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Morning Show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Welcome to the show on this Tuesday, June eleventh. I'm
Ryan Gorman with Danna McKay and Chris Trenkman from our newsroom,
and we're live on airon on your iHeartRadio app. Coming
up this hour, we're gonna have the latest on the
Hunter Biden gun trial, as jury deliberations have now begun.
Plus the media is criticizing former President Donald Trump's recent
rally speech. We'll tell you why in a bit, but
(00:56):
right now, let's get straight to today's top stories.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. So there may be some
front runners and Donald Trump's search for a running mate
that the selection in the former president could announce next
month at the Republican National Convention. So a Trump campaign
insider told Media I that four top contenders have emerged.
Ben Carson, who was part of Trump's administration when he
(01:19):
was president, Senator jd Vance, North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham,
and Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Another source, a close friend
of Trump, says that the president is weighing his options.
A final choice still very fluid, and they predict that
he will choose a running mate who is content to
take a back seat and avoid claiming too much of
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the spotlight.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Ben Carson and.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Tim Scott not on the list.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
You've been saying you think it's going to be Tim Scott,
and I don't see him on that short list.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, he's not on the list. So Polymarket they put
out their Republican vice presidential odds and they've got Tim
Scott in the top slot at four percent, but he's
down quite a bit since the end of May. Then
they've got Doug Bergham, jd Vance, Marco Rubio and Ben
(02:09):
Carson after that. So those are the four that were
named in that media report. They also have Tulca Gabbard,
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Elise Stephonic, and then Vivik Ramaswami all
the way down at the bottom. You know, you don't
hear about Sarah Huckaby Sanders. How come her name's not
being mentioned much? She served in the Trump administration governor
(02:31):
of Arkansas. He could put a woman on the ticket.
I haven't heard much talk about. It's tough.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I mean, she can take on the media.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah she can. She did it for quite a while
in the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I don't know what's her history with Trump. Do they
have beef where? Then? I don't think had a nickname
for her though.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
No. I think their relationship was is just fine. But
you haven't heard her name get mentioned much. I don't
know Ben Carson, it's tough to stay awake when he talks.
And let's be honest, he's uh, pretty boring by I mean,
what Mike Pence was? You know, wo you up every
morning that he.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Wants a candidate that's not gonna you know, ruffle any
feathers or get any attention.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
That's the perfect guy.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, but how are you gonna call him sleeping Joe
Biden when you got Ben Carson as your vice president.
I don't know if you can do that. Uh. Tim
Scott Stock seems to be dropping a bit, and I
wonder if it's because he's just been too much smoomoozy. Yeah,
too too all over Trump. And it's kind of like
when you've got someone who's into you, you know, who
(03:40):
wants to date you or something, and they just they
won't they won't give it a rest bothering you. Yeah,
you you lose interest. I wonder if that's that's what's happening. Uh,
Doug Burgham, you've been high Chris on Doug Bergham as
a possibility.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I think Doug Bergham checks all the boxes. I mean,
he's willing to to take a backseat role. He constantly
compliments Trump and his policies, and he's a billionaire, yeah,
which I think. Yeah, I think that that plays into
Trump's image as well. Marco Rubio, I know that there's
been a lot of talk about him, but I just
(04:16):
think that it's a stretch to think that he would
take somebody not just from Florida, but a guy who's
got a history with Trump that you know will.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Be brought up. Oh yeah, if he's selected, they're.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Going to bring up the hands comments and all the
things that Rubio said on the campaign trail back in
twenty sixteen. I can't imagine Trump wants that.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, the Florida issue goes to the constitution whether or
not you can have a vice president from the same
state as the person running for president. Now, there might
be some ways around that, but that would would be
a hurdle for Rubio that would be different from everyone else.
I think in terms of electoral politics, Marco Rubio to
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me is the best option on the list because he's
got the foreign policy chops. He would be able to
go around and really speak to Hispanic voters. I mean,
they could run you know, Spanish ads all across the
country with Marco Rubio, and that is a part of
the electorate that there's no question the Trump campaign to
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trying to make more and more inroads because they feel
like there's a bit of vulnerability there for Biden and
Democrats and then JD. Vance. He's an interesting figure because
he was that is anti Trump as you can get him.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Can you imagine he gets selected, I mean the turnaround
for that night.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, he was very much against Trump early on when
Trump was first running, and then JD. Vancy he rose
to fame because of his book He'll Billy Elegy, and
then he has just done this like one point eighty
in terms of his policy positions and what he thinks
about Trump and all of that, and now he's he's
(05:58):
in the mix. So another, you know, interesting rise from
someone who, like Rubio, wasn't a fan of Trump initially
but has become a big fan. And I'm sure it
has nothing to do with politics and potentially trying to
get that vice presidential thot.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Another thing about this list too, is that the four
top contenders that they list all men. Remember, you know,
Christy nol at one point was at the top of
the list.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I thought she was going to be the front runner. Yeah,
I thought, because you know, one thing, and they mentioned
this in the media article. One thing that Trump likes.
He likes people out of central casting me. He says it.
He likes people who had that look, like Mike Pence
had that look. You know, he looked like a potential president.
Christy Nome, she's got a look and she could have
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been an impressive candidate.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
But Telly, you got that vision in your head of
her shooting her dogs and.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That didn't help. I don't know if Doug Bergham has
the look money. He's got a billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, the money. Sometimes you have money.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Exact money talks. That's right, all right? What else we
got going on this morning, Chris Well.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Secret recordings published on Monday show the thoughts of Supreme
Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito about
the politics on the court, and Alito predicted that there
is no easy solution to solving the country's political polarization.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
These remarks were recorded by progressive filmmaker Lauren Windsor. She
attended the Supreme Court Historical Society's annual dinner as a
member of the society under her real name, but she
posed as a conservative to get answers from the justices,
and then those recordings were published by Rolling Stone and
Windsor's activist site, The Undercurrent.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So she asked Alito about the idea of.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
The court being used to win certain subjects and making
the court about winning, and Alito essentially agreed. He said,
he said that that's probably right. One side or the
other is going to have to win on a number
of these issues. And Alito said it is difficult in
today's era to think that both sides can live together peacefully,
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because he says there's just no way for either side
to compromise on certain things. And the minute that these
tapes were released yesterday, I believe it was a white
flag that was being flown outside Justice Alito's house. It's like,
I give up, man, I mean, yeah, like another story
about me kidding me? So Alito back in the news.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean, well, his wife flew that faye right, right,
right right, his wife flew those other flags. But look,
I disagree with that take. I mean, I don't know
what the solution is there. If you're saying that that
we can't agree to disagree in this country, that we
can't live together while having a different I mean, we've
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done it up to this point. And people it's not
like people are read, you know, forty years ago on
the Pledge of the Legions. Yeah, indivisible and right right.
It's just more in your face these days. He an.
You used to talk about politics like, oh, you didn't
have social media, even you didn't know what you know,
your your former friend from the sixth grade thought about
(09:19):
the upcoming twenty twenty four election. Now you do, and
I think that's really what's caused so many problems.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Well, and people are just so angry now, and they
take it so personally that people just don't want to
be friends with people anymore. Families are divined over it
because people take it so personally.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, the Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to push back
on the idea. You know, this lady talked to him
as well, and he said that he did not think
that the Court was about pushing a moral agenda. He
didn't like this idea that this is a Christian nation only. Yeah,
he said, well, what about all the other folks that
live in this country?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What about Jews? What about Muslims? That sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Roberts seemed to take the position that you would expected
justice to take that they're some in the they're in
the middle. They decide cases based on the merits, and
that's how it goes as opposed to oh, no, one
side has to win and the other side has to lose.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Right, And look, hey, Alito can have his personal views,
and I think you should be able to as a
Supreme Court justice, to be able to put those aside
when you decide cases. The problem is, that's not how
the public's going to view this when they see comments
like this, all right, what else is happening? Chris Well.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Kaitlin Clark and her dream of going to the Olympics
may not be over. The Indiana Fever rookie, who is
the number one overall pick in this year's WNBA draft,
not included on USA Basketball's twelve woman roster. However, she
is likely to be an alternate, which means that any
of the twelve people who have been selected, if one
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of them can't make it, she could then be put
on the team as an alternate.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, you wonder if team USA or the WNBA, if
they find someone to go full Tanya Harding.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
That's exactly what.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's terrible. I mean, obviously you don't hope anyone gets injured,
but I wonder if they're realizing now, like I think,
we might have screwed this up. Well, you can bet
NBC's thinking, come on, yeah, you know, can you imagine
if she was one of the alternates and then she
was the one who wasn't chosen of the two alternates,
(11:21):
I mean, I talk about Yeah, that'd be real bad.
All right, Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks
so much. Thank you still become this hour, we'll go
inside the courtroom for a Hunter Biden's gun trial and
talk to a reporter who's been there from the start.
So stick around for that. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana
McKay in for Michael del Jorno this week. And right now,
(11:44):
let's get to a trending story, this one involving your
taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yes, and First Lady Jill Biden, she just had to
be there for Hunter's gun trial, so she took multiple
flights between Delaware and France last week, costing taxpayers for
three hundred and forty five thousand dollars, and so we're
on the hook for that now. Her office says, the
DNC is chipping in to cover that bill. So they're
(12:09):
going to pay what it would have cost her to
fly first class commercially, which is about six thousand dollars
per flight, and then the taxpayers are going to make
up the rest of it. Now, the rate for the
use of the Boeing C thirty two that the First
Lady typically flies on is thirteen eight hundred and sixteen.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Dollars per hour. It's an eight hour flight.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
So three of those flights plus another flight from DC
to Delaware that's where they got the total of three
hundred and forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
She really had to be there for Hunter Biden's trial.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
I mean they a word he did, and he questioned
her as a teacher and all that in these text
messages that we found out about in the trial. Yeah,
so did she need to be there for him or
does she want to see him?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
You know?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Good?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Like I can understand if she's in Washington, d C.
Going to Delaware for the trial, but in France.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah, for the going back.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
To France for the D Day event, and then she
just had to go be there. I wonder if Joe
wanted her to be there because he couldn't go obviously,
so maybe she felt she should go because of him.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's one thing if you're going back to Delaware from
France and then you're not going back to France, but
back and forth.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Totally ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, I mean, and again, she could have flown on us.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Nobody would have noticed.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh no, this is your morning show with Michael del Chona.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We're going to talk to News Nation Border correspondent Ali Bradley.
She is the best when it comes to the latest
information on the situation along the southern border, and she
just spoke with the head of the Border Patrol. So
again that's coming up in the next hour. Make sure
you're here for that. I want to get to a
story that was in the New York Post. Border Patrol
agents in California have been told to release migrants from
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over one hundred countries into the US despite the Biden
administration's new border crackdown. And I'm saying that with air quotes.
According to a leaked memo obtained by the Posts, migrants
from all but six countries in what Border Patrol calls
the Eastern Hemisphere, made up of Africa, Asia, Australia, and
Europe who cross illegally into the San Diego border sector
(14:17):
are going to be released into the US. Only adult
migrants from Georgia, not our Georgia, the country Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia to Jakistan and Uzbekistan will be immediately sent for
removal from the US. Really sucks for the stands. Get
(14:38):
them left down. Others are going to be released with
a future court date, but won't be able to pursue asylum.
Customs and Border Protection confirmed to Fox News the water
only applies to the San Diego sector, which is currently
the busiest area for illegal crossings and has seen the
majority of people arriving from countries outside of the Americas.
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So as we continue to see people come to the
southern border and then we keep releasing them into the country,
you keep seeing these stories popping up, violent situations happening
in different cities. An undocumented immigrant who had previously been
(15:19):
deported now accused of second degree murder in Las Vegas.
We all remember the Lake and Riley story. And then
we had the two cops who were shot in New York.
I mean, it's just it really has. It's been one
after another, and that's what you can expect, honestly. I
mean common sense would tell you we're letting all these
people into the country. We don't know who they are.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, we have no idea what their background is, what
they're here for.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
They're coming from some countries where there's a lot of violence,
whether it's Venezuela, Salvador, Hondoras. I mean, I could go
down the list. You also had two suspects who were
wanted for allegedly brutally beating and mugging a tourist outside
of Times Square. They're believed to be migrants who'd been
living in shelters, and they's seen a huge increase in
New York in these crimes being committed by migrants who
(16:05):
were there who were busted to New York, usually from
Texas part of Governor Greg Abbott's bussing program. They don't
know where to put them, then they put them in
these different shelters, and we're seeing crime just skyrocket in
the areas around those shelters, and it's having a big
impact on those communities. And then finally, this story was
(16:28):
also in the New York Post. Two Turkish migrants fell
from the thirty foot high border wall and broke their
legs while trying to illegally cross into California from Mexico
on Saturday. They were aided by a coyote who provided
them with a ladder and they got to the top
of the wall and then they fell down and broke
(16:50):
their legs. And they're not the only ones. I mean,
the numbers here, the number of cases people who have
fallen from the wall in recent years jump from about
sixty to twenty nine nineteen to four hundred and fifty
two years later.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
And then who's helping them?
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Like, do they get medical care in the US after
they fall off the border wall that they were illegally
trying to cross.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, recent reports said that cross taxpayers nearly three hundred
thousand dollars. So okay, you've got that.
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Speaker 2 (17:38):
Brian Gorman here with Dana McKay And now let's go
to the hotline and bring in Axios National political correspondent
Alex Thompson, who's work you can find at axios dot com. Alex,
thanks so much for taking a few minutes to come
on the show. There's lost to unpack as the jury
is now deliberating in the Hunter Biden gun trial. But
we're all want to start is with some insight into
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what it's been like in that courtroom. We heard so
much during the New York hush money trial of former
President Donald Trump about how he was reacting in the
court room and all of that. What have you seen
from Hunter Biden?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Absolutely, and I've been there basically every single minute of
the of the trial. It's been really striking, you know,
and his mood has definitely changed, you know, based on
the day. I would say, you know, he has a
few nervous ticks, like he'll you know, run his his
hand of the top of his head, and he was
just sort of he looked a little bit resigned. As
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this trial comes to a close. There were moments where
you could see flashes of anger and then you know,
he always made sure, you know, and breaks to go
over to the many members of the family, obviously including
the first Lady, but not just the first Lady, his aunts,
his uncles. There were longtime Delaware political supporters in the audience,
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family friends. We had three full rows of people, including
the first Lady Jill Biden's top advisor, Anthony Bernall.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What were some of the moments when you felt like
it was the most tense in the courtroom. Was it
when Hunter Biden's daughter Naomi.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Took the stand, no question, And it was that moment
got so tense that it even came up in closing
arguments on Monday, where both sides were sort of throwing
accusations around. Now, for people that didn't see it, what
happened with Naomi is that, you know, she was brought
up to buy the defense by Hunter's team to be
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a sympathetic witness that essentially said that when Hunter went
to a rehab facility in August of twenty eighteen, that
he seemed good, he seemed better, he seemed clear eyed.
And this matters because he's accused of claiming he wasn't
an addict and an unlawful user on a gun form
when he bought a gun in October. So Naomi had
seen him twice, once in August and then once in
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mid October, three days after a few days after he
bought the gun. But what happened is on a cross examination,
the defense produced these text messages that really, you know,
really undermined the defense's case. That meant that Hunter was
completely fine and seemed okay when she saw him in October.
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He was texting her at odd moments in the middle
of the night, and at one point there was a
sort of heartbreaking message where where you know she she
basically texted him, you know, I don't I don't know
what else to do. I just really miss you and
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all I want to do is hang out with you.
And you know, the tension within the court room, I remember,
you know, someone right afterward described the aftermath as funereal,
and during closing arguments, you know, Abby Lowell, Hunter Biden's
lawyer called the prosecution cruel and the way that they
prosecutor and the prosecution went right back and said, hey,
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it was you who called her, and it was an
our fault that your client was blowing off his daughter
and staying up in order to stay up late partying
and doing drugs. So it got very, very tense over
perhaps the most emotional part of the trial.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We're joined by Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson, who's
been reporting on the Hunter Biden gun trial. He's been
in the courtroom and you can see all of his
reporting at axios dot com. I want to get your
thoughts on how things unfolded with a couple of other witnesses,
and let's turn to Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter
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Biden's dead brother Bo Biden, who Hunter had an intimate
relationship with. I can only imagine how awkward it was
during that testimony, especially with Hunter Biden's defence team going
after her so hard.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, absolutely, every time they had a chance, Hunter's lawyers
were trying to deflect blame onto Halle Biden for what
they were there for. And then you have to remember
the reason why this became, you know, a thing at all,
is because at one point, Halle Biden went inside his truck. Now,
she often said that she did this because she would
(22:19):
find drugs and you know, pipes, crack pipes, et cetera,
so she would go and clean it out. And when
she was doing that, she found the gun, got scared,
and then dumped it at a you know, a trash
can at a local supermarket. And then eventually this is
how it leads to a police report. Everything else, So
they've been trying to deflect blame. But to your other point,
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which I think is really critical that in terms of
just the you know, the honestly family human drama of.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It of it all.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
It was really the first time we've heard from Halle Biden,
you know, since Boll Biden died, really and that was
almost nine years ago, ten years ago. She's not a
public figure, and she, of all things, got married just
last weekend too, to Minuds saying this is a very
nice man for Cincinnati and wants nothing more to do
(23:10):
with any of this. She said that she was ashamed
of this period of her life. She said that Hunter Biden,
you know, introduced her to crack cocaine. They were doing
it together at the time. They were taking care of
two young kids. Hunter would smoke at the house with
the you know, when the two kids were there, not
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in front of them necessarily, but there. They even showed
messages that one of the kids found uh, you know,
you know, crack cocaine paraphernalia and like the family homes
at family home library. It really just described one of
these really dark and ugly periods in the Biden family tragedy.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
We're joined by Axios National political correspondent Alex Thompson, who's
been inside the court room for the Hunter Biden gun trial.
What was the scene like when Hunter Biden's ex wife
Kathleen Buell took the stand. They've got a contentious relationship.
In fact, she's alleging that he owes her upwards of
three million dollars. So I can't imagine that was pleasant.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Yeah, Naomi Biden. If the Naomi Biden testimony was emotional,
then the Kathleen mule testimony was very tense. You could
tell that she did not want to be there, that
she you know, talk about a divorce that will never end.
They you know, got divorced in March of twenty seventeen,
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and not just the unbaide alimony, but just this constant
you know, being reminded of all of these things that
she just can't you know, she changed her name, she's
trying to you know, start a nonprofit. She even trying
to to date, and you know, I think this, all
this stuff has has been very very difficult. You could
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tell when she walked out of that courtroom.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know a lot of people usually you know.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
You know, said, you know, I went over to hout
Hunter or at least like acknowledged him, and Kathleen just
acted like he wasn't even there and just walked straight
past him.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Final question for you, with the jury now deliberating in
this case, what have you observed from members of the jury.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
It's a fascinating it's a fascinating question because I was
there for the jury selection and this is a very
working class jury, is how I would describe it. And
you know, most people have you know, you know, have
basically like working class jobs. They're working with their hands,
or they're sort of you know, lower you know lower, uh,
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you know, middle class or middle class around there. And
so it's also half and half man and woman. There
seven are black, five or white. And the real question
that this is going to come down to is does
this jury resent Hunter or relate to him.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
A lot of the people on this.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Jury, it's say the majority, uh said that they that
they had family members that also struggled with addictions, so
they are very familiar with these cycles, and they could
end up being empathetic or you know, thinking that he
really didn't think that he was ticked it. On the
other hand, you know, they may view him as you know,
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a you know, sort of a son of privilege who
was squandering it. And then you know didn't and then
broke the law, and that's going to be I think
the real key question.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Alex Thompson doing some really great reporting on the Hunter
Biden gun trial. You can find all of his work
at axios dot com and you can follow him on
x for the latest as well at Alex t h
O m P Alex. Really appreciate the time and inside,
thank you so much. Thank you. All right, still to
come this hour, some in the media are criticizing former
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President Donald Trump's recent rally speech. We're going to play
the clips making news in just a bit, so stick
around for that. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay in
for Michael del Jorno this week. And right now, let's
get to a trending story, this one involving books and
bodily functions.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah, so we know a lot of books have been
banned in various states across the country, and in Texas,
in one county, they were forced to lift a ban
on books that mention buts in farts because they had
been taken off the library shelves when they were labeled
pornographic filth by local officials, and seven parents sued to
(27:46):
have those books put back on the shelves, claiming their
removal was a violation of the First Amendment, and a
judge decided, yeah, just because the librarian doesn't like these
books doesn't mean that they can't.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Be on the shelves.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
So the books removed included one called I Broke My
Butt and one called Larry the Farting Leprechaun. Now, the
book I Broke My Butt is about a boy who
glues a serving trade to his butt and then uses
it to like slide down hills and serve and like
do all this fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oh yeah, that's not what is offensive about that to
be banned.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
And as the mom of a kid who absolutely hates reading,
if like in ry farts and butts in a book
is going to make him laugh and interested in reading that,
I'm all for it.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Like, these books should not have been banned.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Exactly. I believe one of the parents stood up to
speak out in favor of these books going back on
the bookshelves and says said, I like big butts, and
I cannot lie. That's why we started his speech. Really, yeah,
yeah that's true story.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah that really happens.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's a true story. But look, we've seen some of
the types of books that have been taken off of
shelves across them.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
I definitely agree with the content is just outrageous and
way too graphic for kids.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
But this this come.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
On, Yeah, it seems like it's going a little too
far there.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Hey, this is.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Lee Murphy in Cottontown, Tennessee. My morning show is your
Morning Show with Michael Bill Jorno, Brian Gorman here with
Dana McKay.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
So.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Former President Donald Trump held a rally the other day.
We didn't really I don't think we mentioned it yesterday
because I think there was anything all that notable from it.
But there are some in the media and also the
Biden campaign, well, they did find some parts that they
had something to say about. And let me start with
the moment when Trump had some technical issues. Here's how
(29:40):
that unfolded.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Tell him to make the microphone loud terrible, he just
came up. Are the teleprompters not working so not even
a little bit?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Great job?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
And then I don't pay the company that does it right,
And then I end up with a story Trump doesn't pay,
I don't pay contractors that do a job.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And that's a sh You can't read a word, but
you know what. It usually ends up that.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
The spacious matter it's crazy. Then they'll say, oh, is
it terrible? Trump takes advantage of his gunna. I take
great when I have a good contractor or subcontractor. Nobody
gets paid faster. But when I have contractors that do
this kind of work, you can have them.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, so he was not thrilled with the technical issues
he was dealing with. Now on Fox News, one of
the Outnumbered co hosts, they actually praised Trump for that moment,
saying that it proved he's a normal, average American, you know,
getting frustrated.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
With Oh yeah, he gets pissed off, just like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
The only thing, the only caveat I would add there
because I try to be fair about this kind of stuff.
If that was Biden and he was struggling with the
teleprompter and it wasn't working right and he went off
like that, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know that
the response would have been just a normal average American,
you know, not for fuck. Now. This is what Trump
(31:00):
had to say about the heat and how he is
impacted by it when he's doing these rallies.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
It's one hundred and ten. But it doesn't feel it
to me, right, So we'll stay out here for a
little while. If anybody gets tired, you'll let me know.
And if anybody goes down. If you start going down,
we have people, they'll pick.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You up right away. Though I thought I was so worried.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Everybody was so worried yesterday about you, and they never
mentioned me.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm up here sweating like a dog.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Secret service said, we have to make sure everyone's safe.
I said, what about me, Oh, we never thought of that.
They don't think about me. I'm working my ass, I'm
working home.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So they were some of the media who were criticize him.
He always makes everything about himself.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Oh, yeah, of course he does.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
He was joking, true, and I got to be honest.
He was standing up there in a suit and it's
really hard. It's really hard.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
This was in Las Vegas, right where it's one hundred degrees.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, I mean, I'll give him credit for that. And
then he mentioned why rally goers need to make sure
they stay alive. By the way, is that breeze nice?
Do you feel the breeze?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Because I don't want anybody going on me. We need
every voter.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I don't care about you. I just want your vote.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
I don't care how the press will take that, and
they'll say he said a horrible thing.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
The press will take it. The Biden campaign took it,
and they're running with that quote. Clearly he's joking.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah, he's just kidding.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
He's pretty obvious. And then finally Trump shared his thoughts
on issues involving electric batteries underwater.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
So I said, let me ask you a question, and
he said, nobody ever asked this question, and it must
because of Mit. My relationship to Mit. Very smart, he goes,
I say, what would happen if the boat sank from
its way and you're in the boat and you have
this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater
(32:55):
and there's a shark that's approximately ten yards over there.
Way a lot of shark attacks.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Lately, dude. I just said a lot of shark I watched.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Some guys justifying it today. Well, they weren't really that angry.
They bit off the young lady's leg because of the
fact that they were They were not hungry, but they
misunderstood what who she was. These people are cut. He said,
there's no problem with sharks. They just didn't really understand
gripping a young woman swimming now really get decimated at
a lot of sharks.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
So I said, so there's.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
A shark ten yards away from the boat ten yards
do I get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water
goes over the battery the boat is sinking. Do I
stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or
do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Because I will tell you.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
He didn't know. The entry said, you know, nobody's ever
asked me that question and answer a good question. I
think there's a lot of electric current coming through that water.
But you know what I'd do if there was a
shark or you get electrocuted, I'll take electrocution every single time.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I'm not getting dear the shark. It's a fascinating question.
Really is a fascinating scenario. Now, I don't think that's
quite out works with those electric batteries. If it goes
into the water, all of a sudden, everything around it
gets electrocuted. But if that were the case, I think
that's that's a legit. What would you rather have happened
to you? Dana? Would you rather be electrocuted or eaten
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by the shark.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Well, I mean maybe a shark bite over electrocution.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Like, am I going to die? Am I choosing the
way I want to die?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Risking serious injury but not necessarily death.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Let's say you're you're choosing the way you're going to die,
we'll go to the I'll take electrocution then, Yeah, I
don't even think it's a question. I would absolutely rather
be electrocuted than eaten by a shark. It sounds I mean, seriously,
we just did the stories about the people who.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Were bitting Trump them.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, he he did. It was riffing about them on stage,
But this was a question that was going around on
social media once he raised that would you rather be
electrocuted or are eaten by a shark? And I think
it's almost unanimous.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Electrocution is pretty quick, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I don't know, I've never been in that situation before.
I'm sure it's not pleasant, but I'd rather not become
a victim of jaws or something like that. So Trump,
you know, he's always thinking different scenarios.
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up this hour, we're gonna have the latest on the
Hunter Biden gun trial, as jury deliberations have now begun.
Plus the media is criticizing former President Donald Trump's recent
rally speech. We'll tell you why in a bit, but
(00:56):
right now, let's get straight to today's top stories.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. So there may be some
front runners and Donald Trump's search for a running mate
that the selection in the former president could announce next
month at the Republican National Convention. So a Trump campaign
insider told Media I that four top contenders have emerged.
Ben Carson, who was part of Trump's administration when he
(01:19):
was president, Senator jd Vance, North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham,
and Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Another source, a close friend
of Trump, says that the president is weighing his options.
A final choice still very fluid, and they predict that
he will choose a running mate who is content to
take a back seat and avoid claiming too much of
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the spotlight.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Ben Carson and.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Tim Scott not on the list.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
You've been saying you think it's going to be Tim Scott,
and I don't see him on that short list.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, he's not on the list. So Polymarket they put
out their Republican vice presidential odds and they've got Tim
Scott in the top slot at four percent, but he's
down quite a bit since the end of May. Then
they've got Doug Bergham, jd Vance, Marco Rubio and Ben
(02:09):
Carson after that. So those are the four that were
named in that media report. They also have Tulca Gabbard,
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Elise Stephonic, and then Vivik Ramaswami all
the way down at the bottom. You know, you don't
hear about Sarah Huckaby Sanders. How come her name's not
being mentioned much? She served in the Trump administration governor
(02:31):
of Arkansas. He could put a woman on the ticket.
I haven't heard much talk about. It's tough.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I mean, she can take on the media.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah she can. She did it for quite a while
in the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I don't know what's her history with Trump. Do they
have beef where? Then? I don't think had a nickname
for her though.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
No. I think their relationship was is just fine. But
you haven't heard her name get mentioned much. I don't
know Ben Carson, it's tough to stay awake when he talks.
And let's be honest, he's uh, pretty boring by I mean,
what Mike Pence was? You know, wo you up every
morning that he.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Wants a candidate that's not gonna you know, ruffle any
feathers or get any attention.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
That's the perfect guy.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, but how are you gonna call him sleeping Joe
Biden when you got Ben Carson as your vice president.
I don't know if you can do that. Uh. Tim
Scott Stock seems to be dropping a bit, and I
wonder if it's because he's just been too much smoomoozy. Yeah,
too too all over Trump. And it's kind of like
when you've got someone who's into you, you know, who
(03:40):
wants to date you or something, and they just they
won't they won't give it a rest bothering you. Yeah,
you you lose interest. I wonder if that's that's what's happening. Uh,
Doug Burgham, you've been high Chris on Doug Bergham as
a possibility.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I think Doug Bergham checks all the boxes. I mean,
he's willing to to take a backseat role. He constantly
compliments Trump and his policies, and he's a billionaire, yeah,
which I think. Yeah, I think that that plays into
Trump's image as well. Marco Rubio, I know that there's
been a lot of talk about him, but I just
(04:16):
think that it's a stretch to think that he would
take somebody not just from Florida, but a guy who's
got a history with Trump that you know will.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Be brought up. Oh yeah, if he's selected, they're.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Going to bring up the hands comments and all the
things that Rubio said on the campaign trail back in
twenty sixteen. I can't imagine Trump wants that.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, the Florida issue goes to the constitution whether or
not you can have a vice president from the same
state as the person running for president. Now, there might
be some ways around that, but that would would be
a hurdle for Rubio that would be different from everyone else.
I think in terms of electoral politics, Marco Rubio to
(04:57):
me is the best option on the list because he's
got the foreign policy chops. He would be able to
go around and really speak to Hispanic voters. I mean,
they could run you know, Spanish ads all across the
country with Marco Rubio, and that is a part of
the electorate that there's no question the Trump campaign to
(05:20):
trying to make more and more inroads because they feel
like there's a bit of vulnerability there for Biden and
Democrats and then JD. Vance. He's an interesting figure because
he was that is anti Trump as you can get him.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Can you imagine he gets selected, I mean the turnaround
for that night.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, he was very much against Trump early on when
Trump was first running, and then JD. Vancy he rose
to fame because of his book He'll Billy Elegy, and
then he has just done this like one point eighty
in terms of his policy positions and what he thinks
about Trump and all of that, and now he's he's
(05:58):
in the mix. So another, you know, interesting rise from
someone who, like Rubio, wasn't a fan of Trump initially
but has become a big fan. And I'm sure it
has nothing to do with politics and potentially trying to
get that vice presidential thot.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Another thing about this list too, is that the four
top contenders that they list all men. Remember, you know,
Christy nol at one point was at the top of
the list.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I thought she was going to be the front runner. Yeah,
I thought, because you know, one thing, and they mentioned
this in the media article. One thing that Trump likes.
He likes people out of central casting me. He says it.
He likes people who had that look, like Mike Pence
had that look. You know, he looked like a potential president.
Christy Nome, she's got a look and she could have
(06:48):
been an impressive candidate.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
But Telly, you got that vision in your head of
her shooting her dogs and.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That didn't help. I don't know if Doug Bergham has
the look money. He's got a billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, the money. Sometimes you have money.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Exact money talks. That's right, all right? What else we
got going on this morning, Chris Well.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Secret recordings published on Monday show the thoughts of Supreme
Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito about
the politics on the court, and Alito predicted that there
is no easy solution to solving the country's political polarization.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
These remarks were recorded by progressive filmmaker Lauren Windsor. She
attended the Supreme Court Historical Society's annual dinner as a
member of the society under her real name, but she
posed as a conservative to get answers from the justices,
and then those recordings were published by Rolling Stone and
Windsor's activist site, The Undercurrent.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So she asked Alito about the idea of.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
The court being used to win certain subjects and making
the court about winning, and Alito essentially agreed. He said,
he said that that's probably right. One side or the
other is going to have to win on a number
of these issues. And Alito said it is difficult in
today's era to think that both sides can live together peacefully,
(08:13):
because he says there's just no way for either side
to compromise on certain things. And the minute that these
tapes were released yesterday, I believe it was a white
flag that was being flown outside Justice Alito's house. It's like,
I give up, man, I mean, yeah, like another story
about me kidding me? So Alito back in the news.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I mean, well, his wife flew that faye right, right,
right right, his wife flew those other flags. But look,
I disagree with that take. I mean, I don't know
what the solution is there. If you're saying that that
we can't agree to disagree in this country, that we
can't live together while having a different I mean, we've
(08:57):
done it up to this point. And people it's not
like people are read, you know, forty years ago on
the Pledge of the Legions. Yeah, indivisible and right right.
It's just more in your face these days. He an.
You used to talk about politics like, oh, you didn't
have social media, even you didn't know what you know,
your your former friend from the sixth grade thought about
(09:19):
the upcoming twenty twenty four election. Now you do, and
I think that's really what's caused so many problems.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Well, and people are just so angry now, and they
take it so personally that people just don't want to
be friends with people anymore. Families are divined over it
because people take it so personally.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, the Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to push back
on the idea. You know, this lady talked to him
as well, and he said that he did not think
that the Court was about pushing a moral agenda. He
didn't like this idea that this is a Christian nation only. Yeah,
he said, well, what about all the other folks that
live in this country?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What about Jews? What about Muslims? That sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Roberts seemed to take the position that you would expected
justice to take that they're some in the they're in
the middle. They decide cases based on the merits, and
that's how it goes as opposed to oh, no, one
side has to win and the other side has to lose.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Right, And look, hey, Alito can have his personal views,
and I think you should be able to as a
Supreme Court justice, to be able to put those aside
when you decide cases. The problem is, that's not how
the public's going to view this when they see comments
like this, all right, what else is happening? Chris Well.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Kaitlin Clark and her dream of going to the Olympics
may not be over. The Indiana Fever rookie, who is
the number one overall pick in this year's WNBA draft,
not included on USA Basketball's twelve woman roster. However, she
is likely to be an alternate, which means that any
of the twelve people who have been selected, if one
(10:43):
of them can't make it, she could then be put
on the team as an alternate.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, you wonder if team USA or the WNBA, if
they find someone to go full Tanya Harding.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
That's exactly what.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's terrible. I mean, obviously you don't hope anyone gets injured,
but I wonder if they're realizing now, like I think,
we might have screwed this up. Well, you can bet
NBC's thinking, come on, yeah, you know, can you imagine
if she was one of the alternates and then she
was the one who wasn't chosen of the two alternates,
(11:21):
I mean, I talk about Yeah, that'd be real bad.
All right, Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks
so much. Thank you still become this hour, we'll go
inside the courtroom for a Hunter Biden's gun trial and
talk to a reporter who's been there from the start.
So stick around for that. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana
McKay in for Michael del Jorno this week. And right now,
(11:44):
let's get to a trending story, this one involving your
taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yes, and First Lady Jill Biden, she just had to
be there for Hunter's gun trial, so she took multiple
flights between Delaware and France last week, costing taxpayers for
three hundred and forty five thousand dollars, and so we're
on the hook for that now. Her office says, the
DNC is chipping in to cover that bill. So they're
(12:09):
going to pay what it would have cost her to
fly first class commercially, which is about six thousand dollars
per flight, and then the taxpayers are going to make
up the rest of it. Now, the rate for the
use of the Boeing C thirty two that the First
Lady typically flies on is thirteen eight hundred and sixteen.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Dollars per hour. It's an eight hour flight.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
So three of those flights plus another flight from DC
to Delaware that's where they got the total of three
hundred and forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
She really had to be there for Hunter Biden's trial.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
I mean they a word he did, and he questioned
her as a teacher and all that in these text
messages that we found out about in the trial. Yeah,
so did she need to be there for him or
does she want to see him?
Speaker 5 (12:53):
You know?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Good?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Like I can understand if she's in Washington, d C.
Going to Delaware for the trial, but in France.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Yeah, for the going back.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
To France for the D Day event, and then she
just had to go be there. I wonder if Joe
wanted her to be there because he couldn't go obviously,
so maybe she felt she should go because of him.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It's one thing if you're going back to Delaware from
France and then you're not going back to France, but
back and forth.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Totally ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, I mean, and again, she could have flown on us.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Nobody would have noticed.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh no, this is your morning show with Michael del Chona.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
We're going to talk to News Nation Border correspondent Ali Bradley.
She is the best when it comes to the latest
information on the situation along the southern border, and she
just spoke with the head of the Border Patrol. So
again that's coming up in the next hour. Make sure
you're here for that. I want to get to a
story that was in the New York Post. Border Patrol
agents in California have been told to release migrants from
(13:53):
over one hundred countries into the US despite the Biden
administration's new border crackdown. And I'm saying that with air quotes.
According to a leaked memo obtained by the Posts, migrants
from all but six countries in what Border Patrol calls
the Eastern Hemisphere, made up of Africa, Asia, Australia, and
Europe who cross illegally into the San Diego border sector
(14:17):
are going to be released into the US. Only adult
migrants from Georgia, not our Georgia, the country Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia to Jakistan and Uzbekistan will be immediately sent for
removal from the US. Really sucks for the stands. Get
(14:38):
them left down. Others are going to be released with
a future court date, but won't be able to pursue asylum.
Customs and Border Protection confirmed to Fox News the water
only applies to the San Diego sector, which is currently
the busiest area for illegal crossings and has seen the
majority of people arriving from countries outside of the Americas.
(14:58):
So as we continue to see people come to the
southern border and then we keep releasing them into the country,
you keep seeing these stories popping up, violent situations happening
in different cities. An undocumented immigrant who had previously been
(15:19):
deported now accused of second degree murder in Las Vegas.
We all remember the Lake and Riley story. And then
we had the two cops who were shot in New York.
I mean, it's just it really has. It's been one
after another, and that's what you can expect, honestly. I
mean common sense would tell you we're letting all these
people into the country. We don't know who they are.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, we have no idea what their background is, what
they're here for.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
They're coming from some countries where there's a lot of violence,
whether it's Venezuela, Salvador, Hondoras. I mean, I could go
down the list. You also had two suspects who were
wanted for allegedly brutally beating and mugging a tourist outside
of Times Square. They're believed to be migrants who'd been
living in shelters, and they's seen a huge increase in
New York in these crimes being committed by migrants who
(16:05):
were there who were busted to New York, usually from
Texas part of Governor Greg Abbott's bussing program. They don't
know where to put them, then they put them in
these different shelters, and we're seeing crime just skyrocket in
the areas around those shelters, and it's having a big
impact on those communities. And then finally, this story was
(16:28):
also in the New York Post. Two Turkish migrants fell
from the thirty foot high border wall and broke their
legs while trying to illegally cross into California from Mexico
on Saturday. They were aided by a coyote who provided
them with a ladder and they got to the top
of the wall and then they fell down and broke
(16:50):
their legs. And they're not the only ones. I mean,
the numbers here, the number of cases people who have
fallen from the wall in recent years jump from about
sixty to twenty nine nineteen to four hundred and fifty
two years later.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
And then who's helping them?
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Like, do they get medical care in the US after
they fall off the border wall that they were illegally
trying to cross.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, recent reports said that cross taxpayers nearly three hundred
thousand dollars. So okay, you've got that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
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Speaker 2 (17:38):
Brian Gorman here with Dana McKay And now let's go
to the hotline and bring in Axios National political correspondent
Alex Thompson, who's work you can find at axios dot com. Alex,
thanks so much for taking a few minutes to come
on the show. There's lost to unpack as the jury
is now deliberating in the Hunter Biden gun trial. But
we're all want to start is with some insight into
(18:00):
what it's been like in that courtroom. We heard so
much during the New York hush money trial of former
President Donald Trump about how he was reacting in the
court room and all of that. What have you seen
from Hunter Biden?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Absolutely, and I've been there basically every single minute of
the of the trial. It's been really striking, you know,
and his mood has definitely changed, you know, based on
the day. I would say, you know, he has a
few nervous ticks, like he'll you know, run his his
hand of the top of his head, and he was
just sort of he looked a little bit resigned. As
(18:36):
this trial comes to a close. There were moments where
you could see flashes of anger and then you know,
he always made sure, you know, and breaks to go
over to the many members of the family, obviously including
the first Lady, but not just the first Lady, his aunts,
his uncles. There were longtime Delaware political supporters in the audience,
(19:00):
family friends. We had three full rows of people, including
the first Lady Jill Biden's top advisor, Anthony Bernall.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What were some of the moments when you felt like
it was the most tense in the courtroom. Was it
when Hunter Biden's daughter Naomi.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Took the stand, no question, And it was that moment
got so tense that it even came up in closing
arguments on Monday, where both sides were sort of throwing
accusations around. Now, for people that didn't see it, what
happened with Naomi is that, you know, she was brought
up to buy the defense by Hunter's team to be
(19:37):
a sympathetic witness that essentially said that when Hunter went
to a rehab facility in August of twenty eighteen, that
he seemed good, he seemed better, he seemed clear eyed.
And this matters because he's accused of claiming he wasn't
an addict and an unlawful user on a gun form
when he bought a gun in October. So Naomi had
seen him twice, once in August and then once in
(19:59):
mid October, three days after a few days after he
bought the gun. But what happened is on a cross examination,
the defense produced these text messages that really, you know,
really undermined the defense's case. That meant that Hunter was
completely fine and seemed okay when she saw him in October.
(20:22):
He was texting her at odd moments in the middle
of the night, and at one point there was a
sort of heartbreaking message where where you know she she
basically texted him, you know, I don't I don't know
what else to do. I just really miss you and
(20:42):
all I want to do is hang out with you.
And you know, the tension within the court room, I remember,
you know, someone right afterward described the aftermath as funereal,
and during closing arguments, you know, Abby Lowell, Hunter Biden's
lawyer called the prosecution cruel and the way that they
prosecutor and the prosecution went right back and said, hey,
(21:03):
it was you who called her, and it was an
our fault that your client was blowing off his daughter
and staying up in order to stay up late partying
and doing drugs. So it got very, very tense over
perhaps the most emotional part of the trial.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We're joined by Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson, who's
been reporting on the Hunter Biden gun trial. He's been
in the courtroom and you can see all of his
reporting at axios dot com. I want to get your
thoughts on how things unfolded with a couple of other witnesses,
and let's turn to Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter
(21:42):
Biden's dead brother Bo Biden, who Hunter had an intimate
relationship with. I can only imagine how awkward it was
during that testimony, especially with Hunter Biden's defence team going
after her so hard.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, absolutely, every time they had a chance, Hunter's lawyers
were trying to deflect blame onto Halle Biden for what
they were there for. And then you have to remember
the reason why this became, you know, a thing at all,
is because at one point, Halle Biden went inside his truck. Now,
she often said that she did this because she would
(22:19):
find drugs and you know, pipes, crack pipes, et cetera,
so she would go and clean it out. And when
she was doing that, she found the gun, got scared,
and then dumped it at a you know, a trash
can at a local supermarket. And then eventually this is
how it leads to a police report. Everything else, So
they've been trying to deflect blame. But to your other point,
(22:39):
which I think is really critical that in terms of
just the you know, the honestly family human drama of.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It of it all.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
It was really the first time we've heard from Halle Biden,
you know, since Boll Biden died, really and that was
almost nine years ago, ten years ago. She's not a
public figure, and she, of all things, got married just
last weekend too, to Minuds saying this is a very
nice man for Cincinnati and wants nothing more to do
(23:10):
with any of this. She said that she was ashamed
of this period of her life. She said that Hunter Biden,
you know, introduced her to crack cocaine. They were doing
it together at the time. They were taking care of
two young kids. Hunter would smoke at the house with
the you know, when the two kids were there, not
(23:31):
in front of them necessarily, but there. They even showed
messages that one of the kids found uh, you know,
you know, crack cocaine paraphernalia and like the family homes
at family home library. It really just described one of
these really dark and ugly periods in the Biden family tragedy.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
We're joined by Axios National political correspondent Alex Thompson, who's
been inside the court room for the Hunter Biden gun trial.
What was the scene like when Hunter Biden's ex wife
Kathleen Buell took the stand. They've got a contentious relationship.
In fact, she's alleging that he owes her upwards of
three million dollars. So I can't imagine that was pleasant.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Yeah, Naomi Biden. If the Naomi Biden testimony was emotional,
then the Kathleen mule testimony was very tense. You could
tell that she did not want to be there, that
she you know, talk about a divorce that will never end.
They you know, got divorced in March of twenty seventeen,
(24:41):
and not just the unbaide alimony, but just this constant
you know, being reminded of all of these things that
she just can't you know, she changed her name, she's
trying to you know, start a nonprofit. She even trying
to to date, and you know, I think this, all
this stuff has has been very very difficult. You could
(25:02):
tell when she walked out of that courtroom.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know a lot of people usually you know.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
You know, said, you know, I went over to hout
Hunter or at least like acknowledged him, and Kathleen just
acted like he wasn't even there and just walked straight
past him.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Final question for you, with the jury now deliberating in
this case, what have you observed from members of the jury.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
It's a fascinating it's a fascinating question because I was
there for the jury selection and this is a very
working class jury, is how I would describe it. And
you know, most people have you know, you know, have
basically like working class jobs. They're working with their hands,
or they're sort of you know, lower you know lower, uh,
(25:51):
you know, middle class or middle class around there. And
so it's also half and half man and woman. There
seven are black, five or white. And the real question
that this is going to come down to is does
this jury resent Hunter or relate to him.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
A lot of the people on this.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Jury, it's say the majority, uh said that they that
they had family members that also struggled with addictions, so
they are very familiar with these cycles, and they could
end up being empathetic or you know, thinking that he
really didn't think that he was ticked it. On the
other hand, you know, they may view him as you know,
(26:33):
a you know, sort of a son of privilege who
was squandering it. And then you know didn't and then
broke the law, and that's going to be I think
the real key question.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Alex Thompson doing some really great reporting on the Hunter
Biden gun trial. You can find all of his work
at axios dot com and you can follow him on
x for the latest as well at Alex t h
O m P Alex. Really appreciate the time and inside,
thank you so much. Thank you. All right, still to
come this hour, some in the media are criticizing former
(27:04):
President Donald Trump's recent rally speech. We're going to play
the clips making news in just a bit, so stick
around for that. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay in
for Michael del Jorno this week. And right now, let's
get to a trending story, this one involving books and
bodily functions.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah, so we know a lot of books have been
banned in various states across the country, and in Texas,
in one county, they were forced to lift a ban
on books that mention buts in farts because they had
been taken off the library shelves when they were labeled
pornographic filth by local officials, and seven parents sued to
(27:46):
have those books put back on the shelves, claiming their
removal was a violation of the First Amendment, and a
judge decided, yeah, just because the librarian doesn't like these
books doesn't mean that they can't.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Be on the shelves.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
So the books removed included one called I Broke My
Butt and one called Larry the Farting Leprechaun. Now, the
book I Broke My Butt is about a boy who
glues a serving trade to his butt and then uses
it to like slide down hills and serve and like
do all this fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oh yeah, that's not what is offensive about that to
be banned.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
And as the mom of a kid who absolutely hates reading,
if like in ry farts and butts in a book
is going to make him laugh and interested in reading that,
I'm all for it.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Like, these books should not have been banned.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Exactly. I believe one of the parents stood up to
speak out in favor of these books going back on
the bookshelves and says said, I like big butts, and
I cannot lie. That's why we started his speech. Really, yeah,
yeah that's true story.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah that really happens.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's a true story. But look, we've seen some of
the types of books that have been taken off of
shelves across them.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
I definitely agree with the content is just outrageous and
way too graphic for kids.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
But this this come.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
On, Yeah, it seems like it's going a little too
far there.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Hey, this is.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Lee Murphy in Cottontown, Tennessee. My morning show is your
Morning Show with Michael Bill Jorno, Brian Gorman here with
Dana McKay.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
So.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Former President Donald Trump held a rally the other day.
We didn't really I don't think we mentioned it yesterday
because I think there was anything all that notable from it.
But there are some in the media and also the
Biden campaign, well, they did find some parts that they
had something to say about. And let me start with
the moment when Trump had some technical issues. Here's how
(29:40):
that unfolded.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Tell him to make the microphone loud terrible, he just
came up. Are the teleprompters not working so not even
a little bit?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Great job?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
And then I don't pay the company that does it right,
And then I end up with a story Trump doesn't pay,
I don't pay contractors that do a job.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And that's a sh You can't read a word, but
you know what. It usually ends up that.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
The spacious matter it's crazy. Then they'll say, oh, is
it terrible? Trump takes advantage of his gunna. I take
great when I have a good contractor or subcontractor. Nobody
gets paid faster. But when I have contractors that do
this kind of work, you can have them.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, so he was not thrilled with the technical issues
he was dealing with. Now on Fox News, one of
the Outnumbered co hosts, they actually praised Trump for that moment,
saying that it proved he's a normal, average American, you know,
getting frustrated.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
With Oh yeah, he gets pissed off, just like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
The only thing, the only caveat I would add there
because I try to be fair about this kind of stuff.
If that was Biden and he was struggling with the
teleprompter and it wasn't working right and he went off
like that, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know that
the response would have been just a normal average American,
you know, not for fuck. Now. This is what Trump
(31:00):
had to say about the heat and how he is
impacted by it when he's doing these rallies.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
It's one hundred and ten. But it doesn't feel it
to me, right, So we'll stay out here for a
little while. If anybody gets tired, you'll let me know.
And if anybody goes down. If you start going down,
we have people, they'll pick.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You up right away. Though I thought I was so worried.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Everybody was so worried yesterday about you, and they never
mentioned me.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm up here sweating like a dog.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Secret service said, we have to make sure everyone's safe.
I said, what about me, Oh, we never thought of that.
They don't think about me. I'm working my ass, I'm
working home.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So they were some of the media who were criticize him.
He always makes everything about himself.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Oh, yeah, of course he does.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
He was joking, true, and I got to be honest.
He was standing up there in a suit and it's
really hard. It's really hard.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
This was in Las Vegas, right where it's one hundred degrees.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, I mean, I'll give him credit for that. And
then he mentioned why rally goers need to make sure
they stay alive. By the way, is that breeze nice?
Do you feel the breeze?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Because I don't want anybody going on me. We need
every voter.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I don't care about you. I just want your vote.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
I don't care how the press will take that, and
they'll say he said a horrible thing.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
The press will take it. The Biden campaign took it,
and they're running with that quote. Clearly he's joking.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah, he's just kidding.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
He's pretty obvious. And then finally Trump shared his thoughts
on issues involving electric batteries underwater.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
So I said, let me ask you a question, and
he said, nobody ever asked this question, and it must
because of Mit. My relationship to Mit. Very smart, he goes,
I say, what would happen if the boat sank from
its way and you're in the boat and you have
this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater
(32:55):
and there's a shark that's approximately ten yards over there.
Way a lot of shark attacks.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Lately, dude. I just said a lot of shark I watched.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Some guys justifying it today. Well, they weren't really that angry.
They bit off the young lady's leg because of the
fact that they were They were not hungry, but they
misunderstood what who she was. These people are cut. He said,
there's no problem with sharks. They just didn't really understand
gripping a young woman swimming now really get decimated at
a lot of sharks.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
So I said, so there's.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
A shark ten yards away from the boat ten yards
do I get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water
goes over the battery the boat is sinking. Do I
stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or
do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Because I will tell you.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
He didn't know. The entry said, you know, nobody's ever
asked me that question and answer a good question. I
think there's a lot of electric current coming through that water.
But you know what I'd do if there was a
shark or you get electrocuted, I'll take electrocution every single time.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I'm not getting dear the shark. It's a fascinating question.
Really is a fascinating scenario. Now, I don't think that's
quite out works with those electric batteries. If it goes
into the water, all of a sudden, everything around it
gets electrocuted. But if that were the case, I think
that's that's a legit. What would you rather have happened
to you? Dana? Would you rather be electrocuted or eaten
(34:20):
by the shark.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Well, I mean maybe a shark bite over electrocution.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Like, am I going to die? Am I choosing the
way I want to die?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Risking serious injury but not necessarily death.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Let's say you're you're choosing the way you're going to die,
we'll go to the I'll take electrocution then, Yeah, I
don't even think it's a question. I would absolutely rather
be electrocuted than eaten by a shark. It sounds I mean, seriously,
we just did the stories about the people who.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Were bitting Trump them.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, he he did. It was riffing about them on stage,
But this was a question that was going around on
social media once he raised that would you rather be
electrocuted or are eaten by a shark? And I think
it's almost unanimous.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Electrocution is pretty quick, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I don't know, I've never been in that situation before.
I'm sure it's not pleasant, but I'd rather not become
a victim of jaws or something like that. So Trump,
you know, he's always thinking different scenarios.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
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