply not just being an opposition party that can find
common ground to obstructionists to law fair, to kind of
rooting against America to fighting on hills that can't be one,
and it really has become quite dysfunctional. And I don't
think historically we have any measure for how that plays.
(09:17):
I don't exactly right. I don't think a blue wave
is coming, I'll put it that way.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Yeah, I mean, you know, and it's just I think
there's a fatigue factor. I think people are just so
you know, kind of over politics from a certain standpoint
that it's hard to know how aggressively people are going
to be following or covering these issues. But you know, ultimately,
again at the end of the day. You know, we're
(09:43):
looking at I think you're right, and I also think
that we're looking at a you know, the president Trump superpower.
Read this the other day. I think it's actually pretty accurate.
You know, he has the ability to take an eighty
twenty issue and somehow have the Democrats take the twenty
percent side of it, as if you know, the most
extreme elements of their party are running everything. You know,
(10:05):
you have Democrats out there last week defending crime and saying, well,
crime is not as bad as he's saying. And it's like, well,
you don't, don't don't believe your two eyes just you know,
kind of listening to the stats that we've we've been
cooking the books on for ten years. You know, it's
it's it's crazy. So, I mean, even from a standpoint
of where the Democrats are, you know, potentially strong because
(10:25):
of the President, they keep taking these ridiculous positions and
I think put them outside of the mainstream by a
long shot. I think they've always been outside the mainstream,
but now they don't even know how to even you know,
effectively communicate to a normal person anymore, because they want
to talk about you know, trans rights, and you know,
revolving door prisons. I mean, you know, we've talked about this,
(10:46):
this is an election issue in nineteen eighty eight, and
it's still an issue that they seem to be on
the wrong side of. So, you know, taking the side
of criminals not a good political strategy, and I think
that's some of these Democrats seem to be wanting to do.
And that's that's where they are.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Closing moments of Chris Walker, republic and consultant in your
morning show contributor, Well, I can tell you this. They
you know, people would say, well, either the Democrats don't
have a leader, and they don't have a narrative, and
they don't really have a firm platform that's in line
with the American people. Instead of pivoting towards the American people,
they're pivoting further to the left.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I think they do have leader. I think they do
have strategy. It's like, if Mam Donnie wins in New York,
that's not a problem for them. That is their future.
That is the direction they are taking. And I don't
think that plays well come midterms. And the other biggest
wildcard is the role of Donald Trump and if he
finishes this deal not just in the Middle East but
(11:39):
with Russia and Ukraine. And he's got time to really
start campaigning. Yes, he's not on the ballot, but he
will be on the campaign trail and that could be
significant an influence.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Absolutely right. I mean again, I agree with you completely.
They do have a leader, it's just he's not he
or she is not an elected person. Oh they are there,
you know, kind of lower tier. But I mean their
leaders are AOC Elizabeth Tarrant, you know, George Soros and
his son. I mean, those are the Democrat Party leaders.
We see it every day of who they're following. You know.
(12:13):
Bill mar even talked about that this weekend. He's like,
Democrats need to stop Kaoto into the furthest left of
their party. But they can't do it because that's one
where they feel their active score is and two what's
where their money is. So that's that's the leadership of
the Democrat Party right now, and it's amazing to me
to see them self emilate. I hope they continue to
do it. But you know, you've got folks like Rob
(12:33):
Emanuel and and even goodness Gracious Gavinson, Gavin Newsom trying
to sound some alarm bells of moderation. Gavin Newsom being
a moderate is just something we're going.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
To not let pass.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
But rama Manuel's out there trying to talk about the
Democrats need to start talking about issues that made them
win in the nineties, and if they listen and they're smart,
you know, it's something that they could be potentially doing.
It's what Donald Trump did right. He co opted you know,
a lot of the Democrat positions on manufacturing and tariffs
and those things and turned it into a you know,
pro American message. That Democrats could do something similar if
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they had the right messaging and the right messengers.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
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US Special envoys Steve Whitkoff says President Trump and Vladimir
Putin agreed on a robe By security guarantee for Ukraine.
That's good news. That's a step towards an agreement and
should make a big difference for Zelenski. Today. Mark Mayfield
has more.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Witkoff talked about the agreement in an interview with CNN's
State of the Union.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
We got to an agreement that the United States and
other European nations could effectively or offer Article five like language
to cover a security guarantee.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Whitkoff, who sat in on Trump's meeting with Putin on Friday,
said it was the first time we had ever heard
the Russians agree to such a provision.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
He said.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Other agreements also included a legislative enshointment by Russia to
not go into any other territory.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When the peace deal is codified. I'm Mark Mayfield. The
Justice Department is backing off plans to take over DC's
police Force.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Trump administration has rescinded an earlier order that named DEA
Chief Terry Cole as emergency police chief Instead. Metro Police
Chief Panela Smith will stay in charge under Mayor Muriel Bowser.
The DOJ has also directed Bowser to have police assist
with immigration enforcement and comply with federal database checks. Friday's
decision comes after DC's Attorney general filed a lawsuit that
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challenge the police department takeover.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Finally see Taylor. Although it's not expected to make landfall
in the US, Hurricane Aaron a cat for hurricane as
bringing unsettling waters, could bring unsettling waters to the shores
of the eastern seaboard of the United States. Jonathan oh
Hollerin has more.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
The warning comes after two swimmers died along the Jersey
Shore just last week. The massive hurricane is expected to
stay well offshore, but its winds will bring dangerous surf
to the Jersey Shore and Long Island. Lifeguards are reminding
swimmers to swim parallel to the shore if they get
stuck in a rip current, and to only swim when
lifeguards are on duty. Jonathan o'haller and NBC News Radio
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New York.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Six planets are visible in the sky through Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Urana are aligned and
can be seen about forty five minutes before sunset. Most
will be visible to the naked eye, but binoculars or
a telescope will be needed for Neptune and Uranus.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Not technically an alignment. These parades of planets happen because
the planet's orbit on the same plane or elliptic, causing
them to appear in a ligne from our perspective on Earth.
A full alignment of all seven planets, including Mars, won't
happen again until February third of twenty thirty four. I'm
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Speaker 1 (17:25):
Anything like Jeffrey, you're too immature to discuss Uranus without giggling,
snickering and making comments.
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You know, I get all of a sudden, there's a
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what you need to remember. Hurricane Aaron could bring life
threatening surf and rip currents or rip tides, whichever you prefer,
to the Eastern Seaboard, but isn't expected to make a
direct hit on the United States, and it's ring a
little bit of havoc in Puerto Rico, now a cat
for hurricane Meanwhile, Zelenski's coming to the White House. That
is all the buzz. He's bringing with him some European
(19:16):
leaders from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Finland as Europe,
Donald Trump and Ukraine try to find a path to peace.
And the powerball Jackpop biggest of the year now goes
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Speaker 1 (19:48):
Thirty seven minutes after the hour on this Monday, August
the eighteenth, This is your morning show. I am Michael
del Jordo. These at the sounds of the day. What
poor Marco Rubio, secretary of State, had to make the
rounds on all the talking head shows, rather than paying
being respectful of the Secretary of State or respectful of
the complexity of this negotiation. Somebody was trying to make
(20:10):
this the US war. Somebody was trying to make this
a Trump failure. And that someone, of course, is the media,
So he made the rounds to Margaret Brennan at Face
the Nation, Kristin Welker at Meet the Press, and this
week with Martha Raddits. Let's start with Face the Nation
and Margaret Brannan as she began the Sunday interrogation of
(20:35):
the Trump administration.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
You know, there is concern from the Europeans that President
Zelinsky is going to be bullied and designing something away.
That's why you have these European leaders coming as back
up tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (20:47):
Can you that's not sure that.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
By the way, I have the way a face shipment.
She said that the comment from backup because you know
Trump can't be alone with Zelensky, he's nothing but a
big dictator, bullied friend in the back block and a
boating Then you get the simple response to Marker, No,
they're not. It's not true.
Speaker 14 (21:08):
But that's not why why that's not true. They're not
coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
They're not. They're coming here tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (21:16):
The television cameras where presently you.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Don't have any meetings. Oh no, I know.
Speaker 13 (21:21):
And I was just up and one with Vladimir Putin
where a red carpet rules.
Speaker 14 (21:27):
We've had more meetings we've had We've had We've had
one meeting with Putin and like a dozen meetings with Zelenski,
so that but that's not true. They're not coming here
tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're coming here
tomorrow because we've been working with the Europeans.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We talked to them last week.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
There were meetings in the UK over the follow the
previous weekend, and they say as early as Thursday. But
you said that they're coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky
for being bullied.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
They're not coming here tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (21:53):
This is such a stupid media narrative that they're coming
here tomorrow because the Trump is going to bully Zelensky
into a bad deal. We've been working with these people
for weeks, for weeks on this stuff. They're coming here
tomorrow because they chose to come here tomorrow. We invited
them to come. We invited them to come, The President
invited them to come.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
But the President told those European leaders last week that
he wanted a ceasfire. The President went on television said
he would walk out of the meeting if Vladimir Putin
didn't agree with on He said there would be severe
consequences if he didn't agree to one. He said he'd
walk out in two minutes. He spent three hours talking
to Vladimir Putin and then he did not get one.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
So there's there's obviously things happened during that meeting. Well,
because obviously things look. Our goal here is not to
stage some production for the world to say, oh, how
dramatic he walked out. Our goal here is to have
a peace agreement to end this war, Okay, And obviously
we felt and I agreed, that there was enough progress,
not a lot of progress, but enough progress made in
those talks to allow.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Us to move to the next phase.
Speaker 14 (22:49):
If not, we wouldn't be having Zelenski flying all the
way over here. We wouldn't be having all the Europeans
coming all the way over here. Now understand, and take
with a grain of salt. I'm not saying we're on
the verge of a peace deal. But I am saying
that we saw a movement, enough movement to justify a
follow up meeting with Zelinski and the Europeans, enough movement
for us to dedicate even more time to this. You
talk about the sanctions, look at the end of the day,
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if peace is not going to be possible here and
this is just going to continue on as a war,
people will continue to die by the thousands. The President
has that option to then come in and impose new sanctions.
But if he did this now, the moment the President
puts those additional sanctions, that's the end of the talks.
You've basically locked in at least another year to year
and a half of war and death and destruction. We may,
(23:29):
unfortunately wind up there, but we don't want to wind
up there. We want to wind up with a peace
deal that ends this war so Ukraine can go on
with the rest of their lives and rebuild their country
and be assured that this is never going to happen again.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That's the goal here.
Speaker 14 (23:41):
We're going to do everything possible to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
If it's doable, could you have a better secretary of
State representing you? Then he has to go to this
week with ABC and Martha Raddits and deal with all
of her harassment list.
Speaker 15 (23:55):
Critics of President Trump will say the pomp and circumstances, circumstance,
the red carpet, the warm handshake, the President Trump simply
lost that the Putin game there just by being on
the world stage and walking down a red carpet.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
By the way, the critics are the US media once again.
Thank god Marco Ruby's there to put her in her
place with the president. Your reaction to that, well.
Speaker 14 (24:22):
I mean, critics of President Trump are always going to
find something to criticize. Your un't pay attention to it anymore.
But I will tell you this, Putin is already on
the world stage. He's already on the world stage. The
guy's conducting a full scale war in Ukraine. He's already
on the world stage. He has the world's largest tactical
nuclear arsenal in the world and the second largest strategic
nuclear arsenal in the world. He's already on the world stage.
When I hear people say that it elevates him, well,
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all we do is talk about Putin all the time.
All the media has done is talk about Putin all
the time for the last four or five years. That
doesn't mean he's right about the war. That doesn't mean
he's justified about the war. Put all that aside. It
means you're not going to have a peace agreement between
Russia and Ukraine. You're not going to end a war
between rus in Ukraine without dealing with Putin.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's just common sense. I think there's a better chance
of a cease fire. I think there's a better chance
of a peace agreement. I think there's a better chance
of lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine than there is
between the adversarial media of the United States and this administration. Well,
(25:24):
the left, they have really no strategy, they have no leader,
they have no message or their leadership and message is socialist, communist, Islamist.
But maybe it's Joe Scarborough who had the best suggestion,
which is, why do you keep fighting with Muhammad Ali?
He's going to be retired in three years? Move on
(25:46):
dot org.
Speaker 12 (25:47):
Listen, Democrats understand Donald Trump's not going to be on
the ballot again.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And when Donald.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
Trump's out on the ballot, Republicans do worse.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
And I made the argument yesterday you can fight it,
you know.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
I always I thought it was hilarious when Democrats constantly
kept fire fighting Ronald Reagan even after Ronald Reagan left office.
Historians continued fighting Ronald Reagan even after Ronald.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Reagan had passed away.
Speaker 12 (26:10):
He just stayed in their mind and they never could
beat Ronald Reagan. You can say the same thing about
Republicans in Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, here you have Donald Trump.
Speaker 12 (26:19):
He's not on the ballot in twenty five, in twenty six,
in twenty eight. And why fight Muhammad Ali if you
can go after Chuck Webner, which is like, let's go
after Cogan.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Let's go after you know, Chuck did go the distance
with Ali and knocked him down. But enough about Joe's
lack of understanding of sports analogies. Even Hillary, even Hillary
sounding far more reasonable than Face the Nation, Meet the Press,
and this week with ABC.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
I understand from everything I've read, he very much would
like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and honestly, if
he could bring about the end to this terrible war
where Putin is the aggressor invading a neighbor country, try
to change the borders. If he could end it without
(27:12):
putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede
its territory to the aggressor, had to in a way
validate Putin's vision of greater Russia, but instead could really
stand up to Putin something we haven't seen. But maybe
(27:33):
this is the opportunity to make it clear that there
must be a cease fire, there will be no exchange
of territory, and that over a period of time, Putin
should be actually withdrawing from the territory he seized in
order to demonstrate his.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Good faith efforts. Let us say not to threaten me.
Don't you love how Democrats take this complex negotiation and
speak so boldly? I mean, pie in the sky, wishless stuff.
Where was that when Barack Obama was in office in
(28:12):
twenty fourteen and all he had was a few words
of condemnation for the takeover of Crimea and some sanctions,
that's it? Or how about Joe Biden when he was
in office and they just helped themselves into Ukraine and
began this war. But I'm going to hold her on
(28:35):
record as if he does find a way to get
to a ceasefire in a peace agreement, he deserves a
Nobel Peace Prize. But I'll bet she'll change her too.
And then there's Kamala Harris who still thinks she can
be president and she can't right now, sobriety would be
a good goal for her. And boy is she on
last week's topic a week late talking about Jerry mandering
(29:01):
when we've all moved on to Russia and Ukraine, think
that they're doing chiv chiaving there.
Speaker 16 (29:08):
They want to change the current system to make it
bend towards the outcome they want. And so, you know,
do you believe in publican partying. They get a call
that says, hey, redo your lines, even though the fallout
is going to include exactly what you said, which is,
you know, taking the franchise the vote away from specific.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Communities, you mean, like you've done in Illinois, like you've
done in New York State, like you've done it throughout
the East coast. And then the whole conversation on social
media just became about was she drunk or just still stupid?
And that's your sounds of the day.
Speaker 12 (29:53):
People who majored an online activision with a minor and
puberty box A little bit.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Steady of you in the media clearly missed.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The art of the deal. It's going to work out,
all right, Ryanil's going to join us in a few minutes.
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of Ohio Except for there. Roy O'Neill is here after
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evading police and arrest. The Texas lawmakers are finally returning
to Austin, and they will vote on redistricting. After all, Rory,
we have played this game before. And it always eventually
comes to this. They have to come home sooner or later.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
Now what right, Yeah, they pulled this stunt several times
and every time coming up short, but certainly raising the
profile of the issue, which I guess was the ultimate
goal here. But the Texas Democrats who fled the state
to avoid giving a quorum there in the state legislature
will return now that the governor has called another special
session to draw new congressional maps in the state with
(33:53):
five more seats that will lean more red and like
to give them a five more votes for Republicans in
the House. Of course, California is threatening to do the same,
but drawing the map more blue. But it's a bit
higher bar for California to clear, as they really have
to change their whole redistricting operation system.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
It's not a matter of just redrawing the maps. Yeah,
And they did a poll last week and sixty three
percent of the voters in California want to keep it
with an independent committee. So it's actually going against the
will of its own people. But I mean, if we're
talking about California, if we're talking about New York or
anything on the East coast, or Illinois, for that matter,
they've I mean, I love how they all like to
(34:35):
talk about jerry mandering like it's new. It's not new,
it's been going on. And the ones that are threatening
now to go redraw their lines, it's our. I mean,
there are no Republicans in New York or in other
East Coast states, so it's really not much of a
threat at all. But I guess that's where the story
goes next. Right will these other states follow? Right? Will
(34:58):
other states follow?
Speaker 11 (34:59):
It looks like Ohio, Indiana, Missouri could also redraw some
of their lines, benefiting Republican candidates in those states. Again,
this wouldn't be such an issue if the House weren't
so evenly divided. What three seats really determined control of
the House of Representatives? Right now, when one part of
the or the other has a thirty vote margin, we
(35:19):
don't play these little games because it doesn't make a difference.
But when it's three, four or five seats, well then yeah,
this all makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Not nearly the difference that the amount of people exiting
certain states for other states and constitutional losing districts is
going to have. But the whole notion lost in all
of this is the constitutional necessity of redistricting, and now
the normalization of abusing that and sheerrymandering. That's what's frustrating.
(35:51):
I don't want to waste any more time on it.
Let me ask you this, Zelenski. European leaders from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Finland,
all narratives aside, what in your mind would be a
good outcome from today.
Speaker 11 (36:04):
I think the security guarantees are then the only card
that Ukraine has left in the deck at this point. Essentially,
the Finland plan is that we will essentially respond to
Ukraine the same way you would if they were a
NATO country, that if Ukraine has attacked, all these other
European nations with the US would go into Ukraine to
defend it from any more Russian aggression. How that spelled out,
(36:27):
If that comes to fruition, I think that's the big
thing at this point.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the enemy has to say
so if Putin wants to keep fighting, he can keep fighting.
I mean, but if you can negotiate and get it
back to the areas that they had prior to the invasion,
and an assurance that Ukraine won't be in NATO and
a concession that's already been made by putin US security guarantees,
(36:52):
and he can get all these people on the same page. Well,
that's a step forward towards the second meeting, which was
the original Mexico reporting. As always, Rory, all right, go
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Well that was Alice, I'm K probably a different K.
Good morning, Michael and team. I would like to know
if anybody's taking bets on what Zolensky will be wearing
this time, if he's going to dress appropriately in a
suit or if he's going to go all casual in
his sweatsuit.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I gain, yeah, I think you know. Selensky's always kept
a hard line on this. He's at war, his people
are at war, and he comes as he is. I
don't know, with all of Europe being there as well,
I'm going to go out on a lemon say suit.
I'll let the rest of you chime in when it's
more appropriate. All right, So Zelensky comes to the White House,
as does Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Finland European leaders.
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As we heard from our White House correspond By the way,
that's my favorite talk back of the day. The guy
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They'll meet alone JD. Vance and Donald Trump, President and
Vice President will meet with Silensky alone first, then they'll
bring in the European leaders. The powerball jackpot is up
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to six hundred and five million, no matches over the weekend.
A hurricane, yes, headed for the US, not necessarily is
it a rip current or a riptide. Aaron could bring
life threatening surf and rip currents to the Eastern seaboard
in the coming days. And you know, we'll blink coming
out of August recess. We'll have about a month and
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then you know, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, holidays, and then boom,
the midterms are in full swing. So it is not
too early to start looking at these things and thinking
about these things. Now. If the President doesn't even achieve
peace with Ukraine, he's achieved a lot in the first
two hundred and fifty days, in fact, an eight year
(02:56):
an eight year two term presidency in the first two
hundred and fifty days. But how do the Senate and
House races that will shape which party controls Congress play
out and how do they look a year out. Chris
Walker is a Republican consultant in Your Morning Show contributor
and joins us.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Good Morning, Chris, Good Morning, Michael how are you.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, we did the story last week. Brown's a big
name in Ohio and he's coming back to run for
a Senate seat. And I made the bold statement, just
glancing at the numbers, he may offer their best chance
for a flip. Although the way I kind of see
it playing is lose this and maybe come back and
win two years later. But time will tell. What are
(03:37):
you seeing across the country? And I think we should
probably go Senate first in then House.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yeah, well, you know we're playing a lot of defense
in a lot of places where you know, it could
be explosive race than it should be. You mentioned Ohio.
I'm looking at North Carolina. You know, Tom tillis the
you know income and it's not running for re election.
He decided he did not want to deal with the
(04:04):
day to day of the Senate anymore. And so now
we have Michael Wattley, the R and C chair, popping
in the race against Cooper, got former Governor Cooper, which
is a he's a very popular Democrat.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
In North Carolina.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
That's going to be a very very expensive, very typical race.
And you know, like we're gonna see what happens. But
I've got I've got my North Carolina. I've got my
eye on Texas, I've got my yes, you know, certainly Ohio,
you're right, Michigan. You know, there's a lot of states
that we can play some offense with. We're also playing defense.
I mean, Georgia is our white whale right now, where
(04:35):
we seem to constantly, you know, snatch defeat from the
dows of victory.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Consistently.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
We've had three straight Senate seats that should be winning
by us that we're not. So you know, there's a
there's a lot there that needs to be kind of
thought through as we go to the primary process.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So so the big headline is, it didn't have to
be this this tight. It didn't have to be this dramatic,
But such is what has been played. You've been doing
this for for a long time time. When take Tillis
in North Carolina, when somebody bows out and creates an
open an election, you would think that that state would
still lean the way it did with the previous center.
(05:10):
But it opens a door. How much does it open
a door just generically and creating an open contest like that?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I mean, you know, very very candidly, this the North
Carolina race is probably going to be the central race
of this election. And so what was going to be
an easy Republican you know, uh Keep is now going
to be a very difficult, hard fought, you know election
between Michael Wadley and and uh and Cooper. So yeah, like,
(05:39):
well we'll see what happens. I would say that went
from a you know, nine you know certainty for you
know Republican pic Keep to a fifty to fifty race,
and you know, that's something we've got to We've got
to really put put our time and effortive resources in.
And the resources are you know, finite. And so if
you're spending money in North Carolina, that's not money you're
spending in Michigan, Ohio to try to you know, or
(06:01):
you know really you know states like Michigan another place
where you can do pick up.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Opportunities in Georgia.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
That's what we're just I was just going to say,
And if these are.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
If these are as close as you feel they'll be,
that's going to be a resource issue. That's that's areas
of focused strategy and money you could have spent elsewhere.
Does that create other ones that could become more vulnerable?
These will be the challenges moving forward. All right, So
if I said generically a year out and a lot
can happen in a year that generically the Senate gains
(06:32):
look more possible than taking control of the House, would
you say true or false?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I'd say false. I think that you know the Senate well,
I mean, how do you how do you cast a
question a Senate gains?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I think the.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Senate map is what everybody kind of looks at because
it's just it's easier to talk about the Senate than
it is the House because there's four hundred and thirty
five rates in the House and there's usually about three
or four for the Senate that are people are going
to look at or kind of pay attention to. So
you know, I would say that the Senate, we've got
a pretty good majority there and it will be hard
to lose it. But you know, there's going to be
(07:07):
a lot of state wide flights that the media is
going to cover aggressively. One thing that I think is different,
this is the first midterm election where you know, it's
a new social media and media reality that just didn't
exist in twenty twenty four, or I'm sorry, in twenty
twenty two. So you know, Elon didn't buy Twitter until
I think October of twenty two, and so it really
(07:29):
didn't have any impact on the social media moderation all
the things that all the other social media networks were doing.
And so, you know, that inherent advantage that the Democrats
have had for forty plus years is generally different now.
So you know, from a standpoint of media coverage, from
a standpoint of of you know, kind of acceptance of
(07:50):
the idea that somehow the party in power in midterms
is going to lose. I think that's an old narrative
that I think needs to be revisited, that they're just
people aren't paying attention to to ABCCBSNBC like they did
even five years ago. Yeah, that's a lot of the
lazy narratives.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Just aren't there. Yeah, and that's what's baked in that. Oh,
it's a midterm and if you have a Republican president,
think America likes checks and balances, they tend to have
a proclivity to vote Democrat in the midterm election. Yeah,
but you don't control newspapers anymore. Newspapers are irrelevant. You
don't control network television narratives anymore. ABCNBCCBS, PBS are all
(08:30):
in turmoil. They have low audience, nobody's really watching it anymore.
The same is true for cable news. Podcast is now king,
maybe even more so than talk radio that they never
had an answer for and they really don't have an
answer for that. And then social media, so all things
are different. It's also a different division in America going
through a cultural reawakening, and the left has played the
(08:53):
narrative game so bad. I mean, they have gone from
simply not just being an opposition party that can find
common ground to obstructionists to law fair, to kind of
rooting against America to fighting on hills that can't be one,
and it really has become quite dysfunctional. And I don't
think historically we have any measure for how that plays.
(09:17):
I don't exactly right. I don't think a blue wave
is coming, I'll put it that way.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Yeah, I mean, you know, and it's just I think
there's a fatigue factor. I think people are just so
you know, kind of over politics from a certain standpoint
that it's hard to know how aggressively people are going
to be following or covering these issues. But you know, ultimately,
again at the end of the day. You know, we're
(09:43):
looking at I think you're right, and I also think
that we're looking at a you know, the president Trump superpower.
Read this the other day. I think it's actually pretty accurate.
You know, he has the ability to take an eighty
twenty issue and somehow have the Democrats take the twenty
percent side of it, as if you know, the most
extreme elements of their party are running everything. You know,
(10:05):
you have Democrats out there last week defending crime and saying, well,
crime is not as bad as he's saying. And it's like, well,
you don't, don't don't believe your two eyes just you know,
kind of listening to the stats that we've we've been
cooking the books on for ten years. You know, it's
it's it's crazy. So, I mean, even from a standpoint
of where the Democrats are, you know, potentially strong because
(10:25):
of the President, they keep taking these ridiculous positions and
I think put them outside of the mainstream by a
long shot. I think they've always been outside the mainstream,
but now they don't even know how to even you know,
effectively communicate to a normal person anymore, because they want
to talk about you know, trans rights, and you know,
revolving door prisons. I mean, you know, we've talked about this,
(10:46):
this is an election issue in nineteen eighty eight, and
it's still an issue that they seem to be on
the wrong side of. So, you know, taking the side
of criminals not a good political strategy, and I think
that's some of these Democrats seem to be wanting to do.
And that's that's where they are.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Closing moments of Chris Walker, republic and consultant in your
morning show contributor, Well, I can tell you this. They
you know, people would say, well, either the Democrats don't
have a leader, and they don't have a narrative, and
they don't really have a firm platform that's in line
with the American people. Instead of pivoting towards the American people,
they're pivoting further to the left.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I think they do have leader. I think they do
have strategy. It's like, if Mam Donnie wins in New York,
that's not a problem for them. That is their future.
That is the direction they are taking. And I don't
think that plays well come midterms. And the other biggest
wildcard is the role of Donald Trump and if he
finishes this deal not just in the Middle East but
(11:39):
with Russia and Ukraine. And he's got time to really
start campaigning. Yes, he's not on the ballot, but he
will be on the campaign trail and that could be
significant an influence.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Absolutely right. I mean again, I agree with you completely.
They do have a leader, it's just he's not he
or she is not an elected person. Oh they are there,
you know, kind of lower tier. But I mean their
leaders are AOC Elizabeth Tarrant, you know, George Soros and
his son. I mean, those are the Democrat Party leaders.
We see it every day of who they're following. You know.
(12:13):
Bill mar even talked about that this weekend. He's like,
Democrats need to stop Kaoto into the furthest left of
their party. But they can't do it because that's one
where they feel their active score is and two what's
where their money is. So that's that's the leadership of
the Democrat Party right now, and it's amazing to me
to see them self emilate. I hope they continue to
do it. But you know, you've got folks like Rob
(12:33):
Emanuel and and even goodness Gracious Gavinson, Gavin Newsom trying
to sound some alarm bells of moderation. Gavin Newsom being
a moderate is just something we're going.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
To not let pass.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
But rama Manuel's out there trying to talk about the
Democrats need to start talking about issues that made them
win in the nineties, and if they listen and they're smart,
you know, it's something that they could be potentially doing.
It's what Donald Trump did right. He co opted you know,
a lot of the Democrat positions on manufacturing and tariffs
and those things and turned it into a you know,
pro American message. That Democrats could do something similar if
(13:04):
they had the right messaging and the right messengers.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Chris Walker as always our pleasure. We'll talk again next
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US Special envoys Steve Whitkoff says President Trump and Vladimir
Putin agreed on a robe By security guarantee for Ukraine.
That's good news. That's a step towards an agreement and
should make a big difference for Zelenski. Today. Mark Mayfield
has more.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Witkoff talked about the agreement in an interview with CNN's
State of the Union.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
We got to an agreement that the United States and
other European nations could effectively or offer Article five like language
to cover a security guarantee.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Whitkoff, who sat in on Trump's meeting with Putin on Friday,
said it was the first time we had ever heard
the Russians agree to such a provision.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
He said.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Other agreements also included a legislative enshointment by Russia to
not go into any other territory.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When the peace deal is codified. I'm Mark Mayfield. The
Justice Department is backing off plans to take over DC's
police Force.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Trump administration has rescinded an earlier order that named DEA
Chief Terry Cole as emergency police chief Instead. Metro Police
Chief Panela Smith will stay in charge under Mayor Muriel Bowser.
The DOJ has also directed Bowser to have police assist
with immigration enforcement and comply with federal database checks. Friday's
decision comes after DC's Attorney general filed a lawsuit that
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challenge the police department takeover.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Finally see Taylor. Although it's not expected to make landfall
in the US, Hurricane Aaron a cat for hurricane as
bringing unsettling waters, could bring unsettling waters to the shores
of the eastern seaboard of the United States. Jonathan oh
Hollerin has more.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
The warning comes after two swimmers died along the Jersey
Shore just last week. The massive hurricane is expected to
stay well offshore, but its winds will bring dangerous surf
to the Jersey Shore and Long Island. Lifeguards are reminding
swimmers to swim parallel to the shore if they get
stuck in a rip current, and to only swim when
lifeguards are on duty. Jonathan o'haller and NBC News Radio
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New York.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Six planets are visible in the sky through Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Urana are aligned and
can be seen about forty five minutes before sunset. Most
will be visible to the naked eye, but binoculars or
a telescope will be needed for Neptune and Uranus.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Not technically an alignment. These parades of planets happen because
the planet's orbit on the same plane or elliptic, causing
them to appear in a ligne from our perspective on Earth.
A full alignment of all seven planets, including Mars, won't
happen again until February third of twenty thirty four. I'm
Tammy Trio and if.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Anything like Jeffrey, you're too immature to discuss Uranus without giggling,
snickering and making comments.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
This is James from Greenwood, South Carolina, and my morning
show asual morning show with Michael Dojorno.
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Make us a part of your morning routine. But better
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be totally confused. Is it ripped current or rip tide?
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Because that Crock says it's rip current. Listen. I always
call them riptides, all right, that's number one. Number two.
My news copy calls it rip currents. I say rip currents.
Somebody calls on the talk back line. It says there's
no such thing as a rip current. Currents are always there.
(18:30):
It's a rip time. But then you know, just Google
search and it says a rip current, sometimes incorrectly called
a riptide. Wikipedia says a riptide is a strong offshore current.
You know, I get all of a sudden, there's a
war of words, rip tide, rip current, swim sideways is
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what you need to remember. Hurricane Aaron could bring life
threatening surf and rip currents or rip tides, whichever you prefer,
to the Eastern Seaboard, but isn't expected to make a
direct hit on the United States, and it's ring a
little bit of havoc in Puerto Rico, now a cat
for hurricane Meanwhile, Zelenski's coming to the White House. That
is all the buzz. He's bringing with him some European
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leaders from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Finland as Europe,
Donald Trump and Ukraine try to find a path to peace.
And the powerball Jackpop biggest of the year now goes
to six hundred and five million with no winner over
the weekend. And guess what time it is?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
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try harder not to suck.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Exactly the opportunity for a brief Civics lesson.
Speaker 12 (19:40):
Perhaps you'd like to be alone with you at a
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Speaker 1 (19:48):
Thirty seven minutes after the hour on this Monday, August
the eighteenth, This is your morning show. I am Michael
del Jordo. These at the sounds of the day. What
poor Marco Rubio, secretary of State, had to make the
rounds on all the talking head shows, rather than paying
being respectful of the Secretary of State or respectful of
the complexity of this negotiation. Somebody was trying to make
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this the US war. Somebody was trying to make this
a Trump failure. And that someone, of course, is the media,
So he made the rounds to Margaret Brennan at Face
the Nation, Kristin Welker at Meet the Press, and this
week with Martha Raddits. Let's start with Face the Nation
and Margaret Brannan as she began the Sunday interrogation of
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the Trump administration.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
You know, there is concern from the Europeans that President
Zelinsky is going to be bullied and designing something away.
That's why you have these European leaders coming as back
up tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (20:47):
Can you that's not sure that.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
By the way, I have the way a face shipment.
She said that the comment from backup because you know
Trump can't be alone with Zelensky, he's nothing but a
big dictator, bullied friend in the back block and a
boating Then you get the simple response to Marker, No,
they're not. It's not true.
Speaker 14 (21:08):
But that's not why why that's not true. They're not
coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
They're not. They're coming here tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (21:16):
The television cameras where presently you.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Don't have any meetings. Oh no, I know.
Speaker 13 (21:21):
And I was just up and one with Vladimir Putin
where a red carpet rules.
Speaker 14 (21:27):
We've had more meetings we've had We've had We've had
one meeting with Putin and like a dozen meetings with Zelenski,
so that but that's not true. They're not coming here
tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied. They're coming here
tomorrow because we've been working with the Europeans.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We talked to them last week.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
There were meetings in the UK over the follow the
previous weekend, and they say as early as Thursday. But
you said that they're coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky
for being bullied.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
They're not coming here tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (21:53):
This is such a stupid media narrative that they're coming
here tomorrow because the Trump is going to bully Zelensky
into a bad deal. We've been working with these people
for weeks, for weeks on this stuff. They're coming here
tomorrow because they chose to come here tomorrow. We invited
them to come. We invited them to come, The President
invited them to come.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
But the President told those European leaders last week that
he wanted a ceasfire. The President went on television said
he would walk out of the meeting if Vladimir Putin
didn't agree with on He said there would be severe
consequences if he didn't agree to one. He said he'd
walk out in two minutes. He spent three hours talking
to Vladimir Putin and then he did not get one.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
So there's there's obviously things happened during that meeting. Well,
because obviously things look. Our goal here is not to
stage some production for the world to say, oh, how
dramatic he walked out. Our goal here is to have
a peace agreement to end this war, Okay, And obviously
we felt and I agreed, that there was enough progress,
not a lot of progress, but enough progress made in
those talks to allow.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Us to move to the next phase.
Speaker 14 (22:49):
If not, we wouldn't be having Zelenski flying all the
way over here. We wouldn't be having all the Europeans
coming all the way over here. Now understand, and take
with a grain of salt. I'm not saying we're on
the verge of a peace deal. But I am saying
that we saw a movement, enough movement to justify a
follow up meeting with Zelinski and the Europeans, enough movement
for us to dedicate even more time to this. You
talk about the sanctions, look at the end of the day,
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if peace is not going to be possible here and
this is just going to continue on as a war,
people will continue to die by the thousands. The President
has that option to then come in and impose new sanctions.
But if he did this now, the moment the President
puts those additional sanctions, that's the end of the talks.
You've basically locked in at least another year to year
and a half of war and death and destruction. We may,
(23:29):
unfortunately wind up there, but we don't want to wind
up there. We want to wind up with a peace
deal that ends this war so Ukraine can go on
with the rest of their lives and rebuild their country
and be assured that this is never going to happen again.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That's the goal here.
Speaker 14 (23:41):
We're going to do everything possible to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
If it's doable, could you have a better secretary of
State representing you? Then he has to go to this
week with ABC and Martha Raddits and deal with all
of her harassment list.
Speaker 15 (23:55):
Critics of President Trump will say the pomp and circumstances, circumstance,
the red carpet, the warm handshake, the President Trump simply
lost that the Putin game there just by being on
the world stage and walking down a red carpet.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
By the way, the critics are the US media once again.
Thank god Marco Ruby's there to put her in her
place with the president. Your reaction to that, well.
Speaker 14 (24:22):
I mean, critics of President Trump are always going to
find something to criticize. Your un't pay attention to it anymore.
But I will tell you this, Putin is already on
the world stage. He's already on the world stage. The
guy's conducting a full scale war in Ukraine. He's already
on the world stage. He has the world's largest tactical
nuclear arsenal in the world and the second largest strategic
nuclear arsenal in the world. He's already on the world stage.
When I hear people say that it elevates him, well,
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all we do is talk about Putin all the time.
All the media has done is talk about Putin all
the time for the last four or five years. That
doesn't mean he's right about the war. That doesn't mean
he's justified about the war. Put all that aside. It
means you're not going to have a peace agreement between
Russia and Ukraine. You're not going to end a war
between rus in Ukraine without dealing with Putin.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's just common sense. I think there's a better chance
of a cease fire. I think there's a better chance
of a peace agreement. I think there's a better chance
of lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine than there is
between the adversarial media of the United States and this administration. Well,
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the left, they have really no strategy, they have no leader,
they have no message or their leadership and message is socialist, communist, Islamist.
But maybe it's Joe Scarborough who had the best suggestion,
which is, why do you keep fighting with Muhammad Ali?
He's going to be retired in three years? Move on
(25:46):
dot org.
Speaker 12 (25:47):
Listen, Democrats understand Donald Trump's not going to be on
the ballot again.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
And when Donald.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
Trump's out on the ballot, Republicans do worse.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
And I made the argument yesterday you can fight it,
you know.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
I always I thought it was hilarious when Democrats constantly
kept fire fighting Ronald Reagan even after Ronald Reagan left office.
Historians continued fighting Ronald Reagan even after Ronald.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Reagan had passed away.
Speaker 12 (26:10):
He just stayed in their mind and they never could
beat Ronald Reagan. You can say the same thing about
Republicans in Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, here you have Donald Trump.
Speaker 12 (26:19):
He's not on the ballot in twenty five, in twenty six,
in twenty eight. And why fight Muhammad Ali if you
can go after Chuck Webner, which is like, let's go
after Cogan.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Let's go after you know, Chuck did go the distance
with Ali and knocked him down. But enough about Joe's
lack of understanding of sports analogies. Even Hillary, even Hillary
sounding far more reasonable than Face the Nation, Meet the Press,
and this week with ABC.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
I understand from everything I've read, he very much would
like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and honestly, if
he could bring about the end to this terrible war
where Putin is the aggressor invading a neighbor country, try
to change the borders. If he could end it without
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putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede
its territory to the aggressor, had to in a way
validate Putin's vision of greater Russia, but instead could really
stand up to Putin something we haven't seen. But maybe
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this is the opportunity to make it clear that there
must be a cease fire, there will be no exchange
of territory, and that over a period of time, Putin
should be actually withdrawing from the territory he seized in
order to demonstrate his.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Good faith efforts. Let us say not to threaten me.
Don't you love how Democrats take this complex negotiation and
speak so boldly? I mean, pie in the sky, wishless stuff.
Where was that when Barack Obama was in office in
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twenty fourteen and all he had was a few words
of condemnation for the takeover of Crimea and some sanctions,
that's it? Or how about Joe Biden when he was
in office and they just helped themselves into Ukraine and
began this war. But I'm going to hold her on
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record as if he does find a way to get
to a ceasefire in a peace agreement, he deserves a
Nobel Peace Prize. But I'll bet she'll change her too.
And then there's Kamala Harris who still thinks she can
be president and she can't right now, sobriety would be
a good goal for her. And boy is she on
last week's topic a week late talking about Jerry mandering
(29:01):
when we've all moved on to Russia and Ukraine, think
that they're doing chiv chiaving there.
Speaker 16 (29:08):
They want to change the current system to make it
bend towards the outcome they want. And so, you know,
do you believe in publican partying. They get a call
that says, hey, redo your lines, even though the fallout
is going to include exactly what you said, which is,
you know, taking the franchise the vote away from specific.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Communities, you mean, like you've done in Illinois, like you've
done in New York State, like you've done it throughout
the East coast. And then the whole conversation on social
media just became about was she drunk or just still stupid?
And that's your sounds of the day.
Speaker 12 (29:53):
People who majored an online activision with a minor and
puberty box A little bit.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Steady of you in the media clearly missed.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The art of the deal. It's going to work out,
all right, Ryanil's going to join us in a few minutes.
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rip currents, we just call them the big Rippers. Good morning.
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Michael just wanted to say congratulations on number one hundred.
We talked about this earlier. I'll never forget number one, Nashville,
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Why can't you tell us? Why? Why should I? I
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I love I love learning and listening, and I hope
Cincinnati wakes up and adds your morning show soon. Have
a great day. Well, we don't want to open up
that can of worms, do we. I am the king
of Ohio Except for there. Roy O'Neill is here after
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evading police and arrest. The Texas lawmakers are finally returning
to Austin, and they will vote on redistricting. After all, Rory,
we have played this game before. And it always eventually
comes to this. They have to come home sooner or later.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
Now what right, Yeah, they pulled this stunt several times
and every time coming up short, but certainly raising the
profile of the issue, which I guess was the ultimate
goal here. But the Texas Democrats who fled the state
to avoid giving a quorum there in the state legislature
will return now that the governor has called another special
session to draw new congressional maps in the state with
(33:53):
five more seats that will lean more red and like
to give them a five more votes for Republicans in
the House. Of course, California is threatening to do the same,
but drawing the map more blue. But it's a bit
higher bar for California to clear, as they really have
to change their whole redistricting operation system.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
It's not a matter of just redrawing the maps. Yeah,
And they did a poll last week and sixty three
percent of the voters in California want to keep it
with an independent committee. So it's actually going against the
will of its own people. But I mean, if we're
talking about California, if we're talking about New York or
anything on the East coast, or Illinois, for that matter,
they've I mean, I love how they all like to
(34:35):
talk about jerry mandering like it's new. It's not new,
it's been going on. And the ones that are threatening
now to go redraw their lines, it's our. I mean,
there are no Republicans in New York or in other
East Coast states, so it's really not much of a
threat at all. But I guess that's where the story
goes next. Right will these other states follow? Right? Will
(34:58):
other states follow?
Speaker 11 (34:59):
It looks like Ohio, Indiana, Missouri could also redraw some
of their lines, benefiting Republican candidates in those states. Again,
this wouldn't be such an issue if the House weren't
so evenly divided. What three seats really determined control of
the House of Representatives? Right now, when one part of
the or the other has a thirty vote margin, we
(35:19):
don't play these little games because it doesn't make a difference.
But when it's three, four or five seats, well then yeah,
this all makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Not nearly the difference that the amount of people exiting
certain states for other states and constitutional losing districts is
going to have. But the whole notion lost in all
of this is the constitutional necessity of redistricting, and now
the normalization of abusing that and sheerrymandering. That's what's frustrating.
(35:51):
I don't want to waste any more time on it.
Let me ask you this, Zelenski. European leaders from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Finland,
all narratives aside, what in your mind would be a
good outcome from today.
Speaker 11 (36:04):
I think the security guarantees are then the only card
that Ukraine has left in the deck at this point. Essentially,
the Finland plan is that we will essentially respond to
Ukraine the same way you would if they were a
NATO country, that if Ukraine has attacked, all these other
European nations with the US would go into Ukraine to
defend it from any more Russian aggression. How that spelled out,
(36:27):
If that comes to fruition, I think that's the big
thing at this point.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the enemy has to say
so if Putin wants to keep fighting, he can keep fighting.
I mean, but if you can negotiate and get it
back to the areas that they had prior to the invasion,
and an assurance that Ukraine won't be in NATO and
a concession that's already been made by putin US security guarantees,
(36:52):
and he can get all these people on the same page. Well,
that's a step forward towards the second meeting, which was
the original Mexico reporting. As always, Rory, all right, go
make a difference in someone's life, Cherish. You'll almost see
it right back here tomorrow morning on your morning show.
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