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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Enjoy. Russia launched its invasion into Ukraine, Ukrainian President Zelenski
says he will step down if it will bring peace
to his country, and Israel sending tanks into the occupied
West Bank for the first time in twenty years. Welcome
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(00:42):
But we've been keeping an eye on Pope Francis' health
over the weekend and it did take a turn for
the worse. In addition to double pneumonia, now blood works
showing signs that perhaps the Pope is suffering kidney failure.
And not to mention roy O'Neil our national correspondent joining us.
An eighty eight year old in bed now for over
a week. That's a toll in and of itself. Things
(01:02):
now looking good for the Pope.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, you know, he was downgraded on Saturday to a
critical condition. The update from the Vatican this morning said
that he had a tenth night in the hospital that
was RESTful. They say that during the day he's alert,
he's reading. There was a message posted on x from
the Pope saying how much he appreciated the prayers and
the messages and the drawings that the children in the
hospital had been sending him. He was able to take
(01:26):
part in a mass yesterday as well, but again the
prognosis remains guarded.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So he had lung issues as a younger man and
lost usage of a portion of one of his lungs.
The Vatican's calling it a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis. We
know it's double pneumonia. He's been receiving oxygen therapy. He's
also received a blood transfusion. This is for a low
platelet count, and in that blood work were signs of
(01:56):
kidney failure. So multiple things going wrong now right.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Right, and again, as you said, eighty eight years old now,
and we've got indication last week that he's told his
closest aids to prepare for the worst just in case.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, that's probably the probably the most perplexing part of
this twist is that the narrative doesn't match the seriousness
of the health condition. So's you know, anybody that's taking
care of their parents knows. You know, when you're eight
eight years old just being bedridd in the hospital, that
ain't good. That's hard to overcome. You start having a
compromise lung and double pneumonia than kidney failure, other issues
(02:34):
that are that are you know, there would be more
of a grave messaging, and all the messaging is you know,
he's sitting up, he's alert, he's talking to people, he's
going through mail, loves what the kids are sending him.
It's kind of I don't know, are they preparing the
church for the possibility of the need for a new pope.
That doesn't seem to be in the messaging yet. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean he was able to get up from his
hospital bed and go to a chair in the room
last week as well, So he's again and they say
he is alert and aware of what's going on, and
even having some calls and video conferencing with some of
his colleagues last week as well.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So it is a strange mix. And again that messaging
is difficult in a way, though, isn't it kind of
classic Francis. I mean, this is a guy, after he
found out he was pope, grabbed his bags, carried them
himself over to the You know, I don't think he's
going to make a big deal out of his death
anymore than he made have not such a big deal
out of becoming pope. But we keep our eye in
the condition. What is the prognosis, I mean, what do
(03:34):
use sense is coming?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, they're using the word guarded, which I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's a pretty bright red flag.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I think that, you know, and again when they let
leak out that he has been talking to his close
allies about preparing for the next phase.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I don't know. I think that you pray for
the best, is all you can say. Roy's gonna be
back in the third hour to talk about that three
year anniversary of Russia's invasion into Ukraine. Good reporting, Rory,
all right, eleven minutes after the hour. If you're just
waking up we say, they're often revealing, sometimes entered. Today
(04:11):
they're both revealing and entertaining for everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Look, you just gotta try harder not to saw some
glad of the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Sure, perhaps you like to be alone with a deteriorating
mental condition politics, I don't know us.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Wow, that's like I could just go out right there,
couldn't I remember, folks, yesterday's sounds of the day can
become tomorrow's opening sounds of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That's what it's all about. I had a Noster Dell
Journal last week. Everybody was listening to Stephen A. Smith,
and he he went to town of the Democrat Party
to which you got to keep in mind the lanes,
the establishment. James Carville. This is the guy headed the
Clinton campaign that took out George H. W. Bush, who
(05:04):
was soaring high after a war and then lo af
to read my lips no new taxes, but he took
them out with Bill Clinton in the midst of scandals.
So this is a really good strategist from the nineteen nineties. Uh,
And he's establishment and a party that has been splintered
by the extreme left. So how relevant. Is he David's
and not? He made the great point. This is a
(05:26):
guy just looking for some maritime and he's getting it
because the real grasstops, the real grassroots, the real strategists,
the real foot soldiers, the Podesta team, they're laying low
and they're ready to pounce, first in the midterms and
then again in the twenty twenty eight presidential election. But
(05:46):
what did Carvel come out and say? This guy got
to stick to sports, which I have a great deal
of respect for, doesn't know Jack Deep, deepp beepepep Deep
about poultics. And so then the big conversation became Stephen A. Smith,
what's this guy up to? He's getting into politics an
awful lot, especially on that YouTube show. Is this narcissist,
(06:12):
ego maniac setting himself up to run for office? Which
first I rebuke because he's too intelligent to be referred
to in such a way. Number one. Number two, he's
too successful to be suspicious of such a thing. And
number three, his analysis has been spot on. No, I
(06:36):
know people don't like the truth. Honey, how do I
look fat? Oh? Ouch? I guess I'll change so Yet
last week I said I got news for you. Stephen A.
Smith is not setting himself up for a run. Stephen A.
(06:59):
Smith is stting himself up to be the John the
Baptist for Wes Moore, the Maryland governor. And that is
their play. Now. If they don't think they can win,
he's young enough, they'll wait. But if things go either
hunky dory, there'll be a window in twenty twenty eight,
(07:21):
or if things should shockingly go well in the midterms,
the door will swing wide open hunky dory, meaning you'll
have control, bigger control of the House, bigger control of
the Senate. Everything Trump will have done has worked. Yeah,
you could go with somebody bigger than life, like a
wes Moore, because either way they're going to get to
the swing precincts of the swinging districts of the swing states,
(07:41):
and you always got to play. And if you have
somebody like Wes Moore, who's like a very much like
a Barack Obama with a better resume, with a more
certain past and respected past, but just as charismatic, you might,
America might choose him. That even falls on Stephen A. Smith,
(08:03):
to his credit. But last week's question was, is Stephen A.
Smith setting himself up for a run. Nostr Del Jorno said, no,
he's setting up Wes Moore. Well, here was Stephen A.
Smith's response to James Carvell's attack. Yeah, check another one
(08:24):
up for dos to del journal.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
That's not what you said, sir, so respectfully, let me
state this again for everybody to listen. My life is
pretty damn good. I have no desire to be a politician.
I wouldn't want to contaminate and sully my life.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I just done that. I would not want to contaminate
and sully my life. Let me tell you something I
once led. It was really my first exposure to a
state legislature. I led three bus loads of listeners to
Oklahoma City to march on capital, and all I could
think of was, I gotta get out of here and
take a shower quick. The first time I went to Washington, DC,
(09:09):
I gotta take a shower and quick. Boy, can I
relate to that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
I wouldn't sully myself by entrenching myself in that cesspool
in the nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'm very very clear about that. And the pay would
be significantly less.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Let me add that too, at least for the eight
years I'm in office because I damn sure if I
win the first election, I ain't losing a second. So
understand I have no desire for it. What I said was,
it's an absolute embarrassment that I am the person that's
(09:47):
being mentioned and named. It's a disgrace to this Democratic Party.
It shows you have no bullpen and I know that's
what got your your antennas up, and that's what robbed
you up, even more so because you brought up how
I have a relationship with Wes Moore and Joshapiro, Josha Pier.
I met him one time in my life. I talked
to him one time in my life, and hey, I
think he's a fabulous government. He's a fabulous governor. Only
met him once. I don't know him. He wouldn't sell himself.
(10:10):
He's certainly not interested, and he wouldn't take the pay cut.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So what does that leave enough for the state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
And I think he knows his stuff and I'm honored
to have met him, and I'm looking forward to cultivating
a relationship with him.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
West Wore is a different animal. I love this brother.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
I know him from sports because he and I talk
about the Ravens All the time. I think he's doing
a damn good job with the state of Maryland. And
if there is a Democratic nominee to look at, it
is definitely him.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
All right, at my writer, am I right?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
West Moore is an absolute winner. I'm not apologizing for
that to anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So what is Stephen A. Smith up to wes Moore?
What I tell you through two and a half years ago,
a year and a half ago when this national show
started two and a half years ago, if you were
listening locally in Nashville, wes Moore is there big play.
And I don't know when. Could be three years, could
(11:15):
be eleven, twelve years, Wes Moore is probably going to
be president. Well I've got okay, So this you're gonna love.
This is a former Clinton polster. Remember the old analogy
that Joe Rogan gave us how the Indians, you know,
you could take out a buffalo or two at a time,
or you can just chase them off a cliff. They'll fall,
they'll die, and then you harvest them. And Joe Rogan said,
(11:38):
Democrats don't have another play. They're going to go right
off the cliff. Well, here's a former Clinton polster saying
the Democrats are falling off a cliff.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
That's a new paulm coming out Monday that I've just
looked at, and frankly, the Democratic Party is falling off
a cliff. The ratings, which were in the high forties
are going to be like thirty five percent. And I
think the basic question who's doing better job as president
Biden or Trump? Trump is winning that with fifty seven percent.
(12:06):
I think you're seeing a retrospective assessment of Biden and
the direction the Democratic Party was going really a lot
more negative than it was on election day. And they're
looking at the contrast on immigration, on economic policy, on
some of the social policies, and boy, they're reevaluating in
the Democratic Party. I have never seen anything like this.
(12:27):
This is a record low for the Democratic Party in terms.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Of Yet, how they bring themselves back and pull themselves
up by the boot string, so to speak, is the
difference thing whether they even exist by the end of
the decade or find a new lane and find a
way back to a victory. But they are headed off
the cliff as we speak. Best moment sounds the day.
(12:52):
This is a classic Presidents talking about men participating in
women's sports, calls out the main governor right to her face.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Listen, the NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good.
But I understand Maine is the main here, the governor.
Are you not going to comply with it? Well, we
are the federal law. Well you better do it. You
better do it because you're not going to get any
(13:21):
federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way,
your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, orthough, I did
very well there. Your population doesn't want men playing in
women's sports, So you better you better comply because otherwise
you're not getting any federal funding. Every state. Good, I'll
see you and could I look forward to that. That
should be a really easy one. And enjoy your life
(13:44):
after governor, because I don't think you'll be an elected politics.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The future of Maine. I see a new governor in
your future.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
You're going to get smoke with that.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You don't know what he said at the end of
their sense. I don't think he knows what he said either.
It's got to be a big misunderstanding. I'm going in
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It's your morning show with Michael Delchino. Hey, they love me,
suffer not my listeners under mean, let's go to that
talkback line, Good morning, love me and show. Yes, catfish
do have teeth.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They're very fine and designed to rip flesh from bone.
Uh not like a piranha where it cuts the where
it rubs it off.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, it was a sturgeon, by the way, Yeah, go
to Keith. Yeah it would go Keith.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Regarding your story about the catfish putting the girl's head
in its mouth, that was actually a sturgeon.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Very old sturgeon.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
They only grow an eighth of an inch a year,
and we have a lot of them up here in Oregon.
That's a lot of fun to catch, all right, Just
a small correction. No, love you guys, appreciate it. We
got gave me a hawk. Must be a truck driver.
I gotta get to Oregon too.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
By the way, we're on Portland, k ex beautiful, beautiful state.
I saw the whiskers and I thought catfish. But yes,
I'm looking at the picture. It was a sturgeon. I'm
glad you saw the video and I stand correct.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
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Speaker 1 (16:52):
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I work for the best company in all of America
when it comes to sound Premiere, and iHeart married to
the woman of my dreams. I had three healthy children.
Why wouldn't I be in a good one? But yes,
I am over COVID too. I'm your red. Hey, you
guys are okay? How would you like to be Cumulus today.
What our number one national talk shows just quit? That
(17:45):
is scary, right, Although there's a reverse side to this,
which I think Jeffrey just brought not Jeffrey Red brought
up off the air, and that is compare that to
Stephen A. Smith. I wouldn't be that harsh, but you
know Stephen A. Smith. Basically, he's revealing it was never
about me running from office. It's about me getting my
(18:05):
guy in the White House, Wes Moore from Maryland. But
in that he says, I make too much money. I
wouldn't soil myself in the filth of Washington. But here's
Dan Bongino sitting with a top five podcast. He's got
a national radio show, and he's gone to be a
deputy to Cash Pateel, deputy director of the FBI. That's
(18:30):
somebody that puts serving their country above money, above self.
It is kind of revealing of Dan Bongino. But yeah,
that's a very very popular podcast, that is a very
popular national radio show, and it's gone. He's off to
the FBI. Now, when you look through the peepole, if
you're the paranoid left, you see Cash and Dan Bongino
(18:52):
standing outside your door. That's a railroad diaper.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Please.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Ukraine President Rodemir Zoninski says I would step down if
that would bring peace to my country or allow us
to be a part of NATO. There's always a method
to the Trump madness. In last week's madness looks more
like method this morning, Elon musk as all federal workers
must report what they did last week or be dismissed.
(19:17):
And the Saga awards were last night, but who really cares.
Our White House correspondent John Decker is here. Boy is
John Decker like professor of the year after bringing his
students on a trip to the White House to West Wing,
and he joins us now on the President of Francin
Mahron's visit to our nation's capital. Good morning, John, Hey,
(19:39):
good morning to you. Michael.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
This is the first of two bilateral meetings that the
President will.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Have this week.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The one happening today is as you just mentioned, with
French President Emmanuel maccront and it will be a joint
press conference that will happen early in the afternoon at
two o'clock Eastern time hour for us. And then later
in the week on Thursday, is when the President.
Speaker 11 (20:00):
Will meet with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. That
too will.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Happen at the White House, likely a joint press conference
for that meeting as well, and you know you just
alluded to it.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Ukraine will likely top the.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Agenda for both of those meetings. Trade will also be important,
but I think Ukraine really tops what's on the agenda
as it relates to the President's meeting with French President
Macrome today.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So everybody in the process kind of I don't know,
this would be opinion to say overreacted, but reacted strongly.
Why is the President talking with Russia and Ukraine's not
at the table? Why all of a sudden, as he's
starting to talk about Zelensky being an average comedian and
potentially the cause of the war and not trustworthy and
he has a vision for Ukraine's future, but Zelensky isn't
(20:45):
in it. And then on top of that, when you're
going to talk to European leaders because after all, they
got to live with whatever the settlement is and feel
good about well, it's all kind of happening in process,
and now here comes France in the UK this week.
What is our French relation these days?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Well, the President has a good relationship. Sometimes it's complicated
with President Macron. Obviously, the President knows him from when
he served as president in the first term. He's visited
France a few times, including most recently with the reopening
of the Notre Dame Cathedral. You may recall that was
a visit in which the President attended, but the then
(21:22):
president at the time, President Joe Biden, declined that invitation.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The first Lady went in his place.
Speaker 11 (21:29):
So I think they get along well.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
They understand each other in terms of where they're each
coming from. But you know, look, it's complicated sometimes sometimes
the president, you know, as he does sometimes, as you know,
Michael insults his foreign counterparts, and he's done that on
occasion with French President Macron.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Trade wise, what do you think is if that should
come up with stops on that list?
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Well, the president, because France.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Is a part of the EU, if there are any
sanctions or tariffs that are placed upon countries, it will
be EU sanctions, which would of course implicate and affect France.
France doesn't want to see that happen. They do have
a very strong trade with the United States.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And we'll see where they go.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
The President has threatened tariffs against EU products goods coming
into this country from Europe, but has not yet pulled
the trigger on that front.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I was not nearly the student you were. That's why
today I'm not a Supreme Court bar attorney or a
White House correspondent. But I always loved the field trip day.
People don't know this about it. And addition being a
US Supreme Court bar attorney, a White House correspondent now
for eight presidents, you are also a professor at a
major university and the kids got to go on a
(22:46):
field trip, Well, you must be the hero.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I've been doing this in terms of these so called,
as you call them, field trips to the White House.
Typically they tend to briefing.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Been doing it for two decades now.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
So I obviously enjoyed introducing these journalism future journalists perhaps
to the White House and they get a big thrill
of it. And of course they got to meet the
White House Press Secretary as well, Caroline Levitt on Friday,
so that was a big thrill for them as well.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Shout out to Caroline for taking the time.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
To chat with them real quickly. Is it Georgetown or American?
Where are you would.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I'm on the faculty at both Georgetown University and GW University,
on the law faculty at GW.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, but these kids were from Georgetown.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Right, These kids were from GW. Actually, I teach a.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Course called Covering the White House that's always taught in
the fall, and then I teach at GW in the spring.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, they had a great field trip and I enjoyed.
You share with me, great reporting, John Decker, as always,
Mahon today, you get tomorrow. This is your Morning Show
with Michael Del Truno. Today marks three years since Russia
launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Mahon coming to
the White House UK tomorrow. And as for the Ukrainian President,
(24:06):
Vladimir Zurlinsky says he'd stepped down if it would bring
peace for his country. There is method to the Trump madness,
and things seem to be going his way. Peace talk underway,
peace coming to Russian Ukraine, a future for Ukraine and
Selensky isn't a part of it. Sounds like it's going
Donald Trump's way. And then we mentioned Dan Bongino will
be stepping down. My wife is very sad, and maybe
(24:27):
she'll start listening to this show for a change, please,
she I think in a pecking order, it goes Megan Kelly,
Dan Bongino then me, so at least I come at
third with my own wife. But yeah, Dan Bongino's gonna
be stepping down from I think, why don't you You know,
Jeff Red, that's part of your job, so I don't
have to keep speculating. Do you have the latest ranking
(24:49):
of podcasts? Because I think man Bongino's in the top five,
and that's saying something. I mean, we have seven million
plus podcasts. There's only really five to ten that have
broken throat, and they surpass anything in the media now,
and he's one of them. Not to mention Cumulus, which
has never been a big fan of Remember he threatened
(25:10):
to just leave his contract over their COVID laws and
then they caved on their COVID laws with him. But
I don't think he has much loyalty to Cumulus and
Cumulus as a big hole now because they're one of
the most popular national shows just said bye bye as
Dan Bongino was named deputy director of the FBI. Is
the left quaking in its boots now? They got Cash
(25:32):
Patel and Dan Bongino out to restore law and Order.
That's an a wow of top story. The far left
carnage continues as MSNBC announces Joy Reid and her evening show,
which I believe is the seven pm Eastern hour with
(25:54):
plummeting ratings, has been canceled. Her final episode of the
read Out is set sometime this week, and it will
be replaced by a panel show co hosted by Smoe
Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele, which I think
they were doing what Saturday and Sunday Morning read for MSNBC.
(26:14):
I do not watch MSNBC, but Rebecca Kutler is the
new president for MSNBC and she's looking to save the
network from dismal ratings. What is dismal ratings? Let's look
up dismal ratings in the dictionary and see what pops up.
So this comes back to something I always stress, I
(26:37):
don't know how these cable networks MSNBC, CNN, and even
Fox for that matter, pay all these salaries with these ratings.
One guy, Joe Rogan sits in his basement and reaches
tens of millions of people. MSNBC you think is so big,
(27:01):
but kind of like the Wizard of Oz behind a curtain.
Opened the curtain and there's really nothing there. How do
any of these people still have a job? I remember
I said this to David Zonat and he was like,
that can't be right. I said, oh, it's right now
in your mind and certainly in their own mind with
(27:21):
their egos. You think MSNBC is bigger than KRMG and Tuls,
Oklahoma in nineteen ninety three, don't you? But it's not.
I did Afternoon Drive four to six pm in tuls Oklahoma,
the sixty fourth market in America, and I had one
hundred thousand weekly listeners. Meanwhile, MSNBC with forty five thousand
(27:47):
viewers during the day and just sixty three thousand viewers
twenty five to fifty four in the peak hours of night.
First of all, how do you even have a network
with just sixty three thousand viewers twenty five to fifty for?
Who the heck is propping this up? Who would buy
advertising on that? How are you paying all of these salaries?
(28:12):
Your model doesn't even exist. And I got news for
the new president and I get firing. You know, maybe
it's a good start to fire Joy, but I don't
care who you bring in from the weekend morning show.
Where are you going with that? You think that's gonna
take you from sixty three thousand to ten million? This
(28:38):
goes back over a decade. CNN went all in on
far left politics. They abandoned news, and they were the
(28:59):
first for an all left political channel. Now they got
tricked into it. They started with all news, and they
went to CNN Headline News, and they took CNN and
made it all primetime talk shows. And then they just
slowly they started with Crossfire, but then it started leaking
left with Larry King. Then I went far left after
(29:20):
Larry was gone. But MSNBC they were the ones that
went all in as the Obama network, And I thought
to myself, and what the hell are you gonna be?
Once Obama's gone, whether it's four or eight years, then
what are you? And then when Hillary didn't win, an
obstruction and opposition to Trump became the whole gang. And
(29:43):
now everybody's behind Trump and the happy days are here again.
You're down to forty five thousand daytime viewers. That's less
than half of how many people listened to me on
KRMG in nineteen ninety three. And I was even John Arling.
(30:04):
Shout out to John Early. He and my father the
two best morning men I ever heard in my life.
Maybe Larry Luchakka close third. When you slip it through
the cable channel, think of all the lighting, Think of
all the makeup, Think of all the short dresses, Think
of all the salaries, Think of all the producers and
(30:26):
cubes on a different floor. How the heck are you
paying for all this with forty five thousand viewers? How
have these people been getting away with these salaries for
so long? No one's watching fire Joy Reid? Why not
just turn the whole darn thing off to be better
(30:50):
off with HGTV two. Ukrainian President Zelensky says he's willing
to resign if that would lead to peace or even
NATO membership.
Speaker 12 (31:00):
The Ukrainian president made the offer at a news conference Sunday,
saying quote, if it is peace for Ukraine and you
really want me to leave my post, I'm ready. Zelenski
also said he would also trade his position for immediate
NATO membership if it means the safety of his country.
This follows public disputes with President Trump last week, after
Trump implied Zelensky was responsible for Ukraine's war with Russia
(31:24):
and called the Ukrainian leader a dictator. Zelenski also insisted
that he does not intend to stay in power for decades.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'm Lisa Carton. Well. Francis remains in critical condition, blood
tests now showing signs of kidney failure.
Speaker 13 (31:37):
Vatican officials say he is still getting supplemental oxygen to
help him breathe as he fights double pneumonia, and there
has been no new respiratory crisis. However, the eighty eight
year old did have some mild kidney failure, which the
Vatican says is under control.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
To my Catholic brothers and sisters, pray for your pope.
Francis continues to be vigilant and well oriented. Francis took
part holding mass on Sunday, but the condition continues to deteriorate.
President Donald Trump is announcing Dan Bongino will serve as
the next deputy director of the FBI. Can you imagine
where's your Maxine Waters quote? Where she's going? We don't
(32:14):
know what they have on us. Yeah, we don't know
what all they have on us. Who's that at the door?
Oh it's Dan Bongino. A cash battel was Trump wrote
in a post on True Social that Bongino was a
man of incredible love and passion for our country. You
know that really is a perfect description of him, isn't it.
(32:36):
Bongino Lee's behind his radio show with Cumulus Media, Inc.
Also one of his top ten rated podcasts. He once
served in the NYPD and for Secret Service. He will
now join Cash Battel at the FBI. Former Army chief
of Staff and noticed who they chose to talk to,
says President Trump's firing of the Chairman of the Joint
(32:56):
Chiefs of Staff is tremendously destabilizing to the US.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
Milit Harry I'm hearing at ABC's this week, retired General
George Casey warned of the danger of sudden senior personnel changes.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
When you remove so many senior leaders, especially without justifying
and giving due cause, and creates huge uncertainty in the ranks.
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Casey said military leaders shouldn't be punished for following orders
given by a previous presidential administration. General George Brown Junior
was fired Friday night in the move critics say was
an effort by Trump to get rid of diversity initiatives.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
In the US military.
Speaker 14 (33:31):
I'm Tammy triheo.
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But we've been keeping an eye on Pope Francis' health
over the weekend and it did take a turn for
the worse. In addition to double pneumonia, now blood works
showing signs that perhaps the Pope is suffering kidney failure.
And not to mention roy O'Neil our national correspondent joining us.
An eighty eight year old in bed now for over
a week. That's a toll in and of itself. Things
(01:02):
now looking good for the Pope.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, you know, he was downgraded on Saturday to a
critical condition. The update from the Vatican this morning said
that he had a tenth night in the hospital that
was RESTful. They say that during the day he's alert,
he's reading. There was a message posted on x from
the Pope saying how much he appreciated the prayers and
the messages and the drawings that the children in the
hospital had been sending him. He was able to take
(01:26):
part in a mass yesterday as well, but again the
prognosis remains guarded.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So he had lung issues as a younger man and
lost usage of a portion of one of his lungs.
The Vatican's calling it a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis. We
know it's double pneumonia. He's been receiving oxygen therapy. He's
also received a blood transfusion. This is for a low
platelet count, and in that blood work were signs of
(01:56):
kidney failure. So multiple things going wrong now right.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Right, and again, as you said, eighty eight years old now,
and we've got indication last week that he's told his
closest aids to prepare for the worst just in case.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, that's probably the probably the most perplexing part of
this twist is that the narrative doesn't match the seriousness
of the health condition. So's you know, anybody that's taking
care of their parents knows. You know, when you're eight
eight years old just being bedridd in the hospital, that
ain't good. That's hard to overcome. You start having a
compromise lung and double pneumonia than kidney failure, other issues
(02:34):
that are that are you know, there would be more
of a grave messaging, and all the messaging is you know,
he's sitting up, he's alert, he's talking to people, he's
going through mail, loves what the kids are sending him.
It's kind of I don't know, are they preparing the
church for the possibility of the need for a new pope.
That doesn't seem to be in the messaging yet. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean he was able to get up from his
hospital bed and go to a chair in the room
last week as well, So he's again and they say
he is alert and aware of what's going on, and
even having some calls and video conferencing with some of
his colleagues last week as well.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So it is a strange mix. And again that messaging
is difficult in a way, though, isn't it kind of
classic Francis. I mean, this is a guy, after he
found out he was pope, grabbed his bags, carried them
himself over to the You know, I don't think he's
going to make a big deal out of his death
anymore than he made have not such a big deal
out of becoming pope. But we keep our eye in
the condition. What is the prognosis, I mean, what do
(03:34):
use sense is coming?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, they're using the word guarded, which I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's a pretty bright red flag.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I think that, you know, and again when they let
leak out that he has been talking to his close
allies about preparing for the next phase.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I don't know. I think that you pray for
the best, is all you can say. Roy's gonna be
back in the third hour to talk about that three
year anniversary of Russia's invasion into Ukraine. Good reporting, Rory,
all right, eleven minutes after the hour. If you're just
waking up we say, they're often revealing, sometimes entered. Today
(04:11):
they're both revealing and entertaining for everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Look, you just gotta try harder not to saw some
glad of the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Sure, perhaps you like to be alone with a deteriorating
mental condition politics, I don't know us.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Wow, that's like I could just go out right there,
couldn't I remember, folks, yesterday's sounds of the day can
become tomorrow's opening sounds of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That's what it's all about. I had a Noster Dell
Journal last week. Everybody was listening to Stephen A. Smith,
and he he went to town of the Democrat Party
to which you got to keep in mind the lanes,
the establishment. James Carville. This is the guy headed the
Clinton campaign that took out George H. W. Bush, who
(05:04):
was soaring high after a war and then lo af
to read my lips no new taxes, but he took
them out with Bill Clinton in the midst of scandals.
So this is a really good strategist from the nineteen nineties. Uh,
And he's establishment and a party that has been splintered
by the extreme left. So how relevant. Is he David's
and not? He made the great point. This is a
(05:26):
guy just looking for some maritime and he's getting it
because the real grasstops, the real grassroots, the real strategists,
the real foot soldiers, the Podesta team, they're laying low
and they're ready to pounce, first in the midterms and
then again in the twenty twenty eight presidential election. But
(05:46):
what did Carvel come out and say? This guy got
to stick to sports, which I have a great deal
of respect for, doesn't know Jack Deep, deepp beepepep Deep
about poultics. And so then the big conversation became Stephen A. Smith,
what's this guy up to? He's getting into politics an
awful lot, especially on that YouTube show. Is this narcissist,
(06:12):
ego maniac setting himself up to run for office? Which
first I rebuke because he's too intelligent to be referred
to in such a way. Number one. Number two, he's
too successful to be suspicious of such a thing. And
number three, his analysis has been spot on. No, I
(06:36):
know people don't like the truth. Honey, how do I
look fat? Oh? Ouch? I guess I'll change so Yet
last week I said I got news for you. Stephen A.
Smith is not setting himself up for a run. Stephen A.
(06:59):
Smith is stting himself up to be the John the
Baptist for Wes Moore, the Maryland governor. And that is
their play. Now. If they don't think they can win,
he's young enough, they'll wait. But if things go either
hunky dory, there'll be a window in twenty twenty eight,
(07:21):
or if things should shockingly go well in the midterms,
the door will swing wide open hunky dory, meaning you'll
have control, bigger control of the House, bigger control of
the Senate. Everything Trump will have done has worked. Yeah,
you could go with somebody bigger than life, like a
wes Moore, because either way they're going to get to
the swing precincts of the swinging districts of the swing states,
(07:41):
and you always got to play. And if you have
somebody like Wes Moore, who's like a very much like
a Barack Obama with a better resume, with a more
certain past and respected past, but just as charismatic, you might,
America might choose him. That even falls on Stephen A. Smith,
(08:03):
to his credit. But last week's question was, is Stephen A.
Smith setting himself up for a run. Nostr Del Jorno said, no,
he's setting up Wes Moore. Well, here was Stephen A.
Smith's response to James Carvell's attack. Yeah, check another one
(08:24):
up for dos to del journal.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
That's not what you said, sir, so respectfully, let me
state this again for everybody to listen. My life is
pretty damn good. I have no desire to be a politician.
I wouldn't want to contaminate and sully my life.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I just done that. I would not want to contaminate
and sully my life. Let me tell you something I
once led. It was really my first exposure to a
state legislature. I led three bus loads of listeners to
Oklahoma City to march on capital, and all I could
think of was, I gotta get out of here and
take a shower quick. The first time I went to Washington, DC,
(09:09):
I gotta take a shower and quick. Boy, can I
relate to that.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
I wouldn't sully myself by entrenching myself in that cesspool
in the nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I'm very very clear about that. And the pay would
be significantly less.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Let me add that too, at least for the eight
years I'm in office because I damn sure if I
win the first election, I ain't losing a second. So
understand I have no desire for it. What I said was,
it's an absolute embarrassment that I am the person that's
(09:47):
being mentioned and named. It's a disgrace to this Democratic Party.
It shows you have no bullpen and I know that's
what got your your antennas up, and that's what robbed
you up, even more so because you brought up how
I have a relationship with Wes Moore and Joshapiro, Josha Pier.
I met him one time in my life. I talked
to him one time in my life, and hey, I
think he's a fabulous government. He's a fabulous governor. Only
met him once. I don't know him. He wouldn't sell himself.
(10:10):
He's certainly not interested, and he wouldn't take the pay cut.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So what does that leave enough for the state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
And I think he knows his stuff and I'm honored
to have met him, and I'm looking forward to cultivating
a relationship with him.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
West Wore is a different animal. I love this brother.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
I know him from sports because he and I talk
about the Ravens All the time. I think he's doing
a damn good job with the state of Maryland. And
if there is a Democratic nominee to look at, it
is definitely him.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
All right, at my writer, am I right?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
West Moore is an absolute winner. I'm not apologizing for
that to anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So what is Stephen A. Smith up to wes Moore?
What I tell you through two and a half years ago,
a year and a half ago when this national show
started two and a half years ago, if you were
listening locally in Nashville, wes Moore is there big play.
And I don't know when. Could be three years, could
(11:15):
be eleven, twelve years, Wes Moore is probably going to
be president. Well I've got okay, So this you're gonna love.
This is a former Clinton polster. Remember the old analogy
that Joe Rogan gave us how the Indians, you know,
you could take out a buffalo or two at a time,
or you can just chase them off a cliff. They'll fall,
they'll die, and then you harvest them. And Joe Rogan said,
(11:38):
Democrats don't have another play. They're going to go right
off the cliff. Well, here's a former Clinton polster saying
the Democrats are falling off a cliff.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
That's a new paulm coming out Monday that I've just
looked at, and frankly, the Democratic Party is falling off
a cliff. The ratings, which were in the high forties
are going to be like thirty five percent. And I
think the basic question who's doing better job as president
Biden or Trump? Trump is winning that with fifty seven percent.
(12:06):
I think you're seeing a retrospective assessment of Biden and
the direction the Democratic Party was going really a lot
more negative than it was on election day. And they're
looking at the contrast on immigration, on economic policy, on
some of the social policies, and boy, they're reevaluating in
the Democratic Party. I have never seen anything like this.
(12:27):
This is a record low for the Democratic Party in terms.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Of Yet, how they bring themselves back and pull themselves
up by the boot string, so to speak, is the
difference thing whether they even exist by the end of
the decade or find a new lane and find a
way back to a victory. But they are headed off
the cliff as we speak. Best moment sounds the day.
(12:52):
This is a classic Presidents talking about men participating in
women's sports, calls out the main governor right to her face.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Listen, the NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good.
But I understand Maine is the main here, the governor.
Are you not going to comply with it? Well, we
are the federal law. Well you better do it. You
better do it because you're not going to get any
(13:21):
federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way,
your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, orthough, I did
very well there. Your population doesn't want men playing in
women's sports, So you better you better comply because otherwise
you're not getting any federal funding. Every state. Good, I'll
see you and could I look forward to that. That
should be a really easy one. And enjoy your life
(13:44):
after governor, because I don't think you'll be an elected politics.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The future of Maine. I see a new governor in
your future.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
You're going to get smoke with that.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You don't know what he said at the end of
their sense. I don't think he knows what he said either.
It's got to be a big misunderstanding. I'm going in
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It's your morning show with Michael Delchino. Hey, they love me,
suffer not my listeners under mean, let's go to that
talkback line, Good morning, love me and show. Yes, catfish
do have teeth.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They're very fine and designed to rip flesh from bone.
Uh not like a piranha where it cuts the where
it rubs it off.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, it was a sturgeon, by the way, Yeah, go
to Keith. Yeah it would go Keith.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Regarding your story about the catfish putting the girl's head
in its mouth, that was actually a sturgeon.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Very old sturgeon.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
They only grow an eighth of an inch a year,
and we have a lot of them up here in Oregon.
That's a lot of fun to catch, all right, Just
a small correction. No, love you guys, appreciate it. We
got gave me a hawk. Must be a truck driver.
I gotta get to Oregon too.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
By the way, we're on Portland, k ex beautiful, beautiful state.
I saw the whiskers and I thought catfish. But yes,
I'm looking at the picture. It was a sturgeon. I'm
glad you saw the video and I stand correct.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
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Why wouldn't I be in a good one? But yes,
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What our number one national talk shows just quit? That
(17:45):
is scary, right, Although there's a reverse side to this,
which I think Jeffrey just brought not Jeffrey Red brought
up off the air, and that is compare that to
Stephen A. Smith. I wouldn't be that harsh, but you
know Stephen A. Smith. Basically, he's revealing it was never
about me running from office. It's about me getting my
(18:05):
guy in the White House, Wes Moore from Maryland. But
in that he says, I make too much money. I
wouldn't soil myself in the filth of Washington. But here's
Dan Bongino sitting with a top five podcast. He's got
a national radio show, and he's gone to be a
deputy to Cash Pateel, deputy director of the FBI. That's
(18:30):
somebody that puts serving their country above money, above self.
It is kind of revealing of Dan Bongino. But yeah,
that's a very very popular podcast, that is a very
popular national radio show, and it's gone. He's off to
the FBI. Now, when you look through the peepole, if
you're the paranoid left, you see Cash and Dan Bongino
(18:52):
standing outside your door. That's a railroad diaper.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Please.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Ukraine President Rodemir Zoninski says I would step down if
that would bring peace to my country or allow us
to be a part of NATO. There's always a method
to the Trump madness. In last week's madness looks more
like method this morning, Elon musk as all federal workers
must report what they did last week or be dismissed.
(19:17):
And the Saga awards were last night, but who really cares.
Our White House correspondent John Decker is here. Boy is
John Decker like professor of the year after bringing his
students on a trip to the White House to West Wing,
and he joins us now on the President of Francin
Mahron's visit to our nation's capital. Good morning, John, Hey,
(19:39):
good morning to you. Michael.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
This is the first of two bilateral meetings that the
President will.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Have this week.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The one happening today is as you just mentioned, with
French President Emmanuel maccront and it will be a joint
press conference that will happen early in the afternoon at
two o'clock Eastern time hour for us. And then later
in the week on Thursday, is when the President.
Speaker 11 (20:00):
Will meet with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. That
too will.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Happen at the White House, likely a joint press conference
for that meeting as well, and you know you just
alluded to it.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Ukraine will likely top the.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Agenda for both of those meetings. Trade will also be important,
but I think Ukraine really tops what's on the agenda
as it relates to the President's meeting with French President
Macrome today.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So everybody in the process kind of I don't know,
this would be opinion to say overreacted, but reacted strongly.
Why is the President talking with Russia and Ukraine's not
at the table? Why all of a sudden, as he's
starting to talk about Zelensky being an average comedian and
potentially the cause of the war and not trustworthy and
he has a vision for Ukraine's future, but Zelensky isn't
(20:45):
in it. And then on top of that, when you're
going to talk to European leaders because after all, they
got to live with whatever the settlement is and feel
good about well, it's all kind of happening in process,
and now here comes France in the UK this week.
What is our French relation these days?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Well, the President has a good relationship. Sometimes it's complicated
with President Macron. Obviously, the President knows him from when
he served as president in the first term. He's visited
France a few times, including most recently with the reopening
of the Notre Dame Cathedral. You may recall that was
a visit in which the President attended, but the then
(21:22):
president at the time, President Joe Biden, declined that invitation.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The first Lady went in his place.
Speaker 11 (21:29):
So I think they get along well.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
They understand each other in terms of where they're each
coming from. But you know, look, it's complicated sometimes sometimes
the president, you know, as he does sometimes, as you know,
Michael insults his foreign counterparts, and he's done that on
occasion with French President Macron.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Trade wise, what do you think is if that should
come up with stops on that list?
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Well, the president, because France.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Is a part of the EU, if there are any
sanctions or tariffs that are placed upon countries, it will
be EU sanctions, which would of course implicate and affect France.
France doesn't want to see that happen. They do have
a very strong trade with the United States.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And we'll see where they go.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
The President has threatened tariffs against EU products goods coming
into this country from Europe, but has not yet pulled
the trigger on that front.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I was not nearly the student you were. That's why
today I'm not a Supreme Court bar attorney or a
White House correspondent. But I always loved the field trip day.
People don't know this about it. And addition being a
US Supreme Court bar attorney, a White House correspondent now
for eight presidents, you are also a professor at a
major university and the kids got to go on a
(22:46):
field trip, Well, you must be the hero.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I've been doing this in terms of these so called,
as you call them, field trips to the White House.
Typically they tend to briefing.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Been doing it for two decades now.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
So I obviously enjoyed introducing these journalism future journalists perhaps
to the White House and they get a big thrill
of it. And of course they got to meet the
White House Press Secretary as well, Caroline Levitt on Friday,
so that was a big thrill for them as well.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
Shout out to Caroline for taking the time.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
To chat with them real quickly. Is it Georgetown or American?
Where are you would.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I'm on the faculty at both Georgetown University and GW University,
on the law faculty at GW.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, but these kids were from Georgetown.
Speaker 11 (23:33):
Right, These kids were from GW. Actually, I teach a.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Course called Covering the White House that's always taught in
the fall, and then I teach at GW in the spring.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, they had a great field trip and I enjoyed.
You share with me, great reporting, John Decker, as always,
Mahon today, you get tomorrow. This is your Morning Show
with Michael Del Truno. Today marks three years since Russia
launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Mahon coming to
the White House UK tomorrow. And as for the Ukrainian President,
(24:06):
Vladimir Zurlinsky says he'd stepped down if it would bring
peace for his country. There is method to the Trump madness,
and things seem to be going his way. Peace talk underway,
peace coming to Russian Ukraine, a future for Ukraine and
Selensky isn't a part of it. Sounds like it's going
Donald Trump's way. And then we mentioned Dan Bongino will
be stepping down. My wife is very sad, and maybe
(24:27):
she'll start listening to this show for a change, please,
she I think in a pecking order, it goes Megan Kelly,
Dan Bongino then me, so at least I come at
third with my own wife. But yeah, Dan Bongino's gonna
be stepping down from I think, why don't you You know,
Jeff Red, that's part of your job, so I don't
have to keep speculating. Do you have the latest ranking
(24:49):
of podcasts? Because I think man Bongino's in the top five,
and that's saying something. I mean, we have seven million
plus podcasts. There's only really five to ten that have
broken throat, and they surpass anything in the media now,
and he's one of them. Not to mention Cumulus, which
has never been a big fan of Remember he threatened
(25:10):
to just leave his contract over their COVID laws and
then they caved on their COVID laws with him. But
I don't think he has much loyalty to Cumulus and
Cumulus as a big hole now because they're one of
the most popular national shows just said bye bye as
Dan Bongino was named deputy director of the FBI. Is
the left quaking in its boots now? They got Cash
(25:32):
Patel and Dan Bongino out to restore law and Order.
That's an a wow of top story. The far left
carnage continues as MSNBC announces Joy Reid and her evening show,
which I believe is the seven pm Eastern hour with
(25:54):
plummeting ratings, has been canceled. Her final episode of the
read Out is set sometime this week, and it will
be replaced by a panel show co hosted by Smoe
Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele, which I think
they were doing what Saturday and Sunday Morning read for MSNBC.
(26:14):
I do not watch MSNBC, but Rebecca Kutler is the
new president for MSNBC and she's looking to save the
network from dismal ratings. What is dismal ratings? Let's look
up dismal ratings in the dictionary and see what pops up.
So this comes back to something I always stress, I
(26:37):
don't know how these cable networks MSNBC, CNN, and even
Fox for that matter, pay all these salaries with these ratings.
One guy, Joe Rogan sits in his basement and reaches
tens of millions of people. MSNBC you think is so big,
(27:01):
but kind of like the Wizard of Oz behind a curtain.
Opened the curtain and there's really nothing there. How do
any of these people still have a job? I remember
I said this to David Zonat and he was like,
that can't be right. I said, oh, it's right now
in your mind and certainly in their own mind with
(27:21):
their egos. You think MSNBC is bigger than KRMG and Tuls,
Oklahoma in nineteen ninety three, don't you? But it's not.
I did Afternoon Drive four to six pm in tuls Oklahoma,
the sixty fourth market in America, and I had one
hundred thousand weekly listeners. Meanwhile, MSNBC with forty five thousand
(27:47):
viewers during the day and just sixty three thousand viewers
twenty five to fifty four in the peak hours of night.
First of all, how do you even have a network
with just sixty three thousand viewers twenty five to fifty for?
Who the heck is propping this up? Who would buy
advertising on that? How are you paying all of these salaries?
(28:12):
Your model doesn't even exist. And I got news for
the new president and I get firing. You know, maybe
it's a good start to fire Joy, but I don't
care who you bring in from the weekend morning show.
Where are you going with that? You think that's gonna
take you from sixty three thousand to ten million? This
(28:38):
goes back over a decade. CNN went all in on
far left politics. They abandoned news, and they were the
(28:59):
first for an all left political channel. Now they got
tricked into it. They started with all news, and they
went to CNN Headline News, and they took CNN and
made it all primetime talk shows. And then they just
slowly they started with Crossfire, but then it started leaking
left with Larry King. Then I went far left after
(29:20):
Larry was gone. But MSNBC they were the ones that
went all in as the Obama network, And I thought
to myself, and what the hell are you gonna be?
Once Obama's gone, whether it's four or eight years, then
what are you? And then when Hillary didn't win, an
obstruction and opposition to Trump became the whole gang. And
(29:43):
now everybody's behind Trump and the happy days are here again.
You're down to forty five thousand daytime viewers. That's less
than half of how many people listened to me on
KRMG in nineteen ninety three. And I was even John Arling.
(30:04):
Shout out to John Early. He and my father the
two best morning men I ever heard in my life.
Maybe Larry Luchakka close third. When you slip it through
the cable channel, think of all the lighting, Think of
all the makeup, Think of all the short dresses, Think
of all the salaries, Think of all the producers and
(30:26):
cubes on a different floor. How the heck are you
paying for all this with forty five thousand viewers? How
have these people been getting away with these salaries for
so long? No one's watching fire Joy Reid? Why not
just turn the whole darn thing off to be better
(30:50):
off with HGTV two. Ukrainian President Zelensky says he's willing
to resign if that would lead to peace or even
NATO membership.
Speaker 12 (31:00):
The Ukrainian president made the offer at a news conference Sunday,
saying quote, if it is peace for Ukraine and you
really want me to leave my post, I'm ready. Zelenski
also said he would also trade his position for immediate
NATO membership if it means the safety of his country.
This follows public disputes with President Trump last week, after
Trump implied Zelensky was responsible for Ukraine's war with Russia
(31:24):
and called the Ukrainian leader a dictator. Zelenski also insisted
that he does not intend to stay in power for decades.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'm Lisa Carton. Well. Francis remains in critical condition, blood
tests now showing signs of kidney failure.
Speaker 13 (31:37):
Vatican officials say he is still getting supplemental oxygen to
help him breathe as he fights double pneumonia, and there
has been no new respiratory crisis. However, the eighty eight
year old did have some mild kidney failure, which the
Vatican says is under control.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
To my Catholic brothers and sisters, pray for your pope.
Francis continues to be vigilant and well oriented. Francis took
part holding mass on Sunday, but the condition continues to deteriorate.
President Donald Trump is announcing Dan Bongino will serve as
the next deputy director of the FBI. Can you imagine
where's your Maxine Waters quote? Where she's going? We don't
(32:14):
know what they have on us. Yeah, we don't know
what all they have on us. Who's that at the door?
Oh it's Dan Bongino. A cash battel was Trump wrote
in a post on True Social that Bongino was a
man of incredible love and passion for our country. You
know that really is a perfect description of him, isn't it.
(32:36):
Bongino Lee's behind his radio show with Cumulus Media, Inc.
Also one of his top ten rated podcasts. He once
served in the NYPD and for Secret Service. He will
now join Cash Battel at the FBI. Former Army chief
of Staff and noticed who they chose to talk to,
says President Trump's firing of the Chairman of the Joint
(32:56):
Chiefs of Staff is tremendously destabilizing to the US.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
Milit Harry I'm hearing at ABC's this week, retired General
George Casey warned of the danger of sudden senior personnel changes.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
When you remove so many senior leaders, especially without justifying
and giving due cause, and creates huge uncertainty in the ranks.
Speaker 14 (33:17):
Casey said military leaders shouldn't be punished for following orders
given by a previous presidential administration. General George Brown Junior
was fired Friday night in the move critics say was
an effort by Trump to get rid of diversity initiatives.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
In the US military.
Speaker 14 (33:31):
I'm Tammy triheo.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
As we talked to the one person he fired before
the one he fired five minutes a day light exercise
that could cut your risk of dementia who study from
Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found
that thirty five minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise per week.
I think you should be doing thirty five a day,
(33:55):
but that's just me. Maybe a little weightlifting and cut
down on the fat and carbs. Anyway, thanks to a
forty just the thirty five minutes a week cuts to
it leads to a forty one percent lower risk of
dementia over a four year period. The risk continued to
drop the more exercise people got. Obviously, today's a big
day for snackers breed tennis with what you'll be reaching
for later today.
Speaker 15 (34:15):
Today we celebrate the humble tortilla chip, the sturdy base
of chips and salsa. We've been eating the crunchy nuggets
of flour and corn since the forties, brought to the
masses by a tortilla factory in La that cut unsellable
misshaped tortillas into triangles and toss them in the fryar.
So today thank the Coronza family for creating a food
based on scraps. We two hundred and thirty million of
(34:37):
them every year, but watch it. They are not locale,
especially with toppings. I'm Bree Tennis.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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