October 20, 2025 • 18 mins
BEST OF - Prosecutors drop charges against the man accused of abandoning a dog during Hurricane Milton, citing lack of evidence. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd recounts a McDonald’s drive-thru shooting after an argument turned violent. ABC News Correspondent Jordana Miller reports the U.S. scrambles to preserve the Gaza peace deal amid new clashes, while White House Correspondent Jon Decker details Trump’s tense Oval Office meeting pressuring Zelensky on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now for today's top stories, brought to you by
my friends over at the Holland Group retirement and wealth advisors.
You worked hard to save for your future. They can
help you make the most of it. Find them online
at Askthehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Millions
of people attended the No King's demonstrations across the country
and the state against President Trump and his administration. There
(00:23):
were twenty seven hundred planned protests. The groups organizing the
protests say they had about seven million people overall. Eighty
of those demonstrations were here in Florida, including one just
four miles down the road from mar A Lago His
Club in Palm Beach. About three thousand showed up in
places like clear Water, and of course if you saw
(00:44):
the big cities like Manhattan, Los Angeles, Chicago, huge crowds
in those locations, but a pretty good turnout here and
in Florida generally non violent. Yeah, not a lot of
problems in other cities. There were a few arrests, but
in general nothing that Lease couldn't handle. No, when you
talk about thousands of protests happening in different locations across
(01:06):
the country, with some seven million people attending them. It
was very peaceful, with the exception of, like you said,
a few isolated incidents. It was a very festive atmosphere
at these protests. You had people dressed up in all
kinds of outfits.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah. I saw somebody dressed up as the Staypuff marshmallow Man.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
There was that. The Tampa Bay Times they had a
report that Palm Harbor one person dressed as a chicken.
They were in a chicken costume and they were playing
the Chicken Dance song on a portable speaker and somebody
asked them, why did the chicken cross the road? And
the person replied, to fight for democracy. So there you
go there, Yeah, you had that. You had some they
(01:49):
broke out and saw about that. Yeah, I mean who
(02:10):
knew that President Trump could inspire such happy to joy
and they were all.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Wearing bright yellow shirts and it was a choreograph dance
and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, they definitely warrant politicians because we've seen some of
the Democrats in Congress try to break out in song.
And yeah, yeah, that was that was much better. So
a big turnout. I think the weather helped. It was
pretty nice weather across the country. Uh so people got
out there got to have their say. I did not
like leading up to the protest, uh, the framing of
(02:43):
the people who are going out there as those who
hate America. There were some some radical people who attended
these rallies and and even some people who spoke at
a few of them. But I think the majority of
the people who went to these just you know, your
neighbors who have a different take than you, perhaps on
(03:04):
the Trump administry. Yeah, pro Trump media seemed to frame
it like if you don't like Trump, then you hate America. Yeah.
I didn't, that's not true. I didn't agree with that.
And how speaker Mike Johnson, that's what he was calling
it the hate America rally. So I didn't view it
that way. But look, people got out there, they got
to have their say, and it sounds like everything went
just fine. What else we have gone on this morning? Well,
(03:24):
charges were dropped for a man who left his dog
tied up on the side of the road while evacuating
Hurricane Milton last year, and prosecutors say it's because of
insufficient evidence. According to court documents, Giovanni Garcia of Ruskin
won't be prosecuted. State attorney Susy Lopez's office issued this statement,
(03:45):
we determined we did not have sufficient evidence to prove
that the defendant intentionally tied the dog to the fence
in rising floodwaters. She said that the case stirs many emotions,
even ethical questions, and they wanted to continue. But what
they said is they it was initially reported that there
was evidence that the dog was actually tied up with
(04:05):
a rope to the fence, and when they went to
go and you review all of the evidence in the case,
they didn't have a sufficient evidence to prove that, and
they said, as a result, it made the charge of
proving aggravated animal cruelty beyond reasonable doubt not possible. So
we talked about this on Friday morning when the news
(04:26):
broke and we discussed how outraged we were that this
person was getting off, and the State Attorney's office reached
out to me and they provided some I thought new information,
information I hadn't seen in any of the news reports
that we had at the time Friday morning, And what
(04:46):
they said is that they couldn't confirm that Garcia intentionally
tied the dog to the fence, and also we learned
that apparently the dog wasn't tied to the fence at all.
So they're saying that the dog's collar was stuck on
the fence, which is news to me. I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Spoke to this not what we heard. That was not
what was reported. And I'd have to take a closer
look at the picture. But we have that picture of
the dog standing in the water.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, but I guess it was the collar that was
stuck to the fence. I mean, I personally spoke to
the state trooper. I don't remember him saying that. I mean,
the whole narrative, the whole reason that Trooper's Law was
passed was this idea that people would tie a dog
to a fence, yeah, during a hurricane. And they also
said that Garcia and his mother told investigators that the dog,
(05:40):
whose name was Jumbo now it's Trooper, became aggressive and
escaped during their evacuation, and officials said no evidence refuted
their account. I'm sorry, I find that hard to I
get that maybe they weren't able to prove differently, but
give me a freaking break. You tell them the dog
(06:00):
just like jumped out of the car and then started
wandering down the road and it just happened to get
stuck on the I don't know, I don't believe that narrative,
but the State Attorney's Office is basically saying, look, that's
that's the information that we have, and we wouldn't be
able to bring it to court and convict this person,
so we had to drop the charges. I think my
criticism of the State Attorney's office would be, when you
(06:23):
have a case this high profile, maybe Susie Lopez should
have come out and she held press conference.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, she should have spoken out sooner because the whole
story was that the dog.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Was tied up.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That she could have come out a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And said that, well, well that or when you decided
to drop the charges, hold a press conference for someone.
I get that it's not you know, first degree murder
charge or something like that, but again, it's a big
story and a lot of people were believing a narrative
that we have been told for a long time now,
for over a year now. So I think you come
out and you communicate that better than how they did,
(06:57):
because all they.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Said originally was, oh, we dropped the charge is not
enough evidence, And everybody was like, well, what do you
mean not enough evidence?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yea, And there was a little bit more information from
the release that they sent me that they had sent
to the media, but not everybody was reporting all of
that information. Again, I think it could have been avoided
if they had just come out and said, you know,
in person, because I did find it a little surprising.
And Susie Lopez pretty tough on crime. She is not
one I would think to just dismiss charges against somebody
(07:25):
like this if she could prove a case. So that
was one thing that kind of bothered me about the
whole deal. But I think you got to communicate it
better when it's something this high profile. What this guy Garcia,
I mean, his reputation got smeared, you know, through the
mud as somebody who tied the dog to the fence.
And if that's not the case, you could expect a lawsuit.
Well they can't. They can't prove that he didn't. But
(07:46):
I still have a lot of questions about it. All that.
Paulk County Sheriff Grady mcjudd had an update about a
McDonald's MCMSS that happened in his mccounty. The Davenport mc
donald's employee, along with two customers, got into a fight
in the drive through line, and it ended with a
shooting inside the store. Early Sunday, Peter Story and Nicholas
(08:09):
Jones were in the drive through. They got frustrated because
they said that Juan Soto an employee, not the baseball player. No,
not worth like seven hundred something million dollars. No, I
don't think it was that. A said that he was
too busy and couldn't accept any new orders. And so
the store manager told deputies that Story and Jones threatened
to beat Soto's ass and would wait in the parking
(08:30):
lot for a ship to end. They entered the store,
Wow got into a verbal argument and then had to
be separated by the store manager. Here's what Sheriff mcjudd
had to say about it. And as they tried to
grab his gun, pulls the trigger and he shoots Peter's
Story in the net.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It was just a MC mess.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, and apparently the MC injury is not going to
be Mick life threatening, So that's good news. Yeah, that's
why we can joke about it. Yeah, he died. Yeah,
and you know, Sheriff Judd said, they don't let these
things slide because now they will sort it out because
they're very mcgod at investigating mc crime. Right, and it
seems like there are a lot of these cases involving
(09:10):
McDonald's in This isn't the first time that I remember
Grady Judd saying like mcmass or something along those lines. Right,
that's right, and you know how it is. I mean,
if you're going to McDonald's early Sunday, yeah, you want
your stuff, right, I mean you're not going to put
up with any nonsense from the Matt Busy. Yeah, I'm angry, mcanngry.
(09:32):
They're mc hungry right right, all right, Chris TrackMan with
today's stop stories. Chris, thanks so much, thank you. Let's
go back to the hotline and bring in ABC News
correspondent Jordanah Miller coming to us live from Israel. So, Jordana,
this piece deal between Israel and Hamas hanging on by
a thread. Tell us what happened over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, Ryan, I think it faced its first major test
over the weekend. Hamas militants came out of a tunnel,
according to the Israeli Army, in the Redeployment Zone, that
is in the yellow zone between the Egyptian border and Rafa.
They came out and attacked an idea for a position,
(10:14):
killing two Israeli soldiers what the Israelis called a clear
violation of the ceasefire, and they ended up retaliating with
several hours of airstrikes across Gaza on Sunday. In the end,
over forty Israelis. I'm sorry, over forty Palestinians were killed
(10:35):
in Gaza. The Israeli say they hit tunnels, weapon cachets
another what they call terror infrastructure. And I think what
we saw Ryan was come off kind of testing the
waters a little bit and waiting to see what Israel's
response would be and how also how the American administration
(10:59):
would respond. And we are told that the Israeli has
informed the Americans before they carried out those air strikes,
and they went on, as I said, for several hours,
and aid AD trucks could not travel through the Gaza
strip on Sunday during this period, so effectively Israel halted
AID for most of the day yesterday. Now the Israeli
(11:22):
Prime Minister and his office threatened actually to blockade even today,
still angry about the death of the Israeli soldiers. But
it appears that after some back channel talks and pressure
from the White House Israel backtracked and all of the
crossings into Gaza have been opened today for aid. The
(11:45):
Rafa border crossing remains closed, but just as a reminder,
that's not for aid trucks, that's for people, and Israeli
is keeping that closed until it says, you know, until
it feels more satisfied with the pace of Hamas returning
bodies to Israel. Remember Hamas still holding sixteen bodies of
(12:05):
hostages and that includes two Americans.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, that was going to be my next question, where
do we stand with the returning of the dead hostages?
And he progressed there over the past few days.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Well, Hamas did turnover over the weekend two more bodies.
One was identified as an Israeli in his fifties who
was murdered really in front of his family and then
his body was taken to Gaza. And a tie worker,
the body of a tie worker who Hamath also kidnapped
(12:39):
and killed during the war. So two more bodies came
back over the weekend, leaving the number now at sixteen.
And as I said before, it does include the bodies
of two Americans e Tai Hen and Omer Nutra. You know,
the parents of those two young Americans have been in
(13:00):
the United States, you know, on all media here in
Israel as well, you know, and they are just desperate
to give their sons a proper burial and try to
close what has been a very painful chapter.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
All Right, ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller coming to us
live from Israel with all the latest. Jordanna really appreciated, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So much, Thanks Tuckson.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
All Right, I'm a little surprised that President Trump hasn't
pushed Thomas More for the return of the two American bodies.
I'm waiting for that truth social post with a warning. Yeah,
I know it's time for them to return those bodies.
And then you've got Vice President jd Van, Special Envoy
Steve wi Cooff, and Jared Kushner. They're set to head
(13:46):
to Israel this week to work on implementing the next
phase of the peace deal. So another pivotal week ahead
in the Middle East. Let's go back to the hotline
and bringing our White House correspondent John Decker. Now, John,
thanks for joining us this morning. I want to go
back to writing and this meeting between President Trump and
the Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski. We're learning more about it
(14:06):
over the past few days, and sounds like it didn't
go very well.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Well. The President did not agree to what President Zelensky
was really coming to the White House seeking, and that
is those long range missiles that could strike deep inside
of Russian territory. They're very accurate, and the President not
agreeing to that just yet, but not ruling it out entirely,
and I think that's what's putting pressure, the President believes
(14:31):
on Russian President Vladimir Putin. What Zelensky wanted to do,
essentially was to trade that great technology that Ukraine has
developed as far as drones are concerned, for those long
range missiles, and the President not agreeing to that just yet,
but we'll have to wait and see. I think it's
a work in progress in terms of what it is
that Zelenski is seeking. Well.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
There are also some reports that the President was pushing
for Zelenski to agree to give up the land that
Russia currently holds, which is about twenty percent of Ukraine,
and basically take a deal that certainly seems to favor
Russia much more than Ukraine, which is a bit of it.
(15:15):
It feels like this was a bit of a different
tone than what we had seen previously with the President
in Zelenski in recent meetings, and of course it follows
a phone call that the President had with Vladimir Putin
the day before.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, you know, each of the meetings that the President
has had with President Zelenski at the White House, there
now been three of them, they've each had a different feel.
This was different than the one that took place in
mid August. And as it relates to the relationship between
President Trump and Presidents In Selenski, they have a good relationship.
The President also speaks of having a good relationship with
(15:48):
President Putin. And this upcoming meeting that President Trump will
have its Putin. The President says that it will happen
within the next two weeks in Budapest, Hungary. That's an
important meeting. It's an important meeting to see whether or
not is actually sincere In wanting to end the war,
in wanting to end the war relatively soon. We saw
after that meeting that the President President Trump had with
(16:10):
President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska and mid August, Putin wasn't
serious about that, and he also made it quite clear
he has no indication that he'd be meeting with President
Zelenski face to face anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right, John, real quick before we let you go.
You know, we were just talking about whether or not
Zelensky has a good relationship with the President. We know
you do. And you were just congratulated by the President
and you're congratulated by so many others too for your
thirtieth anniversary covering the White House thirty years.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, go go figure, Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
The President sent me on a very kind note, and
I was touched by that, the President of praising me
and my coverage that I've had over the course of
the past three decades, all those presidents going back to
Bill Clinton's first term, and I love doing it, so
I continue doing it every day.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'll be back in the.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Pool today, by the way, Ryan, so I'll be in
the Oval office when the President meets with the Australian
Prime Minister.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It never gets old for me.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And you know, I think that the President recognizes that
I'm always in there asking fair but tough questions no
matter who it is who's president, and no matter who
the White House Press Secretary is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He said, congratulations again, and I'm proud to say you
are not fake news, and that is it's crazy. You
can get from the president, absolutely and that is definitely
a personal signature, not auto pen so.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And there's a dinner in your honor too at the
Embassy of Sweden.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
How about that, John Wow?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So soon yeah mid November, so yeah, yeah. I mean, look,
I talked to Believe thirty years you know, I came
up thirty years ago from Florida, from South Florida, driving
my accurate Integra up to Washington, d C. To take
a job as a White House correspondent. And I've been
here ever since. And you know, it's a privilege, it
(18:06):
really is. And I realize that every day never gets
old for me. I never get jaded by it. Every
day is a really interesting day, including today, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean the.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
President will be meeting with the Australian Prime Minister. Albanis
also meeting with and welcoming the LSU Tiger baseball team
NCAA champion. So fun week to start out, and I'm
looking forward to the week ahead. I'll be back in
the pool on Wednesday as well, So it's going to
be a busy week for me.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And it would have thought thirty years ago part of
your job would encompass talking to us everyone, So that's
one of my favorite podcast. Absolutely, thank you all right,
John Decker with us this morning. John, thanks so much,
and make sure you check out the White House Briefing
Room podcast with John Decker. You can find that on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
How would you fla
Time now for today's top stories, brought to you by
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You worked hard to save for your future. They can
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at Askthehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Millions
of people attended the No King's demonstrations across the country
and the state against President Trump and his administration. There
(00:23):
were twenty seven hundred planned protests. The groups organizing the
protests say they had about seven million people overall. Eighty
of those demonstrations were here in Florida, including one just
four miles down the road from mar A Lago His
Club in Palm Beach. About three thousand showed up in
places like clear Water, and of course if you saw
(00:44):
the big cities like Manhattan, Los Angeles, Chicago, huge crowds
in those locations, but a pretty good turnout here and
in Florida generally non violent. Yeah, not a lot of
problems in other cities. There were a few arrests, but
in general nothing that Lease couldn't handle. No, when you
talk about thousands of protests happening in different locations across
(01:06):
the country, with some seven million people attending them. It
was very peaceful, with the exception of, like you said,
a few isolated incidents. It was a very festive atmosphere
at these protests. You had people dressed up in all
kinds of outfits.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah. I saw somebody dressed up as the Staypuff marshmallow Man.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
There was that. The Tampa Bay Times they had a
report that Palm Harbor one person dressed as a chicken.
They were in a chicken costume and they were playing
the Chicken Dance song on a portable speaker and somebody
asked them, why did the chicken cross the road? And
the person replied, to fight for democracy. So there you
go there, Yeah, you had that. You had some they
(01:49):
broke out and saw about that. Yeah, I mean who
(02:10):
knew that President Trump could inspire such happy to joy
and they were all.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Wearing bright yellow shirts and it was a choreograph dance
and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, they definitely warrant politicians because we've seen some of
the Democrats in Congress try to break out in song.
And yeah, yeah, that was that was much better. So
a big turnout. I think the weather helped. It was
pretty nice weather across the country. Uh so people got
out there got to have their say. I did not
like leading up to the protest, uh, the framing of
(02:43):
the people who are going out there as those who
hate America. There were some some radical people who attended
these rallies and and even some people who spoke at
a few of them. But I think the majority of
the people who went to these just you know, your
neighbors who have a different take than you, perhaps on
(03:04):
the Trump administry. Yeah, pro Trump media seemed to frame
it like if you don't like Trump, then you hate America. Yeah.
I didn't, that's not true. I didn't agree with that.
And how speaker Mike Johnson, that's what he was calling
it the hate America rally. So I didn't view it
that way. But look, people got out there, they got
to have their say, and it sounds like everything went
just fine. What else we have gone on this morning? Well,
(03:24):
charges were dropped for a man who left his dog
tied up on the side of the road while evacuating
Hurricane Milton last year, and prosecutors say it's because of
insufficient evidence. According to court documents, Giovanni Garcia of Ruskin
won't be prosecuted. State attorney Susy Lopez's office issued this statement,
(03:45):
we determined we did not have sufficient evidence to prove
that the defendant intentionally tied the dog to the fence
in rising floodwaters. She said that the case stirs many emotions,
even ethical questions, and they wanted to continue. But what
they said is they it was initially reported that there
was evidence that the dog was actually tied up with
(04:05):
a rope to the fence, and when they went to
go and you review all of the evidence in the case,
they didn't have a sufficient evidence to prove that, and
they said, as a result, it made the charge of
proving aggravated animal cruelty beyond reasonable doubt not possible. So
we talked about this on Friday morning when the news
(04:26):
broke and we discussed how outraged we were that this
person was getting off, and the State Attorney's office reached
out to me and they provided some I thought new information,
information I hadn't seen in any of the news reports
that we had at the time Friday morning, And what
(04:46):
they said is that they couldn't confirm that Garcia intentionally
tied the dog to the fence, and also we learned
that apparently the dog wasn't tied to the fence at all.
So they're saying that the dog's collar was stuck on
the fence, which is news to me. I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Spoke to this not what we heard. That was not
what was reported. And I'd have to take a closer
look at the picture. But we have that picture of
the dog standing in the water.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, but I guess it was the collar that was
stuck to the fence. I mean, I personally spoke to
the state trooper. I don't remember him saying that. I mean,
the whole narrative, the whole reason that Trooper's Law was
passed was this idea that people would tie a dog
to a fence, yeah, during a hurricane. And they also
said that Garcia and his mother told investigators that the dog,
(05:40):
whose name was Jumbo now it's Trooper, became aggressive and
escaped during their evacuation, and officials said no evidence refuted
their account. I'm sorry, I find that hard to I
get that maybe they weren't able to prove differently, but
give me a freaking break. You tell them the dog
(06:00):
just like jumped out of the car and then started
wandering down the road and it just happened to get
stuck on the I don't know, I don't believe that narrative,
but the State Attorney's Office is basically saying, look, that's
that's the information that we have, and we wouldn't be
able to bring it to court and convict this person,
so we had to drop the charges. I think my
criticism of the State Attorney's office would be, when you
(06:23):
have a case this high profile, maybe Susie Lopez should
have come out and she held press conference.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, she should have spoken out sooner because the whole
story was that the dog.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Was tied up.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That she could have come out a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And said that, well, well that or when you decided
to drop the charges, hold a press conference for someone.
I get that it's not you know, first degree murder
charge or something like that, but again, it's a big
story and a lot of people were believing a narrative
that we have been told for a long time now,
for over a year now. So I think you come
out and you communicate that better than how they did,
(06:57):
because all they.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Said originally was, oh, we dropped the charge is not
enough evidence, And everybody was like, well, what do you
mean not enough evidence?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yea, And there was a little bit more information from
the release that they sent me that they had sent
to the media, but not everybody was reporting all of
that information. Again, I think it could have been avoided
if they had just come out and said, you know,
in person, because I did find it a little surprising.
And Susie Lopez pretty tough on crime. She is not
one I would think to just dismiss charges against somebody
(07:25):
like this if she could prove a case. So that
was one thing that kind of bothered me about the
whole deal. But I think you got to communicate it
better when it's something this high profile. What this guy Garcia,
I mean, his reputation got smeared, you know, through the
mud as somebody who tied the dog to the fence.
And if that's not the case, you could expect a lawsuit.
Well they can't. They can't prove that he didn't. But
(07:46):
I still have a lot of questions about it. All that.
Paulk County Sheriff Grady mcjudd had an update about a
McDonald's MCMSS that happened in his mccounty. The Davenport mc
donald's employee, along with two customers, got into a fight
in the drive through line, and it ended with a
shooting inside the store. Early Sunday, Peter Story and Nicholas
(08:09):
Jones were in the drive through. They got frustrated because
they said that Juan Soto an employee, not the baseball player. No,
not worth like seven hundred something million dollars. No, I
don't think it was that. A said that he was
too busy and couldn't accept any new orders. And so
the store manager told deputies that Story and Jones threatened
to beat Soto's ass and would wait in the parking
(08:30):
lot for a ship to end. They entered the store,
Wow got into a verbal argument and then had to
be separated by the store manager. Here's what Sheriff mcjudd
had to say about it. And as they tried to
grab his gun, pulls the trigger and he shoots Peter's
Story in the net.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It was just a MC mess.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, and apparently the MC injury is not going to
be Mick life threatening, So that's good news. Yeah, that's
why we can joke about it. Yeah, he died. Yeah,
and you know, Sheriff Judd said, they don't let these
things slide because now they will sort it out because
they're very mcgod at investigating mc crime. Right, and it
seems like there are a lot of these cases involving
(09:10):
McDonald's in This isn't the first time that I remember
Grady Judd saying like mcmass or something along those lines. Right,
that's right, and you know how it is. I mean,
if you're going to McDonald's early Sunday, yeah, you want
your stuff, right, I mean you're not going to put
up with any nonsense from the Matt Busy. Yeah, I'm angry, mcanngry.
(09:32):
They're mc hungry right right, all right, Chris TrackMan with
today's stop stories. Chris, thanks so much, thank you. Let's
go back to the hotline and bring in ABC News
correspondent Jordanah Miller coming to us live from Israel. So, Jordana,
this piece deal between Israel and Hamas hanging on by
a thread. Tell us what happened over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, Ryan, I think it faced its first major test
over the weekend. Hamas militants came out of a tunnel,
according to the Israeli Army, in the Redeployment Zone, that
is in the yellow zone between the Egyptian border and Rafa.
They came out and attacked an idea for a position,
(10:14):
killing two Israeli soldiers what the Israelis called a clear
violation of the ceasefire, and they ended up retaliating with
several hours of airstrikes across Gaza on Sunday. In the end,
over forty Israelis. I'm sorry, over forty Palestinians were killed
(10:35):
in Gaza. The Israeli say they hit tunnels, weapon cachets
another what they call terror infrastructure. And I think what
we saw Ryan was come off kind of testing the
waters a little bit and waiting to see what Israel's
response would be and how also how the American administration
(10:59):
would respond. And we are told that the Israeli has
informed the Americans before they carried out those air strikes,
and they went on, as I said, for several hours,
and aid AD trucks could not travel through the Gaza
strip on Sunday during this period, so effectively Israel halted
AID for most of the day yesterday. Now the Israeli
(11:22):
Prime Minister and his office threatened actually to blockade even today,
still angry about the death of the Israeli soldiers. But
it appears that after some back channel talks and pressure
from the White House Israel backtracked and all of the
crossings into Gaza have been opened today for aid. The
(11:45):
Rafa border crossing remains closed, but just as a reminder,
that's not for aid trucks, that's for people, and Israeli
is keeping that closed until it says, you know, until
it feels more satisfied with the pace of Hamas returning
bodies to Israel. Remember Hamas still holding sixteen bodies of
(12:05):
hostages and that includes two Americans.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, that was going to be my next question, where
do we stand with the returning of the dead hostages?
And he progressed there over the past few days.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Well, Hamas did turnover over the weekend two more bodies.
One was identified as an Israeli in his fifties who
was murdered really in front of his family and then
his body was taken to Gaza. And a tie worker,
the body of a tie worker who Hamath also kidnapped
(12:39):
and killed during the war. So two more bodies came
back over the weekend, leaving the number now at sixteen.
And as I said before, it does include the bodies
of two Americans e Tai Hen and Omer Nutra. You know,
the parents of those two young Americans have been in
(13:00):
the United States, you know, on all media here in
Israel as well, you know, and they are just desperate
to give their sons a proper burial and try to
close what has been a very painful chapter.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
All Right, ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller coming to us
live from Israel with all the latest. Jordanna really appreciated, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So much, Thanks Tuckson.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
All Right, I'm a little surprised that President Trump hasn't
pushed Thomas More for the return of the two American bodies.
I'm waiting for that truth social post with a warning. Yeah,
I know it's time for them to return those bodies.
And then you've got Vice President jd Van, Special Envoy
Steve wi Cooff, and Jared Kushner. They're set to head
(13:46):
to Israel this week to work on implementing the next
phase of the peace deal. So another pivotal week ahead
in the Middle East. Let's go back to the hotline
and bringing our White House correspondent John Decker. Now, John,
thanks for joining us this morning. I want to go
back to writing and this meeting between President Trump and
the Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski. We're learning more about it
(14:06):
over the past few days, and sounds like it didn't
go very well.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Well. The President did not agree to what President Zelensky
was really coming to the White House seeking, and that
is those long range missiles that could strike deep inside
of Russian territory. They're very accurate, and the President not
agreeing to that just yet, but not ruling it out entirely,
and I think that's what's putting pressure, the President believes
(14:31):
on Russian President Vladimir Putin. What Zelensky wanted to do,
essentially was to trade that great technology that Ukraine has
developed as far as drones are concerned, for those long
range missiles, and the President not agreeing to that just yet,
but we'll have to wait and see. I think it's
a work in progress in terms of what it is
that Zelenski is seeking. Well.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
There are also some reports that the President was pushing
for Zelenski to agree to give up the land that
Russia currently holds, which is about twenty percent of Ukraine,
and basically take a deal that certainly seems to favor
Russia much more than Ukraine, which is a bit of it.
(15:15):
It feels like this was a bit of a different
tone than what we had seen previously with the President
in Zelenski in recent meetings, and of course it follows
a phone call that the President had with Vladimir Putin
the day before.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, you know, each of the meetings that the President
has had with President Zelenski at the White House, there
now been three of them, they've each had a different feel.
This was different than the one that took place in
mid August. And as it relates to the relationship between
President Trump and Presidents In Selenski, they have a good relationship.
The President also speaks of having a good relationship with
(15:48):
President Putin. And this upcoming meeting that President Trump will
have its Putin. The President says that it will happen
within the next two weeks in Budapest, Hungary. That's an
important meeting. It's an important meeting to see whether or
not is actually sincere In wanting to end the war,
in wanting to end the war relatively soon. We saw
after that meeting that the President President Trump had with
(16:10):
President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska and mid August, Putin wasn't
serious about that, and he also made it quite clear
he has no indication that he'd be meeting with President
Zelenski face to face anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All right, John, real quick before we let you go.
You know, we were just talking about whether or not
Zelensky has a good relationship with the President. We know
you do. And you were just congratulated by the President
and you're congratulated by so many others too for your
thirtieth anniversary covering the White House thirty years.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, go go figure, Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
The President sent me on a very kind note, and
I was touched by that, the President of praising me
and my coverage that I've had over the course of
the past three decades, all those presidents going back to
Bill Clinton's first term, and I love doing it, so
I continue doing it every day.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'll be back in the.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Pool today, by the way, Ryan, so I'll be in
the Oval office when the President meets with the Australian
Prime Minister.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It never gets old for me.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And you know, I think that the President recognizes that
I'm always in there asking fair but tough questions no
matter who it is who's president, and no matter who
the White House Press Secretary is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He said, congratulations again, and I'm proud to say you
are not fake news, and that is it's crazy. You
can get from the president, absolutely and that is definitely
a personal signature, not auto pen so.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And there's a dinner in your honor too at the
Embassy of Sweden.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
How about that, John Wow?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So soon yeah mid November, so yeah, yeah. I mean, look,
I talked to Believe thirty years you know, I came
up thirty years ago from Florida, from South Florida, driving
my accurate Integra up to Washington, d C. To take
a job as a White House correspondent. And I've been
here ever since. And you know, it's a privilege, it
(18:06):
really is. And I realize that every day never gets
old for me. I never get jaded by it. Every
day is a really interesting day, including today, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean the.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
President will be meeting with the Australian Prime Minister. Albanis
also meeting with and welcoming the LSU Tiger baseball team
NCAA champion. So fun week to start out, and I'm
looking forward to the week ahead. I'll be back in
the pool on Wednesday as well, So it's going to
be a busy week for me.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And it would have thought thirty years ago part of
your job would encompass talking to us everyone, So that's
one of my favorite podcast. Absolutely, thank you all right,
John Decker with us this morning. John, thanks so much,
and make sure you check out the White House Briefing
Room podcast with John Decker. You can find that on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
A Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every weekday morning
on news radio.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
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