Rod Arquette Show: How the Media hid Joe Biden's Cognitive Status... and is trying to hide Kamala Harris' "Border Czar" Title

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, July 25, 2024

4:20 pm: Ellie Gardey Holmes, a reporter and Associate Editor for American Spectator, joins Rod for a conversation about how the media tried to hide Joe Biden’s cognitive issues.

4:38 pm: Charles Lipson, Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Chicago, joins Rod to discuss his piece in The Spectator on how Joe Biden’s address to the nation on Wednesday felt like he was delivering his own eulogy.

6:05 pm: Jim Burling, Vice President of Legal Affairs for the Pacific Legal Foundation, joins the program to discuss how, because of the recent Supreme Court ruling, California Governor Gavin Newsom has given orders to dismantle thousands of homeless encampments.

6:20 pm: Spencer Lindquist, a field reporter with The Daily Wire, joins the show for a conversation about how the media is now denying Kamala Harris was ever appointed the “border czar” despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

6:38 pm: Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies joins the show for a conversation about the extremist views of Kamala Harris when it comes to border policy.

Episode Transcript

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How are you, everybuddy, Hello, Utah, Welcome to the rod Arcuatchow
on this Thursday afternoon. Great tobe with you. We have got a
lot to get to as we doeach and every day. Coming up,
we're going to be talking about howthe media is already trying to hide some
of the issues facing Kamala Harris.We'll talk about that. We'll talk about

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Joe Biden. He delivered a eulogylast night wasn't very good, and we'll
get into that a little bit lateron. Of course, we're going to
be talking about Gavin Newsom in thestate of California has now issued an executive
order calling on all communities to removehomeless camps. Now, California is probably

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the worst in the nation when itcomes to a homeless population. I think
a large majority of homeless people inthis country today reside in California. The
Supreme Court set a couple of weeksago that communities do have a right to
push people off public property, andprivate owners have that same right as well.
I don't know if anything's been donehere in Utah with Aaron Mendenhall,

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I doubted, but Gavin Newsom issuingin executive order today calling for the removal
of all homeless camps in California.We'll get into that as well, plus
a little bit later on, howwere the Democrats able to pull it off
in getting Joe Biden to quit.We'll get into all of that. So
we've got a lot to get totoday, and as always, we invite

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talk about a couple of things thatare circulating today that I think are interesting.

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You know, one of the questionsthat we've had since the attempted assassination
attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania backon July thirteenth is what was the motive?
You know, we all want toknow the reason why this twenty year
old kid climbed up up on someroof and decided to take some shots at
the former president. So what isthe motive? We don't know as of

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yet, right. I mean,that's the official narrative from federal authorities,
which is kind of you know,you're hearing this all the time. We
don't know. We don't know,according to the FBI, and they're working
to establish one. There could betoday and this is just breaking today.
A social media clue that possibly couldpoint us all in the right direction.

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It's a platform that has a reputationof being a haven for neo Nazis and
other lunatics. Thomas Matthew Crooks allegedlyhad an account on a website or a
social media platform called gab gab gabwhere he voiced his support for Joe Biden

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COVID lockdowns in Biden's immigration policies.Now, the founder of this website,
his name is Andrew Torbo, postedremarks made allegedly by Crooks on his site
per request from law enforcement. Andthis what he said. Thomas Matthew Crooks
made nine posts on gab supporting PresidentBiden, COVID lockdowns and Biden's for immigration

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policies, according to the founder.Now, what does that mean? Who
knows? I mean, it couldbe something, It may be nothing at
all. But this is a cluethat if the FBI knew this was going
on, why didn't they pick upon this? During a briefing to lawmakers
about the attempt. The other day, there was another account which was cited

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as evidence, but it was determineda little bit later on to be fake.
I mean, it's if you lookat this, you know, and
a lot of a lot of criticismabout what happened on July thirteenth being directed
toward the FBI and the Secret Service. Why wasn't there greater protection for the
former president? Matter of fact,there was a story out there today which

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said Joe Biden, who was speakingat the same time, I believe she
was out there, may have beenin Pennsylvania. I don't have the story
in front of me, but shewas given she had triple the protection that
Donald Trump had in Pennsylvania. Sothere are a lot of questions out there,
but we know there's a layer cakeif you want to use that description

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of incompetence and serial coincidence that arefeeding all kinds of conspiracy theories right now,
and in this rare, instant instance, you cannot dismiss those claiming something
funny is up because something is simplywrong here and at this rally, no
one was watching the biggest security vulnerabilitythe roof. And the question is why

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the woman who is in charge ofSocial Security Social Security Secret Service, Kimberly
Cheatle, is no longer there.She quit, she had to quit.
She resigned, but she couldn't answera number of questions about security. You
know. The one thing she saidwas, well, we didn't have security
on the roof because it was sloped, which would be dangerous to the agents

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to station there. Apparently not dangerousenough for a twenty year old kid to
climb on the roof and try andkill former President Donald Trump. So you
know, that's just maybe a motivetoday, maybe a slice of a motive
that's going on today about as weall look for a motive. We want
to know why this kid decided togo after President Donald Trump. And I

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think that's important. Now. Theother interesting thing that is going on concerning
the attempted assassination is that Trump wasn'tshot theory, and they're starting to proliferate
now. From the moment he wasshot, there have been people, usually
his political opponents, those on theleft and in the media, who have

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suggested that Trump was not actually shot. Are you hearing this today? There
were the usual conspiracy nuts out therewho claimed, of course this was all
made up. Remember that story.You know that Trump staged it so we
could get sympathy from voters at thetime. But there are some mainstream figure

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figures out there who are suggesting thatTrump was not hit by a bullet from
the would be assassin's gun, butrather a bit of shrapnel that came from
somewhere, and that's the theory that'srunning around. The first theory, of
course, was and I remember hearingthis theory that the bullet had actually shattered

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one of the glass teleprompter panels infront of the former president and a shard
of glass hit Trump's ear. Well, that theory, of course went out
the window because neither there are usuallytwo panes of teleprompter glass in front of
you, and neither one of themwas touched by the attempted assassination a bullet,
bullets flying all over the place,So that certainly went out the window.

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But even Christopher Ray, who's FBIdirector, during his testimony yesterday said,
you know, rai's a question.It may have been a bullet,
it may have been something else.Well, you know, the report from
the hospital where the former president wastreated listed that the reason for the injury

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was a gunshot wound. But thereare still people out there who were debating
and arguing today, Well, hewas never really hit by a bullet.
He was hit by shrapnel. Youknow the funny thing about this, Does
it really matter? In a sense, there was an assassination attempt on his
life. If he was hit bya bullet or a piece of shrapnel,

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does that really matter to you?It doesn't to me. We know he
was injured, and he was thetarget of an assassination attempt. One person
died trying to protect his family.Two other people were injured by bullets,
So I'm not sure if it wasa bullet. It sure didn't seem to
remember that picture from the New YorkTimes showing the vapor trail from the bullet.

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To me, that's a bullet andthat's what hit him. So this
whole debate, to me, it'sjust silly. And there's a lot of
silliness going on around this country rightnow, But I think it's silly to
debate whether or not he was shotby a bullet or a piece of shrapnel.
Does it really matter. Someone triedto take his life, and that's
more important than any other theory that'sbeing kicked around right down all right.

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When we come back here on theroder Kenchow, we'll talk about how the
media is trying to hide Biden andcommeless issues. That's coming up right here
on the rod Ark Kent Show.So great to be with you on this
Thursday afternoon again. If you wantto be a part of the program.
Eight eight eight five seven eight zeroone zero triple eight five seven eight zero
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right here on the rod Ark KentShow. Kamala Harris is right now making

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a few remarks. She just hada meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime
Minister of Israel, making a fewremarks. He met earlier with President Joe
Biden. You know, a lotof people are raising questions, very disappointed
in the remarks made by the Presidentlast night about his reasons for stepping down.
He really didn't answer that question.But what I find fascinating now is

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the change in the coverage of JoeBiden after the announcement on Sunday that he
in fact was stepping down. Joiningus on our Newsmaker Line to talk more
about that. As our guest,Ellie Guardi Holmes. She is a reporter
and associate editor at American ex Spectator. Ellie, how are you welcome to
the rod Ar Kent Show. Greatjourney, rod Ellie, let me ask

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you this question. How surprised areyou that just about a week ago at
this time, we were focusing andspending a lot of attention talking about Joe
Biden and his cognitive abilities. Nowthat he has announced he's not going to
seek reelection, nobody is talking aboutthat. Are you surprised at all about
that? I am a little surprisedby the total extent to which the media

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has flipped on this. A weekago, every single story was Biden's cognitive
decline. The New York Times hadall of these anonymous sources coming out and
saying that the president was listless andclueless behind the scenes. Carl Bernstein was
reporting all of these occasions where Bidenwas acting like he had totally lost it.
And now all of a sudden,that talk is completely gone. All

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that they're saying is Biden is ahero for dropping out, even though he
was really forced out, and they'rejust totally ignoring the concerns about his cargnitive
decline. During that speech, hewas really learning what he was saying.
He was really struggling. And Idon't think I heard anyone in the mainstream
media address that. Why aren't theyrecognize it anymore? Have they just realized,

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well, he's out, we don'thave to worry about it anymore.
But he is going to be presidentof the United States for the next six
months, Elie, I if I'mcorrect, right, it seems like they
can't just move on like this.I mean, he has six months left
though president. If he can't spendthree months campaigning, how can he go
on for another half year as president? It just seems like he should have

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resigned. He should have last Thereason he stopped running is because of his
cognitive decline. So it's unbelievable thatthe media isn't asking the simple question,
if you can't run, can yoube the president? Ellie? What about
this? You know, he didnot answer the question everybody wanted to answer
last night, you know, whyare you leaving the race? He didn't

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even really get into that, didhe. Right, Well, he didn't
have to get into it because heanswered the question. By the way he
delivered his remarks, he was soold and tired and learning that the answer
for leaving was quite clear. Hedidn't even have to say it, And
it is a little embarrassing that hedidn't even have the guts to give some

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sort of explanation to the American people. He didn't have to. We all
know, you know he's lost it, but did not even give any sort
of statement as to why that's That'sa low place to lead your political career.
Act. Do you think, Kelly, that anybody will ever admit that
he the reality of the situation thatyou as you point out that Biden was
essentially forced out because of it cognitiveto decline. Will will history mention that

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in the future? What about now? Is anyone going to bring that up
or admit that's one of the reasonshe had to go Six months from now,
they can say it all they wants, but for the next six months
they're going to keep quiet. Kellie, what stands out to you from his
speech last night? Well, hecertainly looks strange. They might have added

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some botox to him. He lookedquite odd. He must have really had
some weird illness going on. ButI just it was so sad to see
him not even be able to sayanything about why he left. He answered
no questions. He just went onabout the soul of America or whatever he
was saying. I think the Americanpeople were old stumpser of explanation, and

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I think the American people wanted tohear from him directly, and to hear
from him in the sense that here'swhat has happened to me. I've gotten
to the point I can't serve anymore. I will try and serve out my
next year six months, but I'mnot going to run for president and be
your president for the next four yearsbecause of this. Why do you think
it was so difficult for him totalk about that? He is a prideful

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man. We saw that over thepast few weeks when everyone and his party
had turned against him. He's clungon even though there was no hope been
going for and he clearly lost itcognitively. Do not say anything like that.
It shows who he is as aperson, it does. Ellie,
appreciate a few minutes of your time. Thank you very much for joining us
today. Sure on our newsmaker line. That's Ellie Guardy Holmes. She's a

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reporter and an associate editor at TheAmerican Spectator. Now, before we break.
You've got to hear this. Imean, this is what it just
tore me up. I mean,nobody is talking about the fact that Joe
Biden is getting out because of hiscognitive declient. Well, there are a
number of historians out there, Democraticleaning historians who are now claiming that Joe

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Biden is similar to are you readyfor this? George Washington. George Washington
established a tradition in seventeen ninety five. George Washington, Harry Truman, and
of course President Johnson in nineteen sixtyeight. George Washington and seventeen ninety five
said if democracy is going to work, political leaders have to leave power.

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Joe Biden is doing exactly the samething. His decision is one of the
most remarkable acts of leadership in ourhistory, an act of self sacrifice that
places him in the company of GeorgeWashington, who also stepped away from the
presidency. Joe Biden on the firstnight of the Democratic National Convention in essential,
essentially giving George Washington's farewell address,saying, for the good of my

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country, I am stepping down andhanding over to a new generation, even
if it's painful for people who arearound him to watch. That is a
historic moment that we are never goingto forget as a country. You know,
I was wondering if one of thoseguys was about to say the only
difference between Joe Biden and George Washingtonwas the wooden teeth for crying out loud.
To compare Joe Biden to George Washingtonis just absolutely ridiculous. But that's

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the extent that those on the leftare going to do in defending Joe Biden.
All Right, more coming up hereon the Rod or Kencha and Utah's
Talk Radio one oh five nine.Can arrest. I think Joe Biden delivered
a eulogy for his presidency last nightand his political career. We all heard
it here on Talk Radio one ohfive nine. Canterass I think it was
sad, sluggish after decades of politicsin the Senate, two terms as vice

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president, and finally a single termas president. Joe Biden never really explained
why he was quitting, but heannounced that on Sunday and then addressed the
nation last night from the Oval Office. Well what happened last night? Joining
us on our Newsmaker line in CharlesLipson, Professor of International Politics and Meritus
at the University of Chicago. Charles, thanks for joining us tonight. You

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know, the one question that everyonewanted answered as to why he quit,
he didn't do it last night.Did he what happened? Do you think?
I don't think he did. Andin fact, I talked with friends
on both sides of the aisle,and I would say that people who are
true blue Democrat all think that hedid answer that question. But there I

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don't think he did. I thinkthat the speech had to accomplish three things.
Right. He had to explain whyhe decided to withdraw, and we
don't know why. I mean,he said, I'm passing the torch.
It was a good line for JackKennedy, but you know, it doesn't
explain. And the second he hadto convince the country he's still fit to

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serve the remaining months. And Ithought the fact that it was a weak
speech that he stumbled it was all. It was very short, it was
eleven minutes. And then he hadto do a third thing. He had
to promote the candidate candidacy of hisreplacement, Kamala Harris. I thought he

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did a decent job of that.I mean, he said, you know,
but she's going to be tagged withall of the problems of his administration
as well as her own record.So yes, he passed the time,
but it's not clear that it wasn'ta baton that was already on fire.
Yeah. Yeah. Did he accomplishanything in the speech? Do you think

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Charles Well he told us he wasleaving. Yeah, in so many words,
in so many words. Yeah,But I mean, did he accomplish
anything in this speech? I don'tthink he did, except that if you
listen to Democrats talk about it,they found it moving because it was a

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kind of valedictory to a long politicalcareer. There was a statement made years
ago by a British politician who saidthat all political careers, unless they are
cut short in midlife by some reasonlike John Kennedy's was, or RFK or

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in some ways Martin Luther King,all political careers in tragedy. And that's
certainly true for Joe Biden. Hewas forced out. We don't know exactly
how, We don't know what sticksand carrots were used. The only thing
we know is, as far aswe know, there was no horsehad in

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his bed. Yeah, I'd liketo know the financial arrangement, because you've
got to believe there's something somebody gavehim. You know, they were able
to put together a golden parachute forhim, and that really led to his
ultimate decision, Okay, my family'sprotected. I'm okay, I can leave.
Now. I've got to think there'ssome financial incentive behind this, Charles.

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Would you agree or disagree here?I would say I'm innocent of knowledge.
I mean, I just don't knowif he was told we can make
things. I mean, we've hadreporting that Nancy Pelosi, who clearly was
the engineer of all of this,said we can do this it's the easy

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way, or we can do itthe hard way. And he was given
a couple of weeks and he didn'tget out that was the easy way,
and he didn't take it, andthen she basically told him we must be
about to do it the hard way. But we don't know what that hard
way was. Now, he's beenin political life for a very long time,
and there must be a lot ofskeletons that are buried and they so

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it could be what you say,It could be carrots. It could be
that there are sticks that they weregoing to in effect going to beat him
with or his family, and Ijust don't know which it is. And
it may be that they had dataon his cognitive decline that they could have

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leaked out. So there are allthese different things. By the way,
my friends who were who are trueblue Democrats are still not acknowledging any cognitive
decline, and neither is Karine JehanPierre. You know what I find so
interesting, Charles, is here youhave these people like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck
Schumer the like, who basically triedto drag him out of that office but

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it refused to go. Now thathe has decided to leave and is not
going to seek reelection, you havepeople praising him. As a matter of
fact, I hear there are somehistorians on the Democratic side today who are
comparing him to George Washington, AndI just find that so ridiculous, Charles,
unless he has wooden teeth, Ijust don't be the comparison. Yeah,

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I mean, what is that.Look, he's a transitional figure.
If he succeeds in passing the presidencyon the Kamala Harris which seems unlikely but
possible, then he'll be viewed withmaybe somewhat in a somewhat more positive thing.
If he fails, I think he'llbe viewed the way that all of

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us who learned America and history inhigh school. There were all those anonymous
presidents between Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt,and you can't even remember their names,
you know. I think that's kindof Joe Biden. Barack Obama had one
outstanding achievement. You can like itor dislike it, but he put the

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final t stone in place for thewelfare state, that is universal health insurance,
something Democrats have been seeking since HarryTruman. And so that was a
major achievement thanks to the vote ofJohn McCain, who switched his vote at
the last minute out of personal peak. But name and achievement of Joe Biden,

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what are you going to remember himfor? He opened the border.
I mean, there were a lotof negative things that I don't have to
go through them all. Everybody knowsthem, and they're going to be an
albatross around of Kamala Harris. Butthe second albatroz she's going to be wearing
two albatrozes, and the second onewill be her own extremely liberal record when

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she was in the Senate. UHand I think she'll be compared if Trump
is a place that's smart. Ithink Trump will compare her repeatedly, not
to Biden, but to Bernie Sanderson our Newsmaker line from the University of
Chicago. He's an emeritus professor ofinternational politics. Charles Lipson joining us on

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the Rodar ra Kentchow on this Thursdayafternoon when we come back. There was
a guest analyst on CNN last nightfollowing Biden's speech, who really put it
in, you know, put allthose Democrats on that panel in their place.
You wait to hear what he hadto say. That's giving up next
right here on the Rodar kentcho inUtah's talk radio one oh five nine can
arrest. I'm not sure how manyof you know who's Scott Jennings is is.

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Scott Jennings is a political analyst who, for some odd reason appears on
CNN quite often. Well after JoeBiden spoke from the Oval offense yesterday,
you know, and never really explainingwhy he was quitting the race for the
White House, a CNL panel thatfeatured Biden allies just swooned over the President

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for being selfless, heroic, andmuch like George Washington, Well, Jennings
quickly reigned down their parade. Here'swhat he said about the speech last night.
It's odd to me that just afew weeks ago, heck, a
few days ago, most Democrats werestill looking at a television cameras and saying
that this person is up to anotherfour years. I mean, he's obviously

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running on fumes. They weren't cheapfokes, no matter what the government told
you. In fact, I stillthink it's a legitimate scandal how they ever
arrived at the decision to run againin the first place. I still think
his family and his top staff havea lot of explaining to do. Most
of this seemed like a stump speechto me. It seemed like he gave
the speech that he alway he's wantedthe campaign to be about, which was

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he wants credit for this record thathe thinks is historic and was not getting
out of the campaign. I'm stillshocked by the way at how easy it
is to overthrow the president. Imean, I think of this office.
I think we all think of thisoffice as being impenetrable. He got eighty
one million votes in twenty twenty,and then he got fourteen million more,
but at the end of the day, he was no match for a handful

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of party bosses who run the DemocraticParty. So look, I'm happy to
give him all the grace that hedeserves because he's on his way out.
But at the end of the day, yeah, it really sounds like a
bunch of people's coming back. Abunch of people looked into TV cameras over
the last days, weeks and monthsand told you a lot of things,
a lot of things that were nottrue about this president. I hope he

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is okay for the next few months, but it was obvious it was time,
not tonight, but a while ago. Seeing an analyst Scott Jennings on
that panel last night explaining to theon that panel who were swooning all over
Joe Biden last night, and broughtthem back down to earth. You know,
the interesting thing that Scott said thatI picked up on was this.
He said, I'm still shocked howeasy it is to overthrow the president if

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you think about that, and hepointed out he said, look, in
the twenty twenty run for the WhiteHouse, Joe Biden got eighty one million
votes, and then he got fourteenmillion more in the past year and his
effort to seek reelection, but apparentlythat was no match for a handful of
party bosses who run the Democratic Party. And that handful of party bosses are

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still running that party. And KamalaHarris, who is going to be the
nominee for the Democrats, will dowhatever they tell her to do, and
that's what we can expect in thefuture. I heard this song the other
day, and seeing what Themocrats arenow doing when it comes to Kamala Harris,

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I just can't get it out ofmy head. Gas Lider Den doing
anything to get your father gas LiderBig Tim repeating all of the mistakes of
your father in California. We've followedyour dreams time. You know, you
just can't get out of your headwhen you think about what the Democrats are

(27:26):
doing. The Democrats are so goodat hiding the truth. I mean,
let's break this down a little bit. How long have they been hiding the
truth about Joe Biden and the declinein his cognitive abilities, probably since he
took office in twenty twenty twenty twentyone, I should say, I mean

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they have been hiding this despite thefact that we all could see it with
her own eyes that Joe Biden intwenty twenty four is not the same Joe
Biden in twenty twenty and certainly notthe same Joe Biden. Let's go back
to twenty sixteen, twenty twelve,or twenty twelve. In two thousand and
eight, he is not the same. But the Democrats, along with the

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media, are so darn good athiding the truth when it is inconvenient for
them. Now look what you havetaking place hiding the truth about Kamala Harris.
The big issue now is the debateover whether or not Kamala Harris was

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the Borders Are. Now the mediatoday is now trying to revamp her record,
rewrite her record. I want toplay a montage for you, an
audio montage of how the media identifiedher as the Borders Are just a couple
of years ago, but now itappears they're all backtracking. Listen to this

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quote unquote borders are Vice President.Harris was not a Borders are same time
vice president and borders are. KamalaHarris facing some backlash. What he said
about Harris and immigration was not true. She was never appointed Borders Are.
And this will be her first visitto the US Mexico Border Regents, and
she was appointed as the borders areby President Biden. People gonna have to

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counter the misinformation. You already hearfolks talking about the borders are. She
wasn't the borders are. President Bidentapped Kamala Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris
to be the borders are now.She wasn't the borders are. That's what
Republicans labeled her. They were verycritical of Kamala Harris, especially in her
role as borders are now. Whatshe's up against his folks line about her
border record, calling her borders are. Kamala Harris, who was appointed as

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the borders are. The Biden teamdidn't declare her the borders are. They
wanted her to work on kind ofthe root causes of immigration. There has
been so much criticism against Kamala Harris. You know she was the borders are,
calling her sort of the borders are, which wasn't necessarily the case.
So the border if they weren't planningto address it in a major way,
do not make her your borders are. She met with some of the Northern
Triangle countries, but nothing has effectivelychanged. Are you laughing? As hard

(30:08):
as I am. I mean,you have the media and you can hear
examples of that in that audio montage, the media referring to her, to
her as the borders are. Wellnow that she's running to be president of
the United States, knowing that immigrationis one of the key issues in this

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campaign, and that the Biden administrationhas been a total failure, a total
failure when it comes to enforcing thelaw on the border. They're now trying
to revamp, rewrite, deny thatKamala Harris was ever the border czar.

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They are so good at trying tohide the truth. And why because they
have the media on their side.And how on earth does the media explain,
Well, one minute, we're callingher the borders are, but guess
what now she is no longer theborders are. Can you see right through

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this? I mean I think allof you can. Can't you you see
what is taking place? They areplaying games now with her resume because they
know the resume is going to gether in trouble. One of the news
websites I saw today listed thirteen reasonswhy Kamala Harris is even left of Bernie

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Sanders. Yet now we have thevery liberal media in this country trying to
defend her, to rewrite her storyand to explain to the American people she
is not as liberal as those ofus on the right are claiming she is.
Yes, she is. Don't fallinto this trap, because, yeah,

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the polls are out today showing therace is tightening a little bit.
And why well, first fall,the Democrats now have a candidate who can
fog a mirror every day. She'salive, she's energetic, she's traveling,
she's meeting with people, she's holdingrallies. Joe Biden couldn't do that.

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They were doing whatever they could toprotect him. But now you have Kamala
Harris, who actually can walk intogum at the same time, who has
the energy, the gumption to bethe president of the United States, and
they can push her and drive heras hard as they possibly can. They

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cannot do that with Joe Biden.They realize that, and that's why he
is no longer seeking re election tothe White House. But you know,
the question I have, who,in your opinion, is more despicable?
And I called Hillary Clinton years agoone of the most despicable people I have
ever seen in politics. In themore you learn about Kamala Harris, the

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more you learn and understand that shemay be the second most despicable person in
politics today. Look at her trackrecord, look what the Democrats are now
trying to do to protect her.And you make the comparison Hillary or Kamala.

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Are they one and the same,because I think they really are.
I mean, she spoke to teacherstoday, the Teachers' union today, and
they of course all got up andexcited about Kamala Harris because they are their
teachers, their unionists who support thesupport that this administration is giving to unions

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around the country. And she attackedeverything that the Biden, everything that the
Trump campaign, and I think manyof you believe in as being wrong.
One thing she brought up the banningof books. Teachers, of course all
stood up and cheered, we don'twant books banned. None of us are

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calling for banning books in this countrytoday, but the Democrats love to use
that word. What we're calling foris there are certain places for certain books
at a certain time, But wearen't calling for banning of the books.
But certainly Kamala Harris picked up thattheme today in her presentation to the teachers

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Kamala Harris is a younger, moreradical Joe Biden, more radical than Joe
Biden. Joe Biden who came acrossto the American people when he ran in
twenty twenty as a nice guy,a nice guy who's going to unite the
country, kind of a grandpa,right. Kamala Harris is nothing like that.

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She is an extreme liberal. Sheis left of Bernie Sanders. As
a matter of fact, the websitethat called her this is the part of
the remaking of Kamala Harris and whatthe left is doing and trying to throw
the American people and hide the truth. Again, there was a website a

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couple of years ago, and you'veheard mention of this now who labeled Kamala
Harris as the most liberal senator inthe US Senate. Remember that has been
talked about, She's been asked aboutthat. Well, guess what that website
has now done, has changed thestory and has explained that well, on

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second thought, maybe she is notthe most liberal senator in the US Senate.
They've changed the story. So hereyou have the media hiding the truth
about Joe Biden, hiding the truthabout Kamala Harris and her record on the
border and the fact that everyone referredto her at the as the borders are

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all, well, well we reallydidn't mean it, blah blah blah.
And now you've got this website whois reworking their story that at one time
called her the most liberal member ofthe US Senate. You see what's taking
place right now in this country today, the media, the Democratic machine,

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trying to repaint her, revamp hercareer, her image, her policies,
to convince the American people that wewould be wiser to vote her president of
the United States than Donald Trump.So who, in your opinion, is
more despicable? Hillary Clinton or KamalaHarris eight eight eight five seven eight zero

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one zero eight eight eight five seveneight zero one zero. Or on your
cell phone dial pound two fifteen,say hey, Rod your calls, your
comments coming up right here on therod arquetcho Kamala Harris now today acting very
presidential. She condemned the protesters whotook over basically Union Station yesterday as Benjamin
Netanyahu was addressing Congress. They tookdown the American flags that were on the

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flagpoles outside of Union Station, tookthem down and put them on fire.
Lit them on fire and instead hoistedflags of Hamas of Palestine. Now Kamala
Harris probably supports them, but nowshe is running for the White House,

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she is condemning them. So youcan see what's taking place here, folks,
And don't be fooled by this.She is not you know, she
has energized the Democrats. Why well, first of all, she's not Joe
Biden. Joe Biden admitted and wasforced to realize by some key figures in

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the Democratic Party that he simply didnot have the physical or mental capabilities to
run for reelection. Donald Trump isout there with rallies, pulling in ten
to twenty thousand people like he didwhat was it North Carolina yesterday? So
now they have Kamala Harris out there. Kamala Harris at least has the energy

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to do what it's going to taketo win the White House. Joe Biden
didn't. So Kamala's flag burning constituents. And remember they are part of the
Democratic Party. It's going to beinteresting to see what they do in Chicago
here in a couple of weeks atthe Democratic National Convention. But now you

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have Kamala Harris, who is allof a sudden saying are you ready for
this, folks? I condemn flagburning now. Isn't this the same Kamala
Harris who contributed money and encouraged peopleto donate money to bail out people who
are in the riots following the deathof George Floyd. Remember you, you

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know we all need to step inand help these peaceful protesters. Well,
I don't know if you saw thatlast night or any video today of what
took place outside Union Station yesterday,but that was not a peaceful protest.
As a matter of fact, somebrave police officers tried to get in there
and break it up, and theywere attacked. First of all, because

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the side of the Washington DC policeforce right now is minus about five hundred
officers, part of the defund thepolice effort. They're in the nation's capital,
so they couldn't put a stop toit. They were attacked. So
here you have Kamala Harris today condemninghim, saying you shouldn't burn the flag.

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That's not a nice thing to do. But you know, she supports
them every step of the way,and she appears residential today in a meeting
with Benny Benjamin Netanyahu and telling him. They had to quote a very frank
and constructive discussion where she's telling him, let's get a ceasefire going. We

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are so close, Benny, whatare you waiting for? The only way
that Israel will sign a ceasefire,in my opinion, is to have Hamas
say we will no longer be determinedto destroy the state of Israel. That
is not going to happen. Sountil you see that language somewhere that says

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our goal, Hamas, our goalis different from what we've had for how
many years since the creation of Israelback in nineteen forty eight will not be
to destroy Israel. They will neversay that, and Israel will never accept
a ceasefire if there's not a documentsaying just that. And that's why Benjamin

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Netzan Yaho is not going along witha seatsfire. But here we have Kamala,
just like her predecessor Joe Biden,saying, oh, we're just this
close, this close, folks,this close as a matter of fact,
to having a ceasefire. We're thatclosed, and that's why we need your
help in getting one done. Kamala, Harris, you can't trust her,

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all right? Your comments eight eighteight five seven eight zero one zero eight
eight eight five seven eight zero onezero, or on your cell phone,
all you do is have to dialon dial pound two fifty and say hey,
Rod your calls and comments coming upright here on the rod Ar Ketchup,
we're talking about what's going on withKamala Harris. There is no doubt

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that her very liberal stances on anumber of key issues, including crime,
including the border, including the economy, are very liberal. And the American
people know that. They're learning abouther more and more as we talked about
it on this show. You haveother talk show hosts trying to explain to
the American people that she is reallyprobably the most liberal senator in the US

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Senate when she was there, andher very liberal policies could take this country
in a direction that we do notwant to go to. Now. The
interesting thing about this, you knowwhat if you ask someone right now who
is voting or is supporting Kamala Harris, you know, and ask her why

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deep down, this is probably whatthey'd say, Well, I'm voting for
her because first of all, she'sblack, okay, and second of all
because she is a woman. Now, this comes from a party, a
progressive Democratic Party who can't define whata woman is, or they refuse to

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define what a woman is. Soyes, they're going to give the reason
right now. Well, one ofthe reasons we're voting is we think it's
time for a woman to be presidentof the United States, but we aren't
going to define what a woman is. You find that kind of odd,
I do, all right. KamalaHarris, by the way, now,

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apparently she is going to be thenominee for the Democratic Party. That will
be made official probably in the nextday or two, and certainly when she
gets to the Democratic National Convention inChicago here in a couple of weeks.
But the campaign has already geared upwith a brand new ad about Kamala Harris.
Here's what it is. In thiselection, we each face a question

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what kind of country do we wantto live in? There are some people
who think we should be a countryof chaos, of fear, of hate,
but us, we choose something different. We choose the freedom not just

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to get bye, but get ahead, the freedom to be saved from gun
violence, the freedom to make decisionsabout your own body. We choose a
future where no child lives in poverty, where we can all afford healthcare where
no one is above the law.We believe in the promise of America and
we're ready to fight for it becausewhen we fight, we win. So

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we join us. Go to KamalaHarrisdot com and let's get to work Comma
cable running cause I winna don't quiton themselves late as that from Kamala Harris.
Now, the interesting thing about thatad. I know you can't see
it on the radio right now,but if you take a look at it,
couple of things stand out to me. The ad is loaded with pride
flags, The ad is almost whitemen are almost not seen in this ad,

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so you can see where she isheaded with her approach. She is
trying to bring that coalition, thatDemocratic coalition together, ignore the white guys.
That's just the Democratic theme. Whiteguys don't matter in the Democratic Party,
and this ad says it all.You hardly see any white men in
this ad, and you sure dosee a whole lot of pride flags and

(45:30):
Kamala Harris appealing to the base thatJoe Biden didn't lose, but a base
that wasn't real excited about Joe Biden, but they are, and she is
appealing to try and excite the base, that coalition, that is what the
Democratic Party is all about, andtrying to excite them to get behind her

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campaign, even though you know they'reproud that you know they could be electing
the first woman president of the UnitedStates, even though they can't define what
a woman is eight eight eight fiveseven eight zero one zero triple eight five
seven eight zero one zero, oron your cell phone, dial pound two
fifteen and say hey, Rod,just to make you aware of how liberal

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Kamala Harris is, I want togive you this list. I saw this
list today and they are about thirteenof them. Thirteen reasons why. Number
one, she was only one offourteen people that endorsed the Green New Deal.
Among those who signed it were BernieSanders and Elizabeth Warren, placing Kamala
with the radical of the radicals right. Harris sponsored single payer health insurance.

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She advocated for a complete transition awayfrom fossil fuels in the next ten years,
which would have led to a collapseof our economy. She supported a
universal government jobs guarantee. She wasalso for government programs promising universal access to

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healthy foods. She wants to eliminatethe opportunity for us to eat meat.
She wanted to upgrade every single homeand business building in the country for energy
efficiency. Who's going to pay forthat? Harris has also supported UBI universal

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basic income, new national living wagestandards, more power for labor unions,
free college, a whole new electricgrid, the end of gasoline cars in
six years, and the transformation ofUS agriculture, including the end of much

(47:50):
of the US cattle industry. KamalaHarris is a Democratic socialist, and she
also is very incompetent. Ninety twopercent of the staff that was hired to
work in her office when she becameVice president they're no longer there. They

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left. They couldn't stand working forWhat is it going to be like when
she takes over the White House?Now, another key question out there right
now is, you know, everybody, almost every Democrat has now gotten behind
the candidacy of Kamala Harris, almostevery Democrat except for one, and that

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one is Barack Obama. Now thereis word tonight that he may in fact
be warming up to endorsing Barack Obama. Every you know what has held him
back? What does he not likeabout Kamala Harris whether a report out there

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that he believes she cannot beat DonaldTrump. Now, the polls have tightened
over the last few days, andthat's simply because of the excitement that the
Democrats now have that they do actuallyhave a candidate who can go out there
and compete against Donald Trump. Theydid not believe Joe Biden can do that,

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and the polls were starting to showthat. But now they're enthusiastic about
a candidate who they don't know ifshe's a woman or not, because they
can't define what a woman is.But they're enthusiastic that they have somebody out
there who they feel could actually attackDonald Trump. The question is going to

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be now she said today that she'smore than willing to debate Donald Trump.
I think the second scheduled debate waswhat September seventh on ABC, but that
would set up by Joe Biden.Donald Trump agreed to it. Does he
need to agree to a debate withKamala Harris? Now? Donald Trump is

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not afraid of anybody. He willdebate them no matter what. Now,
will she demand the same type ofsetup that Joe Biden demanded. He wanted
to be on friendly networks? SoABC without a doubt and CNN are friendly

(50:30):
networks to the Democratic Party. Nowthat Kamala Harris is a candidate, will
she demand the same thing Donald Trumphas suggested we already had. Let's have
a debate right now, let's doit on Fox News. My guess is
she won't go along for that withthat, but she is now ready to

(50:51):
debate. But the case is,where is the debate? And first of
all, does she have the thickskin that is required when the Republicans and
Donald Trump and Jade Vance start attackingher on her very, very liberal policies.

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Can she stand the heat because it'scoming. I mean, if the
Republicans and Donald Trump don't take advantageof her abysmal record on the border being
the borders are where they are,they're fooling themselves because she is open for

(51:34):
criticism and she is going to haveto defend that despite what the media is
trying to do say, oh,she never really was the borders are,
Yes, she was, and that'swhat they called her a couple of years
ago. Now, let's talk aboutwhat's going on in California today. Governor
Gavin Newsom ordered California state officials tobegin dismantling thousands of homeless encampments. It's

(51:57):
the nation's most sweeping response to areach and Supreme Court ruling that gave governments
greater authority to remove homeless people fromtheir streets. So how is he going
to pull this off? Joining uson our Newsmaker line right now is Jim
Berlin. Jim is vice president oflegal affairs at the Pacific Legal Foundation.
Jim, how are you, andwelcome to the rod Arquachew. Thanks for

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joining us tonight, Jim. I'mdoing well. Thank you for having me.
All right, Jim, how ishe going to pull this off?
How do you see this shaking down? Yeah, you're laughing. I love
it. Yeah, I mean he'snot going to be able to pull it
off. Maybe the cities will movea homeless camp out for an area,
and then the homeless is going toshow up somewhere else. Because what Gavin

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News is doing with us order ismaking a lot of noise, generating a
lot of publicity, but he isgoing to do very little for solving California's
horrible homeless crisis. And the reasonis he's not going to do much about
it is because because they're still there, you can get away with pretty much
anything. You can shop lift ninehundred and fifty dollars per store every day

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you want to, so you canlive wherever you want to. There's no
requirement if you're a drug addict toget treatment, and we just don't punish
people for doing bad things in Californiaanymore. And on top of that,
it's impossible to build new housing.Every time you want to build a few
homes in California, you get suedby the nimbies. You get sued by

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everybody and their uncle who doesn't wantany more houses in California. So that's
what why it costs, you know, millions of bucks or a house that
would cost only a few hundred thousandin most states. So as long as
our cost the housings high, we'renot going to solve the problem. And
Gavin Newsom is just doing PR.He's really really good at PR, not

(53:49):
so good at getting things done.Well, let's say he does get something
done. All right, let's goto La La Land for a few minutes
and believe that he does get somethingdone. Where are they going to put
all these people? Jim, Well, maybe Utah? Oh please no,
please no, I mean in allthree that you can't put them anywhere because

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they don't have enough places for peopleto live today. I mean, I
just got I just finished a bookthat's going to be published in August,
clued Nowhere to Live in the causeof America's housing crisis, And the fact
is we're not building enough homes.We talk about little tiny homes or ADUs
and that may, you know,scratch the service a little bit, but

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fundamentally, we're not building enough homesin this country for where people want to
live, and we're not enforcing thelaws we wanted. So where are they
going to move? Well, ifif he's really successful, maybe they'll move
to Arizona. Maybe they'll move toUtah, But you know, in all
seriousness, that's not going to happen. The weather's too nice here, and
the enforcement of criminal laws is twolacks here. It's a wonderful place to

(54:52):
live if you want to be adrug addict on the streets. Can he
force local governments and county governments todo this? Gym? Does he have
the authority to even do this?He claims he does because he will cut
off funding for certain state programs.However, if he attends to do that,

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there's going to be lawsuits flying rightand left, and frankly, he
doesn't care about those details. Hecares about the great publicity that he's getting
right now amongst those people who believethat he can actually do something. All
right, let's I want to askyou about this, Jim as well.
Why is the homeless problem so prevalentin California? Because I've seen crazy figures

(55:37):
out there that a large percentage ofhomeless people in this country are homeless in
California. Does the state make itso attractive that they actually want to set
up homeless camps in the state ofCalifornia. Well, if you're a homeless
person, you can consider what you'regetting in California. You get a beautiful

(55:58):
weather so you can camp outside mostof the year, which is really tough
to do in many many states.You get free needle exchanges, you get
people to help you to take yourdrugs. You get the ability to steal
with little consequence. We have allkinds of benefits for people, whether or
not you're here supposed to be herelegally in this country. You get benefits.

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Whether or not you go into treatment, You get benefits period. You
talk to some of the homeless people, and this is a California is a
great place to be homeless. Imean, I don't want that to go
out too far and wide, butit is. How are Democrats in California
going to react to this or howare they reacting to it today? Jim,

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Well, many of them are expressingsome outrage to this. I mean,
how can we do this the poorhomeless people? And others Those that
are actually in office running cities likeSan Francisco and elsewhere are saying, well,
we have to do this. It'sa good thing because they realize that
they're going to be voted out ofoffice in a few years if the status
quo continues for too much longer.So they're kind of behind it, but

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now deep down inside they think,it's really unfortunate that we have to do
this, but this is what wehave to do to stay elected. Some
Democratic leaders are pushing back on this, saying they've already been successful in some
of their homeless efforts to take careof the homeless population. I noticed to
come in from the mayor of LosAngeles, Karen Bath said, Look,

(57:28):
we've had some early success in reducinghomelessness. Have they Jim. Well,
yeah, drive down to the Tenderlinedistrict outside of San Francisco and the skid
row at side feued outside of LosAngeles, and you would be surprised to
think there is any success going on. Maybe there are a few people in
these tiny villages or these tiny homevillages that have been set up. Maybe

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there are people that have been putinto hotels in the program where we take
old hotels or motels and turn theminto homeless shelters. But it is again
scratching the surface. There are manyareas and that Los Angeles that I would
not want to walk through in daylight, and that remains the case. The

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Supreme Court issued its ruling in lateJune, and I know it's still kind
of early yet, but is Californiathe first state to really make an effort
to do something about this? Areor are there other states ahead of California.
I'm not aware of anything that's beenbeen done here in Salt Lake City,
but other communities around the country triedto clean out these homeless camps yet

(58:34):
well. Other cities outside the NinthCircuit have been trying to clean them out
for quite some time with some success. I mean there are areas in Texas
where these things don't happen, andFlorida the same thing. We don't have
a large mass of homeless camps becausethey've been enforcing the laws all long.
It's been the states in the Westwhere the Ninth Circuit, in a case
out of Boise, Idaho a fewyears ago in two thousand and eight or

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so, said that you can't clearthese people out. Grant's Pass tried to
get around that. Grant's path.Oregon tried to get around that, and
that was struck down by the NinthCircuit, and that's of the Supreme Court
in June said no Grant's path totry to do that. In fact,
what happened in Boise was wrong aswell. So now states in the West
are able to clean out the homelesslike they could elsewhere in other parts of

(59:22):
the country. It's been, youknow, mostly successful in other plates of
the country as far as having thehuge homeless camps that we've had in states
in the West coast under the NinthCircuit. Time will tell how the states
in the West and the cities inthe West take the new Grants Pass Oregon
decision from the Submarine Court and turnthat into action. What we saw from

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Governor Newsom today was the first big, large scale attempt to say that you're
going to do something about it.Now, we'll have to see what actually
happens. I was going to askyou, when do you see something happening
or we just is this just tograndstanding again by Gavin Newsom, who has
a site set on the White Housesomeday. Is this grand standing or are

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we actually going to see something happen? Jim predict the future for us all
over. We will see some thingshappening that we would not have seen before.
But for the decision out of theSupreme Court that really has galvanied cities
to start to do something. Now, this large scale mass move him out

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by yesterday order of Gavin Newsom isprobably not going to make much of a
different. Cities are going to dowhat they think they have to do anyway,
and Gavin Newsom probably wants to takecredit for anything good that happens,
and anything bad that happens, he'sgoing to blame the cities on. That's
that's his mos. He's great,as I said earlier, for generating publicity

(01:00:50):
for himself. He's great for veryfacile solutions very solutions that really don't mean
anything. So he's a consummate politician. He's doing what is politically expedient.
Well, it's going to be interestingto see what or if anything, happens
in the coming months. Jim,I appreciate a few minutes of your time.
Good luck in California. All right, thanks a lot. All right,

(01:01:15):
Jim Berling, vice president of legalaffairs for the Pacific Legal Foundation,
talking about Gavin Newsom ordering today theremoval of homeless camp encampments all through the
state of California. We'll see ifhe can pull it all off. All
right, More coming up right hereon the Rod Arcent Show and Utah's Talk
Radio one oh five nine can arrest. Listen, and you'll know when John

(01:01:36):
F. Kennedy was President of theUnited States, his wife Jackie, their
two young children. And remember therewas this whole creation that was done about
Camelot. Remember that those of youwho can remember the Kennedy administration, Well,
the media right now is now engagedin a new version of that.
They're calling it Comealot, And thisis the reframing, the revamping of Kamala

(01:01:59):
Harris as she becomes the official nomineeto represent the Democratic Party in this November's
presidential election. Now, one ofthe things that they're doing right now is
the media is denying that Kamala Harriswas Biden's borders are amid the unprecedented illegal
immigration. Well, let's dig intothis even more. Joining us on our

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Newsmaker line is Spencer Lindquist. Spenceris a field reporter with the Daily Wire.
He's been looking into this, Spencer, Thanks for joining us tonight.
Exactly what is the media doing intrying to reframe Kamala Harris. Yeah,
So, Kamala Harris has been theborders Are. That's what she's been dubbed
for really the last several years now, Ever since twenty twenty one, when

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Biden explicitly said that he was puttingher in charge she was theote most qualified
person to help in stemming the migrationto our southern border, and she was
dubbed the borders Are. Outlets likeAxios and another mainstream media publication preferred her
with that term. But just now, coincidentally, after she became the presumptive

(01:03:06):
nominee, they're saying, no,no, no, she's not actually the
borders are. They're trying to obstucateand create some distance between her and between
the Biden Harris administration's record on thisissue. And one of the things they're
pointing out is that she wasn't actuallyin charge of the law enforcement on the
ground. And of course Americans knowthat. We know that she wasn't in
charge of ICE, which she saidthat she might want to abolish, or

(01:03:30):
she's not in charge of the Departmentof Homeland Security, but she was passed
with stemming this tide of mass migrationto our border. And I think Americans
have seen the christ on her border. It's certainly an issue that is very
pressing on the minds of Americans heatinginto this election cycle, and the media
is coming in right at this criticaltime in the campaign and trying to create

(01:03:52):
some distance between what's happened on theborder and Kamala Harris and her candidacy.
Isn't there evidence though, Spencer ofthe same media that you're talking about,
who several years ago referred to heroften as the borders are I mean,
there's evidence on evidence? Is therenot? Oh? There absolutely is.
This was a term that was usedby Axios, and Axios is one of

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the publications that came out this weekand said, oh, she wasn't.
Actually the borders are. She hadthese specific tasks and you know, she
wasn't in charge of the law enforcement. You know, kind of started to
nitpick a little bit to try andpoke some holes in that term. And
they actually went back after that reportcame out and went back into one of
their reports from i believe three yearsago, and issued a correction in their

(01:04:40):
words. And what they're doing isthey were really cleaning up. They had
called her the borders are before,and now of course that's something that they're
objecting to the Trump campaign using.So they obviously didn't have an issue with
that title up until just a fewdays ago. They were using themselves up

(01:05:00):
until a few days ago, andnow of course they're they're trying to stop
the Trump campaign and others in themedia from using it. Well, USA
Today has done the same thing asyou point out in your story as well.
Right, they're trying to reframe herthat well, really she wasn't in
charge of border security. That's whatthey're saying. This thing. You know,

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she wasn't in charge of And thereality is, in Biden's words,
he said that he wanted her healthwith quote stemming the migration to our southern
border. So regardless of what specificfacet she was in charge of, her
she was tasked with. We knowwhat the facts say, and we know

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that we haven't had an unprecedented levelof illegal border crossings under this administration.
Under the Biden Harris administration, we'vehad roughly ten million encounters across the country
under this administration, record levels atboth the southern and the northern borders,
and that's amitted one point seven milliongot aways where llegal immigrants are coming in
between ports of entry. Of course, that's an estimation and by its very

(01:06:05):
nature, it's very hard to quantifythis. But we don't know why they're
coming here. We don't know whatthey might be bringing with them in terms
of arms or fensanyl or smuggling otherpeople. But this is a crisis that
it's become unprecedented in its size andits scope, in its scale, and
we've seen that Americans are responding verystrongly to it. For the first time

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in over a decade, Americans aresaying they actually want less immigration a total,
not more at not not maintaining thesame level. They want less immigration.
A majority of Americans are saying thatthey want mass deportations of league immigrants,
and of course this is a directresponse to what they've seen and how
they feel based off of these lastfour years. You know, one of
the stories that surfaced after she wasquote designated as the borders are Spencer and

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you probably remember this one as well, that she went to Central America and
urged those countries to do something andprovide a maria in dollars to help these
countries develop their own economies so theirown people wouldn't leave. Do we have
any evidence that any of those stepshave actually worked. You know, if
they have worked, we have certainlynot seen or reflected in our border numbers.

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We have not seen it reflected inapprehensions. We have not seen it
reflected in the numbers of encounters.And you know, I've been down to
the border several times. I've beento Texas. I've spoke with members of
law enforcement, and what they've alltold me is that if we wanted to
secure this border, we could.It's not a matter of incapability. In

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their words, they say, it'sjust a matter of political will. And
I've spoke with ranchers on the borderI've spoke with families who've been deeply and
intimately affected by this, and theytell me that there really was a night
and day shift when the administrations changedand when when Biden and Harris took office.
So if there has been any effect, we certainly haven't seen it,

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manifested in the data that the Americanpeople are presented with by the Department of
Homeland Security. Spencer, why doI get a sense that the American people
are seen right through this effort totry and reframe a couple of Harris that
she wasn't in fact the borders.Are Americans going to see right through this
if they aren't already, aren't they? Spencer? Well, the poll numbers
that we have right now certainly indicatethat Americans are very upset about the state

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of our border right now. Thereis a poll from Harvard Harris and that
found that voters are saying that immigrationis the single largest issue based in the
country, and it also found thatBiden had his lowest issue specific favorability rating
on immigration. Of course, Bidenis no longer the candidate in this race,

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so maybe that calls for some updatedpolling, But I think we can
presume that the favorability there for Bidenand that for Harris might be similar.
So Americans certainly are very upset aboutthe state of the border right now,
you know, and it's caused themto take positions that for a long time
haven't really been in the center ofour political discussion. I mean, Trump

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is coming out and promising mass deportationson an unprecedented scale to meet this unprecedented
crisis, and Americans are largely insupport of that. Not just Republicans,
but even independents are coming out insupport of that plan at rates that we
have not seen maybe ever. Heis a field reporter with the Daily Wire.

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We're talking with Spencer Lindquist talking aboutthe media trying to deny that Kamala
Harris was in fact the borders aremore on the border and Kamala Harris coming
up here on the rid oar can'tshow in Utah's Talk Radio one oh five
nine, Kate and are as well, We've spent a lot of time today
talking about Kamala Harris and Democratic effortsto kind of reframe her, rewrite her

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story, trying to explain to theAmerican people she is not as extreme as
her record when indicate right. Huh, Well, let's talk more about that
right now. Ing us on ournew inspeker line is Todd Bensman. Todd
is a senior National Security Fellow atthe Center for Immigration Studies, just does
some wonderful work on immigration issues,and he's joining us now. Todd,

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how are you welcome back to therod ARCATCHO. Thanks for joining us.
I'm doing great. Thanks for havingme again. Todd. Let me ask
you this, how extreme is KamalaHarris when it comes to border issues.
Well, she's right out there inline with Antifa, with the agenda of
domestic terrorists on this, with theas far far left as you can possibly

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get Black Lives Matter agenda. Shetook her immigration policy sheet right out of
their placards on the street in twentyeighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
remember all the violence the Abolished Ice, the Ice Occupy Ice movement, where

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thousands and thousands of activists would tryto disrupt detention facilities across the nation.
And those people all had a particularagenda which was to end deportation, to
shut down America's detention centers, andto abolish ICE and really just open the

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border. Wide and accept everybody,let him have free health care and make
them all US citizens immediately or assoon as possible. And that is an
extreme agenda. And Kamala Harris,when she was running for president the first
time, went all in on that. She when I say domestic terrorists,
there was a gentleman by the nameof Willem van van Spronson who producted an

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armed attack on an ICE facility inTacoma and was gunned down in the process
when he turned his ar on someof the agents. His manifesto was,
you know, let's let's end detentionand shut down all these private detention centers.
That's that's what I want to havehappened. I hope after my death

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will facilitate it. Within one week, Kamala Harris was out there promising when
I am president, I will endprivate detention facilities, that sort of thing.
She believes that all illegal immigrants shouldbe that the crossing of borders should
be decriminalized. She believes that thereshould be heavy, heavy oversight, heavy

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handed oversight on all border patrol activity. She said that during this period that
you know, they talk about abolishICE. So she said, well,
we are going to reimagine from topto bottom, ICE deportation is going to
end. We're not going to deportany buddy. All of that, all

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of that radical nonsense that even mainstreamDemocrats have never dared touch. It is
way way outside of the main themainstream, even of her own party.
Is it true, Todd that onceyou compared to ICE to the KKK?
Is that true? Yeah? Thisall goes to you know, the Antifa

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BLM, you know, that radicalprogressive left. You know, they spun
this narrative that, you know,the that the ICE and Border Patrol and
Trump administration were we're all Nazi racistthugs that were rounding up brown people as
kind of the latter day Jews andputting them into concentration camps and sending them

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home on death flights. And andit was the ICE where the the brown
Shirts yesterday's brown Shirts today. Andso it should be no surprise that at
a public hearing, she asked theICE nominee for the head of ICE,
you know, what do you thinkabout all these perceptions out there? Wouldn't

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you agree that there's a perception thatthat ICE are like the KKK? And
shouldn't we do something to to eliminatethat perception by by actually doing something to
reform ICE. And of course thepoor guy was the biggest name was Vittelli.
Was wasn't biting into any of thatstuff, but there she was,

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you know, catering to the mostextreme, crazy narratives about you know,
that this is some kind of aNazi archipelago of concentration camps and death,
a death factory. The narrative theyhave always tried to spin from the Biden
administration, including may Or Kiss andKamala Harris, is that the border is

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not open. In fact, it'sclosed. But I recall an incident and
I think you're right about this whenRon Desantives decided to send some of the
illegals to Martha Vineyard. They wereasked about the borders, and didn't they
say, yeah, it's not closed, it's wide open. Well, you
know, when she became vice president, she obviously had to tone down her
own campaign platform and her rhetoric.And what she did was, as I

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write that, she turned to rankdenihalism about what was happening at the border.
And so whenever she was asked aboutlike this, incredible hundreds of thousands
of months pouring over. She wouldjust say, what, hundreds of thousands
of people, the borders closed,there's nobody coming over. That's all a
big why. And she would saythat sort of thing over and over again,

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that there was no problem down therewhatsoever. And with a Martha's Vineyard
thing, of course, she wasasked, you know, well, do
you think the borders closed or open? What's going on? She goes,
Oh, it's absolutely closed. Thisis a rareer. These people are a
rare kind of phenomenon. And thelocal TV asked some of the local immigrants

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that have been shipped to Martha's Vineyard, what do you think, and they
said, well, it's open becausethey let us in. Were here.
Here, we are, We entered, nobody stopped us. We're here.
Todd, let me ask you,yeah, yeah. Let me ask you
a final question, Todd, howmuch of an effort do you see being
made now to tone down her veryprogressive rhetoric when it comes to the border,

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as she now runs for the WhiteHouse, what kind of an effort
is being made to tone her downor tone the policies down a little bit?
Well, for starters, she asin just the last few days since
she became the you know, thetitular front runner for the nomination. She
hasn't said a word about it,and nobody will ask her about it.

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She has just shut down completely,will not talk about it at all.
I have to presume it's because they'reall frantically or handlers are all frantically trying
to figure out a way to saysomething that doesn't make her look like she's
a complete opportunist. I mean,the record is clear. She had a
campaign website. It's all on there, and she's got lots of public comments

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and testimony and all sorts of publictrail about where she stood on it.
Wide open borders is where she stood, no detention, no deportation, all
of that, full citizenship for everybody, real quickly. So she's going to
have to come up with a somekind of a new agenda about it,

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or she's because she's The American publicis just sick and tired of this thing,
this crisis, including people on herside. It's their most vulnerable issue
to be punished about by the votersin November, and they all know it.
So I'm very curious to see whatshe says. But she hasn't said

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a single word since then. Opsissues. Nothing is nothing at her big
coming out party the other day either, Yeah, can't blame her. Kenya
Todd, great chatting with you.Appreciate a few minutes of your time.
Thank you, appreciate it all right. On our newsmaker line, we've been
chatting with Todd Bensman. Todd,of course, senior national security fellow at

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the Center for Immigration Studies. Youwant to talk to someone who knows about
what's going on on the border,talk with Todd. All right, Mare
coming up here on the rod Ar. Catch you in Utah's Talk Radio one
O five nine K and are aslive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Couple
of other notes to share with youbefore we wrap things up tonight. The
CEO of Delta Airlines, Ed Bastin. He has a bit of a full

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blown pr crisis on his hands rightdown the airline. Of course, many
of you who traveled on Delta probablyknow this already. Among the worst affected
by that global crowd strike outage ofa couple of weeks ago, flights being
canceled in droves and passengers stranded withouttheir luggage after days in which people were

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frustrated by Delta's lack of transparency newsreports emerged that Bastion flew off to Paris
for the Olympics. Delta scrambled tocontrol the public outrage. In a message
to CNN, the company said Eddelayed this long planned business trip until he
was confident the airline was firmly onthe path to recovery. As of Wednesday

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morning, Delta's operations were returning tonormal and remained fully engaged with senior operation
officials despite the fact he's sitting inParis waiting for the start of the Olympics.
Big changes for Southwest Airlines today.Southwest Airlines is ditching its open seeing
policy in a bid to boost profits. Instead, if you fly Southwest,

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you'll soon be able to get aan assigned seat. The airline is also
offering flyers the chance to pay extrato pick them early and to get coveted
extra legroom seats. There will alsobe so called premium seating, which is
likely to be similar to the basicfirst class offered on Delta, United and

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America. There's this a huge shiftfor Southwest. Shares of the carrier were
up four point two percent in premarket trading. They also announced that they
will be doing some overnight flights,some red Eye flights, which up until
this point they have not done.As a matter of fact, the seating
arrangement, the huge change to theboarding process, has already been tested in

(01:20:44):
some cities and apparently has worked outvery very well. One other note this
airline in India. It's a sadreality that when traveling alone, women often
have to take extra steps to keepthemselves safe. Apparently one airline is trying
to help them out. This airlinein India is going to give women the

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option to request seats not next tomen. It's one of the options being
considered by this airline in India,giving women the option to request seats not
next to men if in fact theyare traveling alone. For the safety of women,