October 23, 2025 • 8 mins
TRENDING - President Trump faces backlash over the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make way for new ballroom, Hunter Biden lashes out at former President Obama and George Clooney, Prince Andrew could be invited to testify before Congress, and Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says she's thinking about running for a Senate seat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
President Trump's new ballroom is going to take over the
entire East wing of the White House, and critics are
not happy. So apparently, when he first started talking about
this new two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom, he
said it would be near the East Wing, and then
it was only going to take over part of it.
Now a White House spokesperson has confirmed the entire East
(00:23):
wing will be gone. There are also questions about whether
or not the National Capital Planning Commission should have been
involved in the planning and approval process, but the White
House says they don't have the power to control any
demolition work now.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The work is supposed to be done by the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And our White House correspondent John Decker, who we just
talked to, got some pictures of Trump holding up renderings
of the new ballroom yesterday in the Oval Office, and
they're on our Facebook and our Exit Ryan Gorman show
if you want to see what it's going to look like.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yes, So, originally the whole thing was supposed to cost
two hundred million dollars. That price tag's gone up to
three hundred million, but it's supposed to be privately funded.
Out who's funding the US are getting him in return, Like,
those are questions that we don't have answers to. And
then the East wing was supposed to remain untouched.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, and now we've seen that it looks like it
looks like it's been bombed.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's what it looks like.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Like Miley Cyrus came in with a wrecking ball.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh yes she did.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Look, this is one of those things where I've seen
it NonStop on cable news and people commenting on it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I don't know, I don't really care.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think they made sure to preserve all of the
you know, artifacts.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I'm sure all of the gold was taken out
of there.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Had different historical items they preserved that they didn't just
come in with the wrecking ball.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, I don't really see.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I've seen a whole bunch of people posting they're like
outraged over this, and I'm just like, I don't know
if this is the thing to be outraged.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It doesn't really matter to me, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Hunter Biden is once again taking aim at George Clooney
over his op ed in The New York Times that
called for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race.
Here's some of what Hunter said on a recent podcast.
I'm an angry son on behalf of my father, But
I'm not an angry man, and I'm not irrational.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The thing that I'm not irrational about is this is
I hate fighting with people to care about the same
things that I do. But what George did, I just
thought was a self sabotaging act.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Of disloyalty, not just to my dad but to the
whole party. Yeah, so he's going off on George Clooney again.
He also said that I guess there's a video clip
that shows George talking to Joe Biden at the event
that's It's only like a couple seconds long, but he
says that that clip disproves George's claim that, you know,
(02:42):
the president was just a shadow of his former self.
And then Hunter was also interviewed at a new book
and said he was really pissed off when Obama led
his dad off stage at that June twenty twenty four event.
He said, I almost jumped up on stage and said,
don't ever bleeping do that to the President of the
United States Again. He said he thought Obama was disrespectful,
(03:03):
and he said his dad was just taking a moment
to acknowledge the crowd in that moment.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, No, his dad looked very vibrant at that funt.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, he was very animated.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Right, ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Look, if you're a hunter, Biden, you made a lot
of money off your dad's name. You got your pardon,
and go live your life and stop gas letting us.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't understand why he continues to do these interviews.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, And the same with Korean Cheanpierre. Yeah, I mean,
stop embarrassing yourself. You're trying to tell us that we
didn't see with our own eyes what we saw for
you know, multiple years.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Right, And she knows how dysfunctional that White House was
because now she's independent and not a Democrat anymore. But
yet she's defending him exactly. The House Oversight Committee is
set to invite Prince Andrew to testify as part of
their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Congressman Stephen Lynch from Massachusetts
told the BBC he's sure the committee wants to know
what Prince Andrew knows, but since he's not a US citizen,
(03:55):
he can't be subpoened, and he would have to voluntarily
accept invitation. Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen. And
then Amy Wallace, the woman who helped Virginia Giuffrey write
her book before she died, told News Nation that she
knows all the names and that Virginia knew them too.
And she also said the FBI and the DOJ know
(04:16):
the names. She said there is an Epstein list because
Virginia told authorities in her depositions, and so did some
of the other victims. And she said that she really
wants these names to come out, that this push is
not going to go away for these names to be revealed.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
And I guess she can't just release them.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's what I find so strange is that there's all
these women who say that they have the list, they
know the names, They've all talked to each other, they've
all experienced all this, but nobody's willing to talk so far,
I mean, besides Epstein and then obviously Prince Andrew with
what Virginia said about him. Yeah, those are the only
two names we've ever really gotten. I mean, Bill Clinton,
(04:55):
you know, was paling around with Jeffrey Epstein. But we
don't have any alleged victims who actually say that Bill
Clinton did anything to them.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now, this ghost writer she said that that, I guess
jeuf Free recorded her saying the names she's naming everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
She still has all of the recordings of all of that,
so I'm kind of one. I mean, I guess these
people are scared to reveal the name.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
That's why she said. Jefe Free never came forward.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And said all she didn't put any of them in
her book. But at the same time, if everybody's got
this information and they can all kind of corroborate each
other story, all these different victims that were on Epstein Island,
that right plane and all that, why are they waiting
on the DOJ if they could just announce it themselves.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, I My one thought would be maybe they're afraid
if they released the names, they'll get sued.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, well they could probably be sued for defamation.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, that could be part of it. But it's just amazing.
You know, she's not the first person say I know
the names. I think Alan Dershwood was like, yeah, I
know who's on the lists and all of that, and
yet we still don't have any clue. Yeah, no, I
haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
This trending story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit
them at trajanwealth dot com. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett said yesterday
she's strongly considering a run for Senate because polls suggest
she would be a front runner in the state of
Texas for a Democratic primary. So she's serving her second
term in Congress. She's become known for getting into verbal
clashes with Republicans. She's also recently been accused of treating
(06:27):
her staff like crap and of being a diva. She
claimed that she should lead a committee because she has
more social media follower worse than anyone else, and she
referred to the governor of Texas as governor hot wheels.
He's in a wheelchair. She also talked about the redistricting
happening in Texas and said, if you want to take
my seat of seven hundred and sixty six thousand away,
I feel like there has to be some karma in
(06:49):
that to where I take your seat that is for
thirty million away. In one poll, she got thirty one
percent of likely Democratic primary votes and everyone fell behind her.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
She was the number one in that So yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Least blind, bad built bush body.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That is somebody who definitely belongs in the Senate right there.
So if you take a look at some of the polls,
it does show her a head of potential Democratic opponents,
including Beto O'Rourke. And the reason Democrats are zeroed in
on this race is because if Attorney General Ken Paxton
defeat Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary, there could
(07:30):
be an opening for Democrats to make that a competitive
race because Ken Paxon has just a ton of baggage.
But if Democrats decide to put up Jasmine Crockett against
Ken paxonwell we'll pretty much be getting the race.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
That we deserve.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But also I don't know that she would be able
to pull that off in Texas. Would certainly be interesting.
It would be an entertaining race, but very serious one.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
The Ryan Gorman Show on NewsRadio WFLA. Follow us on
Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show, and find us
online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
President Trump's new ballroom is going to take over the
entire East wing of the White House, and critics are
not happy. So apparently, when he first started talking about
this new two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom, he
said it would be near the East Wing, and then
it was only going to take over part of it.
Now a White House spokesperson has confirmed the entire East
(00:23):
wing will be gone. There are also questions about whether
or not the National Capital Planning Commission should have been
involved in the planning and approval process, but the White
House says they don't have the power to control any
demolition work now.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The work is supposed to be done by the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And our White House correspondent John Decker, who we just
talked to, got some pictures of Trump holding up renderings
of the new ballroom yesterday in the Oval Office, and
they're on our Facebook and our Exit Ryan Gorman show
if you want to see what it's going to look like.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yes, So, originally the whole thing was supposed to cost
two hundred million dollars. That price tag's gone up to
three hundred million, but it's supposed to be privately funded.
Out who's funding the US are getting him in return, Like,
those are questions that we don't have answers to. And
then the East wing was supposed to remain untouched.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, and now we've seen that it looks like it
looks like it's been bombed.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's what it looks like.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Like Miley Cyrus came in with a wrecking ball.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh yes she did.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Look, this is one of those things where I've seen
it NonStop on cable news and people commenting on it.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I don't know, I don't really care.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think they made sure to preserve all of the
you know, artifacts.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I'm sure all of the gold was taken out
of there.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Had different historical items they preserved that they didn't just
come in with the wrecking ball.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, I don't really see.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I've seen a whole bunch of people posting they're like
outraged over this, and I'm just like, I don't know
if this is the thing to be outraged.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It doesn't really matter to me, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Hunter Biden is once again taking aim at George Clooney
over his op ed in The New York Times that
called for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race.
Here's some of what Hunter said on a recent podcast.
I'm an angry son on behalf of my father, But
I'm not an angry man, and I'm not irrational.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The thing that I'm not irrational about is this is
I hate fighting with people to care about the same
things that I do. But what George did, I just
thought was a self sabotaging act.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Of disloyalty, not just to my dad but to the
whole party. Yeah, so he's going off on George Clooney again.
He also said that I guess there's a video clip
that shows George talking to Joe Biden at the event
that's It's only like a couple seconds long, but he
says that that clip disproves George's claim that, you know,
(02:42):
the president was just a shadow of his former self.
And then Hunter was also interviewed at a new book
and said he was really pissed off when Obama led
his dad off stage at that June twenty twenty four event.
He said, I almost jumped up on stage and said,
don't ever bleeping do that to the President of the
United States Again. He said he thought Obama was disrespectful,
(03:03):
and he said his dad was just taking a moment
to acknowledge the crowd in that moment.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, No, his dad looked very vibrant at that funt.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, he was very animated.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Right, ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Look, if you're a hunter, Biden, you made a lot
of money off your dad's name. You got your pardon,
and go live your life and stop gas letting us.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't understand why he continues to do these interviews.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, And the same with Korean Cheanpierre. Yeah, I mean,
stop embarrassing yourself. You're trying to tell us that we
didn't see with our own eyes what we saw for
you know, multiple years.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Right, And she knows how dysfunctional that White House was
because now she's independent and not a Democrat anymore. But
yet she's defending him exactly. The House Oversight Committee is
set to invite Prince Andrew to testify as part of
their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Congressman Stephen Lynch from Massachusetts
told the BBC he's sure the committee wants to know
what Prince Andrew knows, but since he's not a US citizen,
(03:55):
he can't be subpoened, and he would have to voluntarily
accept invitation. Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen. And
then Amy Wallace, the woman who helped Virginia Giuffrey write
her book before she died, told News Nation that she
knows all the names and that Virginia knew them too.
And she also said the FBI and the DOJ know
(04:16):
the names. She said there is an Epstein list because
Virginia told authorities in her depositions, and so did some
of the other victims. And she said that she really
wants these names to come out, that this push is
not going to go away for these names to be revealed.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
And I guess she can't just release them.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That's what I find so strange is that there's all
these women who say that they have the list, they
know the names, They've all talked to each other, they've
all experienced all this, but nobody's willing to talk so far,
I mean, besides Epstein and then obviously Prince Andrew with
what Virginia said about him. Yeah, those are the only
two names we've ever really gotten. I mean, Bill Clinton,
(04:55):
you know, was paling around with Jeffrey Epstein. But we
don't have any alleged victims who actually say that Bill
Clinton did anything to them.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now, this ghost writer she said that that, I guess
jeuf Free recorded her saying the names she's naming everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
She still has all of the recordings of all of that,
so I'm kind of one. I mean, I guess these
people are scared to reveal the name.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
That's why she said. Jefe Free never came forward.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And said all she didn't put any of them in
her book. But at the same time, if everybody's got
this information and they can all kind of corroborate each
other story, all these different victims that were on Epstein Island,
that right plane and all that, why are they waiting
on the DOJ if they could just announce it themselves.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, I My one thought would be maybe they're afraid
if they released the names, they'll get sued.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, well they could probably be sued for defamation.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, that could be part of it. But it's just amazing.
You know, she's not the first person say I know
the names. I think Alan Dershwood was like, yeah, I
know who's on the lists and all of that, and
yet we still don't have any clue. Yeah, no, I
haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
This trending story brought to you by Trajan Wealth. Visit
them at trajanwealth dot com. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett said yesterday
she's strongly considering a run for Senate because polls suggest
she would be a front runner in the state of
Texas for a Democratic primary. So she's serving her second
term in Congress. She's become known for getting into verbal
clashes with Republicans. She's also recently been accused of treating
(06:27):
her staff like crap and of being a diva. She
claimed that she should lead a committee because she has
more social media follower worse than anyone else, and she
referred to the governor of Texas as governor hot wheels.
He's in a wheelchair. She also talked about the redistricting
happening in Texas and said, if you want to take
my seat of seven hundred and sixty six thousand away,
I feel like there has to be some karma in
(06:49):
that to where I take your seat that is for
thirty million away. In one poll, she got thirty one
percent of likely Democratic primary votes and everyone fell behind her.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
She was the number one in that So yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Least blind, bad built bush body.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That is somebody who definitely belongs in the Senate right there.
So if you take a look at some of the polls,
it does show her a head of potential Democratic opponents,
including Beto O'Rourke. And the reason Democrats are zeroed in
on this race is because if Attorney General Ken Paxton
defeat Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary, there could
(07:30):
be an opening for Democrats to make that a competitive
race because Ken Paxon has just a ton of baggage.
But if Democrats decide to put up Jasmine Crockett against
Ken paxonwell we'll pretty much be getting the race.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
That we deserve.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But also I don't know that she would be able
to pull that off in Texas. Would certainly be interesting.
It would be an entertaining race, but very serious one.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
The Ryan Gorman Show on NewsRadio WFLA. Follow us on
Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show, and find us
online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
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