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February 20, 2025 34 mins

Dems lost the election in large part by losing campus and young voters.  Was COVID overreach what lost the votes and added to partisan revolution?? YMS senior contributor David Zanotti joins Michael to discuss in-depth. 

Always revealing, often entertaining…it’s our Sounds of The Day! 

A new national poll is out, and it looks at how Americans feel about things like President Trump and Elon Musk as well as the plan for Gaza and other topics in the news. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the results. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Won't starting your morning off right? A new way of talk,
a new way of understanding because we're in this together.
This is your morning show with Michael Dell Chruno.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Today we pay cash only at the FBI after Thursday. Everyone,
Hi'm Michael.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I have a question all of this money that they're finding,
is it really ours? Or is it printed money that
they just printed that we don't really have.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
If I hear Neil Sandaka, I turn the station period.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
Data, you'll be hearing from my attorney.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Good morning, Oh Covid Krooner. You are the best thing
to replace Rush, even better than Buck and Travis. So
enjoy your show. Keep going.

Speaker 7 (01:15):
Ah, you should have seen me when I had a
brain injury. Eight minutes after the hour, This is your
morning show. Are they earn streaming live on your iHeartRadio app.
We don't just call it your morning show, it is
your morning show. And thank you for your voices. As
to the one woman who said, look, whether it's printed
or not, you've been paying for it an inflation. But
I do think Donald Trump is on to something brilliant here.
If the whole world is debating is this evil what

(01:36):
they're doing? Are they trying to get into my social security?
Invade my privacy? And then the other half is saying,
no Elon Musk is doing a job. He's been tasked
and he's doing it. Well, who's for waste, who's for corruption?
Who's for lack of transparency? Clinton used to be for transparency,
Biden used to be for transparency. Obama used to be

(01:56):
for transparency and getting rid of waste?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Why is this all a sudden evil because Trump's doing it?

Speaker 7 (02:01):
And then while that's all all going on in the
form of an argument, Donald Trump then announces, well, not
only did we find one point nine billion dollars in
misplaced funds and two hundred and sixty million in waste
in counting, We're going to divide that by one hundred
and sixty eight million households and give you a dividend
check on the money, your money that was wasted. Now,
how does that argument shape out. Wouldn't it be funny

(02:24):
if you get a bigger check from Donald Trump and
Elon Musk finding corruption and waste and misspending than you
got for your liberty during COVID. That'd be something to
put in your pipe and smoke.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Asphenil said, Doc, he's taking the rest of the.

Speaker 7 (02:40):
Morning off I assure you if it's going to offend you.
David Sinati is joining us. We've been doing all week long.
I should let your comment on the Doge dividends, but
we've been all week long kind of looking at COVID
five years later, and I said, one of the great
ironies is one of the main factors that cost the

(03:01):
Democrats this election was the loss of the youth vote.
And the more we look at COVID five years later,
looking back, this is where they lost the youth vote
that lost the election for them. In other words, they
played the democracy card and they died of democracy. In
all the information I'm gonna get us started here in
a second. But if all the information you've perused COVID

(03:23):
five years later looking back to understand what has struck
you the most.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, it added to a continuing trend.

Speaker 8 (03:33):
It was the breakpoint. It was the watershed, and the
watershed was on the issue of trust. The entire election
comes down to one simple word, and it's not the
economy stupid, it's trust. Trust was broken, and it was
particularly broken with the next generation at the point of COVID.
It was at COVID that they realized that nineteen eighty

(03:53):
four and Brave New World were not just books that
people used to read and people should escape. It was
their life. It was their world. They were being watched,
they were being monitored. Everyone was and young people finally
got a taste of what this really looks like, not.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Just the young, even those of us a little older.

Speaker 7 (04:11):
I remember the look on your face when the governor
had a governor of Tennessee had a news conference, and
do you remember he said something about our movement.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Tell him over the weekend.

Speaker 8 (04:23):
I've been analyzing our movement and we're moving too much.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
I almost now. I expected that from the governor of Ohio.

Speaker 8 (04:31):
I expected that from Illinois in California, but Bill Lee
was literally being delivered reports from government investigation monitoring cell phones,
and he bought in for a brief period of time
into the lie that we, the people, were the virus
and he had to stop us from moving. How about
the time that we went to a golf course because

(04:52):
it was the only place you could go, and you
wanted to have Nick get some sunshine, so he was
going to ride along with us.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
And there were police in the parking lot. You weren't
allowed to do that. I got to tell you, though,
when when I look back, nothing struck me more. I mean,
those are a couple of bad examples from Tennessee, but
nothing like when I got in a car with you
and we drove to Ohio and we were I think

(05:19):
we were well over the border and closer to Columbus. Yeah,
we were in Greater Columbus and I had to go
to the bathroom, yep. And that was unbelievable what I experienced.

Speaker 8 (05:29):
Got off a major freeway exit and there was not
a public bathroom in any restaurant anywhere available.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
The only thing you could do was go pee in
the bushes. Anyone could do the police state.

Speaker 7 (05:41):
Yeah, but we talked about the vulnerable and yesterday and
I'm not going to revisit it, because that's how we
have a podcast. But I was appalled, and that's where
Governor Cuomo comes in. But I was appalled at the
most vulnerable, the elderly in nursing homes and the recklessness
of handling them and the youth and would it cost

(06:02):
them in schooling. But let me get to the bottom
line on the young people. Young vote that cost them
the election. How a party made the election a referendum
on democracy, and democracy is what's killing them. Here's why.
Bottom line For people thirty years and an under, a

(06:22):
majority of their informative years have been spent under Democrat
progressive governments. So you had Obama for eight years, Joe
Biden for four years, with not even four years of
Donald Trump because of COVID wedged in between. So I
can tell you we forget this as we get older.
But when you were younger, oh my god, Nixon was
forever because you know that's how years went by. I mean,

(06:45):
my whole childhood was Nixon, Ford and Carter.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
All right, So.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
That'll give you a pretty bad perspective on leadership. You know,
scandal dummy with a tripper in between. So you got
to take that in This is a powerful point. The
majority of their informative years growing up, progressive Democrats were
in control of government eight years of Obama, four years

(07:12):
of Biden, with a couple of year and a half
of Trump until COVID. They've been subjected to the liberal
progressive education and high schools, in college and much like
the sixties and seventies counterculture. I remember on our podcast,
I looked at you and I said, look, if you
want to be rebellious.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Today, what do you do. You don't drink, what do
you do, you don't sleep around?

Speaker 9 (07:36):
What do you do?

Speaker 3 (07:37):
You go conservative?

Speaker 7 (07:39):
That's how you got rebel against your crazy parents that
are trying to, you know, play gender games. So for
decades Americans young voters have been deeply progressive, and then
all this happens, this betrayal and this break of trust. Yeah,
it's kind of like a damn just bursting. And that's
what they experienced in the election. That was the watershed.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
And then of course witnessing the fact is that young
people watch Weekend at Bernie's two and what they experienced
in watching a president who couldn't come out of his
car or basement to run for the office, and then
was hidden in office while others around them basically ran
the government and the betrayal of trust in that, and
then people realizing when this guy this, this is the

(08:22):
worst nightmare for everybody.

Speaker 7 (08:23):
And you add on top of that the economic reality
when they knew they couldn't have the dream of owning
a home. I love to remember I looked at you,
I said, that's it. Can't have a home, can't have
a car. You've got to live in your parents' basement.
Wait a second, what's in this for me?

Speaker 6 (08:38):
Right?

Speaker 5 (08:39):
And this is this?

Speaker 3 (08:41):
You got to drive an electric car? Electric car.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
I can't afford the electricity, let alone the car.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Speaking of electric car, can I make one other comment.

Speaker 8 (08:48):
I was so impressed watching the Doge interview with Trump
and Does. I felt like I was watching what happened
when the hardy boys grew up.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
They did it. Not handy, they need to do it
on Rogan, but yeah, go ahead, Yeah, these these two
guys who ended up sitting there telling them what they
were really trying to do.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
It was.

Speaker 8 (09:04):
It was very, very unusual television. But the thing that
Musk did was he made a very clear statement. I
think it penetrated straight through the generational boundaries in this country.
He said, if we don't fix this now, you won't
have it. There will be no country left, and the
entirety of the Western economy and civil civilization will come

(09:25):
crashing down.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
On our heads. This is our last chance. Now.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
This is the guy who's the richest guy in the world, who,
by saying this is literally dooming his electric car business
because it was the preferred way the guy, look, Biden
was carrying electric cars. He's gone to complete the opposite direction.
This is one of the most sober warnings. And these
kids are listening.

Speaker 7 (09:47):
Yeah, that's the other thing the left hasn't figured out
where kids are listening. And you know, they're getting met
on TikTok, they're getting met with Joe Rogan, they getting
met by people like Elon Musk. But I want to
show you what I meant by the damn breaking. In
two thousand and eight, there was a youth quick Barack Obama,
and it sent them to the White House. They thought

(10:07):
they could build on that.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
So what do they do. Well, they didn't want Bernie Sanders,
so they rigged it for Hillary. But what did you
get in Hillary?

Speaker 7 (10:14):
Well, eighteen to twenty nine year Old's broke Hillary's way
by eighteen points, so I was still doing good with
the youth. In twenty twenty, they voted for Biden by
twenty four points post COVID, post betrayal. In twenty twenty four,
Trump closed most of the gap, losing voters under thirty
by a fifty one to forty seven margin. They have

(10:34):
lost a generation of voters. I think they've lost a
generation of male black voters to go along with it,
and I think generationally now they have lost Hispanic voters
in terms of mass majority. How do they get them back? Well,
here's the thing. Those of us who've been around with this,
like you, it can flip right back.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh I get it.

Speaker 7 (10:51):
Well, here's why you here's the bell Weather. By the way,
I believe dose is real when what's on today News
is what that they got into John Podesta's checkbook.

Speaker 8 (11:04):
When we've got that part of the White House under
examination from the past room, then I'll believe the full story.
But along that line, Podesta and Sorrows and all the
rest are sitting back. They've got a congressional race in
twenty six where the Democrats are always better than the Republicans,
and they've got an open race for the presidency in
three years. They're on vacation right now. They're not sweat

(11:26):
and Trump. He'll do what he will do, but they
will have their opportunity to return. And in an open
seat election, it's a whole new game.

Speaker 7 (11:36):
Yeah, because it'll the conversation will shift not from what
you've been doing that we elected you to do, but
what are the results? And so he needs to get
some results. By the way, this tariff thing, I think
is a part of a process. But if we wake
up two years from now and vehicles like Toyotas and
Mercedes are twenty five percent more than what they already are,

(11:59):
that is affordable, that's that. And there's no improvement on
the housing front, and there's no real improvement on manufacturing
and jobs and interest rates or cooked. Yeah you got it, Okay,
so you get it all right. Bottom line on the COVID,
I don't know that we're going to get to the

(12:22):
bottom and the truth of fauci and government shutdowns and
essential workers shutdowns and lining their pockets with vaccines and
all that. I mean, how much of this are we
going to ever get to? And maybe because it is
cash Pateel day Cash Paateel might get to some of that,
but can we truly understand it till we have all
the information and the truth.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
So somebody will write a book. It'll still be probably
three or four years, maybe five years away.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Somebody will write a book. Can get to the information
because the information is all there.

Speaker 8 (12:51):
But as far as the administration goes and where the
country's going, look, David From in his article this week
in the Atlantic said it's time for a little national forgiveness,
of course, from when things got hot on COVID from
whose dual citizenship with Canada went left for Canada.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Okay, yeah, because at some point everything that was considered
reckless and conspiracy and ignorant is now truth, and everything
that was being portrayed as science and truth is now
a hoax.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
I mean, at some point somebody should connect the dots
to ensure it never happens.

Speaker 8 (13:26):
It will make a great best selling book, but at
this stage in the game, we got bigger fish to find.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's Your Morning Show with Michael Delchno.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
An appeals court says not so fast.

Speaker 7 (13:37):
They ruled President Trump cannot end birthright citizenship well byden
at eighty five thousand, but Trump's going to take away
about six thousand IRS employees prepared to be laid off today.
And Delta Airlines is offering thirty grand everybody that crashed
in Toronto.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Ah, that don't make it all better.

Speaker 7 (13:53):
If you're offering thirty I think they should hold out
for at least one hundred and a voucher and some peanuts.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
They were visiting with David's ow Bye bye.

Speaker 7 (14:03):
Visiting with David Sanati, our senior contributor on your morning show.
We had a great talk back earlier and it was
talking about, Okay, if all these payments are going through
Social Security, who's been getting the money?

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Now?

Speaker 7 (14:19):
Of course, the answer is could be bad data. That's
why you have a forensic audit. The answer could be
could be nursing homes, could be relatives still taking the
checks of their dead parents and grandparents. Could be criminal organizations. Hey,
it could be laundering, going to a Podesta slut on.
The whole point is why don't you know? Why aren't

(14:42):
these audit audits happening? And someone should find out? And
that's what you can see the accounts that shouldn't be
open that are open. Now another auditor through a different
lens looks at the money and at how it's flowing
and who it's flowing to. But this is why we
do these audits to get these answers. It's not about
getting in joy Beheim so security in an attempt to

(15:04):
take money from her. That's that's ridiculous nonsense. But the
process is what is important. So hopefully we're moving towards that.
Donald Trump, so we know now seinsight is twenty twenty.
He didn't want to bay Panama. He just wanted no
fees for our ships, and he got him. He didn't
want Canada as a fifty first aid. He wanted help
with the border. Now he's got it with one point

(15:25):
three billion dollars and a border star. He didn't want
to fight with Mexico. I mean, I don't think he
wanted electric cars being made across our border and sent
in cheap from China. But he got ten thousand troops
at the border to join our troops. So now all
of a sudden, he's bashion Zelensky around like he's Jeb Bush.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
What's that about?

Speaker 7 (15:42):
Is this Donald Trump one point oh? Or is this
Donald Trump two point oh? Setting up something big?

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:47):
This is complicated, and it's got lots of layers. Michael.

Speaker 8 (15:50):
We have a lot of good friends on the ground
in the Ukrainian people, and a lot of good Ukrainian
friends here in the United States. I'm not sure Donald
Trump quite yet gets and quite yet gets the historic
nature in the struggle.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
I wish he would go to Ukraine, I really do.

Speaker 8 (16:05):
I think it would be a brilliant move for him
to go to Ukraine and spend some time on the ground,
because I don't think they're near the answer yet. I
do think Zelensky's got to pay very close attention right
now because he's in a very vulnerable spot and he
earned his place to be there.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
This is a tough one and I don't think we're to.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
The bottom yet, so I think anything that's being said
on the way to the ground can't be taking too seriously.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
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Speaker 3 (17:07):
Enjoy the podcast.

Speaker 7 (17:09):
We're visiting with senior contributor of your morning show, David Sanati.
All Right, so you get these wild things, like all
of a sudden, Donald Trump's bashing Zelenski.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
You are the cause of the war. By the way,
you're a mediocre comedian. He's give him the Jeb Bush treatment.

Speaker 7 (17:19):
Or you know, I think, you know, maybe the federal
government should take over running Washington, DC, just like you
know MC Canada the fifty first trade, or let's go
take Greenland over. How much of this is rhetoric and
process or how much of this is a little bit
of crazy Donald mixing in with the new Donald.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
How much of it is information processing?

Speaker 8 (17:41):
And that's what we've got to watch with this president
because there's still a lot of new information for him,
and there's still a lot of new information for him
in regards to Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Now he's a much more studied man.

Speaker 8 (17:51):
Than he was coming to the White House in twenty sixteen,
and I respect the progress that's being made, but Ukraine
is complicated.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
And here's the problem with Ukraine. We've got a general
regional issue here.

Speaker 8 (18:00):
A lot of people that are talking about this have
no history, no background, no experience with the Soviet Bloc.
They don't even know who Stalin was, and they don't
understand what happened at the end of World War II
and the tyranny and the deaths and the horror, and
that they've got a guy sitting on top of Russia
right now who is KGB That always has been.

Speaker 7 (18:20):
By the way, that's the key point you're making. Look,
as long as Vladimir Putin is relevant and in power,
his ambition is not to bring back the Soviet Union
though he didn't like it going. It's about reassembling the
old Russian map, and that is a threat to Ukraine,
Poland and others. So as long as he's there, that

(18:42):
threat is real and that shouldn't be forgotten.

Speaker 8 (18:44):
Now, Trump is not wrong in bringing up all points
of the conversation, because, look, the problem with Ukraine is geography.
It's no fun to be in Stalin's empire if you're
the next door neighbor and that's what Ukraine is. Look
at the history of Poland, that's been the most beleaguered
country in Meshigan War between Germany and the Soviet Union

(19:06):
and the Russians for generations.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
This is not a good location to be.

Speaker 8 (19:11):
But maybe what Donald Trump is trying to do is
to figure out how he can get into the negotiations
because Putin's not going to be around a lot longer.
Maybe Trump's got a play that's going ten years down
the road where if he can get a relationship with
Ukraine that may start off rocky, but becomes a partnership
between the US and Ukraine that sets the counterbalance for

(19:32):
Ukraine not being in NATO.

Speaker 7 (19:35):
Just like just like the Riviera of the Middle East,
Gaza exactly, just like Greenland, just like the Panama Canal,
just like Canada being a fifty first day. This is
either a step in a process towards a brilliant solution
or it's crazy talk. And the problem is you never
know until it plays out. But I think for me,

(19:57):
my concern is playing a little bit fight with fire.
I mean, you're playing right into the enemy's rhetoric, which
is you're in.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Bed with Russia.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Here we go now all of a sudden, you know,
this guy's a bad comedian and a bad player in
the world stage. I think with Ukraine and with these tariffs.
You know, because as we talked about earlier, if we
wake up in two years and you don't see interest
rates down, the home crisis solved, jobs, people spending money

(20:26):
and things getting better and the border secure, they're in
trouble in the midterm election. So he's doing a lot
of actions right now, but you got to have a
lot of results in two years that maybe while you're
seeing so many actions in thirty days. So first things first,
it's only thirty days. He's taken the right steps by
and large, it should produce the right results. But you
certainly don't want to wake up with already homes unaffordable,

(20:49):
vehicles unaffordable, and they're more unaffordable in two years, or
that's going to open the door to a midterm loss.

Speaker 8 (20:55):
Yeah, and Slunsky needs to think carefully here because with
Trump's done, as he stepped in and is basically saying.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
To putin you ignore the kid. He's behind me right now.
Just ignore the kid. Lets you and me talk now.

Speaker 8 (21:04):
Someone's got to start this process and It's not going
to happen between Putin and Zelensky.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So there's a method to this.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
I know these people are bright, and I tell you
something right now, You're not going to pull one over
on the Soviets, and you're not going to pull one
over on Putin. Trump knows what he's doing. It's the
question is is he have enough data on the ground
to really put the whole thing together. And at this
stage in the game, I'm betting he'll get smart enough,
fast enough, because I mean, how do you bet against
the momentum.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
That he's got in regards to coming up with solutions
right now? David's good people around him. David Sanadi, always
a pleasure to have you. We'll talk again very very soon.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Thanks. Forty minutes after the hour, hitting more and everybody. Look,
I'm not joking. I don't think we should be taking
the advice from a group of people who can't define
what a woman is. That was just complete, not a rational.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
Yes, So everybody on the left is now in Musk
derangement syndrome like they're in Trump derangement syndrome. Right, love it.
But then here comes Bill Maher, and here's Bill Maher
talking about Elon Musk after spending last Friday with him.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Listen, an engineer. He is, you know, in the best
sense of the word, a nerd.

Speaker 10 (22:16):
He gets off on figuring things out, and he can
it obviously comes to him very easily. I mean figuring
out how to make the electric car the thing he
made it. If he just died tomorrow, that would be
an amazing civilizational accomplishment.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
And he's just got ten other projects like that. He's
that's what turned him on. Is now you got Bill
Maher saying he's a great guy. He likes to fix things.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
You wonder is the left is struggling to figure out,
you know, what is hysteria, what is obstruction, what is
just partisan politics? And what is reality? And they don't
even know who their messages or what their message. Well,
here's a guy that used to do all the talking
for them. And like Elon Musk, who was once a Democrat,
like Donald Trump, who was once a Democrat, they all

(23:08):
just seem to be on the same page, opposite of
the Democrats. So one of the things that we join
in progress is the Democrats fighting amongst themselves.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Now, David, stick around for this. Please, here comes Stephen A.

Speaker 7 (23:19):
Smith. Now, this is Steven A. Smith on YouTube point
number one.

Speaker 11 (23:25):
Listen because y'all are too busy trying to pick candidates
for the American people instead of listening to the American
people tell you who they want. The last Democrat that
the American people told you they wanted was Barack Obama,
Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's her turn.

Speaker 11 (23:40):
Bernie Sanders had momentum, It's Hillary's turn. Joe Biden captured
momentum because Representative Cliburn got involved.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
In South Carolina, saved as behind. But it's really really
his turn.

Speaker 11 (23:51):
Okay, he has no business running for reelection, but everybody
went for it knowing he.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Was supposed to be transitioning. He's gonna be eighty one years.

Speaker 11 (24:00):
Then you sit up there, he doesn't have a primary.
Then he goes into debate stage, embarrasses himself. Then y'all
still let him take three damn weeks to walk away
instead of getting the hell out there immediately so you
could see if there's somebody other than Kamala Harris who
could be the Democratic nominee. This she gets the nomination
and everybody wants to act like he's the rockstar.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
I don't know what i'd have done David growing up.
If all of a sudden Howard Cosell was going on
political rants, that would have struck me as odd. His
sports rants were enough for me to chew on. But
he's dead right. He's got the history right. There was
a referendum election in twenty sixteen. The American people wanted outsiders.
It was an anti incumbent cycle. The right chose Donald Trump.

(24:41):
That's how he beat Jeb Bush and others, nineteen others
and got the nomination. The left would have given it
to Bernie Sanders, but they meddled with super delegates and others,
and they steered it to Hillary.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
He's right.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
And then in twenty it was going to be Bernie again,
and they cut a deal in South Carolina and they
steered the whole thing for Joe Biden, who came in
fourth and Iowa seventh. In New Hampshire, then he's seen
hile they hide it from you, then they reveal it
to you, and then they get rid of him, but
take all of his delegates and give him the Kamala.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
They've betrayed their own voters. He's dead right.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
The biggest problem they've made is they've been picking the
candidates and not trusting they're voters all the name of democracy.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
I might add, So he gets it, Well, there's a
bigger gap. Now, where's he going with it?

Speaker 7 (25:27):
So if that's the problem that they have been picking
the candidates and not allowing their voters to pick the candidates,
what Steven A.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Smith's solution? Ah, listen to this.

Speaker 11 (25:40):
Clearly, nothing beats somebody who's a box office attraction because
folks walk through the turnstiles if for no other reason
to see him. And what I'm saying to you is,
I'm not talking about a bunch of manufactured audiences like
you had at the DNC in Chicago. That's not what

(26:00):
I'm talking about, Okay, I'm talking about somebody that Obama was,
for example in two thousand and eight, where ultimately he
elevated to rock star status. No matter where he went
or what he had to say, the camera was a
magnet for him. And then obviously you got to follow
through with the message, and you got to follow through
a practice. All of that's true, but you got to

(26:21):
get somebody with sizzle.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
You know, He's right, this party is so divided.

Speaker 7 (26:25):
The only thing that would shut up the far left
and the establishment center is somebody like a Barack Obama,
somebody like a Wes Moore that would get them so
onto the magnetism that they would ignore all that he's wrong.
Though they do have a worldview problem, they do have
a policy priority and a policy platform problem.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
I think both need to be addressed. The question of
the hour is is Stephen A.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
Smith setting himself up as a candidate or is he
setting himself up to be the John the Baptist for
Wes Moore.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
I believe it's the latter.

Speaker 8 (26:57):
I think you're probably right in The gap that they're
facing is You've got to remember when Joe Biden started
this thing. He started out of Charlottesville, and he started
on a moral crusade. Every time he campaigned he can't
campaign on morality and the government of moral will. Well,
you've got Trump and Doze and Musk and an entire
group of people that are saying, the government's going to

(27:18):
solve some problems right now, We're going to leave all
that world due philosophy aside because the government is not
our carrier of moral agency.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
We got problems to fix.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
By the time these guys try to run the same
old game the next time, around.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
The circus is out of town. I mean may be
standing there with nobody in the tent. You know me,
I always got my eye on lanes.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
Nobody's addressing the squad and the socialist lane, which is
still a pretty good portion of the Democrat Party. Sure
oh it, sure is. This is the populace side and
Stephen A. Smith, now get the establishment response. Here's James Carvell,
the architect of Bill Clinton.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
About politics a topic of where you really don't know
anything about. You ought to sit back and think about
it and call some people and run it by it.
But don't let your political stupid to stand in a way.
And you're outspoken and I think often in phypul views
when it comes to American sports, of which I think

(28:18):
you are an extperd at. And if you know Wesh
and you know Josh, you should call him and run
your opinions.

Speaker 7 (28:26):
I gotta get it, because he doesn't. He rarely goes
more than ten seconds without an F bomb. But there's
the response from the establishment. Stick to sports, You're shut up,
You're an idiot, and shut up. This is the party fighting,
fighting to figure out who its leader is going to
be and what its message is going to be and
they still haven't found it. Final one is the left

(28:48):
wouldn't be because this kind of falls under the matrix
and the narrative media.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
It's still alive and well, it's just not very influential.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
So here's Oprah's friend on c trying to play the
recent air accidents into Donald Trump's fault, and they had
to cut the camera fast because she doesn't get the
answer from the Delta CEO that she wanted.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Listen.

Speaker 12 (29:14):
Trump administration recently fired many employees of the FAA administration cuts.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Do those cuts wear you and do you think that
impacts the safety?

Speaker 12 (29:23):
I know you just said it's the safest way to travel,
but after looking at all these mishaps, a lot of
people are very nervous.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Do these cuts affect you? The cuts do not affect
the scale.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
I've been in close communication with the Secretary of Transportation.
I understand that the cuts at this time are something
that are raising questions. But the reality is there's over
fifty thousand people that work at the FAA, and the cuts,
I understand we're three hundred people and they were in
non critical safety functions.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
The Trump administration.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
This reminds me of the public square when you were
talking about the cutting of in the federal government, talking
about millions of jobs, talking about a small.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Portion that are being cut.

Speaker 7 (30:06):
But when you talk about the portion being cut, it
sounds like a lot, and you're like alarmed and you
assume everything's going to collapse. Well, that's how outrage you
ought to be when I revealed to you how many
total employees they are. When there are millions of federal
employees and you cut a few hundred, it sounds like
a lot, but compared to the millions, it's not.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
And the same is true with these FAA numbers. But
the best part is a visual and I know this
is radio.

Speaker 7 (30:30):
She thought for sure this guy was gonna bury Trump,
and when he didn't, they had to cut the camera
because she was all alarmed that his first words were, no,
I don't think this makes it. By the way, nowhere
in the interview did she asked, we still don't know
the gender of the two pilots in the most recent
plane crash in Toronto, which is feeding a lot of
conspiracy theorists along the way. And that's your Sounds of

(30:50):
the day for this Thursday, February the twentieth.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
They's all of girly mains'll make you Chell.

Speaker 7 (31:09):
I hope you will entitained. It's always revealing, often entertaining
yourself the day. David, what a great visit. Thank you
so much for being here. This is your morning show
with Michael del Chrono, and.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
A pleasant good afternoon for the flight tech. At thirty
thousand people scattered broker clouds. This is your pilot welcome report.
We've got visibility of ten miles.

Speaker 7 (31:31):
We've got an appeals court has ruled President Trump can't
end birthright citizenship, at least for now anyway. And after
adding eighty five thousand i RS agents, six thousand will
be sent pink slip today and Delta Airlines says, I'm
gonna give everybody the crash down that flight to Toronto thirty.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Thousand dollars in which ever, A pleasant good afternoon for
the plate tech. Now let's go to business class and
Rory O'Neil Rory.

Speaker 7 (31:56):
Newpoll Out takes a look at how Americans feel about
things like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the Gaza, and other topics.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
And this one looks different than the other poles. Well,
this one.

Speaker 13 (32:07):
Shows Donald Trump's approval numbers are about the same within
the margin of error compared to last month. But it's
the disapproval numbers that are edging up a little bit,
especially among independent voters. Forty five percent approved, forty nine
percent now disapproved. So that's a bit of a change
in this Quinnipiac survey. Republicans still love him, Democrats still

(32:27):
loathe him, independence, though, are moving a.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Bit more here. Fifty percent now disapprove. Now.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
One thing that Roy O'Neil has always taught me, we
never take one poll and isolated.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
We look at all of them.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
But all the poles are saying issue by issue, whether
it's doge, whether it's the border, whether it's this, whether
it's a say one thing, And now this one says
something different. So it's interesting to have one that's so
far off. And then when I started looking at the
samples and couldn't find it. I'll give you an example.
Here's a question that made me suspicious. Do you think
that policies focused on increasing diverse the equity and inclusion

(33:01):
in the workplace are a good thing for an organization
or a bad thing for the organization? Overall, fifty three
percent said good, thirty eight percent bad. Going to the
Republican Party. Whatever this sample was, thirty percent said good,
fifty nine percent said bad. I would have expected that
to be more twenty eighty, but this and then the
Democrat looked right seventy six percent good, sixteen percent bad.

(33:24):
What really stuck out with me was independence. Fifty four
percent said good, thirty nine percent said bad. It's heavily
weighted to females. I can see that in the male
female breakout. But if that were the case, uh Kamala
might have carried Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
So I don't know. I don't know what to make
of this.

Speaker 7 (33:44):
I know that it's very different from all the other polling,
whether it comes to Elon Musk or Trump, or foreign
policy or economic policy, border policy. But that question right
there told me there's a little stinker in here.

Speaker 13 (33:57):
It's about in line with a Gallup survey that also
came out yesterday as well. In a CNN poll that
came out this morning, with the general approval numbers for
President Trump, fifty five percent think Elon Musk has too
much power in making some of these decisions out there.
That Gaza proposal by President Trump going over like a
lead balloon. Only twenty two percent of voters support the

(34:19):
idea of the US going into Gaza, making it the
new Riviera.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Sixty two percent oppose it. Independence strongly against the idea
as well. If that's his real goal, that one is
a stinker.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
But I think the real goal is to get Saudi
Arabia to pay for the rebuild and monitor and keep
crazies from getting back in control there. But yeah, that
and I think you're playing with fire with tariffs, because
if you drive up cost of living, that's not going
to look good for the midterms. Roy O'Neil appreciated great reporting.
As always, we'll talk again to Mark.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
with Michael nhild Joano
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