September 3, 2025 • 23 mins
Is Donald Trump Really Begging The Governor Of Illinois For Anything?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Enjoy the morning while we have it. So we're going
to be highs in the nineties by the weekend. But
this morning, some waking up in believe it or not,
our TV partner Live five meteorologist just set over my
shoulder here some people ear in the low country waking
up at the fifties. Joey Zovine actually said, Blaze, grab
a sweatshirt if you're walking the dog this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, it's odd. So this polar vortex has dipped down
lower than usual and Canada. So there we go again.
We can blame the Canadians.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh boy, well, you know what sending their smoke. I
wish we had seen the northern light cold weather. You know,
the Northern lights dip down too, but not far enough
south for us.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They're never going to dip down that far south.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We actually last year had a bit of a sighting.
Oh really, yeah we did.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
But the.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Not making that up like we have pictures.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
If you've ever seen the Northern lights, what we see
here does not resemble that at all.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It was more of a pink issue, but it was
still it was still something something that a lot of
people were delighted to see in portions of the Tri
County about a year ago. I think it could have
been a little less but welcome in. The weather is
going to warm up by the weekend, Like I said,
high in the nineties. We'll check the forecast here just ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The United States has conducted a lethal strike on a
drug vessel in the Southern Caribbean. In a post, un
ex Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the drug vessel
had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a
designated narco terrorist organization. His post came just moments after
President Trump had referenced to strike while speaking in the
Oval Office. This comes after the US deployed warships near Venezuela,
(01:50):
with Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro calling the deployment an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral,
and absolutely criminal and bloody threat.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
The President of the United States likes to go on
television and beg me to call and ask him for troops.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
As long as those vessels are in the region and
as long as the president's in the White House. He's
made very clear he's not going to allow the United
States to continue to be flooded with cocaine and fentanyl
and other drugs coming from different places, this one from Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Including Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah. The President reported that the strike killed eleven suspected
drug smugglers, who the President said were members of the
trendeo Agua gang. The White House posted a video of
the strike that shows an explosion on the speeding boat
and then a large fire on.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Board, sending a message as the Secretary of State and
the President said, I mean, these are They're not going
to allow this administration for deadly drugs to continue to
flow into our country.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They're not going to allow the Maduro administration to continue that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, I'm talking about Trendy of Ragua, which leads back
to Maduro, and they're a designated terrorists organization in the
United States of America. So for Maduro to sit here
and say, oh, it's you know all of these, it's
like you you are quite literally you've been warned, you've
been warned, you're you're leading and heading a terrorist organization.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well he's been warned for years and there's a Bondie
on his head.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Exactly. So the idea that extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral, absolutely criminal
and bloody threat. I mean, that's how we feel about you.
This is why you know, you and your antics and
are not tolerated, not going to be tolerated. Like I said,
sending a message. We'll see if it works.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, we'll see if it works. I mean, you know,
Mexico has fought back against using our troops against their
gangs and their you know, their drug.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Car towels, like boots on the ground versus the seat operation. Well,
and it was in international waters. By the way, I
notice on the post on x or Truth that the
President truth thing met out.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, and they haven't even fought back necessarily against boots
on the ground, just about any kind of involvement from
the US on the Mexican side of the border, whether
that be you know, special forces or whatever it may encompass.
And you have to wonder why that is.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And the President continuing to face legal challenges over his
use of the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
President Trump says there will be federal intervention in Chicago.
Trump was asked about the possibility of the National Guard
going to Chicago to find crime and responded, we're going in.
He added, I didn't say. When Trump went on to
slam the Wendy City for its murder rate and counted
the success, he says his hand with using the Guard
in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, a US district judge says President
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Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles violated
federal law. The President deployed the troops in response to
protests against his immigration operations in the city. Judge Charles
Bryer said, well, individuals engaged in violence during the protest.
There was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable
to respond to the protest and enforce the law.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Really, so, the smashing of the vehicles that we saw,
the flying of the Mexican flags standing on top of
the vehicle, none of that was a threat. There was
no rebellion by definition there, according.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
To that judge. According to John, she says, there was
no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, you and I saw the same videos and those
listening out there of the law enforcement hiding under the bridge,
rocks being thrown at them. I mean, what in the
world does he consider rebellion. It's about to look up
his definition.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, the judge's ruling bars the use of troops in
California to execute the laws. However, the ruling is paused
depending further legal action.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Hmm. So you got to wonder if this is the
same thing that will be deployed in Chicago, Meaning you've
got the mayor there and of course the governor, Chicago's mayor. Boy,
if this guy's approval rating six percent, by the way,
and he calls Trump the terrorist?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Are you talking about Brandon Johnson?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah? And then you've got JB. Pritzker, the governor there
with this.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
The President of the United States likes to go on
television and beg me to call and ask him for troops.
I find this extraordinarily strange, as Chicago does not want
troops on our streets.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Now, are you speaking for yourself, governor or your constituents
who actually have to live with this violence every day.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, listen to what he said. You can't trust what
he says. That's what he just said is the same
thing as I live rent free and Trump's had He's
making up his own narrative, trying to sound like a
tough guy, trying to sound like Trump relies on him
in some form or fashion, and that's simply not true.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, I mean the guy opens his lips. I mean,
the ego on this man, it's this isn't about you,
This isn't about the mayor. This is about your constituents.
This is about the people who have been held hostage
by crime for far too long. This president understands that
the idea that these politicians I mean continue to get elected.
We talk about this often. I remember back in twenty
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twenty when the president was running in Chicago, Saint Charles, Illinois,
they had thousands I think it was over five thousand.
Was record breaking in Illinois and Chicago. In Saint Charles
at the fairgrounds, that packed a rally for Trump. I
think tides are changing. I think that Trump realizes that
with his resounding win back in November. And that's why
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you hear when some of these reporters are out here
talking to the people who are living with this crime
every day. Yes, bring it on, we need help.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah. I mean, I don't know if the tide's turning
or not. You know, we'll find out in the next
round of elections.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I mean, how many how long can these Democrat
politicians stand up for Illy and criminals, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
As long as they want. They've been doing it for decades.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, it's far different than in the last four years
of our poorest open border and the amount of illegals
in our country. That seemed to quite literally change a
lot of people's minds, whether they were maybe independent leaning left,
but a lot more people voted for Trump closing our
border in a better economy, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
In November, well, when's the last time you could say
it was safe to go to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's been a while since I've been there.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, I mean, and even then there was you knew, hey,
I can't go into this area, I can't go to
the South Side. I can't do this. I can remember
warnings twenty thirty years ago. My wife used to say,
we'd go to visit my parents in the Detroit area.
Why don't we take the train to Chicago because they
have a train, And I'm like, no, well, why don't
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we drive. I'm like, there's literally warnings to not take
your car to Chicago. Fine, so, and you can put,
you know, Detroit on that list. You can put any
major city on that list. And when's the last time
that it was safe to go to Washington, d C.
For instance.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I mean I only go there when it's shut down,
quite literally, and like you're seeing now that there's extra
added security. And frankly, when I was in DC for
the two hundred and fiftieth Birthday of the Army Parade,
I still didn't take the train because the law extra
law enforcement and you know, military presence wasn't in the
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train stations, and I said, forget it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah. Well, my point is is you said, how long
can this go on? Illegals or no illegals. These have
been dangerous places for decades under Democrat rule, So how
long can it go on? It can go on forever
as long as they keep voting these the Democrats in
And I'd like to say, wow, there's some Democrats that
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are you know that that would take care of the problem.
But they seem to have rid themselves of those of
those law and order democrats and replace them with these
crazy leftists.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, let's only pray that the tides are turning in
And like I mentioned about the twenty twenty packing of
the fair, there the resounding win back in November for
this president that there is some common sense that will
be restored there. And yes, the poorest. Open border has
exacerbated the problems that you're already laying out here that
have been happening frankly for generations. To your point, but
(10:37):
this also has to do with the fact that they
don't even do the ICE hold detention orders. They don't
even do that for this administration. So when ICE comes
in and you know, says hold these people, they don't
even abide by those. Christy Noom was just over the weekend,
I believe, on Fox and CBS talking about that, at
least what CBS didn't edit out. I don't know if
(10:59):
you saw that.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, I mean they are out like more than half
of her answer, but anyway, and then said they did
it for time constraints.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh was that their answer?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yes, But you know, the of course the open borders
and illegal aliens are a big problem, but they're not
the ones doing all of the crimes either. These are
still dangerous places regardless of of the makeup of illegal
or illegal citizens in that area.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That's why I said exacerbated the problem. I'm just saying
I think that that the fact that there's a crackdown
on illegals in our country, it's really definitely motivated the
president more. It seems as if to give ice the
ability to go in and do what they and you know,
the National Garden, all the other and the rest. We'll see.
(11:50):
But be interesting the timing on this, by the way,
since he said we're going in, we won't say when.
And President Trump wanted to do something about housing affordability.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
President Trump may soon declare a national housing crisis. Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessant suggested during an interview that the administration
may declare a national housing emergency in the fall as
the real estate market struggles to reach stable ground. At
the White House yesterday, Trump told reporters it's too hard
for people to get mortgages because of high interest rates.
(12:21):
He said, we're looking into doing something about housing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Always makes me a little nervous when when the any
kind of government wants to jump in and do something
about housing, it's just like, quite a minute, what's the
plan here?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, I mean, if they're going to get directly involved,
it would make me nervous too. But they can set
the table for a healthier real estate market. Certainly.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, I think this is pressure, don't you, on the
decreasing of interest rates, which hopefully likely will be coming soon.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well supposedly later this month, it's been indicated, but I mean,
we don't know for sure what's going to happen or
by how much the FED will lower interest rates.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I think this is adding pressure, you know, on Powell
and the whole board to do the right thing and
interest lower, you know, lower interest rates.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well it may be, but I mean it's also you know,
these little incremental quarter point changes aren't going to help
very much, not at first anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That's a shame. So really then we're not going to
see any kind of relief you think in the housing
market until we get more like a point plus.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Probably not. I mean, I don't know. I don't have
a crystal ball, but you know, if you're looking at
and some of the stuff is baked in, so people
think that, you know, the FED rate is the going
rate for mortgages. I mean, they're not directly tied together
like that, they're not totally independent of each other. But
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you know, a lot of times, by the time the
THUD even lowers the rate, it's been anticipated by the
mortgage market. So it's already happened, right, and it is
and we should get a mortgage broker on to explain
how all this works. You know, I'm not an expert
in mortgages, but the the you know, the prime rate
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that you pay for a mortgage is not directly tied
to the federal rates. So in other words, it doesn't
go up and down in concert. It goes up and
down independent of each other. So you're looking at people
that have in the twos in some instances interest rates,
and then now you're looking at let's say around seven percent,
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who in the right mind is going to go double
their mortgage payment.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Right well, and then on the flip side of this,
it makes me wonder if they actually are thinking government intervention,
because that does not follow the path with which this
president actually operates. He's more of a private you know,
bringing in private companies to solve problems and saving government dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, I mean, I don't know what they could do.
So he can put the pressure on the Fed. You know,
we've seen housing programs in the past, or you get
tax credits and you get this, and you get that. Yep,
I don't you know. From strictly a business point of view,
I guess that would be good for business in the
real estate industry. But I always thought that it was
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unfair because there's winners and losers there, and the government says, well, okay,
and there's a line always. So if I make a
dollar more, if I did this a day late, or
if I do this, then I don't get the same
benefit that the guy next door got. Right, So you know,
I don't like those type things. But you know, housing
has become totally unaffordable for so many people that something
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needs to be done unless we want a nation full
of renters. President Trump has announced that the United States
Space Command is moving to Huntsville, Alabama. Move reverses former
President Biden's decision to keep the headquarters in Colorado. Trump
said part of his reasoning behind the move was because
Colorado has mail in voting, which he called crooked. Space
Command oversees military space operations and the defense of satellites.
(16:15):
I don't think the president does himself any favors when
you know how he's kind of fast and lewis when
he talks and he has to get his digs in,
and he got his digs in over Colorado's mail in voting.
He doesn't do himself any favors when he does this
you know, the military was behind this move. It makes
sense on many different levels. And the president just muddies
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the waters when he wanders off and sticks statements in there,
like these politically motivated statements, because this was not necessarily
a politically motivated move. He tried to do this in
his last administration, and then the Biden administration came along
and said, no, we're going to keep it in Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah. Well, I would agree that, you know, loose lips,
you should have maybe, you know, kept this. But he
used the opportunity clearly to I guess, pardon the pun,
but shot across the bow there to Colorado and the
whole mail in voting, because it's not just Colorado, it's
other states. And yes, I would agree it muddy's the
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waters of what could be a very positive thing looks
like for Huntsville and Rocket City.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yeah, so he just reduced it to politics and put
another arrow in the quiver of the people that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Are fighting right for Democrats to wield this as a weapon. Basically,
especially with the propaganda press.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
The military is behind this move, and almost virtually everybody
except for the politicians in Colorado are behind this move.
And let's just keep it at that and take a
win for a win. But he had to, uh, you know,
like you said, shoot a blow across the of Colorado,
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and I mean, and it serves no purpose. So you know,
not everybody's perfect. This president does this all the time.
It's part of his style. And people, you know, on
many different issues, not only this one, say well, I
wish he wouldn't do that, or I wish he wouldn't
do this or that, you know, And I've always argued, well,
if you take that away from him, then he's not Trump.
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So there's that part of the equation. I don't know,
seems to work for him right, got him to where
he is. I hope you're doing well this morning, Thanks
for listening. Florida State is the first school to incur
a fine this football season. The university got tagged with
a fifty thousand dollars penalty after fans storm the field
following Saturday's Week one upset over Alabama. The SEC released
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new rules in the off season designed to protect football
and basketball players from field and court storming. A second
offense will cura one hundred thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So I think that this is ir It comes a day. Well,
I don't even know. Did it come on the day
twenty years twenty five years ago that they actually stormed
the field the University of South Carolina and or lou
holtzon tour literally the goal post down. So maybe they're
trying to be tough on this so that they don't,
you know, it doesn't lead to something more chaotic where
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people could be hurt.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, I think that's the goal. But you know, is
it the university's role to prevent this? I suppose if
you could prove that the majority of the people storming
the field or students, then they could have some leverage
over those students. But otherwise, I mean, what are they
going to do if it was you know, say it
wasn't students, Say it was just spectators.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, students, spectators, No matter that it could be a
dangerous situation or a chaotic one that could lead to injuries, trampling,
any kind of other things.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I mean, so what would the university do if it
was not students? Could they do to prevent that?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, I would say maybe beef up security along the
field so that that doesn't happen. I don't know, More
and more people are doing crazy unhinged things. I mean,
I saw a video going viral over the weekend after
the two Tigers went at it with LSU and Clemson
and one guy's choking the other guy out, and I'm like,
good God. So, I don't know, maybe security needs to
be a little bit tighter no matter what.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well, yeah, but I mean there's a line there between
a law enforcement issue and you know, so is this
an issue that law enforcement should be monitoring and taking
care of or should the university be fined?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Maybe being fine means that they beef up their own security.
Whether that's hiring off duty law enforcement or whatever. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But well, at a certain point, I mean, what are
they going to do have a police line out there
and chain link fences, I mean, what are they supposed
to do?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, it seems to be proving the case when you
show of force, people tend to stay in line.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well, I mean, this is nothing new in sports, right
out of control fans even celebrating. We've seen celebrations turn
into riots.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Got parades, yes, cars flipping.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, I mean even on the field. I can remember
one World Series where they flipped a police car and
the police car's burning in the background, the fans holding
up a piece of turf that he took us. And
I don't mean to laugh, but I mean it was
so over the top it's ridiculous. And yeah, and then
afterwards you see the fans come out in the streets
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and start rioting and destroying things. And I told the
story of when, you know, I worked in Knoxville and
the valls Ut was you know, on the top of
their game literally at the time, and they have a
huge rivalry with Georgia. Whenever they played Georgia, we always
had problems. I used to do a pre game show
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where I broadcast live from one of the restaurant chains
that were right there down on the strip, you know,
by Neil and Stadium, and we couldn't We'd go do
a Bloody Mary Bar and have a pregame show and
do all of that before the games. On Saturday morning,
one Saturday morning that they were playing Georgia, I show
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up and they're like, you can't come in and we
can't do this. We're going to have to move it
to the parking lot because literally the fans got into
it inside this chain restaurant and destroyed it the night before.
So you see fans. This was thirty years ago, if
not more, it was more as a matter of fact,
I guess I'm admitting my age now. But anyway, so
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this has been going on for a long time. I
just wonder, like you know, how effective the university can be,
and how fair it is for the ACC to find
them instead of working with them to find a solution.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Enjoy the morning while we have it. So we're going
to be highs in the nineties by the weekend. But
this morning, some waking up in believe it or not,
our TV partner Live five meteorologist just set over my
shoulder here some people ear in the low country waking
up at the fifties. Joey Zovine actually said, Blaze, grab
a sweatshirt if you're walking the dog this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, it's odd. So this polar vortex has dipped down
lower than usual and Canada. So there we go again.
We can blame the Canadians.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh boy, well, you know what sending their smoke. I
wish we had seen the northern light cold weather. You know,
the Northern lights dip down too, but not far enough
south for us.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They're never going to dip down that far south.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
We actually last year had a bit of a sighting.
Oh really, yeah we did.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
But the.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Not making that up like we have pictures.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
If you've ever seen the Northern lights, what we see
here does not resemble that at all.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It was more of a pink issue, but it was
still it was still something something that a lot of
people were delighted to see in portions of the Tri
County about a year ago. I think it could have
been a little less but welcome in. The weather is
going to warm up by the weekend, Like I said,
high in the nineties. We'll check the forecast here just ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The United States has conducted a lethal strike on a
drug vessel in the Southern Caribbean. In a post, un
ex Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the drug vessel
had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a
designated narco terrorist organization. His post came just moments after
President Trump had referenced to strike while speaking in the
Oval Office. This comes after the US deployed warships near Venezuela,
(01:50):
with Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro calling the deployment an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral,
and absolutely criminal and bloody threat.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
The President of the United States likes to go on
television and beg me to call and ask him for troops.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
As long as those vessels are in the region and
as long as the president's in the White House. He's
made very clear he's not going to allow the United
States to continue to be flooded with cocaine and fentanyl
and other drugs coming from different places, this one from Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Including Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah. The President reported that the strike killed eleven suspected
drug smugglers, who the President said were members of the
trendeo Agua gang. The White House posted a video of
the strike that shows an explosion on the speeding boat
and then a large fire on.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Board, sending a message as the Secretary of State and
the President said, I mean, these are They're not going
to allow this administration for deadly drugs to continue to
flow into our country.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They're not going to allow the Maduro administration to continue that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, I'm talking about Trendy of Ragua, which leads back
to Maduro, and they're a designated terrorists organization in the
United States of America. So for Maduro to sit here
and say, oh, it's you know all of these, it's
like you you are quite literally you've been warned, you've
been warned, you're you're leading and heading a terrorist organization.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well he's been warned for years and there's a Bondie
on his head.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Exactly. So the idea that extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral, absolutely criminal
and bloody threat. I mean, that's how we feel about you.
This is why you know, you and your antics and
are not tolerated, not going to be tolerated. Like I said,
sending a message. We'll see if it works.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, we'll see if it works. I mean, you know,
Mexico has fought back against using our troops against their
gangs and their you know, their drug.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Car towels, like boots on the ground versus the seat operation. Well,
and it was in international waters. By the way, I
notice on the post on x or Truth that the
President truth thing met out.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, and they haven't even fought back necessarily against boots
on the ground, just about any kind of involvement from
the US on the Mexican side of the border, whether
that be you know, special forces or whatever it may encompass.
And you have to wonder why that is.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And the President continuing to face legal challenges over his
use of the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
President Trump says there will be federal intervention in Chicago.
Trump was asked about the possibility of the National Guard
going to Chicago to find crime and responded, we're going in.
He added, I didn't say. When Trump went on to
slam the Wendy City for its murder rate and counted
the success, he says his hand with using the Guard
in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, a US district judge says President
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Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles violated
federal law. The President deployed the troops in response to
protests against his immigration operations in the city. Judge Charles
Bryer said, well, individuals engaged in violence during the protest.
There was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable
to respond to the protest and enforce the law.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Really, so, the smashing of the vehicles that we saw,
the flying of the Mexican flags standing on top of
the vehicle, none of that was a threat. There was
no rebellion by definition there, according.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
To that judge. According to John, she says, there was
no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, you and I saw the same videos and those
listening out there of the law enforcement hiding under the bridge,
rocks being thrown at them. I mean, what in the
world does he consider rebellion. It's about to look up
his definition.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, the judge's ruling bars the use of troops in
California to execute the laws. However, the ruling is paused
depending further legal action.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Hmm. So you got to wonder if this is the
same thing that will be deployed in Chicago, Meaning you've
got the mayor there and of course the governor, Chicago's mayor. Boy,
if this guy's approval rating six percent, by the way,
and he calls Trump the terrorist?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Are you talking about Brandon Johnson?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah? And then you've got JB. Pritzker, the governor there
with this.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
The President of the United States likes to go on
television and beg me to call and ask him for troops.
I find this extraordinarily strange, as Chicago does not want
troops on our streets.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Now, are you speaking for yourself, governor or your constituents
who actually have to live with this violence every day.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, listen to what he said. You can't trust what
he says. That's what he just said is the same
thing as I live rent free and Trump's had He's
making up his own narrative, trying to sound like a
tough guy, trying to sound like Trump relies on him
in some form or fashion, and that's simply not true.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, I mean the guy opens his lips. I mean,
the ego on this man, it's this isn't about you,
This isn't about the mayor. This is about your constituents.
This is about the people who have been held hostage
by crime for far too long. This president understands that
the idea that these politicians I mean continue to get elected.
We talk about this often. I remember back in twenty
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twenty when the president was running in Chicago, Saint Charles, Illinois,
they had thousands I think it was over five thousand.
Was record breaking in Illinois and Chicago. In Saint Charles
at the fairgrounds, that packed a rally for Trump. I
think tides are changing. I think that Trump realizes that
with his resounding win back in November. And that's why
(07:41):
you hear when some of these reporters are out here
talking to the people who are living with this crime
every day. Yes, bring it on, we need help.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah. I mean, I don't know if the tide's turning
or not. You know, we'll find out in the next
round of elections.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, I mean, how many how long can these Democrat
politicians stand up for Illy and criminals, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
As long as they want. They've been doing it for decades.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, it's far different than in the last four years
of our poorest open border and the amount of illegals
in our country. That seemed to quite literally change a
lot of people's minds, whether they were maybe independent leaning left,
but a lot more people voted for Trump closing our
border in a better economy, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
In November, well, when's the last time you could say
it was safe to go to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's been a while since I've been there.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, I mean, and even then there was you knew, hey,
I can't go into this area, I can't go to
the South Side. I can't do this. I can remember
warnings twenty thirty years ago. My wife used to say,
we'd go to visit my parents in the Detroit area.
Why don't we take the train to Chicago because they
have a train, And I'm like, no, well, why don't
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we drive. I'm like, there's literally warnings to not take
your car to Chicago. Fine, so, and you can put,
you know, Detroit on that list. You can put any
major city on that list. And when's the last time
that it was safe to go to Washington, d C.
For instance.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I mean I only go there when it's shut down,
quite literally, and like you're seeing now that there's extra
added security. And frankly, when I was in DC for
the two hundred and fiftieth Birthday of the Army Parade,
I still didn't take the train because the law extra
law enforcement and you know, military presence wasn't in the
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train stations, and I said, forget it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah. Well, my point is is you said, how long
can this go on? Illegals or no illegals. These have
been dangerous places for decades under Democrat rule, So how
long can it go on? It can go on forever
as long as they keep voting these the Democrats in
And I'd like to say, wow, there's some Democrats that
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are you know that that would take care of the problem.
But they seem to have rid themselves of those of
those law and order democrats and replace them with these
crazy leftists.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, let's only pray that the tides are turning in
And like I mentioned about the twenty twenty packing of
the fair, there the resounding win back in November for
this president that there is some common sense that will
be restored there. And yes, the poorest. Open border has
exacerbated the problems that you're already laying out here that
have been happening frankly for generations. To your point, but
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this also has to do with the fact that they
don't even do the ICE hold detention orders. They don't
even do that for this administration. So when ICE comes
in and you know, says hold these people, they don't
even abide by those. Christy Noom was just over the weekend,
I believe, on Fox and CBS talking about that, at
least what CBS didn't edit out. I don't know if
(10:59):
you saw that.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, I mean they are out like more than half
of her answer, but anyway, and then said they did
it for time constraints.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh was that their answer?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yes, But you know, the of course the open borders
and illegal aliens are a big problem, but they're not
the ones doing all of the crimes either. These are
still dangerous places regardless of of the makeup of illegal
or illegal citizens in that area.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That's why I said exacerbated the problem. I'm just saying
I think that that the fact that there's a crackdown
on illegals in our country, it's really definitely motivated the
president more. It seems as if to give ice the
ability to go in and do what they and you know,
the National Garden, all the other and the rest. We'll see.
(11:50):
But be interesting the timing on this, by the way,
since he said we're going in, we won't say when.
And President Trump wanted to do something about housing affordability.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
President Trump may soon declare a national housing crisis. Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessant suggested during an interview that the administration
may declare a national housing emergency in the fall as
the real estate market struggles to reach stable ground. At
the White House yesterday, Trump told reporters it's too hard
for people to get mortgages because of high interest rates.
(12:21):
He said, we're looking into doing something about housing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Always makes me a little nervous when when the any
kind of government wants to jump in and do something
about housing, it's just like, quite a minute, what's the
plan here?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, I mean, if they're going to get directly involved,
it would make me nervous too. But they can set
the table for a healthier real estate market. Certainly.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, I think this is pressure, don't you, on the
decreasing of interest rates, which hopefully likely will be coming soon.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well supposedly later this month, it's been indicated, but I mean,
we don't know for sure what's going to happen or
by how much the FED will lower interest rates.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I think this is adding pressure, you know, on Powell
and the whole board to do the right thing and
interest lower, you know, lower interest rates.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Well it may be, but I mean it's also you know,
these little incremental quarter point changes aren't going to help
very much, not at first anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That's a shame. So really then we're not going to
see any kind of relief you think in the housing
market until we get more like a point plus.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Probably not. I mean, I don't know. I don't have
a crystal ball, but you know, if you're looking at
and some of the stuff is baked in, so people
think that, you know, the FED rate is the going
rate for mortgages. I mean, they're not directly tied together
like that, they're not totally independent of each other. But
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you know, a lot of times, by the time the
THUD even lowers the rate, it's been anticipated by the
mortgage market. So it's already happened, right, and it is
and we should get a mortgage broker on to explain
how all this works. You know, I'm not an expert
in mortgages, but the the you know, the prime rate
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that you pay for a mortgage is not directly tied
to the federal rates. So in other words, it doesn't
go up and down in concert. It goes up and
down independent of each other. So you're looking at people
that have in the twos in some instances interest rates,
and then now you're looking at let's say around seven percent,
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who in the right mind is going to go double
their mortgage payment.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Right well, and then on the flip side of this,
it makes me wonder if they actually are thinking government intervention,
because that does not follow the path with which this
president actually operates. He's more of a private you know,
bringing in private companies to solve problems and saving government dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, I mean, I don't know what they could do.
So he can put the pressure on the Fed. You know,
we've seen housing programs in the past, or you get
tax credits and you get this, and you get that. Yep,
I don't you know. From strictly a business point of view,
I guess that would be good for business in the
real estate industry. But I always thought that it was
(15:27):
unfair because there's winners and losers there, and the government says, well, okay,
and there's a line always. So if I make a
dollar more, if I did this a day late, or
if I do this, then I don't get the same
benefit that the guy next door got. Right, So you know,
I don't like those type things. But you know, housing
has become totally unaffordable for so many people that something
(15:51):
needs to be done unless we want a nation full
of renters. President Trump has announced that the United States
Space Command is moving to Huntsville, Alabama. Move reverses former
President Biden's decision to keep the headquarters in Colorado. Trump
said part of his reasoning behind the move was because
Colorado has mail in voting, which he called crooked. Space
Command oversees military space operations and the defense of satellites.
(16:15):
I don't think the president does himself any favors when
you know how he's kind of fast and lewis when
he talks and he has to get his digs in,
and he got his digs in over Colorado's mail in voting.
He doesn't do himself any favors when he does this
you know, the military was behind this move. It makes
sense on many different levels. And the president just muddies
(16:38):
the waters when he wanders off and sticks statements in there,
like these politically motivated statements, because this was not necessarily
a politically motivated move. He tried to do this in
his last administration, and then the Biden administration came along
and said, no, we're going to keep it in Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah. Well, I would agree that, you know, loose lips,
you should have maybe, you know, kept this. But he
used the opportunity clearly to I guess, pardon the pun,
but shot across the bow there to Colorado and the
whole mail in voting, because it's not just Colorado, it's
other states. And yes, I would agree it muddy's the
(17:21):
waters of what could be a very positive thing looks
like for Huntsville and Rocket City.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yeah, so he just reduced it to politics and put
another arrow in the quiver of the people that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Are fighting right for Democrats to wield this as a weapon. Basically,
especially with the propaganda press.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
The military is behind this move, and almost virtually everybody
except for the politicians in Colorado are behind this move.
And let's just keep it at that and take a
win for a win. But he had to, uh, you know,
like you said, shoot a blow across the of Colorado,
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and I mean, and it serves no purpose. So you know,
not everybody's perfect. This president does this all the time.
It's part of his style. And people, you know, on
many different issues, not only this one, say well, I
wish he wouldn't do that, or I wish he wouldn't
do this or that, you know, And I've always argued, well,
if you take that away from him, then he's not Trump.
(18:24):
So there's that part of the equation. I don't know,
seems to work for him right, got him to where
he is. I hope you're doing well this morning, Thanks
for listening. Florida State is the first school to incur
a fine this football season. The university got tagged with
a fifty thousand dollars penalty after fans storm the field
following Saturday's Week one upset over Alabama. The SEC released
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new rules in the off season designed to protect football
and basketball players from field and court storming. A second
offense will cura one hundred thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So I think that this is ir It comes a day. Well,
I don't even know. Did it come on the day
twenty years twenty five years ago that they actually stormed
the field the University of South Carolina and or lou
holtzon tour literally the goal post down. So maybe they're
trying to be tough on this so that they don't,
you know, it doesn't lead to something more chaotic where
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people could be hurt.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, I think that's the goal. But you know, is
it the university's role to prevent this? I suppose if
you could prove that the majority of the people storming
the field or students, then they could have some leverage
over those students. But otherwise, I mean, what are they
going to do if it was you know, say it
wasn't students, Say it was just spectators.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, students, spectators, No matter that it could be a
dangerous situation or a chaotic one that could lead to injuries, trampling,
any kind of other things.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I mean, so what would the university do if it
was not students? Could they do to prevent that?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, I would say maybe beef up security along the
field so that that doesn't happen. I don't know, More
and more people are doing crazy unhinged things. I mean,
I saw a video going viral over the weekend after
the two Tigers went at it with LSU and Clemson
and one guy's choking the other guy out, and I'm like,
good God. So, I don't know, maybe security needs to
be a little bit tighter no matter what.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well, yeah, but I mean there's a line there between
a law enforcement issue and you know, so is this
an issue that law enforcement should be monitoring and taking
care of or should the university be fined?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Maybe being fine means that they beef up their own security.
Whether that's hiring off duty law enforcement or whatever. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But well, at a certain point, I mean, what are
they going to do have a police line out there
and chain link fences, I mean, what are they supposed
to do?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, it seems to be proving the case when you
show of force, people tend to stay in line.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well, I mean, this is nothing new in sports, right
out of control fans even celebrating. We've seen celebrations turn
into riots.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Got parades, yes, cars flipping.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, I mean even on the field. I can remember
one World Series where they flipped a police car and
the police car's burning in the background, the fans holding
up a piece of turf that he took us. And
I don't mean to laugh, but I mean it was
so over the top it's ridiculous. And yeah, and then
afterwards you see the fans come out in the streets
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and start rioting and destroying things. And I told the
story of when, you know, I worked in Knoxville and
the valls Ut was you know, on the top of
their game literally at the time, and they have a
huge rivalry with Georgia. Whenever they played Georgia, we always
had problems. I used to do a pre game show
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where I broadcast live from one of the restaurant chains
that were right there down on the strip, you know,
by Neil and Stadium, and we couldn't We'd go do
a Bloody Mary Bar and have a pregame show and
do all of that before the games. On Saturday morning,
one Saturday morning that they were playing Georgia, I show
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up and they're like, you can't come in and we
can't do this. We're going to have to move it
to the parking lot because literally the fans got into
it inside this chain restaurant and destroyed it the night before.
So you see fans. This was thirty years ago, if
not more, it was more as a matter of fact,
I guess I'm admitting my age now. But anyway, so
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this has been going on for a long time. I
just wonder, like you know, how effective the university can be,
and how fair it is for the ACC to find
them instead of working with them to find a solution.
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