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How long, ament, folks, Another big day.
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The smoke.
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Still hanging around us a little more clear here, but
we don't stand up nor if it's still bad. We're
continuing to give you the latest and the coverage on that.
Of course, some of the other big stories speaking of smoke,
firing up, the investments in the United States, there some
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to face, the first since twenty twenty one. There's rumblings
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some sort of ceasefire proposal. Zelenski may be in attendance
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Will have to bring to you as a number as
(02:42):
it develops. We'll have the latest on that too, So
stick with us. Okay, gotta get into this. It's a
massive announcement from Apple, six hundred billion with a B
one hundred billion dollars coming into the United States, an
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investment with Apple. They're going to be making apple products
in America again. And like I said, this story is
is proof once again that the tariffs are working. They
went into effect last night. Trump's saying it's midnight over
on truth socially, it's midnight, he said. And you know,
(03:29):
all of a sudden, these tariffts are are in effect,
he said. You know, billions of dollars now coming back
into the United States. What are they doing it all?
You pay down the debt? I mean, I know the
number one goal of the tariffs where to get folks
to manufacture here in America again. Looks like that is
(03:51):
happening with for checks talked about. I don't know if
that's a necessarily a great idea, not that probably just
making like inflation shootout. But at the end of the day,
it's good to be back in the driver's seat again.
Now we got, as I mentioned, lots still yet to cover,
(04:14):
lots still yet to get to and and you so
don't go anywhere. We're just firing things up. This is
West Michigan Live. James Dixon coming up. James joins us
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about nine thirty nine thirty five talk about the wildfire, smoke,
the littst reaction, and of course I've been mentioning through
this entire ordeal, calling on Dana NASA to get involved.
She wants to sue everybody for everything. Any sort of
(04:57):
issue with a cricket being misplaced in some sort of
field somewhere or coal plant, she wants to shut down.
But not a peep, not a peep from the environmentalists
on all this smoke coming over into Michigan. You gotta
wonder about that.
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Speaker 2 (05:26):
All right, like I said, back at it, and we'll
give you a chance to wait to the iHeartRadio abuse.
That little microphone feature next to the play button, it's
called the talkback MK. The funeral homes making that happen,
and you can send messages directly to us, just just
that simple. Let's talk about Apple real quick, because again,
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this is just more proof you you you hear a
lot of back and forth, and look, I've heard questions.
We even have a comment about this earlier this week
about the terraffs, and I think Meg called said he
had to pay a home a one hundred dollars surcharge
on a thirty five hundred dollars bill for his flooring,
and I guess he was a little bit out of
shape fill in the frustration. I think mostly what Mike
(06:09):
was concerned about is, hey got to make sure that
things are on track when it comes to the midterms.
I don't know how to tell you, guys, we can
walk and cho bubblegum. At the same time, I've been
seeing this idea from a lot of people. It seems
to be sort of a I don't know, it's like
a victim mentality, or it's sort of like a defeatist attitude.
(06:29):
It's been pervasive from a lot of people, and I've
seen it online and in any number of conversations. You know,
we're talking about the Canadian wildfires and here in Michigan.
It's a very big deal. It's a very real issue.
A lot of people with breathing problems. A lot of
people that have you know, kids with asthma or whatever,
they're having issues. Now I don't. I don't have that.
(06:53):
My family. We're not dealing with that personally. Although I
am tired of not being able to see the blue
skies and the outs and all the wonderful things that
are Michigan summers, you know, not missing out on it
at all. But I am pointing out the hypocrisy when
it comes to the left, in particularly the environmental wackos,
because the same environmental wackos who aren't saying a peep
(07:16):
about this, there's a reason for it. It's their policies
that are causing it. All pointing that out, I've had
people jump in the chat, jump in on x. Lots
of these people are trolled, But there's some people that
I think are well meaning too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what
about what about Epstein? Look, I'm gonna say this again,
(07:41):
but I just I gotta warn you, this is just
a distraction. Every story that comes up, this Apple thing,
this is just a distract. No, it's not. It's not
just a distraction. It's a transaction. It's transformation in the country.
They're gonna make Apple products right here at home and
(08:02):
in Kentucky. As a matter of fact, Apple just pledged
an eye popping one hundred billion dollars more for manufacturing
total domestic investment six hundred billion over the next four years.
That's not chump change. That's a real difference. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(08:23):
But what about Epstein. There comes a point in time
where the Epstein thing, and you say everything else is
a distraction. You don't realize it, but the Epstein thing
has become a distraction. I'm not saying it doesn't matter.
I'm not saying I don't want answers just like you.
But we can walk into bubblegum at the same time.
We can do both of those things at once.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I understand wanting accountability and transparency. That's all fine and good.
We ought to demand it at every level and in
every issue, in every topic of conversation. But to constantly
and be single issue minded, over and over and over again,
that one issue, it's it's not going to help you,
and you're going to lose sight of the things that
(09:06):
really are happening. This is a major issue. Six hundred
million dollar investment from Apple they're making chips, if they're
making things here that they previously made overseas, why is
that a big thing? Why is that a big deal?
Why is it good for you? Because those jobs will
be American jobs that boost the economy. Six hundred million
(09:29):
dollars investment. That's incredible. Tim Cook and President Trump in
the White House yesterday, the OVIL talking about this story.
Why it matters, just the little pieces of the puzzle here.
I'm just going to put some of this together. Apple
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and Corning. Remember Corning they make glass, right, They're going
to be making things here, precision glass for Apple. Another
two and a half billion dollar commitment to produce all
of the cover glass for the iPhone, the Apple Watch,
all of it in Cornings Herodsburg, Kentucky manufacturing facility. This
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means one hundred percent of all the covered glass on
iPhone and Apple Watches units and uh, all of it
made worldwide, sold worldwide, will be made right here in
America for the first time. Bugs. You just I can't
even tell you how big of a deal that is.
(10:38):
And we have gotten somehow. This is why I think
when President Trump says, yeah, it's a hoax. It's a
it's a Democrat hoax. What he means is not that
the story's not real, not that it's not important. But
what he means, I think anyway, is that I think
the Democrats, Immediate, etc. Are being They're using this issue
to pull your mind off of some of the other
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major moves. And I don't know any other president that
could have made this stuff happen. In fact, the other day,
I think we had it here anyway, and they have
had it during the After Show, But the other day
even CNN had to admit it. Trump is the most
What did they say influential is that the word day
(11:22):
is influential. I think they said president maybe of the century,
we'll put it that way, and probably detting back a
good portion of the last century. CNN folks, ce ITN
(11:44):
is saying this net negative migration, all of the investment
to tariff revenue and income. Trump is remaking the US,
is what they're saying. Now, Look, if he was taking everything,
I'd tell you that's just not the case. In CNN
(12:08):
will back it up.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Donald trump administration is arguably the most influential this century
and probably as well, dating back a good portion of
the last century as well. Love it like it lumpet.
Trump is remaking in the United States of America. Let's
talk about tarris first, right, there's all this talk that
Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to tarris.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Uh uh, no tacos for Trump.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
The effective tariffray, get this, it's eighteen percent, the highest,
the highest since the fd R administration in the nineteen thirties,
up from get this, just two percent last year, from
just two percent last year. We're talking about a level,
an effective tariff rate level. Get this, nine times as
high this year than last year. Now.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I heard it in the news report earlier this morning.
I haven't seen anything massive, by the way. The only
increase I've seen it, we've seen the numbers to boot
is that the Trump hasn't necessarily brought prices down yet
on so things. Some things he has, uh. But the
inflation has cooled or stopped under Biden. We've seen that chart.
By the way, it's still out there. It's like up
(13:10):
and to the right. When it comes to inflation. I
haven't felt it. I haven't seen it. I'm not saying
you're not going to or that you will. But anybody
that tells you anyway otherwise just has no idea what
they're talking about. They can't say for sure. They don't know.
It may. That's what most headlines say, it may. In fact,
we had a report I think it was CBS, which
(13:33):
you ought to tell you everything you need to know.
Earlier I heard when I walked into the studiards it's well,
the big tariffs may cause prices that they may see
an increase inness. We might see that, but then they
count shit, they have to go back. We just don't know.
Sometimes they say that, sometimes they don't. They just refuse
to say it at all. But Trump, again, seeing an
admitting the most influential president last sense, not.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Just on tariffs, which of course Donald Trump ran on,
in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
What about immigration.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Of course Trump ran and has always run on a
very hawkish immigration platform.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Get this, twenty twenty five net.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Migration in the United States down at least sixty percent
from last year. In fact, we may be heading for
the first time and at least fifty years in which
we have negative net negative migration into the United States.
And last year, of course in twenty twenty four, the
net migration in the US was two point eight million.
This year, we might be talking about negative net migracious.
(14:31):
My goodness, gracious. Now, of course this is part of
the larger story. As I was mentioning, we're talking about immigration,
net migration, we're talking about the effective tariff rate. But
get this, how is Donald Trump doing it? While he
is signing a ton of executive orders? Get this, one
hundred and eighty the most in a year since Franklin
(14:52):
Delano Roosevelt. Oh, my goodness, you have to go back
to the first half of the twentieth century, the last century,
and to make a comparison, O Biden signed get this,
just seventy seven during his entire first year, and we're
only a little bit in August so far, and Donald
Trump making history with one hundred and eighty, one hundred
and eighty executive orders signed.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So far this year.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
So that's why I said that, in my mind, Donald
Trump is the most influential president of this century and
probably dating back a good portion of the last century.
That is because he is remaking the country in terms
of tariffs, he is remaking the country in terms of
net migration, and he is remaking the country in terms
of how much policy changes he's putting.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Through in executive orders.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
As I said, it truly is history making love it
like it or lump it dre all that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's from CNN, folks, CNN of all places. Oh, by
the way, not to not to hardup on this, but
I think it is that important. I'll make another point
coming up here in in just a moment, I've I
got more I want to get to. There's good news,
all kinds of good news. We'll go right into the
(16:02):
White House in the Oval Office on the way to
stand by for that. We're back after this. In the meantime,
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Anthem focused on what matters to you.
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Our good friend James Dixon joining us momentarily after the
break out on the hour news Talk a little bit
about out some of the biggest stories in Michigan the
course of the Canadian wildfire smoke big Apple investments.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
These investments will directly create more than twenty thousand brand
new American jobs and many thousands more at the Apple
suppliers like Corning, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and Samsung all deal.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
In that world. Jobs. Jobs, jobs, folks, that's a key word,
and talk about what that means in why we must
ensure that Michigan doesn't miss out after this.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
And we're only a little bit in August so far,
and Donald Trump making history with one hundred and eighty
one hundred and eighty executive orders signed.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So far this year. So that's why I said that, in.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
My mind, Donald Trump is the most influential president of
this century and probably dating back a good portion of
last century. That is because he is remaking the country
in terms of tariffs, he is remaking the country in
terms of net migration, and he is remaking the country
in terms of how much policy changes he's putting.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Through in executive orders.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
As I said, it truly is history making, love it,
like it or lump it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
The most influential in the last hundred years is what
CNN's area in just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
We talk about Trump and maybe his role in helping
not just train the swamp, but maybe clear the skies. Well, look,
I don't know that there's anything that can be done
to put the fires out right away. That's not my point.
My point is the reason we have these fires in
Canada and subsequently the smoke in our skies is because
(20:43):
of the same policies the tree huggers now refuse to
talk about it. Their policies have caused these issues, and
of course they ought to be held responsible for it.
And look, at the end of the days, there's ways
to clear this stuff up. We just need to have
these conversations. But part of it means coming back down
to reality and getting real about what that issue with
(21:07):
the mess and the way they manage force and whatnot
and what it does. Oh dang you unfortunately not Yeah,
wind solar and unicorn farts ain't gonna help us. Hey,
my good friend James Dixon is on the line with
us now the Michigan enjoyor the podcast and of course
down I'm seventy five over on X and Twitter. James,
(21:28):
welcome and we appreciate you. Being here with us today,
and we a little bit clearer. I don't know what
it's like where you're at, but it looks like they
still got issues up north. And gods, should really be
nice if we could just have a summer here with
some blue skys again.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
You know, it's so good to hear your voice this morning.
But yeah, you know, was just up in northern Michigan
the other day, up in Benzie County, speaking to the
Republicans there, and you know, just some great friends showing
me around, showing me Frankfort and Arcadia, the beaches, gorgeous country,
Lake Michigan, like the stuff you dream about, the stuff
(22:03):
that should be on a postcard. Except when I posted
the pictures, people were like, well, where's the lake. Where's
the lake? Like I could see that there, you know,
there's something off in the distance, there's a fastness, but
it was so smoky that it just obscured our beauty.
And in a state that only has like ninety nice
days a year, summer is Michigan. Michigan is summer. And
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so to take that from us for what the second
third year in a row, Now, Canada's problem has become
our problem, and we have to start talking about it
that way.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well, and and what.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm so you know, so fired up about. I guess, uh,
it's a lot over here is the fact that they
you know, Dana NASA wants to sue everybody over She
wants to shut out in cold plants right and left.
But she doesn't say a peep about any of this
in CA. And I would think if you really truly
(23:03):
cared about the environment, you know, Greta and Gretchen and Dana,
all of them would be lumped in together saying, wait
a minute, but we don't. It's it's it's crickets from
from all of all of them. And that that to me,
I think we have to point out why. I think
it's important because we've got to understand why we've got
(23:24):
this problem, why we're here. We're here because they all
had these crazy policies. In fact, they wanted to they
wanted to make sure that the forest didn't get cut
down in a certain way. We just left everything the
way it is naturally, just you know, a state of
nature naturally. Well, you know, if you go back to
the way things were, you know all of that time,
(23:47):
throughout the years, there were forest fires and there were smoke,
and there was all kinds of things happening. But you know,
I just take a biblical approach to this. You know,
back in the beginning of the book there in Genesis
says it, we're supposed to be good stewards of this
whole thing, and that would include to me, making sure
we're taking good care and forest management, and that means
(24:09):
clearing some of these areas. And now, I know Canada's
got a lot of it, right, I know they got
a lot of it. But I really do not believe
that there's nothing we can't do. There is this defeatist
attitude out there that just some people just say, well,
there's just nothing we can do about that. I just
don't believe that.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Oh no, I mean forest management is part of having forest,
That is part of sewardship, right, and the idea that
what the forest is should just never be touched. It
was made perfect, it could never be altered. That's an
idea that comes from year zero communism. And what's undergirding
it is this idea that Native Americans and I guess
(24:51):
Native Canadians were the real true stewards of the land.
And ever since the white man came it's been corrupted
and now it's about commerce and all these things taking
from the land. Have you ever been to a Native
American reservation? You ever seen footage of one? Is that
people being great stewards of what God has given them? No,
(25:12):
it's not. We're to think that if we just let
everything go back to the way it was, it'd be great. No,
it wouldn't. And so the idea that you know, none
of this should be managed, just let the fires burn,
let things do what they do. That's not really the
world we live in. And I think the Dana Nessele
(25:32):
point is so fascinating. This is a woman who wants
us to unplug from line five, which fuels all the
planes at Metro Airport, but she hasn't put any of
her weight behind the Canada wildfires. What's wrong with this
picture and journalism. We're taught to listen for the dog
that's not barking. Ain't a nustle our watchdog. Her silence
(25:53):
here is deafening.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Very good point. Another piece of this that I find
very serving. If people don't understand, it's directly tight end
this whole environmental approach. Directly tight end to how much
you and I are now paying for energy prices. Wind
solar and unicorn farts put online, cold plants pulled offline
at the same time that they want us to plug
all of our teslas in. But wait, it's not the
(26:18):
teslas that are sucking up all the juice. It's really
the AI and of course the data centers. Eventually they
are going to do most of the consumption. And that's
before we start with manufacturing it again. And I just
talked about Trump bringing all this money back in. We're
seeing billions, hundreds of billions of dollars being brought in
by Apple, but we can't see that investment. You won't
(26:38):
see as much here in Michigan if it's not affordable
or feasible for these businesses to do it. And the
energy is going to be part of that. I just
put it all together. But also, look, that's the thirty
thousand foot view at the end of the day, right
here on Main Street, so to speak, or in your backyard.
How much are you paying for your energy right now?
It is absolutely open up the envelope and almost I
(27:02):
almost hear this right as I open up the envelope.
Oh d holy look at the price of that. I
mean it's incredible.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
It is. I haven't seen a bill all summer that
starts with less than a three. You know, we run
the ac we do that. But and it hasn't been
an especially hot summer either. It just costs more to
do all the same things that you did two three
years ago. Right, there's no more or less forest than
there was in Canada five years ago. Why weren't we
(27:33):
hearing about this? How come these forest virus? How come
this was not a staple of our childhood, Like I
don't remember, oh one of every three summers was kind
of smoking.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, no, no, And they know the.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Worst part is James is like, now this whole drum
beat of yeah, yeah, no, this is just the way
it is. They're trying to normalize it. Just suck it
up and get used to it, is what they're Notice.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Notice they've covered it as a partisan issue, did you right?
News just had a story. Congressional Republicans have sent a
letter to Canada asking them to take this on. So
now it's going to be Republicans say it's a problem,
Democrats in the media that alliance will treat it as
a conspiracy theory. Well, well, rather than anyone saying, hey,
(28:18):
what is the actual source it's going to become. Republicans
say this, Democrats say that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
That's the second.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
The media is actively part of our problem here. It's
why our discourse is so stupid. It's because of the
choices they make the.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Same skys as fog that hayes hanging over Republicans is
hanging over Democrats. We are all to be outraged about this.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
All right, Well, the smoke falls on the just and
the unjust.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Right said one more thing here, James and I got
to tie into this because it's important. What's happening in
Canada right now may be coming our way. One hundred
million dollars in disasters relief is stuck in the Michigan
Senate ninety days after House Republicans approved the emergency aid
for families devast by the March eye storms. We got
all of that timber on the ground. What happens next
(29:04):
year when it's dry, lightning strikes, and now we got
fire from one leg to the other, stretching across the bit.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
And you know we're going to be too broke to
do anything about it. I mean, this is you got
to You either plan ahead or you plan behind. You know,
there's two kinds of people I noticed, you know, so
there's one type of person who will say, there's rain
in the weather report, I better start making it home.
There's another type of person who needs the rain to
(29:33):
actually start in the storm to actually hit, and then
they'll start heading home in the middle of the storm.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
You don't have to be that second group, but the
Democrats who run Michigan sure want.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Us to be.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
And it's just we are at risk, so we're dealing
with someone else's problem right now. Next year Canada can
be saying, hey, what's with all the smoke from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, you know, I want to just show people what
it's like in Canada right now, because I've after I
talked about this on action that people start shining in
from everywhere. Canadians are saying, hey, pray for us, because
this is what it's like here. They're telling us not
to try and even help clear any of the areas
because our help with these fires, because we'll be fined
(30:16):
if we even go into the woods.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
Effective four pm today, we're telling nova Scotians stay out
of the woods. We are restricting travel and activities that
really aren't necessary for most of us. Hiking, camping, fishing,
and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted.
Trail systems through woods are off limits. Camping is allowed,
(30:41):
but only in official campgrounds. The fine for violating any
of these bands is the same as the fine for
the ban I'm burning twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
By the way, this is the same thing Gretchen Whitner pulled. Here,
all the Cavidians, those governors, same thing they all pulled.
It's from the same playbook. They want absolute control to
authoritarian By the way, Duggan and Benson will be just
as bad if they make it in this is This
is something that I think everyone needs to understand where
(31:14):
all this comes from. It's evil.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
You know, all you can do is just stay home.
I tell you what Canada needs is not less people involve.
They need more people. And so that letter to Canada
that you know, John James said it was a nice idea.
I would direct mind to President Trump. You know, when
the neighbors have a dog that bites one of your
kids and it's always kind of noisy over there, it's
(31:40):
time for dad to talk to the neighbors, right, I
asked a friend who works at the Michigan Environment Department, like, hey,
you guys talk about all these environmental prices. We have
literally smoke building over from another place. What are you
doing about it? They said, we're issuing air quality alerts.
Like that was the absolute limit on one what they
could do. So this is bigger Whitmer. It's bigger than Eagle,
(32:04):
It's bigger than John James. This is Donald Trump. Donald
Trump needs to get involved and say, hey, Canada, either
you guys manage your forest fires or we will.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I think it's about time. I agree. I think it's
just another thing he could tack on. He's having enough
a hard time as it is dealing with them right
now and fitting on their real refusal to actually man
up on that, and that's already causing you know, hundreds
of thousands of lives. But you know what, Canada, it's time,
(32:39):
it's time to get your act together. My good friend
James Dixon, always a pleasure folks can find you. I
know the Michigan enjoy your podcast. Always a great place.
But my favorite maybe X down I seventy five.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Hey anything big we gotta watch for you coming up quickly.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
Yeah, we're gonna be talking about this thing. We're going
to be talking about on the next episode, the post
news world order and why the wildfires are being covered
the way they are by the media.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
All right, back after this quake break, folks.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
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Detroit City Council after getting the most votes for District
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five percent of the vote, just ahead of State Representative
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Hopefully, after some of the stories are are heard, we'll
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This is.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
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I would expect that meeting happening in the next week
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This is this is something that they probably don't want
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I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin
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Of course, some of the other big stories speaking of smoke,
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Will have to bring to you as a number as
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stick with us. Okay, gotta get into this. It's a
massive announcement from Apple, six hundred billion with a B
one hundred billion dollars coming into the United States, an
(03:04):
investment with Apple. They're going to be making apple products
in America again. And like I said, this story is
is proof once again that the tariffs are working. They
went into effect last night. Trump's saying it's midnight over
on truth socially, it's midnight, he said. And you know,
(03:29):
all of a sudden, these tariffts are are in effect,
he said. You know, billions of dollars now coming back
into the United States. What are they doing it all?
You pay down the debt? I mean, I know the
number one goal of the tariffs where to get folks
to manufacture here in America again. Looks like that is
(03:51):
happening with for checks talked about. I don't know if
that's a necessarily a great idea, not that probably just
making like inflation shootout. But at the end of the day,
it's good to be back in the driver's seat again.
Now we got, as I mentioned, lots still yet to cover,
(04:14):
lots still yet to get to and and you so
don't go anywhere. We're just firing things up. This is
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(04:37):
about nine thirty nine thirty five talk about the wildfire, smoke,
the littst reaction, and of course I've been mentioning through
this entire ordeal, calling on Dana NASA to get involved.
She wants to sue everybody for everything. Any sort of
(04:57):
issue with a cricket being misplaced in some sort of
field somewhere or coal plant, she wants to shut down.
But not a peep, not a peep from the environmentalists
on all this smoke coming over into Michigan. You gotta
wonder about that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
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Speaker 2 (05:26):
All right, like I said, back at it, and we'll
give you a chance to wait to the iHeartRadio abuse.
That little microphone feature next to the play button, it's
called the talkback MK. The funeral homes making that happen,
and you can send messages directly to us, just just
that simple. Let's talk about Apple real quick, because again,
(05:48):
this is just more proof you you you hear a
lot of back and forth, and look, I've heard questions.
We even have a comment about this earlier this week
about the terraffs, and I think Meg called said he
had to pay a home a one hundred dollars surcharge
on a thirty five hundred dollars bill for his flooring,
and I guess he was a little bit out of
shape fill in the frustration. I think mostly what Mike
(06:09):
was concerned about is, hey got to make sure that
things are on track when it comes to the midterms.
I don't know how to tell you, guys, we can
walk and cho bubblegum. At the same time, I've been
seeing this idea from a lot of people. It seems
to be sort of a I don't know, it's like
a victim mentality, or it's sort of like a defeatist attitude.
(06:29):
It's been pervasive from a lot of people, and I've
seen it online and in any number of conversations. You know,
we're talking about the Canadian wildfires and here in Michigan.
It's a very big deal. It's a very real issue.
A lot of people with breathing problems. A lot of
people that have you know, kids with asthma or whatever,
they're having issues. Now I don't. I don't have that.
(06:53):
My family. We're not dealing with that personally. Although I
am tired of not being able to see the blue
skies and the outs and all the wonderful things that
are Michigan summers, you know, not missing out on it
at all. But I am pointing out the hypocrisy when
it comes to the left, in particularly the environmental wackos,
because the same environmental wackos who aren't saying a peep
(07:16):
about this, there's a reason for it. It's their policies
that are causing it. All pointing that out, I've had
people jump in the chat, jump in on x. Lots
of these people are trolled, But there's some people that
I think are well meaning too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what
about what about Epstein? Look, I'm gonna say this again,
(07:41):
but I just I gotta warn you, this is just
a distraction. Every story that comes up, this Apple thing,
this is just a distract. No, it's not. It's not
just a distraction. It's a transaction. It's transformation in the country.
They're gonna make Apple products right here at home and
(08:02):
in Kentucky. As a matter of fact, Apple just pledged
an eye popping one hundred billion dollars more for manufacturing
total domestic investment six hundred billion over the next four years.
That's not chump change. That's a real difference. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(08:23):
But what about Epstein. There comes a point in time
where the Epstein thing, and you say everything else is
a distraction. You don't realize it, but the Epstein thing
has become a distraction. I'm not saying it doesn't matter.
I'm not saying I don't want answers just like you.
But we can walk into bubblegum at the same time.
We can do both of those things at once.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I understand wanting accountability and transparency. That's all fine and good.
We ought to demand it at every level and in
every issue, in every topic of conversation. But to constantly
and be single issue minded, over and over and over again,
that one issue, it's it's not going to help you,
and you're going to lose sight of the things that
(09:06):
really are happening. This is a major issue. Six hundred
million dollar investment from Apple they're making chips, if they're
making things here that they previously made overseas, why is
that a big thing? Why is that a big deal?
Why is it good for you? Because those jobs will
be American jobs that boost the economy. Six hundred million
(09:29):
dollars investment. That's incredible. Tim Cook and President Trump in
the White House yesterday, the OVIL talking about this story.
Why it matters, just the little pieces of the puzzle here.
I'm just going to put some of this together. Apple
(09:51):
and Corning. Remember Corning they make glass, right, They're going
to be making things here, precision glass for Apple. Another
two and a half billion dollar commitment to produce all
of the cover glass for the iPhone, the Apple Watch,
all of it in Cornings Herodsburg, Kentucky manufacturing facility. This
(10:15):
means one hundred percent of all the covered glass on
iPhone and Apple Watches units and uh, all of it
made worldwide, sold worldwide, will be made right here in
America for the first time. Bugs. You just I can't
even tell you how big of a deal that is.
(10:38):
And we have gotten somehow. This is why I think
when President Trump says, yeah, it's a hoax. It's a
it's a Democrat hoax. What he means is not that
the story's not real, not that it's not important. But
what he means, I think anyway, is that I think
the Democrats, Immediate, etc. Are being They're using this issue
to pull your mind off of some of the other
(11:00):
major moves. And I don't know any other president that
could have made this stuff happen. In fact, the other day,
I think we had it here anyway, and they have
had it during the After Show, But the other day
even CNN had to admit it. Trump is the most
What did they say influential is that the word day
(11:22):
is influential. I think they said president maybe of the century,
we'll put it that way, and probably detting back a
good portion of the last century. CNN folks, ce ITN
(11:44):
is saying this net negative migration, all of the investment
to tariff revenue and income. Trump is remaking the US,
is what they're saying. Now, Look, if he was taking everything,
I'd tell you that's just not the case. In CNN
(12:08):
will back it up.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Donald trump administration is arguably the most influential this century
and probably as well, dating back a good portion of
the last century as well. Love it like it lumpet.
Trump is remaking in the United States of America. Let's
talk about tarris first, right, there's all this talk that
Donald Trump always chickens out when it comes to tarris.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Uh uh, no tacos for Trump.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
The effective tariffray, get this, it's eighteen percent, the highest,
the highest since the fd R administration in the nineteen thirties,
up from get this, just two percent last year, from
just two percent last year. We're talking about a level,
an effective tariff rate level. Get this, nine times as
high this year than last year. Now.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I heard it in the news report earlier this morning.
I haven't seen anything massive, by the way. The only
increase I've seen it, we've seen the numbers to boot
is that the Trump hasn't necessarily brought prices down yet
on so things. Some things he has, uh. But the
inflation has cooled or stopped under Biden. We've seen that chart.
By the way, it's still out there. It's like up
(13:10):
and to the right. When it comes to inflation. I
haven't felt it. I haven't seen it. I'm not saying
you're not going to or that you will. But anybody
that tells you anyway otherwise just has no idea what
they're talking about. They can't say for sure. They don't know.
It may. That's what most headlines say, it may. In fact,
we had a report I think it was CBS, which
(13:33):
you ought to tell you everything you need to know.
Earlier I heard when I walked into the studiards it's well,
the big tariffs may cause prices that they may see
an increase inness. We might see that, but then they
count shit, they have to go back. We just don't know.
Sometimes they say that, sometimes they don't. They just refuse
to say it at all. But Trump, again, seeing an
admitting the most influential president last sense, not.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Just on tariffs, which of course Donald Trump ran on,
in which you're seeing a tremendously influential presidency.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
What about immigration.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Of course Trump ran and has always run on a
very hawkish immigration platform.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Get this, twenty twenty five net.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Migration in the United States down at least sixty percent
from last year. In fact, we may be heading for
the first time and at least fifty years in which
we have negative net negative migration into the United States.
And last year, of course in twenty twenty four, the
net migration in the US was two point eight million.
This year, we might be talking about negative net migracious.
(14:31):
My goodness, gracious. Now, of course this is part of
the larger story. As I was mentioning, we're talking about immigration,
net migration, we're talking about the effective tariff rate. But
get this, how is Donald Trump doing it? While he
is signing a ton of executive orders? Get this, one
hundred and eighty the most in a year since Franklin
(14:52):
Delano Roosevelt. Oh, my goodness, you have to go back
to the first half of the twentieth century, the last century,
and to make a comparison, O Biden signed get this,
just seventy seven during his entire first year, and we're
only a little bit in August so far, and Donald
Trump making history with one hundred and eighty, one hundred
and eighty executive orders signed.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So far this year.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
So that's why I said that, in my mind, Donald
Trump is the most influential president of this century and
probably dating back a good portion of the last century.
That is because he is remaking the country in terms
of tariffs, he is remaking the country in terms of
net migration, and he is remaking the country in terms
of how much policy changes he's putting.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Through in executive orders.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
As I said, it truly is history making love it
like it or lump it dre all that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That's from CNN, folks, CNN of all places. Oh, by
the way, not to not to hardup on this, but
I think it is that important. I'll make another point
coming up here in in just a moment, I've I
got more I want to get to. There's good news,
all kinds of good news. We'll go right into the
(16:02):
White House in the Oval Office on the way to
stand by for that. We're back after this. In the meantime,
if you're able, please join us in standing an honor
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Anthem focused on what matters to you.
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Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Thursday, August seventh.
I'm Robin Hooffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News original story.
A socialist will appear on the November ballot for the
Detroit City Council after getting the most votes for District
seven in Tuesday's primary. Denzel Campbell, a former aid to
Congressman Rashida Talib who heads the far left Progress Mission,
(18:00):
prevailed in the District seventh primary with thirty four point
five percent of the vote, just ahead of State Representative
Karen Witstt, a Democrat who infuriated her party during last
year's lame duck session by walking out with Republicans. One
hundred million dollars in storm aid, is languishing in the
Michigan Senate. This comes ninety days after House Republicans approved
(18:24):
the disaster relief for residents devastated by those severe ice
storms back in March of this year.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
I mean, we got federal help before we got state help.
The impact could see help coming from them, and we
haven't seen that help from the state.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Republican Representative Parker Fairburn telling WWTV, you'd.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Have individual health, business help, townships and road commissions could
apply for it and get money for.
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These stories and more. Visit the Midwesterner at the Midwesterner
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Speaker 2 (18:54):
Our good friend James Dixon joining us momentarily after the
break out on the hour news Talk a little bit
about out some of the biggest stories in Michigan the
course of the Canadian wildfire smoke big Apple investments.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
These investments will directly create more than twenty thousand brand
new American jobs and many thousands more at the Apple
suppliers like Corning, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and Samsung all deal.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
In that world. Jobs. Jobs, jobs, folks, that's a key word,
and talk about what that means in why we must
ensure that Michigan doesn't miss out after this.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
And we're only a little bit in August so far,
and Donald Trump making history with one hundred and eighty
one hundred and eighty executive orders signed.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So far this year. So that's why I said that, in.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
My mind, Donald Trump is the most influential president of
this century and probably dating back a good portion of
last century. That is because he is remaking the country
in terms of tariffs, he is remaking the country in
terms of net migration, and he is remaking the country
in terms of how much policy changes he's putting.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Through in executive orders.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
As I said, it truly is history making, love it,
like it or lump it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
The most influential in the last hundred years is what
CNN's area in just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
We talk about Trump and maybe his role in helping
not just train the swamp, but maybe clear the skies. Well, look,
I don't know that there's anything that can be done
to put the fires out right away. That's not my point.
My point is the reason we have these fires in
Canada and subsequently the smoke in our skies is because
(20:43):
of the same policies the tree huggers now refuse to
talk about it. Their policies have caused these issues, and
of course they ought to be held responsible for it.
And look, at the end of the days, there's ways
to clear this stuff up. We just need to have
these conversations. But part of it means coming back down
to reality and getting real about what that issue with
(21:07):
the mess and the way they manage force and whatnot
and what it does. Oh dang you unfortunately not Yeah,
wind solar and unicorn farts ain't gonna help us. Hey,
my good friend James Dixon is on the line with
us now the Michigan enjoyor the podcast and of course
down I'm seventy five over on X and Twitter. James,
(21:28):
welcome and we appreciate you. Being here with us today,
and we a little bit clearer. I don't know what
it's like where you're at, but it looks like they
still got issues up north. And gods, should really be
nice if we could just have a summer here with
some blue skys again.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
You know, it's so good to hear your voice this morning.
But yeah, you know, was just up in northern Michigan
the other day, up in Benzie County, speaking to the
Republicans there, and you know, just some great friends showing
me around, showing me Frankfort and Arcadia, the beaches, gorgeous country,
Lake Michigan, like the stuff you dream about, the stuff
(22:03):
that should be on a postcard. Except when I posted
the pictures, people were like, well, where's the lake. Where's
the lake? Like I could see that there, you know,
there's something off in the distance, there's a fastness, but
it was so smoky that it just obscured our beauty.
And in a state that only has like ninety nice
days a year, summer is Michigan. Michigan is summer. And
(22:29):
so to take that from us for what the second
third year in a row, Now, Canada's problem has become
our problem, and we have to start talking about it
that way.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Well, and and what.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm so you know, so fired up about. I guess, uh,
it's a lot over here is the fact that they
you know, Dana NASA wants to sue everybody over She
wants to shut out in cold plants right and left.
But she doesn't say a peep about any of this
in CA. And I would think if you really truly
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cared about the environment, you know, Greta and Gretchen and Dana,
all of them would be lumped in together saying, wait
a minute, but we don't. It's it's it's crickets from
from all of all of them. And that that to me,
I think we have to point out why. I think
it's important because we've got to understand why we've got
(23:24):
this problem, why we're here. We're here because they all
had these crazy policies. In fact, they wanted to they
wanted to make sure that the forest didn't get cut
down in a certain way. We just left everything the
way it is naturally, just you know, a state of
nature naturally. Well, you know, if you go back to
the way things were, you know all of that time,
(23:47):
throughout the years, there were forest fires and there were smoke,
and there was all kinds of things happening. But you know,
I just take a biblical approach to this. You know,
back in the beginning of the book there in Genesis
says it, we're supposed to be good stewards of this
whole thing, and that would include to me, making sure
we're taking good care and forest management, and that means
(24:09):
clearing some of these areas. And now, I know Canada's
got a lot of it, right, I know they got
a lot of it. But I really do not believe
that there's nothing we can't do. There is this defeatist
attitude out there that just some people just say, well,
there's just nothing we can do about that. I just
don't believe that.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Oh no, I mean forest management is part of having forest,
That is part of sewardship, right, and the idea that
what the forest is should just never be touched. It
was made perfect, it could never be altered. That's an
idea that comes from year zero communism. And what's undergirding
it is this idea that Native Americans and I guess
(24:51):
Native Canadians were the real true stewards of the land.
And ever since the white man came it's been corrupted
and now it's about commerce and all these things taking
from the land. Have you ever been to a Native
American reservation? You ever seen footage of one? Is that
people being great stewards of what God has given them? No,
(25:12):
it's not. We're to think that if we just let
everything go back to the way it was, it'd be great. No,
it wouldn't. And so the idea that you know, none
of this should be managed, just let the fires burn,
let things do what they do. That's not really the
world we live in. And I think the Dana Nessele
(25:32):
point is so fascinating. This is a woman who wants
us to unplug from line five, which fuels all the
planes at Metro Airport, but she hasn't put any of
her weight behind the Canada wildfires. What's wrong with this
picture and journalism. We're taught to listen for the dog
that's not barking. Ain't a nustle our watchdog. Her silence
(25:53):
here is deafening.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Very good point. Another piece of this that I find
very serving. If people don't understand, it's directly tight end
this whole environmental approach. Directly tight end to how much
you and I are now paying for energy prices. Wind
solar and unicorn farts put online, cold plants pulled offline
at the same time that they want us to plug
all of our teslas in. But wait, it's not the
(26:18):
teslas that are sucking up all the juice. It's really
the AI and of course the data centers. Eventually they
are going to do most of the consumption. And that's
before we start with manufacturing it again. And I just
talked about Trump bringing all this money back in. We're
seeing billions, hundreds of billions of dollars being brought in
by Apple, but we can't see that investment. You won't
(26:38):
see as much here in Michigan if it's not affordable
or feasible for these businesses to do it. And the
energy is going to be part of that. I just
put it all together. But also, look, that's the thirty
thousand foot view at the end of the day, right
here on Main Street, so to speak, or in your backyard.
How much are you paying for your energy right now?
It is absolutely open up the envelope and almost I
(27:02):
almost hear this right as I open up the envelope.
Oh d holy look at the price of that. I
mean it's incredible.
Speaker 9 (27:11):
It is. I haven't seen a bill all summer that
starts with less than a three. You know, we run
the ac we do that. But and it hasn't been
an especially hot summer either. It just costs more to
do all the same things that you did two three
years ago. Right, there's no more or less forest than
there was in Canada five years ago. Why weren't we
(27:33):
hearing about this? How come these forest virus? How come
this was not a staple of our childhood, Like I
don't remember, oh one of every three summers was kind
of smoking.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, no, no, And they know the.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Worst part is James is like, now this whole drum
beat of yeah, yeah, no, this is just the way
it is. They're trying to normalize it. Just suck it
up and get used to it, is what they're Notice.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
Notice they've covered it as a partisan issue, did you right?
News just had a story. Congressional Republicans have sent a
letter to Canada asking them to take this on. So
now it's going to be Republicans say it's a problem,
Democrats in the media that alliance will treat it as
a conspiracy theory. Well, well, rather than anyone saying, hey,
(28:18):
what is the actual source it's going to become. Republicans
say this, Democrats say that.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
That's the second.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
The media is actively part of our problem here. It's
why our discourse is so stupid. It's because of the
choices they make the.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Same skys as fog that hayes hanging over Republicans is
hanging over Democrats. We are all to be outraged about this.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
All right, Well, the smoke falls on the just and
the unjust.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Right said one more thing here, James and I got
to tie into this because it's important. What's happening in
Canada right now may be coming our way. One hundred
million dollars in disasters relief is stuck in the Michigan
Senate ninety days after House Republicans approved the emergency aid
for families devast by the March eye storms. We got
all of that timber on the ground. What happens next
(29:04):
year when it's dry, lightning strikes, and now we got
fire from one leg to the other, stretching across the bit.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
And you know we're going to be too broke to
do anything about it. I mean, this is you got
to You either plan ahead or you plan behind. You know,
there's two kinds of people I noticed, you know, so
there's one type of person who will say, there's rain
in the weather report, I better start making it home.
There's another type of person who needs the rain to
(29:33):
actually start in the storm to actually hit, and then
they'll start heading home in the middle of the storm.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
You don't have to be that second group, but the
Democrats who run Michigan sure want.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Us to be.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
And it's just we are at risk, so we're dealing
with someone else's problem right now. Next year Canada can
be saying, hey, what's with all the smoke from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, you know, I want to just show people what
it's like in Canada right now, because I've after I
talked about this on action that people start shining in
from everywhere. Canadians are saying, hey, pray for us, because
this is what it's like here. They're telling us not
to try and even help clear any of the areas
because our help with these fires, because we'll be fined
(30:16):
if we even go into the woods.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
Effective four pm today, we're telling nova Scotians stay out
of the woods. We are restricting travel and activities that
really aren't necessary for most of us. Hiking, camping, fishing,
and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted.
Trail systems through woods are off limits. Camping is allowed,
(30:41):
but only in official campgrounds. The fine for violating any
of these bands is the same as the fine for
the ban I'm burning twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
By the way, this is the same thing Gretchen Whitner pulled. Here,
all the Cavidians, those governors, same thing they all pulled.
It's from the same playbook. They want absolute control to
authoritarian By the way, Duggan and Benson will be just
as bad if they make it in this is This
is something that I think everyone needs to understand where
(31:14):
all this comes from. It's evil.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
You know, all you can do is just stay home.
I tell you what Canada needs is not less people involve.
They need more people. And so that letter to Canada
that you know, John James said it was a nice idea.
I would direct mind to President Trump. You know, when
the neighbors have a dog that bites one of your
kids and it's always kind of noisy over there, it's
(31:40):
time for dad to talk to the neighbors, right, I
asked a friend who works at the Michigan Environment Department, like, hey,
you guys talk about all these environmental prices. We have
literally smoke building over from another place. What are you
doing about it? They said, we're issuing air quality alerts.
Like that was the absolute limit on one what they
could do. So this is bigger Whitmer. It's bigger than Eagle,
(32:04):
It's bigger than John James. This is Donald Trump. Donald
Trump needs to get involved and say, hey, Canada, either
you guys manage your forest fires or we will.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I think it's about time. I agree. I think it's
just another thing he could tack on. He's having enough
a hard time as it is dealing with them right
now and fitting on their real refusal to actually man
up on that, and that's already causing you know, hundreds
of thousands of lives. But you know what, Canada, it's time,
(32:39):
it's time to get your act together. My good friend
James Dixon, always a pleasure folks can find you. I
know the Michigan enjoy your podcast. Always a great place.
But my favorite maybe X down I seventy five.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Hey anything big we gotta watch for you coming up quickly.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
Yeah, we're gonna be talking about this thing. We're going
to be talking about on the next episode, the post
news world order and why the wildfires are being covered
the way they are by the media.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
All right, back after this quake break, folks.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Informative engage it. It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay
on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six
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Speaker 6 (33:25):
Here are your headlines from The Midwesterner this Thursday, August seventh.
I'm Robin Hooffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News original story.
A socialist will appear on the November ballot for the
Detroit City Council after getting the most votes for District
seven in tuesday's primary. Denzel Campbell, a former aid to
Congresswoman Rashida Talib who heads the far left Progress Michigan,
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prevailed in the District seventh primary with thirty four point
five percent of the vote, just ahead of State Representative
Karen Witzett, a Democrat who infuriated her party during last
year's lame session by walking out with Republicans.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Hopefully, after some of the stories are are heard, we'll
move it quickly through the Senate and get it to
the Governor's desk as soon as possible.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
That is Michigan Representative Republican Parker Fairburn trying to be
optimistic about storm aid for folks here in Michigan who
suffered huge losses during the severe ice storm back in
March of this year, one hundred million dollars in a
storm aid bill sitting idle in the Michigan Senate. This
comes ninety days after House Republicans approved the disaster relief
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Fairburn telling WWTV.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
I mean we got federal help before we got state help.
You'd think the more local and the more close to
the impact, you'd see help coming from them, And we
haven't seen that help from the state.
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the Wretchian the Russian side deems acceptable. Russian official for
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a treaty there in Russian Ukraine. Russian official you're a
Yushakov says they've received an offer reportedly related to the
war in Ukraine from President Trump that they find acceptable.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
This is.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
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Speaker 2 (37:06):
I would expect that meeting happening in the next week
or two, folks, before it gets too out out of hand.
This is this is something that they probably don't want
to let the time move too quickly. On another big
piece of breaking news. We'll have more of this in
the stacking than the after show today too. But another
big piece of breaking news. President Trump running on the truth.
I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin
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work on a new and highly accurate census based on
modern day facts. They want to kick the illegals out
of the census. Talking to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik to
get that done. More breaking news. We'll follow it throughout
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