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We're live on air and on your iHeartRadio app and
coming up this hour more on the situation along the
Southern border, including alarming new comments from the acting Director
of ICE. Plus we'll get the inside s group on
former President Donald Trump's meetings with GOP lawmakers yesterday. Senior
(00:59):
editor at The Dispatch, David Drucker will join us in
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in to the House Republican Conference and Senate Republicans too,
as anyone on Capitol Hill. So you want to stick
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Speaker 4 (01:17):
The US Supreme Court has unanimously preserved access to a
medication that was used in nearly two thirds of all
abortions in the US last year. It's the court's first
abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Row versus Weighed two
years ago. They ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal
right to sue over the Federal Food and Drug Administration's
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approval of the medication myth of Pristont and the FDA's
actions to ease access to it. The case threatened to
restrict access to the abortion drug across the country, including
in states where abortion remains legal.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, I thought the ruling was going to go
this way from the very start, because it just didn't
make any sense. The idea that the FDA didn't properly
approve this medication, or when they began to ease access
to the medication, that it wasn't done right. It was
just a bunch of nonsense. I didn't know it would
be a unanimous verdict, But in a moment when there
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are concerns among some Americans about the Supreme Court for
a variety of different reasons, I thought this was an
important ruling. Now, look, there are some other controversial cases
that we're going to learn about the decisions on them
soon in the coming weeks, but this was a big one.
There was a lot of freak out, Danny, you mentioned
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this earlier among those on the left.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yeah, they were freaking out that women's rights are being
taken away and that you know, women weren't going to
have access to this pill anymore.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But it didn't happen. It was a lot of hysteria
over nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, unanimous decision written by Justice Kavanaugh, of all people.
I just thought that was interesting too. Obviously it was
a big target of the left during this conform hearings.
I think he's been one of the most interesting justices
of them all. I mean, you kind of know that
Justice Roberts, the Chief Justice, is going to be a
bit of a swing vote at times, but Kabanaugh and
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Amy Coney, Barrett and sometimes Gorsich too, you don't know
exactly where they're going to go on some of these issues.
Thomas and Alito you pretty much know, although again they
were part of the unanimous decision here and then the
liberal justice Kegan can sometimes be a little bit of
a wild card, but sot Tom and Ktanji Brown Jackson
are generally you know where they're going. But an important
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obviously a very important ruling because that is how many
abortions I think of the majority. Yeah, yeah, that's how
they're done. So an important ruling.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yesterday, but it's not a definitive ruling because it was
more on a specific area of the law involving the
FDA as opposed to abortion in general. There is a
coming up involving an eighteen seventy three law that was
passed but has not been enforced, banning the distribution and
mailing of abortion drugs. So you could have this law
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saying the drug is legal, right, but the court could
come in and say, well, we're going to uphold the
eighteen seventy three law that bans it from being distributed
around the country possible, and so that could change the
whole the whole story.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That'll be the next thing.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh really, Oh, there's always going to be another thing
when it comes to abortion. Guns thing there's always going
to be a next case that is going to be
super consequential, But for this one, I think they got
it right. And honestly, I thought those who brought the
case wasted their time.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln refused to say whether
the US could pursue a separate deal with Hamas to
free American citizens still held hostage by the organization at
Gaza as negotiations with Israel over a ceasefire have fallen apart.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
HAMAS negotiators only accepted in part a US led proposal
that would have seen hostages freed and to cease fire
in the ongoing war. The Administration was asked if it
would consider going through Cotder to continue a separate deal
and perhaps bring home some Americans without Israeli support.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, negotiations. I don't know why Hamas would make that deal.
I think that's probably unlikely. But you don't hear a
whole lot about the US hostages. I mean, they're still
holding five, and that is a story that kind of
goes under the radar. I was reading yesterday more about
the rescue mission that Israel conducted to get back for
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their hostages, and this story was incredible. So you had
these undercover Israeli spies and you had women they were
in black dresses and his jobs. And they pretended to
be displaced from Rafa and they rented out a house
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in this Gaza neighborhood where I guess they had some
kind of intelligence that some of the hostages might be there,
and so they pretend, you know, to be again these
displaced gosins and they pinpoint where exactly the hostages were.
You had one being held in one spot and then
three others being held in a different spot, and they
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put it all together. They get the information back and
then the commandos come in. And the one where you
had just the one hostage that went off without any problems,
they went in and they took out the Hamas terrorists
who were there, and they got that hostage out. It
was the other home where the three were being held
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that they ran into about thirty Hamas terrorists who were
armed to the teeth and they didn't expect that, and
that's where the shootout began. They did end up killing
all thirty Hamas terrorists, and of course they obviously rescued
the three hostages. One Israeli commando was killed in the mission.
But then because of all the noise the shootout made,
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then as they're trying to get out of there, then
they're now being bogged down by more Hummas terrorists, and
that's when Israeli forces had to come in and basically,
you know, blow some things up and create that lane
to get them out of there. But just how that
whole operation unfolded, getting the intelligence to kind of pinpoint
the neighborhood that a few of them were in, then
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sending in these spies to blend in you know, will yeah,
and to surveil these houses. And then I guess the
commandos did something similar to what we did. If you
ever read about the operation to take out Osama bin Laden,
or ever watch the movie Zero Dark thirty, you know
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where you have special forces, they build kind of the
home that they're going to go into and train, you know,
do practice runs and stuff like that. I guess they
built the structures and the commandos were practicing ahead of
time how they were going to conduct the operation. So
I mean, that is really and it really is something
to get those four back. So this competition really cuts
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the mustard.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Oh he's got jokes, Joey Chestnut is back, just when
you thought he was out streaming giant. Netflix has announced
that Chestnut, the number one ranked competitive eater in the world,
will face off against longtime rival to Kiro Kobayashi, who's
dubbed the Godfather of competitive eating before claiming to retire
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earlier this year. So the event is set to stream
live Monday, September TEWOD on Netflix. The Labor Day competition
will be a winner take all, head to head battle.
It's been dubbed Chestnut versus koba Yashi Unfinished Beef.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's a great name and it doesn't get any bigger
than this. This is like Ali Frasier, This is bird magic.
I mean, this is as big as it gets.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
If you know the history of competitive eating, you may
remember Kobayashi was the undisputed eating champion for many years
and then Chestnut came along and beat him, and kobe
Yashi has been accused of ducking out on say like
the Nathan's competition some others where Chestnut would be competing
because he didn't want to lose to the new champion. Well,
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this is supposed to settle all that. Both of these
guys have been doing this for decades now, and this
is going to be the definitive of This is super
Bowl of hotdog eating and Netflix says it's a rivalry
that's been simmering for fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Netflix. Their numbers are going to be through the roof right.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Well, And I wonder how much more money Joey Chestnut
is getting to do this than what he was getting
from Nathan's hot Dogs, because I bet.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
You've got a lot more money.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Honestly, this is bigger than competing in the Nathan's hot
Talk contesting. Oh yeah, this is this is worldwide. Yeah,
and this is historic. What's gonna happen? How do you
think they they prepare for that? I mean, you know,
it must be a lot of hot dogs between now
and then. Oh no.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And the thing about Chestnut is he has this new sponsor,
the Impossible Foods hot Dogs.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Is he using those roll them off? I don't know.
I mean, do they taste different? Do they go down
the same?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, that's the thing about these contexts. You know, I
don't really want to know how they trained for this,
you know what I mean, I'll just watch it once
a year and that'll be it. Because it's it's unbelievable they.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Have I had the Tiger plane in the background as
there's stuff in their face. With hot dogs, there was
a story that we didn't get to this week involving
hot dogs and uh, what is there a trend that
people are putting mayo on hot dogs? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Well, for a while there was a controversy over whether
or not you should put ketchup on hot dogs, and now.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
The new thing is putting mayo on hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You can if you live in the in certain parts
of the country, Like if you're in Chicago and you
asked for ketchup.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I mean, we don't throw a knife for your head.
That's on a Chicago style hot dog. That's true, that's
there's a certain way tost those. Yeah, there's a certain
way to make those. But New York doesn't mean you can't.
You can't have ketchup on a different hot dog.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
New York can have ketchup on a hot dog.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
If you're in the streets and you order one of
those street dogs in New York and you ask for ketchup,
you'll get shot. I mean, so don't They don't use
ketchup in New York either, Not really, No, I mean
I I like both, honestly, it doesn't really matter to me.
But Mayo. That sounds that's weird. That sounds blasphemous.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
It sounds like mayo or hot dog. So I'm just
gonna sit this one out.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
People use Mayo for like French fries sometimes. Yeah, that's
gross too. Remember that that movie that Bruce Willis was in,
like The Whole ten Yards or something like that, and
his character flipped out at the restaurant when they put
Mayo on his hamburger. I mean, he was a hit
man in the movie too, so like he was about
to kill somebody over And then there's a trend where
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people are putting ketchup on kit cats.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That's completely discussed. I don't know, why would you do that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's so much breakfast. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I thought there was like a TikTok thing about putting
scallions in an iced lot.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
But do this stuff to go viral, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
What we need to do is we need to make
a TikTok challenge about kids eating broccoli. You know, all
of a sudden start eating their vegetables because it's a challenge.
Asparagus that would be good, Yeah, all right, Chris Trenkman
with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much. Uh, and
now still become this hour, We're going to get the
inside scoup on former President Donald Trump's meetings with GOP
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lawmakers yesterday. Against Senior editor at The Dispatch, David Drucker
will join us. He always has the best information on
this kind of stuff, So stick around for that. I'm
Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay in for Michael dill Shore.
Not this weekend. Right now, let's get to a trending story.
Today is Flag Day. I'm celebrating. I got my hat.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
You do you wear that flag hat?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Author my flag dog tag? Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Very nice?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
All right, perfect, Actually did not celebrate today. I'm not
wearing a flag, but I am wearing blue, so it's
part of the fight.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, like an off light anyway. Flag Day commemorates.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The adoption of the flag, which happened on June fourteenth
of seventeen seventy seven. It also marks the birthday of
the US Army, which Congress authorized as the American Continental
Army on June fourteenth of seventeen seventy five. There have
been twenty seven different versions of the flag and the
current one is the only one that's been around for
more than fifty years. And then I thought this was
really interesting because as I was looking for facts about
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the flag, I kept finding this story that the flag
that we have now with the fifty stars was a
school project done by a seventeen year old to reflect
Hawaiian Alaska joining the US, and he received a bus
on his project, but after President Eisenhower chose his flag design,
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he got an a And that story has gone around
for years. But apparently the story has been debunked. Oh
it happened, and so it's a fall flag. Yet flat
it didn't happen. So yeah, I thought that was interesting.
So if you hear that story, that is not the
real story. And then do you know what the proper
way is to dispose of an old flag?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Like once it gets already and it needs to be
disposed of?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You putting me on the spot, I am get it wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I was shocked by this.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
No, what is the what is the proper way? I
don't I don't dispose of my American flags?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Well, yeah, but like what if it gets ruined somehow,
you're supposed.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
To burn it?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Really, yes, that is the way to dispose of a
flag with dignity is to burn.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
It isn't that surprising?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah? I know.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
And then there are five American flags on the moon,
but they are all bleached white now due to the
radiation from the sun.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
So we've got white flags.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
On the moon.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You're surrendering on the moon. And I think you said
there's been twenty seven flags through our history. And I
don't know if you knew this, but the Alitos are
flying every single one of them outside there unflagged that.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Deltono.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Ryan Gorman here with Dane McKay. Earlier in the show,
I spoke to News Nations Senior National horse onund A,
Brian Eton, who recently sat down for an exclusive interview
with the acting director of ICET to talk about the
situation along the southern border and immigration in this country.
And here's what Brian said the acting director had to say.
(15:19):
These were some of Brian's key takeaways from the conversation.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I first started talking to him about, you know, you
heard about just recently these eight suspected terrorists that were
arrested in big cities around the country. We found out
came across the southern border. Apparently they were from Tijikistan,
which is on one of the terror watch lists. They
came across the southern border, they were stopped by federal
law enforcement. Apparently background checks were done, but nothing came up.
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They were cleared, and they entered the country as undocumented migrants.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So the first thing I asked him.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
About was that, like, how is this even possible that
you guys did the background checks and nothing came up.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And what he explained to me was that a lot
of times.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
In these situations, people will use fake names, which we've
seen out there at the border, they'll drop their ID cards,
they use a fake name, or even if they use
a real name, there's no real way to really do
a good criminal history check because like a country like Tajikistan,
we don't have access to their database, if there even
is a database, So a lot of people slide through
the cracks, which is really disturbing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now, I don't think it's as simple as just snapping
your fingers and saying, all right, if that's the case,
if we can't fully vet you, we're just gonna spin
you back around and send you back where you came from.
There are laws, asylum laws. It does get complicated, and
it does go beyond the president taking executive action. Although
I think there are certainly things that President Biden could
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be doing right now that would improve the situation and
should have been doing all along. This is also an
issue where Congress has to act and fix some of
this stuff. But I'm just a common sense guy. To me,
if somebody arrives at the southern border, I don't care
what they're there for, and we can't fully vet them,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
You don't just let them go.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
They shouldn't get in. And if we need to change
laws to fix that, whatever we need to do, that's
like a no brainer that we should fix immediately. Now
I'm not gonna hold my god for that to happen. No,
but yeah, again, common sense.
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Speaker 3 (17:37):
Ryan Gorman here with Dana McKay, and we are continuing now.
We're going to work on getting senior writer the Dispatch,
David Drucker on the line with us. We're having again
technical issues this morning, unable to do that, so hopefully
we'll get him in just a moment. But right now,
let me run through some of what came out of
those meetings between former President Donald Trump and lawmakers Republican
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lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and I want to start with
some of what House Speaker Mike Johnson had to say
following his meeting with former President Donald Trump. This is
what he said to reporters. One part thinking it's going
to be the most consequential election of our lifetimes.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
President Trump brought an extraordinary amount of energy and excitement
and enthusiasm this morning. That is what we're seeing in
the party throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Johnson also said his party is feeling optimistic about November's election.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
We don't take anything for granted, you have to run
like your ten points behind, but we are very encouraged
by the polling that shows what we know intuitively, and
that is this thing is trending certainly in the right direction.
We believe that we're going to win back the White
House and the Senate and grow the House majority.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And finally, he talked about how the Republican Party is
working with Trump for this November's election.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
We talked about how to grow this House majority and
how he will help in doing so, and then how
will help him as well. And this is a unified
effort by the party. We're feeling good.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
And then in a Fox News interview later in the day,
Trump said he's got a pretty good idea of who
he'll choose to be his running mates.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Were a nation that is being left at all over
the world. We have a leader that's being left at
all over the world. That was actually Trump talking about
President Biden.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
If you didn't, if you didn't guess that based on
that clip right there, he said President Biden's the wrong
man for the job, and then went on to say
that He also appraised his Republican colleagues.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
We have great unity, we have great common sense. A
lot of very smart people in this room.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And finally, now we'll get to Trump's comments on his
potential vice presidential pick.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Hell fwist really talented paper left, pretty good idea, but
I think it's probably I'll do it the way it's
usually done.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And now for someone Now of those meetings yesterday, let's
bring in we have with us a senior writer for
The Dispatch, David Drucker. David, thanks so much for taking
a few minutes to come on the show. So, look,
there was a lot to unpack from those meetings. What
were some of the key takeaways for you? All right?
(20:20):
Doesn't sound like we have David Drucker there on the line,
I would say some of the key takeaways. One of
them I thought which was very interesting, was that apparently
former President Donald Trump told House Republicans he's expanding the
presidential battleground to New Mexico, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Virginia.
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That's according to a reporter from the Washington Post. Now Virginia,
We've taken a look at some recent poll numbers out
of that state, and certainly the race seems to be
pretty tight there. I would still put that one in
the Biden camp, but the numbers are much tighter than
I think the President and his campaign would like, so
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makes sense that Trump would maybe focus in on that. Also,
Trump met with the governor of Virginia, Glenn youngkin, and
you wonder could he potential be a vice presidential candidate.
All right, let's see if we can get David Drucker
on the line right now. David, do we have you?
Speaker 10 (21:22):
I think?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So there we go, finally out boy, David. It's been
quite a morning, the issues that we've had here. I mean,
it's it's like watching Congress and action functions, a lot
of dysfunctions this morning. All right, well, thank you for
taking a few minutes to come on with us. So
what were some of your key takeaways from those meetings yesterday?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
I mean, look, I don't actually take away too much
of this. Trump actually, in private meetings is very charming, agreeable,
and courteous. What you see with the rallies and the
public statements and the social media posts are one thing.
What you get in person from him is another. He
also is prone to make commitments and just generally agree
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on things in private meetings that he never follows through
with it, doesn't intend to. So you could look at
yesterday and say, look at this, it's kumbayah and everybody's
getting along, the party's coalescing, and I think you know,
from the standpoint of members of Congress. That's already been
true anyway. But I don't think you know what we
saw yesterday anything because there are you know, two different
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Donald Trump so always have been, at least you know,
since he's since he ran for pression the first time,
and I'd always I like to coin him. There's rally
Trump and meeting Trump. When you meet with Trump privately,
he's a very conventional politician who is agreeable and soft
spoken and courteous. And then you know, the next thing
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he'll so you know, do one of his signature campaign rallies,
and you know he's that guy. So know, we'll see
going forward. But you know, what happened yesterday wasn't anything
out of the ordinary, and it doesn't mean that things
are any different than they've ever been, which are some
people is great to hear, and for other people, you know,
may not be.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And you sat down and talked to Trump in person before,
can you tell us what that's like? You know, when
these politicians are meeting with him, I mean, it's obviously
a big moment for them, and and like you alluded to,
he can be very engaging in person behind closed dourse.
Obviously his voters love rally Trump but but meeting Trump
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behind closed doors Trump, that's one that you know, uh,
a bit different but has its own pluses.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Nonetheless, look, I mean, I'm sure you know my meeting
with him was probably no different than anybody else. Yeah,
he wants to know if I need something to drink,
you know, how's my stay going? He shows me around.
The thing about Trump meeting you know, privately with political
operatives or with advocates for you know, some group or
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anothers they always walk away say no, Trump actually agreed
that he was like with me on this and we're
going to work together on this thing. That Trump has
been publicly disagreeable about it, But it's just that way
he is in a meeting, he remains publicly disagreeable. And
so I mean it's just as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Now, when we get into the vice presidential search, did
you take anything significant away from his meeting with Glenn
Youngkin yesterday?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
No, No, it's just Trump dined Virginia, getting along with
the very popular Republican governor of Virginia. It is popular
despite governing in a blue state. You know, somebody who
did manage to win Virginia, albeit narrowly, And that's just
you know smart politics, and you know, unless we find
out later that they've you know, requested material so they
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can vet Youngkin and the young it turns that information over.
I just wouldn't make too much of that. But again,
it's part of Trump being agreeable, you know, you do.
We can do this as journalists with him. All of
a suddenly, have you thought that there might be a
purple parrot in the sky? Well, you know, I hadn't
thought about it. Yeah, there could be a purple that's
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not so you know that could be true, and you
know what you know, and you know, in the context
of Youngkin, why not say sure, that would be a
good idea those there are lots of Republicans in Virginia
that like him. But you know, as far as we know,
he's not on the list of candidates that have been
that are beings that that materials have been requested of.
So we hear different, then it'll be different. I just
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didn't take away from their meeting that things are different.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
We're joined by senior writer the Dispatch David Drucker. You
can follow him on x for the latest and David M.
Drucker and of course you can find him online at
the Dispatch, and you can check out his book in
Trump Shadow at the Battle for twenty twenty four in
the Future of the GOP. How do you view the
canidates who have been mentioned as real, legitimate candidates for
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that vice presidential slot.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Well, look, our sources are telling us, and we're not
the only ones hearing this, that the top three at
the moment are Senators J. D. Vance of Ohio and
Marco Rubio of Florida. And to go to Governor Doug Bergen.
And you know, I talked to some people that think
Vance has the upper hand and talk to others, and
Rubio has the upper hand. They've got that Twelfth Amendment
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issue to deal with. But Trump could always reregister in
New York and New Jersey and you know, make himself
a permanent resident of those states for the purposes of
the ticket. That would want be one way to solve
the problem. And you know, we're told he has good
personal chemistry with Doug Bergham, and Doug Bergham reminds me
of Mike Pants, you know, a competent, boring Midwestern governor.
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I don't know that Burgham brings to the table for
Trump what hence brought to the table for Trump, but
they like each other. And you know Bergham also has
a big checkbook. Yeah, he can write checks to the campaign.
Although you know Trump, you know, in the past month
or so, he doesn't need He's not desperate for money
the way he was before. So you know, we'll see
how this shakes out. But that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And last question for you, do you get the sense
that Trump is more focused on someone who fits the role,
fits the part a vice president looks the part, or
someone who can bring him some kind of benefit in
terms of trying to win in November.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Well, I think he wants both in theory, and you know,
Trump's so big on looks his whole idea. You know,
the terms always used as central casting, somebody out of
central casting, So for him, visuals are a big deal.
You know, I do know that the campaign itself, the
operatives want somebody that can provide a political boost. But
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you know, Trump's very mercurial and he makes his He
doesn't really think he needs to expand his base. He
doesn't think he needs to appeal across you know, he
doesn't really need to appeal beyond the Republican electorate. That
supports him, so I don't know that that's as much
of a factor for him as it is for some
of the people advising.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
All Right, Senior writer at the Dispatch, David Drucker. Again,
you can find him online. You can check out the
Dispatch to read his work, and you can find him
on exit. David M. Drucker. David, really appreciate the time.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
Yep, anytime, thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
All Right, still to come to the hour, We're going
to go line to Italy for an update on the
G seven summit. Our White House correspondent has been over
there covering the president's trips, so stick around for that.
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay in for Michael dil
Jorno this week. I want to thank everyone for sticking
with us as we fill in. Want to thank Michael
del Jorno for asking us to do this this week.
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And right now, let's get to another trending story. Some
polling on the first presidential debate.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yes, voters are making some predictions about what's going to happen.
They don't have high hope for President Biden, so forty
percent think he's going to have trouble standing up.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That's pretty basic, basic thing you would hope you'd be
able to pull off.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Yeah, Forty one percent say they expect him to attempt
to walk off the wrong side of the stage, which
I feel like he does that every time. He's gonna,
you know, walk off stage that's the wrong way. And
then forty nine percent think he's going to forget where
he is.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
That's also very like I would put those percentages a
little low, to be quite honest with you, I know.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Right, and then when it comes to Trumps seventy nine
percent think he's going to interrupt Biden.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Why isn't that number one hundred.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Percent, one hundred percent. I mean, there's there's every chance
that's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Right, Fifty four percent think his mic is going to
be cut off at some point, and more than half
said they expect Trump to win. Only thirty nine percent
think Biden will win this debate.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
The one thing I'll say, I do think this is
a bit of a mistake on the part of Republicans
and Trump too. They're letting the expectations so low once
again for Joe Biden, that if he can somehow figure
out a way to be able to stand on stage
without falling to exit the right way, to not talk
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like this not then then people are gonna be like, show,
he did a great job. So, you know, if if
Biden can talk about his accomplishments and not.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
Do this after I signed the pack and.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Act into law, you know, the way they're setting expectations,
it's it's a very low bar he has to get over.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
But that's interesting. See it seems like people are thinking
what's probably going to happen at the debate. I think
most of us are expecting all of that to take place.
This is Steven Morris from our little town of Franklin, Tennessee.
My morning show is your Morning Show with Michael and
Bill Jordan, Ryan Gorman here, Dana McKay. So we've been
(31:01):
having some technical difficulties throughout the morning, and I don't
know why I thought it was going to be simple
for us to connect to someone who's in Italy. We're
dealing with those technical difficulties. But John Decker's overseas covering
the G seven summit, our White House correspondent, and yeah,
that didn't go well. So I don't know if we'll
get him on the line. Probably not what I did
(31:22):
want to ask him about. So there were a lot
of things to unpack from yesterday's press conference and all
of that. One of them was this moment where Biden
got a little testy with the rapport. Take a listen,
mister president.
Speaker 12 (31:38):
I have a question for mister President's lascias shortly on
the announcements, but if you don't mind, I'd like to
ask you how about your discussions on the situation in
Gaza here at the summit fair questions just a short
time ago about it after the skydepving demonstration. Can you
give us your assessment of Hamas's response and do you
believe that they are trying to work towards the deal
(32:01):
or is this response working against the deal? And what
is your message to allies, including those here at the
G seven, about what more, if anything, the US can
do to drive towards a piece of greement. Thank you.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
I wish you guys were a little play by the
rules a little bit. I'm here to talk about a
critical situation in Ukraine and ask them another subject we
have to answer in detail later, but the bottom line
is that we've made an agree. I've laid out an
approach that has been endorsed by the United Security Council,
by the G Seven, by the Israelis, and the biggest
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hang up so far is Hamas refusing to sign on
even though they have submitted something similar.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Well, they haven't submitted something similar. In fact, they made
some significant changes.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
They submitted something a lot different and said we'll agree
to this.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah. Now, the head of the White House Press Corps
that the association that that kind of represents it. They
came out and they said, no, no, no, there are no
rules at these press conference. What you mean, you guys
aren't playing by the rules? Asked what we want to ask?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
You said that about something else recently too, I feel
like Biden said something about you're not playing by the rules,
and it was just interesting, like what rules are there? Yeah,
this is a script or they're not supposed to ask
certain questions.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I thought that was a perfectly fair question. I know
it was a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodimir Selensky
and they were talking about the deal that was struck,
the security deal between our two countries, But that is
a very fair question. I mean, what's happening in the
Middle East is a huge, huge story, and that was
a significant development. The only issue I would take with
(33:42):
the reporter, I mean, how many questions are you going
to ask him? One question? Right?
Speaker 10 (33:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
That would be my rule if I were president. You
can ask a question and then you're can ask a
follow up after I answered the But if you're gonna
ask me like four questions in one, I'm just never
gonna remember all of them.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
You know, Well, maybe that was the rule. He was
referring to one question at a time.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, maybe maybe that was the rule. You're right, and
especially like if I can't remember all the questions you
asked in the one question, you think Biden has any answer.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
None at all.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Come on, you're not really setting them up for his
success there when you do something like that. So, yeah,
I wanted to see because I'm sure our White House
correspondent John Decker was there when all of that was unfolding.
I was curious to get his take on that. I'm
sure he wasn't thrilled. The press Corps was not happy
with Biden for saying that, you know, you're not playing
by the rules, like there are no rules or the
(34:40):
American Press Corps. He asked, you know what you want,
and I mean, obviously you hope there are some questions
on Ukraine because that's what you were there for. But again,
that to me a perfectly fair topic and question to
bring up. So that's going to do it for us
here on this Friday morning. It has been a pleasure
to be with all of all this week. I do
(35:01):
want to thank Michael Del Giorno and the entire team
for allowing us to do this, to fill in for
him this week and talk to all of you in
all different places across the country. It's been a lot
of fun. Hopefully aside from some of the issues that
we had this morning, you've enjoyed everything. We certainly have
again a couple of tense moments here this morning, but
overall it's been a really great experience for us.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Welcome to the show on this Friday, June fourteenth, I'm
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We're live on air and on your iHeartRadio app and
coming up this hour more on the situation along the
Southern border, including alarming new comments from the acting Director
of ICE. Plus we'll get the inside s group on
former President Donald Trump's meetings with GOP lawmakers yesterday. Senior
(00:59):
editor at The Dispatch, David Drucker will join us in
less than a half hour. He is about as plugged
in to the House Republican Conference and Senate Republicans too,
as anyone on Capitol Hill. So you want to stick
around for that. Right now, Let's get to some of
today's top stories with Chris Trenkman. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The US Supreme Court has unanimously preserved access to a
medication that was used in nearly two thirds of all
abortions in the US last year. It's the court's first
abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Row versus Weighed two
years ago. They ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal
right to sue over the Federal Food and Drug Administration's
(01:40):
approval of the medication myth of Pristont and the FDA's
actions to ease access to it. The case threatened to
restrict access to the abortion drug across the country, including
in states where abortion remains legal.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, I thought the ruling was going to go
this way from the very start, because it just didn't
make any sense. The idea that the FDA didn't properly
approve this medication, or when they began to ease access
to the medication, that it wasn't done right. It was
just a bunch of nonsense. I didn't know it would
be a unanimous verdict, But in a moment when there
(02:18):
are concerns among some Americans about the Supreme Court for
a variety of different reasons, I thought this was an
important ruling. Now, look, there are some other controversial cases
that we're going to learn about the decisions on them
soon in the coming weeks, but this was a big one.
There was a lot of freak out, Danny, you mentioned
(02:38):
this earlier among those on the left.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yeah, they were freaking out that women's rights are being
taken away and that you know, women weren't going to
have access to this pill anymore.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But it didn't happen. It was a lot of hysteria
over nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, unanimous decision written by Justice Kavanaugh, of all people.
I just thought that was interesting too. Obviously it was
a big target of the left during this conform hearings.
I think he's been one of the most interesting justices
of them all. I mean, you kind of know that
Justice Roberts, the Chief Justice, is going to be a
bit of a swing vote at times, but Kabanaugh and
(03:13):
Amy Coney, Barrett and sometimes Gorsich too, you don't know
exactly where they're going to go on some of these issues.
Thomas and Alito you pretty much know, although again they
were part of the unanimous decision here and then the
liberal justice Kegan can sometimes be a little bit of
a wild card, but sot Tom and Ktanji Brown Jackson
are generally you know where they're going. But an important
(03:36):
obviously a very important ruling because that is how many
abortions I think of the majority. Yeah, yeah, that's how
they're done. So an important ruling.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yesterday, but it's not a definitive ruling because it was
more on a specific area of the law involving the
FDA as opposed to abortion in general. There is a
coming up involving an eighteen seventy three law that was
passed but has not been enforced, banning the distribution and
mailing of abortion drugs. So you could have this law
(04:10):
saying the drug is legal, right, but the court could
come in and say, well, we're going to uphold the
eighteen seventy three law that bans it from being distributed
around the country possible, and so that could change the
whole the whole story.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That'll be the next thing.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Oh really, Oh, there's always going to be another thing
when it comes to abortion. Guns thing there's always going
to be a next case that is going to be
super consequential, But for this one, I think they got
it right. And honestly, I thought those who brought the
case wasted their time.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln refused to say whether
the US could pursue a separate deal with Hamas to
free American citizens still held hostage by the organization at
Gaza as negotiations with Israel over a ceasefire have fallen apart.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
HAMAS negotiators only accepted in part a US led proposal
that would have seen hostages freed and to cease fire
in the ongoing war. The Administration was asked if it
would consider going through Cotder to continue a separate deal
and perhaps bring home some Americans without Israeli support.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, negotiations. I don't know why Hamas would make that deal.
I think that's probably unlikely. But you don't hear a
whole lot about the US hostages. I mean, they're still
holding five, and that is a story that kind of
goes under the radar. I was reading yesterday more about
the rescue mission that Israel conducted to get back for
(05:38):
their hostages, and this story was incredible. So you had
these undercover Israeli spies and you had women they were
in black dresses and his jobs. And they pretended to
be displaced from Rafa and they rented out a house
(05:59):
in this Gaza neighborhood where I guess they had some
kind of intelligence that some of the hostages might be there,
and so they pretend, you know, to be again these
displaced gosins and they pinpoint where exactly the hostages were.
You had one being held in one spot and then
three others being held in a different spot, and they
(06:20):
put it all together. They get the information back and
then the commandos come in. And the one where you
had just the one hostage that went off without any problems,
they went in and they took out the Hamas terrorists
who were there, and they got that hostage out. It
was the other home where the three were being held
(06:44):
that they ran into about thirty Hamas terrorists who were
armed to the teeth and they didn't expect that, and
that's where the shootout began. They did end up killing
all thirty Hamas terrorists, and of course they obviously rescued
the three hostages. One Israeli commando was killed in the mission.
But then because of all the noise the shootout made,
(07:05):
then as they're trying to get out of there, then
they're now being bogged down by more Hummas terrorists, and
that's when Israeli forces had to come in and basically,
you know, blow some things up and create that lane
to get them out of there. But just how that
whole operation unfolded, getting the intelligence to kind of pinpoint
the neighborhood that a few of them were in, then
(07:26):
sending in these spies to blend in you know, will yeah,
and to surveil these houses. And then I guess the
commandos did something similar to what we did. If you
ever read about the operation to take out Osama bin Laden,
or ever watch the movie Zero Dark thirty, you know
(07:48):
where you have special forces, they build kind of the
home that they're going to go into and train, you know,
do practice runs and stuff like that. I guess they
built the structures and the commandos were practicing ahead of
time how they were going to conduct the operation. So
I mean, that is really and it really is something
to get those four back. So this competition really cuts
(08:11):
the mustard.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Oh he's got jokes, Joey Chestnut is back, just when
you thought he was out streaming giant. Netflix has announced
that Chestnut, the number one ranked competitive eater in the world,
will face off against longtime rival to Kiro Kobayashi, who's
dubbed the Godfather of competitive eating before claiming to retire
(08:36):
earlier this year. So the event is set to stream
live Monday, September TEWOD on Netflix. The Labor Day competition
will be a winner take all, head to head battle.
It's been dubbed Chestnut versus koba Yashi Unfinished Beef.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's a great name and it doesn't get any bigger
than this. This is like Ali Frasier, This is bird magic.
I mean, this is as big as it gets.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
If you know the history of competitive eating, you may
remember Kobayashi was the undisputed eating champion for many years
and then Chestnut came along and beat him, and kobe
Yashi has been accused of ducking out on say like
the Nathan's competition some others where Chestnut would be competing
because he didn't want to lose to the new champion. Well,
(09:22):
this is supposed to settle all that. Both of these
guys have been doing this for decades now, and this
is going to be the definitive of This is super
Bowl of hotdog eating and Netflix says it's a rivalry
that's been simmering for fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Netflix. Their numbers are going to be through the roof right.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Well, And I wonder how much more money Joey Chestnut
is getting to do this than what he was getting
from Nathan's hot Dogs, because I bet.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
You've got a lot more money.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Honestly, this is bigger than competing in the Nathan's hot
Talk contesting. Oh yeah, this is this is worldwide. Yeah,
and this is historic. What's gonna happen? How do you
think they they prepare for that? I mean, you know,
it must be a lot of hot dogs between now
and then. Oh no.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And the thing about Chestnut is he has this new sponsor,
the Impossible Foods hot Dogs.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Is he using those roll them off? I don't know.
I mean, do they taste different? Do they go down
the same?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, that's the thing about these contexts. You know, I
don't really want to know how they trained for this,
you know what I mean, I'll just watch it once
a year and that'll be it. Because it's it's unbelievable they.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Have I had the Tiger plane in the background as
there's stuff in their face. With hot dogs, there was
a story that we didn't get to this week involving
hot dogs and uh, what is there a trend that
people are putting mayo on hot dogs? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Well, for a while there was a controversy over whether
or not you should put ketchup on hot dogs, and now.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
The new thing is putting mayo on hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You can if you live in the in certain parts
of the country, Like if you're in Chicago and you
asked for ketchup.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I mean, we don't throw a knife for your head.
That's on a Chicago style hot dog. That's true, that's
there's a certain way tost those. Yeah, there's a certain
way to make those. But New York doesn't mean you can't.
You can't have ketchup on a different hot dog.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
New York can have ketchup on a hot dog.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
If you're in the streets and you order one of
those street dogs in New York and you ask for ketchup,
you'll get shot. I mean, so don't They don't use
ketchup in New York either, Not really, No, I mean
I I like both, honestly, it doesn't really matter to me.
But Mayo. That sounds that's weird. That sounds blasphemous.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
It sounds like mayo or hot dog. So I'm just
gonna sit this one out.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
People use Mayo for like French fries sometimes. Yeah, that's
gross too. Remember that that movie that Bruce Willis was in,
like The Whole ten Yards or something like that, and
his character flipped out at the restaurant when they put
Mayo on his hamburger. I mean, he was a hit
man in the movie too, so like he was about
to kill somebody over And then there's a trend where
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people are putting ketchup on kit cats.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That's completely discussed. I don't know, why would you do that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's so much breakfast. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I thought there was like a TikTok thing about putting
scallions in an iced lot.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
But do this stuff to go viral, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
What we need to do is we need to make
a TikTok challenge about kids eating broccoli. You know, all
of a sudden start eating their vegetables because it's a challenge.
Asparagus that would be good, Yeah, all right, Chris Trenkman
with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much. Uh, and
now still become this hour, We're going to get the
inside scoup on former President Donald Trump's meetings with GOP
(12:35):
lawmakers yesterday. Against Senior editor at The Dispatch, David Drucker
will join us. He always has the best information on
this kind of stuff, So stick around for that. I'm
Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay in for Michael dill Shore.
Not this weekend. Right now, let's get to a trending story.
Today is Flag Day. I'm celebrating. I got my hat.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
You do you wear that flag hat?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Author my flag dog tag? Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Very nice?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
All right, perfect, Actually did not celebrate today. I'm not
wearing a flag, but I am wearing blue, so it's
part of the fight.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, like an off light anyway. Flag Day commemorates.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The adoption of the flag, which happened on June fourteenth
of seventeen seventy seven. It also marks the birthday of
the US Army, which Congress authorized as the American Continental
Army on June fourteenth of seventeen seventy five. There have
been twenty seven different versions of the flag and the
current one is the only one that's been around for
more than fifty years. And then I thought this was
really interesting because as I was looking for facts about
(13:31):
the flag, I kept finding this story that the flag
that we have now with the fifty stars was a
school project done by a seventeen year old to reflect
Hawaiian Alaska joining the US, and he received a bus
on his project, but after President Eisenhower chose his flag design,
(13:53):
he got an a And that story has gone around
for years. But apparently the story has been debunked. Oh
it happened, and so it's a fall flag. Yet flat
it didn't happen. So yeah, I thought that was interesting.
So if you hear that story, that is not the
real story. And then do you know what the proper
way is to dispose of an old flag?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Like once it gets already and it needs to be
disposed of?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You putting me on the spot, I am get it wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I was shocked by this.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
No, what is the what is the proper way? I
don't I don't dispose of my American flags?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Well, yeah, but like what if it gets ruined somehow,
you're supposed.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
To burn it?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Really, yes, that is the way to dispose of a
flag with dignity is to burn.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
It isn't that surprising?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah? I know.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
And then there are five American flags on the moon,
but they are all bleached white now due to the
radiation from the sun.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
So we've got white flags.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
On the moon.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You're surrendering on the moon. And I think you said
there's been twenty seven flags through our history. And I
don't know if you knew this, but the Alitos are
flying every single one of them outside there unflagged that.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Deltono.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Ryan Gorman here with Dane McKay. Earlier in the show,
I spoke to News Nations Senior National horse onund A,
Brian Eton, who recently sat down for an exclusive interview
with the acting director of ICET to talk about the
situation along the southern border and immigration in this country.
And here's what Brian said the acting director had to say.
(15:19):
These were some of Brian's key takeaways from the conversation.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I first started talking to him about, you know, you
heard about just recently these eight suspected terrorists that were
arrested in big cities around the country. We found out
came across the southern border. Apparently they were from Tijikistan,
which is on one of the terror watch lists. They
came across the southern border, they were stopped by federal
law enforcement. Apparently background checks were done, but nothing came up.
(15:46):
They were cleared, and they entered the country as undocumented migrants.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So the first thing I asked him.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
About was that, like, how is this even possible that
you guys did the background checks and nothing came up.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
And what he explained to me was that a lot
of times.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
In these situations, people will use fake names, which we've
seen out there at the border, they'll drop their ID cards,
they use a fake name, or even if they use
a real name, there's no real way to really do
a good criminal history check because like a country like Tajikistan,
we don't have access to their database, if there even
is a database, So a lot of people slide through
the cracks, which is really disturbing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now, I don't think it's as simple as just snapping
your fingers and saying, all right, if that's the case,
if we can't fully vet you, we're just gonna spin
you back around and send you back where you came from.
There are laws, asylum laws. It does get complicated, and
it does go beyond the president taking executive action. Although
I think there are certainly things that President Biden could
(16:43):
be doing right now that would improve the situation and
should have been doing all along. This is also an
issue where Congress has to act and fix some of
this stuff. But I'm just a common sense guy. To me,
if somebody arrives at the southern border, I don't care
what they're there for, and we can't fully vet them,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
You don't just let them go.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
They shouldn't get in. And if we need to change
laws to fix that, whatever we need to do, that's
like a no brainer that we should fix immediately. Now
I'm not gonna hold my god for that to happen. No,
but yeah, again, common sense.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
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Speaker 3 (17:37):
Ryan Gorman here with Dana McKay, and we are continuing now.
We're going to work on getting senior writer the Dispatch,
David Drucker on the line with us. We're having again
technical issues this morning, unable to do that, so hopefully
we'll get him in just a moment. But right now,
let me run through some of what came out of
those meetings between former President Donald Trump and lawmakers Republican
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lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and I want to start with
some of what House Speaker Mike Johnson had to say
following his meeting with former President Donald Trump. This is
what he said to reporters. One part thinking it's going
to be the most consequential election of our lifetimes.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
President Trump brought an extraordinary amount of energy and excitement
and enthusiasm this morning. That is what we're seeing in
the party throughout the country.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Johnson also said his party is feeling optimistic about November's election.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
We don't take anything for granted, you have to run
like your ten points behind, but we are very encouraged
by the polling that shows what we know intuitively, and
that is this thing is trending certainly in the right direction.
We believe that we're going to win back the White
House and the Senate and grow the House majority.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And finally, he talked about how the Republican Party is
working with Trump for this November's election.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
We talked about how to grow this House majority and
how he will help in doing so, and then how
will help him as well. And this is a unified
effort by the party. We're feeling good.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
And then in a Fox News interview later in the day,
Trump said he's got a pretty good idea of who
he'll choose to be his running mates.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Were a nation that is being left at all over
the world. We have a leader that's being left at
all over the world. That was actually Trump talking about
President Biden.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
If you didn't, if you didn't guess that based on
that clip right there, he said President Biden's the wrong
man for the job, and then went on to say
that He also appraised his Republican colleagues.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
We have great unity, we have great common sense. A
lot of very smart people in this room.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And finally, now we'll get to Trump's comments on his
potential vice presidential pick.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Hell fwist really talented paper left, pretty good idea, but
I think it's probably I'll do it the way it's
usually done.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And now for someone Now of those meetings yesterday, let's
bring in we have with us a senior writer for
The Dispatch, David Drucker. David, thanks so much for taking
a few minutes to come on the show. So, look,
there was a lot to unpack from those meetings. What
were some of the key takeaways for you? All right?
(20:20):
Doesn't sound like we have David Drucker there on the line,
I would say some of the key takeaways. One of
them I thought which was very interesting, was that apparently
former President Donald Trump told House Republicans he's expanding the
presidential battleground to New Mexico, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Virginia.
(20:43):
That's according to a reporter from the Washington Post. Now Virginia,
We've taken a look at some recent poll numbers out
of that state, and certainly the race seems to be
pretty tight there. I would still put that one in
the Biden camp, but the numbers are much tighter than
I think the President and his campaign would like, so
(21:04):
makes sense that Trump would maybe focus in on that. Also,
Trump met with the governor of Virginia, Glenn youngkin, and
you wonder could he potential be a vice presidential candidate.
All right, let's see if we can get David Drucker
on the line right now. David, do we have you?
Speaker 10 (21:22):
I think?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So there we go, finally out boy, David. It's been
quite a morning, the issues that we've had here. I mean,
it's it's like watching Congress and action functions, a lot
of dysfunctions this morning. All right, well, thank you for
taking a few minutes to come on with us. So
what were some of your key takeaways from those meetings yesterday?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
I mean, look, I don't actually take away too much
of this. Trump actually, in private meetings is very charming, agreeable,
and courteous. What you see with the rallies and the
public statements and the social media posts are one thing.
What you get in person from him is another. He
also is prone to make commitments and just generally agree
(22:09):
on things in private meetings that he never follows through
with it, doesn't intend to. So you could look at
yesterday and say, look at this, it's kumbayah and everybody's
getting along, the party's coalescing, and I think you know,
from the standpoint of members of Congress. That's already been
true anyway. But I don't think you know what we
saw yesterday anything because there are you know, two different
(22:31):
Donald Trump so always have been, at least you know,
since he's since he ran for pression the first time,
and I'd always I like to coin him. There's rally
Trump and meeting Trump. When you meet with Trump privately,
he's a very conventional politician who is agreeable and soft
spoken and courteous. And then you know, the next thing
(22:53):
he'll so you know, do one of his signature campaign rallies,
and you know he's that guy. So know, we'll see
going forward. But you know, what happened yesterday wasn't anything
out of the ordinary, and it doesn't mean that things
are any different than they've ever been, which are some
people is great to hear, and for other people, you know,
may not be.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And you sat down and talked to Trump in person before,
can you tell us what that's like? You know, when
these politicians are meeting with him, I mean, it's obviously
a big moment for them, and and like you alluded to,
he can be very engaging in person behind closed dourse.
Obviously his voters love rally Trump but but meeting Trump
(23:34):
behind closed doors Trump, that's one that you know, uh,
a bit different but has its own pluses.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Nonetheless, look, I mean, I'm sure you know my meeting
with him was probably no different than anybody else. Yeah,
he wants to know if I need something to drink,
you know, how's my stay going? He shows me around.
The thing about Trump meeting you know, privately with political
operatives or with advocates for you know, some group or
(24:03):
anothers they always walk away say no, Trump actually agreed
that he was like with me on this and we're
going to work together on this thing. That Trump has
been publicly disagreeable about it, But it's just that way
he is in a meeting, he remains publicly disagreeable. And
so I mean it's just as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Now, when we get into the vice presidential search, did
you take anything significant away from his meeting with Glenn
Youngkin yesterday?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
No, No, it's just Trump dined Virginia, getting along with
the very popular Republican governor of Virginia. It is popular
despite governing in a blue state. You know, somebody who
did manage to win Virginia, albeit narrowly, And that's just
you know smart politics, and you know, unless we find
out later that they've you know, requested material so they
(24:58):
can vet Youngkin and the young it turns that information over.
I just wouldn't make too much of that. But again,
it's part of Trump being agreeable, you know, you do.
We can do this as journalists with him. All of
a suddenly, have you thought that there might be a
purple parrot in the sky? Well, you know, I hadn't
thought about it. Yeah, there could be a purple that's
(25:19):
not so you know that could be true, and you
know what you know, and you know, in the context
of Youngkin, why not say sure, that would be a
good idea those there are lots of Republicans in Virginia
that like him. But you know, as far as we know,
he's not on the list of candidates that have been
that are beings that that materials have been requested of.
So we hear different, then it'll be different. I just
(25:40):
didn't take away from their meeting that things are different.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
We're joined by senior writer the Dispatch David Drucker. You
can follow him on x for the latest and David M.
Drucker and of course you can find him online at
the Dispatch, and you can check out his book in
Trump Shadow at the Battle for twenty twenty four in
the Future of the GOP. How do you view the
canidates who have been mentioned as real, legitimate candidates for
(26:05):
that vice presidential slot.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Well, look, our sources are telling us, and we're not
the only ones hearing this, that the top three at
the moment are Senators J. D. Vance of Ohio and
Marco Rubio of Florida. And to go to Governor Doug Bergen.
And you know, I talked to some people that think
Vance has the upper hand and talk to others, and
Rubio has the upper hand. They've got that Twelfth Amendment
(26:27):
issue to deal with. But Trump could always reregister in
New York and New Jersey and you know, make himself
a permanent resident of those states for the purposes of
the ticket. That would want be one way to solve
the problem. And you know, we're told he has good
personal chemistry with Doug Bergham, and Doug Bergham reminds me
of Mike Pants, you know, a competent, boring Midwestern governor.
(26:51):
I don't know that Burgham brings to the table for
Trump what hence brought to the table for Trump, but
they like each other. And you know Bergham also has
a big checkbook. Yeah, he can write checks to the campaign.
Although you know Trump, you know, in the past month
or so, he doesn't need He's not desperate for money
the way he was before. So you know, we'll see
how this shakes out. But that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And last question for you, do you get the sense
that Trump is more focused on someone who fits the role,
fits the part a vice president looks the part, or
someone who can bring him some kind of benefit in
terms of trying to win in November.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Well, I think he wants both in theory, and you know,
Trump's so big on looks his whole idea. You know,
the terms always used as central casting, somebody out of
central casting, So for him, visuals are a big deal.
You know, I do know that the campaign itself, the
operatives want somebody that can provide a political boost. But
(27:53):
you know, Trump's very mercurial and he makes his He
doesn't really think he needs to expand his base. He
doesn't think he needs to appeal across you know, he
doesn't really need to appeal beyond the Republican electorate. That
supports him, so I don't know that that's as much
of a factor for him as it is for some
of the people advising.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
All Right, Senior writer at the Dispatch, David Drucker. Again,
you can find him online. You can check out the
Dispatch to read his work, and you can find him
on exit. David M. Drucker. David, really appreciate the time.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
Yep, anytime, thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
All Right, still to come to the hour, We're going
to go line to Italy for an update on the
G seven summit. Our White House correspondent has been over
there covering the president's trips, so stick around for that.
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay in for Michael dil
Jorno this week. I want to thank everyone for sticking
with us as we fill in. Want to thank Michael
del Jorno for asking us to do this this week.
(28:48):
And right now, let's get to another trending story. Some
polling on the first presidential debate.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yes, voters are making some predictions about what's going to happen.
They don't have high hope for President Biden, so forty
percent think he's going to have trouble standing up.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
That's pretty basic, basic thing you would hope you'd be
able to pull off.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Yeah, Forty one percent say they expect him to attempt
to walk off the wrong side of the stage, which
I feel like he does that every time. He's gonna,
you know, walk off stage that's the wrong way. And
then forty nine percent think he's going to forget where
he is.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
That's also very like I would put those percentages a
little low, to be quite honest with you, I know.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Right, and then when it comes to Trumps seventy nine
percent think he's going to interrupt Biden.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Why isn't that number one hundred.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Percent, one hundred percent. I mean, there's there's every chance
that's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Right, Fifty four percent think his mic is going to
be cut off at some point, and more than half
said they expect Trump to win. Only thirty nine percent
think Biden will win this debate.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
The one thing I'll say, I do think this is
a bit of a mistake on the part of Republicans
and Trump too. They're letting the expectations so low once
again for Joe Biden, that if he can somehow figure
out a way to be able to stand on stage
without falling to exit the right way, to not talk
(30:13):
like this not then then people are gonna be like, show,
he did a great job. So, you know, if if
Biden can talk about his accomplishments and not.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
Do this after I signed the pack and.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Act into law, you know, the way they're setting expectations,
it's it's a very low bar he has to get over.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
But that's interesting. See it seems like people are thinking
what's probably going to happen at the debate. I think
most of us are expecting all of that to take place.
This is Steven Morris from our little town of Franklin, Tennessee.
My morning show is your Morning Show with Michael and
Bill Jordan, Ryan Gorman here, Dana McKay. So we've been
(31:01):
having some technical difficulties throughout the morning, and I don't
know why I thought it was going to be simple
for us to connect to someone who's in Italy. We're
dealing with those technical difficulties. But John Decker's overseas covering
the G seven summit, our White House correspondent, and yeah,
that didn't go well. So I don't know if we'll
get him on the line. Probably not what I did
(31:22):
want to ask him about. So there were a lot
of things to unpack from yesterday's press conference and all
of that. One of them was this moment where Biden
got a little testy with the rapport. Take a listen,
mister president.
Speaker 12 (31:38):
I have a question for mister President's lascias shortly on
the announcements, but if you don't mind, I'd like to
ask you how about your discussions on the situation in
Gaza here at the summit fair questions just a short
time ago about it after the skydepving demonstration. Can you
give us your assessment of Hamas's response and do you
believe that they are trying to work towards the deal
(32:01):
or is this response working against the deal? And what
is your message to allies, including those here at the
G seven, about what more, if anything, the US can
do to drive towards a piece of greement. Thank you.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
I wish you guys were a little play by the
rules a little bit. I'm here to talk about a
critical situation in Ukraine and ask them another subject we
have to answer in detail later, but the bottom line
is that we've made an agree. I've laid out an
approach that has been endorsed by the United Security Council,
by the G Seven, by the Israelis, and the biggest
(32:39):
hang up so far is Hamas refusing to sign on
even though they have submitted something similar.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Well, they haven't submitted something similar. In fact, they made
some significant changes.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
They submitted something a lot different and said we'll agree
to this.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah. Now, the head of the White House Press Corps
that the association that that kind of represents it. They
came out and they said, no, no, no, there are no
rules at these press conference. What you mean, you guys
aren't playing by the rules? Asked what we want to ask?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
You said that about something else recently too, I feel
like Biden said something about you're not playing by the rules,
and it was just interesting, like what rules are there? Yeah,
this is a script or they're not supposed to ask
certain questions.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I thought that was a perfectly fair question. I know
it was a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodimir Selensky
and they were talking about the deal that was struck,
the security deal between our two countries, But that is
a very fair question. I mean, what's happening in the
Middle East is a huge, huge story, and that was
a significant development. The only issue I would take with
(33:42):
the reporter, I mean, how many questions are you going
to ask him? One question? Right?
Speaker 10 (33:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
That would be my rule if I were president. You
can ask a question and then you're can ask a
follow up after I answered the But if you're gonna
ask me like four questions in one, I'm just never
gonna remember all of them.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
You know, Well, maybe that was the rule. He was
referring to one question at a time.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, maybe maybe that was the rule. You're right, and
especially like if I can't remember all the questions you
asked in the one question, you think Biden has any answer.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
None at all.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Come on, you're not really setting them up for his
success there when you do something like that. So, yeah,
I wanted to see because I'm sure our White House
correspondent John Decker was there when all of that was unfolding.
I was curious to get his take on that. I'm
sure he wasn't thrilled. The press Corps was not happy
with Biden for saying that, you know, you're not playing
by the rules, like there are no rules or the
(34:40):
American Press Corps. He asked, you know what you want,
and I mean, obviously you hope there are some questions
on Ukraine because that's what you were there for. But again,
that to me a perfectly fair topic and question to
bring up. So that's going to do it for us
here on this Friday morning. It has been a pleasure
to be with all of all this week. I do
(35:01):
want to thank Michael Del Giorno and the entire team
for allowing us to do this, to fill in for
him this week and talk to all of you in
all different places across the country. It's been a lot
of fun. Hopefully aside from some of the issues that
we had this morning, you've enjoyed everything. We certainly have
again a couple of tense moments here this morning, but
overall it's been a really great experience for us.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
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