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Welcome to the show on this Monday, June tenth. I'm
Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, and we've got a really
busy first hour for you this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Coming up.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
In just a few moments, we're gonna check them with
our national correspondent Rory O'Neil. We'll get an update on
the Hunter Biden trial, which continue today, could wrap up.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
As soon as today.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Also, we're going to tell you all about those is
really hostages freed from GOSSA quite a mission that we
learned about over the weekend, so I have some insight
into that.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Also.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I don't know if you saw dan of the protests
that were taking place outside the White House.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Oh I did. It was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
It was a mess, and we've got some audio to
play for you from that, and it was just outrageous.
I mean, you had people straight up dressed up like
members of Hamas. This was a pro Hamas rally that
took place right outside the White House.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
A lot of what we've seen has been pro Palestine, Yeah,
but this was pro Hamas, pro terrorist group, which is
really shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
So we'll get to that and a little bit later
on in the hour, we're going to talk to the
host of On Balance with Leland Vidert on News Nation.
Leland Vidert's going to be with us because last night
on News Nation, they aired a documentary on the Reagan presidency,
which was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So we talked to him about that.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And you know, when we think back to Ronald Reagan
as president and you look at where our politics is today,
where would he fit in to the Republican Party to
just you know, our political culture more generally speaking. So
we'll get some insight from Leland Biddert on that in
(02:20):
a bit, But of course one of the big stories
this morning is going to be the Hunter Biden trial.
Resuming a little bit later on in the show, we'll
talk to a legal analyst about what we've seen so
far from the prosecution.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
We'll step through some of the big moments.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I mean, the witness list has been very interesting.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
A.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Lot of exes, a lot of talk of crack and
how much crack Hunter Biden was doing. I think when
the images came out from the laptop and we saw,
you know, the extent of his addiction, we certainly knew
that he.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Was he had issues, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Doing crack quite a bit. But now that we learn
like every twenty minutes.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Yeah, the people who were with him, and then he
got Halle Biden into cracks. It was so bad that
he got somebody else into it too.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
He the widow of his dead brother. Not only did
he end up in an intimate relationship with her, he
got her addicted to crack.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
It's really bad.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Wrap your head.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Around that for a moment, and then you add in,
then you add in everything else that we've seen from
him that's not even related to this trial. You know,
the shady business deals and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I mean, what a mess.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil who joins
us now.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So Rory.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
The Hunter Biden gun trial likely going to wrap up
pretty quickly this.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Week, Yeah, must there's a surprise announcement today that Hunter
Biden will take the stand in his own defense.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
We could be looking at closing arguments, maybe even today.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
The daughter of Hunter Biden, the adult daughter of Hunter Biden,
was on the stand Friday for the defense, although her
testimony may not have gone according to plan, and now
they may be rethinking this idea of calling the president's brother,
James Biden, the uncle to Hunter, whether or not he
should take the stand at all. The defense is trying
(04:21):
to make this argument that Okay, yes, you say in
the book, or Hunter says in his own book that
he was addicted to crack at the time, but you
don't have proof he was addicted or using that very
moment he's signed the paperwork to buy that gun.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
So they are trying to walk a very fine line here.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, that seems to be the whole thing. It's like,
at that exact moment when he filled out that form.
He didn't have a crack pipe in his hands, right,
so obviously he wasn't addicted. I mean, that's basically the defense.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
He might have left and gone to smoke craft immediately.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
After hermund, but in that moment as he's signing the papers,
didn't have he didn't have any crack on him, So
of course he wasn't an addict.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That is gonna be Uh, that's quite the defense.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It is.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
But they're also going to then try to argue jury nullification, saying, Okay, yeah,
he made a mistake, he was on drugs, but look
how he's turned his.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Life around, and he's a Biden in Delaware. The whole
family has been dedicated to his service for decades or whatever.
The defense is going to try to say in.
Speaker 11 (05:25):
Order to try to get at least one of these
jurors to say, oh, but he's a nice guy and
try to give him a pass on this one, because
don't forget, this is not the end of Hunter Biden's
legal problems.
Speaker 12 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
A big federal tax trout coming up in California this fall.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, and that might be the more serious of the two.
All right, let's get to the other big story.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
This morning, we're joined by our national correspondent Rory O'Neill.
Israeli hostages freed from Gaza. This was quite in operation.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Pretty spectacular as it unfolded on Saturday. Also rare that
it was done during daylight hours. So when the IDF
does these kinds of things, normally it's at night. But
because it was done during the day on a Saturday,
that may be one of the reasons that the casualty
count is so high. Hamas claims that about two hundred
and seventy people were killed in saturday's raid, where four
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hostages taken October seventh from that music festival that have
been held captive in a densely residential area of central Gaza.
Pretty remarkable though, that they were able to get them
out safely. What that does now for future peace talks,
whether or not we get are closer or further away
from a ceasefire. There are arguments on both sides of
that equation.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And we've learned that apparently the hostage is being held
in a journalist's home.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Right, we don't know for how long they were there. Again,
we think that they've all been moved. Written numerous times
in this what is seven eight months now, so we
don't know how long they were there at this time around,
but yeah, it's we're curious to hear from the hostages
themselves about more of their ordeal.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
All Right, Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil with the latest
this morning. Rory, really appreciate the update. Thanks so much.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
You know, the media coverage of the Israeli hostages being freed,
I mean, that's something we're gonna have to talk about
throughout the course of the morning because some of the headlines,
like from the New York Times hostages return home after
Israeli assault that killed scores of Gozen's I mean, that's
one way to fright.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Yeah, I was just looking at the Associated Press and
it's the same thing about how many Palestinians.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Were killed, right exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So we'll get into some of the headlines, some of
the posts on x that the different media organizations put
out that just I thought.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Really really did not frame.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
What happened and make the headline anything close to what
it should have looked like in the aftermath of an
operation like that. Now, want to get to what took
place outside the White House, because this was quite a
scene over the weekend, there's this big protest and normally,
like on the college campuses in different ones that we saw,
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it's like pro Palestine protests that you'd have. Then there
were some instances where it seemed like it was venturing
into just pro Hamas territory. This was straight up pro Hamas.
What was happening outside the White House. Listen to some
of these chants, so, I mean, they're chanting for Hasbalan,
(08:46):
these terrorist organizations talking about killing Israeli soldiers. Then you
had this literally right outside the White House, pro terrorist chance.
Just again a stunning scene. We'll have more on that
(09:08):
throughout the course of the morning as we continue here
on this Monday, June tenth. Right now, let's get to
a quick trending story. This woman has gone viral and
it all has to do with the shopping cart.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Yes, the mom went on TikTok and she said she
cannot put her shopping cart back because she has her
kids in the car. Listen to this.
Speaker 13 (09:33):
I'm not returning my shopping cart and you can judge
me all you want. I'm not getting my groceries into
my car and getting my children into the car and
then leaving them in the car to go return the cart.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
So if you're going to give me a dirty look, yeah,
So she doubled down on this, She got a lot
of backlash from it, and then she went on a
local TV program and doubled down on what she said.
Speaker 14 (09:58):
I think moms are minimized a lot, dads too, but
it is really hard to get young kids into the car.
And coming from the mindset of somebody who's worked with
predators for twenty years, I know how they think and
I know what they look for, and that is a
vulnerable moment. When you return to your car, you have
already been watched for a significant amount of time.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So if you are.
Speaker 14 (10:22):
Choosing social niceties over protecting your children, I just wanted
to say, you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I'm all about being aware in a parking lot, but
that is no excuse to me put it back. You
know what, do you take your kids out of the
shopping car after you unload your groceries, and you walk
it over with your kids and you chuse it's a
teachable moment.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
You do exactly, I mean honestly, And we were talking
about this last way.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I feel like this should be a crime with this
woman is. It's outrageous.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
If you've got to put the safety of your children second,
you make sure you get that shopping cart back in
the right spot. Yes, when we come back, we've got
a lot to get to in this and we're going
to talk about something that unfolded over the weekend. Trump's
hush money judge flagged a Facebook user who claimed early
(11:10):
knowledge of the verdict.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
We've got that story for you. Stick around for that
back in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Hang on, This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chono.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Brian Gorman, and Dana McKay.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Here.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I want to get to a story that unfolded over
the weekend. And I was actually at a party on
Saturday and people were talking about this, and this is
one of those situations. Another thing that came up at
the party because you know, when I'm there.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Everybody talks to you about politics. Yeah, they know what
you do.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's like the last thing I want to talk about.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
And I'm sure enough they've got like a million things
to say and to ask me about. So what also
came up was the moment when President Biden when he
was over in Normandy for the eightieth anniversary of d
day the invisible chair incident where he started to sit down,
(12:03):
Joe Biden says something to him. He pauses, and it
looks like he, I don't know, is like not feeling
well or something, you know, going yeah, that's going on,
and that's where the clip cut off. And then if
you watch the rest of it, right after that, he
sits down.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Because their word chair is behind him, and everyone else
also sat down.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Exactly, but everybody I taught it, it was like four different people.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
They all saw the edited version.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
They had no idea that, like, literally a second later
he actually sat down.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
He paused when she said something to him.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Then they finish up the introduction of Defense Secretary of
Loud Austin, and then he sat down, and then everybody
sat down. So it just shows you once this stuff
goes viral, I mean, that's there, it's out there.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah, and nobody goes back to see what really happened?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No, No, So what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
On Friday Evening, Justice one more show on the judge
who oversaw Trump's Hauschmani trial in New York. He sent
a letter to prosecutors and Trump's legal team alerting them
to this really odd post verdict development. The court noted
it became aware of a comment on the New York
(13:19):
Court's Facebook page from a user named Michael Anderson, who claimed,
prior to the guilty verdict being announced, quote, my cousin
is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted. The
post was made a day before the verdict came down.
(13:40):
So this obviously was an interesting development.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
No, So I saw this all unfolding, and I'm thinking,
hang on a sec. You know me, when it comes
to some of these kinds of developments, it's like, let's
just wait and see how this all unfold. Now, obviously
the judge had to alert both the prosecution and the defense.
It's about this. But when you look at the guy's.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Page, yes, himself a.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Professional s poster.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, okay, so the minute you see that, that should
give you a bit of pause, right, like, hang on
a sec.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Is this guy just a troll here?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
And I kept seeing this is what bothers me about
social media. I kept seeing everybody do this like huge
development if it's true, Like, oh my god, this could
change everything if it's true.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Didn't Trump reach We didn't say retrial, mistrial or something
like that like Trump was all over it of.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Course, right right.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
It's like instead of just you know, sharing it and saying,
oh man, if this is true, like this changes the
whole ballgame, just maybe don't post about it until we
learn more.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Well, what I don't understand, though, is why did the
judge put that memo out there without him and his
team investigating what was actually going on so that they
could give some context to it. And you know, they
had to address it obviously, but why wouldn't he have
his people look into, hey, who is this guy? Is
this legitimate? And then put out a longer explanation of
(15:24):
what happened. It's almost like the judge wanted the drama
because he had to have known when he put it
out there that this was going to be heavily discussed.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
In one of the messages on the page, the account's
owner elaborated on s posting, defining those kinds of messages
as quote intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the
biggest reaction with the least effort.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
That's what they did, mission accomplished.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
He told his readers, take it easy. I'm a professional,
professional S poster, so I mean, I think it's pretty
clear the obviously, Look, you got to look into it, right,
you got to make sure. I mean, it's a big
deal if that were to be true. So I get it.
But it seems pretty obvious. This guy's just screwing with people, and.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
He feels really accomplished right now because he got the
judge's attention, and when he made that comment, he probably
didn't think that it would go this far to actually
become part of the story.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Well, yeah, it's like this innocuous comment on the New
York Courts Facebook page and then all of a sudden,
you know, I guess the social media team or somebody
saw it, alerted the judge and his team, and then
you've got to launch this investigation and got to lert
the legal teams. Then you know, the media starts to
get a hold of it, and then once social media
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has it, it's it. I mean, that's all anybody could
talk about.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Right, And probably a lot of people who saw it
and just ran with it have no idea that this
wasn't actually a cousin and that the guy is an
s poster right exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
All right, when we come back, we've still got a
lot to get to in just this hour. We're going
to talk to Leland Viddtert, host of On Balance with
Leland Vittert on News Nation.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
They ran a documentary over the weekend, and you'll be.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Able to watch it on the News Nation YouTube page
and also newsnationnow dot com if you want to check
it out.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It was called Reagan Portrait of a Presidency.
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Speaker 5 (17:38):
We're joined by Leland Viddtert, host of On Balance with
Leland Viddert, which you can watch on News Nation weekday
evenings at seven eastern sixth Central. News Nation aired a
ninety minute documentary film, Reagan Portrait of a Presidency last night.
You're gonna be able to check this out on News
Nation's YouTube and at newsnationnow dot com. It's all about
(17:59):
the life and legacy of President Ronald Reagan. It was
narrated by actor Dean Kine, and Leland's here to talk
more about it. Leland, thank you so much for coming
on the show this morning. So tell us about the
parts of the Reagan presidency that you really wanted to
dive into in this documentary.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
His presidency and his life.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Obviously, so much of his presidency was shaped by his
earlier life, by the very goldwater time for choosing speech,
by his time as governor, by his time as an
actor where he learned and figured out how to communicate,
by his time as a spokesperson for General Electric, where
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he went around and talked to General Electric employees and
ambassador to the company, are for the company.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
To their employees.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
I think what is really interesting about.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
This documentary is that we all.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
In a way Revere Reagan, at least I do. I
named my dog after.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
So full disclosure.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
But this gives you the the gift of history, and
by that I mean the gift of time to look
back at.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
The moment and say, Okay, the reason we love him
is because the things he did worked.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What were those things? What were the challenges?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
And look, this is d Day Obviously, to point, the
Hawk speech for Ronald Reagan in eighty four played a
huge role in his reelection to plays a huge role
in the documentary. But much like D Day was a gamble.
It was a coin flip. Was it gonna work or not?
So was staring down the Soviet Union. So was that
very daring thing that Ronald Reagan said, Not that I'm
(19:41):
gonna manage the Cold War, not that We're gonna get
advantages over the Soviets, not you know, not sort of
any equivocation. We're gonna we're gonna figure out how to
strengthen American's geopolitical, uh situation in the world. He just said,
we're gonna win.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It was very simple, but it was very daring at
the time.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
And nobody knew if it was gonn of work. She
faced enormous criticism at the time, And the point that
Hack speech in nineteen eighty four was, yeah, it was
this amazing speech. And you know, there's reporting that Walter
Mondale's headquarters was crying when they were listening to it,
and they said, Okay, this is over.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But at the time it was still this big.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Question can he do it? And I think now forty
years later, we get to look back, and George Will
made that point in the after show host You Got
to Host with George and talk a little bit about
the documentary. George made that point that now in history
we see how daring things were and how they worked.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
There's so much too unpack, and I think it's really
important to remember the context. I mean, let's be honest,
the country had lost its swagger. There wasn't a lot
of confidence in America, and Reagan was able to bring
that back. And I wonder how much of it had
to do with him being such a rare talent, able
to communicate and deliver a message like few before him
(20:56):
and honestly few after him.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Unquestionably, he was a once in a generation talent, but
we've had a lot of presidents who are once in
generation talents, and I think that's what's interesting to point out.
He was a transformational leader. Kennedy was a transformational leader.
Obama was a transformational leader. Clinton was, and to a
certain extent, and I think that the ability to communicate
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these big ideas, but the ability to believe in these
very specific ideas is really important. And George makes that
point I think in the after show, well, I think
the documentary picks up on the themes that Ronald Reagan
believed were really important, and they were very simple themes.
(21:45):
All of these things come out in the documentary and
you hear it through his words, So I think it.
But again, I'm really happy we're doing this, and I
appreciate you being given us the time to talk about
it because we need to have the long lens of
history in order to figure out why what Ronald Reagan
(22:05):
did work and why it changed the world.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
We're joined now by Leland Biddert, host of On Balance
with Leland Biddert on News Nation weekday evenings at seven
eastern sixth Central. Last night, News Nation aired a ninety
minute documentary film, Reagan Portrait of a Presidency. You can
find that on News Nation's YouTube channel and at newsnationnow
dot com. Last question for you, would Ronald Reagan be
(22:28):
able to pull off what you highlight in the documentary
in today's political environment?
Speaker 7 (22:35):
It's a great question. Would Ronald would the Republican Party
even what Ronald Viston right now?
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Could he could?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
He?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Could he even get the nomination?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
And I he could get the nomination, I think because
it just he was such a singular talent, but his
policies are completely out of touch with today's Republican party
in the in the populist view of America's republican America's
Republican Party. And look, Reagan was a true conservative.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
He believed in limited government.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
But he was consistent about that right. You know, today's
sort of the populist part of the day's Republican Party
wants government to solve the federal government, especially to solve
a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's not where Ronald Reagan was.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
And I think you see that in the documentary. You
saw what his principles are, which were clear and well
founded and thoughtful. And I think people don't give Reagan
enough credit for how smart he was and how his
ability to have really defined principles the very Goldwater speech
type of dudon and it blows that.
Speaker 15 (23:37):
Out and then stick to him and not give in
to the sort of drug of telling people what they
wanted to hear at the time they wanted to hear
it because it would get you clips on cable news.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Tell you what.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I think Ronald Reagan would be able to do a
mean TikTok video if he were around today.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So there's that, well, there's not much involving a.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Camera that couldn't exactly right.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Leland Viddert host of On Balance with Leland Viddert weekday
evenings at seven Eastern and sixth Central on News Nation,
and that's where you can check out the News Nation
ninety minute documentary film Reagan Portrait of a Presidency, newsnationnow
dot com and on Newsnations. All right, Leland, really appreciate
you taking a few minutes to come on with us.
All Right, when we come back in just a bit,
(24:29):
we've got some new polling on the presidential race that
we're going to take a look at. We'll look at
the latest trend lines in a bit here right now,
let's get you a trending story. Caitlin Clark back in
the news.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Well because she didn't make Team USA for the Olympics.
She's not on the roster when it was released, but
she's handling it really well despite the fact that people
are saying that she was snubbed. Here's what she said.
I'm excited for the girls that are on the team.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I know it's the most competitive.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Team in the world, and I know I could have
gone either way.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Maybe on the TAMAN.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Not being on the TAM.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I'm excited for them. I'm going to marry them on
Toiling Gold.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
It'll be fun to watch them.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Honestly, I'm disappointment.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I think it's just gives you something, something to work for.
That's a dream.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You know, hopefully I can be there.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
I think it's just a little more motivation.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You remember that, and you know, hopefully in four years
or four years come.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
To back around. You know, I can be there.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
First of all, next time they interview her, they have
to move her away from the basketballs being.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Passed, right, Yeah, And she handled it really well though,
But to say that she's not disappointed, come on, I mean,
she's the biggest star in the w NBA by far.
She had to have been like what when she realized
she wasn't on that roster.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
It really is amazing how everything having to do with
her and the w n b A has gone way
beyond sports.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Oh yeah, it's like major news now.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's it's major news.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
And I got to tell you, I just think the
w n b A is making such a mistake in
how they're handling all of this. And we'll talk a
little bit more about that, maybe coming to peer in
a moment. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay filling in
for Michael del Journo all this week, so we appreciate
you tuning in and listening to us.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Hey, I'm Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
And my morning show is your Morning show with Michael Del.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Journal Caitlyn Clark left off the USA Women's Olympic basketball
team one of the big stories this morning. Here's the thing,
whether or not Caitlyn Clark technically should be on the
team based on performance or anything like that. What are
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you doing if you're women's basketball, why wouldn't you make
sure she was part of the Olympics simply to elevate
the sport.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
It doesn't make any sense at all. And it's almost
like did they leave her off on purpose? Because they
have seen the reaction from some of the other players
towards Caitlin Clark, like how they just seem to not
like her. There's like a lot of hate for her.
So did they leave her off on purpose?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Like maybe there are others more deserving WNBA players. I'm
sure that's probably the case, but you've got to think
in terms of the sport and what's good for the sport.
And right now Kitlin Clark is pulling twenty thousand people
into an arena where a normal WNBA game gets like
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seven thousand, eight thousand. She's setting records when it comes
to ratings on TV. You're not gonna have her be
part of the women's Olympic basketball team.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Do you know how many people would have tuned in?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yeah, there would have been way more people watching, just
like with the regular games. There's a lot more people
watching her games.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
And I guess part of the reasoning was they said,
if she was on the team, she probably was gonna
play that much, and then you would just have disappointed
fans who cares.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Why wouldn't she play that much?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Though?
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Because she are they trying to say she's not that good.
I don't understand that either.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Well, look, maybe she's not as good as these other
WNBA players who are gonna be on this Olympics team.
I have no idea. I'm not that well versed in
women's I.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Haven't been watching as much as you're kind of trying
to let on.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yeah, no, not quite.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
But I know that even if she was just on
the team, even if she didn't play that much. People
would be tuning in, they'd be paying attention, more attention
than they're going to pay now if she was part
of it, And so I just I just don't get
it from that perspective alone.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Let's talk about the presidential race. Now.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
There's been a lot of new polling. There was a
new CBS poll that came out over the weekend. Here's
the bottom line. I mean, I can run through what
CBS found, I can run through with this pole found,
with that pole found. You take it all with the
grain of salt, first of all, because we're still a
ways out from the election. And the bottom line here
is this is going to be a close race. So
we'll just take the CBS poll as an example. You
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go back to September, you had Trump up one. Then
you take a look at October of last year, Trump
up three. In January of this year, Trump up two,
February Trump up four, now June Trump up one. Trump's
the front runner at this point, but it's a tight race.
It's within the margin of era could go either way.
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And you know, these national polls, they're one thing. I
tend to like the stay poles better because this is
going to come down to a handful of states. It's
going to really come down to three. It's going to
come down to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Those are the
key states Biden has to wind thows. He loses one
of those, it's game over. So that's really what it
can and in those states it's going to be a
close contest. Every poll pretty much shows that you're talking
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about a couple thousand people. I mean, those are the margins.
That's what we're looking at here with this election. And
I don't see anything that could happen between now and
then really fundamentally.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Changing that fact.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
With the exception of Biden getting on stage later this
month at the debate and completely.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Bombing, which could happen, Trump is going to.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Do his thing.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
We're not going to see anything new or different or
unexpected from Trump over the course of the next couple
of months.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
And when you look at some of.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
The post verdict polling, maybe a slight move to Biden,
just a little bit, not a lot. And I've said
I want to see that marinate, I want to see
that sit for a little while. I really don't like
these immediate polls right after the verdict, people need to
sit with it for a little bit and then watch
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how things shake out over the course of the next
couple of weeks. But that was never going to change
the race in a major way. No, So what do
we have to look forward to that could be one
of those moments where things shift a bit. Well, the
debate that's going to be the next big thing. My
bet would be, if I had to guess, probably nothing
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happens in that debate that's going to change anybody's mind
all that much. I mean, again, unless Biden just completely bombed,
I see Trump doing what Trump does on the debate stage,
and I don't think that's going to shift the vote
very much. I don't think there's really a whole lot
of stuff in terms of policy that Biden can do
between now an election day to change things. I mean,
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this is going to be a really tight race, and
it's going to come down to whether or not you
can you know, for those who were in the middle,
whether or not they look back at the Trump ears
and think they were they were just better, and they'd
want to see that again, even if they're not thrilled
with some of what Trump brings to the table, or
you know, people just don't want to deal with those
(31:24):
things the Trump brings to the table, the drama, and
then they'll say, all right, I mean, uh, he has
a shuffle when he walks.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But I guess I'll just go with that for another
four years.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
So, uh, Christy nome Uh, she spoke out, and she
was for a time there, I thought, the leading candidate
for Trump's VP pick.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Since what is it? Murder doggate?
Speaker 6 (31:53):
And she admitted to shooting her dogs and.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Yeah, yeah, since that happened, and since you know that
whole thing. Did she did she meet with Kim John
Jard Since all of that, I've never seen somebody stock
fall as quickly as Christy Nolmes has fallen. So she's
basically out of the race for VP. But she says
that Trump should pick a woman as his vice presidential nominee.
And when you look at the possibilities, I mean there's
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only a handful.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
There's at least dephonic.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Uh, there's Nicky Haley, which I don't know can amend
that relationship with Nicky Haley won it.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
And left that bird cage with outside our hotel.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Room mine if any of you have forgotten about that,
His campaign left a bird cage outside of hotel room.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
And then you've got maybe Katie Britt, although she bombed
and stated the Union rebuttal and it seems like her
stock has fallen since then.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Oh yeah, she was awful during that rebuttal. I mean
that was rough.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Yeah, it was rough, and she was a big up
and coming star. I mean, it's not impossible that you
could pick someone like that. And then Tulca Gabbard's the
other name that's kind of been thrown around a little bit,
so maybe it'd be one of those, but it just
feels like the Marco Rubio's, the Tim Scott's, the JD
Vanceys of the world. They seem to be a little
bit more towards the top of that list.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
But we'll see.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I guess the latest is that Trump's going to unveil
his vice presidential pick at the convention, So we'll have
to wait and see. But I'm sure we'll have all
kinds of different rumors between now and then.
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Welcome to the show on this Monday, June tenth. I'm
Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, and we've got a really
busy first hour for you this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Coming up.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
In just a few moments, we're gonna check them with
our national correspondent Rory O'Neil. We'll get an update on
the Hunter Biden trial, which continue today, could wrap up.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
As soon as today.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Also, we're going to tell you all about those is
really hostages freed from GOSSA quite a mission that we
learned about over the weekend, so I have some insight
into that.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Also.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I don't know if you saw dan of the protests
that were taking place outside the White House.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Oh I did. It was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
It was a mess, and we've got some audio to
play for you from that, and it was just outrageous.
I mean, you had people straight up dressed up like
members of Hamas. This was a pro Hamas rally that
took place right outside the White House.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
A lot of what we've seen has been pro Palestine, Yeah,
but this was pro Hamas, pro terrorist group, which is
really shocking.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
So we'll get to that and a little bit later
on in the hour, we're going to talk to the
host of On Balance with Leland Vidert on News Nation.
Leland Vidert's going to be with us because last night
on News Nation, they aired a documentary on the Reagan presidency,
which was really interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So we talked to him about that.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And you know, when we think back to Ronald Reagan
as president and you look at where our politics is today,
where would he fit in to the Republican Party to
just you know, our political culture more generally speaking. So
we'll get some insight from Leland Biddert on that in
(02:20):
a bit, But of course one of the big stories
this morning is going to be the Hunter Biden trial.
Resuming a little bit later on in the show, we'll
talk to a legal analyst about what we've seen so
far from the prosecution.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
We'll step through some of the big moments.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I mean, the witness list has been very interesting.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
A.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Lot of exes, a lot of talk of crack and
how much crack Hunter Biden was doing. I think when
the images came out from the laptop and we saw,
you know, the extent of his addiction, we certainly knew
that he.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Was he had issues, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Doing crack quite a bit. But now that we learn
like every twenty minutes.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Yeah, the people who were with him, and then he
got Halle Biden into cracks. It was so bad that
he got somebody else into it too.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
He the widow of his dead brother. Not only did
he end up in an intimate relationship with her, he
got her addicted to crack.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
It's really bad.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Wrap your head.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Around that for a moment, and then you add in,
then you add in everything else that we've seen from
him that's not even related to this trial. You know,
the shady business deals and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I mean, what a mess.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil who joins
us now.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So Rory.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
The Hunter Biden gun trial likely going to wrap up
pretty quickly this.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Week, Yeah, must there's a surprise announcement today that Hunter
Biden will take the stand in his own defense.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
We could be looking at closing arguments, maybe even today.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
The daughter of Hunter Biden, the adult daughter of Hunter Biden,
was on the stand Friday for the defense, although her
testimony may not have gone according to plan, and now
they may be rethinking this idea of calling the president's brother,
James Biden, the uncle to Hunter, whether or not he
should take the stand at all. The defense is trying
(04:21):
to make this argument that Okay, yes, you say in
the book, or Hunter says in his own book that
he was addicted to crack at the time, but you
don't have proof he was addicted or using that very
moment he's signed the paperwork to buy that gun.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
So they are trying to walk a very fine line here.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, that seems to be the whole thing. It's like,
at that exact moment when he filled out that form.
He didn't have a crack pipe in his hands, right,
so obviously he wasn't addicted. I mean, that's basically the defense.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
He might have left and gone to smoke craft immediately.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
After hermund, but in that moment as he's signing the papers,
didn't have he didn't have any crack on him, So
of course he wasn't an addict.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That is gonna be Uh, that's quite the defense.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It is.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
But they're also going to then try to argue jury nullification, saying, Okay, yeah,
he made a mistake, he was on drugs, but look
how he's turned his.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Life around, and he's a Biden in Delaware. The whole
family has been dedicated to his service for decades or whatever.
The defense is going to try to say in.
Speaker 11 (05:25):
Order to try to get at least one of these
jurors to say, oh, but he's a nice guy and
try to give him a pass on this one, because
don't forget, this is not the end of Hunter Biden's
legal problems.
Speaker 12 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
A big federal tax trout coming up in California this fall.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, and that might be the more serious of the two.
All right, let's get to the other big story.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
This morning, we're joined by our national correspondent Rory O'Neill.
Israeli hostages freed from Gaza. This was quite in operation.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Pretty spectacular as it unfolded on Saturday. Also rare that
it was done during daylight hours. So when the IDF
does these kinds of things, normally it's at night. But
because it was done during the day on a Saturday,
that may be one of the reasons that the casualty
count is so high. Hamas claims that about two hundred
and seventy people were killed in saturday's raid, where four
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hostages taken October seventh from that music festival that have
been held captive in a densely residential area of central Gaza.
Pretty remarkable though, that they were able to get them
out safely. What that does now for future peace talks,
whether or not we get are closer or further away
from a ceasefire. There are arguments on both sides of
that equation.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
And we've learned that apparently the hostage is being held
in a journalist's home.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Right, we don't know for how long they were there. Again,
we think that they've all been moved. Written numerous times
in this what is seven eight months now, so we
don't know how long they were there at this time around,
but yeah, it's we're curious to hear from the hostages
themselves about more of their ordeal.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
All Right, Our national correspondent Rory O'Neil with the latest
this morning. Rory, really appreciate the update. Thanks so much.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Thanks Ryan.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
You know, the media coverage of the Israeli hostages being freed,
I mean, that's something we're gonna have to talk about
throughout the course of the morning because some of the headlines,
like from the New York Times hostages return home after
Israeli assault that killed scores of Gozen's I mean, that's
one way to fright.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Yeah, I was just looking at the Associated Press and
it's the same thing about how many Palestinians.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Were killed, right exactly.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
So we'll get into some of the headlines, some of
the posts on x that the different media organizations put
out that just I thought.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Really really did not frame.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
What happened and make the headline anything close to what
it should have looked like in the aftermath of an
operation like that. Now, want to get to what took
place outside the White House, because this was quite a
scene over the weekend, there's this big protest and normally,
like on the college campuses in different ones that we saw,
(08:11):
it's like pro Palestine protests that you'd have. Then there
were some instances where it seemed like it was venturing
into just pro Hamas territory. This was straight up pro Hamas.
What was happening outside the White House. Listen to some
of these chants, so, I mean, they're chanting for Hasbalan,
(08:46):
these terrorist organizations talking about killing Israeli soldiers. Then you
had this literally right outside the White House, pro terrorist chance.
Just again a stunning scene. We'll have more on that
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throughout the course of the morning as we continue here
on this Monday, June tenth. Right now, let's get to
a quick trending story. This woman has gone viral and
it all has to do with the shopping cart.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Yes, the mom went on TikTok and she said she
cannot put her shopping cart back because she has her
kids in the car. Listen to this.
Speaker 13 (09:33):
I'm not returning my shopping cart and you can judge
me all you want. I'm not getting my groceries into
my car and getting my children into the car and
then leaving them in the car to go return the cart.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
So if you're going to give me a dirty look, yeah,
So she doubled down on this, She got a lot
of backlash from it, and then she went on a
local TV program and doubled down on what she said.
Speaker 14 (09:58):
I think moms are minimized a lot, dads too, but
it is really hard to get young kids into the car.
And coming from the mindset of somebody who's worked with
predators for twenty years, I know how they think and
I know what they look for, and that is a
vulnerable moment. When you return to your car, you have
already been watched for a significant amount of time.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
So if you are.
Speaker 14 (10:22):
Choosing social niceties over protecting your children, I just wanted
to say, you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I'm all about being aware in a parking lot, but
that is no excuse to me put it back. You
know what, do you take your kids out of the
shopping car after you unload your groceries, and you walk
it over with your kids and you chuse it's a
teachable moment.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
You do exactly, I mean honestly, And we were talking
about this last way.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I feel like this should be a crime with this
woman is. It's outrageous.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
If you've got to put the safety of your children second,
you make sure you get that shopping cart back in
the right spot. Yes, when we come back, we've got
a lot to get to in this and we're going
to talk about something that unfolded over the weekend. Trump's
hush money judge flagged a Facebook user who claimed early
(11:10):
knowledge of the verdict.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
We've got that story for you. Stick around for that
back in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Hang on, This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chono.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Brian Gorman, and Dana McKay.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Here.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I want to get to a story that unfolded over
the weekend. And I was actually at a party on
Saturday and people were talking about this, and this is
one of those situations. Another thing that came up at
the party because you know, when I'm there.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Everybody talks to you about politics. Yeah, they know what
you do.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's like the last thing I want to talk about.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
And I'm sure enough they've got like a million things
to say and to ask me about. So what also
came up was the moment when President Biden when he
was over in Normandy for the eightieth anniversary of d
day the invisible chair incident where he started to sit down,
(12:03):
Joe Biden says something to him. He pauses, and it
looks like he, I don't know, is like not feeling
well or something, you know, going yeah, that's going on,
and that's where the clip cut off. And then if
you watch the rest of it, right after that, he
sits down.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Because their word chair is behind him, and everyone else
also sat down.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Exactly, but everybody I taught it, it was like four different people.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
They all saw the edited version.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
They had no idea that, like, literally a second later
he actually sat down.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
He paused when she said something to him.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Then they finish up the introduction of Defense Secretary of
Loud Austin, and then he sat down, and then everybody
sat down. So it just shows you once this stuff
goes viral, I mean, that's there, it's out there.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah, and nobody goes back to see what really happened?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No, No, So what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
On Friday Evening, Justice one more show on the judge
who oversaw Trump's Hauschmani trial in New York. He sent
a letter to prosecutors and Trump's legal team alerting them
to this really odd post verdict development. The court noted
it became aware of a comment on the New York
(13:19):
Court's Facebook page from a user named Michael Anderson, who claimed,
prior to the guilty verdict being announced, quote, my cousin
is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted. The
post was made a day before the verdict came down.
(13:40):
So this obviously was an interesting development.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
No, So I saw this all unfolding, and I'm thinking,
hang on a sec. You know me, when it comes
to some of these kinds of developments, it's like, let's
just wait and see how this all unfold. Now, obviously
the judge had to alert both the prosecution and the defense.
It's about this. But when you look at the guy's.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Page, yes, himself a.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Professional s poster.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, okay, so the minute you see that, that should
give you a bit of pause, right, like, hang on
a sec.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Is this guy just a troll here?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
And I kept seeing this is what bothers me about
social media. I kept seeing everybody do this like huge
development if it's true, Like, oh my god, this could
change everything if it's true.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Didn't Trump reach We didn't say retrial, mistrial or something
like that like Trump was all over it of.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Course, right right.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
It's like instead of just you know, sharing it and saying,
oh man, if this is true, like this changes the
whole ballgame, just maybe don't post about it until we
learn more.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Well, what I don't understand, though, is why did the
judge put that memo out there without him and his
team investigating what was actually going on so that they
could give some context to it. And you know, they
had to address it obviously, but why wouldn't he have
his people look into, hey, who is this guy? Is
this legitimate? And then put out a longer explanation of
(15:24):
what happened. It's almost like the judge wanted the drama
because he had to have known when he put it
out there that this was going to be heavily discussed.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
In one of the messages on the page, the account's
owner elaborated on s posting, defining those kinds of messages
as quote intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the
biggest reaction with the least effort.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
That's what they did, mission accomplished.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
He told his readers, take it easy. I'm a professional,
professional S poster, so I mean, I think it's pretty
clear the obviously, Look, you got to look into it, right,
you got to make sure. I mean, it's a big
deal if that were to be true. So I get it.
But it seems pretty obvious. This guy's just screwing with people, and.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
He feels really accomplished right now because he got the
judge's attention, and when he made that comment, he probably
didn't think that it would go this far to actually
become part of the story.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Well, yeah, it's like this innocuous comment on the New
York Courts Facebook page and then all of a sudden,
you know, I guess the social media team or somebody
saw it, alerted the judge and his team, and then
you've got to launch this investigation and got to lert
the legal teams. Then you know, the media starts to
get a hold of it, and then once social media
(16:43):
has it, it's it. I mean, that's all anybody could
talk about.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Right, And probably a lot of people who saw it
and just ran with it have no idea that this
wasn't actually a cousin and that the guy is an
s poster right exactly.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
All right, when we come back, we've still got a
lot to get to in just this hour. We're going
to talk to Leland Viddtert, host of On Balance with
Leland Vittert on News Nation.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
They ran a documentary over the weekend, and you'll be.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Able to watch it on the News Nation YouTube page
and also newsnationnow dot com if you want to check
it out.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It was called Reagan Portrait of a Presidency.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
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Speaker 5 (17:38):
We're joined by Leland Viddtert, host of On Balance with
Leland Viddert, which you can watch on News Nation weekday
evenings at seven eastern sixth Central. News Nation aired a
ninety minute documentary film, Reagan Portrait of a Presidency last night.
You're gonna be able to check this out on News
Nation's YouTube and at newsnationnow dot com. It's all about
(17:59):
the life and legacy of President Ronald Reagan. It was
narrated by actor Dean Kine, and Leland's here to talk
more about it. Leland, thank you so much for coming
on the show this morning. So tell us about the
parts of the Reagan presidency that you really wanted to
dive into in this documentary.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
His presidency and his life.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Obviously, so much of his presidency was shaped by his
earlier life, by the very goldwater time for choosing speech,
by his time as governor, by his time as an
actor where he learned and figured out how to communicate,
by his time as a spokesperson for General Electric, where
(18:36):
he went around and talked to General Electric employees and
ambassador to the company, are for the company.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
To their employees.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
I think what is really interesting about.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
This documentary is that we all.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
In a way Revere Reagan, at least I do. I
named my dog after.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
So full disclosure.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
But this gives you the the gift of history, and
by that I mean the gift of time to look
back at.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
The moment and say, Okay, the reason we love him
is because the things he did worked.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What were those things? What were the challenges?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
And look, this is d Day Obviously, to point, the
Hawk speech for Ronald Reagan in eighty four played a
huge role in his reelection to plays a huge role
in the documentary. But much like D Day was a gamble.
It was a coin flip. Was it gonna work or not?
So was staring down the Soviet Union. So was that
very daring thing that Ronald Reagan said, Not that I'm
(19:41):
gonna manage the Cold War, not that We're gonna get
advantages over the Soviets, not you know, not sort of
any equivocation. We're gonna we're gonna figure out how to
strengthen American's geopolitical, uh situation in the world. He just said,
we're gonna win.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It was very simple, but it was very daring at
the time.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
And nobody knew if it was gonn of work. She
faced enormous criticism at the time, And the point that
Hack speech in nineteen eighty four was, yeah, it was
this amazing speech. And you know, there's reporting that Walter
Mondale's headquarters was crying when they were listening to it,
and they said, Okay, this is over.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But at the time it was still this big.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Question can he do it? And I think now forty
years later, we get to look back, and George Will
made that point in the after show host You Got
to Host with George and talk a little bit about
the documentary. George made that point that now in history
we see how daring things were and how they worked.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
There's so much too unpack, and I think it's really
important to remember the context. I mean, let's be honest,
the country had lost its swagger. There wasn't a lot
of confidence in America, and Reagan was able to bring
that back. And I wonder how much of it had
to do with him being such a rare talent, able
to communicate and deliver a message like few before him
(20:56):
and honestly few after him.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Unquestionably, he was a once in a generation talent, but
we've had a lot of presidents who are once in
generation talents, and I think that's what's interesting to point out.
He was a transformational leader. Kennedy was a transformational leader.
Obama was a transformational leader. Clinton was, and to a
certain extent, and I think that the ability to communicate
(21:23):
these big ideas, but the ability to believe in these
very specific ideas is really important. And George makes that
point I think in the after show, well, I think
the documentary picks up on the themes that Ronald Reagan
believed were really important, and they were very simple themes.
(21:45):
All of these things come out in the documentary and
you hear it through his words, So I think it.
But again, I'm really happy we're doing this, and I
appreciate you being given us the time to talk about
it because we need to have the long lens of
history in order to figure out why what Ronald Reagan
(22:05):
did work and why it changed the world.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
We're joined now by Leland Biddert, host of On Balance
with Leland Biddert on News Nation weekday evenings at seven
eastern sixth Central. Last night, News Nation aired a ninety
minute documentary film, Reagan Portrait of a Presidency. You can
find that on News Nation's YouTube channel and at newsnationnow
dot com. Last question for you, would Ronald Reagan be
(22:28):
able to pull off what you highlight in the documentary
in today's political environment?
Speaker 7 (22:35):
It's a great question. Would Ronald would the Republican Party
even what Ronald Viston right now?
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Could he could?
Speaker 5 (22:41):
He?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Could he even get the nomination?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
And I he could get the nomination, I think because
it just he was such a singular talent, but his
policies are completely out of touch with today's Republican party
in the in the populist view of America's republican America's
Republican Party. And look, Reagan was a true conservative.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
He believed in limited government.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
But he was consistent about that right. You know, today's
sort of the populist part of the day's Republican Party
wants government to solve the federal government, especially to solve
a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's not where Ronald Reagan was.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
And I think you see that in the documentary. You
saw what his principles are, which were clear and well
founded and thoughtful. And I think people don't give Reagan
enough credit for how smart he was and how his
ability to have really defined principles the very Goldwater speech
type of dudon and it blows that.
Speaker 15 (23:37):
Out and then stick to him and not give in
to the sort of drug of telling people what they
wanted to hear at the time they wanted to hear
it because it would get you clips on cable news.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Tell you what.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I think Ronald Reagan would be able to do a
mean TikTok video if he were around today.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So there's that, well, there's not much involving a.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Camera that couldn't exactly right.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Leland Viddert host of On Balance with Leland Viddert weekday
evenings at seven Eastern and sixth Central on News Nation,
and that's where you can check out the News Nation
ninety minute documentary film Reagan Portrait of a Presidency, newsnationnow
dot com and on Newsnations. All right, Leland, really appreciate
you taking a few minutes to come on with us.
All Right, when we come back in just a bit,
(24:29):
we've got some new polling on the presidential race that
we're going to take a look at. We'll look at
the latest trend lines in a bit here right now,
let's get you a trending story. Caitlin Clark back in
the news.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Well because she didn't make Team USA for the Olympics.
She's not on the roster when it was released, but
she's handling it really well despite the fact that people
are saying that she was snubbed. Here's what she said.
I'm excited for the girls that are on the team.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I know it's the most competitive.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Team in the world, and I know I could have
gone either way.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Maybe on the TAMAN.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Not being on the TAM.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I'm excited for them. I'm going to marry them on
Toiling Gold.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
It'll be fun to watch them.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Honestly, I'm disappointment.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
I think it's just gives you something, something to work for.
That's a dream.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You know, hopefully I can be there.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
I think it's just a little more motivation.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You remember that, and you know, hopefully in four years
or four years come.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
To back around. You know, I can be there.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
First of all, next time they interview her, they have
to move her away from the basketballs being.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Passed, right, Yeah, And she handled it really well though,
But to say that she's not disappointed, come on, I mean,
she's the biggest star in the w NBA by far.
She had to have been like what when she realized
she wasn't on that roster.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
It really is amazing how everything having to do with
her and the w n b A has gone way
beyond sports.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Oh yeah, it's like major news now.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's it's major news.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
And I got to tell you, I just think the
w n b A is making such a mistake in
how they're handling all of this. And we'll talk a
little bit more about that, maybe coming to peer in
a moment. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay filling in
for Michael del Journo all this week, so we appreciate
you tuning in and listening to us.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Hey, I'm Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
And my morning show is your Morning show with Michael Del.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Journal Caitlyn Clark left off the USA Women's Olympic basketball
team one of the big stories this morning. Here's the thing,
whether or not Caitlyn Clark technically should be on the
team based on performance or anything like that. What are
(26:33):
you doing if you're women's basketball, why wouldn't you make
sure she was part of the Olympics simply to elevate
the sport.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
It doesn't make any sense at all. And it's almost
like did they leave her off on purpose? Because they
have seen the reaction from some of the other players
towards Caitlin Clark, like how they just seem to not
like her. There's like a lot of hate for her.
So did they leave her off on purpose?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Like maybe there are others more deserving WNBA players. I'm
sure that's probably the case, but you've got to think
in terms of the sport and what's good for the sport.
And right now Kitlin Clark is pulling twenty thousand people
into an arena where a normal WNBA game gets like
(27:21):
seven thousand, eight thousand. She's setting records when it comes
to ratings on TV. You're not gonna have her be
part of the women's Olympic basketball team.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Do you know how many people would have tuned in?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Yeah, there would have been way more people watching, just
like with the regular games. There's a lot more people
watching her games.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
And I guess part of the reasoning was they said,
if she was on the team, she probably was gonna
play that much, and then you would just have disappointed
fans who cares.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Why wouldn't she play that much?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Though?
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Because she are they trying to say she's not that good.
I don't understand that either.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Well, look, maybe she's not as good as these other
WNBA players who are gonna be on this Olympics team.
I have no idea. I'm not that well versed in
women's I.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Haven't been watching as much as you're kind of trying
to let on.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yeah, no, not quite.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
But I know that even if she was just on
the team, even if she didn't play that much. People
would be tuning in, they'd be paying attention, more attention
than they're going to pay now if she was part
of it, And so I just I just don't get
it from that perspective alone.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Let's talk about the presidential race. Now.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
There's been a lot of new polling. There was a
new CBS poll that came out over the weekend. Here's
the bottom line. I mean, I can run through what
CBS found, I can run through with this pole found,
with that pole found. You take it all with the
grain of salt, first of all, because we're still a
ways out from the election. And the bottom line here
is this is going to be a close race. So
we'll just take the CBS poll as an example. You
(28:47):
go back to September, you had Trump up one. Then
you take a look at October of last year, Trump
up three. In January of this year, Trump up two,
February Trump up four, now June Trump up one. Trump's
the front runner at this point, but it's a tight race.
It's within the margin of era could go either way.
(29:09):
And you know, these national polls, they're one thing. I
tend to like the stay poles better because this is
going to come down to a handful of states. It's
going to really come down to three. It's going to
come down to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Those are the
key states Biden has to wind thows. He loses one
of those, it's game over. So that's really what it
can and in those states it's going to be a
close contest. Every poll pretty much shows that you're talking
(29:32):
about a couple thousand people. I mean, those are the margins.
That's what we're looking at here with this election. And
I don't see anything that could happen between now and
then really fundamentally.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Changing that fact.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
With the exception of Biden getting on stage later this
month at the debate and completely.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Bombing, which could happen, Trump is going to.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Do his thing.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
We're not going to see anything new or different or
unexpected from Trump over the course of the next couple
of months.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
And when you look at some of.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
The post verdict polling, maybe a slight move to Biden,
just a little bit, not a lot. And I've said
I want to see that marinate, I want to see
that sit for a little while. I really don't like
these immediate polls right after the verdict, people need to
sit with it for a little bit and then watch
(30:21):
how things shake out over the course of the next
couple of weeks. But that was never going to change
the race in a major way. No, So what do
we have to look forward to that could be one
of those moments where things shift a bit. Well, the
debate that's going to be the next big thing. My
bet would be, if I had to guess, probably nothing
(30:42):
happens in that debate that's going to change anybody's mind
all that much. I mean, again, unless Biden just completely bombed,
I see Trump doing what Trump does on the debate stage,
and I don't think that's going to shift the vote
very much. I don't think there's really a whole lot
of stuff in terms of policy that Biden can do
between now an election day to change things. I mean,
(31:03):
this is going to be a really tight race, and
it's going to come down to whether or not you
can you know, for those who were in the middle,
whether or not they look back at the Trump ears
and think they were they were just better, and they'd
want to see that again, even if they're not thrilled
with some of what Trump brings to the table, or
you know, people just don't want to deal with those
(31:24):
things the Trump brings to the table, the drama, and
then they'll say, all right, I mean, uh, he has
a shuffle when he walks.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But I guess I'll just go with that for another
four years.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
So, uh, Christy nome Uh, she spoke out, and she
was for a time there, I thought, the leading candidate
for Trump's VP pick.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Since what is it? Murder doggate?
Speaker 6 (31:53):
And she admitted to shooting her dogs and.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Yeah, yeah, since that happened, and since you know that
whole thing. Did she did she meet with Kim John
Jard Since all of that, I've never seen somebody stock
fall as quickly as Christy Nolmes has fallen. So she's
basically out of the race for VP. But she says
that Trump should pick a woman as his vice presidential nominee.
And when you look at the possibilities, I mean there's
(32:17):
only a handful.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
There's at least dephonic.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Uh, there's Nicky Haley, which I don't know can amend
that relationship with Nicky Haley won it.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
And left that bird cage with outside our hotel.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Room mine if any of you have forgotten about that,
His campaign left a bird cage outside of hotel room.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
And then you've got maybe Katie Britt, although she bombed
and stated the Union rebuttal and it seems like her
stock has fallen since then.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Oh yeah, she was awful during that rebuttal. I mean
that was rough.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Yeah, it was rough, and she was a big up
and coming star. I mean, it's not impossible that you
could pick someone like that. And then Tulca Gabbard's the
other name that's kind of been thrown around a little bit,
so maybe it'd be one of those, but it just
feels like the Marco Rubio's, the Tim Scott's, the JD
Vanceys of the world. They seem to be a little
bit more towards the top of that list.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
But we'll see.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I guess the latest is that Trump's going to unveil
his vice presidential pick at the convention, So we'll have
to wait and see. But I'm sure we'll have all
kinds of different rumors between now and then.
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