November 5, 2025 • 20 mins
BEST OF - National Correspondent Rory O’Neill recaps key election results from New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, and California’s Proposition 50, and shares the latest on a UPS plane crash in Kentucky. White House Correspondent Jon Decker reports on the Supreme Court’s review of President Trump’s tariffs, while a CBP agent testifies after being struck by a Subway sandwich. Plus, Tom Brady makes headlines with a bizarre revelation — he cloned his dog.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The headline from yesterday's elections, Big day for Democrats, and
we'll start with New York City, where Democrat Zoe Run
Mam Donnie came in with more than fifty percent of
the vote, beating Andrew Cuomo, who had about forty two percent,
and Mam Donnie gave a fiery victory speech on.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
January first, I will be sworn in as the mayor
of New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
He also took a shot and Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life,
but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Andy took a bunch of shots at President Trump, and
he quoted a socialist presidential candidate towards the end of
his speech, So good luck to all of you in
New York.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I'm actually really interested to see what happens, Like, what
kind of a disaster is this going to be?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
If he can even enact a lot of the promises
that he made.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
But I still think it's only going to get worse reality.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
For the New Jersey race for governor, Democrat Mikey Cheryl
won with fifty six percent of the vote. Republican Jack
Chitarelli got forty three percent.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is what Cheryl said, So.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
New Jersey, to quote the Boss, the future is now.
Roll up your sleeves, let your passion flow. The country
we carry in our hearts is waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And here's part of Jack Chiarelli's Cheetarelli's concession speech.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
I called and congratulated Mikey Cheryl, gave her my very
best wishes, gave her my very best wishes in hopefully
solving New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't know if anybody can solve New Jersey salting. Yeah,
that might be a task a little too big for
Mikey Cheryl. And then in Virginia, that race for governor,
you have Democrat Abigail Spanberger, she got fifty eight percent
of the vote. Republic and Winsome Earl Sears forty two percent.
Here with Spanberger during her victory speech.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
We sent a message to the whole world that in
twenty twenty five, Virginia chose pragmatism over.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Partisanship, and Democrats cleaned up in Virginia. In the race
for Attorney General, Democrat Jay Jones got fifty three percent
of the vote. Republican Jason Miariz got forty seven percent.
The Democrat running in the lieutenant governor race won by
eleven points in California Proposition fifty, which would help Democrats
potentially gain as many as five US House seats through
(02:39):
a redistricting effort that passed with sixty four percent of
the vote.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Here's what Kevin Newsom had to say.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
We're proud of the work that the people of the
state of California did tonight to send a powerful message
to an historic president. But it was not just a
victory tonight for the Democratic Party, as a victory for
the United States of America, for the people of this
country and the principles that are founding fathers lived and
died for.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And then two other quick election notes. Three Pennsylvania Supreme
Court justices are going to be retained. That preserves the
Democrats five two majority in the state's high Court. That's
key because Pennsylvania is a big swing state. And Kentucky
Secretary of State put out a post on x saying
we're getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed
(03:27):
because we do not have elections today. Oh geez, Kentucky
votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky. For
the mayor of New York City or the governor of Virginia.
So people in Kentucky little confused yesterday. Right now, let's
bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neill, who supports brought
to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So Rory, let's
talk about yesterday's election results. And there's really no way
(03:51):
around it. It was a big night for Democrats across
the country. Yeah, a bit of a thumpin' by the Democrats.
Speaker 10 (03:58):
And you know, yesterday we were talking, oh, it might
be close in New Jersey, the nopp Nope, And it's interesting,
you know that also came with record turnout in New
York City, where Mayor elect Mamdani could now claim a
mandate essentially by saying he got more than fifty percent
of the vote there, which in the record turnout at
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the same time is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So fascinating results there.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
And of course in California we talked about it yesterday, Yeah,
big win for that Prop fifty, but also for Gavin Newsom,
will put a lot of his own political fortune on
the line there and that passed overwhelmingly.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And it was a clean suitep for Democrats in Virginia
as well winning the race for governor, attorney general and
Lieutenant governor. Yep, yeah, Jay Jones, who I thought Democrats
should have abandoned. He should have gotten out of the
race after those violent, threatening text messages came to light
targeting the House speaker. But he won in pretty easily,
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fifty three percent to forty seven percent over Jason Mires.
Speaker 10 (04:59):
And I know NBC and Joe Scarborough, they're all, you know,
clicking their heels today. I just don't know how much
you can read into this results for twenty twenty six
if it's going to affect the mid terms. You know,
these were elections happening in blue areas of the country already. Yes,
it's significant that, you know, some of the gains President
Trump may have made a year ago didn't really materialize.
And yesterday's elections, you know, it's a November of next
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year is a long way away.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A couple of takeaways that I have. Let me start
with New York City Zorn Mumdani.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That win. It's great for Republicans, not so much for Democrats.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Public post headline.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, something about red right.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Well, the red apple, but then it says on your marks,
get set.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Though, I mean, uh, Trump is going to have a
field day with Mumdan.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I was yeah. I was also laughing that all night
on Fox.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
I kept on here, he's the new face of the
Democratic part I'm like, yeah, because you're gonna make it.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Stop talking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
See they don't stop talking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But there is something that I think Democrats and Republicans
should take away from his campaign. His message was affordability, affordability, affordability.
Now we don't have to get into his potential solutions
for that, which are insane and they won't work, but
just focusing on that issue that is going to be
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the main issue.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
For twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And I also think it needs to be noted that
while yes, there was record turnout and he crossed the
fifty percent threshold, he still only beat Andrew Cuoma by
eight percent. Cuomo got forty two percent of the vote.
And this is Andrew Cuomo who we're talking about. I mean,
almost like Hillary Clinton in terms of a weak candidate
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to run up against zoorunmm Donnie. So it's not like
this was a situation where eighty percent of the Democrats
in New York City said what he's selling is what
we want. There were quite a lot they didn't want
anything to do with Mom Donnie.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
But I think you brought up the important point that
I keep kind of asking. The question is, well, all
these socialists are popping up everywhere and this and this,
and they're winning all these elections. And I know the
fear of socialism socialism, But why why are so many
voters attracted to that message that you talked about? Is
because no one's talking about affordability, and here comes a
guy who's less than one hundred years old for a change,
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to at least offer some sort of a different prescription
where a lot of people are feeling trapped by the
same old names Cuomo, Pelosi, whatever it may be, Schumber, Schumer,
and then say oh enough and we just want something
different because what we see from an affordability standpoint.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I wasn't working.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's that whole you know, the richer getting richer,
and everyone else is you know barely you know has
food on the table.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Also in New Jersey, I thought it was notable the
Hispanic vote shifted so much from twenty twenty four away
from Republicans and two Democrats. I think that's something to
keep an eye on for twenty twenty six. And then,
like you had mentioned yesterday, California Proposition fifty the most
consequential outcome of the day. Those gains that Republicans made
(08:15):
by doing that redistricting Texas and a few other places
basically wiped out now with California likely going to be
able to hand Democrats five extra seats there. So you know,
this is why I didn't think it was a wise
idea to go down this road, because you're just going
to have, you know, one side doing it here, the
other side doing it there, and at the end of
the day, you're just going to have a lot of
states where now the maps are drawn in a pretty
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crazy area, giving one party a way bigger advantage over
the other.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And it's not going to change much in Washington, DC.
But AI do it is my solution.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
That's my suggestion to say, hey, make four hundred and
thirty five circles.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
AI, go ahead, real quick. The UPS cargo plane crash
in Louisville. I know you're covering that. You were joined
by our national correspondent, Roy O'Neil. This is a big store.
At least seven dead right.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
The three crew members are all presumed dead three on
that MD eleven. We see the video now the flames
clearly coming from the left side of the plane as
it's trying to take off.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Looks like that left engine just came off the plane.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
There was some sort of catastrophic failure inside the plane,
inside the engine. The engine probably fell off as a
result and then cut a fuel line. That's what probably
started the fire. The NTSP is getting on the ground,
we'll start to get the official news. But when you
can see parts of the engine, cowling and other pieces
on the silent runway before this plane took off, that's
(09:37):
obviously significant.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You know it's bad, all right. Our national corresponding Rory
O'Neil with US. Rory, thanks so much, thanks Ryan, Real quick,
just a little bit more on that story. The governor
in Kentucky, Andybasheer, said, some victims and critical condition at
local hospitals. You had a couple of businesses nearby struck
and damaged in the crash. It was loaded up with
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two hundred eighty thousand gallons of fuel when it went down,
So that's.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Why that explosion vers was massive.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's why it was so big, and so the death
toll at least seven people, but officials say they think
that's actually going to rise as the search and response continues,
So we'll continue to monitor that story throughout the morning.
Today's day thirty six of the government shutdown and new
all time record for government shutdowns.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And there were two big headlines yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt she had to do
some cleanup on Aisle five after President Trump created a
bit of confusion.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
About Snap benefits.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
At our afternoon briefing, levittold reporters the administration was fully
complying with the court order and was working to get
partial SNAP payments out the door as much as we
can and as quickly as we can. Trump had sparked
concern earlier in the day when he posted on truth
Social that Snap benefits quote will only be given out
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when radical left Democrats open up the government. Now, Levitt
clarified that the press incident was referring to future Snap payments,
not the partial payments for November. It's not what it
sounded like he was saying in the true Social post,
but it's also Trump, so you never really know. The
other big headline, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned he could
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be forced to close some of the national airspace to
air traffic if the shutdown extends another week. So that
situation with air travel across the country during the shutdown,
it's just getting worse.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And that was a major warning that came down yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now, on the positive side of things, there was a
big development. Democrats finally might be coming to terms with
the fact that neither science could come out of the shutdown.
Smelling like a rose, House Minority Leader Kim Jeffries sounds
like he might be softening on the Democrats demand to
negotiate and save those Obamacare subsidies before reopening the government.
(11:53):
He's saying now that while healthcare remains a priority, he
would be willing to evaluate any bipartisan compromise that comes
from the Senate. Now that might not sound like a
big deal, but it's actually a pretty big shift. The
question is what if the proposal comes from the House
not the Senate. The other day you had four House members,
two Republicans and two Democrats. They floated a proposal that
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would extend the subsidies for the next two years.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Of course, I can't vote on it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
A House because Speaker Mike Johnson hasn't called the House
in a session in over five weeks so far. That
House proposal the only one offered by either side in
either chamber. And then also yesterday we had told you
that Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he was optimistic
the deal to reopen the government could be struck by
the end of the week. We have a bit more
(12:41):
information on that this morning. He says, a stop gap
spending bill stretching into early next year. It's under consideration
because you got the current bill passed by the House
but rejected over and over and over again in the Senate.
That expires on the twenty first, so the last very long.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
By the time we get it opened back up, it's
just gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Exactly Rick Scott, he was reportedly involved in some heated
discussions with fellow Republicans over this, like Susan Collins and
Katie britt. He wants the stopgap bill to extend it
to January. They want it to go until mid December.
So there's still some stuff that needs to be sorted
out there. But Dune he stopped short of saying he's
confident they'll reach a deal, only he's more upbeat and
(13:22):
then punch Bowl News is reporting there are now more
than a dozen Senate Democrats engaging with Republicans on reopening
the government. So, like I said last week, I thought
there was gonna be quite a bit of progress this
week and then maybe next week we see an end
to the shutdown. And the reason I still think that
it's gonna be really hard for the Senate to pass
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a bill to end the shutdown this week. There are
a bunch of procedural reasons as to why. But I
think best case scenario, you get much closer to a
deal this week and then you wrap things up and
take those votes next week. I think there's no question
this cannot continue. You have the air travel issue, he
got snap benefits issue, Thanksgiving holiday coming.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
They got to wrap this up.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Let's go back to the highline and bring in our
White House correspondent John Dekker. Now, so, John, the Supreme
Court about to hear arguments on quite possibly the most
consequential case this year. They're going to be taking a
look at President Trump's tariffs. What do we need to
know about this case?
Speaker 11 (14:23):
Well, what you need to know is that the Supreme
Court will decide whether to uphold rulings by two lower
courts that the president's imposition of those so called reciprocal
tariffs was illegal, was unconstitutional. The White House the president
is relying on a nineteen seventy seven law that has
never been used before to apply tariffs, not even by
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President Trump in his first term. And the Solicitor General
of the United States, who will represent the Trump administration
for oral arguments, we'll be asked a number of tough
questions by the Supreme Court justices, including why isn't a
tariff simply a tax on imported goods? And if it
is a tax that of course, as you know, ryan
(15:05):
is a power that's devoted solely to the US Congress.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And also there are these emergency powers that the administration
is claiming they're able to use to do this. Yet
at the same time you see these instances like with
Canada recently, where there was a change in the tariff
policy because of an ad that the country, in particular
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Ontario was running. And I just feel like it's those
kinds of examples, and there are quite a few of
them that could potentially undercut the government's argument.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Well, there's that, and there's also the fifty percent tariff
on Brazil. Yep, that was imposed because the president doesn't
like how the legal system in Brazil is going after Bolsonaro,
the former president of Brazil. That has nothing to do
with the national emergency. So yeah, there are some problems.
And then on top of all of that, Ryan, you
have the president's own social media post which can be
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used against him in the Supreme Court. So there are
a lot of tough questions. If the Supreme Court wishes
to ask those tough questions today, that will be asked
of the Solicitor General. And of course it's a Supreme
Court that has largely sided with President Trump as it
relates to issues concerning executive power.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
They have, but they've also been a Supreme court that
time and time again has pushed back on different executive
branch powers, saying no, no, no, no, no, Congress, this
is your job, go do it.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
Well, that's exactly right, and so there is a plan
B if the President and the Trump administration lose at
the Supreme Court. I've asked the President about Plan B
before in the Oval office, and what I suggested to
the President, why isn't Congress your plan B. In other words,
if you lose at the Supreme Court, go to Congress
and say these are the tariffs that I want imposed
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on everyone of America's trading partners. I've spoken to the
leaders of the Republican leaders of Congress, Ryan, and they.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Say they have the votes.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
They have.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
The vote in Congress actually passed those tariffs. So that
could be the plan be for President Trump if he
loses this case at the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
All right, our White House correspondent John Decker with US
John really appreciate the update.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Thanks right, and of course don't forget you can check
out John on the White House Briefing Room podcast, constantly
updated right on your iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Might be my favorite story of the morning.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Of Customs and Border Protection agent testified yesterday in DC
that a sandwich thrown at him this summer exploded on
his chest, saying he could smell the onions and mustard
through his vest. The defendant, Sean Charles Dunn, who worked
in the Department of Justice, admits he tossed the sandwich
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outside of nightclub on August tenth, calling it a protest
against President Trump's immigration crackdown. Prosecutors charge done with misdemeanor assault,
which was to step down from the original felony assault
count that carried up to eight years in prison. His
attorney argued it was a harmless gesture, not a crime, saying,
you know he did it. He threw the sandwich. But
he called the government's response an overreach, and a photo
(18:15):
shown in court reportedly showed the sandwich mostly intact on
the ground, and defense lawyer said that proves it didn't explode.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Now the agen and that sounds pretty convincing.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
The agent insisted that condiments got on his uniform and
that an onion was hanging from his radio antenna.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
This is one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Cases where he really wish there were cameras in the courtroom.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
The other story I want to mention real quick.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Tom Brady says his new dog, Juni, is a genetic
clone of his late pitbull mix Lua, who died in
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
The story was everywhere yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
The cloning was done by Colossal Biosciences, Dallas based biotech
firm that Brady has invested in. He said they used
a blood sample draw taken from Lua before she passed
to recreate her DNA, and he told People magazine that
that non invasive process, gave his family a second chance.
He's not the only one that's done this. Barbara streisand
(19:19):
Paris Hilton, They've cloned dogs. This is nuts to me, Like,
as someone who is a dog owner, and my dog's
kind of on his last leg here, almost seventeen years old,
not a whole lot of time left for him. There
is no way, as much as as much as I
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am going to miss Statson dearly, it to me, it's
not him, right, Yeah, it looks like it's weird to me.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
So they look did they look exactly alike? Do they
have the same temperament?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't know that they have the same exact personality.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah, that's what's so weird about it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
If it was a way for me to say stets
In and you know, prolong his like, keep him around,
one hundred percent, would try to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But this is just freaking weird to me.
The headline from yesterday's elections, Big day for Democrats, and
we'll start with New York City, where Democrat Zoe Run
Mam Donnie came in with more than fifty percent of
the vote, beating Andrew Cuomo, who had about forty two percent,
and Mam Donnie gave a fiery victory speech on.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
January first, I will be sworn in as the mayor
of New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
He also took a shot and Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life,
but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Andy took a bunch of shots at President Trump, and
he quoted a socialist presidential candidate towards the end of
his speech, So good luck to all of you in
New York.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I'm actually really interested to see what happens, Like, what
kind of a disaster is this going to be?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
If he can even enact a lot of the promises
that he made.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
But I still think it's only going to get worse reality.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
For the New Jersey race for governor, Democrat Mikey Cheryl
won with fifty six percent of the vote. Republican Jack
Chitarelli got forty three percent.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is what Cheryl said, So.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
New Jersey, to quote the Boss, the future is now.
Roll up your sleeves, let your passion flow. The country
we carry in our hearts is waiting.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And here's part of Jack Chiarelli's Cheetarelli's concession speech.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
I called and congratulated Mikey Cheryl, gave her my very
best wishes, gave her my very best wishes in hopefully
solving New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I don't know if anybody can solve New Jersey salting. Yeah,
that might be a task a little too big for
Mikey Cheryl. And then in Virginia, that race for governor,
you have Democrat Abigail Spanberger, she got fifty eight percent
of the vote. Republic and Winsome Earl Sears forty two percent.
Here with Spanberger during her victory speech.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
We sent a message to the whole world that in
twenty twenty five, Virginia chose pragmatism over.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Partisanship, and Democrats cleaned up in Virginia. In the race
for Attorney General, Democrat Jay Jones got fifty three percent
of the vote. Republican Jason Miariz got forty seven percent.
The Democrat running in the lieutenant governor race won by
eleven points in California Proposition fifty, which would help Democrats
potentially gain as many as five US House seats through
(02:39):
a redistricting effort that passed with sixty four percent of
the vote.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Here's what Kevin Newsom had to say.
Speaker 9 (02:45):
We're proud of the work that the people of the
state of California did tonight to send a powerful message
to an historic president. But it was not just a
victory tonight for the Democratic Party, as a victory for
the United States of America, for the people of this
country and the principles that are founding fathers lived and
died for.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And then two other quick election notes. Three Pennsylvania Supreme
Court justices are going to be retained. That preserves the
Democrats five two majority in the state's high Court. That's
key because Pennsylvania is a big swing state. And Kentucky
Secretary of State put out a post on x saying
we're getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed
(03:27):
because we do not have elections today. Oh geez, Kentucky
votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky. For
the mayor of New York City or the governor of Virginia.
So people in Kentucky little confused yesterday. Right now, let's
bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neill, who supports brought
to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So Rory, let's
talk about yesterday's election results. And there's really no way
(03:51):
around it. It was a big night for Democrats across
the country. Yeah, a bit of a thumpin' by the Democrats.
Speaker 10 (03:58):
And you know, yesterday we were talking, oh, it might
be close in New Jersey, the nopp Nope, And it's interesting,
you know that also came with record turnout in New
York City, where Mayor elect Mamdani could now claim a
mandate essentially by saying he got more than fifty percent
of the vote there, which in the record turnout at
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the same time is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So fascinating results there.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
And of course in California we talked about it yesterday, Yeah,
big win for that Prop fifty, but also for Gavin Newsom,
will put a lot of his own political fortune on
the line there and that passed overwhelmingly.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And it was a clean suitep for Democrats in Virginia
as well winning the race for governor, attorney general and
Lieutenant governor. Yep, yeah, Jay Jones, who I thought Democrats
should have abandoned. He should have gotten out of the
race after those violent, threatening text messages came to light
targeting the House speaker. But he won in pretty easily,
(04:55):
fifty three percent to forty seven percent over Jason Mires.
Speaker 10 (04:59):
And I know NBC and Joe Scarborough, they're all, you know,
clicking their heels today. I just don't know how much
you can read into this results for twenty twenty six
if it's going to affect the mid terms. You know,
these were elections happening in blue areas of the country already. Yes,
it's significant that, you know, some of the gains President
Trump may have made a year ago didn't really materialize.
And yesterday's elections, you know, it's a November of next
(05:21):
year is a long way away.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A couple of takeaways that I have. Let me start
with New York City Zorn Mumdani.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That win. It's great for Republicans, not so much for Democrats.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Public post headline.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, something about red right.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Well, the red apple, but then it says on your marks,
get set.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Though, I mean, uh, Trump is going to have a
field day with Mumdan.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I was yeah. I was also laughing that all night
on Fox.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
I kept on here, he's the new face of the
Democratic part I'm like, yeah, because you're gonna make it.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Stop talking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
See they don't stop talking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But there is something that I think Democrats and Republicans
should take away from his campaign. His message was affordability, affordability, affordability.
Now we don't have to get into his potential solutions
for that, which are insane and they won't work, but
just focusing on that issue that is going to be
(06:23):
the main issue.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
For twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And I also think it needs to be noted that
while yes, there was record turnout and he crossed the
fifty percent threshold, he still only beat Andrew Cuoma by
eight percent. Cuomo got forty two percent of the vote.
And this is Andrew Cuomo who we're talking about. I mean,
almost like Hillary Clinton in terms of a weak candidate
(06:50):
to run up against zoorunmm Donnie. So it's not like
this was a situation where eighty percent of the Democrats
in New York City said what he's selling is what
we want. There were quite a lot they didn't want
anything to do with Mom Donnie.
Speaker 10 (07:05):
But I think you brought up the important point that
I keep kind of asking. The question is, well, all
these socialists are popping up everywhere and this and this,
and they're winning all these elections. And I know the
fear of socialism socialism, But why why are so many
voters attracted to that message that you talked about? Is
because no one's talking about affordability, and here comes a
guy who's less than one hundred years old for a change,
(07:28):
to at least offer some sort of a different prescription
where a lot of people are feeling trapped by the
same old names Cuomo, Pelosi, whatever it may be, Schumber, Schumer,
and then say oh enough and we just want something
different because what we see from an affordability standpoint.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I wasn't working.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's that whole you know, the richer getting richer,
and everyone else is you know barely you know has
food on the table.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Also in New Jersey, I thought it was notable the
Hispanic vote shifted so much from twenty twenty four away
from Republicans and two Democrats. I think that's something to
keep an eye on for twenty twenty six. And then,
like you had mentioned yesterday, California Proposition fifty the most
consequential outcome of the day. Those gains that Republicans made
(08:15):
by doing that redistricting Texas and a few other places
basically wiped out now with California likely going to be
able to hand Democrats five extra seats there. So you know,
this is why I didn't think it was a wise
idea to go down this road, because you're just going
to have, you know, one side doing it here, the
other side doing it there, and at the end of
the day, you're just going to have a lot of
states where now the maps are drawn in a pretty
(08:36):
crazy area, giving one party a way bigger advantage over
the other.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And it's not going to change much in Washington, DC.
But AI do it is my solution.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
That's my suggestion to say, hey, make four hundred and
thirty five circles.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
AI, go ahead, real quick. The UPS cargo plane crash
in Louisville. I know you're covering that. You were joined
by our national correspondent, Roy O'Neil. This is a big store.
At least seven dead right.
Speaker 10 (09:03):
The three crew members are all presumed dead three on
that MD eleven. We see the video now the flames
clearly coming from the left side of the plane as
it's trying to take off.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Looks like that left engine just came off the plane.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
There was some sort of catastrophic failure inside the plane,
inside the engine. The engine probably fell off as a
result and then cut a fuel line. That's what probably
started the fire. The NTSP is getting on the ground,
we'll start to get the official news. But when you
can see parts of the engine, cowling and other pieces
on the silent runway before this plane took off, that's
(09:37):
obviously significant.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You know it's bad, all right. Our national corresponding Rory
O'Neil with US. Rory, thanks so much, thanks Ryan, Real quick,
just a little bit more on that story. The governor
in Kentucky, Andybasheer, said, some victims and critical condition at
local hospitals. You had a couple of businesses nearby struck
and damaged in the crash. It was loaded up with
(09:59):
two hundred eighty thousand gallons of fuel when it went down,
So that's.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Why that explosion vers was massive.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's why it was so big, and so the death
toll at least seven people, but officials say they think
that's actually going to rise as the search and response continues,
So we'll continue to monitor that story throughout the morning.
Today's day thirty six of the government shutdown and new
all time record for government shutdowns.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And there were two big headlines yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt she had to do
some cleanup on Aisle five after President Trump created a
bit of confusion.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
About Snap benefits.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
At our afternoon briefing, levittold reporters the administration was fully
complying with the court order and was working to get
partial SNAP payments out the door as much as we
can and as quickly as we can. Trump had sparked
concern earlier in the day when he posted on truth
Social that Snap benefits quote will only be given out
(10:54):
when radical left Democrats open up the government. Now, Levitt
clarified that the press incident was referring to future Snap payments,
not the partial payments for November. It's not what it
sounded like he was saying in the true Social post,
but it's also Trump, so you never really know. The
other big headline, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned he could
(11:16):
be forced to close some of the national airspace to
air traffic if the shutdown extends another week. So that
situation with air travel across the country during the shutdown,
it's just getting worse.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And that was a major warning that came down yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now, on the positive side of things, there was a
big development. Democrats finally might be coming to terms with
the fact that neither science could come out of the shutdown.
Smelling like a rose, House Minority Leader Kim Jeffries sounds
like he might be softening on the Democrats demand to
negotiate and save those Obamacare subsidies before reopening the government.
(11:53):
He's saying now that while healthcare remains a priority, he
would be willing to evaluate any bipartisan compromise that comes
from the Senate. Now that might not sound like a
big deal, but it's actually a pretty big shift. The
question is what if the proposal comes from the House
not the Senate. The other day you had four House members,
two Republicans and two Democrats. They floated a proposal that
(12:16):
would extend the subsidies for the next two years.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Of course, I can't vote on it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
A House because Speaker Mike Johnson hasn't called the House
in a session in over five weeks so far. That
House proposal the only one offered by either side in
either chamber. And then also yesterday we had told you
that Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he was optimistic
the deal to reopen the government could be struck by
the end of the week. We have a bit more
(12:41):
information on that this morning. He says, a stop gap
spending bill stretching into early next year. It's under consideration
because you got the current bill passed by the House
but rejected over and over and over again in the Senate.
That expires on the twenty first, so the last very long.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
By the time we get it opened back up, it's
just gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Exactly Rick Scott, he was reportedly involved in some heated
discussions with fellow Republicans over this, like Susan Collins and
Katie britt. He wants the stopgap bill to extend it
to January. They want it to go until mid December.
So there's still some stuff that needs to be sorted
out there. But Dune he stopped short of saying he's
confident they'll reach a deal, only he's more upbeat and
(13:22):
then punch Bowl News is reporting there are now more
than a dozen Senate Democrats engaging with Republicans on reopening
the government. So, like I said last week, I thought
there was gonna be quite a bit of progress this
week and then maybe next week we see an end
to the shutdown. And the reason I still think that
it's gonna be really hard for the Senate to pass
(13:42):
a bill to end the shutdown this week. There are
a bunch of procedural reasons as to why. But I
think best case scenario, you get much closer to a
deal this week and then you wrap things up and
take those votes next week. I think there's no question
this cannot continue. You have the air travel issue, he
got snap benefits issue, Thanksgiving holiday coming.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
They got to wrap this up.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Let's go back to the highline and bring in our
White House correspondent John Dekker. Now, so, John, the Supreme
Court about to hear arguments on quite possibly the most
consequential case this year. They're going to be taking a
look at President Trump's tariffs. What do we need to
know about this case?
Speaker 11 (14:23):
Well, what you need to know is that the Supreme
Court will decide whether to uphold rulings by two lower
courts that the president's imposition of those so called reciprocal
tariffs was illegal, was unconstitutional. The White House the president
is relying on a nineteen seventy seven law that has
never been used before to apply tariffs, not even by
(14:44):
President Trump in his first term. And the Solicitor General
of the United States, who will represent the Trump administration
for oral arguments, we'll be asked a number of tough
questions by the Supreme Court justices, including why isn't a
tariff simply a tax on imported goods? And if it
is a tax that of course, as you know, ryan
(15:05):
is a power that's devoted solely to the US Congress.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And also there are these emergency powers that the administration
is claiming they're able to use to do this. Yet
at the same time you see these instances like with
Canada recently, where there was a change in the tariff
policy because of an ad that the country, in particular
(15:33):
Ontario was running. And I just feel like it's those
kinds of examples, and there are quite a few of
them that could potentially undercut the government's argument.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Well, there's that, and there's also the fifty percent tariff
on Brazil. Yep, that was imposed because the president doesn't
like how the legal system in Brazil is going after Bolsonaro,
the former president of Brazil. That has nothing to do
with the national emergency. So yeah, there are some problems.
And then on top of all of that, Ryan, you
have the president's own social media post which can be
(16:04):
used against him in the Supreme Court. So there are
a lot of tough questions. If the Supreme Court wishes
to ask those tough questions today, that will be asked
of the Solicitor General. And of course it's a Supreme
Court that has largely sided with President Trump as it
relates to issues concerning executive power.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
They have, but they've also been a Supreme court that
time and time again has pushed back on different executive
branch powers, saying no, no, no, no, no, Congress, this
is your job, go do it.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
Well, that's exactly right, and so there is a plan
B if the President and the Trump administration lose at
the Supreme Court. I've asked the President about Plan B
before in the Oval office, and what I suggested to
the President, why isn't Congress your plan B. In other words,
if you lose at the Supreme Court, go to Congress
and say these are the tariffs that I want imposed
(16:59):
on everyone of America's trading partners. I've spoken to the
leaders of the Republican leaders of Congress, Ryan, and they.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Say they have the votes.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
They have.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
The vote in Congress actually passed those tariffs. So that
could be the plan be for President Trump if he
loses this case at the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
All right, our White House correspondent John Decker with US
John really appreciate the update.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Thanks right, and of course don't forget you can check
out John on the White House Briefing Room podcast, constantly
updated right on your iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Might be my favorite story of the morning.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Of Customs and Border Protection agent testified yesterday in DC
that a sandwich thrown at him this summer exploded on
his chest, saying he could smell the onions and mustard
through his vest. The defendant, Sean Charles Dunn, who worked
in the Department of Justice, admits he tossed the sandwich
(17:53):
outside of nightclub on August tenth, calling it a protest
against President Trump's immigration crackdown. Prosecutors charge done with misdemeanor assault,
which was to step down from the original felony assault
count that carried up to eight years in prison. His
attorney argued it was a harmless gesture, not a crime, saying,
you know he did it. He threw the sandwich. But
he called the government's response an overreach, and a photo
(18:15):
shown in court reportedly showed the sandwich mostly intact on
the ground, and defense lawyer said that proves it didn't explode.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Now the agen and that sounds pretty convincing.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
The agent insisted that condiments got on his uniform and
that an onion was hanging from his radio antenna.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
This is one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Cases where he really wish there were cameras in the courtroom.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
The other story I want to mention real quick.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Tom Brady says his new dog, Juni, is a genetic
clone of his late pitbull mix Lua, who died in
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
The story was everywhere yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
The cloning was done by Colossal Biosciences, Dallas based biotech
firm that Brady has invested in. He said they used
a blood sample draw taken from Lua before she passed
to recreate her DNA, and he told People magazine that
that non invasive process, gave his family a second chance.
He's not the only one that's done this. Barbara streisand
(19:19):
Paris Hilton, They've cloned dogs. This is nuts to me, Like,
as someone who is a dog owner, and my dog's
kind of on his last leg here, almost seventeen years old,
not a whole lot of time left for him. There
is no way, as much as as much as I
(19:39):
am going to miss Statson dearly, it to me, it's
not him, right, Yeah, it looks like it's weird to me.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
So they look did they look exactly alike? Do they
have the same temperament?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't know that they have the same exact personality.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah, that's what's so weird about it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
If it was a way for me to say stets
In and you know, prolong his like, keep him around,
one hundred percent, would try to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But this is just freaking weird to me.
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