BEST OF - As the government shutdown enters day 34, National Correspondent Rory O’Neill reports that the Trump administration says SNAP benefits could resume this week and previews Tuesday’s key elections. White House Correspondent Jon Decker details how the Pentagon is taking out more “drug boats” and explains President Trump’s latest threat of military action against Nigeria. Plus, a look at how tariffs are affecting holiday prices and shopping trends.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fingerpointing continues on Capitol Hill as the government shutdown reaches
day thirty four with no immediate end in sights, one
day short of tying the record set during President Trump's
first term. House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted on Fox News Sunday,
the Democrats are playing games while people get hurt.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
President is bending over backwards to take care of the
American people, and it's the Democrats who are quite literally
using the people as leverage. I can quote you senator
after House member and the Democrats side in the last
two weeks, so said the quiet parts out loud.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
During an appearance on CNN State of the Union, House
Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries said, it's Republicans who are responsible
for the pan Americans or feeling because of the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And why are Republicans so unwilling to even sit down
and have a conversation with their Democratic colleagues on Capitol
Hill in order to find a bipartisan path forward. It's
because they are trying to inflict this cruelty on the
American people.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Then, last night, during an interview with CBS's sixty Minutes,
Trump was asked about the shutdown and said this about
the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, they've never had this. This has happened like
eighteen times before. The Democrats always voted for an extension,
always saying, give us an extension, we'll work it out.
They've lost their way, they become crazed lunatics.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So basically, we got more of the same from everyone,
all while snap benefits frozen over the weekend for forty
two million Americans in need of food assistance, and air
travel disruptions continue. During an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this about air traffic controllers
who missed their first full paycheck last week.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I've encouraged them all to come to work.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I want them to come to work, but they're making
life decisions that they shouldn't have to make. Let's open
the government up, Let's pay these people, these young controllers.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Duffy also said this about maintaining air travel safety despite
all of these disruptions.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
We will slow traffic down.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
You'll see delays, we'll have flights canceled to make sure
the system is safe. But we have to be honest
when we have controllers where we have shortages and towers
and traycons doing two jobs.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Does it add more risk into the system. Sure it does.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I said last week, these staffing shortages, they're only going
to get worse, They're not going to get better. And
that's what we saw over the weekend. The FA said
eighty percent of controllers were absent at New York area
facilities and half the nation's busiest control center's face staffing gaps.
You had major reports in Houston, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, La, Denver,
and Miami, reporting dozens of delays and cancelations. Newark limited
(02:26):
rivals to about twenty planes per hour, pushing average delays
past three hours. One other thing that Duffy said that
I thought was notable was that he's not going to
fire controllers who stopped showing up. And the reason is simple.
I've talked about this before. For the shutdown, the FA
was already short about three thousand controllers. You can't go
firing the ones that don't show up right now, because
(02:48):
then you'll have nobody when the shutdown ends. So let's
bring in our national correspondent, Roy O'Neil, whose report is
brought to you by Mark Spain Real Estate. So Rory
all Eyes are on the Trump administration and the courts
to see if SNAP benefits could end up being released
this week. There's question as to whether or not maybe
(03:09):
Wednesday might be the day that some food assistant payments
could go out.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
What's the latest on that.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Yeah, or whether or not we just get clarity on
Wednesday about what the program will look like. You know,
there's about five and a quarter billion dollars in reserve funds,
but it costs about eight point two billion dollars a
month for SNAP. But not every state gets the money,
like all in the first or whatever, so it sort
of rolls out. So the government is asking the court, like,
(03:36):
all right, be more specific. Are we just supposed to
give everybody sixty five percent of what we normally do
or is there something else where? You know, we go
alphabetical by a state. Alabama gets everything, Wyoming gets nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Meanwhile, you've got some states, You've got some red states
and blue states, not Florida, but you have some states
declaring states of emergency over this. They're using state money
to help temporarily cover the cost. And while all of
that is playing out, you got these food banks, local organizations.
They are just stretched thin right now, trying to fill
(04:09):
that gap, and it's very difficult.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
To do because the need is so great, right and
then you add a million federal workers to it who
suddenly find themselves they need of some assistance here and there.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
So, yeah, the carl is going out.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
If you've got extra food in the pantry, please be
generous and donate it when you can if you have
extra time. I think a lot of food pantries would
appreciate the help because they're also going into the holidays,
and typically we like to see a lot more donations
this time of year. So yeah, these pantries are being
pulled in every direction right now.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's why I don't think this is going to continue
that much longer. There were some reports over a bit
of progress being made behind the scenes. You're not hearing
this from the house speaker or that house with.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
The middle guys with the guys and gals in the middle.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, yep, yeah, he's not done by leadership, no, no,
So you've got some things happening behind the scenes, and
I think you know, all of this is only gonna
get worse, not gonna get better. Like I've been saying,
the air travel disruption is only gonna get worse, and
we saw that over the weekend and leading up to
the Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I do not agree with like.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Congresswoman Annapoli and a Luna from the Tampa Bay area
saying that this thing is gonna last past Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I don't see that happening.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I think a resolution will come, probably maybe not this week,
but but maybe next week. I always said the Democrats
wanted to break the record. So we're at day thirty four.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
They're about to do that tomorrow, right, it's five.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Is the records.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
They'll tie it tomorrow, They'll break it on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is not going to be a deal before then, But
I think by the end of this week you start
to see some significant progress, and then maybe next week
this thing starts to wrap up. You cannot have lines
at food banks ahead of Thanksgiving containing service members and
their families and air traffic controllers and having all these
people with, you know, just great need right at the holidays,
(05:58):
not to mention the air travel to rys on the
biggest travel week of the year. It just can't happen,
right when it's all self inflicted and exact political purposes.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
And look, we heard from Speaker Johnson saying he now
thinks that this is a political tactic by Democrats. They'll they'll,
you know, they didn't want to get a deal before
the election because it might help Republicans before tomorrow's elections.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Yeah, but they said that about Johnson James.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, he said that about the No King's Day protest,
that they didn't want to get a resolution before the
No Kings pro like that. I think that's nonsense. I
think they want to break the record. I think that's clear.
And I think, you know, both sides playing a little
chicken right now.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
But I think they're going to start the blank.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I think that the newness has certainly worn off and
now there's some real pain being inflicted out there by this.
And doesn't the CIARG just take us to November twenty
first anyway?
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Yeah, they work exactly.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
By the time it's done, we're going to have like
a week.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Of it, right, so you're still in a mess for
Thanksgiving technically.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, I think they'll. I think they'll fix that. I
think that's what I have to be adjusted to. H Yeah,
and the House needs to return to DC. So yeah, yeah,
they got to.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Get back the House. And comes the Epstein files.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
And I'm right, boy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe they'll get released right before Thanksgiving so we can
have some real good conversations around the Thanksgiving dinner table.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Hey, hey, Prince Andrew got released.
Speaker 10 (07:18):
So that's that's the Andrew formerly known as Prince.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Right, that's what we're calling there.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You go, Yeah, Rory O'Neil our national correspondent with US.
So tomorrow we've got some elections, and obviously the one
getting the most attention the mayoral race in New York City.
And there was an interesting development tied to Zoran Mamdani,
the front runner get former President Barack Obamaca McCall. Now,
he didn't endorse him, but you say this campaign was impressive.
(07:46):
They spoke for thirty minutes, he offered his help all
of that.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I'll be a sounding board for you, those kind of things.
Because he's a democratic socialist. And there's this suggestion of
is he the new face of the Republican Party and
AOC is more Democratic Party, right of the Democratic Party? Sorry,
so is he the new face of that party? And
can they reform the party much the same way Donald
Trump reformed the party from it ain't Reagan's Republican Party anymore?
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Right? And this is not JFK's Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
No, if he wins, I don't see how you get
around the fact that AOC and Zo run Mom, Donnie
and Bernie Sanders are the faces of the party.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I don't see how Democrats avoid that. Now.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
My problem with Zoe Run Mom Donnie not so much
at the moment on an ideological uh issue, although I
have plenty of problems with his ideology and his policy positions.
Mine has to do with a quiz that he took
during a podcast.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Musical one is this the music one?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
This is the musical ones? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So, so he correctly names tracks by Jay Z and
the Strokes and Mob Deep and yep. And the person
who's the front runner to lead New York City didn't
know who sang this song?
Speaker 9 (09:11):
H ahmen new.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
How how.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I don't even care about the socialism stuff anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
You cannot get elected just based off of this.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
How they they told him, they said he's an artist
who plays the piano and.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Is from Long Island, and he still couldn't get it.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
You're jeez.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Failed to recognize Billy Joel New York state of mind,
and he's the leading candidate for mayor.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Of New York Uh, he knew who Bad Bunny was.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
That's right, he sure did, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil with us this morning.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Rory, thanks so much.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Let's go back to the hotline and bring in our
White House correspondent John Decker. Now, John, appreciate you joining
us this morning, and I want to talk about some
of what President Trump had to say on sixty Minutes
last night, in particular his comments about Venezuela. He was
asked if the US is going to war with Venezuela,
and he stopped short of saying that, just that it
(10:32):
sounds like they're trying to put maximum pressure on the
Maduro regime to enact regime change. Is that your read
on the situation?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (10:42):
Absolutely, the president the United States does not recognized Maduro
as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, nor do dozens of
other countries as well. And the President, when asked by
Nora O'Donnell in sixty Minutes, essentially said he would not
be sad if Maduro left it position leading the government
(11:02):
of Venezuela. The President did not, however, indicate that he
is for regime change. But you can see the actions
that the President, through the military has been taking The
President also indicated a few weeks.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Ago that there are CIA.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Personnel potentially on the ground right now in Venezuela.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
And you know, the.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
CIA certainly has worked before in Central and South America
for regime change. That could be the case as well
as it relates to Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
What about the reaction among members of Congress to all
of this, the taking out of the alleged narco trafficking boats,
Any appetite in Congress to take a more active role
in either oversight or creating some authorization for the President
to keep doing this stuff.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
Well, the President actually is coming upon the sixty day
notice under the War Powers Act, and that sixty day
deadline is today, So perhaps the President will take some
action in terms of informing Congress what his intent is
related to Venezuela. There are members of Congress who sit
(12:12):
on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed
Services Committee from both parties who have said that the
evidence that the administration has provided indicating that the votes
that have been taken out through these strikes, these drone strikes,
these missile strikes, scant evidence that they contain drugs which
is what has been alleged by the Trump administration. That
(12:33):
being said, it's every other day, every few days we
hear of a new strike on a drug boat. In fact,
there were additional strikes on gunboats that took place in
Venezuela off the waters of Venezuela over the course of
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We're joined by our White House correspondent John Decker. Last
thing I want to ask you about what is going
on with Nigeria and how did that end up becoming
a country in the President's crossairs.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Well, there are some members of Congress, like Ted Cruz
that have urged the President to focus on Nigeria. They
say that Christians are being persecuted there. The country is
the most populous country in Africa. Half the country is Muslim,
half the country is Christian, and in the northern part
of the country, indeed, Christians have been persecuted by Boca
(13:20):
Haram over the course of the past decade. And the
President putting out a social media post saying that he's
turning his attention to that as well, and suggested in
that social media post that the US could put US
troops on the ground. The president's words, guns of blazing
to go after these terrorist groups that are going after
Christians in Nigeria now, and.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Our White House correspondent John Decker with the latest this morning.
John really appreciated, Thanks so much. Thank you, Ryan, And
of course you can get more of John on the
White House Briefing Room podcast, which you can check out
on your iHeartRadio app. And somebody who came out in
favor of the President's tough stance on Nigeria, rapper Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
So really yes, I just.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Never know who's going to get behind it Trump policy,
but Nicki Minaj coming out supporting Trump on that Blending
Tree says American consumers are going to be paying more
this holiday season due to tariffs. The company estimates the
new tariffs will increase total holiday costs for consumers and
retailers by a total of over forty billion dollars. Consumers
(14:23):
are expected to bear the brunt of the extra cost,
paying around thirty billion of that forty billion dollars total,
which would come to around one hundred and thirty two
dollars per Shoper. Now these are just projections, just guesses.
I do think that tariffs are going to increase costs
for some things this holiday season, and I don't think
(14:43):
a lot of retailers are going to be absorbing those costs,
not nearly as many as earlier on. In this trade war,
this change in trade policy and the part of the
Trump administration, I think the holidays are going to be
key for President Trump's tariff policy because I think if
you've got families across the country that feel a noticeable
(15:07):
difference with their holiday spending, that I think the approval
ratings for his plans for the economy and stuff like
that are going to go down leading into the midterm
election next year, which could be costly to Republicans.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Now, that might not be the case so far.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You know, it's been a bit of a mixed bag
in terms of whether or not people are really feeling
the tariffs.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
But I think the holidays are going to be key
in all of that. So Ryan Gorman Show on news
radio WFLA.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show,
and find us online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
Fingerpointing continues on Capitol Hill as the government shutdown reaches
day thirty four with no immediate end in sights, one
day short of tying the record set during President Trump's
first term. House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted on Fox News Sunday,
the Democrats are playing games while people get hurt.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
President is bending over backwards to take care of the
American people, and it's the Democrats who are quite literally
using the people as leverage. I can quote you senator
after House member and the Democrats side in the last
two weeks, so said the quiet parts out loud.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
During an appearance on CNN State of the Union, House
Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries said, it's Republicans who are responsible
for the pan Americans or feeling because of the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And why are Republicans so unwilling to even sit down
and have a conversation with their Democratic colleagues on Capitol
Hill in order to find a bipartisan path forward. It's
because they are trying to inflict this cruelty on the
American people.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Then, last night, during an interview with CBS's sixty Minutes,
Trump was asked about the shutdown and said this about
the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, they've never had this. This has happened like
eighteen times before. The Democrats always voted for an extension,
always saying, give us an extension, we'll work it out.
They've lost their way, they become crazed lunatics.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So basically, we got more of the same from everyone,
all while snap benefits frozen over the weekend for forty
two million Americans in need of food assistance, and air
travel disruptions continue. During an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this about air traffic controllers
who missed their first full paycheck last week.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I've encouraged them all to come to work.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I want them to come to work, but they're making
life decisions that they shouldn't have to make. Let's open
the government up, Let's pay these people, these young controllers.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Duffy also said this about maintaining air travel safety despite
all of these disruptions.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
We will slow traffic down.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
You'll see delays, we'll have flights canceled to make sure
the system is safe. But we have to be honest
when we have controllers where we have shortages and towers
and traycons doing two jobs.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Does it add more risk into the system. Sure it does.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I said last week, these staffing shortages, they're only going
to get worse, They're not going to get better. And
that's what we saw over the weekend. The FA said
eighty percent of controllers were absent at New York area
facilities and half the nation's busiest control center's face staffing gaps.
You had major reports in Houston, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, La, Denver,
and Miami, reporting dozens of delays and cancelations. Newark limited
(02:26):
rivals to about twenty planes per hour, pushing average delays
past three hours. One other thing that Duffy said that
I thought was notable was that he's not going to
fire controllers who stopped showing up. And the reason is simple.
I've talked about this before. For the shutdown, the FA
was already short about three thousand controllers. You can't go
firing the ones that don't show up right now, because
(02:48):
then you'll have nobody when the shutdown ends. So let's
bring in our national correspondent, Roy O'Neil, whose report is
brought to you by Mark Spain Real Estate. So Rory
all Eyes are on the Trump administration and the courts
to see if SNAP benefits could end up being released
this week. There's question as to whether or not maybe
(03:09):
Wednesday might be the day that some food assistant payments
could go out.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
What's the latest on that.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
Yeah, or whether or not we just get clarity on
Wednesday about what the program will look like. You know,
there's about five and a quarter billion dollars in reserve funds,
but it costs about eight point two billion dollars a
month for SNAP. But not every state gets the money,
like all in the first or whatever, so it sort
of rolls out. So the government is asking the court, like,
(03:36):
all right, be more specific. Are we just supposed to
give everybody sixty five percent of what we normally do
or is there something else where? You know, we go
alphabetical by a state. Alabama gets everything, Wyoming gets nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Meanwhile, you've got some states, You've got some red states
and blue states, not Florida, but you have some states
declaring states of emergency over this. They're using state money
to help temporarily cover the cost. And while all of
that is playing out, you got these food banks, local organizations.
They are just stretched thin right now, trying to fill
(04:09):
that gap, and it's very difficult.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
To do because the need is so great, right and
then you add a million federal workers to it who
suddenly find themselves they need of some assistance here and there.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
So, yeah, the carl is going out.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
If you've got extra food in the pantry, please be
generous and donate it when you can if you have
extra time. I think a lot of food pantries would
appreciate the help because they're also going into the holidays,
and typically we like to see a lot more donations
this time of year. So yeah, these pantries are being
pulled in every direction right now.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's why I don't think this is going to continue
that much longer. There were some reports over a bit
of progress being made behind the scenes. You're not hearing
this from the house speaker or that house with.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
The middle guys with the guys and gals in the middle.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, yep, yeah, he's not done by leadership, no, no,
So you've got some things happening behind the scenes, and
I think you know, all of this is only gonna
get worse, not gonna get better. Like I've been saying,
the air travel disruption is only gonna get worse, and
we saw that over the weekend and leading up to
the Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I do not agree with like.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Congresswoman Annapoli and a Luna from the Tampa Bay area
saying that this thing is gonna last past Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I don't see that happening.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I think a resolution will come, probably maybe not this week,
but but maybe next week. I always said the Democrats
wanted to break the record. So we're at day thirty four.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
They're about to do that tomorrow, right, it's five.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Is the records.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
They'll tie it tomorrow, They'll break it on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is not going to be a deal before then, But
I think by the end of this week you start
to see some significant progress, and then maybe next week
this thing starts to wrap up. You cannot have lines
at food banks ahead of Thanksgiving containing service members and
their families and air traffic controllers and having all these
people with, you know, just great need right at the holidays,
(05:58):
not to mention the air travel to rys on the
biggest travel week of the year. It just can't happen,
right when it's all self inflicted and exact political purposes.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
And look, we heard from Speaker Johnson saying he now
thinks that this is a political tactic by Democrats. They'll they'll,
you know, they didn't want to get a deal before
the election because it might help Republicans before tomorrow's elections.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Yeah, but they said that about Johnson James.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, he said that about the No King's Day protest,
that they didn't want to get a resolution before the
No Kings pro like that. I think that's nonsense. I
think they want to break the record. I think that's clear.
And I think, you know, both sides playing a little
chicken right now.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
But I think they're going to start the blank.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I think that the newness has certainly worn off and
now there's some real pain being inflicted out there by this.
And doesn't the CIARG just take us to November twenty
first anyway?
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Yeah, they work exactly.
Speaker 10 (06:50):
By the time it's done, we're going to have like
a week.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Of it, right, so you're still in a mess for
Thanksgiving technically.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, I think they'll. I think they'll fix that. I
think that's what I have to be adjusted to. H Yeah,
and the House needs to return to DC. So yeah, yeah,
they got to.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Get back the House. And comes the Epstein files.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
And I'm right, boy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe they'll get released right before Thanksgiving so we can
have some real good conversations around the Thanksgiving dinner table.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Hey, hey, Prince Andrew got released.
Speaker 10 (07:18):
So that's that's the Andrew formerly known as Prince.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Right, that's what we're calling there.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You go, Yeah, Rory O'Neil our national correspondent with US.
So tomorrow we've got some elections, and obviously the one
getting the most attention the mayoral race in New York City.
And there was an interesting development tied to Zoran Mamdani,
the front runner get former President Barack Obamaca McCall. Now,
he didn't endorse him, but you say this campaign was impressive.
(07:46):
They spoke for thirty minutes, he offered his help all
of that.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I'll be a sounding board for you, those kind of things.
Because he's a democratic socialist. And there's this suggestion of
is he the new face of the Republican Party and
AOC is more Democratic Party, right of the Democratic Party? Sorry,
so is he the new face of that party? And
can they reform the party much the same way Donald
Trump reformed the party from it ain't Reagan's Republican Party anymore?
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Right? And this is not JFK's Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
No, if he wins, I don't see how you get
around the fact that AOC and Zo run Mom, Donnie
and Bernie Sanders are the faces of the party.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I don't see how Democrats avoid that. Now.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
My problem with Zoe Run Mom Donnie not so much
at the moment on an ideological uh issue, although I
have plenty of problems with his ideology and his policy positions.
Mine has to do with a quiz that he took
during a podcast.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Musical one is this the music one?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
This is the musical ones? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So, so he correctly names tracks by Jay Z and
the Strokes and Mob Deep and yep. And the person
who's the front runner to lead New York City didn't
know who sang this song?
Speaker 9 (09:11):
H ahmen new.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
How how.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I don't even care about the socialism stuff anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
You cannot get elected just based off of this.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
How they they told him, they said he's an artist
who plays the piano and.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Is from Long Island, and he still couldn't get it.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
You're jeez.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Failed to recognize Billy Joel New York state of mind,
and he's the leading candidate for mayor.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
Of New York Uh, he knew who Bad Bunny was.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
That's right, he sure did, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil with us this morning.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Rory, thanks so much.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Let's go back to the hotline and bring in our
White House correspondent John Decker. Now, John, appreciate you joining
us this morning, and I want to talk about some
of what President Trump had to say on sixty Minutes
last night, in particular his comments about Venezuela. He was
asked if the US is going to war with Venezuela,
and he stopped short of saying that, just that it
(10:32):
sounds like they're trying to put maximum pressure on the
Maduro regime to enact regime change. Is that your read
on the situation?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (10:42):
Absolutely, the president the United States does not recognized Maduro
as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, nor do dozens of
other countries as well. And the President, when asked by
Nora O'Donnell in sixty Minutes, essentially said he would not
be sad if Maduro left it position leading the government
(11:02):
of Venezuela. The President did not, however, indicate that he
is for regime change. But you can see the actions
that the President, through the military has been taking The
President also indicated a few weeks.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Ago that there are CIA.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Personnel potentially on the ground right now in Venezuela.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
And you know, the.
Speaker 11 (11:22):
CIA certainly has worked before in Central and South America
for regime change. That could be the case as well
as it relates to Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
What about the reaction among members of Congress to all
of this, the taking out of the alleged narco trafficking boats,
Any appetite in Congress to take a more active role
in either oversight or creating some authorization for the President
to keep doing this stuff.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
Well, the President actually is coming upon the sixty day
notice under the War Powers Act, and that sixty day
deadline is today, So perhaps the President will take some
action in terms of informing Congress what his intent is
related to Venezuela. There are members of Congress who sit
(12:12):
on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed
Services Committee from both parties who have said that the
evidence that the administration has provided indicating that the votes
that have been taken out through these strikes, these drone strikes,
these missile strikes, scant evidence that they contain drugs which
is what has been alleged by the Trump administration. That
(12:33):
being said, it's every other day, every few days we
hear of a new strike on a drug boat. In fact,
there were additional strikes on gunboats that took place in
Venezuela off the waters of Venezuela over the course of
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
We're joined by our White House correspondent John Decker. Last
thing I want to ask you about what is going
on with Nigeria and how did that end up becoming
a country in the President's crossairs.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Well, there are some members of Congress, like Ted Cruz
that have urged the President to focus on Nigeria. They
say that Christians are being persecuted there. The country is
the most populous country in Africa. Half the country is Muslim,
half the country is Christian, and in the northern part
of the country, indeed, Christians have been persecuted by Boca
(13:20):
Haram over the course of the past decade. And the
President putting out a social media post saying that he's
turning his attention to that as well, and suggested in
that social media post that the US could put US
troops on the ground. The president's words, guns of blazing
to go after these terrorist groups that are going after
Christians in Nigeria now, and.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Our White House correspondent John Decker with the latest this morning.
John really appreciated, Thanks so much. Thank you, Ryan, And
of course you can get more of John on the
White House Briefing Room podcast, which you can check out
on your iHeartRadio app. And somebody who came out in
favor of the President's tough stance on Nigeria, rapper Nicki Minaj.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
So really yes, I just.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Never know who's going to get behind it Trump policy,
but Nicki Minaj coming out supporting Trump on that Blending
Tree says American consumers are going to be paying more
this holiday season due to tariffs. The company estimates the
new tariffs will increase total holiday costs for consumers and
retailers by a total of over forty billion dollars. Consumers
(14:23):
are expected to bear the brunt of the extra cost,
paying around thirty billion of that forty billion dollars total,
which would come to around one hundred and thirty two
dollars per Shoper. Now these are just projections, just guesses.
I do think that tariffs are going to increase costs
for some things this holiday season, and I don't think
(14:43):
a lot of retailers are going to be absorbing those costs,
not nearly as many as earlier on. In this trade war,
this change in trade policy and the part of the
Trump administration, I think the holidays are going to be
key for President Trump's tariff policy because I think if
you've got families across the country that feel a noticeable
(15:07):
difference with their holiday spending, that I think the approval
ratings for his plans for the economy and stuff like
that are going to go down leading into the midterm
election next year, which could be costly to Republicans.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Now, that might not be the case so far.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You know, it's been a bit of a mixed bag
in terms of whether or not people are really feeling
the tariffs.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
But I think the holidays are going to be key
in all of that. So Ryan Gorman Show on news
radio WFLA.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show,
and find us online at Ryangormanshow dot com.
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