October 23, 2025 • 33 mins
A new national poll is out, and it takes a look at how Americans feel about everything from Hamas to the government shutdown. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL will have the story.
Still not sure what California will do, but North Carolina made some huge redistricting moves. We’ll go over the new lines with senior contributor David Zanotti to see how it will shape next year's midterm results.
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Senate fails for.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
A twelve time to advance a House approved measure that
would have ended the government shutdown. So we entered day
twenty three of government shutdown. That's the perceived crisis, the
real crisis. We also hit thirty eight trillion dollars of
debt today. Guess what, You all, along with me own
that debt and are paying for it either through inflation
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or in literally in taxation. The final face to face
debate New York City took place, and oh the sparks
were flying. The Trump administration struck a second alleged drug
trafficking vessel in the Pacific Ocean. I think that's nine total.
And things are heating up with Russia. The talks are
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off for peace. Meanwhile, the sanctions on two of the
biggest Russian oil firms have been put in place. Also,
permission given to Ukraine to use European long range missiles. Meanwhile,
putin Is got nukes off the coast in the water,
just military operations, of course, and a new national poll
is out. If that's one of the big questions that
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we're all kicking around in the media, who is this
shutdown hurting? Well, we get some of that fact, we
get a lot more. It takes a look at how
Americans feel about everything from Hamas to the government shutdown.
Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil is here. He has the
story and the deets. Good morning, Rory, Hey.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
There, Michael, good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You know, we like this poll because one part of
it asks the same question every month, and then we
get to see the trend and always look at trends
on poles, not the snapshot, but we also get the
snapshot specifically on some of these flashpoint issues of the day,
in this case the government shutdown. As you said right now,
this poll by QUINNIPIAX shows forty five percent of registered
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voters I think Republicans are more to blame, thirty nine
percent say Democrats are more to blame. We've seen some
other polls that are more consistent that show that gap
is narrowing. But among the independents in this poll, I
thought it was interesting forty eight percent of swing voters
blame Republicans, thirty two percent blame Democrats. So that's where
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there's still a pretty big gap. Of course, we're in
the middle of this, so all this can change on
the dime.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Actually, we just did one what was the one yesterday
rared I can't remember if it was New York Times,
if it was Gallup.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I think it was Gallup, and.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It actually has more blaming the Democrats than Republicans. So
you know, that's polls for you. But you know, like
you said, you track. I thought it was interesting in
the Gallup poll that just came out, congressional approval drops
to fifteen percent, but the president's approval rating is steady
at forty one percent. And there's a lot of issues
that play into that. But I think one of the
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big ones right now is I don't think you can
pit it on Trump. I think America has a disgust
with all members of Congress not doing their job and
the politics they're playing. I have some sound and sound
of the day of the Democrat whip, basically saying this
is going to hurt a lot of our constituents, but
so be it. And I think they see them putting
power and you know, political theater above duty. But so,
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what was your main takeaway?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I thought it was interesting, you know what they ask
as I said, those regular questions about President Trump. His
overall job approval about the same, around forty percent. I
think it's up from thirty eight percent last month and
has been as high as forty two. But his handling
of the economy has dipped to thirty eight percent approval,
as the most number they've measured there since February of
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twenty seventeen. They did find that more than seventy percent
of voters think the president should be getting some or
a lot of credit when it comes to the situation.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
In the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You're right on to something there that we're going to
talk about with David Sinati here in a mere moment.
We also have a majority of the Americans planning to
use Social Security to live to live on in their
senior years. There's not many financial advisors, so they'll say
that's a good idea. Rory has that story coming up
in the third hour. Great reporting, Rory, thank you all right.
That transitions directly to David Sinati because that's something you've
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been looking at. The President has come through on the
border to the level that no one could ever be
president in the future and have a border crisis without
looking in the mirror. He has proven you can seal
the border, you can enforce the law. They will self
deport and you can deport and there's no reason to
be in that mess again. That much he's done, He's
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taken steps towards peace in the Middle East, the steps
towards peace with Russia and Ukraine not making much progress.
But when it comes to the economy, I don't know
why you went the tariff. I mean, I know his
explanation for the tariff out, and I know the amount
of business that he's developing through the tariff deals. But
that's a government victory, not a people victory. When you
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look at the price of the pump, when you look
at some inflationary things, he might want to focus on
the economy starting in January along with the midterms. Good
morning David, Good morning Michael. And you know I'm not
the biggest fan of Poles. No, for lots of reasons.
One is, getting an honest sample is very difficult. To
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talking to people in general is difficult. You don't know
really truly what the intelligent quotient is of the people
you're talking to regarding the subject that you're talking to
them about. However, one of your favorites, quinnipiac up biac.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It came out and basically stated that the president's approval
rating is at an all time low in regards to
how he's handling the economy.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
At thirty nine percent.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Now you know that doesn't take necessarily a big poll
because there were a lot of economic promises that were
made that simply are not being delivered upon. President's doing
a lot. He's very very busy in doing a lot
of things, a lot of good things. But let's not
forget something. Gasoline prices at the pump determine what happens
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in the grocery store basket. And as long as you're
walking around seeing places like in Ohio you've got gas
at three twenty five to three point fifty a gallon,
and then you go and in some parts in the
South it's two and a quarter, you say to yourself,
how does that work? And why does at work? What
is going on here? If the gas pump prices don't move,
the grocery store basket changes don't happen, and if people
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are paying too much for fuel and too much for food,
they're not happy. And that makes the Republicans vulnerable on
promises not delivered.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
In the keyword there, keyword vulnerable that you might be
because listen, you got the Democrats today wanting an ice tracker.
They want to hunt down law enforcers for carrying out
law and order they want amnesty for the illegals that
are left. I mean, they're still wanting to make issues
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that have been resolved and solved.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This one would not be. And that would make it different.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now, that would presume that, first of all, when you
bring up it presumes the intelligence of the people taking
the poll, Well, those same you know, we don't have
a litmus test before you can vote either, so that
kind of evens itself out. But assuming the Democrats were
smart enough, the economy would be perceived. In my mind,
I see if you agree, because I respect you more
(08:02):
than I respect me. Frankly, why am I drinking to
Ducker Carlson? Anyway, make a long story short. In assuming
the Democrats would go with this, they got something to
play with there.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
The Donald Trump cut to the bottom line. Donald Trump
needs to get back on the garbage truck. He needs
to get back to the McDonald's window, because right now
he is being portrayed as a guy who's on the
golf course too much while we're thirty eight trillion, or
trying to get a Nobel peace price, or trying to
get a Nobel peace price, which, by the way, listen,
this is not to criticize what's happening.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No, these are great things, but we're thinking like them.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
But you know what's happening is if I'm writing the
commercials for the Democrat National Committee on the House races
in twenty twenty six, which will to determine whether Donald
Trump has two more years as president or whether he's
an absolute total lane duck, then the reality is I
basically show all the footage of Donald Trump knocking down
the East Wing and building a gilded palace for six
hundred and fifty people to come and be entertained by him.
(09:00):
And sure, okay, look he could pay for the hot
thing one hundred percent out of his own pocket. But
it goes back to something you always say, what was
he doing? What could he have been doing while he
was doing this. I'll tell you one thing he's not doing.
He's not on the garbage truck, he's not in McDonald's
one O. The price of gasoline hasn't gone down and
the price of food hasn't gone down. And that's a
political campaign. He's doing this while you're suffering here.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right, And the Mom Donnie rais and fits into that
narrative as well, especially if Mom Donnie wins so there'll
be some momentum for that. Yeah, nobody's criticizing what he
is doing. I'm just we're just projecting what they if
they're smart enough, where the vulnerability is and what they
can run on. And I would think they'd be smart
enough to find that if nothing else. In the Quinnipiac Pole,
it's staring at you there. Yeah, they're already there. This
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is again they're waiting for him to deliver what they need.
They've got zero momentum, they have to don't have great candidates,
and they don't have winnable issues.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
So what they have to do to make twenty twenty
six about Trump? And he's handing them the necessary He didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Work with abortion in twenty twenty can it work with
the economy in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, two very different issues here, and you know a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Of people feel they feared the abortion.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Issue was going to carry the race.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Well, the abortion issue did make a very serious impact
in a lot of ways because of a title wave
coming in after Roe versus Weight. But that is kind
of a separate chapter in the way things work in
American politics because it's such a distinct issue. Over the
last seventy five years. The economy has always been with us.
The price at the gas pump is is capable, and
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the price at the gas pump is.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The price the economy that got him elected, economy in
the border.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He had every man. That's how he won the election.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And the challenge is he's losing every man right now.
Not the mega person that he's losing, the person who's
not going to be mega and not going to be Democrat,
the person who's just working for a living. Is I
want to vote and basically saying you promised me'd get
better and it hasn't gotten better.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So what do these other guys have to offer? That's
how it starts, all.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Right, Senior contributor David Sinati joining us. I find it fascinating.
You know, people bring up and I think Page's turn.
So you know, America used to like checks and balances,
but that's what back when you had checks and balances.
Now you have opposition matrix politics. Now you have complete dysfunction.
But just to put magnitude to what you said, Bill
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Clinton wins a big election. In some ways, we don't
know what Bill Clinton would have been why because two
years later the Republicans got control of Congress, and that
was it other than his scandal.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Ye, whatever potentially had and I didn't vote for him,
And I don't know what I mean. I would take
a Bill Clinton Democrat today over whatever this party has
become now. But he never got a chance to be
any of that. You don't realize this, but if they
get control of either the House the Senator both, that's
it for Donald Trump. I mean, other than enjoying his
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rallies or his speeches or something funny.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He says, he can't do a thing. I mean, there's
a lot on the line. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
People realize what's on the line next year. In fact,
you could make a case, especially the way Downald Trump
spent this year and nobody's criticizing it, Potentially twenty twenty
six is more important than twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Is election.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, it's certainly going to set the tone for the
next two years and of course for the presidential electional election.
It's a very big deal. That's my line for you.
This morning's delivered well. Jeffyget Jefferson knows he checked it
off on the Bengo card.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's a big deal. More big deals with our senior
contributor David Zanatti. When You're a Morning Show continues next.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
By the way, for those who were listening last hour,
I went on about the John Candy documentary I Like Me,
probably the second time in my life. I think I
was crying and joy sadness. David's the one who told
me to watch it. What did you make of it?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
How?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Why did it move you?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
So?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean I gave a long explanation.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But well, I think the title really got me, and
I think the history. I loved the SCTV background on
how all those Canadians stuck together starving they were all
starving comics, and how they all made it, I mean
Eugene Levy and Ramus and how they all got their
Andrew Martin Martin short, the list goes on.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The documentary actually has John Candy's paycheck. It was one
hundred and thirty four dollars one week on SETV.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The I Like Me.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Comes from the scene in Trains, Planes and Automobiles where
the ultimate mean John Candy defined awkward in regards to
comic relief. He was awkward and so the ultimate awkward
character who confronts the ultimate perfectionists, the character that's played
by Steve Allen, and they finally Steve and Alan is
going to explain to him why he needs to wake up,
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smell the coffee, and become a modern man man and
Candy basically says, you know, tell me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
More about me. You're right, and.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Martin's character explodes on Candy and in the end he says,
you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Let me tell you a few more things about me.
But you know what, in the end, I like me.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah it was, but it was such a you know,
he had his flaws. When your father dies on your
fifth birthday and they go ahead and have the birthday party,
that's going to impact you. But he lived a good,
decent life outside of himself, serving others to his own detriment.
And boy, what a testimony it is to live an
entire life and we all make mistakes. But have everybody
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just talk about the human you are, not the work
you did, the human you are. I just thought it
was very inspirational workwalk Pie. Sure everybody watched it, really
it is. I loved him before I watched it, I
love him more after watching it. All Right, So California
redraws the lines. Hey, this is this a big deal?
Depends we're doing overtime.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
We did over time. Yeah, the whole redistricting thing.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
To put it in perspective, you've got to go back
to the Obama administration, because that's when Obama and Holder,
Eric Holder, the Attorney General, made the decision that they
were going to outlast their administration by going into the
greed districting world. And that's when they lost the plan
to change the rules everywhere they possibly could, and to
change the districts everywhere they possibly could to get more
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Democrat seats in the House of the Senate, which is
typical of the understanding of progressive Democrats on how to
manipulate the American.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
System of government.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Progressive Democrats don't like the American system of government.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
They just work it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
The conservatives love our form of government, but we don't
pay attention to it. And so when the progressives focus
on Congress and they convert seats by redistricting, by jerrymandering,
which they've been doing with intention, with money, with sorrows
money as well since twenty seventeen, we're in trouble on
the other side of the equation because we're not paying
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attention to Congress, and they are.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Redistricting, by the way, is constitutional. People's families move, makeups
of states change and shift, and the districts need to
represent that to get equal representation. In fact, on that note,
taxation without representation, something that happens every day in Massachusetts,
will do that.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
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Enjoy the podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The Senate failed for a twelfth time to advance a
House approved measure. The government goes into day twenty three
of shutdown. That's a crisis, right. I think the bigger
crisis is we're also officially thirty eight trillion dollars in
debt and the last trillion fastest outside.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Of COVID in history.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The Trump administration has struck a second alleged drug trafficking
vessel in the Pacific Ocean, and the NFL commissioners defending
the decision to select Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl
halftime show. And speaking of football, you've got Thursday Night
football tonight, the Vikings and the Chargers. And I noticed
last hour of breaking story. I believe there's been a
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trade with Miami and Minnesota for Tua. I think Tua's
headed to the Vikings now. Whether he can get to
Sofi tonight by the time of the game and learned
the place, that's another story. And of course the World
Series will be in Toronto tomorrow night Game one. It's
all blue, the Dodger Blue and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
David Sinati's visiting with us.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
We're gonna talk a little b about the diffence between
redistricting and jerry mandering. And something that you learned when
you were in school and maybe just memorized it and
it didn't really mean anything to you. It's probably one
of the more famous things you had to remember and
memorize in history, and that is taxation without representation. Who
said it and why it's actually happening in twenty twenty five,
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and it's happening in Massachusetts, and nobody seems alarmed by that,
while we're focusing on redistricting in North Carolina, Texas and California.
All right, and yesterday the are we're going to just
skip it? Or what are we doing? Or is he coming?
I couldn't hear what you said in my ear. Oh
you got Decker. Okay, John, you had six questions with
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the president yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
That has to be a record. It is not a
record for me.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I've had twelve questions before with President Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So at what point is that a one on one exactly?
You know what, I just stop and say, I think
he favors you. I mean, it's really getting sickening.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Look, I think that the President respects the fact that
I ask him questions that are relevant, that make news,
that provide more content for the public on a variety
of issues. So I get an opportunity to ask the
President about his upcoming meeting with she the upcoming Supreme
Court case involving his terrorists policy, in addition, of course,
the sanctions that the President announced yesterday on those Russian
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oil companies. So you know, with all of those issues.
The President is making a lot of news in terms
of the answers that he provides me.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, he did meet with the NATO Secretary General. I'm
sure that was part of the questioning you were in
that pool. The escalation is now on my troubling radar.
So sanctions I get, and we've tightened the screws on
two large Russian oil firms, and other countries are doing
the same.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Permission given to Ukraine to use long range missiles worrisome
Putin's nuclear crafts off the ocean. It's not just gone cold.
In terms of peace talks. There is a feeling in
a drumbeat of escalation. Is that a concern or is
that what the meeting was about?
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Well, the meeting is I guess the best way to
put it, Michael, is the strategy going forward for dealing
with Russia to apply pressure on Russia to force Putin
to the negotiating table. And the sanctions that the President
announced yesterday on those two major oil companies in Russia
are one way to tighten screws. The President still holding
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out signing off on giving the green light to the
US Senate to pass that tough Russia Sanctions bill. It
has the support of eighty five US Senators, so it's
going to pass the Senate, it's going to pass the House.
But the President feels that now is not the time
to apply that leverage to Russia. He said, there will
be a time, and there will be a place.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Now is not the time or the place to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
John Decker is our White House correspondent. He's joining us
from Washington. All right, So this would be I'm trying
of or how many different strikes if we had on
drug trafficking vessels. I want to I can't remember if
this is a ninth total, but we hit another one
in the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
You know, I brought this up with the audience.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's going to be hard for any president in the
future to, you know, preside over some kind of border
crisis without looking in the mirror, because the President just
proved you can seal a border. The President just proved
you can get people one point five million to self deport.
You can go out and find and deport a half
a million. We should never have to revisit this again.
We've called it a war on drugs, but this is
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the first president to actually carry it out and it
may escalate to the country of origin. But what do
you make of this and what the President's doing. It's
getting very little media attention, but he may be doing
the most to save American lives than any president is
done on this issue alone.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, the President was asked a few questions regarding that.
I think that there have been a total of thirty
four deaths associated with the Pentagon's policy of going after
the so called drug votes and the President, I think,
you know, needs to explain the policy to Congress. The
President says that he will indeed do that. The President, however,
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also said at the same time that he believes he
does have the legal authority to take the actions that
he's taken in international waters. I think it becomes a
little bit more problematic if indeed he does these types
of actions on the land associated with some of these
countries that are exporting their illegal drugs to the United States.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
John By nine Eastern has a podcast called The White
House Briefing Room, and every day he breaks down the
big stories that either are happening or going to happen.
You need to put that on your iHeartRadio preset. That way,
it's waiting for you every morning. That'll be up by
nine Eastern the White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
and we'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
John god bless, I look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Thanks a lot, Michael Pumma, we got it forty one
minutes after the hour. Let's visit with David Sinati. Right,
So here's where we left off. California has made its threats,
Texas has discussed it. North Carolina actually did it. They
redrew the district lines. I think it's going to have
a big impact in the midterm election, which begs the
question of jerry mandering versus redistricting. Redistricting very constitutional and necessary.
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Jerry mannering, of course, very partisan, two party political, and
in some cases abusive. I'll give you an example Massachusetts,
where we have no If you're a Republican living in Massachusetts,
you have zero representation. That if you're paying taxes, is
taxation without representation. Perhaps that's a map that needs to
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be looked at. But I love the way the Democrats
always play it. This is the first time this has
ever happened, and we've certainly never done it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
What do you make of jerry mandering, Well, the Jerry
manory wouldn't exist as the Constitution didn't require redistricting every
ten years because of the census. Because people move, people change,
people that are born, people die, and so you have
to have a presentation census that is accurate to reality.
And therefore that gives the open door for state legislators
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to recreate districts every ten years. In fact, it's a mandate,
and so you can leave them the same, but you've
got to look at them every ten years, and each
state has to come up with their own mechanism by
which they're going to settle who does the redistricting. Now,
the intention of the Constitution was to leave in the
state legislatures, and for a long time that's been pretty
much the way it works. Whoever controls the legislature gets
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to control the direction of representation. And there's always going
to be places. There's places like Tennessee and Pittsburgh. Okay,
Tennessee and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
In Pittsburgh, you've got more rivers and more bridges and hills,
and same thing in Tennessee. Districts are going to cross
over boundary lines because of geography and topography. I mean,
putting this stuff together is more than just how far
does it take to drive around the district. So politicians
are always going to have the opportunity to be creative.
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There's a district in Ohio that runs along the Ohio
River that runs from Youngstown the whole way down to
the Kentucky border intact Ironton. I mean, it's it's some
of the line some of the lines are breathtaking. We've
seen people draw to get to the numbers. So politicians
are always going to have the opportunity to be mischievous
when they control the majority. Here, the Democrats are as
(25:22):
guilty as the Republicans. It's all designed to try to
get an advantage. And where republic where the Democrats get
exceptional uh influence, Like asver was talking about with us
on the break on the East coast of the United States,
they've got twenty one Democrat represent representatives Connecticut five Main two,
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Massachusetts nine New Hampshire t to Rhode Island two Vermont
one thank you read, And that means if you're a
Republican in those states, you've got nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You got well and that doesn't even bring up and
we could go all morning on this, but how they
used illegal immigration to place people to influence the census
to in fluency electoral college number.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
That was their big play, and now Trump has stopped
that dead, doing what Congress told him he should be doing.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And their failed policy that has led to exodus. I mean,
all these people moving from California, all these people moving
from New York, all moved somewhere. That changes the electoral
college map and such a and the House and the House,
but it changes electoral college map in such a way
that it's going to be very difficult. Used to be
very difficult for Republicans to win. I mean they had
to have Yeah, you had to have some kind of
(26:29):
mandate or energy or unity because if all things are
the same, there are more Democrats than Republicans. Electoral college
map is about to ship five to seven points in
the next two election cycles. That's a big problem for Democrats.
That's why there's so much fighting about this.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
And Obama and Holder have been working on this since
twenty seventeen and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to
gin up Jerrymannering in their perspective at the same time
condemning their opponents for doing the exact same thing that
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uh, it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It's a feel that unfortunately the conservative community is not
paying close enough attention to you because we don't watch
the House carefully enough.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We've got to remember something, Michael. You've been reporting all morning.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
About the twelfth vote on why the Senate won't balance
the budget or excuse me, why they won't approve the
budget and the shutdown. Well, wait a minute, I thought
the Republicans controlled the Senate. I thought they controlled the
Senate by a majority of four votes. Why can't they
get anything done?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I then you a supermajority sixty oops, the filibuster.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It takes sixty. If it takes sixty to.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Move anything, including paying your bills on time, we got
a problem.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We should start renaming this. It's a big deal with
David Sinati all right, forty six minutes after the hour.
You can hear more from David on the Public Square,
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Forty six minutes after the hour, If you're just waking up.
(27:54):
The Trump administration has struck a second alleged drug trafficking vehicle,
this time in the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're a post.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
On ex Wednesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegksth announced three
year alleged narco terrorists were killed in the Eastern Pacific.
This comes hours after Heggsath announced that two people were
killed in a strike on Tuesday. The attacks mark and
apparent expansion of Trump's campaign against what he refers to
as a narco terrorist threat coming from Venezuela, as all
previous strikes happened in Caribbean waters.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tried to play offense
against front runner Mom Donnie at Wednesday night's final debate
before the New York City mayoral election.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Andrew Whitman reports the.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Exchange began with Mom Donnie hitting Cuomo for not taking
action on his current proposals during Cuomo's decade in the
governor's mansion.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
She says that taking five years to build affordable housing
is the sign of an incompetent government. By his own words,
that means he must have led an incompetent government.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Cuomo responded, noting he set a record as governor for
spending on housing, then went on the attack.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
You have never had a job, You've never accomplished anything.
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or
qualification for eight and a half millions.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And Cuomo wasn't done there.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
You don't know how to run a government, you don't
know how to handle an emergency, and you've literally never
proposed a bill on anything.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That you're not talking about in your campaign.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Ritib was hosted by New York One in WNYC Radio,
Andrew Whitman NBC News Radio New York.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
John Ditty Combs is reportedly lucky to be alive following
an incident that happened in prison.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
A longtime friend of Ditty's tells The Daily Mail that
an inmate armed with a shif snuck into Ditty's cell
with a hip hop mogul, waking up to a knife
to his throat. Diddy's lawyer mentioned the incident during the
sentencing hearing, saying a guard stopped anything from escalating. Colmbs
was sentenced to fifty months in federal prison after being
convicted on two counts of violating the man act. I'm
(29:51):
Jim Roup.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
My wife's loved Bancho. I never got it his wife
didn't like bon Jovi. Well, maybe that was just the case.
Bon Jovi's gonna hit the road next year for the
first time since twenty twenty two. The Rock and Roll
Hall of Famers will kick off the Forever Tour with
four shows at New York's Madison Square Garden in July.
They'll then head overseas to Scotland, Ireland, England in August.
(30:19):
In September. The band has only played a handful of
one off concerts since twenty twenty two. Is bon Jovi?
John bon Jovi is recovering from vocal cord surgery. Ticket
pre sales for the New York event go on sale
October the twenty seventh. Well, if you'd like to pay
money to be scared, today's your day.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Trace The call is coming from inside the house. Here's Johnny,
I see dead people.
Speaker 12 (30:44):
Those lines from famous scary movies either get your running
or asking for more today? Maybe a day of more?
Is it National Horror Movie Day? You got poles? At
twenty five percent of us love them more men than women,
Psychologists say freight triggers a release of adrenaline, and some
people crave them.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They must.
Speaker 12 (31:01):
A horror industry generates about a billion dollars every year.
I'm Breetennos and Sports of your morning show Interest.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
We had two of my favorite cities square off on
the ice, Detroit and Buffalo. This one went to the
Savers four to two. On the hardwood, Piston's lost to
the Bulls one fifteen one eleven, Calves lost one nineteen,
one eleven to the Knicks. Sun's a winner over the
Kings one twenty one sixteen. It was a grizz over
the Bells one twenty eight, one twenty two. Blazers fell
to the Wolves by four one eighteen to one fourteen
(31:30):
and the Clippers lost down the road one twenty nine
to one ohweight to the Jazz.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Major League Baseball World Series Game one is.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Tomorrow night, Dodgy Blue in Toronto to take on.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The Blue and Jays.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That'll be seven o'clock on Fox one, and Tonight Thursday
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Speaker 6 (31:48):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Sounds of the Day today maybe the best we've ever had.
I cannot wait to play. It's it's impossible. The clips
from the Mirror's debate are spectacular, But this is the whip.
This is the Democrat Party whip. For those of you
who watched House of Cards, a whip has a lot
of power. This is the one that's whipping up the votes.
Catherine Clark's quote is going to absolutely prove what I
(32:16):
said yesterday and blow your mind in Sounds of the Day,
and then David Monson's going to be joining us.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm just struck by this, and I don't want to
drive you crazy with it.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But the notion that I am supposed to perceive a
twenty third day of government shutdown, which is a partial
shutdown only non essential government is not funded begs.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You know, one would have.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
To ask the question why do we even fund non
essential government? But we also reached thirty eight trillion dollars
of debt today.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Maybe we should ask a.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Theologian, let alone, an economist let alone of money is
and a market guy what's to be feared more government
shutdown or third? The eight trillion dollars of debt will
do that and your Sounds of the Day and Rory's
got the final story all straight ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Senate fails for.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
A twelve time to advance a House approved measure that
would have ended the government shutdown. So we entered day
twenty three of government shutdown. That's the perceived crisis, the
real crisis. We also hit thirty eight trillion dollars of
debt today. Guess what, You all, along with me own
that debt and are paying for it either through inflation
(01:17):
or in literally in taxation. The final face to face
debate New York City took place, and oh the sparks
were flying. The Trump administration struck a second alleged drug
trafficking vessel in the Pacific Ocean. I think that's nine total.
And things are heating up with Russia. The talks are
(01:39):
off for peace. Meanwhile, the sanctions on two of the
biggest Russian oil firms have been put in place. Also,
permission given to Ukraine to use European long range missiles. Meanwhile,
putin Is got nukes off the coast in the water,
just military operations, of course, and a new national poll
is out. If that's one of the big questions that
(02:01):
we're all kicking around in the media, who is this
shutdown hurting? Well, we get some of that fact, we
get a lot more. It takes a look at how
Americans feel about everything from Hamas to the government shutdown.
Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil is here. He has the
story and the deets. Good morning, Rory, Hey.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
There, Michael, good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You know, we like this poll because one part of
it asks the same question every month, and then we
get to see the trend and always look at trends
on poles, not the snapshot, but we also get the
snapshot specifically on some of these flashpoint issues of the day,
in this case the government shutdown. As you said right now,
this poll by QUINNIPIAX shows forty five percent of registered
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voters I think Republicans are more to blame, thirty nine
percent say Democrats are more to blame. We've seen some
other polls that are more consistent that show that gap
is narrowing. But among the independents in this poll, I
thought it was interesting forty eight percent of swing voters
blame Republicans, thirty two percent blame Democrats. So that's where
(03:02):
there's still a pretty big gap. Of course, we're in
the middle of this, so all this can change on
the dime.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Actually, we just did one what was the one yesterday
rared I can't remember if it was New York Times,
if it was Gallup.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I think it was Gallup, and.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It actually has more blaming the Democrats than Republicans. So
you know, that's polls for you. But you know, like
you said, you track. I thought it was interesting in
the Gallup poll that just came out, congressional approval drops
to fifteen percent, but the president's approval rating is steady
at forty one percent. And there's a lot of issues
that play into that. But I think one of the
(03:36):
big ones right now is I don't think you can
pit it on Trump. I think America has a disgust
with all members of Congress not doing their job and
the politics they're playing. I have some sound and sound
of the day of the Democrat whip, basically saying this
is going to hurt a lot of our constituents, but
so be it. And I think they see them putting
power and you know, political theater above duty. But so,
(03:57):
what was your main takeaway?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I thought it was interesting, you know what they ask
as I said, those regular questions about President Trump. His
overall job approval about the same, around forty percent. I
think it's up from thirty eight percent last month and
has been as high as forty two. But his handling
of the economy has dipped to thirty eight percent approval,
as the most number they've measured there since February of
(04:21):
twenty seventeen. They did find that more than seventy percent
of voters think the president should be getting some or
a lot of credit when it comes to the situation.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
In the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You're right on to something there that we're going to
talk about with David Sinati here in a mere moment.
We also have a majority of the Americans planning to
use Social Security to live to live on in their
senior years. There's not many financial advisors, so they'll say
that's a good idea. Rory has that story coming up
in the third hour. Great reporting, Rory, thank you all right.
That transitions directly to David Sinati because that's something you've
(04:54):
been looking at. The President has come through on the
border to the level that no one could ever be
president in the future and have a border crisis without
looking in the mirror. He has proven you can seal
the border, you can enforce the law. They will self
deport and you can deport and there's no reason to
be in that mess again. That much he's done, He's
(05:16):
taken steps towards peace in the Middle East, the steps
towards peace with Russia and Ukraine not making much progress.
But when it comes to the economy, I don't know
why you went the tariff. I mean, I know his
explanation for the tariff out, and I know the amount
of business that he's developing through the tariff deals. But
that's a government victory, not a people victory. When you
(05:37):
look at the price of the pump, when you look
at some inflationary things, he might want to focus on
the economy starting in January along with the midterms. Good
morning David, Good morning Michael. And you know I'm not
the biggest fan of Poles. No, for lots of reasons.
One is, getting an honest sample is very difficult. To
(05:57):
talking to people in general is difficult. You don't know
really truly what the intelligent quotient is of the people
you're talking to regarding the subject that you're talking to
them about. However, one of your favorites, quinnipiac up biac.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It came out and basically stated that the president's approval
rating is at an all time low in regards to
how he's handling the economy.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
At thirty nine percent.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Now you know that doesn't take necessarily a big poll
because there were a lot of economic promises that were
made that simply are not being delivered upon. President's doing
a lot. He's very very busy in doing a lot
of things, a lot of good things. But let's not
forget something. Gasoline prices at the pump determine what happens
(06:43):
in the grocery store basket. And as long as you're
walking around seeing places like in Ohio you've got gas
at three twenty five to three point fifty a gallon,
and then you go and in some parts in the
South it's two and a quarter, you say to yourself,
how does that work? And why does at work? What
is going on here? If the gas pump prices don't move,
the grocery store basket changes don't happen, and if people
(07:06):
are paying too much for fuel and too much for food,
they're not happy. And that makes the Republicans vulnerable on
promises not delivered.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
In the keyword there, keyword vulnerable that you might be
because listen, you got the Democrats today wanting an ice tracker.
They want to hunt down law enforcers for carrying out
law and order they want amnesty for the illegals that
are left. I mean, they're still wanting to make issues
(07:36):
that have been resolved and solved.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This one would not be. And that would make it different.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now, that would presume that, first of all, when you
bring up it presumes the intelligence of the people taking
the poll, Well, those same you know, we don't have
a litmus test before you can vote either, so that
kind of evens itself out. But assuming the Democrats were
smart enough, the economy would be perceived. In my mind,
I see if you agree, because I respect you more
(08:02):
than I respect me. Frankly, why am I drinking to
Ducker Carlson? Anyway, make a long story short. In assuming
the Democrats would go with this, they got something to
play with there.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
The Donald Trump cut to the bottom line. Donald Trump
needs to get back on the garbage truck. He needs
to get back to the McDonald's window, because right now
he is being portrayed as a guy who's on the
golf course too much while we're thirty eight trillion, or
trying to get a Nobel peace price, or trying to
get a Nobel peace price, which, by the way, listen,
this is not to criticize what's happening.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
No, these are great things, but we're thinking like them.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
But you know what's happening is if I'm writing the
commercials for the Democrat National Committee on the House races
in twenty twenty six, which will to determine whether Donald
Trump has two more years as president or whether he's
an absolute total lane duck, then the reality is I
basically show all the footage of Donald Trump knocking down
the East Wing and building a gilded palace for six
hundred and fifty people to come and be entertained by him.
(09:00):
And sure, okay, look he could pay for the hot
thing one hundred percent out of his own pocket. But
it goes back to something you always say, what was
he doing? What could he have been doing while he
was doing this. I'll tell you one thing he's not doing.
He's not on the garbage truck, he's not in McDonald's
one O. The price of gasoline hasn't gone down and
the price of food hasn't gone down. And that's a
political campaign. He's doing this while you're suffering here.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right, And the Mom Donnie rais and fits into that
narrative as well, especially if Mom Donnie wins so there'll
be some momentum for that. Yeah, nobody's criticizing what he
is doing. I'm just we're just projecting what they if
they're smart enough, where the vulnerability is and what they
can run on. And I would think they'd be smart
enough to find that if nothing else. In the Quinnipiac Pole,
it's staring at you there. Yeah, they're already there. This
(09:45):
is again they're waiting for him to deliver what they need.
They've got zero momentum, they have to don't have great candidates,
and they don't have winnable issues.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
So what they have to do to make twenty twenty
six about Trump? And he's handing them the necessary He didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Work with abortion in twenty twenty can it work with
the economy in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, two very different issues here, and you know a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Of people feel they feared the abortion.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Issue was going to carry the race.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Well, the abortion issue did make a very serious impact
in a lot of ways because of a title wave
coming in after Roe versus Weight. But that is kind
of a separate chapter in the way things work in
American politics because it's such a distinct issue. Over the
last seventy five years. The economy has always been with us.
The price at the gas pump is is capable, and
(10:39):
the price at the gas pump is.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The price the economy that got him elected, economy in
the border.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He had every man. That's how he won the election.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
And the challenge is he's losing every man right now.
Not the mega person that he's losing, the person who's
not going to be mega and not going to be Democrat,
the person who's just working for a living. Is I
want to vote and basically saying you promised me'd get
better and it hasn't gotten better.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So what do these other guys have to offer? That's
how it starts, all.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Right, Senior contributor David Sinati joining us. I find it fascinating.
You know, people bring up and I think Page's turn.
So you know, America used to like checks and balances,
but that's what back when you had checks and balances.
Now you have opposition matrix politics. Now you have complete dysfunction.
But just to put magnitude to what you said, Bill
(11:33):
Clinton wins a big election. In some ways, we don't
know what Bill Clinton would have been why because two
years later the Republicans got control of Congress, and that
was it other than his scandal.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Ye, whatever potentially had and I didn't vote for him,
And I don't know what I mean. I would take
a Bill Clinton Democrat today over whatever this party has
become now. But he never got a chance to be
any of that. You don't realize this, but if they
get control of either the House the Senator both, that's
it for Donald Trump. I mean, other than enjoying his
(12:05):
rallies or his speeches or something funny.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He says, he can't do a thing. I mean, there's
a lot on the line. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
People realize what's on the line next year. In fact,
you could make a case, especially the way Downald Trump
spent this year and nobody's criticizing it, Potentially twenty twenty
six is more important than twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Is election.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, it's certainly going to set the tone for the
next two years and of course for the presidential electional election.
It's a very big deal. That's my line for you.
This morning's delivered well. Jeffyget Jefferson knows he checked it
off on the Bengo card.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's a big deal. More big deals with our senior
contributor David Zanatti. When You're a Morning Show continues next.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chino.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
By the way, for those who were listening last hour,
I went on about the John Candy documentary I Like Me,
probably the second time in my life. I think I
was crying and joy sadness. David's the one who told
me to watch it. What did you make of it?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
How?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Why did it move you?
Speaker 8 (13:11):
So?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean I gave a long explanation.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But well, I think the title really got me, and
I think the history. I loved the SCTV background on
how all those Canadians stuck together starving they were all
starving comics, and how they all made it, I mean
Eugene Levy and Ramus and how they all got their
Andrew Martin Martin short, the list goes on.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The documentary actually has John Candy's paycheck. It was one
hundred and thirty four dollars one week on SETV.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The I Like Me.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Comes from the scene in Trains, Planes and Automobiles where
the ultimate mean John Candy defined awkward in regards to
comic relief. He was awkward and so the ultimate awkward
character who confronts the ultimate perfectionists, the character that's played
by Steve Allen, and they finally Steve and Alan is
going to explain to him why he needs to wake up,
(14:01):
smell the coffee, and become a modern man man and
Candy basically says, you know, tell me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
More about me. You're right, and.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Martin's character explodes on Candy and in the end he says,
you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Let me tell you a few more things about me.
But you know what, in the end, I like me.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah it was, but it was such a you know,
he had his flaws. When your father dies on your
fifth birthday and they go ahead and have the birthday party,
that's going to impact you. But he lived a good,
decent life outside of himself, serving others to his own detriment.
And boy, what a testimony it is to live an
entire life and we all make mistakes. But have everybody
(14:42):
just talk about the human you are, not the work
you did, the human you are. I just thought it
was very inspirational workwalk Pie. Sure everybody watched it, really
it is. I loved him before I watched it, I
love him more after watching it. All Right, So California
redraws the lines. Hey, this is this a big deal?
Depends we're doing overtime.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
We did over time. Yeah, the whole redistricting thing.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
To put it in perspective, you've got to go back
to the Obama administration, because that's when Obama and Holder,
Eric Holder, the Attorney General, made the decision that they
were going to outlast their administration by going into the
greed districting world. And that's when they lost the plan
to change the rules everywhere they possibly could, and to
change the districts everywhere they possibly could to get more
(15:23):
Democrat seats in the House of the Senate, which is
typical of the understanding of progressive Democrats on how to
manipulate the American.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
System of government.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Progressive Democrats don't like the American system of government.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
They just work it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
The conservatives love our form of government, but we don't
pay attention to it. And so when the progressives focus
on Congress and they convert seats by redistricting, by jerrymandering,
which they've been doing with intention, with money, with sorrows
money as well since twenty seventeen, we're in trouble on
the other side of the equation because we're not paying
(15:58):
attention to Congress, and they are.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Redistricting, by the way, is constitutional. People's families move, makeups
of states change and shift, and the districts need to
represent that to get equal representation. In fact, on that note,
taxation without representation, something that happens every day in Massachusetts,
will do that.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
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Hi, it's me Michael.
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Speaker 2 (16:53):
The Senate failed for a twelfth time to advance a
House approved measure. The government goes into day twenty three
of shutdown. That's a crisis, right. I think the bigger
crisis is we're also officially thirty eight trillion dollars in
debt and the last trillion fastest outside.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Of COVID in history.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The Trump administration has struck a second alleged drug trafficking
vessel in the Pacific Ocean, and the NFL commissioners defending
the decision to select Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl
halftime show. And speaking of football, you've got Thursday Night
football tonight, the Vikings and the Chargers. And I noticed
last hour of breaking story. I believe there's been a
(17:32):
trade with Miami and Minnesota for Tua. I think Tua's
headed to the Vikings now. Whether he can get to
Sofi tonight by the time of the game and learned
the place, that's another story. And of course the World
Series will be in Toronto tomorrow night Game one. It's
all blue, the Dodger Blue and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
David Sinati's visiting with us.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
We're gonna talk a little b about the diffence between
redistricting and jerry mandering. And something that you learned when
you were in school and maybe just memorized it and
it didn't really mean anything to you. It's probably one
of the more famous things you had to remember and
memorize in history, and that is taxation without representation. Who
said it and why it's actually happening in twenty twenty five,
(18:13):
and it's happening in Massachusetts, and nobody seems alarmed by that,
while we're focusing on redistricting in North Carolina, Texas and California.
All right, and yesterday the are we're going to just
skip it? Or what are we doing? Or is he coming?
I couldn't hear what you said in my ear. Oh
you got Decker. Okay, John, you had six questions with
(18:35):
the president yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
That has to be a record. It is not a
record for me.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I've had twelve questions before with President Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So at what point is that a one on one exactly?
You know what, I just stop and say, I think
he favors you. I mean, it's really getting sickening.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Look, I think that the President respects the fact that
I ask him questions that are relevant, that make news,
that provide more content for the public on a variety
of issues. So I get an opportunity to ask the
President about his upcoming meeting with she the upcoming Supreme
Court case involving his terrorists policy, in addition, of course,
the sanctions that the President announced yesterday on those Russian
(19:18):
oil companies. So you know, with all of those issues.
The President is making a lot of news in terms
of the answers that he provides me.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, he did meet with the NATO Secretary General. I'm
sure that was part of the questioning you were in
that pool. The escalation is now on my troubling radar.
So sanctions I get, and we've tightened the screws on
two large Russian oil firms, and other countries are doing
the same.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Permission given to Ukraine to use long range missiles worrisome
Putin's nuclear crafts off the ocean. It's not just gone cold.
In terms of peace talks. There is a feeling in
a drumbeat of escalation. Is that a concern or is
that what the meeting was about?
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Well, the meeting is I guess the best way to
put it, Michael, is the strategy going forward for dealing
with Russia to apply pressure on Russia to force Putin
to the negotiating table. And the sanctions that the President
announced yesterday on those two major oil companies in Russia
are one way to tighten screws. The President still holding
(20:30):
out signing off on giving the green light to the
US Senate to pass that tough Russia Sanctions bill. It
has the support of eighty five US Senators, so it's
going to pass the Senate, it's going to pass the House.
But the President feels that now is not the time
to apply that leverage to Russia. He said, there will
be a time, and there will be a place.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Now is not the time or the place to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
John Decker is our White House correspondent. He's joining us
from Washington. All right, So this would be I'm trying
of or how many different strikes if we had on
drug trafficking vessels. I want to I can't remember if
this is a ninth total, but we hit another one
in the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
You know, I brought this up with the audience.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's going to be hard for any president in the
future to, you know, preside over some kind of border
crisis without looking in the mirror, because the President just
proved you can seal a border. The President just proved
you can get people one point five million to self deport.
You can go out and find and deport a half
a million. We should never have to revisit this again.
We've called it a war on drugs, but this is
(21:33):
the first president to actually carry it out and it
may escalate to the country of origin. But what do
you make of this and what the President's doing. It's
getting very little media attention, but he may be doing
the most to save American lives than any president is
done on this issue alone.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, the President was asked a few questions regarding that.
I think that there have been a total of thirty
four deaths associated with the Pentagon's policy of going after
the so called drug votes and the President, I think,
you know, needs to explain the policy to Congress. The
President says that he will indeed do that. The President, however,
(22:11):
also said at the same time that he believes he
does have the legal authority to take the actions that
he's taken in international waters. I think it becomes a
little bit more problematic if indeed he does these types
of actions on the land associated with some of these
countries that are exporting their illegal drugs to the United States.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
John By nine Eastern has a podcast called The White
House Briefing Room, and every day he breaks down the
big stories that either are happening or going to happen.
You need to put that on your iHeartRadio preset. That way,
it's waiting for you every morning. That'll be up by
nine Eastern the White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
and we'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
John god bless, I look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Thanks a lot, Michael Pumma, we got it forty one
minutes after the hour. Let's visit with David Sinati. Right,
So here's where we left off. California has made its threats,
Texas has discussed it. North Carolina actually did it. They
redrew the district lines. I think it's going to have
a big impact in the midterm election, which begs the
question of jerry mandering versus redistricting. Redistricting very constitutional and necessary.
(23:15):
Jerry mannering, of course, very partisan, two party political, and
in some cases abusive. I'll give you an example Massachusetts,
where we have no If you're a Republican living in Massachusetts,
you have zero representation. That if you're paying taxes, is
taxation without representation. Perhaps that's a map that needs to
(23:37):
be looked at. But I love the way the Democrats
always play it. This is the first time this has
ever happened, and we've certainly never done it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
What do you make of jerry mandering, Well, the Jerry
manory wouldn't exist as the Constitution didn't require redistricting every
ten years because of the census. Because people move, people change,
people that are born, people die, and so you have
to have a presentation census that is accurate to reality.
And therefore that gives the open door for state legislators
(24:07):
to recreate districts every ten years. In fact, it's a mandate,
and so you can leave them the same, but you've
got to look at them every ten years, and each
state has to come up with their own mechanism by
which they're going to settle who does the redistricting. Now,
the intention of the Constitution was to leave in the
state legislatures, and for a long time that's been pretty
much the way it works. Whoever controls the legislature gets
(24:29):
to control the direction of representation. And there's always going
to be places. There's places like Tennessee and Pittsburgh. Okay,
Tennessee and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
In Pittsburgh, you've got more rivers and more bridges and hills,
and same thing in Tennessee. Districts are going to cross
over boundary lines because of geography and topography. I mean,
putting this stuff together is more than just how far
does it take to drive around the district. So politicians
are always going to have the opportunity to be creative.
(25:00):
There's a district in Ohio that runs along the Ohio
River that runs from Youngstown the whole way down to
the Kentucky border intact Ironton. I mean, it's it's some
of the line some of the lines are breathtaking. We've
seen people draw to get to the numbers. So politicians
are always going to have the opportunity to be mischievous
when they control the majority. Here, the Democrats are as
(25:22):
guilty as the Republicans. It's all designed to try to
get an advantage. And where republic where the Democrats get
exceptional uh influence, Like asver was talking about with us
on the break on the East coast of the United States,
they've got twenty one Democrat represent representatives Connecticut five Main two,
(25:42):
Massachusetts nine New Hampshire t to Rhode Island two Vermont
one thank you read, And that means if you're a
Republican in those states, you've got nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You got well and that doesn't even bring up and
we could go all morning on this, but how they
used illegal immigration to place people to influence the census
to in fluency electoral college number.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
That was their big play, and now Trump has stopped
that dead, doing what Congress told him he should be doing.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And their failed policy that has led to exodus. I mean,
all these people moving from California, all these people moving
from New York, all moved somewhere. That changes the electoral
college map and such a and the House and the House,
but it changes electoral college map in such a way
that it's going to be very difficult. Used to be
very difficult for Republicans to win. I mean they had
to have Yeah, you had to have some kind of
(26:29):
mandate or energy or unity because if all things are
the same, there are more Democrats than Republicans. Electoral college
map is about to ship five to seven points in
the next two election cycles. That's a big problem for Democrats.
That's why there's so much fighting about this.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
And Obama and Holder have been working on this since
twenty seventeen and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to
gin up Jerrymannering in their perspective at the same time
condemning their opponents for doing the exact same thing that
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Uh, it's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It's a feel that unfortunately the conservative community is not
paying close enough attention to you because we don't watch
the House carefully enough.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We've got to remember something, Michael. You've been reporting all morning.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
About the twelfth vote on why the Senate won't balance
the budget or excuse me, why they won't approve the
budget and the shutdown. Well, wait a minute, I thought
the Republicans controlled the Senate. I thought they controlled the
Senate by a majority of four votes. Why can't they
get anything done?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I then you a supermajority sixty oops, the filibuster.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It takes sixty. If it takes sixty to.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Move anything, including paying your bills on time, we got
a problem.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We should start renaming this. It's a big deal with
David Sinati all right, forty six minutes after the hour.
You can hear more from David on the Public Square,
heard on two hundred stations, on demand anytime at the
Public Square dot com, and of course here on your
morning shows. Our senior contributor. Thank you so much for
your time this week. Thanks Michael, I love you all right.
Forty six minutes after the hour, If you're just waking up.
(27:54):
The Trump administration has struck a second alleged drug trafficking vehicle,
this time in the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're a post.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
On ex Wednesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegksth announced three
year alleged narco terrorists were killed in the Eastern Pacific.
This comes hours after Heggsath announced that two people were
killed in a strike on Tuesday. The attacks mark and
apparent expansion of Trump's campaign against what he refers to
as a narco terrorist threat coming from Venezuela, as all
previous strikes happened in Caribbean waters.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tried to play offense
against front runner Mom Donnie at Wednesday night's final debate
before the New York City mayoral election.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Andrew Whitman reports the.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Exchange began with Mom Donnie hitting Cuomo for not taking
action on his current proposals during Cuomo's decade in the
governor's mansion.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
She says that taking five years to build affordable housing
is the sign of an incompetent government. By his own words,
that means he must have led an incompetent government.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Cuomo responded, noting he set a record as governor for
spending on housing, then went on the attack.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
You have never had a job, You've never accomplished anything.
There's no reason to believe you have any merit or
qualification for eight and a half millions.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And Cuomo wasn't done there.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
You don't know how to run a government, you don't
know how to handle an emergency, and you've literally never
proposed a bill on anything.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
That you're not talking about in your campaign.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Ritib was hosted by New York One in WNYC Radio,
Andrew Whitman NBC News Radio New York.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
John Ditty Combs is reportedly lucky to be alive following
an incident that happened in prison.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
A longtime friend of Ditty's tells The Daily Mail that
an inmate armed with a shif snuck into Ditty's cell
with a hip hop mogul, waking up to a knife
to his throat. Diddy's lawyer mentioned the incident during the
sentencing hearing, saying a guard stopped anything from escalating. Colmbs
was sentenced to fifty months in federal prison after being
convicted on two counts of violating the man act. I'm
(29:51):
Jim Roup.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
My wife's loved Bancho. I never got it his wife
didn't like bon Jovi. Well, maybe that was just the case.
Bon Jovi's gonna hit the road next year for the
first time since twenty twenty two. The Rock and Roll
Hall of Famers will kick off the Forever Tour with
four shows at New York's Madison Square Garden in July.
They'll then head overseas to Scotland, Ireland, England in August.
(30:19):
In September. The band has only played a handful of
one off concerts since twenty twenty two. Is bon Jovi?
John bon Jovi is recovering from vocal cord surgery. Ticket
pre sales for the New York event go on sale
October the twenty seventh. Well, if you'd like to pay
money to be scared, today's your day.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Trace The call is coming from inside the house. Here's Johnny,
I see dead people.
Speaker 12 (30:44):
Those lines from famous scary movies either get your running
or asking for more today? Maybe a day of more?
Is it National Horror Movie Day? You got poles? At
twenty five percent of us love them more men than women,
Psychologists say freight triggers a release of adrenaline, and some
people crave them.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They must.
Speaker 12 (31:01):
A horror industry generates about a billion dollars every year.
I'm Breetennos and Sports of your morning show Interest.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
We had two of my favorite cities square off on
the ice, Detroit and Buffalo. This one went to the
Savers four to two. On the hardwood, Piston's lost to
the Bulls one fifteen one eleven, Calves lost one nineteen,
one eleven to the Knicks. Sun's a winner over the
Kings one twenty one sixteen. It was a grizz over
the Bells one twenty eight, one twenty two. Blazers fell
to the Wolves by four one eighteen to one fourteen
(31:30):
and the Clippers lost down the road one twenty nine
to one ohweight to the Jazz.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Major League Baseball World Series Game one is.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Tomorrow night, Dodgy Blue in Toronto to take on.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The Blue and Jays.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That'll be seven o'clock on Fox one, and Tonight Thursday
night Football Vikings Chargers at SOFI seven to fifteen on Prime.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Chorno.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Sounds of the Day today maybe the best we've ever had.
I cannot wait to play. It's it's impossible. The clips
from the Mirror's debate are spectacular, But this is the whip.
This is the Democrat Party whip. For those of you
who watched House of Cards, a whip has a lot
of power. This is the one that's whipping up the votes.
Catherine Clark's quote is going to absolutely prove what I
(32:16):
said yesterday and blow your mind in Sounds of the Day,
and then David Monson's going to be joining us.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm just struck by this, and I don't want to
drive you crazy with it.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But the notion that I am supposed to perceive a
twenty third day of government shutdown, which is a partial
shutdown only non essential government is not funded begs.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You know, one would have.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
To ask the question why do we even fund non
essential government? But we also reached thirty eight trillion dollars
of debt today.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Maybe we should ask a.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Theologian, let alone, an economist let alone of money is
and a market guy what's to be feared more government
shutdown or third? The eight trillion dollars of debt will
do that and your Sounds of the Day and Rory's
got the final story all straight ahead.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
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