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 The Department of Justice will begin sharing the Epstein files with Congress on Friday meanwhile is a shakeup coming at the FBI? Could Dan Bongino be on his way out? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL is here with the story.

As peace talks unfold between Ukraine and Russia, some are asking whether the security guarantees will mean U.S. boots on the ground. White House Correspondent JON DECKER discusses that possibility. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Charm seven minutes after the hour, Good morning, and welcome
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Jeffer's got the sound. Red's keeping an eye on the content.
As peace talks unfold between Ukraine and Russia, some are
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the We'll talk to White House correspondent John Decker about that. Also,

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they're always revealing, often entertaining your sounds the day.

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They're coming your way. Next half hour, just waking up.

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The White House says Putin has agreed to begin the
next phase of the peace process. Hurricane Aaron will not
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Speaker 4 (01:26):
A visit to your morning show. Later in the third hour,
the Department of.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Justice will begin sharing Epstein files with Congress on Friday. Meanwhile,
is a shakeup coming at the FBI with all the
scoop and nothing but the scoops, so help him. Are
your morning show National correspondent Roy O'Neil is with us.
Good morning, Rory, Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
There, Michael, Yeah, it's yeah, good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Let's start with the Epstein files. Trip trip trip right. Well,
that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
So the Justice Department was supposed to turn over all
the files by yesterday, and the read instead to start
releasing things on Friday. Now, these are all going to
the House Oversight Committee with Chairman Comer, and he's going
to start releasing the files after they are redacted.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Now by the House Committee.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So let's see what those redactions are, how much they're
being redacted, and then do we get a drip, drip
drip of these files to keep this story in the
headlines or is it something more of fire hose where
everything's released all at once.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think it's got to be drip, drip, drip, after all,
most of the act I mean, what the American people
are concerned about is who was involved, uh right, who
has helped you know, who participated in violating these women.
The problem is the defendant, the accused is dead, the
trial never happened. The names are not a black book.

(02:47):
They came out in deposition, they've been redacted as the
investigation has been sealed by judges, that hasn't been released.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
What could they possibly see? Well, what we might get
is throughout these hearings. Remember Attorney General Barr just testified
behind closed doors on Monday. He was ag when Epstein
was indicted in when he killed himself. So let's see
if we get some more leaks. If there's more, you know,
the more names tossed around in the mix as these
members of Congress take part in some of these closed

(03:18):
door hearings.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, I mean, basically, in his statements, you can you
can take Trump and trump interference off the table from
bar the other attorneys that were involved. They basically said,
there's nobody in office currently, right, not that everybody's dead,
but those that were involved are either dead or not

(03:41):
in office anymore.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
That clears Trump, none of it clears Clinton.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I just don't know what more could possibly be in
this that we don't already know.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Right, that doesn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, if it doesn't do anything more than embarrass people
or perhaps lead to future litigation, that may be another
part of it. Yeah, the Clintons have also been subpoened.
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton had been subpoened by this
committee to testify in the fall. So we'll see how
much more work this committee wants to get done. But
clearly the issue isn't going away. I know Congress has

(04:15):
gone away, but when they come back, I'm sure this
is going to be front and center again.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Boy, nobody gave up more than Dan Bongino, Right. He
was sitting pretty much second or third in all of
podcasting for a long time. Now again there's Joe Rogan
and everybody else, but he was right up there. This
guy walks away from that to service country, joined the FBI,
and ever since arriving he's been rumored leaving.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
What's the latest.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, look, we know he wanted the Epstein files out there.
That was a big part of his podcast and he
wanted to disclose all this information. And apparently he had
a pretty high profile falling out with the Attorney General
on fourth of July weekend when she said there would
be no more release of the files and they were
not going to prosecute anyone else.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
So there was the big falling out.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
So now they announced earlier this week that the mis
Zury Attorney General is going to be the co deputy
director of the FBI. How would you look at, nice
young co host to come along, Michael? How would you
feel about your job? And that's that's the issue, Like this,
does this mean that Bongino is being forced out or
does he want to leave? And they're just trying to
cover for it and begin the process if he does

(05:19):
end up back on the podcast or I'm sure we're
gonna hear quite a bit about it.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
You mean you're not my co host?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
No, we have to talk to my agent about that.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Check Roy'll be back in the third hour, unemployment remains low,
but the labor force is shrinking and that could be
a big problem.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Or he has that story in our third hour.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
And did I mention John Fogerty on the show today?
I know we had one talkback that was kind of negative.
I'll tell you what I'm aware of, and it was
irrelevant in the determination of whether to talk to John Fogerty.
I do know that, I do know that he's kind
of chummy with Bruce Springsteen. Bruce Springsteen is one that

(06:01):
if I had the chance to have Bruce Springsteen on
the show, based on the things he has done and said,
I probably wouldn't do it. I know I wouldn't do it.
That's not being shallow, that's not being petty. I'm just
not comfortable trusting myself if I had Bruce Springsteen on
the show. John Fogerty, you know he's chummy with Bruce Springsteen,
and he did do a cease and desist on the

(06:23):
Trump campaign team.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Using one of his songs.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I doubt he's a fan of President Trump, and I'll
give him a chance to certainly be wrong about that.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Can you hold that up one more time?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Real quick?

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Because I didn't see which one it was. Now that
we have more than one, praise the Lord.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
But you know, so John Fogerty's made, you know, a
mild inference that he's not a Trump fan. I'm able
to put that aside for the story of John Fogerty,
the lifetime of music that was taken from him and
finally gets it back at eighty and Will has the

(07:01):
physical abilities to celebrate it with a new album with
his kids, which are a family story, and do so
with a tour with his kids. I think that's worth telling,
and that's worth celebrating and putting a difference aside that
I hope he'll realize someday. He seems to get things

(07:23):
right in the long run often maybe he'll get it
right about Trump as well. But I didn't feel like
that was disqualifying to have John Fogerty, and I don't
think you know, all of you have to be careful.
I have some very dear friends who are very anti Trump.
Does it affect their friendship to some degree, but really
it's the things behind it. You know, If the difference

(07:44):
is really the life of babies, that becomes a bigger
problem than to me whether or not you support an
R and office or a D in office. We just
got to love people beyond differences and in spite of
our differences. So I hope if there's any of you
that are of that, I would even talk to John Fogerty.
I hope certainly that's not the case. And I don't
think his offenses are worthy of that either. Bruce Springsteen's

(08:08):
probably anyway. The Democrats' biggest problem is a war within,
and I say this repetition is the mother of all learning.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's also aggravating, so I won't do a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
But the socialist movement, the socialist Justice movement within the
Democrat Party is a parasite. Its goal is to take
over the party, not defeat Republicans. Defeat the Democrats and
take it over first and foremost. They will tell you
that that's why they target Democrats, not Republicans. AOC replaced

(08:45):
a ten term Democrat in New York State. That's their
biggest problem, the division within, and they've been winning and
the party is now not only perceived soist, it's embracing
that direction. That's why Mamdani socialist communist Islamist isn't a problem.

(09:12):
He's the direction. That's the biggest problem. Now, how is
that manifested in symptom? They've been on the wrong side
of every hill. Part of that is a Trump derangement syndrome.
Part of that is they're no longer an opposition party.
They're no longer even an obstruction party. They're an out

(09:32):
of control insurrectionist party, and they will make that final move.
My prayer is that this building falls and doesn't hurt anybody,
that it becomes so diluted, so irrelevant, it doesn't have
the ability to start a civil war. And I think

(09:54):
if they did start a civil war, they would do
it in the inner cities. And just as they conditioned
us all with Black Lives Matter and Antifa prior to
the twenty twenty election, because the ultimate plan was if
Trump got re elected, insurrection They admitted in a Time
magazine manifesto shadow campaign to save the democracy. That was

(10:15):
your first clue if you missed it. They'll do whatever
they have to do to save the democracy. Now, democracy
is not democracy. In fact, we're a constitutional representative republic.
Democracy is their party, their platform, their worldview, their policy views,
and anybody that disagrees with them is an insurrectionist. Anybody

(10:35):
that votes against their candidate is a threat to democracy.
It won't just this whole threat to democracy won't just
end when Trump is gone, I assure you, because they've
conflated that with them. So that's their biggest problem. And
now they have fought and died on unwinnable hills, whether

(10:58):
it's the border, whether it's inner crime, whether it's they're
now rooting for crime in our cities and rooting for
war in the world. It's insanity. They got another problem.
There's another scoreboard that takes a simple glance.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Money.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
It takes money to win state offices, it takes money
to win presidencies. And they went through one point five
billion dollars in one hundred and seven days. Money can't
buy you love, and it can't buy you a presidency
with a bad candidate like Kamala Harris. And so you
have the grassroots which is splintered the grass tops and

(11:40):
the money and the bundlers, and they're confused in waiting.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
What is this party?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Because I'm not writing blank checks to Islamist I'm not
writing blank checks to communists, I'm not writing blank checks
to socialists, and I'm not writing blank checks to parties
that don't have an intent, a platform, a message, or
a leader. Translation this story, if the scoreboard is bank account,

(12:11):
the Democrats are trailing Republicans heading into a midterm election huge.
They've only got fifteen million dollars on hand at the
end of June, compared to the Republican National Committee that
has eighty million. I don't know where to look on

(12:33):
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Speaker 4 (14:01):
Michael. This is your Morning show with Michael del Chono.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
The difference between John Fogerty and Bruce Springstein. Fogery actually
has some talent.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I can't argue with that.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
John Fogerty out with a new album, touring with his
Suns this fall. He'll join us next hour on your
morning show. Hey Top five stories of the day. The
White House says Putin has agreed to begin the next
phase of the peace process.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Mark Mayfield has more.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Press Secretary Colonel Line Levitt said that includes a possible
meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky that could
lead to a trilateral with President Trump.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
So we finally have movement after years of deadly gridlock.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
She sent Vice President Jan d Vance and other US
officials will continue to coordinate with Russia and Ukraine. Trump
hosted Zelenski and several European leaders at the White House
on Monday to discuss the war. Levitt also reiterated Trump's
assurance that he will not put American troops on the
ground in Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
The White mark me view.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
The White House is touting hundreds of arrests made during
Trump's crime crackdown in our nation's capital. Brian shook you
all morning long reports.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt highlighted what's been done so far.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
President Trump's efforts to make DC safe again are working.
There have been a total of four hundred and sixty
five arrests since the start of this operation. On Thursday, August.

Speaker 7 (15:23):
Seventh, Several Republican led states have sent hundreds of National
Guard troops to DC to assist.

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I'm Brian Shook.

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Nearly a third of businesses are likely to increase prices
by the end of the year.

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Chris Caragio has more.

Speaker 8 (15:36):
A new report by lending Tree found that more than
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Lending Trees report also found that businesses in Rhode Island,
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to say they expect to increase prices in the coming months.
Survey results come during a period of uncertainty over President
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(18:20):
don't conflate redistricting, which is necessary for a constitutional representative republic.
As people vote with their feet and move, the populace
has to be represented and that has to be adjusted.
Don't conflate that with jerry mandering, which is the abuse
of that. Now the Democrats, they like to say jerry
mandering is only a threat to democracy if Republicans are

(18:41):
doing it, but ignore how they do it. If it's wrong,
it's wrong for either to do and if it's wrong,
we the people should stop it. And that starts by
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(19:04):
Boston Gazette a reaction to the redrawing of the Massachusetts
State Senate election districts under Governor Eldridge. Jerry, the governor Jerry.
And by the way, when the Democrats try to portray
this as something new that Trump is doing, it began
in eighteen twelve in Massachusetts. All Right, his peace talks

(19:24):
unfold between Ukraine and Russia. Some are asking this security guarantee?
What does it mean? Could it equal boots on the ground.
White House correspondent John deckeris here. He spent the day
during that amazing summit. Not that we got to brief
you due to technical difficulties, but I think that's probably
the greatest breakthrough, and that goes back to the Alaska

(19:45):
summit with putin that the president would be allowed to
provide security guarantees that putin would allow it that you
would have like the benefits of NATO without Ukraine being
in NATO. But now the real question is the devil's
in the details. What does that mean, including boots on
the ground.

Speaker 10 (20:02):
Well, that's right, the devil is in the details. You
are absolutely correct, Michael. And we heard from Russia yesterday
they're Foreign Ministry spokeswomen essentially ruling out the security guarantees
that have been proposed by the US. So what President
Trump has said is I said, I think essentially optimism
that Russia will ultimately greenlight the idea of a European

(20:28):
force boots on the ground, backed up by the US.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Perhaps air support.

Speaker 10 (20:33):
But it really is ultimately up to Russia as to
whether or not those security guarantees can be put in place.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
And they would only be exercised if there was a
violation or an intrusion, right.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Or not? Or would they be.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, because this whole new Article five type, I don't
know what that is. There's Article five and I don't
know what Article five double secret probation.

Speaker 10 (20:56):
Sir, Well, No, these troops, which would number in the thousands,
would be provided by countries like the UK and Germany
and France. They are boots on the ground, they are there,
they are there after a peace deal has reached to
prevent any type of incursion by Russia at any time
in the future. And when you talk about Article five,

(21:18):
what the reference is is a section of the NATO
Charter which says an attack on one is an attack
on all.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
And so that would simply.

Speaker 10 (21:27):
Mean that if Russia has an incursion and they attack
a German troop who's on the ground in Ukraine, that's
an attack essentially on all. That's an attack on the
NATO Defense Alliance, and that would get the US potentially
involved in a conflict with Russia.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
White House correspondent John Decker is joining us.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
That was a big eie for Zelenski, and that's why
if it were true, or if it becomes true, that's
a major leap towards finding peace and an end of
this war. The other is what land they have in
What land is granted? I don't think any land is
going to be granted. I think at some point the
land that they had prior to the invasion might be

(22:08):
the next hurdle. But what you're suggesting is both are
still hurdles. They're both hurdles. There's a lot of details.
The President, he's an optimistic person. We know that about him, Michael,
and I think that's a great trait for the president.
But the reality is, you can't get to a bilateral meeting,
which is what the President has suggested would take place first,
until you get these details worked out. You need to

(22:30):
get details worked out as far as territorial concessions, as
far as security.

Speaker 10 (22:35):
Guarantees, and then as far as the meeting itself. Where
does it take place, Michael, When does it take place,
Who's in the meeting? All those things need to be
worked out. And for those reasons that we have a
lot of things that haven't been answered. I don't think
that meeting happens in the next few days. It could
be weeks off, but you know, we'll have to wait

(22:57):
and see. A lot of this has moved so quickly
you think about it. President Trump's in Alaska on Friday,
He's meeting with President Zelensky in the Oval Office on Monday.
A lot of this has moved quickly, so maybe this
will move quickly as well.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
You know, one of the questions you asked that made
the biggest news was about a ceasefire. And you know,
the President made some really good points, how many ceasefires
if we had in the Middle East and we still
don't have an end of that war. We're getting some progress,
and it's really coming from Hamas agreeing to Arab demands,
which was the strategy that Trump implemented early in that

(23:30):
visit to Cutter and to Saudi Arabia that I think
is so key to the future and lasting peace having
Arab watch that Gaza area rather than the US and Israel.
But what's interesting to me is you brought up cease
fire and you say, well, so oftentimes ceasefire is just
the time to regroup and get your amo back up.
I think we can get to peace without a ceasefire.

(23:52):
I thought that was very interesting.

Speaker 10 (23:55):
Well, it's not a position that's shared. And we heard
this in the East room. I was there in the
East room and German Chancellor Mert said.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
He wants a ceasefire.

Speaker 10 (24:03):
That's all he spoke about when he was given time
to make a statement. All he spoke about was the
desire to get a seasefire in place. And when French
President Emmanuel Matt Croun spoke in the East room, I
was there. All he spoke about was the desire for
a ceasefire. So this is one of those rare areas
that we're seeing, Michael, of disagreement with the European allies

(24:25):
in terms of what needs to be done next, what
the next steps are to getting to.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
A peace deal.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
All right, last question, because I know you need to go.
But I was talking to Mike Gonzalez at the Heritage
Foundation senior fellow, lifelong military and he said, really, the
one that could end this the quickest is China. When
China says okay, this is enough. Donald Trump is appearing
to be a world leader. He's sitting behind the desk
in the Oval Office with all these leaders. This is

(24:51):
not going well. We can't win. You can't win long term,
you can't win short term. Time to take the offering?
What is the silent role of China all this? And
has there been much talk about it? I've said that years.

Speaker 10 (25:04):
Ago, I did, I've said it on your show, Michael.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Mister Gonzales is correct.

Speaker 10 (25:10):
China is one of those players that can influence President Putin,
perhaps the only player that can influence President Putin. And
if president she says Vlad enough let's you know, declare
victory whatever that is and go home.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
We've got to move on from this.

Speaker 10 (25:30):
That would be a big moment as it relates to
ending this warle.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
And most relevantly to the moment because I need your gas.
Move on dot org. Great reporting has always missed you yesterday.
Nice to have you, Michael.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
All right, that's John Decker, our White House correspondent, And
you're just.

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Speaker 5 (25:57):
The center of Aaron is churning less than five hundred
south southeast of Cape Panteris, North Carolina. It's forecast to
move between the US East Coast and Bermuda on Wednesday
and Thursday, with high serve and rip currents expected from
Massachusetts to the Carolinas. Some residents in the mid Atlantic
have already evacuated, including along parts of North Carolina's outer banks,

(26:17):
which is under a coastal flooding threat.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
By Mark Neefield, Nearly a third of businesses are likely
to increase prices by.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
The end of the year.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
A new report by lending Tree found that more than
thirty percent of businesses surveyed said they expect their prices
will be higher in six months than they are now,
while only five percent said that their prices will go
down and sixty five percent said their prices will remain steady.
Lending Trees report also found that businesses in Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Vermont were most likely

(26:47):
to say they expect to increase prices in the coming months.
Survey results come during a period of uncertainty over President
Trump's tariff rollout and continued pressure from inflation. I'm Chris Caracio.
That's virtually all blue days.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
The prices of some popular weight loss drugs, they're going
to be slashed for cash paying patients.

Speaker 11 (27:05):
Pharmaceutical company No Vote nor Disk is offering Ozampic and
Wagovy for half price four hundred and ninety nine dollars
a month for those who pay for the drugs out
of pocket. Eli Lilly, the maker of Munjaro and zep found,
has been doing the same for months. The cash payoffer
will expand access to eligible type two diabetes patients who

(27:27):
don't have insurance coverage for the weekly injections. The move
comes as drug makers face pressure from the Trump administration
to lower drug costs in the US.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
John Fogerty is celebrating his new album with an iHeartRadio
Icons performance. The CCR co founder is releasing a re
recorded version of classic songs.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
The name of the album is Legacy. The Cretan's Clearwater Revival.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Years John's version and give Folgerdy full rights to his
old songs for the first time in decades. It's a
twenty track album features newly recorded versions up around the
ben Have you ever seen the Rain Traveling Band?

Speaker 4 (28:06):
And so many more.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
You'll be making a tour this fall with his sons
and a visit here on your morning show Next Hour.
Emma heming Willis opening up about her husband, Bruce Willis's
dementia diagnosis.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Brian Shook reports heming Willis told Diane Sawyer about Bruce
developing fronto temporal dementia that forced him to retire from
acting in twenty twenty three. The interview comes ahead of
the release of her new book titled The Unexpected Journey
Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path. Heming
Willis says the book is for anyone caregiving a loved

(28:41):
one with dementia or any other condition.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 10 (28:46):
It's your morning show with Michael del Churno.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
Ladies and gentlemen live all the way from down the street.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Would you please make wealth them? Michael Bill, join note
and your demoning ship. We gotta do it.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
We got them doing now at introductions, let's get the
sounds of the day. Alright, our this is CNN, this
is the news, and that's why more people are watching
the cartoon networks.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Thunge Lobbery runs right now. I'm a big ad democratic.
This is like a gold stall.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
You should have a government that just minds its own
damn business.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Hitty two minutes after the hour, always revealing, often entertaining
time for the sounds of the day. Let's get the
Mayor of War of Boston in here. As you know,
the president is just threatening democracy and seizing control of
our cities.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Is our response.

Speaker 12 (29:39):
Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures. Unlike
the Trump administration, Boston follows the law.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yeah, they have these gatherings, and.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Again, I think most Americans can see that our inner
cities are struggling with crime, and that there's been woke policies,
anti police sentiments, and prosecutors letting people write out the
back door. So the President, of course is trying to
secure peace. He started in Washington, DC. He's made suggestions

(30:20):
of other cities. Possibly already on the extreme is Boston.
As for the Trump advisor, he's never in a lack
of words. Here's Stephen Miller responding.

Speaker 13 (30:37):
The Democrat Party is an extremist organization.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Sean.

Speaker 13 (30:41):
It's not a political party in any normal sense of
the word. A political party represents Americans, who represents law
abiding citizens.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
All you see all day.

Speaker 13 (30:50):
Long are crazy Democrats screeching on TV on behalf of
foreign terrorists, hardened criminals, and violencing legal aliens. A political
party exclusively dedicated to protecting terrorists, criminals, gang bankers, and murderers.
That's what they become. These sanctuary city mayors. Do you

(31:11):
have Jason very clear?

Speaker 4 (31:13):
They had a deadline and they violated it. They had
a deadline to.

Speaker 13 (31:16):
Comply with federal law and hand over the criminally legal
aliens in their custody, the child rapists, the child predators,
the drug traffickers, the human traffickers, the sanctuary cities Light
Boston refused to turn over these menacing threats to public safety,
and so now they faced not only revocation of funds,
not only the loss of taxpayer support, but also potential

(31:40):
criminal charges for harboring and smuggling.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Now they may have a narrative locally in their city,
and they may have people that are staunch Democrats in
their city that support this kind of resistance, but it's
an eighty twenty hill for the nation watching, and that's
a problem for the Democrat Party. The Democrat rule in
these inner cities is the problem for the citizens. The

(32:05):
problem for the Democrat Party is they need to pivot
back towards the American people, and they continue to pivot
further left as they go from not just being an
opposition party or an obstructionist party, but really a derange
Trump deranged party. As for the White House, Sweet Caroline

(32:25):
love It, she briefed members.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
With this, It's very important to remember that before President
Trump's landslide victory last November, there was no end in
sight to this bloodshed now there may finally be light
at the end of the tunnel and an opportunity for
lasting peace. That's because President Trump is the peace president
and American leadership is back on the world stage. It
should not be lost on anyone in this room that

(32:49):
world leaders are coming right here to Washington, d C.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
For help.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
While previous presidents have traveled halfway around the world to
apologize for America, Rump stands up for America, and he
has firmly restored America's status as the undisputed leader of
the free world. However, one thing that has absolutely not
changed is the media's negative and downright false coverage of
President Trump and his foreign policy accomplishments. From the beginning

(33:17):
of this entire process, much of the left wing media
has been actively rooting against the President of the United
States in the pursuit of peace. Initially, the media ridiculously
claimed that President Trump was somehow beholden to Russia for
even agreeing to have a face to face discussion with
President Putin. Inside of the United States, the media said

(33:37):
President Trump was making a grave mistake by quote legitimizing Putin.
They were aghast that President Trump would treat another world
leader like a world leader. The media relentlessly attacked President
Trump and claimed he suffered a quote major defeat for
not immediately emerging with a final agreement, even though he
said heading into that meeting, this was a meeting to

(33:58):
listen and to understand how to move.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
The ball forward.

Speaker 6 (34:01):
All weekend following those historic US Russia bilateral talks, we
listened to clueless pundits on television trying but failing to
claim that the President had failed.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Oh, she's a superstar. Yeah, the.

Speaker 14 (34:15):
Terroriffs never led to an economic terraf war, collapse of
the market, collapse of the economy, the securing of the
border never led to it.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
I mean, it's just been wrong about everything. I want
to end with this one. Is the President really trying
to go to heaven?

Speaker 6 (34:36):
I know the President said on Box News this morning
that he's partially seeking peace in order to get to heaven.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Was he joking or is there a spiritual motivation behind
his peace deals here?

Speaker 9 (34:47):
I think the President was serious.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
I think President wants to get to heaven, as I
hope we all do in this.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Room as well.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
It won't be based on his works, It'll be on
the perfect work of the Cross. But Blessed are the peacemakers.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
She's going to get smoked. He's got two of them stopped.
I really don't know what he says at the end
of this.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
That is Pounds of the Day for this Wednesday, August
the twentieth. It's got to be a big bit of
Itident Trump's.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Looking to end in mail in voting.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Why is it necessary?

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Will visit with David Sinati about that next Also John.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Fogerty, We're all in this together. This is your Morning
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