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October 7, 2025 14 mins
BEST OF - Fox News Radio’s Ryan Schmelz gives the latest on the government shutdown, while National Correspondent Rory O’Neill marks the second anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks and previews Amazon’s two-day Prime Day sales event kicking off this week.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dueling government funding bills both failed in the Senate as
the government shut down continues.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
On this vote, the ya's are fifty two and the
na's are forty two.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Three fifths of the Senate duly chosen and sworn not
having voted in the affirmation affirmative.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
The motion is not agreed to.

Speaker 5 (00:18):
So that's a no.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
It didn't pass, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
A lot of words to say that. Yesterday, House Speaker
Mike Johnson explained why he thinks there's a disagreement among Democrats.

Speaker 6 (00:29):
Because the far left base in the Democrat Party has
turned on Jucktionamer because he did the responsible thing, get
the lights on one, because they want him to show
a fight against President Trump.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I think he's right about that, but this was the
comment that caught my attention.

Speaker 6 (00:45):
They decided that they would pick a fight on healthcare. Well,
let me look right into the camera and tell you
very clearly, Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans
are the party working around the clock every day to
fix healthcare.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I think there's a bit of concern that the Democrats
messaging might be breaking through a bid. And it does
sound like, you know, with that response and some other
things that I heard yesterday from Republicans that pressures starting
to build on them a little bit to come.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Up with a fix.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah, he's addressing healthcare now.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
House Minority Leader Kim Jefferies was on The Today Show
and was asked why Democrats can't wait to address healthcare funding.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
The enrollment period opens on November first, notices have already
started to go out indicating that premiums, co pays and
deductibles for tens of millions of Americans all across the
country are going to dramatically increase.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
President Trump was also asked about the shutdown and the
healthcare issue at the center of it yesterday and said this.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
We could have a much better healthcare than we have
right now, and we're talking to him.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I mean, I'm not saying this is going to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Because this has also been going on, not for three
thousand years, but it's been going on for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
He was talking about the Middle East peace deal and
all of that. That's where that three thousand years thing
came up. But it does feel like healthcare has been
a battle for three thousand years in this country. Trump
seemed to indicate during his back and forth with reporters
in the Oval office that maybe there were some negotiations
with Democrats happening. Chuck Schumer said that's not the case.
Then later the President confirmed there are no negotiations happening.
And then there was this. Mike Johnson rejected a request

(02:19):
from Hakeem Jeffries for a nationally televised debate on the
government shutdown, so Jeffries proposed a primetime showdown on the
House floor. Johnson dismissed the idea as theatrics, saying the
House has already done its job. I would have liked
to have seen that, really, I think that would have

(02:40):
been an interesting thing. Like could you imagine Hakeem Jeffries
and Mike Johnson having a debate in the House chamber.
I mean, look, it's not like watching the Super Bowl. Okay,
I get that, but I just think, you know, with
the government shutdown underway, having the leaders from both parties
kind of battle it out there, and that would have

(03:01):
been interesting. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Gather the family around, I'll
put the phones down and watch. But that's not going
to happen. Now, let's go to the hotline and bring
in Fox News Radio. Congressional correspondent Ryan Schmel, So you
can follow for more on x at Ryan Schmel's Fox.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
So.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Ryan thought there were a couple of notable development minor
developments yesterday with government shutdown, the President seemed to indicate
that negotiations with Democrats were happening, but then you had
top Democrats say that's not the case. What have you
heard about any communication among Democratic leadership in the White

(03:39):
House leadership?

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Not really much. There might be some talks between maybe
the President some rank and file members, and also what
it sounds like too, is that there are some, you know,
bipartisan conversations on going between some of the more rank
and file members of the Senate, But in terms of
top leadership in the White House, doesn't seem like communications happening.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Republicans continue to hold firm But I did here in
listening to some of the different statements a bit more
about how they want to fix healthcare, which sounded a
little bit more defensive than at the start of the shutdown,
like the issue the Democrats are pushing Republicans are now

(04:25):
having to respond to.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, and I think there have been Republicans who've been
on board with at least some type of extension of
these Affordable Care Act text subject these from the start,
but the plan in which the Democrats have put forward
is just a simple no go for them. Leader Finner
said that there needs to be reforms to this program.
Lisa McClain, who's the number four House Republican, told me

(04:50):
a couple of weeks ago that she wants a complete
overhaul of the system. So it seems like our Republicans
are open to it, but there's going to need to
be some significant changes to it, whether it be you know,
changes to who gets on their income caps whatnot. Those
are kind of some of the things floated around. But
in terms of, you know, a hardline plan, I mean,

(05:11):
you know that hadn't been worked out yet because they
haven't negotiated anything.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Are you hearing that Republican members of Congress are worried
about these premium increases they're going to hit some of
their their constituents and their districts who would potentially lose
those Obamacare subsidies.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh, there definitely are. But I haven't heard many Republicans
who thinks that it is a bad idea to leave
them out of the government funding talks. Okay, because I
think their logic is like, Okay, first of all, they
think it's kind of ridiculous to be attaching a major
healthcare provision or a major healthcare proposal to a couple

(05:56):
weeks of government funding. You know, they think that they
think that's a ridiculous idea, and I think that's conference
wide amongst Republicans, whether you like the tax subsidy or don't.
And then the other thought that Republicans have too is
you know that they want to extend it in some ways,
but they also want to reform the program. They think
that's a something that needs to be negotiated actually worked

(06:19):
out with Democrats. So it just seems like both sides
are just a little far apart on that. And look,
I think the Republicans to support the extension too, also
think that it's actually going to get done because it's
it's widely supported by Democrats, and if you get enough
Republicans on board, then it's gonna it's gonna have the vote.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
What about Democrats, have you noticed any cracks in h
their coalition over the past twenty four hours.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Not yet, No, And if anything, it's probably you're probably
seeing more of a crack in the wrong direction. For
the Republicans, where you have Angus King, who's the independent
who caucuses with Democrats out of Maine, who's one of
the yeses on the government funding package. He voted yes
yesterday again, but he's also someone who said he might

(07:05):
flip if the Trump administration starts laying people off. So
that's a step in the wrong direction if anybody's going
to put, you know, track the progress of where things
are going right now.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
We're joined by foxti's ready of Congressional correspondent Ryan Schmel's
again you can follow him on x for all the
latest on the government shutdown at Ryan Schmell's fots. So,
despite the shutdown, stuff is still happening in the Senate.
At least there's a big hearing today featuring Attorney General
Pam Bondi.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, Attorney General Bondi is going to be a meeting
before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Obviously you can expect a
lot of questions about either James Comin, maybe some Jeffrey
Epstein questions as well. So I think you could get
a look contentious today. Obviously, probably not as bad as
it would be if she were going to were to
go to the House side this week. The House Judiciary
Committee is often a place where you see significant fireworks,

(07:55):
but he's not going there this week because the House
is staying out of session.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
All right, Fotstinus Radio Congressional correspondent Bryan Schmels with us
this morning. Ryan, appreciate the update, Thanks so.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Much, Thank you. Ran.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Let's bringing our national correspondent Rory O'Neil, whose report is
brought to you by Mark Spain Real Estate. So Rory.
Middle East peace talks continue today on the two year
anniversary of the October seventh attacks, and it's really kind
of hard to wrap your head around how much that
day changed the world, especially that region.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
It is difficult when you think of the twelve hundred
Israelis Jews who were killed that day in the attack,
two hundred and fifty one taken hostage, and then in
response over the past two years, Hamas and the Health
Minister their claims that the sixty seven thousand Palestinians have
also been killed in the past two years, plus the
destruction all across Gaza, and of course Israel's view in

(08:52):
the world.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Around the world.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Has also changed pretty significantly. We're seeing a lot less
support for Israel specifically it's Prime Minister net Yahoo. We are.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
But then you look at the operations that Israel has
conducted since October seventh Hamas. I mean, there are some remnants, obviously,
but largely destroyed Hesbolah, destroyed, Iran severely set back with
their nuclear capabilities, And obviously Israel has conducted some just

(09:26):
tremendous operations impacting Iran. And then I think in this
long term could be the biggest result to come out
of all of this. You see countries in the region
that had often talked a big game about the Palestinian

(09:46):
people and Gaza and all of that starting to step
up in a different way in the aftermath of this war. Egypt,
Turkey Cutter, United Arab Emirates, some other countries where now
it looks like they're actively putting pressure on Hamas to
get the hell out of there, and they are looking

(10:10):
to be part of even if it's reluctantly, the rebuilding
and the maintaining of a new.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Gaza well, and I think it's also reflects the way
that they had been much more globally. These countries aren't
in isolation anymore, right, They're much more part of the
global community than they were, say twenty years ago, and
you know, maybe they had their focus was on their
neighbors in the Middle East, but you know, it's everything's

(10:37):
so interchangeable these days that these are these countries are
now global destinations and realize that this can threaten their prosperity,
this ongoing conflict.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Now, look, I think when it comes to this peace plan,
I'm hopeful. I think it's moved further along. There's more
work that's been done, more progress that's been made recently
than in quite some time. But you're still relying on
Hamas to comply with these different you know points, the
twenty key points in this piece plan, and it remains

(11:10):
to be seen whether or not they'll actually follow through
with it.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
And tell me if you feel the same way in that,
I think now victory will be considered a cease fire
and turning over the hostages, yes, right, And I think
that then you go from there then yeah, if if
it goes from there, right right, And I think that
would be the bigger because I think that at this
point the White House would just say, okay, look we
you know, we got the hostages, we got the ceasefire,

(11:35):
and then hope for the best and sort of back away.
But look, the American taxpayer has given about twenty one
billion dollars to Israel and support military support in these
past two years. It's a significant investment.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
And we're really the only support they're getting these days.
Like you mentioned, anti semitism around the world and here
in the US it has skyrocketed since this warning.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
But also just a lack of cold support for net Yeah.
You know, I don't want to cross into the anti
semitism line, but you know, not support for the Israeli government,
namely Prime Minister net YEAHO. We're seeing holding numbers even
domestically of how bad his situation is there.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, never been a fan, and I think, you know,
at some point soon his time, we'll need to come
to an end running that country. It's time for some
new leadership in there, because I still think, you know,
the focus has been on the war in these two years,
but there is still the massive failure that took place
on October seventh to respond to those attacks, let alone

(12:34):
be able to prevent them in the first place. We're
joined by our national correspondent Rory O'Neill. Let's switch gears.
Amazon Prime Days begin today. This is not just one
day anymore, multiple days?

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Is that where Dana is off shopping right now?

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Let me tell you why.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
I've seen she's been on her phone throughout the show.
I think she's putting stuff in the shopping guard.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Okay, So here's the thing about Amazon Prime.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
Days is that they've had stuff on sale for the
last week or so. And so I'm getting two deliveries
a day on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Right now, Amazon Time Days and a new home. That's
a rough combination.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
It really is.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
And so I've been waiting because i want to get
a ring video door bell, and I've been waiting for
it to go on sale on Prime Day.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
But it's the same price that it's been.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
Like it's been on sale and I'm like, oh, it'll
be even a better deal.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
But not.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
And Rory, what you said.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
The last time we talked about Prime Day, the one
over the summer, where you said look out for the
deals that seem too good to be true, where they
there's all these other you know, kind of smaller retailers, Yeah,
third party that are jacking up the price is ridiculous
and then you know dropping them down. I've seen that
all over Amazon, and it's it's really bad. There was

(13:46):
like a like a steam mop or something that I
saw that It said that the retail price was like
four hundred dollars and it was on sale for ninety nine.
But then I looked up that exact thing that you
can get it at Walmart for ninety nine dollars at
a regular base.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
There's no way four hundred bucks.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna go
with a shark that's one hundred and fifty bucks. It's
a good brand, it has good reviews, and I'm excited
about it because it does steam cleaning, but it also
does a steamer for like tile and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Oh wow, so you can clean the with it.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yes, this is the most Dan has talked and the
most excited she's been all morning.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
Hey you can you talking about shopping? It's ally for
my new house. So yeah, I got a bunch of
stuff I'm gonna buy today.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
I can't wait.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Rory O'Neil, our national correspondent with US this morning. Rory,
thanks so much, thank you for letting me go.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Ryan.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
All right, I took over your segment this time. It
was all Dana. I shut my mouth.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
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