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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Money.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Prepare for a finantal throwdown from a Wall Street heavyweight.
This is the Bloomberg Money Minute on seven hundred WLW Okay, let's.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Head to the Bloomberg newsroom. John Tucker in here this morning. Hey,
good morning, John, morning Steve. How are you, buddy?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Good?
Speaker 5 (00:17):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
But I'm not getting any relief at the gas pump,
and neither's anybody else.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (00:23):
Oil prices, let's start there, remain in triple digits this morning,
with the rand war entering its third month. But you
know what, I don't think you put crewe to oil
in your test tank. Triple ice is the nationwide average
for the refined product of product a gallon of regular
gasoline for twenty two in Ohio.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
That's again, that's the average.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Goldlan SAX analysts are warning the current drawdown of energy
stockpiles is in their words, extreme and also shaking up
the global oil market. The United Arab Ammirates is leaving
Opak as of this Friday. They're responding to their ran
conflict and they say it requires some extraordinary measures. At
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this point, I get this all the time. It's like
the US has plenty of oil. In fact, we're a
net exporter at this point. And you know OPEK hasn't
really met much of a difference in recent years. But
remember oil is still a commodity, so it's priced accordingly
according to global benchmarks. That's why it's high. You're I
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can see any discounts. And here, you know, we're not
running out of the stuff overseas. That's a different problem.
They are actually running out of the refined product like
jet fuel and even where they use it as cooking
fuel places like India for instance.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, what do you see there in your futures when
the market opens in less than ninety minutes.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
There's a lot of enthusiasm for tech. We're seeing people
buying on the dip because you get some of the
mega heavyweights, the tech companies reporting after the close regular
trading today. So the Nasdaq futures they're up seventy two,
the ANS and P futures up to and the down
futures right now they're down eight and from Bloomberg. I'm
John Tucker. This report brought to you by Fidelity News
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Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Let's talk to Stephen Portnoy with US our ABC News
National correspondent in Washington, Stephen. The National Trust says it's
not going to drop its lawsuit against Trump's ballroom after
the DOJ requests refresh our listeners on what's the lawsuit?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What's going on here?
Speaker 8 (02:35):
The lawsuit challenges the legality of building a presidential building
a White House ballroom without congressional authorization. The House and
Senate have not been asked whether the executive mansion should
be you know, supplemented or otherwise appended by adding a
ballroom that's twice the size of the existing White House.
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And that is what the federal judge seesed on when
he last month issued an injunction preventing further construction of
the White House ballroom, a ruling that's now on pause
that allows for current construction to continue through at least
early June, when an appellate panel will hear more arguments. Overnight,
the White House put forward a filing in federal court,
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the Justice Department lawyers signing a document that reads very
much like a series of Trump truth social posts written
in the president's voice about how he needs a secure space,
that it doesn't exist in Washington, d c. And that
the court's injunction essentially threatens the safety of the President
and his family. I should point out, as a former
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president of the White House Correspondent Association who organized the
dinner four years ago, several points I'd like to make.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
One.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
The WHCA is a private organization that invites the President
as its guest. There is no promise that this event
would be held in a White House ballroom, because the
White House would have full control over the guest list
and the program. And that's not something that my colleagues
on the WACA board are interested in. I have a sense.
I have a sense. Second point, the WHCA dinner has
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been held in that ballroom for nearly sixty years. The
threat on Saturday night was no greater than it had
ever been before. Has always been a hotel above that ballroom.
And the question becomes, how, I guess, how lucky were
we all this time? The first Lady appeared in that ballroom.
Last Thursday, the President himself for the National Prayer Breakfast,
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alongside other dignitaries, including the Speaker of the House and
others in the line of succession. In February of this year,
the President has appeared for sapack in that ballroom was
the threat any greater last Saturday night. I don't know why,
but nevertheless, the President argues that he needs this ballroom
for his safety. And he also suggests that the tents
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that are built on the White House grounds for state dinners,
that have been built all these decades are also not
safe enough enough because they don't have some of the
drone proof technology he's not putting in place in this ballroom.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
So all of this is.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
The subject of an ongoing court battle as you have
Republicans in Congress who are now talking about doing what
could have arguably been done a year ago, which is
a debate in Congress over whether to actually build this
thing in the first place. And these Republicans are talking
about putting up government money, tax payer money to build it,
which again could have been the subject of a public
debate before the President decided to tear down the East Wing.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And this is this ballroom that he wants to build.
In theory, he's saying, your dinner from Saturday night could
have been there and it would have been safer. But
there's no guarantee that the correspondence, the board of directors
there would want to have moved it right.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, a couple of points.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
One, the dinner for decades has hosted more than two
thousand people at that event and fly in from all
over the country. The fact, from all over the world
to attend, you need a ticket. The ballroom would only
hold half as many people. That's one point. Sure, all right,
it is what it is. There are other venues, by
the way, the President attends inaugural balls at the Washington
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Convention Center, which can hold thousands more people. It's an
exposed center, and it's a secure facility, doesn't have a
hotel above it. And then the question becomes our right,
is the president never going to leave the White House again?
If this ballroom is built. That's a question that's raised
by this overnight filing from the Justice Department because it's
attached to it is a declaration by the deputy director
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of the Secret Service who talks about the inherent risks
of securing large events outside of the White House. Well,
how is the Secret Service ever going to promise the
country that's going to be able to secure presidential events?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Interesting, So that's where we're at right now. The Congress
are We're still going to build it.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Right now?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
The ballroom's construction is legally authorized at least through early June,
when the appellate panel is going to hear arguments on
the junction and the merits and whether to put in
place a longer stay. We shouldn't read too much into that,
except the appellate panel had the opportunity to say the
judge is right and that his injunction should stand. They
didn't do that, And so I guess we'll see what
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happens next. But what could happen between now and then
that would end this conversation is for the people's elected
representatives to take an up or down vote to authorize
the ballroom. If the House in sidate were to get
together and say, you know what, mister President, you're right,
we endorse it, we approve it. Here's the bill, you
sign it. That ends the conversation. But that has not happened,
and it may not happen because there is a debate
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over whether this is the right thing to do, and
the president doesn't own the White House. The American people do,
and their elected representatives ought to have a say. At
least that's what the judge says.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Steven Portnoy, ABC News National corresponding Washington.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Always good to catch up with you. Thanks for your.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Report this morning. I appreciate it. You bet all righty,
it's eight seventeen chucks up there this morning. Hey, Chuck, Yes, sir,
it's World Wish Day.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It is the Make a Wish Foundation. It's a leading
children's charity. You've probably heard of it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They are the world's largest gift giving organization. I think
that's wonderful the way that they put that in there.
Thirty thousand wishes have been granted since about nineteen eighty,
a lot of them to ill children, so that's good.
But it started in Phoenix, Arizona. So this is one
of those good days. Their World Wish Day, celebrating all
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the wishes to come and all the wishes that have
been granted.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
They're doing wonderful work, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thirty thousand wishes granted since nineteen eighty. They've got over
forty five thousand volunteers and over fifty chapters I'm sorry,
sixty chapters, and they're in five countries outside the US.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Also. Wow, it's incredible. That's really cool. All right, So we'll.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Wish for something good and wish that they continue the
good stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
They're doing for children and people around the world. That's
nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Dealing with his rush are starting to wind down at.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
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WCPO nine First Warning Weather forecast center looking like this
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Light rain sweeping through in the morning. Rush not a lot,
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on Saturday and Sunday, and it should be a dry
flying pig on Sunday. But Sunday morning six thirty when
things going, it's gonna be like thirty eight, thirty nine degrees.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
High on Friday is only fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And that's where we're at right now, fifty eight at
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Pokemon a currency for criminals? We'll find out next. All right,
let's talk to Jim Ryan, our ABC News course put
in Dallas this morning. Jim, tell me all about Pokemon,
(11:05):
the original theme song from the.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Show back in the nineteen ninety. Wow, it's been around
thirty years, thirty years that Pokemon has been a thing.
It started out or as a role playing game using
these cards. Each card the character has different strengths and abilities,
and so that's what started this thing off. But obviously
it's become a much bigger industry with toys and with
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the TV shows, with the movies, with all the merchandise
that goes with it, and with the incidents of theft
that continues to rise. Now people are breaking into store.
There was one, yeah, in Chicago on Monday, somebody broke
in their assailance video of this. Broke through a window,
climbed in two guys, and they walked away with one
hundred thousand dollars worth of Pokemon cards. And you know,
(11:48):
a small business that's a huge loss deep.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And been around for thirty years and nobody's talking about
it in the last year or so, these of Skyrocket
doing Why the price went up so much recently, Well.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Part of it may be this thirty anniversary thing, you know,
and they're more desirable now with this anniversary, and there's
anniversary form almost anything, prices go up. But yeah, there
is a company that watches these things. In online posting
of kemoint hard views, those values have risen one hundred
and forty five percent in the past year alone. Wow,
So he had to hire. Something goes in value the
(12:23):
more people want it. The more people want it, the
higher goes in value. So it sort of spins itself.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Do you know are they making new pubmankords? Are these
just the old ones that are going up in value? Well,
it's primarily the old ones.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
If you look at the one that fetched the most
ever sixteen and a half million dollars, the Nmeme Fighter
Logan Paul. But that one at auction for sixteen and
a half million. It was a Pikachu Illustrator card and
it was decades old. It was in great shape and
you know, essentially mint condition. So it's addition, it's the
rarity of the card. It's the desirablity of it that
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drives the value of pretty much anything.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I got to go shot too, don't I? Jim Ryan?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Pokemon cards, ABC News Dallas things so much C Steve
Right sixteen and a half million for a Pokemon card. Goodness, gracious,
I could think of other things that I would like
to buy or retire and go have fun. Oh goodness,
it's coming up an eight thirty newscast. We've got the
reds and Rockies. Tonight six forty coverage begins with the
inside Pitch at five point forty with Lance McAlister right
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here in the home of the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
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Speaker 6 (13:39):
Hey, good morning, Wall Street. Getting ready for earnings from
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Amazon had Meta all reporting. These companies have pushed the
S and P five hundred to record after record in
the past few weeks. Disney is not planning on spinning
off ESPN. According to a report from Business Insider. The
sports channel will continue to stay with Disney is the
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years Disney would spend off the sports networks, particularly after
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Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thank good money eight forty one and seven hundred WLW.
Let's head out to New York, where gas prices are
like six bucks a gallon. ABC News investigator reporter Peter
hier Lombi's with us is this point?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Hey good, morney Peter, how are you?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm good, I'm good. Let's press around five dollars here
getting bad?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Refresh our listeners.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
We wanted to talk about James coney Comy being indicted again.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Refresh our listeners. Who is he? What did he do
the first time? And what's going on now?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, we're talking about the former FBI director here, a
longtime critic of President Trump, who, if you recall, was
indicted about seven months ago on very different charges. In
this case, the grand jury in North Carolina returned to
new indictment yesterday, accusing him of trying to threaten to
kill the president. It all centers on an Instagram post
he made last year showing seashells on a beach with
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the numbers eighty six, which commonly means to nix or
get rid of something, and then forty seven, which of
course Trump is the forty seventh the presidents. It's been
a year since that post, and now he's been indicted
over it. The last case, on completely different charges, was
thrown out last year.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Wow, so they've indicted him again now or yesterday or today.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He's due to show up in court in Virginia today.
There's actually a rest warrant that was filed alongside the indictment.
He's going to self surrender in Virginia. And it's unclear
one hill appear in North Carolina, but he will eventually,
sometime probably the next week's show up in North Carolina
to enter some kind of plea. He has spoken out
since this indictment came out, saying that he's not afraid,
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he will not be intimidated, and that he's innocent, and
that this is a political prosecution.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
When something like this happens, do you expect it to
go to a trial or something like that eventually.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I mean with the last case, it was possible it
went a trial. That was The other case was about
allegedly lying to Congress. This one, though, appears to be
a kind of a different story. This is a sparse indictment,
talking about three pages. The only evidence appears to be
the social media post itself. And you know, the constitution
of the First Amendment protects most speech, even if it's
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slightly threatening. So to actually prosecute a threat, you have
to hit a pretty high bar. You have to basically
prove something is a true threat that James Comy intended
for this to be perceived as a threat by Trump,
And in this case, Comy removed the post, apologized, and
he said that he didn't know that he was insinuating
some kind of violence. So legal experts who are looking
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at this indictment and former prosecutors are kind of describing
this as a historically weak, historically bad indictment that they
don't even think has a shot of getting to trial.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Are they thinking Trump's just trying to get back at him?
Is that what a lot of people behind the scenes
are thinking about on this one.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And I think it's also important to think about the
context within the Department of Justice, Pam Bondi is out
in part because she was not aggressive enough at prosecuting
from adversaries. That and then of course the Epstein files.
So now that we have Deputy Attorney Todd Lynch stepping
up to acting Attorney General, it seems like, in a way,
there is more pressure to pursue these kinds of cases.
Of course, last week we saw that indictment of the
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Southern Poverty Law Center, which was similarly accused of being politicized,
and there's an ongoing investigation of John Brennan, the former
CIA director down in Florida. It seems like there's much
more aggression in terms of bringing these cases potentially to
please the president.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
But the other thing, for somebody like me who's not
necessarily needs to please the president, some of these just
seems silly.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
They're just t for tat. It seems like, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When you think about it, you know, tax payer dollars
are going to actually fund these cases. It's kind of
comical at the end of the day when you look
at how much money these kind of individual cases cost taxpayers.
When we were looking at, for example, those Special Council probes,
we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So it's really not out of the question that you know,
more than a million dollars or your taxpayer funds are
going to paying for these kind of prosecutions when they're
ultimately a little petty and probably going to be unsuccessful.
That being said, perhaps this could have been resolved if
James Comee didn't just post that photo, which he now
acknowledges was silly in a mistake.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
All right, Peter harlam Buse, ABC News investigative reporter in
New York.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I know you got to go. Thank you for your
time this morning. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It's eight forty seven.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Hundred WLW Chuck Ingram before we get to traffic in
here this morning. A lot of stuff going on. We
were talking about this earlier. It's National Zipper Day.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yes, it is Zipper patented on this date in nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
And then you asked me a question a couple hours ago.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Well, we were just you know, reflecting on what came
before and after the Zipper.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, National Button Day is November sixteenth, yes, and Velcrow
Day is May thirteenth, nineteen fifty eight. So in a
couple of weeks we got velcrow, which is a French
word for like valure and crochet. Yes, crochet means hook
and the lower means something. Yes, and that's where you
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get well.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
But you're celebrating a little early here, hawk, I am, yeah,
you're two weeks early. This is about the Zipper, the zipper. Yep,
zipper gets its own day winning one for the zipper
is what And here's the other one.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
It's Willie Nelson's birthday April twenty ninth or April thirtieth.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
There was a birth certificate mess up.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Really, so the only person in America that doesn't need
to party two days in a row is Willie Nelson,
and he gets two birthday parties. Well, then double the cake,
double the ic seed in the ice cream. Let's go there,
you got there, you go the party's.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
This is the secret to his longevity.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
This is what Willy Nelson said when he was ninety
years old, which is a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
He says, everything's easy for longevity. I just eat my oatmeal,
wait for the bus, and sometimes I smoke on the bus.
That is Willie Nelson's There you go, the Willie Nelson trifecta.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Goodness, gracious, what's going on out there?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
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The nine first warning weather forecast centers is mostly cloudy
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Speaker 7 (22:01):
It's time to head out to Jerusalem. My ABC News
correspondent Jordanah Miller with us this morning. Hey, good morning, Jrodana.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I'm okay. You know, the war, the war between Israel
and Lebanon. We're supposed to be in a seafire, but
I have to tell you, it sure doesn't look like
it on the ground. There have been multiple Hasbala rocket
and drone strikes today, alarm sirens going off there in
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the north, which we haven't seen like this for a
few days. And the Israelis also carrying out strikes in
southern Lebanon. So you know, it's looking quite it's feeling
quite tense here despite what it's supposed to be more
than another two weeks of a seafire.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Are there any scheduled talks that are going to happen
during the ceasefire.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Well, we heard a lot of reports that the president,
and the President actually said it himself initially that he
wanted to get the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ataniel and
the Israeli and the Lebanese President Michelle allone together at
the White House. But it looks like there's just too
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much pushback on the Lebanese side for that, and Aowon
is expected, according to Lebanese reports, to have his own
separate meeting with President Trump and then possibly followed up
by a meeting with the Israeli Prime minister. But nothing
is set in stone there. We saw that second round
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of talks at the ambassador level just last week and
no new reports of another meeting on that level yet.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
The other story this morning, the Israeli Prime minister is
invited net Yahu to talk about settling up his corruption
Could you talk about those corruption charges, what they have
and what they're trying to do with that.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Also, absolutely, the Israeli Prime Minister is in the middle
of his corruption trial. It's three cases and he's facing
charges of bribery, breach of trust, and fraud. And those
charges include taking illicit gifts from billionaires, a quid pro
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quo allegedly with a top telecom billionaire here in Israel
giving him passing through a deal, and an exchange allegedly
Nataniel is given a hand in shaping the coverage of
him and his politics, his government, his family in a
(24:54):
very popular website, as well as other exchanges or what
allegedly are abuses of power. The trial has been going
on now for more than five years held up by
COVID and uh, the war now and the Israeli Prime
minister had asked the President Isaac Hertzog to please give
(25:16):
him a pardon, but the President has decided instead he's
going to ask Natanyahu instead to h to please work
on a plea deal.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
So that's that's the latest on that.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
So he's got that going on and the war that
he's dealing with also and other things that a prime minister,
which is right, wow, hey, that's right, it's a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Absolutely, Is Trump going to get involved in any of
this or they is he trying to stay out of it?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I think you know, we've heard President Trump say in
the past that Isaac Hertzog, the President needs to give him, uh,
the prime minister, a pardon, and he hasn't been so
respectful in his language about the Israeli president. But the
Israeli president that's to be diplomatic about it. But the President,
(26:10):
Isaac Hertzeg has long said that he believes a plea
deal is the best option. And if you look closely
at the submission by Natanielle for a pardon, it is
a pardon before conviction, right. The Israeli Prime Minister has
not been convicted of anything yet, his trials not finished,
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and there's only one precedent for that in Israeli history.
It was with a case that was i would say,
a fumbled case that Israel shinbet part of the intelligence
agencies here were carrying out and in that case there
was a part in request, but everybody was fired, and
(26:53):
Natanielle doesn't want to be fired. So I think the
Israeli President has decided that he wants to go go
back and ask the parties to see if they can
agree on a plea deal before he goes to address
the issue of a pardon. And so the Israeli Prime
Minister it is a bit of a setback because that
means that when he runs for reelection in six months here,
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the corruption case will still very much be you know,
will be hovering above him. It will not be settled,
all right.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Jordana Miller, ABC News correspondent, Jerusalem. Thanks for report this morning.
Stay safe. We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Thanks Texans.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Already it's coming up an eight fifty nine to seven
hundred WLW.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Gary Jeff Walker here, he'll be in after the nine
o'clock news.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Good Morning.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Two days in a row. Absolutely, you made it in
the Tower may burn down. Yesterday was all about UFOs.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
What's to that? All about UFOs?
Speaker 10 (27:46):
But today we're going to start with my friend Vicky
Lessandro from the VCAS, which is the Veteran's Companion Animal
Services Okay of Cincinnati. It started back in Columbus a
few years ago. They opened the Cincinnati chapter this past year.
And what they do is they match shelter dogs, rescue
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dogs with veterans that need to be rescued, and they
carefully vet both the dog and the veteran and it
really is a unique kind of charity and help for
our veterans and those dogs that need a home. And
(28:27):
they've placed their first dog with a veteran now, so
we're going to talk about that and their continuing work.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
To start off. But it's a pack show, all right,
got it?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
It's gone up next right here on seven hundred WLW
Money.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Prepare for a finantal throwdown from a Wall Street heavyweight.
This is the Bloomberg Money Minute on seven hundred WLW Okay, let's.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Head to the Bloomberg newsroom. John Tucker in here this morning. Hey,
good morning, John, morning Steve. How are you, buddy?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Good?
Speaker 5 (00:17):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
But I'm not getting any relief at the gas pump,
and neither's anybody else.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (00:23):
Oil prices, let's start there, remain in triple digits this morning,
with the rand war entering its third month. But you
know what, I don't think you put crewe to oil
in your test tank. Triple ice is the nationwide average
for the refined product of product a gallon of regular
gasoline for twenty two in Ohio.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
That's again, that's the average.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Goldlan SAX analysts are warning the current drawdown of energy
stockpiles is in their words, extreme and also shaking up
the global oil market. The United Arab Ammirates is leaving
Opak as of this Friday. They're responding to their ran
conflict and they say it requires some extraordinary measures. At
(01:05):
this point, I get this all the time. It's like
the US has plenty of oil. In fact, we're a
net exporter at this point. And you know OPEK hasn't
really met much of a difference in recent years. But
remember oil is still a commodity, so it's priced accordingly
according to global benchmarks. That's why it's high. You're I
(01:27):
can see any discounts. And here, you know, we're not
running out of the stuff overseas. That's a different problem.
They are actually running out of the refined product like
jet fuel and even where they use it as cooking
fuel places like India for instance.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, what do you see there in your futures when
the market opens in less than ninety minutes.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
There's a lot of enthusiasm for tech. We're seeing people
buying on the dip because you get some of the
mega heavyweights, the tech companies reporting after the close regular
trading today. So the Nasdaq futures they're up seventy two,
the ANS and P futures up to and the down
futures right now they're down eight and from Bloomberg. I'm
John Tucker. This report brought to you by Fidelity News
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Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
Let's talk to Stephen Portnoy with US our ABC News
National correspondent in Washington, Stephen. The National Trust says it's
not going to drop its lawsuit against Trump's ballroom after
the DOJ requests refresh our listeners on what's the lawsuit?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What's going on here?
Speaker 8 (02:35):
The lawsuit challenges the legality of building a presidential building
a White House ballroom without congressional authorization. The House and
Senate have not been asked whether the executive mansion should
be you know, supplemented or otherwise appended by adding a
ballroom that's twice the size of the existing White House.
(02:56):
And that is what the federal judge seesed on when
he last month issued an injunction preventing further construction of
the White House ballroom, a ruling that's now on pause
that allows for current construction to continue through at least
early June, when an appellate panel will hear more arguments. Overnight,
the White House put forward a filing in federal court,
(03:18):
the Justice Department lawyers signing a document that reads very
much like a series of Trump truth social posts written
in the president's voice about how he needs a secure space,
that it doesn't exist in Washington, d c. And that
the court's injunction essentially threatens the safety of the President
and his family. I should point out, as a former
(03:39):
president of the White House Correspondent Association who organized the
dinner four years ago, several points I'd like to make.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
One.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
The WHCA is a private organization that invites the President
as its guest. There is no promise that this event
would be held in a White House ballroom, because the
White House would have full control over the guest list
and the program. And that's not something that my colleagues
on the WACA board are interested in. I have a sense.
I have a sense. Second point, the WHCA dinner has
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been held in that ballroom for nearly sixty years. The
threat on Saturday night was no greater than it had
ever been before. Has always been a hotel above that ballroom.
And the question becomes, how, I guess, how lucky were
we all this time? The first Lady appeared in that ballroom.
Last Thursday, the President himself for the National Prayer Breakfast,
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alongside other dignitaries, including the Speaker of the House and
others in the line of succession. In February of this year,
the President has appeared for sapack in that ballroom was
the threat any greater last Saturday night. I don't know why,
but nevertheless, the President argues that he needs this ballroom
for his safety. And he also suggests that the tents
(04:54):
that are built on the White House grounds for state dinners,
that have been built all these decades are also not
safe enough enough because they don't have some of the
drone proof technology he's not putting in place in this ballroom.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
So all of this is.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
The subject of an ongoing court battle as you have
Republicans in Congress who are now talking about doing what
could have arguably been done a year ago, which is
a debate in Congress over whether to actually build this
thing in the first place. And these Republicans are talking
about putting up government money, tax payer money to build it,
which again could have been the subject of a public
debate before the President decided to tear down the East Wing.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And this is this ballroom that he wants to build.
In theory, he's saying, your dinner from Saturday night could
have been there and it would have been safer. But
there's no guarantee that the correspondence, the board of directors
there would want to have moved it right.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Well, a couple of points.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
One, the dinner for decades has hosted more than two
thousand people at that event and fly in from all
over the country. The fact, from all over the world
to attend, you need a ticket. The ballroom would only
hold half as many people. That's one point. Sure, all right,
it is what it is. There are other venues, by
the way, the President attends inaugural balls at the Washington
(06:05):
Convention Center, which can hold thousands more people. It's an
exposed center, and it's a secure facility, doesn't have a
hotel above it. And then the question becomes our right,
is the president never going to leave the White House again?
If this ballroom is built. That's a question that's raised
by this overnight filing from the Justice Department because it's
attached to it is a declaration by the deputy director
(06:27):
of the Secret Service who talks about the inherent risks
of securing large events outside of the White House. Well,
how is the Secret Service ever going to promise the
country that's going to be able to secure presidential events?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Interesting, So that's where we're at right now. The Congress
are We're still going to build it.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Right now?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
The ballroom's construction is legally authorized at least through early June,
when the appellate panel is going to hear arguments on
the junction and the merits and whether to put in
place a longer stay. We shouldn't read too much into that,
except the appellate panel had the opportunity to say the
judge is right and that his injunction should stand. They
didn't do that, And so I guess we'll see what
(07:14):
happens next. But what could happen between now and then
that would end this conversation is for the people's elected
representatives to take an up or down vote to authorize
the ballroom. If the House in sidate were to get
together and say, you know what, mister President, you're right,
we endorse it, we approve it. Here's the bill, you
sign it. That ends the conversation. But that has not happened,
and it may not happen because there is a debate
(07:35):
over whether this is the right thing to do, and
the president doesn't own the White House. The American people do,
and their elected representatives ought to have a say. At
least that's what the judge says.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Steven Portnoy, ABC News National corresponding Washington.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Always good to catch up with you. Thanks for your.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Report this morning. I appreciate it. You bet all righty,
it's eight seventeen chucks up there this morning. Hey, Chuck, Yes, sir,
it's World Wish Day.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It is the Make a Wish Foundation. It's a leading
children's charity. You've probably heard of it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
They are the world's largest gift giving organization. I think
that's wonderful the way that they put that in there.
Thirty thousand wishes have been granted since about nineteen eighty,
a lot of them to ill children, so that's good.
But it started in Phoenix, Arizona. So this is one
of those good days. Their World Wish Day, celebrating all
(08:27):
the wishes to come and all the wishes that have
been granted.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
They're doing wonderful work, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thirty thousand wishes granted since nineteen eighty. They've got over
forty five thousand volunteers and over fifty chapters I'm sorry,
sixty chapters, and they're in five countries outside the US.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Also. Wow, it's incredible. That's really cool. All right, So we'll.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Wish for something good and wish that they continue the
good stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
They're doing for children and people around the world. That's
nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Dealing with his rush are starting to wind down at.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
All, Yes, in some spots, but the rex are keeping
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five in Hamilton Avenue, left lane blocked off, now backing
traffic pants coal Raine Avenue to clear that accident, and
then some improvement on southbound seventy five, especially through Westchester,
but still slow through Lachland northbound seventy five heaviest out
of er Anger into the Cut, and then again through
Saint Bernard to Town Street north and southbound seventy one
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running slow between two seventy five and Red Bank. Chuck
Ing from news Radio seven hundred WLW all Right the.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
WCPO nine First Warning Weather forecast center looking like this
a mostly cloudy showers maybe between like ten and noonish
around the Try State. Maybe an isolated afternoon shower, but
it's gonna be a cooler day. High sixty five down
to forty three tonight, partly cloudy tomorrow. We're only gonna
get to about sixty two degrees tomorrow, and that's below
(10:18):
average for this time of year. Friday morning, check this out.
Light rain sweeping through in the morning. Rush not a lot,
but we could have that. But we're also going to
have some cooler temperatures and frost cannot be ruled out
on Saturday and Sunday, and it should be a dry
flying pig on Sunday. But Sunday morning six thirty when
things going, it's gonna be like thirty eight, thirty nine degrees.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
High on Friday is only fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
And that's where we're at right now, fifty eight at
your severe weather station, News Radio seven hundred WLW. Is
Pokemon a currency for criminals? We'll find out next. All right,
let's talk to Jim Ryan, our ABC News course put
in Dallas this morning. Jim, tell me all about Pokemon,
(11:05):
the original theme song from the.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Show back in the nineteen ninety. Wow, it's been around
thirty years, thirty years that Pokemon has been a thing.
It started out or as a role playing game using
these cards. Each card the character has different strengths and abilities,
and so that's what started this thing off. But obviously
it's become a much bigger industry with toys and with
(11:27):
the TV shows, with the movies, with all the merchandise
that goes with it, and with the incidents of theft
that continues to rise. Now people are breaking into store.
There was one, yeah, in Chicago on Monday, somebody broke
in their assailance video of this. Broke through a window,
climbed in two guys, and they walked away with one
hundred thousand dollars worth of Pokemon cards. And you know,
(11:48):
a small business that's a huge loss deep.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And been around for thirty years and nobody's talking about
it in the last year or so, these of Skyrocket
doing Why the price went up so much recently, Well.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Part of it may be this thirty anniversary thing, you know,
and they're more desirable now with this anniversary, and there's
anniversary form almost anything, prices go up. But yeah, there
is a company that watches these things. In online posting
of kemoint hard views, those values have risen one hundred
and forty five percent in the past year alone. Wow,
So he had to hire. Something goes in value the
(12:23):
more people want it. The more people want it, the
higher goes in value. So it sort of spins itself.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Do you know are they making new pubmankords? Are these
just the old ones that are going up in value? Well,
it's primarily the old ones.
Speaker 9 (12:34):
If you look at the one that fetched the most
ever sixteen and a half million dollars, the Nmeme Fighter
Logan Paul. But that one at auction for sixteen and
a half million. It was a Pikachu Illustrator card and
it was decades old. It was in great shape and
you know, essentially mint condition. So it's addition, it's the
rarity of the card. It's the desirablity of it that
(12:57):
drives the value of pretty much anything.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I got to go shot too, don't I? Jim Ryan?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Pokemon cards, ABC News Dallas things so much C Steve
Right sixteen and a half million for a Pokemon card. Goodness, gracious,
I could think of other things that I would like
to buy or retire and go have fun. Oh goodness,
it's coming up an eight thirty newscast. We've got the
reds and Rockies. Tonight six forty coverage begins with the
inside Pitch at five point forty with Lance McAlister right
(13:25):
here in the home of the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
News Radio seven hundred WLW.
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Money, Money, Money, you want it, here's the news to
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Speaker 6 (13:39):
Hey, good morning, Wall Street. Getting ready for earnings from
tech giants after the clothes Today, Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft,
Amazon had Meta all reporting. These companies have pushed the
S and P five hundred to record after record in
the past few weeks. Disney is not planning on spinning
off ESPN. According to a report from Business Insider. The
sports channel will continue to stay with Disney is the
(14:01):
unit builds out its streaming offerings. Analysts have speculated for
years Disney would spend off the sports networks, particularly after
the company began reporting ESPN's earnings results. Separately, a mega
deal in the liquor industry off the table. Jack Daniels,
Maker Brown Foreman and Perno Recard, which is behind Jamison
Whiskey and did their merger talks. The two sides say
(14:23):
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talks over a potential five hundred million dollar US government
bandlout for spirit Analines has reached in impasse. A group
of Spirits lenders are pushing back from Bloomberg. I'm John
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Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thank good money eight forty one and seven hundred WLW.
Let's head out to New York, where gas prices are
like six bucks a gallon. ABC News investigator reporter Peter
hier Lombi's with us is this point?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Hey good, morney Peter, how are you?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm good, I'm good. Let's press around five dollars here
getting bad?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Refresh our listeners.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
We wanted to talk about James coney Comy being indicted again.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Refresh our listeners. Who is he? What did he do
the first time? And what's going on now?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, we're talking about the former FBI director here, a
longtime critic of President Trump, who, if you recall, was
indicted about seven months ago on very different charges. In
this case, the grand jury in North Carolina returned to
new indictment yesterday, accusing him of trying to threaten to
kill the president. It all centers on an Instagram post
he made last year showing seashells on a beach with
(15:34):
the numbers eighty six, which commonly means to nix or
get rid of something, and then forty seven, which of
course Trump is the forty seventh the presidents. It's been
a year since that post, and now he's been indicted
over it. The last case, on completely different charges, was
thrown out last year.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Wow, so they've indicted him again now or yesterday or today.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He's due to show up in court in Virginia today.
There's actually a rest warrant that was filed alongside the indictment.
He's going to self surrender in Virginia. And it's unclear
one hill appear in North Carolina, but he will eventually,
sometime probably the next week's show up in North Carolina
to enter some kind of plea. He has spoken out
since this indictment came out, saying that he's not afraid,
(16:19):
he will not be intimidated, and that he's innocent, and
that this is a political prosecution.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
When something like this happens, do you expect it to
go to a trial or something like that eventually.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I mean with the last case, it was possible it
went a trial. That was The other case was about
allegedly lying to Congress. This one, though, appears to be
a kind of a different story. This is a sparse indictment,
talking about three pages. The only evidence appears to be
the social media post itself. And you know, the constitution
of the First Amendment protects most speech, even if it's
(16:52):
slightly threatening. So to actually prosecute a threat, you have
to hit a pretty high bar. You have to basically
prove something is a true threat that James Comy intended
for this to be perceived as a threat by Trump,
And in this case, Comy removed the post, apologized, and
he said that he didn't know that he was insinuating
some kind of violence. So legal experts who are looking
(17:13):
at this indictment and former prosecutors are kind of describing
this as a historically weak, historically bad indictment that they
don't even think has a shot of getting to trial.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Are they thinking Trump's just trying to get back at him?
Is that what a lot of people behind the scenes
are thinking about on this one.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And I think it's also important to think about the
context within the Department of Justice, Pam Bondi is out
in part because she was not aggressive enough at prosecuting
from adversaries. That and then of course the Epstein files.
So now that we have Deputy Attorney Todd Lynch stepping
up to acting Attorney General, it seems like, in a way,
there is more pressure to pursue these kinds of cases.
Of course, last week we saw that indictment of the
(17:50):
Southern Poverty Law Center, which was similarly accused of being politicized,
and there's an ongoing investigation of John Brennan, the former
CIA director down in Florida. It seems like there's much
more aggression in terms of bringing these cases potentially to
please the president.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
But the other thing, for somebody like me who's not
necessarily needs to please the president, some of these just
seems silly.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
They're just t for tat. It seems like, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When you think about it, you know, tax payer dollars
are going to actually fund these cases. It's kind of
comical at the end of the day when you look
at how much money these kind of individual cases cost taxpayers.
When we were looking at, for example, those Special Council probes,
we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So it's really not out of the question that you know,
more than a million dollars or your taxpayer funds are
going to paying for these kind of prosecutions when they're
ultimately a little petty and probably going to be unsuccessful.
That being said, perhaps this could have been resolved if
James Comee didn't just post that photo, which he now
acknowledges was silly in a mistake.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
All right, Peter harlam Buse, ABC News investigative reporter in
New York.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I know you got to go. Thank you for your
time this morning. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It's eight forty seven.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Hundred WLW Chuck Ingram before we get to traffic in
here this morning. A lot of stuff going on. We
were talking about this earlier. It's National Zipper Day.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yes, it is Zipper patented on this date in nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
And then you asked me a question a couple hours ago.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Well, we were just you know, reflecting on what came
before and after the Zipper.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, National Button Day is November sixteenth, yes, and Velcrow
Day is May thirteenth, nineteen fifty eight. So in a
couple of weeks we got velcrow, which is a French
word for like valure and crochet. Yes, crochet means hook
and the lower means something. Yes, and that's where you
(19:46):
get well.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
But you're celebrating a little early here, hawk, I am, yeah,
you're two weeks early. This is about the Zipper, the zipper. Yep,
zipper gets its own day winning one for the zipper
is what And here's the other one.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
It's Willie Nelson's birthday April twenty ninth or April thirtieth.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
There was a birth certificate mess up.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Really, so the only person in America that doesn't need
to party two days in a row is Willie Nelson,
and he gets two birthday parties. Well, then double the cake,
double the ic seed in the ice cream. Let's go there,
you got there, you go the party's.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
This is the secret to his longevity.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
This is what Willy Nelson said when he was ninety
years old, which is a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
He says, everything's easy for longevity. I just eat my oatmeal,
wait for the bus, and sometimes I smoke on the bus.
That is Willie Nelson's There you go, the Willie Nelson trifecta.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Goodness, gracious, what's going on out there?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
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at Union Center. Had an extra five minutes though in
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and out of Blackland. Southbound seventy one starting to clear
between two seventy five and the Reagan Highway. Often on
the breaks from there through Kenwood down to Red Bank.
And there's an accident south seventy one at Smith Edwards,
but they're over on the shoulder and out of the way.
Latest wreck is eastbound on the Reagan Highway, just after
you got past Hamilton Avenue. I'm not seeing a huge
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delay there, Chuck Ingram. News Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The nine first warning weather forecast centers is mostly cloudy
and sixty five today, maybe an isolated afternoon shower, not
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Radio seven hundred WLWLW, Cincinnati.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
It's time to head out to Jerusalem. My ABC News
correspondent Jordanah Miller with us this morning. Hey, good morning, Jrodana.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I'm okay. You know, the war, the war between Israel
and Lebanon. We're supposed to be in a seafire, but
I have to tell you, it sure doesn't look like
it on the ground. There have been multiple Hasbala rocket
and drone strikes today, alarm sirens going off there in
(22:31):
the north, which we haven't seen like this for a
few days. And the Israelis also carrying out strikes in
southern Lebanon. So you know, it's looking quite it's feeling
quite tense here despite what it's supposed to be more
than another two weeks of a seafire.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Are there any scheduled talks that are going to happen
during the ceasefire.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Well, we heard a lot of reports that the president,
and the President actually said it himself initially that he
wanted to get the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ataniel and
the Israeli and the Lebanese President Michelle allone together at
the White House. But it looks like there's just too
(23:21):
much pushback on the Lebanese side for that, and Aowon
is expected, according to Lebanese reports, to have his own
separate meeting with President Trump and then possibly followed up
by a meeting with the Israeli Prime minister. But nothing
is set in stone there. We saw that second round
(23:42):
of talks at the ambassador level just last week and
no new reports of another meeting on that level yet.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
The other story this morning, the Israeli Prime minister is
invited net Yahu to talk about settling up his corruption
Could you talk about those corruption charges, what they have
and what they're trying to do with that.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Also, absolutely, the Israeli Prime Minister is in the middle
of his corruption trial. It's three cases and he's facing
charges of bribery, breach of trust, and fraud. And those
charges include taking illicit gifts from billionaires, a quid pro
(24:32):
quo allegedly with a top telecom billionaire here in Israel
giving him passing through a deal, and an exchange allegedly
Nataniel is given a hand in shaping the coverage of
him and his politics, his government, his family in a
(24:54):
very popular website, as well as other exchanges or what
allegedly are abuses of power. The trial has been going
on now for more than five years held up by
COVID and uh, the war now and the Israeli Prime
minister had asked the President Isaac Hertzog to please give
(25:16):
him a pardon, but the President has decided instead he's
going to ask Natanyahu instead to h to please work
on a plea deal.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
So that's that's the latest on that.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
So he's got that going on and the war that
he's dealing with also and other things that a prime minister,
which is right, wow, hey, that's right, it's a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Absolutely, Is Trump going to get involved in any of
this or they is he trying to stay out of it?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I think you know, we've heard President Trump say in
the past that Isaac Hertzog, the President needs to give him, uh,
the prime minister, a pardon, and he hasn't been so
respectful in his language about the Israeli president. But the
Israeli president that's to be diplomatic about it. But the President,
(26:10):
Isaac Hertzeg has long said that he believes a plea
deal is the best option. And if you look closely
at the submission by Natanielle for a pardon, it is
a pardon before conviction, right. The Israeli Prime Minister has
not been convicted of anything yet, his trials not finished,
(26:31):
and there's only one precedent for that in Israeli history.
It was with a case that was i would say,
a fumbled case that Israel shinbet part of the intelligence
agencies here were carrying out and in that case there
was a part in request, but everybody was fired, and
(26:53):
Natanielle doesn't want to be fired. So I think the
Israeli President has decided that he wants to go go
back and ask the parties to see if they can
agree on a plea deal before he goes to address
the issue of a pardon. And so the Israeli Prime
Minister it is a bit of a setback because that
means that when he runs for reelection in six months here,
(27:16):
the corruption case will still very much be you know,
will be hovering above him. It will not be settled,
all right.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Jordana Miller, ABC News correspondent, Jerusalem. Thanks for report this morning.
Stay safe. We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Thanks Texans.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
Already it's coming up an eight fifty nine to seven
hundred WLW.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Gary Jeff Walker here, he'll be in after the nine
o'clock news.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Good Morning.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Two days in a row. Absolutely, you made it in
the Tower may burn down. Yesterday was all about UFOs.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
What's to that? All about UFOs?
Speaker 10 (27:46):
But today we're going to start with my friend Vicky
Lessandro from the VCAS, which is the Veteran's Companion Animal
Services Okay of Cincinnati. It started back in Columbus a
few years ago. They opened the Cincinnati chapter this past year.
And what they do is they match shelter dogs, rescue
(28:07):
dogs with veterans that need to be rescued, and they
carefully vet both the dog and the veteran and it
really is a unique kind of charity and help for
our veterans and those dogs that need a home. And
(28:27):
they've placed their first dog with a veteran now, so
we're going to talk about that and their continuing work.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
To start off. But it's a pack show, all right,
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Speaker 3 (28:35):
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