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October 9, 2025 12 mins
BEST OF - Tensions rise in Washington as the federal government shutdown approaches its second week. Israel and Hamas agree to phase one of a peace deal, while former FBI Director James Comey’s case heads to court. President Trump demands the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor be jailed for failing to protect federal agents, and we cover today’s top business headlines.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For the sixth time in a row, the Senate failed
to advance Republican and Democratic bills that would have brought
the government shut down to an end, and frustration over
the stalemate in the Senate led to some tense confrontations
on Capitol Hill. Arizona Senators Reuben Diego and Mark Kelly
confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson outside his office, and then
Republican Congressman Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies

(00:22):
faced off in a hallway.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Because you don't want to hear what I have to say.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Why don't you just keep your mouth shut fighting words?
Here's more, by the way, let me ask you, let
me ask you a question.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
For years, you're making a show of this to you.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
You're embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Some things are going well in DC right now. And then,
after floating the idea of taking up legislation make sure
members of the military and air traffic controllers keep getting
paid on time, House Speaker Mike Johnson reversed course, saying
the job in the House is done and even though
they'll get back pay, the first paycheck they're going to
miss is coming up on the fifteen, So that's one
of the dates to keep an eye on, and the

(01:07):
cracks in the GOP coalition keep widening. South Florida Republican
Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said yesterday the government needs to
remain open, give furloughed workers back pay, and extend expiring
Obamacare subsidies before the end of the year.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm against to waste, fraud and abuse, but I am
in favor of helping those people who need help.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
And if you need help and you like.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Your Obamacare, you keep your Obamacare the way that we
have offered it to you. We still have time, and
that's why we need to open the governments again to
go back to the negotiating table and be able to
negotiate and extend those subsidies if those people need them.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
About three hundred thousand of the nearly five million Floridians
with Obamacare policies are in her district, and she acknowledged
that the expiring subsidies are going to make premiums too
expensive for a lot of her constituents, not just Republicans.
Becoming more open to some kind of a compromise deal,
You've got some moderate Democrats showing support for placing an
income cap on eligibility for those Obamacare tax credits. So

(02:08):
it doesn't seem like there's a lot of progress happening
in DC. But I think behind the scenes there are
some things that are being discussed that could eventually lead
to a deal that will end the shutdown. We're going
to have more on this obviously. Throughout the morning, President
Trump announced that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the
first phase of his proposed peace plan. Trump posted on
truth social that all of the hostages will be released

(02:30):
soon and Israel will withdraw their troops to a degree
uponline as the first steps toward a strong, durable, and
everlasting peace. Then after that post last night, he called
into Fox News and said this.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I spoke to bb Net Yahoo just a little
while ago.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
He called.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
He said, I can't believe it. He said, everybody's liking
me now they meeting him, and I said that more importantly,
they're loving Israel again. Now.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Earlier in the day, there was an indication the peace
talks were progressing, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio interrupted
Trump during a meeting and handed him a note.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
See, I was just given a note by the Secretary
of State saying that we're very close to a deal
in the Middle East, and they'll get a need me
pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
If you've seen that image of Rubio kind of whispering
in his ear, it reminded me of President George W.
Bush on nine to eleven.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, it totally. Did you know when he was sitting
there reading.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
To this, Yeah, only this time it was good news.
That note reportedly said quote very close. We need you
to approve a truth social post so you can announce
the deal first. Trump had also said yesterday before the
deal was announced, that with the progress that was being made,
he may take a trip to the Middle East as
soon as this weekend.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's something I think that will happen, got a good
chance of happening. I may go there sometime towards the
end of the week, maybe on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So negotiations took place in Egypt yesterday. I had Special
Envoy Steve Witcoff and Jered Kushner there along with negotiators
from Israel and Hamas and mediators from Cutter, Egypt and Turkey.
According to the deal, the remaining Israeli hostages, including about
twenty who are still believed to be alive. They'll be
released between now and Monday, and then Israeli troops in

(04:17):
Gaza they'll conduct a partial withdrawal and Israel will release
hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. We're going to talk
to Jordana Miller from ABC News. She's live in Israel.
We'll talk to her at six forty five and I
can't wait to get her take on the reaction in Israel.
I mean, it looks like it's just a huge celebration, honestly.

(04:39):
There they're finally getting the hostages back. Former FBI director
James Comy pleaded not guilty in federal court in Alexandria,
Virginia yesterday to two charges brought by the Trump Justice Department,
making false statements to Congress in twenty twenty and obstructing
its Russia probe investigation. The judge said a jury trial
for January fifth, rejecting prosecutors' request for a delay. Prosecutors

(05:03):
conceded the case as complex, but the judge said false
statement cases are pretty straightforward, and the Department of Justice
had already waited nearly five years to file. Comy's attorney,
Pat Fitzgerald, anounced plans to file motions to dismiss based
on selective and vindictive prosecution, and to challenge Lindsay Halligan's
appointment as US Attorney. So what the government has to

(05:25):
do here They have to prove that James Comy wilfully
made a knowingly false statement. That is really hard to prove.
The alleged lie here that Komy denied authorizing an FBI
employee to speak anonymously about the investigation of Hillary Clinton,
That's what this is all about, kind of contradicts everything

(05:47):
we know. We haven't seen any evidence showing that he
authorized Deputy Director Andrew McCabe or a consultant at the
center of this, Daniel Richmond, to leak Clinton related to Matro.
He might have known they were going to, might have
talked to them about it, but yet to prove that
he authorized it, that he gave the code read.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, how would you prove? How are they going to
prove that?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
It's tough. Now. Komy's push to get it dismissed, saying
it's a selective and vindictive prosecution. The fact the indictment
came after Trump publicly attacked Attorney General Pam Bondi over it,
and then fired a prosecutor who wouldn't bring the case
and has pardoned political allies like Michael Flynn and Paul

(06:32):
Maniford and Roger Stone for the same kind of stuff.
I'm telling you right now, this thing might never even
get to trial, So we'll see where it goes. The
trials set for January fifth, But I would keep an
eye on this motion to dismiss because there's a lot
there that I think Kobe's team has to work with.
Tensions are heating up between President Trump and Illinois leaders

(06:55):
as the White House considers invoking the Insurrection Act. Trump
blasted Illinois Governor JB. Pritsker and Chicago's mayor, accusing them
of failing to protect ice officers, saying they should be
in jail.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I've seen the law, and when you have a group
of people with the police call off the safety for
ice officials, I've understood that, and I've read it today
in numerous journals that that's illegal.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
After that, Illinois Governor JB. Prisker compared the Trump administration
to the Nazis.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
In the early days of the Nazi regime, they started
slowly but surely taking away people's rights and what we're
seeing now is the very same thing they've gone into
cities now with the military.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
He also claimed the president has dementia and then issued
this challenge to Trump he.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Likes to pretend to be a tough guy, Come and
get me in.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also responded making it a racial
issue by saying, quote, it's certainly not the first time
that Donald Trump has called for the arrest of a
black man unjustly, so lots going on there. Look, I
saw the Trump post about jailing them, and it became
a big, big freak out in the media. The President's

(08:06):
calling to jail his political opponents and all of that.
At this point, I don't know that's stuff that Trump says.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Look, Trump, ye, he's not really going to jail.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Them, No, nor should he. I don't think they're doing
a very good job at all. In fact, I think
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's probably the worst mayor in the
entire country. But there's a leap from that to like
jailing them h And then of course you get the
Illinois governor going down the Nazi road. So the whole.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Rhetoric thing that's ridiculous. On the other.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Side right right, and you've got the racial card being
played by the mayor. Even though Trump didn't just say
I want to jail Brandon Johnson, he said he wanted
to jail JB. Pritzker two and he's white. So the
whole thing is ridiculous. And this keeps escalating in these
different cities. Me oll while you've got some cities like

(09:01):
Memphis and others where they're welcoming the National Guard and
to assist, and things seem to be going well there
and there isn't a giant freak out. So there were
a couple of incidents that I will note we're troubling.
So you've got protesters who are causing problems for ICE officials,
like in Chicago. I have seen some stories and some

(09:24):
videos of how some ICE officials and federal agents have
handled certain situations there. That's not helping. So you've just
got this escalating situation and nobody seems to be able
to bring the temperature down a bit. Investor is going
to be watching closely today when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome
Powell delivers the speech at a banking conference in DC.

(09:45):
His remarks could give us an idea about where the
FED might be headed with future interest rate cuts. Disney
tweaking its prices again at Walt disney World, peak day
tickets like Christmas Week at Magic Kingdom now in the
top two hundred dollars for the first time.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh my gosh, this is why I don't go there anymore.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Now, most other single day tickets only going up about
five bucks. The cheapest tickets stayed the same. And then
at the same time, Disney is offering some of its
biggest discounts in years, tied to hotel stays, up to
two hundred and fifty dollars off per night on resort packages,
and then free dining plans for kids. So it's like
a balance of some price increases in some potential discounts.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, I think you get those discounts if you're staying
for three.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Four five days exactly, if you're doing a longer trip.
Some of the reasons for the price akes, they say
higher labor costs, construction costs, and food costs. Plus we
all know the mouse. He likes to live a life
of luxury.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
That's right, he does.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
We've been covering the story of the death of a
man riding a roller coaster at Epic Universe here in Florida.
While we're on the topic of Disney, a woman died
after suffering a medical episode while on the Hunted Mansion
ride in Disneyland. The guess, described as a woman in
her sixties, was on board the attraction on Monday evening
when she was found unresponsive at the end of the ride.

(11:07):
We don't have any other details. I don't think she
was scared. I think you know.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, I've been on the Haunted Mansion at Orlando disney World,
but not the one in Anaheim, so I don't know
how intense it is. But the one at Disney r
is not. Nh, It's not very intense.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
At all, right, right, but that is a breaking story
this morning. And then Steak and Shake they've launched a
new patriotic initiative to install the tallest and biggest American
flags permitted by local governments at restaurants nationwide. Boy, when
you see what's going on with Cracker Barrel, and we

(11:43):
talked about Maxwell House and the stupid Maxwell Apartment promotion,
Steak and Shake nailed it here.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
They got it right, Yes they did.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
The chain said the effort reflects its commitment to American
values and traditions and photos shared on X show employees
standing beneath huge flags, drawing hundreds of thousands of views
and widespread praise from customers. That is a company doing
it right.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
And steak in shake. It's their CEO, who is also
an investor in Cracker Barrel, who really went and hard
on them on all the decisions that they made exactly.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
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