October 8, 2025 • 13 mins
BEST OF - National Correspondent Rory O’Neill covers the key moments from Attorney General Pam Bondi’s congressional hearing and provides the latest government shutdown update. Fox News Radio’s Ryan Schmelz also weighs in on the shutdown negotiations, and White House Correspondent Jon Decker recaps President Trump’s meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now, let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil,
whose report is brought to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So, Rory,
you're covering a couple of different stories this morning. Let's
start with the Pam Bondi Congressional hearing, where we didn't
really learn a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I am not going to discuss any internal conversations with
the White House.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You won't even say whether you talk to the White
House about this.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I am not going to discuss any internal conversations with
the White House with you. I can't comment on whether
we have or have not, or do or do not
have pending investigations. I'm not going to discuss anything about
that with you. I am not going to discuss any
conversation Senator Koons, I'm not going to discuss any legal
advice that my department may or may not have given
(00:42):
or issued.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I am not going to discuss any.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Conversations I had or not.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So it was kind of like a Q and A
without the all.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah. Pretty much it was more pivoting, I think than anything. Elans.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
We could have had a Dick Buttons and the rest
of the figures. Skating judges committmed just describe all the
pivots that were happening. But yeah, she had essentially opposition
research on each Democratic senator. So when it was there
at turn and they asked a question, she essentially ignored
the question and then threw it back as an attack
on that senator and some checkered part of their history.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, that's what has become new about these hearings. They
used to be like seventy five percent performative on the
part of the members of Congress involved in like twenty
five percent substantive.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Ivie'd occasionally get something that was notable.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now it's like ninety five percent performative and maybe five
percent substantive. And you also have the witnesses. They're going
in ready to attack. I mean, she had lines like
she's going to come back, yeah for Dick Durbin, too bad,
you don't love your state as much as you hate
(01:55):
Donald Trump, like, you know, all kinds of lines, ready
to go.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But the issue though, is that the senators.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yes, the Democrats are grand standing, let me just put
that out there. Yes, absolutely, the Democrats putting on the show.
But there were a couple of questions that I also
wanted to answer. Yes, what did happen to the John
Tom Holman cash, you know, And then she didn't really
answer if he took it in that whole FBI sting operation,
or what is the legal rationale for having any president
(02:25):
deployed truth in an American city?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And you're like, oh, that's a good question, I'd like
to know that.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Instead you get the pivot and the snark, and you're like, okay,
so this is now just either she's performing for President
Trump or the senator is performing to be on MSNBC
that night exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And there was also a question about the legal justification
for these operations that are taking out alleged drug boats
off the coast of Venezuela. That was something that I
would have liked to have heard an answer to, and
we didn't get that. But I will say I mentioned
this before. She's pretty good while she was evading those questions,
(03:01):
so I have to note that. All right, let's get
to the other story that you're covering. Unless you wanted
to comment on that, Rory, No, I was just gonna say, yeah, befit, yeah,
kind of thing for fan bonding. I'm just being honest. Now,
let's get to the government shutdown. We're joined by our
national correspondent Rory O'Neil. Look, I do think there were
(03:22):
some developments. I think Marjorie Taylor Green coming out and
saying that she would be interested in working with Democrats
to extend these subsidies, noting that not just people in
her district but her own family could see premiums double
if they're not extended. I thought that was notable, and
(03:42):
there was this floating of an idea that you maybe
extend them through the end of twenty twenty six. Not permanent,
but so it seems like there's like a tiny bit
of movement happening here.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, the issue is these subsidies are popular. Yeah, especially
in correror states. I mean, don't forget to speak. The
House is from Louisiana. Uh, you know, so a lot
of his constituents probably benefit from these. I still want
to figure out that isn't Marjorie Taylor Green like a multimillionaire,
her kids are on Obamacare subsidy plans, Like, what's coming
on there?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, that's a good Well. I don't know that you know,
even if the even if they're not getting the subsidies,
their premiums might be going up just generally, uh speak,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So they said, I wanted to know more about what's
going on there, but yeah, for their own money.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, I have some right, I have some follow up questions.
That's if I take away from her from her posts
on X but uh yeah. So these subsidies, though, are popular,
and that's one of the issues because a lot of
these senators don't want to have to go home to
their districts and hear, hey, how come my insurance went
up two hundred percent, So a lot of these senators
(04:54):
may want to find the cover that these subsidies provide.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And then you have the issue of the the real
impacts of the government shutdowns starting to take hold. More
than thirty five hundred flights delayed, and you're talking about
big airport, Chicago, O'Hare, Nashville.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
There was like nobody there.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I think for a little while last night. It was
kind of like, uh, you know, four way stop, you
guys handle it on the honor system.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Here you were, you were the one of the right
goes first. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Well, and plus we have bad weather from DC to
Boston today, so look for flight delays anyway, but more
and more stickouts are being reported by air traffic controllers
and TSA workers. And then to have the President say well,
not everyone's going to get there back there, that.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Didn't go to help the situation.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Now, our national correspondent Rory O. Neil with us this morning. Rory,
thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Let's go straight to the hotline and bring in Fox
News Radio congressional correspondent Ryan Schmels. You can follow him
for the latest on X at Ryan Schmell's Fox So Ryan,
no votes to end the shutdown yesterday, A couple scheduled
for today not likely to go anywhere, though. I did
think the most interesting development overnight was Marjorie Taylor Green
(06:12):
coming out and saying that that she'd be willing to
work with Democrats to extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies
because she's experiencing within her family and her district people
who are going to feel the effects of those subsidies
going away with higher health insurance premiums. Among what you've
(06:33):
been hearing from different lawmakers on Capitol Hill, what stood
out to you any movement?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean I would think that's kind of like
where you see things You've heard Republicans say that they
do support, you know, this idea of keeping these Affordable
Care Act tax subsidies. But I think where you find
unity amongst Republicans is that they just don't want to
just extend it without any type of you know change. So,
you know, this is kind of an ongoing discussion now.
(07:06):
It's what's what's hurting is that you have La King
Jeffreys yesterday say that a one year extension would be
a non starter for him. He wanted to be permanent.
And you currently have a bipartisan group of ballmakers who
actually have proposed an idea of a one year extension.
But it seems like Democrats have their foot in the
ground and that's going to be the permanent extension of
(07:26):
these Affordable carrect text subsidies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I don't know if that position is going to
be tenable. What have we heard from Chuck Schumer about
a permanent extension or perhaps this this negotiation for a
shorter extension.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Someone yelled that question at him yesterday. He didn't answer it,
So we don't know exactly if that's going to be
on the table for him. For the most part, him
and Democrats on the House side have been in lockstep
with this issue, So it doesn't look like it's going
anywhere anytime soon. And you know, there's also some bipartisan
talks about potentially finding a compromise in this Senate on
the Affordable Care Act tax subsidies that just had to
(08:03):
materialize in anything just yet.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What about this other development, this memo that was circulated
within the White House about federal workers who have been
furloughed that maybe they wouldn't be entitled to back pay.
That seemed to be a big topic of discussion yesterday
and a problem that I gotta be honest with you
look like Republicans didn't want to have to deal with.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, and it looks like, you know, Democrats have talked
about this idea that it's that that it would be
illegal for the trumpministration to do that. That these federal workers,
by by the law, are guaranteed back pay. Now, of course,
some of them might get fired. That's that's what the
trumpministration is also used as a possibility. So I think
there's a number of different scenarios on the table when
it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Doesn't look like anything's going to change anytime soon. But
as we see more air travel chaos. Uh, you know,
the impact of the shutdown starts to really affect Americans.
Do you get a sense there there's a bit more
urgency as as these stories start to dominate the news cycle.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Oh yeah, especially I think I think yesterday started this,
you know, real big sense of urgency over what Figer
Johnson was alluding to, which is that the next paydate
for fruits is going to come up next week on Wednesday,
and he says that that needs to be processed on
Monday in order for them to get their checks. So
you know, he has a sense of urgency, and he
(09:26):
even said he's open to maybe separate legislation that would
provide back pay to these federal workers in the meantime.
So there's a little bit of talk about that, but
also a big sense of urgency, and that is something
that I think a lot of people in the Hill
were pointing to as a US as a date where
you could see things start to really have that oh gosh,
we got to do something now type of vibe, which
(09:48):
was look at the next federal employee pay period, and
it's going to be October. I believe that's the fifteenth
next week, So if they want to get something done
to make sure there's federal employees a h don't miss
a paycheck. They've got to do it before then.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right, Fox News for Radio Congressional correspondent Bryan Schmells
with us this morning. Ryan, appreciate the update, Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Ran waiting to hear from our White House correspondent John Decker,
who should be joining us any moment. But I did
pay attention to the meeting between President Trump and the
Canadian Prime Minister. Lots of talk of trade and things
like that. It sounded like the President only alluded to
Canada becoming our fifty first state once, which was progress.
(10:32):
I think last time they met there were numerous references.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, he wouldn't stop going at it. Yeah, he was
poking at him.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, let's bring in our White House correspondent now, John Decker.
So John, like I was saying, I think there's only
one reference to Canada becoming our fifty first state yesterday.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So that was good.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
You know, it's a much different relationship, added much different
feeling when Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, is
in the oval off versus his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. The
President simply did not get along well with Justin Trudeau,
and he used to needle him quite a bit talking
about Canada as the fifty first state. Doesn't do that
certainly as much as he did it with Justin Trudeau,
(11:13):
and then get a good relationship. You could tell by
the body language they get along well. And the President
indicated yesterday Ryan that he believes a trade deal with
Canada will be hammered out really soon.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So that was a positive development. I've got to ask
you about one thing that's that's unrelated. It was a
report that I saw so CNN's Caitlin Collins, she was
on I think some podcast, and she talked about what
Trump's staffers apparently dread the most about traveling with Trump.
And I know you've you've traveled with the president before.
(11:45):
Apparently he doesn't sleep, and so it's just NonStop and
you can't get any rest on these like long overseas flights.
What's your experience been when you've traveled with the president.
He just he keeps going, he keeps going.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Express Secretary Caroline Levitt expressed that same same issue with
me recently. She said that he's taking as you know,
the end of the month, he's doing a long Asia
trip and she said she hopes beyond hope that he
sleeps on that long stop because it is a long flight,
and he's actually at times actually said, you can use
my bed if you want. You know, I don't need
(12:23):
to sleep, Go ahead in there and use But you know,
it's it's a very tiring thing for staffers who have
to be essentially on call for the president twenty four
to seven when they're on these overseas trips.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, he may just decide I need to sell and
so bring him back and.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
They got to be ready to go three o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right, the opposite, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, all right, John.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I think that for the president, that's the way he functions.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
And you know, I think it.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Surprises a lot of members of Congress that deal with
him getting phone late at night, having to you know,
get sharp right away because the president's on the line.
The President sometimes does his best work, he believes, late
at night or early in the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's it's really incredible. John Decker, our White House correspondent.
You can check out the White House Briefing Room podcast
hosted by John on iHeartRadio. John, thanks so much, appreciate it,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
It's a Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every weekday
morning on news radio WFLA.
Right now, let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil,
whose report is brought to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So, Rory,
you're covering a couple of different stories this morning. Let's
start with the Pam Bondi Congressional hearing, where we didn't
really learn a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I am not going to discuss any internal conversations with
the White House.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You won't even say whether you talk to the White
House about this.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I am not going to discuss any internal conversations with
the White House with you. I can't comment on whether
we have or have not, or do or do not
have pending investigations. I'm not going to discuss anything about
that with you. I am not going to discuss any
conversation Senator Koons, I'm not going to discuss any legal
advice that my department may or may not have given
(00:42):
or issued.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I am not going to discuss any.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Conversations I had or not.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So it was kind of like a Q and A
without the all.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah. Pretty much it was more pivoting, I think than anything. Elans.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
We could have had a Dick Buttons and the rest
of the figures. Skating judges committmed just describe all the
pivots that were happening. But yeah, she had essentially opposition
research on each Democratic senator. So when it was there
at turn and they asked a question, she essentially ignored
the question and then threw it back as an attack
on that senator and some checkered part of their history.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, that's what has become new about these hearings. They
used to be like seventy five percent performative on the
part of the members of Congress involved in like twenty
five percent substantive.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Ivie'd occasionally get something that was notable.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now it's like ninety five percent performative and maybe five
percent substantive. And you also have the witnesses. They're going
in ready to attack. I mean, she had lines like
she's going to come back, yeah for Dick Durbin, too bad,
you don't love your state as much as you hate
(01:55):
Donald Trump, like, you know, all kinds of lines, ready
to go.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But the issue though, is that the senators.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yes, the Democrats are grand standing, let me just put
that out there. Yes, absolutely, the Democrats putting on the show.
But there were a couple of questions that I also
wanted to answer. Yes, what did happen to the John
Tom Holman cash, you know, And then she didn't really
answer if he took it in that whole FBI sting operation,
or what is the legal rationale for having any president
(02:25):
deployed truth in an American city?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And you're like, oh, that's a good question, I'd like
to know that.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Instead you get the pivot and the snark, and you're like, okay,
so this is now just either she's performing for President
Trump or the senator is performing to be on MSNBC
that night exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And there was also a question about the legal justification
for these operations that are taking out alleged drug boats
off the coast of Venezuela. That was something that I
would have liked to have heard an answer to, and
we didn't get that. But I will say I mentioned
this before. She's pretty good while she was evading those questions,
(03:01):
so I have to note that. All right, let's get
to the other story that you're covering. Unless you wanted
to comment on that, Rory, No, I was just gonna say, yeah, befit, yeah,
kind of thing for fan bonding. I'm just being honest. Now,
let's get to the government shutdown. We're joined by our
national correspondent Rory O'Neil. Look, I do think there were
(03:22):
some developments. I think Marjorie Taylor Green coming out and
saying that she would be interested in working with Democrats
to extend these subsidies, noting that not just people in
her district but her own family could see premiums double
if they're not extended. I thought that was notable, and
(03:42):
there was this floating of an idea that you maybe
extend them through the end of twenty twenty six. Not permanent,
but so it seems like there's like a tiny bit
of movement happening here.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, the issue is these subsidies are popular. Yeah, especially
in correror states. I mean, don't forget to speak. The
House is from Louisiana. Uh, you know, so a lot
of his constituents probably benefit from these. I still want
to figure out that isn't Marjorie Taylor Green like a multimillionaire,
her kids are on Obamacare subsidy plans, Like, what's coming
on there?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, that's a good Well. I don't know that you know,
even if the even if they're not getting the subsidies,
their premiums might be going up just generally, uh speak,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So they said, I wanted to know more about what's
going on there, but yeah, for their own money.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, I have some right, I have some follow up questions.
That's if I take away from her from her posts
on X but uh yeah. So these subsidies, though, are popular,
and that's one of the issues because a lot of
these senators don't want to have to go home to
their districts and hear, hey, how come my insurance went
up two hundred percent, So a lot of these senators
(04:54):
may want to find the cover that these subsidies provide.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And then you have the issue of the the real
impacts of the government shutdowns starting to take hold. More
than thirty five hundred flights delayed, and you're talking about
big airport, Chicago, O'Hare, Nashville.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
There was like nobody there.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I think for a little while last night. It was
kind of like, uh, you know, four way stop, you
guys handle it on the honor system.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Here you were, you were the one of the right
goes first. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Well, and plus we have bad weather from DC to
Boston today, so look for flight delays anyway, but more
and more stickouts are being reported by air traffic controllers
and TSA workers. And then to have the President say well,
not everyone's going to get there back there, that.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Didn't go to help the situation.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Now, our national correspondent Rory O. Neil with us this morning. Rory,
thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Let's go straight to the hotline and bring in Fox
News Radio congressional correspondent Ryan Schmels. You can follow him
for the latest on X at Ryan Schmell's Fox So Ryan,
no votes to end the shutdown yesterday, A couple scheduled
for today not likely to go anywhere, though. I did
think the most interesting development overnight was Marjorie Taylor Green
(06:12):
coming out and saying that that she'd be willing to
work with Democrats to extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies
because she's experiencing within her family and her district people
who are going to feel the effects of those subsidies
going away with higher health insurance premiums. Among what you've
(06:33):
been hearing from different lawmakers on Capitol Hill, what stood
out to you any movement?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean I would think that's kind of like
where you see things You've heard Republicans say that they
do support, you know, this idea of keeping these Affordable
Care Act tax subsidies. But I think where you find
unity amongst Republicans is that they just don't want to
just extend it without any type of you know change. So,
you know, this is kind of an ongoing discussion now.
(07:06):
It's what's what's hurting is that you have La King
Jeffreys yesterday say that a one year extension would be
a non starter for him. He wanted to be permanent.
And you currently have a bipartisan group of ballmakers who
actually have proposed an idea of a one year extension.
But it seems like Democrats have their foot in the
ground and that's going to be the permanent extension of
(07:26):
these Affordable carrect text subsidies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I don't know if that position is going to
be tenable. What have we heard from Chuck Schumer about
a permanent extension or perhaps this this negotiation for a
shorter extension.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Someone yelled that question at him yesterday. He didn't answer it,
So we don't know exactly if that's going to be
on the table for him. For the most part, him
and Democrats on the House side have been in lockstep
with this issue, So it doesn't look like it's going
anywhere anytime soon. And you know, there's also some bipartisan
talks about potentially finding a compromise in this Senate on
the Affordable Care Act tax subsidies that just had to
(08:03):
materialize in anything just yet.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What about this other development, this memo that was circulated
within the White House about federal workers who have been
furloughed that maybe they wouldn't be entitled to back pay.
That seemed to be a big topic of discussion yesterday
and a problem that I gotta be honest with you
look like Republicans didn't want to have to deal with.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, and it looks like, you know, Democrats have talked
about this idea that it's that that it would be
illegal for the trumpministration to do that. That these federal workers,
by by the law, are guaranteed back pay. Now, of course,
some of them might get fired. That's that's what the
trumpministration is also used as a possibility. So I think
there's a number of different scenarios on the table when
it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Doesn't look like anything's going to change anytime soon. But
as we see more air travel chaos. Uh, you know,
the impact of the shutdown starts to really affect Americans.
Do you get a sense there there's a bit more
urgency as as these stories start to dominate the news cycle.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Oh yeah, especially I think I think yesterday started this,
you know, real big sense of urgency over what Figer
Johnson was alluding to, which is that the next paydate
for fruits is going to come up next week on Wednesday,
and he says that that needs to be processed on
Monday in order for them to get their checks. So
you know, he has a sense of urgency, and he
(09:26):
even said he's open to maybe separate legislation that would
provide back pay to these federal workers in the meantime.
So there's a little bit of talk about that, but
also a big sense of urgency, and that is something
that I think a lot of people in the Hill
were pointing to as a US as a date where
you could see things start to really have that oh gosh,
we got to do something now type of vibe, which
(09:48):
was look at the next federal employee pay period, and
it's going to be October. I believe that's the fifteenth
next week, So if they want to get something done
to make sure there's federal employees a h don't miss
a paycheck. They've got to do it before then.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right, Fox News for Radio Congressional correspondent Bryan Schmells
with us this morning. Ryan, appreciate the update, Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Ran waiting to hear from our White House correspondent John Decker,
who should be joining us any moment. But I did
pay attention to the meeting between President Trump and the
Canadian Prime Minister. Lots of talk of trade and things
like that. It sounded like the President only alluded to
Canada becoming our fifty first state once, which was progress.
(10:32):
I think last time they met there were numerous references.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, he wouldn't stop going at it. Yeah, he was
poking at him.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, let's bring in our White House correspondent now, John Decker.
So John, like I was saying, I think there's only
one reference to Canada becoming our fifty first state yesterday.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So that was good.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
You know, it's a much different relationship, added much different
feeling when Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, is
in the oval off versus his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. The
President simply did not get along well with Justin Trudeau,
and he used to needle him quite a bit talking
about Canada as the fifty first state. Doesn't do that
certainly as much as he did it with Justin Trudeau,
(11:13):
and then get a good relationship. You could tell by
the body language they get along well. And the President
indicated yesterday Ryan that he believes a trade deal with
Canada will be hammered out really soon.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
So that was a positive development. I've got to ask
you about one thing that's that's unrelated. It was a
report that I saw so CNN's Caitlin Collins, she was
on I think some podcast, and she talked about what
Trump's staffers apparently dread the most about traveling with Trump.
And I know you've you've traveled with the president before.
(11:45):
Apparently he doesn't sleep, and so it's just NonStop and
you can't get any rest on these like long overseas flights.
What's your experience been when you've traveled with the president.
He just he keeps going, he keeps going.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Express Secretary Caroline Levitt expressed that same same issue with
me recently. She said that he's taking as you know,
the end of the month, he's doing a long Asia
trip and she said she hopes beyond hope that he
sleeps on that long stop because it is a long flight,
and he's actually at times actually said, you can use
my bed if you want. You know, I don't need
(12:23):
to sleep, Go ahead in there and use But you know,
it's it's a very tiring thing for staffers who have
to be essentially on call for the president twenty four
to seven when they're on these overseas trips.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, he may just decide I need to sell and
so bring him back and.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
They got to be ready to go three o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right, the opposite, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, all right, John.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I think that for the president, that's the way he functions.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
And you know, I think it.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Surprises a lot of members of Congress that deal with
him getting phone late at night, having to you know,
get sharp right away because the president's on the line.
The President sometimes does his best work, he believes, late
at night or early in the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's it's really incredible. John Decker, our White House correspondent.
You can check out the White House Briefing Room podcast
hosted by John on iHeartRadio. John, thanks so much, appreciate it,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
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