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The Palace fires have reached the Pacific Ocean. President LEC.
Trump says, all how will break loose? If Israeli hostages
held by hamas are not set free by the time
he takes office, and members of the public now paying
their respects the thirty ninth President of the United States,
James Earl Carter, as his remains have arrived at the
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Capitol in Washington, d C. Welcome and good morning. It
is Wednesday, January the eighth ye of Our Lord, twenty
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and the signals pointed right at Flint, Michigan, No kidding,
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goes from Detroit to pass Flint, Michigan, where I was born.
It's a full circum moment for me anyway, and it's
great to peel.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
The radiation is going to the radio frequency.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Because Flint needs more. But yeah, just in time for
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the Rock of Talk sixteen hundred AM Kiva and Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Welcome aboard. This is your morning show. All right,
waking up, Let's start with the fires. Rory o'neilis here,
we're all kind of bouncing around. We had different things
that we were going to talk about. I think the
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moving ceremonies in our nation's capital gives me in deck
or something to talk about. Elvis would have been ninety today.
That gives me and Tom Brown a graceland something to
talk about. And Rory, we've got to start with the fires.
What's the very latest do this? So many images from
yesterday come to mind. We'll kick that around in a moment,
but let's get every be up to speed. Waking up
this morning. What they're facing in Los Angeles area.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Yeah, there are essentially three main areas of fire burning
right now, whipped up by wins seventy five eighty five.
I saw one win gust ninety eight miles per hour.
Then there's not a whole lot that these firefighters can
do on the ground. Their focus right now is simply
saving lives and helping people evacuate.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They're really not doing much to save.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
The buildings in ritzy places like Pacific Palisades and Malibu.
People in Malibu have been told, look, if you're not
already in an evacuation a mandatory evacuation zone, get ready
because you're about to be so.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Malibu, the rest of it could be going up in flames.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I was just gonna say that extends all the way
to Brentwood that is also in that approaching the evacuation zone,
which is where the home of the Vice President of
the United States, Kamala Harris is. You bring up the winds,
there's so many. When you talk, when you watch the
firefighters and the fire chiefs talk, it affects the hoses.
They become useless. It affects the spread and the direction.
The winds are the nightmare.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Well, and now they can't use helicopters. They can't use
airplanes because of the strong wind. So those are two
key weapons that they have in their arsenal to typically
battle these fires.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
President Biden is actually still.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
In the area, delayed his return to Washington in order
to stay in the area and is expected to have
more briefings with the governor there. Of course, he says
he's already been in contact with FEMA. They say this fire,
the last number they gave was like three thousand acres,
but that's a joke. At this point, we're expecting an
update at eight a m. Pacific time to try to
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get some better information. The Mayor of La currently out
of the country in Africa, so she's trying to get
back right now.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Governor Newsom has really been the point person so far.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I saw so many images yesterday too that kind of
took my breath away. One was sent to us by
who this studio, the Chris Berry Studio is named after.
And apparently, you know, a car stalled, you know, and
things traffic got backed up. Citizens got out of car,
tried to push the car for a while, couldn't get
it out of the way, and then they just all
just independently started abandoning their vehicles and leaving. I mean, well,
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you know, smoke will do that. I'll run you right off.
And then they'd use dump trucks to move the cars
out of It was just it was bizarre.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, bulldozers.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
The firedarm is using their bulldozers to clear the road
because they're pretty narrow streets in there, except for you know,
even Pacific Coast highways not that wide this point. So yeah,
they're using bulldozers to clear the road to try to
get firefighter gear in there. It really is all about
the winds and these embers. I'm not exactly sure what
kind of tree is burning out there, but some of them,
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or it's the buildings, send up incredible amounts of embers
that I don't think I've ever seen just in this
intensity before. Maybe it reflects just how dry the brush is.
But the embers are being carried for a mile or
two from these strong winds, and then they're creating fires
on down, creating a chain. I know elementary and high
schools have burned to the ground, countless homes at this point.
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They don't even know how bad the situation is, again
because they can't do any aerial reconnaissance with helicopters, and
the visibility is so bad it's difficult for them to
know what's on fire at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, the other breathtaking image was from the satellites showing
that the plumes of smoke that just emanates from that
entire area and then you bring up the embers like
it's raining.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Fire.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Bottom line is hard to predict, right because of the
wind and the inability to fight the fire because of
the wind and other situations. So we'll keep an eye
on this. And probably we knew it was gonna be
a bad night. How bad of a day is ahead?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Unfair the winds are The winds are about their strongest
as we speak right now.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They're expected to die down.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
The wind warning is expected to expire at noon California time,
so hopefully those conditions will start to improve. Luckily, the
wind direction has been pushing most of the smoke out
over the Pacific, which is good, so it's not choking
the city as much.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But this is a very delicate time right now for
the city.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Your morning show national correspondent, Rory, and you know, excellent
reporting as always. We'll talk again in the third hour, Rory.
We also had the if I was going to set
a table this morning, you know, you get up, everybody
comes down. I'm already sitting here at the table with
my night pull and my coffee. I would say, first
and foremost these wildfires and the loss of property and
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the potential loss of life. That is a top concern.
And we just covered that with Rory the Trump news
conference of all news conferences before leaving Florida. I mean,
he addressed everything from Kamikazi Joe and the actions that
they're taking, the renaming of the Golf of Mexico to
Golf of America to Greenland, Panama, canal. I mean, he
got it all in. And then what I found to
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be a just I was watching the Carter ceremony as
I was texting back and forth with John Decker. We'll
give him a hard time about that. A little bit
later on, there was a great line at the end
of the movie Miracle about the eighty Olympic hockey team,
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and because coach had since died in an automobile accident,
they paid tribute to him and they did a quote
and he never saw the movie, and then it ended
with he lived it. And that's how I feel whenever
I'm talking about, you know, history as it's happening in Washington,
d C. I'm watching it on television at home. John
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Zacker's standing right there living it right exactly, always living
a better life than me. But we were texting back
and forth, and you know, the carriage came up. I
knew the answer when I asked it. I just I
just needed another human being to you know, reiterate it
and confirm it and my medication. But I mean, you're
watching the carriage, not the horses, but the carriage that
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carried Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy going down the
streets carrying Jimmy Carter. I mean, it just it gets you.
And then you get to the Capitol and it's a
long journey to get the body from the street to
be in place in the rotunda. You know, there's a
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lot of you know, waiting, But once the ceremony started,
it could not have been a better tone. It could
not have been a better lesson in humility. A man
lived a very humble life. There were things you knew
that were just so simple you couldn't miss. He believed
in Jesus Christ, and he lived like it, from his marriage,
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to his children, to his family, to his country. And
we live in such a partisan divided time that I
think you know your thirst. I'm believing I would never
arrive at unity using compromise, compromise that is anathetical to
our intent and our calling as a republic. I would
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never do that, But I do thirst to see it again,
the nonsense, the ridiculous, you know, partisanship. I have a
news story today. I'm trying to forguret if I want
to use it, because I can't get in and figure
out how to edit it. And I think it wreaks
a bias and maybe it doesn't. Maybe they're just acknowledging it.
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But you mean to tell me we can't get Republicans
and Democrats together on a Lincoln Riley bill. I don't
care where you stand on a border issue. Where do
you stand on the sanctity of life? Well, on one side,
I do wonder sometimes there can't be anybody, Republican or
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Democrat that thinks it's okay for people to break into
a house and kill someone. It shouldn't be a giant
leap that somebody a breaks into the country that should
have a certain penalty. I can tell you the guy
that broke into my house and didn't harm me, he
got a penalty. It wouldn't been a much different penalty
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had he come in and killed me. How is it
hard for two sides to get together and go, no,
you can't just come into the country illegally and then
kill somebody. Shouldn't be hard to get this legislation done,
and it shouldn't be open to a subjective, partisan cheap shot.
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So believe Congress is doing this to put the Democrats
on the spot. So you start thirsting for some common sense,
some unity, And I think you saw it yesterday because
someone lived a life in such a way that it
was impossible to make a political football out of him.
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Jimmy Carter was a humble, humble child of the Depression,
enlisted in the Navy because his father did left an officer,
never sought limelight, power, anything would God do with that
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elevated him the governor, the president to habitat for humanity.
No one had a longer post presidency than Jimmy Carter,
and everything he did virtually pointed you to Christ and
service and love for others. And we had Senator Thune,
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we had the Speaker of the House, and we had
Vice President Kamala Harris, who all laid wreaths before the
public could view, and all made speeches, and they were
just probably to some degree, Kamala. I'm glad Kamala reminded
everybody about the Israeli Egypt camp David Accords that that
was an important piece and it would not have been
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appropriate to bring up but went wrong in Iran or
what went wrong in some of his domestic I get that,
But then she tried to twist.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It all and do.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I thought, I thought Thune and the Speaker made it
about who he really was a husband a father and
a Christian and he lived it all flawlessly. And it
was moving to see a Republican head of the Senate,
leader of the Senate share the testimony of a humble
servant of Christ which just so happened to be a president.
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The Speaker did a great job of it. It was
just so I'm texting back and forth just to end
full circle. Yeah, we were talking about the carriage. He's
showing me his view, it's right in front of him.
I'm showing him my view with my feet and the
TV in the background. Then we go back and forth.
Is that the same care? Oh wow? Then you just
want to stare at the carriage right? And then I said,
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loved Thun's remarks, loved his remembrance. Oh the Speaker did great.
Kamala did good too. You know what, I think we
should do this tomorrow instead of the Trump news conference.
And so that's what we'll do and I'll cover the
Trump news conference highlights when we come back. But I
don't know if it's because worth thirsting for something that's
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bigger than our fights, or the lesson of when we
humble ourselves, we make it about Christ and not us.
What does he do, he changes the world and he
elevates us. And it was funny because Jimmy Carter is gone,
out of the body, is to be in the presence
of God. But his remains are lying there and all
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anybody could talk about, all anybody could really make if
you were standing around.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Tell me, ton me Avitus.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This man left and all that was left was christ
Oh to die like Jimmy Carter is my headline of
the day. Twenty one minutes after the hour, quick look
at your top five stories. We'll go over. That news
conference with Donald Trump was sound as your morning show continues. Welcome,
one chance to live it, one chance to understand it.
You miss a little and you'll miss a lot. You
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miss a lot and we'll miss you. It's Wednesday, January
the eighth, and this is your morning show.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Jno.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And at twenty seven minutes after the hour, all eyes
are on southern California. There are multiple life threatening wildfires
burning in the Los Angeles area.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is
why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want
to get everybody out of the area safely.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The fire first erupted Tuesday afternoon, quickly spread in the
Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Los Angeles, forcing more than thirty
thousand people to evacuate. The blaze scorch nearly three thousand acres.
No fatalities had been reported. Meanwhile, the Eton fire has
burned about a thousand acres and the Hurst fire has
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now grown to approximately five hundred acres. All three fires,
we're at zero percent containment upon last reporting, and Margaret
Stewart at the Los Angeles Fire Department says the wind
speeds and dry conditions they've created the ultimate firestorm.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
The fire as large as it is now, it starts
to kind of create its own weather, and the winds
will swirl and the ember cast can travel a mile
downwind and start a spot fire.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know, Rory was saying, I don't know what these
trees are, but I've just never seen embers like that.
It's like it's raining fire. And these extreme winds they
make it difficult to fight fires. Always.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
When we have such extreme winds, it affects the water
stream from your hoses. You can't reach as far because
the wind will just push it aside, so we have
to get in there, We have to get close. But
the tactics and the strategies effectively remain the same. It
just becomes a bit more dangerous because we lose visibility
and the winds will be increasing. This is just the
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scenario that we face.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The thirty ninth President of the United States has made
his way to the rotunda of the Capital. More from
Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
The remains of the thirty ninth president arrived Tuesday afternoon
after being flown from Georgia earlier in the day. Carter's
family and one hundreds of the lawmakers watched as an
honor guard carried his casket up the steps of the Capitol. Lawmakers,
including former House Speaker and Nancy Pelosi, attended an evening
ceremony in the Capital Rotunda. Carter's body will remain at
the Capitol for public viewing until his funeral Thursday morning
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at the Washington National Cathedral.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Donald Trumpfield, Oh, sorry, Mark. Donald Trump had the news
conference of all news conference from Marlago before he left
for Washington today. We'll have all of the audio from
that coming up in just moments from now. For just
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Perry Fisher wrote us yesterday. I've bet a talk radio
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I can tell you that I got the cary. I
think it felt like twenty five thirty minutes, and it
was all commercials. So I responded to him and I said, well,
and I give him the clock. You know, we break
for four minutes roughly, it's a floating break seventeen and
then there's a six minute break of twenty eight. But
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that includes Fox News, local news, traffic, weather, you know
the kind of service elements you need in the morning.
I can assure you it's half the commercial load of
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where I worked or defending necessarily where I work. I said, however,
I'm a national show, so I can't hear local or
speak to if you were listening to the radio or
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sent him the link to the podcast and his response
is what was hilarious. I was listening on the iHeart
app and thanks for responding. I didn't expect that see
I bring that up. That's a big fun of him
at all. We're never too big for you. It's your
morning show. Of course we're going to respond. We're always
going to respond. Even the host will respond, the show
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belongs to you. Now I will tell you it's happening
again locally. So I'm beginning to think that's what he
was experiencing. I think the app has gone haywire in
Nashville because I just took a peek during the break
to see what was going on, because another listener alerted,
and I was talking about something from eleven minutes ago
while something else was playing over it. So look, it happens,
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we alerted who we have to alert. I'm sure it'll
be fixed momentarily. But when I tell you it's your
morning show and we can't have it without your voice,
that goes for the talkback button, and we love to
hear from you, and that goes to when you email,
and do not be shocked when we respond. It's not
an on air stick. We really do love you. We're
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really here to serve you beyond even just waking you
up and getting you up and informed and maybe smiling
every now and then. All Right, I want to speaking
of that. I can't refer to this person as a
an emailer or a texter. I've known him since he
was I think eight years old. Oh, and to show
you how old I'm I'm starting to become. You know,
I'm starting to mature. It's very scary. Okay, whatever, Please
(20:19):
tell me I'm still very childlike. You are, very very okay, good,
But I can tear up. First of all, I was
always close to veneen, his sister. I think it's not
a secret. Our parents wanted us to get married and
it just didn't work out. But I've known vincec he
was eight years old, and I can tear up at
the child I knew and the man he grew up
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to be. I'm so proud of him. I could scream.
But he was talking about Jimmy Carter and again Vince
were supposed to be married. No his sister. Oh, sorry,
but that was part of the problem. Vince was awful
good looking. You know, Jimmy Carter always ranks towards the bottom.
We did a new presidential rating poll because Joe Biden's
headed towards the bottom. And when you get to the bottom,
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you're there with a disgraced rich Richard Nixon services to
our country were many, many many. His mistake was won,
but it was a big one. So when you get
to the bottom, you find Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter
consistently and persistently. Can I say something read that I
think is going to shock you. I think Bill Clinton
gets a raw deal because his presidency and his working
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across the aisle was far more effective. Now, how much
of that credit you want to give to him, to
Nute Gingrich, I don't know, but it was far more
effective than these ratings deserve. His moral failure drags him down.
It's shocking how low Bill Clinton falls. But Joe Biden
is projected to fall right there with Richard Nixon. So
Joe Biden is going to go down. It looks like
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as one of the worst presidents. Ever, however, I think
it's going to be worse than that, because scandal will
rise up. Time will allow the scandal to come forward.
Every time I quote that Time magazine manifesto to you,
and it's still sitting there on line for you to read.
February fifteenth to twenty twenty one. They tell you how
they stole the election. The historians can see it on
the horizon. Joe Biden will go down as an ineffective,
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unpopular president.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Oh come on, man, it's true.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And time will tell an illegitimate president. So Joe Biden's
had some really bad territory. But getting back to Jimmy
Carter always at the bottom because he had some terrible
domestic policies and he had one big, huge foreign policy
error that we live with today. The Islamic Republic of
Iran the most predictable threat to the world and peace today.
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He meddled in that election. The Shaw fell and the
Ayatola rose, and the hostages were taken and the rest
was history. Look his I don't even know if he
was conscious, but they wheeled him on a gurney to
vote for Kamala Harris. I don't know that I would
celebrate Jimmy Carter's personal votes. I will say this because
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Vincent said, yeah, well, what about this, and what about that,
and what about that? And you know some of the
things like even the creation of the Department of Education,
which I think history will show was a terrible mistake
for our kids. Kids today are less prepared for higher education,
less prepared for citizenry less prepared for the workforce than ever.
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The scores, damn them. It's not even a talk radio discussion.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And it got.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Education further and further away from parents and the child
and the teacher, to beyond the state into the nation.
They hold them all hostage with federal funding. All it
has become is socialization and indoctrination. And these nuts now
think they own your kids, not you. I don't think
that was Jimmy Carter's intent when he created it. And
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keep in mind he created in nineteen seventy nine and
he was gone by nineteen eighty one. You know, a
lot of things that Jimmy Carter tried to do have
since been taken over by people and used in different ways.
But I have said this, and it sounds like I'm
being a nice jerk, but I don't mean to. If
you want to have a long discussion, a geopolitical discussion,
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a policy discussion, a historic discussion of the presidency of
Jimmy Carter, I'm going to come up failure. But if
you want to talk about an example of someone who
served his country in the navy with great distinction, was
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a servant leader as a governor, and a president and
a humble man who prioritized his marriage, his children, and
his faith. He did that really well. I hope at
my funeral a senator gets up, a speaker of the
House gets up, and all they can talk about is Jesus.
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That's how I want to die. I doubt I will.
So it sounds like a nice jerk when I say
not so good president, really faithful servant, a man who
really lived what he believed. Because anybody can say anything,
talk big. This guy showed up at Habitat, had humanity,
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A former governor, a former president, and former naval officer
with a work belt on. He didn't send others. He
showed up and for a week every year he did that.
And because of his endorsement of that and the attention
he brought to that organization. Look at the people who've
risen out of rubble and had a home. That's an impact.
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I thought that part was a beautiful story. But I
way keep the emails coming, and by all means, if
something is technically malfunctioning, let us know. We'll get somebody
on it to fix it. And never be surprised when
we answer you. All right, Donald Trump, all news conferences
of course he was going to have something to say,
and of course a lot of things came out in
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the Q and A even more than he planned to say.
From his residence at Mar A Lago. Certified as the
next president of the United States by Congress, the President
certainly had some critical remarks about the way the Biden
administration is calling what we call the Kamikazi Joe actions
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on the way out the door.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
We are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration,
and they're trying everything they can to make it more difficult.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Trump also referenced Biden's decision to ban the offshore drilling,
saying that he's trying to block the reforms the American
people just got through voting for.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
And I've been disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt
to block the reforms of the American people and that
they voted for. They just had a landslide election. We
won every swing state. We won the popular vote by
millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know, we're gonna talk with David's an audience, and
here's how I kind of set it up. The American
people spoke very clearly in this election and they will
be watching intently to make sure that those they voted
for for specific reasons to do something, do and carry
out what they sent them to do. Which leads to
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the reverse discussion with David, which is that the Left
keeps playing these games like they've been playing in these
final days. Well, ignoring the priorities of the American people
is how they lost. Playing games to fight with the
American people clearly asked for what's the higher cost after
the election? Spoiler alert, there's a midterm election in two years. Personally,
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if I was Donald Trump, let them be morons on
their way out the door. You quietly have heard your message.
Just start go leading. Remember when we talked about don't
keep the fight going, get in and lead. I was
a little concerned yesterday. Had one eye on Jimmy Carter's
body arriving. I had one eye on this news conference,
and I'm like, don't take the bait. Trump, you don't
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need to comment on all this stuff. Everybody thinks it's ridiculous.
They don't need you to say it's ridiculous. You just
get in there. When you get in there and start
doing what they sent you there to do. We often
talk about what's happening and connecting the dots and understanding.
And I don't want to tell you how to think.
I want to give you things to think about, and
I want you to have your own journey of discovery.
The other thing I like to pride ourselves and the
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show the good pride, not the bad pride, is to
give you an essence of what to anticipate, what to expect.
Now they don't have the power and the influence or
the ratings or the revenue anymore. But you're begging for
the left narrative now to be say you just elected
a nut. Now he wants to take the Panama Canal
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and Greenland by force.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Wants to change the Golf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
My son tapped me, goes, Dad, can Donald Trump changed
the name of the Golf of Mexico to the Gulf
of America. And I was like, well, I don't think
he legally can. Now why because that's what he said
he's gonna do.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a
beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf
of America.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
What a beautiful name.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You know, we do Fridays of forty five, now Fridays
of forty seven. Elect If my health does not improve,
I'm gonna have to make you do that segment because
I can't afford to laugh. I can't breathe calmly. Yeah,
I will choke to death. And just the notion they're
going to be discussing that big, beautiful, shallow golf, warm
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waters of the golf of America. I can hear him.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Now make the great again.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
He also reiterated about all hell breaking loose if a
Moss doesn't release those hostages.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
But we have the right person. But I tell this,
I don't want to hurt the negotiation. If the deal
isn't done before I take offense, which is now going
to be two weeks, all hell will break out in
the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
President like Trump said that October seventh, twenty twenty three
attack on Israel should never ever have happened.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
They should have never taken They should have never been
the attack of October seventh. People forget that, but there was,
and many people are killed. They're no longer hostages.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
This will be lost because narrative. Narrative creators don't care
He was asked a specific question in the midst of
a negotiation, and when you're in a negotiation, you don't
give away anything because the goal is to win the
negotiation without having to use force. But it was the
media that pressed him and pressed him, would you take
military your economic force off the table? And then they
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play with that narrative all day long. He didn't bring
it up. They asked him and they said, would you
take military and economic force off the table? Of course
he wouldn't not at this point, why would you lessen
yourself before a negotiation?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I can say this, we need them for economic security.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
So he didn't rule it out. That isn't where they
went with the headlines. I do think I'm out of time.
I do think for perspective, the president ought to be
very careful. Stop taking your cues in all of this
from the media. You will take an oath of office.
You will be back in the oval office. You know
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exactly what won you the election, exactly what the American
people want.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Just go do it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You don't need to comment along the way. And I
would personally, if I was advising the president and they're
smarter people advising him, I'd be laser focused on the border,
stopping the bleeding, securing it, rebuilding the wall, laser focused
on those who have committed other crimes after committing the
crime of entering the country illegally. And then I would
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get on the regulations and tax cuts and the economic
stimulus growth. Stick with their priorities. Don't get sidetracked now,
whether it's greenland, that's ice, you know, or so on.
You know, you are renaming the Gulf of Mexico because
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I can tell you I don't think it's gonna wor
because it didn't work in the election. But they're going
to spin this all up. See told you you elected
a nut and he's not nuts. Just needs to stay
laser focused right now. But that was a pretty wide
ranging mother of all news conference yesterday with Donald Trump.
As I said earlier, just set at the table. We
got wildfires out of control in southern California. We got
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the body of a former president that has returned to
the nation's capital to be remembered. And Donald Trump with
this news conference, obviously our top three stories today, all right,
fifty one minutes after the hour, Top five stories of
the day coming up for you. Then a visit with
(33:07):
John Decker on the arrival of James Earl Carter, the
thirty ninth President, to our nation's capital. Is your morning show?
Canent Oh? By the way, Elvis would be ninety today,
or for those who believe he's still alive, he is
ninety today.
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Wow.
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Tom Brown, one of the foremost Elvis authorities from Grace Lann,
will join us a little bit later in the show
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I think I emailed and gave you a little show prep.
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the producer? So say we respond to emails. Sometimes we'll just,
you know, come like the old fashioned full service car wash.
Your morning show could show up, Fill you up, check
your oil, clean your windshield, get you on down the road.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
You may get a gig out of it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You might even get a job. There are multiple life
threatening wildfires burning across southern California this morning.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is
why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want
to get everybody out of the area safely.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Margaret Stewart, is with the Los Angeles Fire Department, says,
the wind speeds, the dry conditions, they create the perfect
brew for a fire, and then the winds make it
so difficult to fight.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
When we have such extreme winds, it affects the water
stream from your hoses that you can't reach as far
because the wind will just push it aside. So we
have to get in there. We have to get close.
But the tactics and the strategies effectively remain the same.
It just becomes a bit more dangerous because we lose
visibility and the winds will be increasing. This is just
(35:26):
the scenario that we face.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
The city of Santa Monica has issued mandatory evacuation orders
for the Palisades fire continues to spread in southern California,
even now threatening the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Whom in Brentwood is in the eastern portion of the
evacuation zone. Harris is currently in Washington, d C. The fire,
whipped by winds of at least eighty miles per hours,
bur nearly three thousand acres of land with no containment.
I'm Mark Mayfield and.
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The Palace fires have reached the Pacific Ocean. President LEC.
Trump says, all how will break loose? If Israeli hostages
held by hamas are not set free by the time
he takes office, and members of the public now paying
their respects the thirty ninth President of the United States,
James Earl Carter, as his remains have arrived at the
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Capitol in Washington, d C. Welcome and good morning. It
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It's a full circum moment for me anyway, and it's
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Speaker 4 (01:51):
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Because Flint needs more. But yeah, just in time for
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New Mexico. Welcome aboard. This is your morning show. All right,
waking up, Let's start with the fires. Rory o'neilis here,
we're all kind of bouncing around. We had different things
that we were going to talk about. I think the
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moving ceremonies in our nation's capital gives me in deck
or something to talk about. Elvis would have been ninety today.
That gives me and Tom Brown a graceland something to
talk about. And Rory, we've got to start with the fires.
What's the very latest do this? So many images from
yesterday come to mind. We'll kick that around in a moment,
but let's get every be up to speed. Waking up
this morning. What they're facing in Los Angeles area.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Yeah, there are essentially three main areas of fire burning
right now, whipped up by wins seventy five eighty five.
I saw one win gust ninety eight miles per hour.
Then there's not a whole lot that these firefighters can
do on the ground. Their focus right now is simply
saving lives and helping people evacuate.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They're really not doing much to save.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
The buildings in ritzy places like Pacific Palisades and Malibu.
People in Malibu have been told, look, if you're not
already in an evacuation a mandatory evacuation zone, get ready
because you're about to be so.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Malibu, the rest of it could be going up in flames.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I was just gonna say that extends all the way
to Brentwood that is also in that approaching the evacuation zone,
which is where the home of the Vice President of
the United States, Kamala Harris is. You bring up the winds,
there's so many. When you talk, when you watch the
firefighters and the fire chiefs talk, it affects the hoses.
They become useless. It affects the spread and the direction.
The winds are the nightmare.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Well, and now they can't use helicopters. They can't use
airplanes because of the strong wind. So those are two
key weapons that they have in their arsenal to typically
battle these fires.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
President Biden is actually still.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
In the area, delayed his return to Washington in order
to stay in the area and is expected to have
more briefings with the governor there. Of course, he says
he's already been in contact with FEMA. They say this fire,
the last number they gave was like three thousand acres,
but that's a joke. At this point, we're expecting an
update at eight a m. Pacific time to try to
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get some better information. The Mayor of La currently out
of the country in Africa, so she's trying to get
back right now.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Governor Newsom has really been the point person so far.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I saw so many images yesterday too that kind of
took my breath away. One was sent to us by
who this studio, the Chris Berry Studio is named after.
And apparently, you know, a car stalled, you know, and
things traffic got backed up. Citizens got out of car,
tried to push the car for a while, couldn't get
it out of the way, and then they just all
just independently started abandoning their vehicles and leaving. I mean, well,
(04:43):
you know, smoke will do that. I'll run you right off.
And then they'd use dump trucks to move the cars
out of It was just it was bizarre.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, bulldozers.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
The firedarm is using their bulldozers to clear the road
because they're pretty narrow streets in there, except for you know,
even Pacific Coast highways not that wide this point. So yeah,
they're using bulldozers to clear the road to try to
get firefighter gear in there. It really is all about
the winds and these embers. I'm not exactly sure what
kind of tree is burning out there, but some of them,
(05:12):
or it's the buildings, send up incredible amounts of embers
that I don't think I've ever seen just in this
intensity before. Maybe it reflects just how dry the brush is.
But the embers are being carried for a mile or
two from these strong winds, and then they're creating fires
on down, creating a chain. I know elementary and high
schools have burned to the ground, countless homes at this point.
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They don't even know how bad the situation is, again
because they can't do any aerial reconnaissance with helicopters, and
the visibility is so bad it's difficult for them to
know what's on fire at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, the other breathtaking image was from the satellites showing
that the plumes of smoke that just emanates from that
entire area and then you bring up the embers like
it's raining.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Fire.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Bottom line is hard to predict, right because of the
wind and the inability to fight the fire because of
the wind and other situations. So we'll keep an eye
on this. And probably we knew it was gonna be
a bad night. How bad of a day is ahead?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Unfair the winds are The winds are about their strongest
as we speak right now.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They're expected to die down.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
The wind warning is expected to expire at noon California time,
so hopefully those conditions will start to improve. Luckily, the
wind direction has been pushing most of the smoke out
over the Pacific, which is good, so it's not choking
the city as much.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But this is a very delicate time right now for
the city.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Your morning show national correspondent, Rory, and you know, excellent
reporting as always. We'll talk again in the third hour, Rory.
We also had the if I was going to set
a table this morning, you know, you get up, everybody
comes down. I'm already sitting here at the table with
my night pull and my coffee. I would say, first
and foremost these wildfires and the loss of property and
(06:54):
the potential loss of life. That is a top concern.
And we just covered that with Rory the Trump news
conference of all news conferences before leaving Florida. I mean,
he addressed everything from Kamikazi Joe and the actions that
they're taking, the renaming of the Golf of Mexico to
Golf of America to Greenland, Panama, canal. I mean, he
got it all in. And then what I found to
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be a just I was watching the Carter ceremony as
I was texting back and forth with John Decker. We'll
give him a hard time about that. A little bit
later on, there was a great line at the end
of the movie Miracle about the eighty Olympic hockey team,
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and because coach had since died in an automobile accident,
they paid tribute to him and they did a quote
and he never saw the movie, and then it ended
with he lived it. And that's how I feel whenever
I'm talking about, you know, history as it's happening in Washington,
d C. I'm watching it on television at home. John
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Zacker's standing right there living it right exactly, always living
a better life than me. But we were texting back
and forth, and you know, the carriage came up. I
knew the answer when I asked it. I just I
just needed another human being to you know, reiterate it
and confirm it and my medication. But I mean, you're
watching the carriage, not the horses, but the carriage that
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carried Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy going down the
streets carrying Jimmy Carter. I mean, it just it gets you.
And then you get to the Capitol and it's a
long journey to get the body from the street to
be in place in the rotunda. You know, there's a
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lot of you know, waiting, But once the ceremony started,
it could not have been a better tone. It could
not have been a better lesson in humility. A man
lived a very humble life. There were things you knew
that were just so simple you couldn't miss. He believed
in Jesus Christ, and he lived like it, from his marriage,
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to his children, to his family, to his country. And
we live in such a partisan divided time that I
think you know your thirst. I'm believing I would never
arrive at unity using compromise, compromise that is anathetical to
our intent and our calling as a republic. I would
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never do that, But I do thirst to see it again,
the nonsense, the ridiculous, you know, partisanship. I have a
news story today. I'm trying to forguret if I want
to use it, because I can't get in and figure
out how to edit it. And I think it wreaks
a bias and maybe it doesn't. Maybe they're just acknowledging it.
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But you mean to tell me we can't get Republicans
and Democrats together on a Lincoln Riley bill. I don't
care where you stand on a border issue. Where do
you stand on the sanctity of life? Well, on one side,
I do wonder sometimes there can't be anybody, Republican or
(10:08):
Democrat that thinks it's okay for people to break into
a house and kill someone. It shouldn't be a giant
leap that somebody a breaks into the country that should
have a certain penalty. I can tell you the guy
that broke into my house and didn't harm me, he
got a penalty. It wouldn't been a much different penalty
(10:29):
had he come in and killed me. How is it
hard for two sides to get together and go, no,
you can't just come into the country illegally and then
kill somebody. Shouldn't be hard to get this legislation done,
and it shouldn't be open to a subjective, partisan cheap shot.
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So believe Congress is doing this to put the Democrats
on the spot. So you start thirsting for some common sense,
some unity, And I think you saw it yesterday because
someone lived a life in such a way that it
was impossible to make a political football out of him.
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Jimmy Carter was a humble, humble child of the Depression,
enlisted in the Navy because his father did left an officer,
never sought limelight, power, anything would God do with that
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elevated him the governor, the president to habitat for humanity.
No one had a longer post presidency than Jimmy Carter,
and everything he did virtually pointed you to Christ and
service and love for others. And we had Senator Thune,
(12:00):
we had the Speaker of the House, and we had
Vice President Kamala Harris, who all laid wreaths before the
public could view, and all made speeches, and they were
just probably to some degree, Kamala. I'm glad Kamala reminded
everybody about the Israeli Egypt camp David Accords that that
was an important piece and it would not have been
(12:23):
appropriate to bring up but went wrong in Iran or
what went wrong in some of his domestic I get that,
But then she tried to twist.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It all and do.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I thought, I thought Thune and the Speaker made it
about who he really was a husband a father and
a Christian and he lived it all flawlessly. And it
was moving to see a Republican head of the Senate,
leader of the Senate share the testimony of a humble
servant of Christ which just so happened to be a president.
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The Speaker did a great job of it. It was
just so I'm texting back and forth just to end
full circle. Yeah, we were talking about the carriage. He's
showing me his view, it's right in front of him.
I'm showing him my view with my feet and the
TV in the background. Then we go back and forth.
Is that the same care? Oh wow? Then you just
want to stare at the carriage right? And then I said,
(13:18):
loved Thun's remarks, loved his remembrance. Oh the Speaker did great.
Kamala did good too. You know what, I think we
should do this tomorrow instead of the Trump news conference.
And so that's what we'll do and I'll cover the
Trump news conference highlights when we come back. But I
don't know if it's because worth thirsting for something that's
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bigger than our fights, or the lesson of when we
humble ourselves, we make it about Christ and not us.
What does he do, he changes the world and he
elevates us. And it was funny because Jimmy Carter is gone,
out of the body, is to be in the presence
of God. But his remains are lying there and all
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anybody could talk about, all anybody could really make if
you were standing around.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Tell me, ton me Avitus.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This man left and all that was left was christ
Oh to die like Jimmy Carter is my headline of
the day. Twenty one minutes after the hour, quick look
at your top five stories. We'll go over. That news
conference with Donald Trump was sound as your morning show continues. Welcome,
one chance to live it, one chance to understand it.
You miss a little and you'll miss a lot. You
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miss a lot and we'll miss you. It's Wednesday, January
the eighth, and this is your morning show.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Jno.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And at twenty seven minutes after the hour, all eyes
are on southern California. There are multiple life threatening wildfires
burning in the Los Angeles area.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is
why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want
to get everybody out of the area safely.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
The fire first erupted Tuesday afternoon, quickly spread in the
Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Los Angeles, forcing more than thirty
thousand people to evacuate. The blaze scorch nearly three thousand acres.
No fatalities had been reported. Meanwhile, the Eton fire has
burned about a thousand acres and the Hurst fire has
(15:20):
now grown to approximately five hundred acres. All three fires,
we're at zero percent containment upon last reporting, and Margaret
Stewart at the Los Angeles Fire Department says the wind
speeds and dry conditions they've created the ultimate firestorm.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
The fire as large as it is now, it starts
to kind of create its own weather, and the winds
will swirl and the ember cast can travel a mile
downwind and start a spot fire.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know, Rory was saying, I don't know what these
trees are, but I've just never seen embers like that.
It's like it's raining fire. And these extreme winds they
make it difficult to fight fires. Always.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
When we have such extreme winds, it affects the water
stream from your hoses. You can't reach as far because
the wind will just push it aside, so we have
to get in there, We have to get close. But
the tactics and the strategies effectively remain the same. It
just becomes a bit more dangerous because we lose visibility
and the winds will be increasing. This is just the
(16:16):
scenario that we face.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The thirty ninth President of the United States has made
his way to the rotunda of the Capital. More from
Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
The remains of the thirty ninth president arrived Tuesday afternoon
after being flown from Georgia earlier in the day. Carter's
family and one hundreds of the lawmakers watched as an
honor guard carried his casket up the steps of the Capitol. Lawmakers,
including former House Speaker and Nancy Pelosi, attended an evening
ceremony in the Capital Rotunda. Carter's body will remain at
the Capitol for public viewing until his funeral Thursday morning
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at the Washington National Cathedral.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Donald Trumpfield, Oh, sorry, Mark. Donald Trump had the news
conference of all news conference from Marlago before he left
for Washington today. We'll have all of the audio from
that coming up in just moments from now. For just
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than that, there are no famous birthdays today, so we'll
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app and thanks for responding. I didn't expect that see
I bring that up. That's a big fun of him
at all. We're never too big for you. It's your
morning show. Of course we're going to respond. We're always
going to respond. Even the host will respond, the show
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belongs to you. Now I will tell you it's happening
again locally. So I'm beginning to think that's what he
was experiencing. I think the app has gone haywire in
Nashville because I just took a peek during the break
to see what was going on, because another listener alerted,
and I was talking about something from eleven minutes ago
while something else was playing over it. So look, it happens,
(19:33):
we alerted who we have to alert. I'm sure it'll
be fixed momentarily. But when I tell you it's your
morning show and we can't have it without your voice,
that goes for the talkback button, and we love to
hear from you, and that goes to when you email,
and do not be shocked when we respond. It's not
an on air stick. We really do love you. We're
(19:54):
really here to serve you beyond even just waking you
up and getting you up and informed and maybe smiling
every now and then. All Right, I want to speaking
of that. I can't refer to this person as a
an emailer or a texter. I've known him since he
was I think eight years old. Oh, and to show
you how old I'm I'm starting to become. You know,
I'm starting to mature. It's very scary. Okay, whatever, Please
(20:19):
tell me I'm still very childlike. You are, very very okay, good,
But I can tear up. First of all, I was
always close to veneen, his sister. I think it's not
a secret. Our parents wanted us to get married and
it just didn't work out. But I've known vincec he
was eight years old, and I can tear up at
the child I knew and the man he grew up
(20:39):
to be. I'm so proud of him. I could scream.
But he was talking about Jimmy Carter and again Vince
were supposed to be married. No his sister. Oh, sorry,
but that was part of the problem. Vince was awful
good looking. You know, Jimmy Carter always ranks towards the bottom.
We did a new presidential rating poll because Joe Biden's
headed towards the bottom. And when you get to the bottom,
(21:04):
you're there with a disgraced rich Richard Nixon services to
our country were many, many many. His mistake was won,
but it was a big one. So when you get
to the bottom, you find Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter
consistently and persistently. Can I say something read that I
think is going to shock you. I think Bill Clinton
gets a raw deal because his presidency and his working
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across the aisle was far more effective. Now, how much
of that credit you want to give to him, to
Nute Gingrich, I don't know, but it was far more
effective than these ratings deserve. His moral failure drags him down.
It's shocking how low Bill Clinton falls. But Joe Biden
is projected to fall right there with Richard Nixon. So
Joe Biden is going to go down. It looks like
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as one of the worst presidents. Ever, however, I think
it's going to be worse than that, because scandal will
rise up. Time will allow the scandal to come forward.
Every time I quote that Time magazine manifesto to you,
and it's still sitting there on line for you to read.
February fifteenth to twenty twenty one. They tell you how
they stole the election. The historians can see it on
the horizon. Joe Biden will go down as an ineffective,
(22:11):
unpopular president.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Oh come on, man, it's true.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And time will tell an illegitimate president. So Joe Biden's
had some really bad territory. But getting back to Jimmy
Carter always at the bottom because he had some terrible
domestic policies and he had one big, huge foreign policy
error that we live with today. The Islamic Republic of
Iran the most predictable threat to the world and peace today.
(22:37):
He meddled in that election. The Shaw fell and the
Ayatola rose, and the hostages were taken and the rest
was history. Look his I don't even know if he
was conscious, but they wheeled him on a gurney to
vote for Kamala Harris. I don't know that I would
celebrate Jimmy Carter's personal votes. I will say this because
(23:00):
Vincent said, yeah, well, what about this, and what about that,
and what about that? And you know some of the
things like even the creation of the Department of Education,
which I think history will show was a terrible mistake
for our kids. Kids today are less prepared for higher education,
less prepared for citizenry less prepared for the workforce than ever.
(23:22):
The scores, damn them. It's not even a talk radio discussion.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And it got.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Education further and further away from parents and the child
and the teacher, to beyond the state into the nation.
They hold them all hostage with federal funding. All it
has become is socialization and indoctrination. And these nuts now
think they own your kids, not you. I don't think
that was Jimmy Carter's intent when he created it. And
(23:50):
keep in mind he created in nineteen seventy nine and
he was gone by nineteen eighty one. You know, a
lot of things that Jimmy Carter tried to do have
since been taken over by people and used in different ways.
But I have said this, and it sounds like I'm
being a nice jerk, but I don't mean to. If
you want to have a long discussion, a geopolitical discussion,
(24:14):
a policy discussion, a historic discussion of the presidency of
Jimmy Carter, I'm going to come up failure. But if
you want to talk about an example of someone who
served his country in the navy with great distinction, was
(24:36):
a servant leader as a governor, and a president and
a humble man who prioritized his marriage, his children, and
his faith. He did that really well. I hope at
my funeral a senator gets up, a speaker of the
House gets up, and all they can talk about is Jesus.
(25:00):
That's how I want to die. I doubt I will.
So it sounds like a nice jerk when I say
not so good president, really faithful servant, a man who
really lived what he believed. Because anybody can say anything,
talk big. This guy showed up at Habitat, had humanity,
(25:22):
A former governor, a former president, and former naval officer
with a work belt on. He didn't send others. He
showed up and for a week every year he did that.
And because of his endorsement of that and the attention
he brought to that organization. Look at the people who've
risen out of rubble and had a home. That's an impact.
(25:46):
I thought that part was a beautiful story. But I
way keep the emails coming, and by all means, if
something is technically malfunctioning, let us know. We'll get somebody
on it to fix it. And never be surprised when
we answer you. All right, Donald Trump, all news conferences
of course he was going to have something to say,
and of course a lot of things came out in
(26:07):
the Q and A even more than he planned to say.
From his residence at Mar A Lago. Certified as the
next president of the United States by Congress, the President
certainly had some critical remarks about the way the Biden
administration is calling what we call the Kamikazi Joe actions
(26:29):
on the way out the door.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
We are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration,
and they're trying everything they can to make it more difficult.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Trump also referenced Biden's decision to ban the offshore drilling,
saying that he's trying to block the reforms the American
people just got through voting for.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
And I've been disappointed to see the Biden administration's attempt
to block the reforms of the American people and that
they voted for. They just had a landslide election. We
won every swing state. We won the popular vote by
millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know, we're gonna talk with David's an audience, and
here's how I kind of set it up. The American
people spoke very clearly in this election and they will
be watching intently to make sure that those they voted
for for specific reasons to do something, do and carry
out what they sent them to do. Which leads to
(27:25):
the reverse discussion with David, which is that the Left
keeps playing these games like they've been playing in these
final days. Well, ignoring the priorities of the American people
is how they lost. Playing games to fight with the
American people clearly asked for what's the higher cost after
the election? Spoiler alert, there's a midterm election in two years. Personally,
(27:53):
if I was Donald Trump, let them be morons on
their way out the door. You quietly have heard your message.
Just start go leading. Remember when we talked about don't
keep the fight going, get in and lead. I was
a little concerned yesterday. Had one eye on Jimmy Carter's
body arriving. I had one eye on this news conference,
and I'm like, don't take the bait. Trump, you don't
(28:15):
need to comment on all this stuff. Everybody thinks it's ridiculous.
They don't need you to say it's ridiculous. You just
get in there. When you get in there and start
doing what they sent you there to do. We often
talk about what's happening and connecting the dots and understanding.
And I don't want to tell you how to think.
I want to give you things to think about, and
I want you to have your own journey of discovery.
The other thing I like to pride ourselves and the
(28:35):
show the good pride, not the bad pride, is to
give you an essence of what to anticipate, what to expect.
Now they don't have the power and the influence or
the ratings or the revenue anymore. But you're begging for
the left narrative now to be say you just elected
a nut. Now he wants to take the Panama Canal
(28:57):
and Greenland by force.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Wants to change the Golf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
My son tapped me, goes, Dad, can Donald Trump changed
the name of the Golf of Mexico to the Gulf
of America. And I was like, well, I don't think
he legally can. Now why because that's what he said
he's gonna do.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a
beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf
of America.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
What a beautiful name.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You know, we do Fridays of forty five, now Fridays
of forty seven. Elect If my health does not improve,
I'm gonna have to make you do that segment because
I can't afford to laugh. I can't breathe calmly. Yeah,
I will choke to death. And just the notion they're
going to be discussing that big, beautiful, shallow golf, warm
(29:51):
waters of the golf of America. I can hear him.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Now make the great again.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
He also reiterated about all hell breaking loose if a
Moss doesn't release those hostages.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
But we have the right person. But I tell this,
I don't want to hurt the negotiation. If the deal
isn't done before I take offense, which is now going
to be two weeks, all hell will break out in
the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
President like Trump said that October seventh, twenty twenty three
attack on Israel should never ever have happened.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
They should have never taken They should have never been
the attack of October seventh. People forget that, but there was,
and many people are killed. They're no longer hostages.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
This will be lost because narrative. Narrative creators don't care
He was asked a specific question in the midst of
a negotiation, and when you're in a negotiation, you don't
give away anything because the goal is to win the
negotiation without having to use force. But it was the
media that pressed him and pressed him, would you take
military your economic force off the table? And then they
(30:51):
play with that narrative all day long. He didn't bring
it up. They asked him and they said, would you
take military and economic force off the table? Of course
he wouldn't not at this point, why would you lessen
yourself before a negotiation?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I can say this, we need them for economic security.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
So he didn't rule it out. That isn't where they
went with the headlines. I do think I'm out of time.
I do think for perspective, the president ought to be
very careful. Stop taking your cues in all of this
from the media. You will take an oath of office.
You will be back in the oval office. You know
(31:32):
exactly what won you the election, exactly what the American
people want.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Just go do it.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You don't need to comment along the way. And I
would personally, if I was advising the president and they're
smarter people advising him, I'd be laser focused on the border,
stopping the bleeding, securing it, rebuilding the wall, laser focused
on those who have committed other crimes after committing the
crime of entering the country illegally. And then I would
(31:59):
get on the regulations and tax cuts and the economic
stimulus growth. Stick with their priorities. Don't get sidetracked now,
whether it's greenland, that's ice, you know, or so on.
You know, you are renaming the Gulf of Mexico because
(32:24):
I can tell you I don't think it's gonna wor
because it didn't work in the election. But they're going
to spin this all up. See told you you elected
a nut and he's not nuts. Just needs to stay
laser focused right now. But that was a pretty wide
ranging mother of all news conference yesterday with Donald Trump.
As I said earlier, just set at the table. We
got wildfires out of control in southern California. We got
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the body of a former president that has returned to
the nation's capital to be remembered. And Donald Trump with
this news conference, obviously our top three stories today, all right,
fifty one minutes after the hour, Top five stories of
the day coming up for you. Then a visit with
(33:07):
John Decker on the arrival of James Earl Carter, the
thirty ninth President, to our nation's capital. Is your morning show?
Canent Oh? By the way, Elvis would be ninety today,
or for those who believe he's still alive, he is
ninety today.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Tom Brown, one of the foremost Elvis authorities from Grace Lann,
will join us a little bit later in the show
as well. All Right, fifty one after the hour, This
is your Morning Show with Michael Deltona from the Chris
Berry Studios at the Bill May Broadcast Center. This is
your morning show on the Aaron streaming live on your
iHeart app. I am Michael del Jiorno. And yes we
(33:40):
answer your emails. We may even show up and wash
your windows. Don't be afraid to ask. No, we were
sharing that story about the emailer Jeffrey, tell them how
we met.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
I emailed the host of this show to say, Hey,
I've missed you. I'm glad to hear that you are back.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
On the air.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I have a studio at home. If you need any help,
let me know. I'd love to do some production for you.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And now he's behind the boards.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Later I read an email back that's how do we meet?
Give me the belt.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
You emailed?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I think I emailed and gave you a little show prep.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, then we became Fred, and now what are you
the producer? So say we respond to emails. Sometimes we'll just,
you know, come like the old fashioned full service car wash.
Your morning show could show up, Fill you up, check
your oil, clean your windshield, get you on down the road.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
You may get a gig out of it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You might even get a job. There are multiple life
threatening wildfires burning across southern California this morning.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
It's very dynamic and challenging to predict fire, which is
why we have such an expansive evacuation zone. We want
to get everybody out of the area safely.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Margaret Stewart, is with the Los Angeles Fire Department, says,
the wind speeds, the dry conditions, they create the perfect
brew for a fire, and then the winds make it
so difficult to fight.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
When we have such extreme winds, it affects the water
stream from your hoses that you can't reach as far
because the wind will just push it aside. So we
have to get in there. We have to get close.
But the tactics and the strategies effectively remain the same.
It just becomes a bit more dangerous because we lose
visibility and the winds will be increasing. This is just
(35:26):
the scenario that we face.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
The city of Santa Monica has issued mandatory evacuation orders
for the Palisades fire continues to spread in southern California,
even now threatening the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Whom in Brentwood is in the eastern portion of the
evacuation zone. Harris is currently in Washington, d C. The fire,
whipped by winds of at least eighty miles per hours,
bur nearly three thousand acres of land with no containment.
I'm Mark Mayfield and.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
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of the twenty twenty four's most innovative and influential voices
in podcast. Call Her Daddy, Giggly Squad three, Matt Rogers,
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