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national correspondent Rory O'Neill standing by. Grocery prices. He's also
going to give us a hit on the Grand Canyon
(00:53):
flash flood, which is just terrible. But Rory, what is
going on with grocery prices and what is the next
big grocery shock that's brewing?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, Chris, good morning. You know, it was J.P.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Morgan who came out with an analysis showing that global
food inflation would hit 5% in the first half of
next year. That's about double what we saw in the
first half of 2026. And a lot of this all
goes back to diesel. Diesel is a lot more expensive.
Farmers use it for their tractors. There's diesel in the fertilizer.
(01:26):
Of course, the diesel is in the trucks that deliver
these goods to the store shelves. And it really is
across the board. You add to that corn and wheat prices.
are surging this week, hitting their highest level in three years.
Bad weather has hit the corn crops and that Russia-Ukraine
war drags on. Ukraine was the biggest producer of wheat
(01:47):
and sunflower oil in the world. And a lot of
that production has come down because their farmers are busy
right now.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
So Rory, one of my listeners here in Dallas, Fort Worth,
where I'm sitting, had asked me when the big time
inflation started happening under Joe Biden. When will prices go down?
When will grocery prices go down? And I think I
know the answer to it. I know what I would
tell her now, but I want to hear what you
say about that question right now.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, prices aren't going to go down. It's not going
to happen.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Because what you hope then is that the wages keep
up and that you're allowed and able.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
To afford this stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
But you don't necessarily want to get into a a
cycle of deflation either. Look, we saw the egg prices
and the chicken prices, and that was the avian flu.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And that was like a hump you had to get through.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So you can understand individual commodities coming back down due
to a price shock. But when it's an across the
board kind of thing that they're looking at here, lower
diesel prices isn't suddenly going to fix this.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
And then one of the things they also mentioned here, tariffs,
soaring gas and energy prices aligned with the Middle East conflict.
Will there be any relief if and when the Iranian
tensions are gone?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
It will certainly take the pressure off, and I think
that at least that's a good sign. And remember, we
are dealing with a global economy, and there's competition now
for the fertilizer that can't get through the Strait of.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Hormuz as it normally would.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
And as there are falling supplies with corn and wheat, well,
then there's going to be growing demand to fill those
markets on other parts of the planet. So I don't see...
broad deflation, but you may see individual commodities. And back
to the tariffs in particular, some people were scratching their
heads with tariffs on Brazil, saying, why are you putting
(03:36):
a tariff on Brazil? The US can't grow coffee, so
why tariff Brazilian coffee imports, right?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
If you were to.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Tariff a Brazilian car, you could say, well, all right,
America makes cars, that's competition. Same way we tariff Chinese
electric vehicles, like, okay, we're protecting our own. But why
tariff coffee when We can't even make it outside of
a few acres in Hawaii.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Any relief from beef prices in the near future that
you're aware of?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Yeah, you know, beef is just a longer cycle to
recover from, right? You can't make a cow in six
months or at least not come to full term.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Unless you make it in the lab. Unless you make
it in the lab.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You don't want to eat that. Well, and then it's
a twofer, right?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Because the cow that you would have sent to slaughter,
now you need to stick around to make more cows. So,
you know, even growing the herd then takes other beef
out of the system.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So it is a tricky thing to manage.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Rory, tell me what you know about the Grand Canyon
flash flood as of right now.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
More than 20 people underway for the search that we,
I mean, what do we have missing right now?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
What do we know?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah, I think that that number of 20 was a
guesstimate yesterday. They brought that number down to 15. There
is one confirmed fatality as a result of this. They're
still trying to gather information about who was there and
who may be among the missing. Yeah, hopefully we'll just
clarify and make sure people are safe where they are.
(05:09):
But this is the result of several days of heavy rain.
Some of the bridges, those friendship bridges just getting washed
away up and down this region, which is one of
the most popular trails there in the Grand Canyon. But
the flooding has created this significant flash flooding event that
has just scared an awful lot of people who were
in this area in the Bright Angel Creek.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Rory O'Neill, national correspondent, appreciate you. Look forward to talking
to you at 8.50 Eastern about the data center and
Chinese folks, Chinese government trying to manipulate perhaps our opinion
on data centers. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Thanks, Chris.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Thank you very much. There he goes. We stayed way
back when. It was like the best trip ever. My
wife was amazing. She booked us a night on the
Bright Angel side or whatever, the Bright Angel Canyon. at
Grand Canyon, which is one of the most popular visited
one period of the Grand Canyon. We stayed at a little,
(06:10):
what do you call it, hotel or motel, I don't
know what you call it, but lodges. And so we
stayed in one of the rooms there. It was unbelievable.
No TV. I think they had electricity, but no TV.
And we bought a book. My wife bought a book
that chronicles every death in the Grand Canyon. And you
(06:32):
get to read about them, and it's mostly people saying,
watch this. And then you don't see them anymore. Or
one guy going to the bathroom off the ledge there.
And then there's a gravitational pull thing you feel when
you're standing over these massive openings. It was quite interesting.
And really what it is is a lot of people
don't drink enough water. And when there's signs that are. Everywhere,
(06:56):
you're being almost being beaten over the head with signs saying,
you know, drink a gallon of water, bring a gallon
of water or whatever for every blank amount of times.
And they still don't listen. But in this case, it
was absolute tragedy. So we'll hope and pray for the
remaining people to be found and be OK. On Chinese,
the Chinese communists, along with Russia and Iran, according to
(07:20):
a briefing by the FBI and White House to the
Energy House Energy and Commerce Committee. They want to be
briefed more on alleged propaganda campaigns by China, Russia, and Iran.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
One estimate that opposition campaigns have delayed or obstructed roughly
$ 46 billion in data center projects in Virginia alone. Again,
our enemies telling us to be against data centers surreptitiously
through social media influence campaigns. The ex- Just came out today,
Chinese influence campaign involving more than 200,000 bot accounts uncovered
(07:58):
on X. Quote, with this farm, we found 200 accounts
posing in a manner that could manipulate legitimate debate about
American AI and energy policy. An opinion piece on the
Hill detailing a Chinese influence campaign from earlier this year,
warning more could be following. So they are literally programming
you through social media to be outraged and against AI,
(08:19):
or excuse me, data centers and AI. Why do you
think China, Russia, and Iran would want to trick us
into being against data centers? I mean, I know the
answer from my opinion. My opinion is they're doing it
because they want to win the data race and the
(08:40):
AI race. And so they get more and more of
us outraged against data centers and then they will slow
it down. And boy, is it working. One of the
columns or news articles over the weekend I read shows, well,
it says if you can get, quote, Greg Abbott, governor
of Texas, and Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, agreeing
(09:01):
on something, it's probably not a Chinese psyop. It's probably
not a mass delusion people are having on these issues.
This is from a Yahoo column or Axios column via Yahoo. Listen,
I think the reason why Governor Greg Abbott, and maybe
even Kathy Hochul, but Governor Greg Abbott, is now seemingly
(09:21):
against AI or data centers. I think it's because the
people have, a lot of people have been fooled by
this and are against it. But they don't know the
whole story. And I think the Chinese, Iranian, and Russian bots,
plants in our social media to light us up and
(09:42):
get us angry about it is working. I think people
are allowing themselves in many cases, not all, but in
many cases to become, quote, useful idiots for our adversaries.
Let me give you examples. Quote, this is from the
Wall Street Journal editorial report over the weekend. on Fox News.
(10:05):
Golf courses use 30 times more water than data centers.
I repeat, golf courses use 30 times more water than
data centers. Obviously, we got to shut down the golf
courses first, right? Data centers use half of what a
car wash uses. I mean, do you really have to
wash your car?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So shut those down first. Loudoun County, Virginia, 3% of
the land has data centers on it. 3% of Loudoun
County land has data center. 40% of the local revenue
is provided by data centers in Loudoun County. 40% of
the revenue. That's $ 5, 800 per person. that the data centers
(10:48):
pay into taxes. In Quincy, Washington, they now pay 71%
less property taxes because of data centers. They got a
new hospital, police department, city hall, and $ 110 million high school.
There's $ 50, 000 bonuses given to a rural Louisiana school district
(11:08):
because the data center opened up in their jurisdiction. In Ellendale,
North Carolina, Data centers have reduced the average household's electric
bill by $ 250. Also in Ellendale, North Dakota, the town
collected $ 400, 000 in annual sales tax revenue pre-data center. They
(11:30):
got $ 400, 000 annual tax. In just the first seven months,
they've gotten $ 3. 5 million. So right now they're on par
to go from $ 400, 000 in tax revenues to $ 7 million
in one year. What is that, like 14 times, more
than 14 times the revenue? Allendale can now afford to
repave its streets, renovate its senior center, finance a new
(11:52):
public safety complex, establish walking trails, and refurbish its historic
opera house. Quote, we were a dying little town. According
to congressional inquiries and investigative research, Chinese state media and
foreign-funded networks have allegedly played a major role in shaping
the data center business. coverage online in social media. In Quincy, Washington,
(12:16):
revenues generated by data centers have helped fund, I already
mentioned that one, the new hospital. And let me see here.
Here's more. In DeKalb, Illinois, about an hour and a
half outside of Chicago where I grew up, in DeKalb,
data centers paid $ 49 million in property taxes from 2021
to 2024. The mayor says those dollars went back into
(12:36):
city services and public schools, including helping the district build
a new elementary school. Oracle says a New Mexico initiative
will conserve 21 million gallons annually. That's more than 20
times what its Project Jupiter cooling and power systems require.
For example, closed-loop systems do not use, they use almost
no water. In fact, a lot of closed-loop systems will
(12:59):
even send back more water than they took in into
our water reserves or our, you know, whatever you call it,
our lakes. Also, Oracle in New Mexico committed $ 50 million
to improve local water and wastewater systems. Meta at its
El Paso facility says they have a closed-loop cooling system
(13:19):
and they restore twice the water they consume in local watersheds.
And then you have unions. Unions absolutely going to town
pro data center. In Kansas, a union representing HVAC and
real world workers broke from decades of precedent to endorse
a Republican for governor because of data centers. Steenfurter's UA
(13:41):
local 602, his members knock on doors for candidates to
help finance campaigns for data centers. We are dependent on
these jobs, he says. And there's more. You tell me
why you think China and Russia and Iran are trying
to tell us program must be against data centers and
how that changes your opinion. Maybe it doesn't about data centers.
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IBEW Local 26, union representing Washington, electricians, Maryland, Virginia as well.
This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to really get into the
upper middle class with data centers. Data centers need people
who can pour concrete, wire electric panels, install equipment like
power generators and chillers to help keep services cool, servers cool.
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Steamfooters UA, Local 602 also. Members install mechanic piping systems
in Virginia, Maryland, D.C. Wrote that it's drawing a clear line.
Will not support politicians who oppose data centers. It's an
existential moment for Local 602. Tied that in with all
the Chinese, Iranian, and... Russian propaganda that they're spreading through
(16:17):
influencing campaigns on X and ChatGPT. And we start to
figure it out. Top five stories of the day. Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation tells staff not to refer to 9-11 as
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Do not refer to the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks.
You should say the, quote, hijackings led to passenger jet crashes.
So it just happened. They hijacked and the jet accidentally
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of course, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford declares no one is going to
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America side, you look it up online. Speaking of which,
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now from Niagara Falls just north of Toronto and is
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former governor of New York, says, I was governor on
September 11th. The planes didn't simply crash into the World
Trade Center or the Pentagon. They were hijacked and deliberately
flown into those buildings by Islamist terrorists. Exactly right. One dead,
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the weekend. Also in New Jersey, same kind of thing,
11 shot in Trenton, two pronounced dead, nine others taken
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our White House correspondent on the huge oil deal in Venezuela.
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But first, as promised, Kristen Welker, NBC anchor, political gal
from the Sunday morning show there, Meet the Press. And
President Trump did not like what she said about how
many folks that he's endorsed have actually won. And here's
(20:24):
what she said. Quote, he's going to loom large over
these midterms. There's no doubt about that. He, of course,
has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He's
had some mixed results. had some mixed results. Well, what
do you mean? The scoreboard says, quote, and this is
(20:48):
from Gunther Engelman, the scoreboard says 239 to four. Is
that mixed results? Missing four out of 239? That's a 98%
record in the House and 100% in.
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The Senate.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
He says you don't get to rewrite the results and
keep the public airwaves. Well, Trump is now saying, as
you know, on social, he said 100% for the U.S. Senate, 98%
for the U.S.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
House.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
How can anyone be allowed to say this working for
a freely given public airwaves? Because of this purposeful inaccuracy,
she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke and punishment.
NBC News replying, Christian is one of the best in
the business and we stand by her. quote, NBC said, quote,
she gets mixed results for us, quote. Let's go to
(21:40):
John Decker, White House correspondent. John, how are you, sir?
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Good to be with you. Hope you're doing well today.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I'm doing great, my friend. Gosh, what's up with this
deal with Venezuela? I mean, it looks huge, but is
it even going to take place.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
For the next several years? Yeah, it's a really good question.
So I think the bottom line that most people want
to know, will this bring down finally gas prices? And
I have some bad news. The answer to that question
is no. Now, on the surface, it sounds good, but
then you have to read the fine print. This is
a deal that the president announced on Truth Social. He
(22:21):
calls it the biggest oil deal in the world. It
was arranged as a joint venture with a private operator
called with Venezuela's interim government.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And under the deal, the U.S.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Would secure a 55% stake in the oil from 17 specific.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oil fields or energy fields.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
And according to Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, the project
intends to bring $ 100 billion in investments to the country's
oil industry and also yield, according to Delcy Rodriguez, $ 209
billion in annual tax revenue. Well, that's if everything works out.
And all of this needs to be developed. All of
(23:01):
it needs investment.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And as it relates to the oil itself, the U.S.
does not have an oil company.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
So this oil would simply go into our strategic reserves,
strategic petroleum reserves. It would not go out to gas
stations essentially all across the country.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
So in other words, John, as great of a deal
this may end up being, It's not going to affect
our gas prices now or in the future. I mean,
I'm assuming that based on the fact that even if
you fill up the SPR completely, it still doesn't affect
the gasoline prices. Is that accurate?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That is right.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
But also keep in mind the SPR, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,
hit a 40-year low.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
To this ongoing conflict with Iran.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
And also, this is something, as you point out, that
even if you fill up the SPR to the brim,
it would not impact prices at the pump in any way. So,
you know, although the president is touting this as, you know,
a game changer, biggest oil deal in the world, I'm
not going to say this is, you know, non consequential.
(24:07):
I don't want to minimize it entirely, but I think
the bottom line for most people is, well.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
How does it affect me?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
And for the most part, it will not affect you
now or into the future.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Is it guaranteed, John, that we're going to get this,
all this oil back to our patrol?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
No, there's no guarantees. In the oil industry, you know,
I mean, you can develop an oil field. First of all,
that takes literally tens of billions of dollars in terms
of developing a possible oil field. But there's no guarantee
you're going to hit pager. And that's also one of
those issues related to what was announced by President Trump
(24:46):
on Truth Social over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Now, the next president, because this is going to take
several years for this to go through, the next president,
if he or she is a Democrat, does that mean
this might go to the wayside? Or do you anticipate
from what you know that whoever the next president is
will probably stick with it even if it's a Democrat?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Well, you say next president, and I assume you're talking
about the next American president. Well, Delce Rodriguez is the
interim president. And so there are Venezuelans that do not
acknowledge her as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. So imagine
if someone replaces Delce Rodriguez in the next, as you
put it, timeframe, three to five years, they could say
essentially this deal that was arranged by someone that we
(25:29):
view as an illegitimate leader is null and void. So
that could too could possibly happen over the course of
the course of the next few years.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
So both the U.S. and the Venezuelan presidents could bail
is what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
And then there's also like I think it's three three companies.
A couple of them won't go in or aren't involved
in this deal. And then I think two are U.S.
petroleum companies or maybe three are involved in this possible
possible deal you're going through.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Well, not exactly clear which companies the president may have
been referring to. So that's also an unclear element of
what the president announced. I think that sometimes the president
puts out headlines which grab a lot of headlines. That's
what the president certainly likes to do. But sometimes these headlines,
(26:22):
perfect example, talking about how the war is coming to
an end or.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The Strait of Hormuz is wide open.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Sometimes these things do not pan out in the manner
in which the president hopes they pan out.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
White House correspondent John Decker, thanks for joining us this morning, sir.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Thank you. Have a great day. Talk to you real soon. Bye-bye. Yes, sir.
You too.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
We'll be talking to him all week as I'm hanging
out with you through Thursday, at least. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
All right.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
So, yeah, obviously it's great, but who knows if it'll
go through, which, you know, it's pretty bummer. The other
thing is we want our gas prices to go down. Unfortunately,
that won't affect it.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Okay, so.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Christian Welker said that Trump has mixed results with his endorsements. Obviously,
the numbers prove that it's not mixed results. 98% accuracy
in the House, 100% in the Senate for his endorsements.
And then Trump saying, how can anyone be allowed to
say this working for freely given public airwaves because of
(27:24):
this purposeful inaccuracy?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
She will be.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Reported to the FCC for rebuke and punishment, by the way. Um,
I'll ask you, producer red. Do you actually think, do
you actually think that Trump honestly is going to report
her to the FCC?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
I don't think so either. He says, hands down, thumbs down. No,
I didn't think so. I think it's a joke, right?
I mean, for his own sake, I hope it's a
joke because come on, he's trolling her. But again, NBC
news says, Kristen's one of the best in the business.
We stand by her quote. She gets mixed results for
us too.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Okay, get out of here.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Try to milk the joke twice. That's all I got, man.
Come on, I'm trying to work it. I'm trying to
work the room over here. Now this from the Wall
Street Journal. Republicans are worried about the midterms. Trump is
focused on his legacy. Now before I even get into
the details of the story, I totally feel like this
(28:25):
is actually what the truth is. Trump is overtly or
I should say overly focusing on his legacy, which I
understand why. He's somebody who thinks long-term, way ahead, et cetera.
I was listening to his interview this morning. When I
got up, I listened to Fox News, they'll replay the
Sunday shows, you know? And Trey Gowdy, Sunday Night in America,
(28:50):
he had an exclusive interview with President Trump. And it
was absolutely beautiful, the first five minutes or so I
got to listen, absolutely beautiful interview. Because Trey Gowdy is
definitely not this massive, hardcore MAGA Republican. But he talked
with such great reverence for the president and his relationship
(29:11):
with the president. And sitting down with the president, he
prided himself in all his years in the House as
somebody who did not meet the president. In other words,
his opinions were completely independent and separate from President Trump.
It was absolutely wonderful. He talked about how, you know,
as he walked around with President Trump, looking at the
helipad that he's building, the ballroom that he's building, he
(29:35):
is such an amazing builder and attention to detail on
so many different things. It was really sweet and beautiful.
But I do believe Trump is focused on the midterms,
not on the midterms, but his legacy. And I think
the reason, some of the evidence I've seen where he's
really focused on his legacy, Cuba, the blockade of Cuba,
(29:56):
wanting to free Cuba, removed that 50, 60-year communist regime.
And he's trying that. Venezuela, he did not. He needs
to get free and fair elections in Venezuela. But I
(30:16):
think part of his legacy is he wants to set
free these parts of the world. He wants to kick
China out of that part of the world, out of
our hemisphere. I think that's one of the biggest things.
That he's been doing for his legacy. I do feel
like he is more concerned about his legacy than the midterms.
I absolutely do. And I think we're going to get
our butts kicked. I don't think we're going to lose
(30:39):
the Senate. I think we're going to get our butts
kicked in the House. And all they're going to do
is impeach, impeach, impeach. Let's go into this article from
the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. Republicans privately worry
Trump has focused on himself. His focus on himself is
backfiring with voters complicating their efforts to keep control of Congress,
giving Democrats plenty of ammo for attack ads. Trump's senior
(30:59):
advisors have for months tried to shift the president's focus
to the economy.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It's one of the big.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Reasons why he was hired, for the illegals, to get
the illegals out of this country that Joe Biden and
the Democrats invaded us with, but also the economy. And
I feel like he totally has taken his eye off
the ball on the economy for a long time, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And it's because.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
His legacy, and I think he's righteously thinking about it,
but the economy is in the crapper. As far as,
what I really mean to say is inflation is in
the crapper. That's a problem. One senior administration official says
the president has entered legacy mode, fixated on how he
will be remembered by future generations. Oh, I think that's
(31:42):
the same reason why with Iran. So I do think
he's trying to be, and he wants to be a
consequential president. Quote, he's one of the handful of presidents
who thinks on an entirely historic scale, says Newt Gingrich.
He wants to be consequential. He wants this to matter.
He wants to be the kind of president who people say,
you know, it mattered that he was president. And I agree,
and I think he does. But I think we're going
(32:05):
to get our butts kicked in the midterms, period. I
have a little bit more on this. We've got the
Senate battleground races. We have the latest on the straight-up
Hormuz and Iran. Oh, my gosh. Speaking of the economy,
what is the typical age of the U.S. homebuyer now
(32:25):
compared to 1981? It's not good. All that coming up next,
Chris Crockett from Michael DelGiorno. This is your morning show.
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Typical U.S. homebuyer in 1981 was 31 years of age.
Typical U.S.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Homebuyer.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Now, 59. I think that's why we're going to get
our you-know-whats handed to us at the midterms. It just
doesn't matter all the good stuff that President Trump has done.
What matters is people. I've seen grocery prices continue to
go up. Gas prices are high, even though the war
(34:22):
with Iran is righteous. I will say that President Trump
should have absolutely finished the job two and a half
months ago, three months ago. He never should have let
up on Iran. Big, big, big mistake. Oh, look at this.
Producer Red chiming in on the fact that Rolling Stone
(34:44):
touts inflammatory Hasan Piker as a top influencer. Producer Red saying, yep,
because it's not about some California Twitch influencer. Exactly right, yeah.
El Sayed should do comedy. I think we'll hit that
back up again. We need to get back into that
coming up in about 10 minutes. In the meantime, GOP
(35:08):
trailing in eight battleground states. Senate races, I should say,
eight battleground Senate races, two months before election day. We're
not going to lose the Senate. House, I do think
we will definitely lose, unfortunately. I mean, I'll be shocked.
There's no way we're going to win the House. I
wish we would keep the House. Not going to happen.
So impeachment mania circus will continue. Meantime, top five stories
(35:31):
of the day.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Five, four, three.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Death toll from Wednesday's devastating flash floods in Nepal risen
to 800, around 3,000 still missing, 85 Americans unaccounted for Sunday.
I'm very sad to say that. Also, grand canyon flooding
15 people may be missing or unaccounted for after a
significant flash flood occurred in grand canyon national park service
(35:59):
said sunday the bright angel trail the most popular hiking
trail in the grand canyon my wife and i spent
the night there years ago it was awesome the flood
ripped through bright angel canyon and phantom ranch area saturday
grand canyon national parks communications office said in a release
what else do i have for you here in the
bag U.S. military struck two Iranian rocket launchers Sunday, marking
(36:19):
its first attack on the Middle Eastern country in more
than a month. Iran reportedly retaliating later in the day.
We did the right thing, 100%. Mississippi mayor believes lowering U.S.
flag for Dolly Parton could lessen the meaning of the gesture.
He goes out of his way to say he doesn't disdain,
doesn't dislike Dolly.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
She's awesome.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
But he says, quote, the president can make decisions for
the country. The governor can make decisions for the state
of Mississippi. I a decision for his or her city.
I also don't believe residents elected me to be a
salute and execute mayor, but to lead with conviction. A president, quote,
may order flags to be flown at half staff for
any individual. Quit being a sourpuss and lower the flag, sir.
(37:06):
A veteran prosecutor in New York State Attorney General Letitia James'
office says he was ordered to dig up dirt on
people and groups affiliated with Donald Trump. Former Brooklyn prosecutor
now works in her Letitia James Investor Protection Bureau, said
his boss instructed him to find and pursue crimes committed
(37:26):
by Trump allies in a since-deleted email. So he says,
if you believe Trump's using the DOJ attorney to prosecute
enemies and further his political interests, you should find it
equally troubling that Tiz James is basically doing the same thing.
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national correspondent Rory O'Neill standing by. Grocery prices. He's also
going to give us a hit on the Grand Canyon
(00:53):
flash flood, which is just terrible. But Rory, what is
going on with grocery prices and what is the next
big grocery shock that's brewing?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, Chris, good morning. You know, it was J.P.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Morgan who came out with an analysis showing that global
food inflation would hit 5% in the first half of
next year. That's about double what we saw in the
first half of 2026. And a lot of this all
goes back to diesel. Diesel is a lot more expensive.
Farmers use it for their tractors. There's diesel in the fertilizer.
(01:26):
Of course, the diesel is in the trucks that deliver
these goods to the store shelves. And it really is
across the board. You add to that corn and wheat prices.
are surging this week, hitting their highest level in three years.
Bad weather has hit the corn crops and that Russia-Ukraine
war drags on. Ukraine was the biggest producer of wheat
(01:47):
and sunflower oil in the world. And a lot of
that production has come down because their farmers are busy
right now.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
So Rory, one of my listeners here in Dallas, Fort Worth,
where I'm sitting, had asked me when the big time
inflation started happening under Joe Biden. When will prices go down?
When will grocery prices go down? And I think I
know the answer to it. I know what I would
tell her now, but I want to hear what you
say about that question right now.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, prices aren't going to go down. It's not going
to happen.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Because what you hope then is that the wages keep
up and that you're allowed and able.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
To afford this stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
But you don't necessarily want to get into a a
cycle of deflation either. Look, we saw the egg prices
and the chicken prices, and that was the avian flu.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And that was like a hump you had to get through.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So you can understand individual commodities coming back down due
to a price shock. But when it's an across the
board kind of thing that they're looking at here, lower
diesel prices isn't suddenly going to fix this.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
And then one of the things they also mentioned here, tariffs,
soaring gas and energy prices aligned with the Middle East conflict.
Will there be any relief if and when the Iranian
tensions are gone?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
It will certainly take the pressure off, and I think
that at least that's a good sign. And remember, we
are dealing with a global economy, and there's competition now
for the fertilizer that can't get through the Strait of.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Hormuz as it normally would.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
And as there are falling supplies with corn and wheat, well,
then there's going to be growing demand to fill those
markets on other parts of the planet. So I don't see...
broad deflation, but you may see individual commodities. And back
to the tariffs in particular, some people were scratching their
heads with tariffs on Brazil, saying, why are you putting
(03:36):
a tariff on Brazil? The US can't grow coffee, so
why tariff Brazilian coffee imports, right?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
If you were to.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Tariff a Brazilian car, you could say, well, all right,
America makes cars, that's competition. Same way we tariff Chinese
electric vehicles, like, okay, we're protecting our own. But why
tariff coffee when We can't even make it outside of
a few acres in Hawaii.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Any relief from beef prices in the near future that
you're aware of?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Yeah, you know, beef is just a longer cycle to
recover from, right? You can't make a cow in six
months or at least not come to full term.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Unless you make it in the lab. Unless you make
it in the lab.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
You don't want to eat that. Well, and then it's
a twofer, right?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Because the cow that you would have sent to slaughter,
now you need to stick around to make more cows. So,
you know, even growing the herd then takes other beef
out of the system.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So it is a tricky thing to manage.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Rory, tell me what you know about the Grand Canyon
flash flood as of right now.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
More than 20 people underway for the search that we,
I mean, what do we have missing right now?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
What do we know?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah, I think that that number of 20 was a
guesstimate yesterday. They brought that number down to 15. There
is one confirmed fatality as a result of this. They're
still trying to gather information about who was there and
who may be among the missing. Yeah, hopefully we'll just
clarify and make sure people are safe where they are.
(05:09):
But this is the result of several days of heavy rain.
Some of the bridges, those friendship bridges just getting washed
away up and down this region, which is one of
the most popular trails there in the Grand Canyon. But
the flooding has created this significant flash flooding event that
has just scared an awful lot of people who were
in this area in the Bright Angel Creek.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Rory O'Neill, national correspondent, appreciate you. Look forward to talking
to you at 8.50 Eastern about the data center and
Chinese folks, Chinese government trying to manipulate perhaps our opinion
on data centers. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Thanks, Chris.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Thank you very much. There he goes. We stayed way
back when. It was like the best trip ever. My
wife was amazing. She booked us a night on the
Bright Angel side or whatever, the Bright Angel Canyon. at
Grand Canyon, which is one of the most popular visited
one period of the Grand Canyon. We stayed at a little,
(06:10):
what do you call it, hotel or motel, I don't
know what you call it, but lodges. And so we
stayed in one of the rooms there. It was unbelievable.
No TV. I think they had electricity, but no TV.
And we bought a book. My wife bought a book
that chronicles every death in the Grand Canyon. And you
(06:32):
get to read about them, and it's mostly people saying,
watch this. And then you don't see them anymore. Or
one guy going to the bathroom off the ledge there.
And then there's a gravitational pull thing you feel when
you're standing over these massive openings. It was quite interesting.
And really what it is is a lot of people
don't drink enough water. And when there's signs that are. Everywhere,
(06:56):
you're being almost being beaten over the head with signs saying,
you know, drink a gallon of water, bring a gallon
of water or whatever for every blank amount of times.
And they still don't listen. But in this case, it
was absolute tragedy. So we'll hope and pray for the
remaining people to be found and be OK. On Chinese,
the Chinese communists, along with Russia and Iran, according to
(07:20):
a briefing by the FBI and White House to the
Energy House Energy and Commerce Committee. They want to be
briefed more on alleged propaganda campaigns by China, Russia, and Iran.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
One estimate that opposition campaigns have delayed or obstructed roughly
$ 46 billion in data center projects in Virginia alone. Again,
our enemies telling us to be against data centers surreptitiously
through social media influence campaigns. The ex- Just came out today,
Chinese influence campaign involving more than 200,000 bot accounts uncovered
(07:58):
on X. Quote, with this farm, we found 200 accounts
posing in a manner that could manipulate legitimate debate about
American AI and energy policy. An opinion piece on the
Hill detailing a Chinese influence campaign from earlier this year,
warning more could be following. So they are literally programming
you through social media to be outraged and against AI,
(08:19):
or excuse me, data centers and AI. Why do you
think China, Russia, and Iran would want to trick us
into being against data centers? I mean, I know the
answer from my opinion. My opinion is they're doing it
because they want to win the data race and the
(08:40):
AI race. And so they get more and more of
us outraged against data centers and then they will slow
it down. And boy, is it working. One of the
columns or news articles over the weekend I read shows, well,
it says if you can get, quote, Greg Abbott, governor
of Texas, and Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, agreeing
(09:01):
on something, it's probably not a Chinese psyop. It's probably
not a mass delusion people are having on these issues.
This is from a Yahoo column or Axios column via Yahoo. Listen,
I think the reason why Governor Greg Abbott, and maybe
even Kathy Hochul, but Governor Greg Abbott, is now seemingly
(09:21):
against AI or data centers. I think it's because the
people have, a lot of people have been fooled by
this and are against it. But they don't know the
whole story. And I think the Chinese, Iranian, and Russian bots,
plants in our social media to light us up and
(09:42):
get us angry about it is working. I think people
are allowing themselves in many cases, not all, but in
many cases to become, quote, useful idiots for our adversaries.
Let me give you examples. Quote, this is from the
Wall Street Journal editorial report over the weekend. on Fox News.
(10:05):
Golf courses use 30 times more water than data centers.
I repeat, golf courses use 30 times more water than
data centers. Obviously, we got to shut down the golf
courses first, right? Data centers use half of what a
car wash uses. I mean, do you really have to
wash your car?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
No.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So shut those down first. Loudoun County, Virginia, 3% of
the land has data centers on it. 3% of Loudoun
County land has data center. 40% of the local revenue
is provided by data centers in Loudoun County. 40% of
the revenue. That's $ 5, 800 per person. that the data centers
(10:48):
pay into taxes. In Quincy, Washington, they now pay 71%
less property taxes because of data centers. They got a
new hospital, police department, city hall, and $ 110 million high school.
There's $ 50, 000 bonuses given to a rural Louisiana school district
(11:08):
because the data center opened up in their jurisdiction. In Ellendale,
North Carolina, Data centers have reduced the average household's electric
bill by $ 250. Also in Ellendale, North Dakota, the town
collected $ 400, 000 in annual sales tax revenue pre-data center. They
(11:30):
got $ 400, 000 annual tax. In just the first seven months,
they've gotten $ 3. 5 million. So right now they're on par
to go from $ 400, 000 in tax revenues to $ 7 million
in one year. What is that, like 14 times, more
than 14 times the revenue? Allendale can now afford to
repave its streets, renovate its senior center, finance a new
(11:52):
public safety complex, establish walking trails, and refurbish its historic
opera house. Quote, we were a dying little town. According
to congressional inquiries and investigative research, Chinese state media and
foreign-funded networks have allegedly played a major role in shaping
the data center business. coverage online in social media. In Quincy, Washington,
(12:16):
revenues generated by data centers have helped fund, I already
mentioned that one, the new hospital. And let me see here.
Here's more. In DeKalb, Illinois, about an hour and a
half outside of Chicago where I grew up, in DeKalb,
data centers paid $ 49 million in property taxes from 2021
to 2024. The mayor says those dollars went back into
(12:36):
city services and public schools, including helping the district build
a new elementary school. Oracle says a New Mexico initiative
will conserve 21 million gallons annually. That's more than 20
times what its Project Jupiter cooling and power systems require.
For example, closed-loop systems do not use, they use almost
no water. In fact, a lot of closed-loop systems will
(12:59):
even send back more water than they took in into
our water reserves or our, you know, whatever you call it,
our lakes. Also, Oracle in New Mexico committed $ 50 million
to improve local water and wastewater systems. Meta at its
El Paso facility says they have a closed-loop cooling system
(13:19):
and they restore twice the water they consume in local watersheds.
And then you have unions. Unions absolutely going to town
pro data center. In Kansas, a union representing HVAC and
real world workers broke from decades of precedent to endorse
a Republican for governor because of data centers. Steenfurter's UA
(13:41):
local 602, his members knock on doors for candidates to
help finance campaigns for data centers. We are dependent on
these jobs, he says. And there's more. You tell me
why you think China and Russia and Iran are trying
to tell us program must be against data centers and
how that changes your opinion. Maybe it doesn't about data centers.
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IBEW Local 26, union representing Washington, electricians, Maryland, Virginia as well.
This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to really get into the
upper middle class with data centers. Data centers need people
who can pour concrete, wire electric panels, install equipment like
power generators and chillers to help keep services cool, servers cool.
(15:56):
Steamfooters UA, Local 602 also. Members install mechanic piping systems
in Virginia, Maryland, D.C. Wrote that it's drawing a clear line.
Will not support politicians who oppose data centers. It's an
existential moment for Local 602. Tied that in with all
the Chinese, Iranian, and... Russian propaganda that they're spreading through
(16:17):
influencing campaigns on X and ChatGPT. And we start to
figure it out. Top five stories of the day. Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation tells staff not to refer to 9-11 as
a terrorist attack. Yes, they say that's inserting your own opinion.
(16:38):
Do not refer to the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks.
You should say the, quote, hijackings led to passenger jet crashes.
So it just happened. They hijacked and the jet accidentally
crashed into the World Trade Center two times, two different ones,
of course, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Ontario Premier Doug Ford declares no one is going to
call it Lake America. Wow. Well, yes, they are. And
Google actually says it's Lake America. When you're on the
America side, you look it up online. Speaking of which,
Steve right now says he's driving around Lake America right
now from Niagara Falls just north of Toronto and is
(17:18):
a trucker. And he listens to the show, and there
you are, my brother. Good to hear from you. George Pataki,
former governor of New York, says, I was governor on
September 11th. The planes didn't simply crash into the World
Trade Center or the Pentagon. They were hijacked and deliberately
flown into those buildings by Islamist terrorists. Exactly right. One dead,
(17:39):
13 injured in a Washington Park picnic. in Chicago over
the weekend. Also in New Jersey, same kind of thing,
11 shot in Trenton, two pronounced dead, nine others taken
to the hospital.
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Speaker 5 (18:26):
This is Your Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno. Let's hear
from Blaine at KASI on Lake America.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
The Lac d'America is what it says on a French
map of 1688. So I don't know where they got
this Ontario that was English. The French actually called it
Lake America in 1688. They've got a map. Anyway, have
a good day.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Blaine, your pronunciation is incredible. It's smooth like butter. You're
whispering sweet French into our ears. Speaking of which, here's
a man who May have caught the first king salmon
on Lake America. This is remarkable. Here he is.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
We actually went out yesterday on Lake Ontario and came
back on Lake America.
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And I'd like to think I've caught the first king
salmon caught on Lake America.
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It's remarkable. The first king salmon caught on Lake America.
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in just a moment, we're going to talk to John Decker,
our White House correspondent on the huge oil deal in Venezuela.
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But first, as promised, Kristen Welker, NBC anchor, political gal
from the Sunday morning show there, Meet the Press. And
President Trump did not like what she said about how
many folks that he's endorsed have actually won. And here's
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what she said. Quote, he's going to loom large over
these midterms. There's no doubt about that. He, of course,
has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He's
had some mixed results. had some mixed results. Well, what
do you mean? The scoreboard says, quote, and this is
(20:48):
from Gunther Engelman, the scoreboard says 239 to four. Is
that mixed results? Missing four out of 239? That's a 98%
record in the House and 100% in.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The Senate.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
He says you don't get to rewrite the results and
keep the public airwaves. Well, Trump is now saying, as
you know, on social, he said 100% for the U.S. Senate, 98%
for the U.S.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
House.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
How can anyone be allowed to say this working for
a freely given public airwaves? Because of this purposeful inaccuracy,
she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke and punishment.
NBC News replying, Christian is one of the best in
the business and we stand by her. quote, NBC said, quote,
she gets mixed results for us, quote. Let's go to
(21:40):
John Decker, White House correspondent. John, how are you, sir?
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Good to be with you. Hope you're doing well today.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I'm doing great, my friend. Gosh, what's up with this
deal with Venezuela? I mean, it looks huge, but is
it even going to take place.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
For the next several years? Yeah, it's a really good question.
So I think the bottom line that most people want
to know, will this bring down finally gas prices? And
I have some bad news. The answer to that question
is no. Now, on the surface, it sounds good, but
then you have to read the fine print. This is
a deal that the president announced on Truth Social. He
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calls it the biggest oil deal in the world. It
was arranged as a joint venture with a private operator
called with Venezuela's interim government.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And under the deal, the U.S.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Would secure a 55% stake in the oil from 17 specific.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oil fields or energy fields.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
And according to Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, the project
intends to bring $ 100 billion in investments to the country's
oil industry and also yield, according to Delcy Rodriguez, $ 209
billion in annual tax revenue. Well, that's if everything works out.
And all of this needs to be developed. All of
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it needs investment.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And as it relates to the oil itself, the U.S.
does not have an oil company.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
So this oil would simply go into our strategic reserves,
strategic petroleum reserves. It would not go out to gas
stations essentially all across the country.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
So in other words, John, as great of a deal
this may end up being, It's not going to affect
our gas prices now or in the future. I mean,
I'm assuming that based on the fact that even if
you fill up the SPR completely, it still doesn't affect
the gasoline prices. Is that accurate?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That is right.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
But also keep in mind the SPR, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,
hit a 40-year low.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
To this ongoing conflict with Iran.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
And also, this is something, as you point out, that
even if you fill up the SPR to the brim,
it would not impact prices at the pump in any way. So,
you know, although the president is touting this as, you know,
a game changer, biggest oil deal in the world, I'm
not going to say this is, you know, non consequential.
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I don't want to minimize it entirely, but I think
the bottom line for most people is, well.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
How does it affect me?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
And for the most part, it will not affect you
now or into the future.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Is it guaranteed, John, that we're going to get this,
all this oil back to our patrol?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
No, there's no guarantees. In the oil industry, you know,
I mean, you can develop an oil field. First of all,
that takes literally tens of billions of dollars in terms
of developing a possible oil field. But there's no guarantee
you're going to hit pager. And that's also one of
those issues related to what was announced by President Trump
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on Truth Social over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Now, the next president, because this is going to take
several years for this to go through, the next president,
if he or she is a Democrat, does that mean
this might go to the wayside? Or do you anticipate
from what you know that whoever the next president is
will probably stick with it even if it's a Democrat?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Well, you say next president, and I assume you're talking
about the next American president. Well, Delce Rodriguez is the
interim president. And so there are Venezuelans that do not
acknowledge her as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. So imagine
if someone replaces Delce Rodriguez in the next, as you
put it, timeframe, three to five years, they could say
essentially this deal that was arranged by someone that we
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view as an illegitimate leader is null and void. So
that could too could possibly happen over the course of
the course of the next few years.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
So both the U.S. and the Venezuelan presidents could bail
is what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
And then there's also like I think it's three three companies.
A couple of them won't go in or aren't involved
in this deal. And then I think two are U.S.
petroleum companies or maybe three are involved in this possible
possible deal you're going through.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Well, not exactly clear which companies the president may have
been referring to. So that's also an unclear element of
what the president announced. I think that sometimes the president
puts out headlines which grab a lot of headlines. That's
what the president certainly likes to do. But sometimes these headlines,
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perfect example, talking about how the war is coming to
an end or.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The Strait of Hormuz is wide open.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Sometimes these things do not pan out in the manner
in which the president hopes they pan out.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
White House correspondent John Decker, thanks for joining us this morning, sir.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Thank you. Have a great day. Talk to you real soon. Bye-bye. Yes, sir.
You too.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
We'll be talking to him all week as I'm hanging
out with you through Thursday, at least. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
All right.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
So, yeah, obviously it's great, but who knows if it'll
go through, which, you know, it's pretty bummer. The other
thing is we want our gas prices to go down. Unfortunately,
that won't affect it.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Okay, so.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Christian Welker said that Trump has mixed results with his endorsements. Obviously,
the numbers prove that it's not mixed results. 98% accuracy
in the House, 100% in the Senate for his endorsements.
And then Trump saying, how can anyone be allowed to
say this working for freely given public airwaves because of
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this purposeful inaccuracy?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
She will be.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Reported to the FCC for rebuke and punishment, by the way. Um,
I'll ask you, producer red. Do you actually think, do
you actually think that Trump honestly is going to report
her to the FCC?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
I don't think so either. He says, hands down, thumbs down. No,
I didn't think so. I think it's a joke, right?
I mean, for his own sake, I hope it's a
joke because come on, he's trolling her. But again, NBC
news says, Kristen's one of the best in the business.
We stand by her quote. She gets mixed results for
us too.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Okay, get out of here.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Try to milk the joke twice. That's all I got, man.
Come on, I'm trying to work it. I'm trying to
work the room over here. Now this from the Wall
Street Journal. Republicans are worried about the midterms. Trump is
focused on his legacy. Now before I even get into
the details of the story, I totally feel like this
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is actually what the truth is. Trump is overtly or
I should say overly focusing on his legacy, which I
understand why. He's somebody who thinks long-term, way ahead, et cetera.
I was listening to his interview this morning. When I
got up, I listened to Fox News, they'll replay the
Sunday shows, you know? And Trey Gowdy, Sunday Night in America,
(28:50):
he had an exclusive interview with President Trump. And it
was absolutely beautiful, the first five minutes or so I
got to listen, absolutely beautiful interview. Because Trey Gowdy is
definitely not this massive, hardcore MAGA Republican. But he talked
with such great reverence for the president and his relationship
(29:11):
with the president. And sitting down with the president, he
prided himself in all his years in the House as
somebody who did not meet the president. In other words,
his opinions were completely independent and separate from President Trump.
It was absolutely wonderful. He talked about how, you know,
as he walked around with President Trump, looking at the
helipad that he's building, the ballroom that he's building, he
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is such an amazing builder and attention to detail on
so many different things. It was really sweet and beautiful.
But I do believe Trump is focused on the midterms,
not on the midterms, but his legacy. And I think
the reason, some of the evidence I've seen where he's
really focused on his legacy, Cuba, the blockade of Cuba,
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wanting to free Cuba, removed that 50, 60-year communist regime.
And he's trying that. Venezuela, he did not. He needs
to get free and fair elections in Venezuela. But I
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think part of his legacy is he wants to set
free these parts of the world. He wants to kick
China out of that part of the world, out of
our hemisphere. I think that's one of the biggest things.
That he's been doing for his legacy. I do feel
like he is more concerned about his legacy than the midterms.
I absolutely do. And I think we're going to get
our butts kicked. I don't think we're going to lose
(30:39):
the Senate. I think we're going to get our butts
kicked in the House. And all they're going to do
is impeach, impeach, impeach. Let's go into this article from
the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. Republicans privately worry
Trump has focused on himself. His focus on himself is
backfiring with voters complicating their efforts to keep control of Congress,
giving Democrats plenty of ammo for attack ads. Trump's senior
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advisors have for months tried to shift the president's focus
to the economy.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It's one of the big.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Reasons why he was hired, for the illegals, to get
the illegals out of this country that Joe Biden and
the Democrats invaded us with, but also the economy. And
I feel like he totally has taken his eye off
the ball on the economy for a long time, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And it's because.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
His legacy, and I think he's righteously thinking about it,
but the economy is in the crapper. As far as,
what I really mean to say is inflation is in
the crapper. That's a problem. One senior administration official says
the president has entered legacy mode, fixated on how he
will be remembered by future generations. Oh, I think that's
(31:42):
the same reason why with Iran. So I do think
he's trying to be, and he wants to be a
consequential president. Quote, he's one of the handful of presidents
who thinks on an entirely historic scale, says Newt Gingrich.
He wants to be consequential. He wants this to matter.
He wants to be the kind of president who people say,
you know, it mattered that he was president. And I agree,
and I think he does. But I think we're going
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to get our butts kicked in the midterms, period. I
have a little bit more on this. We've got the
Senate battleground races. We have the latest on the straight-up
Hormuz and Iran. Oh, my gosh. Speaking of the economy,
what is the typical age of the U.S. homebuyer now
(32:25):
compared to 1981? It's not good. All that coming up next,
Chris Crockett from Michael DelGiorno. This is your morning show.
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It's your morning show with Michael DelGiorno.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
This is your morning show. Chris Kroc in for Michael
DelGiorno on your morning show. Well, here it is, the
Typical U.S. homebuyer in 1981 was 31 years of age.
Typical U.S.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Homebuyer.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Now, 59. I think that's why we're going to get
our you-know-whats handed to us at the midterms. It just
doesn't matter all the good stuff that President Trump has done.
What matters is people. I've seen grocery prices continue to
go up. Gas prices are high, even though the war
(34:22):
with Iran is righteous. I will say that President Trump
should have absolutely finished the job two and a half
months ago, three months ago. He never should have let
up on Iran. Big, big, big mistake. Oh, look at this.
Producer Red chiming in on the fact that Rolling Stone
(34:44):
touts inflammatory Hasan Piker as a top influencer. Producer Red saying, yep,
because it's not about some California Twitch influencer. Exactly right, yeah.
El Sayed should do comedy. I think we'll hit that
back up again. We need to get back into that
coming up in about 10 minutes. In the meantime, GOP
(35:08):
trailing in eight battleground states. Senate races, I should say,
eight battleground Senate races, two months before election day. We're
not going to lose the Senate. House, I do think
we will definitely lose, unfortunately. I mean, I'll be shocked.
There's no way we're going to win the House. I
wish we would keep the House. Not going to happen.
So impeachment mania circus will continue. Meantime, top five stories
(35:31):
of the day.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Five, four, three.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Death toll from Wednesday's devastating flash floods in Nepal risen
to 800, around 3,000 still missing, 85 Americans unaccounted for Sunday.
I'm very sad to say that. Also, grand canyon flooding
15 people may be missing or unaccounted for after a
significant flash flood occurred in grand canyon national park service
(35:59):
said sunday the bright angel trail the most popular hiking
trail in the grand canyon my wife and i spent
the night there years ago it was awesome the flood
ripped through bright angel canyon and phantom ranch area saturday
grand canyon national parks communications office said in a release
what else do i have for you here in the
bag U.S. military struck two Iranian rocket launchers Sunday, marking
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its first attack on the Middle Eastern country in more
than a month. Iran reportedly retaliating later in the day.
We did the right thing, 100%. Mississippi mayor believes lowering U.S.
flag for Dolly Parton could lessen the meaning of the gesture.
He goes out of his way to say he doesn't disdain,
doesn't dislike Dolly.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
She's awesome.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
But he says, quote, the president can make decisions for
the country. The governor can make decisions for the state
of Mississippi. I a decision for his or her city.
I also don't believe residents elected me to be a
salute and execute mayor, but to lead with conviction. A president, quote,
may order flags to be flown at half staff for
any individual. Quit being a sourpuss and lower the flag, sir.
(37:06):
A veteran prosecutor in New York State Attorney General Letitia James'
office says he was ordered to dig up dirt on
people and groups affiliated with Donald Trump. Former Brooklyn prosecutor
now works in her Letitia James Investor Protection Bureau, said
his boss instructed him to find and pursue crimes committed
(37:26):
by Trump allies in a since-deleted email. So he says,
if you believe Trump's using the DOJ attorney to prosecute
enemies and further his political interests, you should find it
equally troubling that Tiz James is basically doing the same thing.
This is your morning show, Chris and for Michael.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael DelGiorno.
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