Hour 2: Trump's tariffs

Trump's tariffs

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning till you. Hope you had a great holiday weekend.
Thanks for being with us this morning. In the Big
Three today, the President is itching to send the National
Guard and federal assets to fight crime in Chicago, and
boy do they need it.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
We are being targeted because of what and who we represent.
Mister President, do not come to Chicago.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm willing to go to Chicago, which is a big trouble,
but we have a governor that refuses to admit he
has problems. I think you heard me say earlier. Chicago
had fifty four shootings and seven deaths over the weekend
because of shootings, and that doesn't include Labor Day. Those
stats don't come out until today. Yeah. Again, they don't

(00:42):
need any help. The big question is now, could New
York be next? Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
suffers several injuries in a car accident in New Hampshire.
The most serious injury a broken back.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
They didn't give specifics about if you had multiple vertebrae
that were fractured or just one, but typically when we
see a trauma induced spinal fracture broken back, it takes
people several months, especially if they're being treated with the
traditional methods, which are physical therapy, a back brace, rest,
and pain relief.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
After the accident, the former mayor learned that the President
was giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And long
time New York Congressman Jerry Adler is stepping down. He
is not running for reelection. He's seventy eight years old.
He says the time is now to pass on leadership
to a new generation. And some of the survivors who

(01:38):
were sold by Jeffrey Epstein to the rich and powerful,
we'll be speaking out today to push Congress for the
release of all of the Epstein files.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
They're there stories and no one should politicize them. Let
the American people hear from the victims and let them
tell their truth.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And we glued to the TV screen over the weekend.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
It's time to play America's favorite jackpot game.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
This is power Ball, and you were probably disappointed. Nobody
won the billion dollar of Powerball jackpot. And now tomorrow
night strawing is up to one point three billion. By
the way, two people in New Jersey did have five
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So don't forget to check your tickets. Now, let's get

(02:28):
to John Decker, who I assume didn't win the power
Ball because he's with us today. Wor White House and
Washington correspondent and host of the podcast The White House
Briefing Room with John Decker, which could be found on
the iHeartRadio app. John's with us every Tuesday and Thursday
at this time, John, you know what, you love your
job so much? If you won Powerball, would you quit

(02:50):
your jobs?

Speaker 5 (02:50):
She'll be with you, Larry, I'd still be doing this absolutely,
Powerball or not. I'm calling in speaking on Tuesday and Thursday.
So yeah, yeah, I would be doing this had I
won the power Ball. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah. It's like a dream job. It's amazing the job
you have. I'm incredibly envious of the job you have.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Well, having actually an opportunity today, I'll be in the
Oval Office with President Trump. He's making an announcement. Let
me tell you what I believe the announcement is about.
I believe he's going to announce that the headquarters of
Space Force Command will be moved from Colorado Colorado Springs
to Huntsville, Alabama. So I'll have an opportunity to ask
the President a number of questions not only about that

(03:36):
big announcement, but also some big news that was made
on Friday of last week, just as you and I
and everybody else is ready to get set for that
three day holiday weekend, and that's the news that an
appellate court has struck down the president's reciprocal tariffs. It's
going to be appealed to the US Supreme Court, but
that is a major blow as things stand right now

(03:57):
for President Trump and his Economic College.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, we were talking about it earlier. It just seems
strange to me because the Emergency Powers Act of nineteen
people say seventy six, seventy seven, but of the late
nineteen seventies has been used many times time and time
again to cut off funding to raise tariffs on other countries.

(04:20):
And so now it just seems like all of a sudden,
because it's President Trump, they don't want it to happen anymore.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
Well, it's never been invoked, actually, Larry, as it relates
to tariff's policy, never been try before. And in fact,
you may recall late July asked the president, why didn't
you invoke this law in your first term? You could
have taken in tens and tens and tens of billions
of dollars into the US treasury. The President did not
like that question that I posed to him, but it's

(04:47):
a valid question, and he blamed at the time that
I asked that question of the pandemic. But of course
the pandemic happened in the final year of his first term.
He could have imposed those reciprocal terrors some years one, two,
or three, and the President did not do that. So
the Supreme Court will ultimately have the final say as

(05:08):
to whether or not the President acted constitutionally in terms
of invoking this law and imposing those terroriffts on just
about every one of America's trading partners.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Right, you're right. It didn't specifically have to do with terrorists,
but it did have to do with trade. They cut
off trade to countries because of an emergency. So it's
splitting hair is just a little bit. What do you
believe is going to happen at the Supreme Court?

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, Larry, if you're cynical, and a lot of people
out there are cynical, you are a journalist, your cynicism
comes through, and that's a good thing. You will think
that this will fall along ideological lines. It was a
seven to four decision by this Federal of Hellicurt And
wouldn't you know it, seven of the judges named to
the federal bench by Democrats, four of the judges named

(05:56):
to the federal bench by Republican presidents. And we know, Larry,
it is a super conservative majority that exists at the
US Supreme Court six to three conservative majority. So if
you're a cynic, you think, well, they're going to rule
with the president. They're going to allow his policy to
go forward. But we'll just have to wait and see.
I'm very curious I'll be in the Supreme Court when

(06:17):
that oral argument is taken up. I'm looking forward to that,
and that's probably going to happen relatively soon. The tariffs
have been put on hold in terms of allowing the
President continue to continue to impose those tariffs until October fourteenth.
That will give time for the administration to appeal this
decision all the way to the US Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
John, you study this. It's rare, isn't it for a
Supreme Court. I mean, it's happened, but it's rare for
a Supreme Court to vote against presidential powers when it
comes to foreign policy.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Well, that's right, the President is as seen as the
essentially the person who speaks on behalf of the United
State's government as it relates to foreign policy. But this
is a tricky issue because you know, if you look
up just the dictionary definition of tariffs, let alone the
legal definition, but the dictionary definition, you will see no

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matter what dictionary you're looking at, it will describe the
tariff as a text. And our Constitution gives the taxing
power to the legislative branch of government, not to the
executive branch of government. But this law seems to allow
a car voute for the President to impose these tariffs,
and that carve voute may be why I think the

(07:35):
Supreme Court ultimately allows these tariffs.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
To go through. You know, I do think most Republicans,
not all, because we have several examples in Congress right now,
but most Republicans, I believe, thought the Epstein file controversy
went away. It hasn't. It's and it's going to show

(07:57):
its ugly head again today and then it's going to
be in front of Congress this week, isn't.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
It it is? Congress comes back from their August recess
today and the House Oversight Committee, led by James Comer,
He's a Republican from Kentucky. Before Congress went on their recess,
he took several actions his committee did. They voted to
subpoena several individuals. They voted to subpoena certain documents from

(08:24):
the Justice Department. And so that issue, which went away
during the August recess to a certain extent, is going
to come back certainly this week and the weeks that follow.
So the issue has not gone away entirely. I might add,
you know, I'm in the White House every day. I'm
at the White House briefing every time there's a briefing.
There have not been any questions over the course of

(08:45):
the past three weeks regarding Jeffrey Epstein. I think that's
about to change now that Congress is back, and now
their focus will certainly be on to a certain extent,
those Jeffrey Epstein files.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
And again, this is bipartisan to an extent. There are
several Republicans that are siding with Democrats saying that these
files should be released. So if this goes to a
vote in the House, and it looks like it's going
that way, it's going to pass. At least there the
sentence another problem, but it seems like the House it's
going to pass.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, that's right.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
The reason why those subpoenas were able to get through
in the House Oversight committees because several Republicans, including James
Comber the chairman, voted to agree to impose those subpoenas
on the Department of Justice, So they were not all aboard.
You know what I think the Trump administration would like,

(09:38):
and that is this issue to go away. So you're
right about that. I think that Republicans, as you know,
before the president became president, were very much for the
release of these files. Now some have a different point
of view, but you know, there are enough that have
the point of view that they should be released and
made public such that I think that's going to happen

(10:00):
to a large extent.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, and there's a news conference later today held by
some of the peoples from Congress Bipartisan with ten of
the victims of Epstein. So you're right, it's not going away.
It's going to be in the forefront of news for
a while now. John Decker, thank you so much. John Decker,
wr White House and Washington correspondent and host of the
podcast The White House briefing room with John Decker, which

(10:21):
could be found on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks a lot, John,
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(10:42):
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Speaker 7 (10:56):
Over the weekend. I was dying to leave a talkback
about Rudy Juliani and the story about him helping the
domestic violence victim, which I was amazed they kept on
calling her that anyway, I just want to say, it's
going to be rude, but this is the best thing
that ever happened to him, the best story, because it

(11:18):
will revitalize his reputation.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
I hope.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, I'm so glad you brought that up. He was
helping an abuse victim, and he was waiting with her
for the police to show up. Now he was then
rear ended. Now people immediately said, oh, it had to
be the boyfriend or the husband. That had to be
a setup. He claims, No, it has nothing to do
with any of that, but it sure did seem like it.

(11:43):
And now you're right, you know, now he's going to
get the freedom metal and so no, it certainly did
help his reputation.

Speaker 8 (11:51):
Did you hear about the incident about the man at
a met game? An elderly gentleman caught a foul ball
one to give it to his grandson, and this man
walked up and grabbed it right out of his hands.
So not only did he steal the ball, he stole
the memories and the joy of giving his grandson the ball.

(12:14):
What a piece of crap.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, it's hard not to curse. And when you hear
stories like this. I know, I was watching the news
and one CNN they were cursing when they heard this,
and numb Fox News when they heard about the guy
that was snatching the hat. That's where that came from.
But that's horrible.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, I hadn't heard this and I actually just put
our resident Mets fan, Chris on it because he's a
big mess fan, and he just sent me a tweet.
And here is this guy. He comes from the row
behind him and just grabs it out of his hand
and sat back down. And the elderly man, I don't
want to call him elderly, but you know, the older guy.

(12:59):
His wife was like, don't don't even mess around.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Let's just forget it right, because something horrible can happen.
But man, the nicest videos are the ones where a
guy catches the ball and then hands him to a
little kid.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Oh, the kids so happy.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
I love those videos. But now, what's happening now? All
of a sudden, we got too in a couple of
days where people are just way out of control. What jerks?
I hope that guy shamed. I want to see the video.
We should definitely put it up on seven to ten
wor and also, you know, on our Twitter page so

(13:33):
people can identify this guy, so we can just shame him.

Speaker 9 (13:36):
I Flarry, these rogue democratic mayors will force Trump to
send the federal troops into their cities. It's not about
posse comatatis. It's about protecting federal assets. As Tom Holman
floods these cities with ICE agents to deport illegal migrants
and aliens, and as these Democrats protest them and attack them,

(14:00):
Uncle have no choice but to send the troops in
to protect the federal assets.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, but that's what he's limited to. That's the problem.
That's what happened in LA. Remember, he can send them
on federal property, but they can't roam the streets like
they are in Washington, DC. He needs them to invite
the troops in for that to happen. But the troops,
as and I've said this before, it gets overplayed. The troops.

(14:26):
The troops are there for a deterrent the federal assets.
When it comes to intelligence and the FBI coming in
and Homeland Security coming in and even the CIA, that
add intelligence really is what stops crime in those cities
and stops the stops the murders from happening.

Speaker 10 (14:45):
This guy, Brandon Johnson is just magnifying his stupidity. Okay,
the military, the National Guard, whenever they go somewhere, they
only serve as a force applier.

Speaker 11 (15:01):
And what that is is it's additional personnel to supplement
the law enforcement that's there. They don't actively police.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
You're absolutely correct. It makes no sense. You know that.
You know it makes no sense that to not have
them come in, and you know if there was a
Republican mayor that'd be in. This is all politics. But
what is so insidious about it, and what's so disappointing
is that they're only doing this. The only reason they're
doing this at all is because it's Donald Trump. So

(15:34):
they're willing to let people live in fear, they're willing
to let people die in their communities all because of politics. Hey, thanks,
keep them coming. Go to the talkback radio app and
then leave us a talk back and we will play
it during the show. Doesn't matter when you leave it,
by the way, we will try to get it on
the air. Now, let's talk about one of my favorite

(15:55):
stories of the day. Do you know what scares wolves?
Apparently it has been a huge increase in the wolf
population and they've been not only eating the livestock, but
there's real concern about the deer population there.

Speaker 12 (16:11):
We did co exist for many years wolves were in California,
they were within close proximity. They didn't bother the cattle.
But what I have really witnessed is our deer numbers
are way down.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, that is Mary Rickard who owns a cattle farm
up right along the border.

Speaker 12 (16:29):
We did co exist for many years wolves were in California.
They were within close proximity.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
How about that they coexisted all this time. But the
wolf population for some reason has jumped up, and so
now people are really concerned about it. By the way,
the guy from the USDA out there is named Wolf,
like in Warner Wolf.

Speaker 10 (16:53):
What we were seeing is that the human voice was
the strongest response out of all the other sounds that
we were playing.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Whether it was a sound, the gunshots, what have you. Yeah,
So Thunderstruck, they tried a lot of different things and
they finally came up with human voices. They also play
not only Thunderstruck. They change it up because the wolves
get used to it. They put up Scarlett Johansson from
the movie Marriage Story yelling I'm not putting up with

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this anymore. That scares the wolves. Also Adam Driver with
what I can't talk to people, also from Marriage Story.
So Marriage Story, by the way, if you saw it,
it is a scary movie, and so I was scared
of it as well. It's not supposed to be a
scary movie. But it's about a bad marriage, and that's
the scariest thing I can think of. Now, let's get

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the news at seven point thirty with Jacqueline Carl, Jacquelin.

Speaker 13 (17:46):
Larry, Good Morning. Chicago is shaping up to be the
next city targeted in President Trump's immigration crackdown. Homeland Chief
Christy Nome confirmed ICE is planning expanded operations in the
coming days, much like the ones recently car out in
Los Angeles, and the FAA is blaming staffing issues for
the latest ground stops issued yesterday at Newark Airport as

(18:08):
people traveled for the Labor Day weekend.

Speaker 14 (18:10):
Officials had to order a ground stop early Monday afternoon
and then another one late in the afternoon that caused
delays on arriving flights on a very busy travel day.
Staffing issues to blame. Newark also had disruptions last Thursday
when a groundstop was issued. Over recent months, the airport
has been plagued by staffing and equipment issues, leading to
many disruptions. Meanwhile, JFK and LaGuardia Airports they had dozens

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of delays on Labor Day. I'm scaped from WRDWS.

Speaker 13 (18:38):
So I think we may have solved the age old
battle of the thermostat. I think everyone's familiar with this
c NEET reports. According to the Department of Energy, the
most comfortable temperature to keep your home during the summer
months is between seventy five and seventy eight degrees and
eighty while you're away or sleeping. Thank you Die by

(19:00):
the way for sharing this summer information. With three weeks
left in the season, and the DOE says their ideal
winter inside temperature is sixty eight degrees and between sixty
and sixty five degrees while you're away or asleep. Do
you agree? What is your ideal summer and winter thermostat tempts?
And does your partner or family agree, because I know

(19:22):
I've had a battle led thermistad a few times in
my life.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, but that's ridiculous. Eighty degrees. They have it that
you said during the day that you sit your thermistad.

Speaker 13 (19:31):
In eighty while you're away or sleeping, but between seventy
five and seventy eight degrees, which my dog wouldn't put
up with that when you're there eighty sleeping.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
No, yeah, I know, why do you even have it?

Speaker 13 (19:46):
I don't think it even would go on.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
I mean, I understand when you're out of the house,
and then you can change it when you get in
and try to conserve energy. But I'm a seventy four
kind of girl.

Speaker 13 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, at least yeah, and then sixteen sixty five
degrees while you're aware of sleep in the winter, which
I can get I can get on board with it.
But the ideal inside winter temperature is sixty eight degrees.
That's my summer.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, if I cuts my summer degree.

Speaker 13 (20:15):
But don't you find that when you're in the house.
Like for me, anytime I was dating some and whatever,
I'd be like putting that thermost like, especially in the summer,
I'd be like, it would get too cold for me.
I was always putting it down. He was always putting
it up. It's always like that.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Do you guys fiddle with your thermistats all the time?

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I don't even know how to use it basically, really, no,
I do, but I rarely rarely touch it. And you know,
we have central air and heat, and one works the
heat one work, and I don't want to mess it
up because if I mess up the thermostat, my husband
is gonna come after me. So I'll just sweat it

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out literally right until he has to touch it.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I have a continuing battle with the thermostat. And by
the way, our stuff's always broken constantly. Do you have
that problem? Is it just me?

Speaker 6 (21:04):
No?

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Do you have some fancy thermost You have one of
those nests or something.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
I have no idea. I know we've had it redone
in the last couple of years, but every we have
alarms going off all the time we have, and I
think it's just them making money, you know what I mean.
Let's see, we'll time this for about a month from
now and then we'll come back. But thanks so much.
Jacqueline carl coming up. Legendary sportscaster water wolfs sounds off

(21:30):
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is right with the world. Let's get right to legendary
sportscaster Warner Wolf. And he's gonna. I hope, I hope,
I hope, I hope he's going to start with football. Warner.

Speaker 15 (22:27):
Yes, great, Actually, Larry, you could play one of my
sportscasts for those Wolves.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
That would be amazing.

Speaker 13 (22:36):
We need to suggest that.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
We should send it to them.

Speaker 15 (22:40):
I'll get rid of them. Well, Bill Belichick, right, not
a very good debut, losing forty eight to fourteen jeees
to TCU. But you know, you have to keep in
mind North Carolina is not a football school. It's a
basketball school. And he knows that. And if you look

(23:02):
at the schedule, the next three games, he plays University
North Carolina, Charlotte Richmond and University of Central Florida, so
they could be three and one, but then they play
eight straight ACC teams. But he knows the deal there.
The expectations are not that great.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, and it isn't it getting him. Just for recruiting.
I mean, there is a hope, right because he's Bill Belichick.
He'll be able to recruit some people that they normally
wouldn't get to that point. That's going to take a
couple of years.

Speaker 15 (23:38):
That's why Saburn was so great. He was a great recruiter. Yeah,
that's the key for Alabama. Right, you're absolutely right. Take
a bow.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
I did, I already did all right.

Speaker 15 (23:50):
Baseball, another manager who just doesn't get it. Sunday, the
Phillies are ready to sweep the four game series with
the Raise. Phillies left hander hayesus Lozardo has a two
hit shutout, leading one to nothing, two outs, man on
first and the seventh inning, and Phil's manager Robbie Thompson

(24:13):
takes him out and the Phils go on to lose
three to one. Another robot manager who went with analytics
and the pitch count rather than what's the score and
how's he doing. On the other hand, just the opposite,
Texas beat the Angels twenty to three. Angel pitcher Jack

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Kohanowitz gave up eleven runs on nine hits before the
manager Ray Montgomery took him out in the fourth inning.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
So what's the question, Larry, When did he know they
didn't have it?

Speaker 15 (24:50):
That's it?

Speaker 6 (24:51):
Yeah, you're on top of this pretty good nude boos
of the week one has to go to the Yankees,
who were off yesterday on Labor Day.

Speaker 15 (25:04):
You know, I'm sure when you were growing up. Also,
not only was no one off on Labor Day, but
every team played a double hunter two for the price
of one. And the other Bull of the week oh
Man has to go to Latvian tennis player Yolena Ostapenko,
who said to her her opponent, American Taylor Townshend, she

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had no class and no education. That's after Astapenko lost
in straight sets and one of Townshend's returns hit the
net and dropped over in Townshend's favor for the point.
Ustapenko was upset that Townsend didn't say I'm sorry, which
is an unwritten rule in tennis. Why no tennis player

(25:51):
is sorry they won the point. They're happy they would
the ball bounced that way, all right. I don't know
about you, but I am tired of hearing postgame reporters,
no matter what the sport, football, tennis, baseball, basketball, an
athlete asking an athlete right after a win. What does

(26:15):
this mean to you? What does this mean to you?
I'm waiting for the first athlete to say nothing, you bozo,
What do you think it means? How about asking a
question about the event? All right? Time now for the
three stooges, all right, stage number one and maybe the

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stooge of the year. Polish Paving Company CEO Petra Surrik,
who stole an eleven year old boy's hat giving to
him at the Open by Polish player Camille Marshak who
had just lost his match and was signing autographs for
the fans.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
What a creep.

Speaker 15 (26:57):
And then he lies and says he's thought the hat
was for him. Come on, Seric and his wife who
helped put the cap in her bag should be banned
from all US tennis matches for fan misconduct.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
All right, they're looking at that, right? What are they
looking at that to try to ban the guy?

Speaker 15 (27:21):
I hope so he should be gone period. Studge number two.
President Trump, who says Roger Clemens should be in the
Hall of Fame. No, mister, President Clemens is a cheater.
Even his own YNTI teammate Andy Pennett testified on the
roof that Clemens told him. He used theroids at which

(27:45):
Clemens used the now famous phrase Pettitt disremembered. No, just
the President unless the Hall of Fame suddenly puts in
a new wing called the cheaters wing. Clemens does not
belong in the Hall of Fames. And stooge number three,

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those Vanity Fair workers who fretten to quit the magazine
if it put First Lady Milania Trump on the cover.
Let him quit. The first lady who can speak five
languages is the first glamorous, classiest, smartest woman in the

(28:31):
White House since Jackie Kennedy. Sounds like somebody is jealous
of the first lady.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Who, by the way, was a model. I'm sorry, I
didn't mean to stablish a model and she was. She's
appeared on Vanity Fair before.

Speaker 15 (28:47):
Oh man, what's changed? Yeah, yeah, all right. Finally, on
this day in sports, actually it was yesterday, September one,
nineteen oh six, the Philadelphia A's beat the Boston Red
Sox four to one in twenty four innings. Both starting

(29:07):
pitchers Philadelphia A's Jack Combs and Rich Sox Joe Harris
went all the way all twenty four innings. And what's
the question, Larry, what was the pitch Now.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's incredible.

Speaker 15 (29:27):
Yeah, yeah, think about it. Then never analytics. What's the score?
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (29:34):
No robot managers.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Then hey, listen, we actually have a little bit of time.
Can you tell us about what you think about the
Giants and Jets this year?

Speaker 15 (29:43):
Oh? I like the Jets. I think I like Justin Fields.
I saw him play a lot last year, first of
with the with the Bears, and then he was four
and two with the Steelers. I like him. As far
as the Giants go, I don't see an improvement. I
mean at best, at best they would be seven and ten.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Well that's an improvement.

Speaker 15 (30:11):
Yeah, it's an improvement. Would they want four went four
and thirteen?

Speaker 9 (30:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. I love this kid, Abdul Carter.
I just love him. I've watched him play in high school,
I watched him play in college, and he's special. I
haven't seen anybody play like him ever. He has the
quickest first step I have ever seen, So I'm excited
about that. And what about this quarterback Jackson Dart When
does he take over?

Speaker 15 (30:35):
Well, you know I'm not going to say, oh, after
what just exhibition games? No, let's see what he does,
you know, against real players, and nah, I mean, yeah,
it look good in an exhibition. But like I've always
used the example nineteen seventy three, the New York Giants

(30:57):
went six and oh in the preseason. They used to
play six preseason games. Wow, you know what they were
in the regular season they won two games. Just I mean,
you can't go at all from the exhibision games. You know,

(31:18):
I was thinking, as long as we have the time,
I was thinking of something else about Roger Clemons not
belonging in the hall. You know, you might as well
put in Barry Bonds, whose heads looked like a bowling
ball at the end, right you remember that?

Speaker 6 (31:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (31:36):
Or Sammy Sosu suddenly couldn't understand or speak English at
the at the hearing. Or Rafao Palmero, remember he testified
he never took steroids and then tested positive six weeks later.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, you'd have to. I love your line. You'd have
to have a whole wing for the cheaters. Thanks so much.
Water Wolf legendary sportscaster with us every Monday at seven
thirty five. And after you're a nice long vacation like
Congress likes to have, they're back to work, So what's
on the agenda. WR Correspondent Rory O'Neil knows, and he'll
tell us next. It's amazing how much time they get

(32:13):
to take off what they do take off the entire
month of August.

Speaker 15 (32:17):
I know.

Speaker 13 (32:18):
I was like, they're coming back from summer recess. Should
we bring them snacks?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
It is, Yeah, that'd be funny. It'd be like going
back to school and having orange juice and cookies. Yeah,
well just Congress, not for the rest of us.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
No, but you know, Europe takes off August a lot.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
So have you ever looked at their calendar to see
how much they work and how much they have off.
It's incredible how little they work.

Speaker 13 (32:40):
And even when they're there, they look a lot of
them like they're sleeping in their seats.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well, that's because they're old. It's the it's the richest
retirement home in the world. Let's get the yeah, right,
let's get the Roy O'Neil, WR National Correspondent is with
us every day at this time. So the retirement home
is back in session. What are they going to do? Rory?

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Hey, look, when they're not in DC, they're not spending
our money and they're not passing new laws to restrict
us from doing something. So go ahead, take a break
all you want.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
You know what they're doing, Roy, Wait, is that you
know what they're doing. They're asking for our money. This
is raising fundraise yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
So they've got twenty two days left working days this
month in order to put together some sort of a
spending plan in order to avoid a government shutdown. It's
the end of September, end of the fiscal years, so
we go through this every year at this time. And
because the House and Senate are so closely divided, and
actually the House is probably going to be even tighter

(33:43):
after a couple of special elections in the next few weeks,
you know, it's going to be a real struggle to
get some sort of continuing resolution passed that would avoid
a shutdown.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
But here we have the Epstein files. Again. I think
the administration was hoping they did enough to make this goal.
It's not. It's not going to go away, and it's
going to dominate the news now for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well, right, and let's set that up. So today we
have an Oversight Committee hearing where some of the victims
of Jeffrey Epstein and Gillam Maxwell will testify behind closed
doors about sex.

Speaker 9 (34:18):
Trafficking laws and how they're enforced here in the US.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
And tomorrow a bipartisan group of lawmakers, and it's important
that it's bipartisan because it only takes a handful in
order to throw everything off from the leadership standpoint. But
a bipartisan group of lawmakers are holding a press conference
with some of these same victims, whom some of them
will be telling their stories for the first time, as
they try to get more and more organized to pressure

(34:43):
the White House to release everything in the Epstein files.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
It is amazing that Democrats are now interested in this
since they didn't bring it up at all when they
were in control when President Biden was in office, and
President Biden never brought it up, never talked about this.
A lot of this rory does seem to be political.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
You mean, performative really in DC, you know, Yeah, that's
a big part of it. But also the exclamation point
came July fourth weekend when the Attorney General tried to
quietly say over the holiday weekend, Okay, our Epstein investigation
has closed, no more prosecutions, and we won't.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Release the files.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
It really was that July fourth effort by the AG
that's really what lit the fire here. And then of
course Democrats hopped on board quickly because a lot of
Donald Trump's based supporters, you know, Dan Bongino, Cash Bettel,
even Pam Bondi had a very different opinion about the
Epstein files than what we're hearing today.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
The problem they had and it's a small minority that
was really upset about it, but they had powerful voices.
You had a lot of podcasters that jumped on this,
including Joe Rogan, and I think they're the ones that
really fueled them and made it to the point. Now
now they're going to have they're going to have hearings
in Congress.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
And let's not forget Elon Musk, who you know, in
the fallout when he was having his little melt down
with President Trump said oh Trump is in the ex
Team files. So you know, you know, this has come
up over and over again and again. You know, this
is the group that turns into Twitter follows this stuff.
Most of Americans don't really care, but they don't like
the idea of a cover up, and they pay attention

(36:26):
when it's a sex story.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, and they did come out and say they did
claim during the campaign that they were going to release
this stuff. I think that they saw that there was
a problem with this, and I don't think that the
problem or necessarily the names in there, but the legal
actions against them that they're concerned about. But it sounds
like it's going to happen. Now. Do you see any
way that the administration can't win this fight at this point?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
It doesn't, you know, they keep on trying to change
the topic. And now what do we get that was
thrown in this Oh we had Roger Clemens and Rudy
Giuliani have now been thrown into the mix about things
to talk about this week and the president's health, even
fueling wild speculation. Big announcement from the White House at
two o'clock this afternoon. We don't know what it's going
to be, but the President has said he will make

(37:11):
an announcement from the oval opposite too.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, and again it will not be about Epstein. Is
going to be about knowing.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Your expectations, you lower your expectations.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
That's all I'm going to say. Thanks so much. Rory O'Neil,
wr national correspondent with us every day at this time. Rory,
thanks a lot. We'll talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Thanks Larry taught to you.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Then, well, it is incredible that this has come up again.
It is incredible. I'm sure that there was a lot
of cursing in the White House when they thought that
because they've released so many files. They went and they
interviewed Jillan Maxwell, and they've done everything they thought they
could do to make this go away. But man, I

(37:53):
don't even know what people want anymore. I don't know
what's out there that people haven't already seen. But I'll
tell you what. It's going to keep going, going and
going well. People are already handicapping next year's New York
governor's race and the congressional mid term elections. Will ask
former City Council minority leader where he thinks things stand
right now. Coming up after the eight o'clock News